Uwe Boll gets called out at penny arcade

After Boll's explanation of his film Postal, the film adaption of the popular PC title, several convention-goers stepped up to the Q&A mic to launch acerbic insults at the self-styled auteur, as well as ask a few genuine questions. In response to several questions that essentially distilled to, "Why do you keep making bad movies?" What does Uwe Boll do to counter...he blames it on poor video game plots.

[codeazrael]

If video game plots suck, then why not create your own plot and loosly make relation between the game and film? And even past that, if you "know" that the plot is going to suck and that the film is not going to do that great, then why even bother making it?

[MK_Red]

Agreed. If he thinks those games suck then why he makes his games based on them?
And how on earth could Far Cry or Alone in the Dark suck? He's just looking for an excuse for his bad movies.

[Arsenic13]

In the postal trailer he did say his movies are funded by Nazi gold

[MK_Red]

Well, here is a proof that he is 100% wrong and the problem is in his direction not the source games and material:

His latest movie is called "Seed" and is already called the WORST movie ever by some. It's entirely original and non-game related. Uwe Boll. Uwe called it his best film and a true non-game based one but those that have seen it consider it his worst.

[codeazrael]

how guys like this get funding to create movies? I mean was he born into a wealthy family or what?

[timmyp53]

direct the god of war movie

[Caxtus750]

feel sorry for this guys...ok so he sucks? fine let him suck...but dont humiliate him infront of everyone all the time...its just not cool.

EDIT: ah just read the article....tasteless opening or what??? ok so some games have bad plots? dont make those ones then!

EDIT 2: read the WHOLE article now....basically this whole comemnt is a shambles....ignore ;) lol

[Covenant]

Here's a really good question:

Who keeps financing this guy's awful, awful films?

He wouldn't be ruining so many films if SOMEONE wasn't backing him.

Unless, he's financing them himself...which strikes me as some kind of perverse sadism.

[Figboy]

Heavenly Sword gets better scores all around in the various departments (except for Gameplay and Lasting Appeal; which also doesn't make any sense, as they say that Blue Dragon's lasting appeal is that of being "played once and put in the cupboard," and Heavenly Sword has "a number of really good unlockables to go back and earn, though you can already get them online right now," but Blue Dragon gets a 7 in that category, while HS gets a 5), and yet they both get the *SAME SCORE.

in the body of the review, they seem to have the biggest gripe about the gameplay (calling it standard Japanese RPG fair), where-as they generally praise Heavenly Sword's gameplay, yet only give it half a point above Blue Dragon's (HS: 7, BD: 6.5).

i didn't meant to turn this into a HS post, but i bring this up, becaus e i simply *HAVE to question ign's review practices, and because i was looking forward to Blue Dragon as a reason why i might pick up a 360 this year.

using ign's score for Blue Dragon, and actually applying an average to it, you get 7.1. not far off from it's final score of 7.

using ign's score for Heavenly Sword, and actually applying an average to it, you get 7.8, which is quite a bit up from it's final score of 7. closer to an 8, nearly a full point higher.

it seems like fans of more traditional RPGs should get a kick out of Blue Dragon (and i'm a fan of traditional RPGs, occasionally).

ign has gotten to the point where they are either mismatching reviewers with games, or just outright being unfair with reviews for certain games and consoles.

for people that depend on reviews for making purchasing decisions (of which i am *NOT one), this constant unreliability is going to cause more harm than good.

i don't think reviewers are on the take, but i think they've been reviewing for so long, that they've become jaded about *EVERYTHING. they play *TONS of games a month, and have, for the most part, "seen it all, done it all." they demand to be wowed and floored with *EVERY title released, and if it happens to lack some magic pixie dust to do just that, they bump them down significantly. not just a half a point, but two or more.

i implore gamers everywhere to *MAKE UP YOUR OWN DAMN MINDS. reviewers just can't be trusted anymore. too much politics and fanboyism.

[Figboy]

this got posted in the wrong story! bah!!!

[WilliamRLBaker]

buts its actually true all most all the games he's made into movies had...really crappy plot lines..