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''Gamer'' movies and cartoons

ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
edited August 2015 in Off-Topic
Okay i already know LOTR, The Hobbit, the Conan movies, Dragonslayer(hardcore), Adventure Time, Lodoss, and the D&D 80's cartoon.
But are there other movies and cartoon series that has RPG feels/similarities, in other words, what i like to call ''gamer movies''?
I also think GOTG by James Gunn can be considered sort of a gamer movie despite its flaws.
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  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Hawk the Slayer

    Season of the Witch

    Beastmaster

    Red Sonja
  • atcDaveatcDave Member Posts: 2,387
    Princess Bride definitely.

    Especially Cliffs of Insanity and ROUSes, I swear I've played that game.
  • atcDaveatcDave Member Posts: 2,387
    And Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

    My true inspiration.
  • VallmyrVallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459
    There's a french cartoon series called Wakfu you can find on Netflix.
    I've only seen the first season but the main party is a

    Male Portal Mage
    Female Druid
    Elven Female Archer (Not actually an "elf" but is that world's equivalent with the pointed ears and such)
    Male Staff Fighter
    and a Male Paladin

    It can be really silly some episodes but then gets REALLY story intensive in the latter half of the first season.

    I also watched it in French with subs but there is a dub of it now I think.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e_n0wOjpJM
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Fardragon said:

    Hawk the Slayer

    Season of the Witch

    Beastmaster

    Red Sonja

    Spoony did a review of Beastmaster and its sequel. The Red Sonja comics are better than the movie.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    I think pretty much every cheesy sword & sorcery flicks from the 80's can count.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    ShapiroKeatsDarkMage said:

    Fardragon said:

    Hawk the Slayer

    Season of the Witch

    Beastmaster

    Red Sonja

    Spoony did a review of Beastmaster and its sequel. The Red Sonja comics are better than the movie.
    None of them are really great movies, but they do have an RPG feel to them. Obviously books and comics are better.
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    edited August 2015
    The cartoon "Wizards" , by Ralph Bakshi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-wpxrzCMyY

    And "The last Unicorn"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-UpwWauZ50

    These animated movies are inf act much better than most fantasy stuff produced nowadays.
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    @DJKajuru , isn't "Wizards" the one where

    two mage brothers are battling for the world, and at the end, the good one pulls out a gun and shoots his evil brother dead rather than going through with an arcane battle. "That was just a little trick mother taught me."


    If so, I don't remember much about the movie, but I'll always remember that ending.
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    BelgarathMTH said:

    @DJKajuru , isn't "Wizards" the one where

    two mage brothers are battling for the world, and at the end, the good one pulls out a gun and shoots his evil brother dead rather than going through with an arcane battle. "That was just a little trick mother taught me."


    If so, I don't remember much about the movie, but I'll always remember that ending.
    Yes! Even though it's supposed to be a cartoon, it deals with several adult themes, such as war and death . I think it works well for gamers and rpg fans because they take a fantasy setting and add a lot of depth to it.
  • the_spyderthe_spyder Member Posts: 5,018
    LadyHawk

    Krull (sort of)

    Knights of Badassdom

  • atcDaveatcDave Member Posts: 2,387
    Ladyhawk is a great gamer movie!
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Knights of Badassdom is a real movie?
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    ShapiroKeatsDarkMage said:

    Knights of Badassdom is a real movie?

    Nevermind. I've found it on TVTropes.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Let's not forget about the manga Berserk,
  • VallmyrVallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459
    ShapiroKeatsDarkMage said:

    Let's not forget about the manga Berserk,

    The recent movie trilogy was preeettyyy hype.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Also The Order of the Stick, The Conan comics, Red Sonja comics and Goblins deserves a mention.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    And, of corse, Mazes and Monsters. A movie nobody will deny it is about gamers.
  • ArdanisArdanis Member Posts: 1,736
    If we're talking stuff "about gamers" rather than just "game-like", then I most highly advise Sword Art Online series.
  • NonnahswriterNonnahswriter Member Posts: 2,520
    Ardanis said:

    If we're talking stuff "about gamers" rather than just "game-like", then I most highly advise Sword Art Online series.

    I'd recommend at least the first season of SAO (the first twelve episodes). Everything after that, well...
  • ArdanisArdanis Member Posts: 1,736
    Yeah, but the rest imo is merely "not as great" rather than "bad", and has some good moments too.
  • VallmyrVallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459
    I actually hated all of the first season and didn't enjoy the series until the GGO arc. I have a huge distaste for the main character >_>
  • NonnahswriterNonnahswriter Member Posts: 2,520
    edited August 2015
    Vallmyr said:

    I actually hated all of the first season and didn't enjoy the series until the GGO arc. I have a huge distaste for the main character >_>

    But... But GGO was the SLOOOOOWEEEEESSSST EEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR...

    I actually hated Kirito the most in that season too. Really, dude? You're just that much of a badass that you can dodge and reflect bullets with your laser-sword, in a game environment you've never been in before now? I mean, come on. I know you're good; you're not that good. Major Sue-ness showing.

    (Edit: needed to add more E's to the SLOOOOOWEEEEESSSST EEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR because seriously, it's THAT slow.)
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    edited August 2015
    Has anyone mentioned the ABC series "Once Upon a Time" yet? It has fairy tale characters and monsters, (including all of the Disney versions of them, as Disney owns the IP and the network that airs it), D&D character classes of every type waving blades and throwing fireballs around, lots of iconic D&D monsters, and fascinating storytelling told from dozens of points-of-view and multiple points in time, and among worlds. What more could a gamer want in a TV show?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8ag-96ock&list=PLvQspBMLA2YojuPsh_fZHDmcANYPi5rqs

    Also, has anyone mentioned Dorkness Rising? That film is one of the funniest D&D parodies with a sympathetic bias to it that I've ever seen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOUksDJCijw
  • the_spyderthe_spyder Member Posts: 5,018
    Has it been mentioned that they actually made an animated movie of Dragonlance?
  • VallmyrVallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459
    the_spyder said:

    Has it been mentioned that they actually made an animated movie of Dragonlance?

    I forgot about that movie. I think it's absolutely terrible.
    However.
    I also love it to death. Objectively it's "meh." Objectively it's fun to watch for me! XD
  • SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
    Log Horizon season 1.

    Overlord. "anime"

    Re:Monster manga.

    Bunraku feels like a action video game, it's not high fantasy or sci fi, but it has cowboys, samurai and lots of colourful boss battles.

    Willow.

    The animated classic Fire and Ice (1983).

    That Sean Connery dragon movie, DragonHeart. Man I loved that movie as a kid.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Fire and Ice feels like a Conan story by Robert E. Howard.
  • BenjaminBenjamin Member Posts: 39
    The community episode Digital Estate Planning is probably the best video game episode of any show ever
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    How about this? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/LesLegendaires
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