Video games are often looked down on by the movie industry. Hollywood has often labeled video games as not a “legitimate” an art form as motion pictures for decades. It doesn’t help that some games lean into this label by constantly stealing scenes and set pieces from popular movies though, making the gaming industry come off as an annoying little brother trying to hang out with its cooler older sibling.
To counter this, many games have began to strive for originality. PlayStation 4’s Spider-Man tells the best Spider-Man story to ever grace a screen, and titles like Disco Elysium show that games are superior to film when exploring complex themes such as moral conundrums and political philosophy.
Movies have began to take notice too, stealing some of the best ideas in video games and applying them to filmmaking. The increase of first-person POV shots, side-scroll style fight scenes and all of John Wick are clearly inspired by video games.
It is not just style that movies are shoplifting from video games, though, as some movies are guilty of blatantly ripping off scenes, sequences and sometimes whole plots from popular video games.
