I can't freaking stand anime (with the exception of The Boondocks) and live action I think would actually be kind of cool.

Why on earth would anyone ever make an anime based on a Western RPG? I'd rather not see a film of any kind, but if I had to choose it would still be live action

I would go with Anime. First off, I condemn everybody who thinks Anime of any sort has to either be tacky ADD-driven preteen shows like Naruto or something incredibly raunchy for advlts. Some very deep, philosophical, and artistically beautiful series are out there, Fullmetal Alchemist is still strong in this regard to me. I figure that Anime stylization would compliment the series quite well, especially when you consider we already have lots of Asian elements in the Akaviri and Dunmeri cultures. It wouldn't be too out of place.

Plus, live action depictions of elves and characters with odd skin pigments never ends well.

No to anime. Yes to a live action film. Both wouldn't be that good though.

I would hate both.


But I'll take anime simply because it's the lesser of two evils where game->film adaptations are concerned.




I shudder to think who'd be in it. It'd probably be a Dragonball Z level of horrible.

A japanese anime? Are you serious? To obey the forum rules, i'm going to hold in all the things I would say against you in negative terms.

If TES EVER released a japanese anime, I would lose all respect for the series and never play it again.

I don't think Live action would work too well either, unless a great animating crew made the Khajiit and Argonian's look perfect, and great make-up artists made the differe-skinned people look perfect.

I think a Beowulf style animated movie would be perfect. Not story-wise, because Beowulf was aweful. But the animating style would work well.

Live action.

I used to like anime when I was younger, but my dad drilled it into my head that anime (being a former animator) was a cheap form of animation and I've despised it ever since.

PS. I'm just being honest. Don't attack me. :sadvaultboy:

The only flaw in your dad's argument is that he seems to be assuming it's all the same. In Western animation, some are cheap and shallow, some aren't. It's the same with anime. Some are well-made, high budget and great, some are cheap and stupid.

-Changing the subject-

This thread seems to have a lot of debating Public Medium Ignorance surrounding the anime medium based on one or two bad experiences like DBZ or sailor moon. I wonder why it is that when people see a bad foreign piece of art they assume they're all bad, but not so much homegrown? There are great and lousy western animated and live action movies, but why don't people only watch two of those (two that are particularly infamous for their lack of quality, no less!) and declare them all crap? It just is one of my pet peeves that people will pass up great experiences based on other bad ones that were only tenuously simillar.

Live action film... I use to be really into the Halo franchise... then Halo legends happened... and never in my opinion has a franchise been so butchered...

I have a pretty expansive anime library at home, and appreciate the medium and then some. Even did some stills in the long ago. But even with that appreciation, as I said, the only company I would trust with a world as visually diverse as Morrowind would be Studio Ghibli. The Oscar they won for Spirited Away proves that anime, as a medium, doesn't svck. There are gems, and there are some that use all the detractors, which for many, are the facets called "emoticons". Just seeing one of those in an anime normally makes one relegate the medium, albeit incorrectly, into a lumped sum.

But given the "look" of the game we love, with its high resolution 3D style of graphics, don't you (collectively) think that to get those that appreciate the games, and those that have never played it ever, all on the same page, that a movie would be best kept in the same style of the game? Many gamers of the Final Fantasy genre hated the movie because it lacked the spiky hair and oversized gun-swords. They rather wanted more on the same vein as Advent Children. But for a standalone movie, the Spirits Within delivered. The beginning was creepy. The premise was interesting. The characters, hate-worthy or fairly likable.

We'd need that for Morrowind, and with the huge full on fantasy look of the game, as I mentioned earlier, only Guillermo Del Toro would honestly do justice to it to make tangible Guar, Nix-hound, or even Atronachs. The way he did the HellBoy Golden Army prosthetics shows that he isn't all CGI worshipping, and that is good. All of us have to admit, there is some pretty terrible CGI out there, and the same goes for some 3D, as evidenced by the shameful way the movie Dragonlance:Dragons of Autumn's Twilight was produced, in an age when you could have the likes of the detail of The Spirits Within, Beowulf, or even the first Starship Troopers.

A live action would only be best served if the actors truly cared about the franchise. Some disagree, but you can see a difference between an actor who is doing it for the check and those that have been waiting for a vehicle that moves them. Even with some of it's rather bad CGI and filming of action sequences, the Lord of the Rings movies at least had actors that really wanted to be in the movie. A great many said publicly how they just loved the world of Tolkien, or some, just to play an Elf for the first time. That is what we'd need for a Morrowind movie. Some actors, and craftmen, that would approach the project enthusiastically, so you'd know they do their best.

Oh, and one thing we should really kind of understand, is that a great deal of "Western" animation is actually drafted and celled in Korea and elsewhere in Asia. Only a respective handful are really produced, directed, and celled in the States proper. The voice casting would make or break any Morrowind movie. In this, given her extensive success ratio with regard to animated media, the only person I would trust would be Andrea Romano, of the animated Batman, Justice League. Avatar:The Last Airbender, and many other works. She knows how to hunt down some pretty impressive voice talents, even those actors whose name has long faded into obscurity, but their voice, remained timeless.