Even if a movie is not based on one game in particular, its still usually bad if it tries to tie in video games or gaming culture. Scott Pilgrim is one of the only movies to do it right. Even the game (which was more based on the comic books) has tons of shoutouts to other games. I mean, the character select screen is identical to Super Mario 2 USA.
Nerd culture in general. They just do NOT understand what makes "geeks" tick. They add a computer hacker to EVERY show out there, and the writers have NO CLUE how computers work and throw a bunch of techno-jargon that's nothing more than techno gibberish and double talk. And how many *&^% episodes of every show have to take place at Comic Con? The Cleveland Show was the only thing that even remotely got Comic Con (basically stating the thing is a big commercial for Hollywood projects that NO ONE who reads comics would ever watch).
But video game movies didn't even need a nerd angle until maybe the Tomb Raider ones (which are sadly the better of those movies, if not the best). Though, if they tried to pull that Super Mario Bros. movie off today, there would be entire complain-o-sphere around it. Oh, it would still get made, probably even stupider and more completely wrong... but there would be pretty much ignored death threats by the millions.
But I ask you....WHY did we need a second Street Fighter movie that was actually WORSE than the first one? At least with the first movie, Raul Julia had fun in the role.And why was Chinese Chun Li played by someone who
wasn't Chinese or even remotely Asian?
On the flip side, games based on movies are just as bad. The only decent game based on a movie I can think of is The Nightmare Before Christmas. Its kinda awkward at first, but since its a brand new story, you can't really mess up that aspect. And it does a great job recreating the look and feel of the movie
Ttch... that was like that since Atari's day. I could say E.T., as that's the most obvious... but really... just weird games. Some were actually kinda fun, but they were variations on an existing game.
To say nothing of worst video game company LJN! Beetlejuice sucked, Bill and Ted sucked, Jaws sucked... they were all just awful.