Matt Damon Wanted Bourne Game to be More Like Myst

**radio667** · 05-02-2008, 12:46 PM

from filefront.com .......... Yesterday, Chris reported on how Matt Damon had passed on being involved with The Bourne Conspiracy due to the violence in the game. Now it looks like some comments from the actor himself have surfaced showing that there was a bit more to it than that. According to an interview in The Boston Globe, Damon wanted the game to be more of a puzzler than an action game:

“I lobbied hard…to not make a first-person shooter game but to make it more like Myst, which was a great interesting puzzle you tried to solve - you know, to play with his amnesia or his memory,” he told the publication. “They weren’t interested. They made the video anyway, without my likeness.”

In related news, Matt Damon has never seen any of the Bourne movies. What was he thinking while he was filming all those elaborate fight scenes? “Yes, this scene with me brutally beating a guy to death will surely reveal more about my character’s past?”

Via MTV Multiplayer

SuperApe · 05-02-2008, 01:29 PM

I have a lot of respect for the man, so I have to assume this was a tongue-in-cheek suggestion. I know his buddy Ben plays video games and I know they roomed together at some point, so my deduction leads me to believe he's played a few games in his life. Perhaps he just wasn't going to settle for the amount they offered to voice act in this one, although I realize his mother is an advocate against violence in video games.

JoystickMonkey · 05-03-2008, 06:09 PM

This is pretty much a case of Matt Damon vs. market-driven games industry execs with blinders on.
The game execs are definitely in this to make money, or else they wouldn't be pumping out a crappy movie-based game just to turn a buck. It's most reliably profitable to tread down the most well-known path, and that's fps action for a game even remotely involving guns.
If Matt Damon really wants an interesting but not mainstream game, he should fund production himself

Dorkorama · 05-03-2008, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoystickMonkey

This is pretty much a case of Matt Damon vs. market-driven games industry execs with blinders on.
The game execs are definitely in this to make money, or else they wouldn't be pumping out a crappy movie-based game just to turn a buck. It's most reliably profitable to tread down the most well-known path, and that's fps action for a game even remotely involving guns.
If Matt Damon really wants an interesting but not mainstream game, he should fund production himself

Akin to Mark Sinclair Vincent's Tigon Studios?

**radio667** · 05-03-2008, 08:52 PM

YouTube - Sarah Silverman "I'm F*cking Matt...

PsxMeUP · 05-04-2008, 04:34 AM

Heh, she actually made something semi-funny. Anyway, Bourne games have great "Adventure" potential. I see it more like Resident Evil, which also has Myst elements as well as suspense and action parts.

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radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Matt Damon Wanted Bourne Game to be More Like Myst from filefront.com .......... Yesterday, Chris reported on how Matt Damon had passed on being involved with The Bourne Conspiracy due to the violence in the game. Now it looks like some comments from the actor himself have surfaced showing that there was a bit more to it than that. According to an interview in The Boston Globe, Damon wanted the game to be more of a puzzler than an action game: “I lobbied hard…to not make a first-person shooter game but to make it more like Myst, which was a great interesting puzzle you tried to solve - you know, to play with his amnesia or his memory,” he told the publication. “They weren’t interested. They made the video anyway, without my likeness.” In related news, Matt Damon has never seen any of the Bourne movies. What was he thinking while he was filming all those elaborate fight scenes? “Yes, this scene with me brutally beating a guy to death will surely reveal more about my character’s past?” Via MTV Multiplayer Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

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SuperApe Registered Monkey Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Inna Jungle Posts: 6,140 Downloads: 10 My Files: 9	I have a lot of respect for the man, so I have to assume this was a tongue-in-cheek suggestion. I know his buddy Ben plays video games and I know they roomed together at some point, so my deduction leads me to believe he's played a few games in his life. Perhaps he just wasn't going to settle for the amount they offered to voice act in this one, although I realize his mother is an advocate against violence in video games. __________________ - SuperApe : ) -= Unreal Geek =-= HTML5 Padawan =-= Funoholic =- I donate to UnrealPlayground. How do you help UP?

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JoystickMonkey UP Regular Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Far away from the sun. Posts: 2,174 Downloads: 3 My Files: 2	This is pretty much a case of Matt Damon vs. market-driven games industry execs with blinders on. The game execs are definitely in this to make money, or else they wouldn't be pumping out a crappy movie-based game just to turn a buck. It's most reliably profitable to tread down the most well-known path, and that's fps action for a game even remotely involving guns. If Matt Damon really wants an interesting but not mainstream game, he should fund production himself __________________ Shoot to kill, aim to please. First to join Club Mathlete!

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05-04-2008, 04:34 AM	#6
PsxMeUP Criminal genieuss[sp?] Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: 575 Posts: 326 Downloads: 4 My Files: 3	Heh, she actually made something semi-funny. Anyway, Bourne games have great "Adventure" potential. I see it more like Resident Evil, which also has Myst elements as well as suspense and action parts.