John Carpenter talks us through his favorite video games of 2022
Carpenter—an avid gamer, when he's not serving as a composer and executive producer on the new Halloween films—talks us through his recent favorites
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AVC: Have you ever thought about adapting a game?
JC: The only one I can think of, and I've mentioned it before, is Dead Space. That would make a real great movie. I could do that.
AVC: Do you have a favorite out of that series?
JC: Well, any of them were really good. I even like the last one, the action one that nobody else liked.
AVC: Do you get scared while playing games?
JC: Well, I don't like things jumping out at me and threatening my character, no! Don't threaten my character, I want to survive. A lot of games, they penalize you for dying. It's one of the things I like about Fallout, they don't penalize you. You die over and over again on a hard mission. I like that.
AVC: That's a multiplayer game, too. Do you interact with people at all on that one?
JC: I don't. I don't want to be shamed by some young punk. You know, that's what's going to happen, they're going to shame me. They're all better than I am. I'm just trying to get by. I'm not that good.