The Avengers writer-director, comic book writer and sci-fi mega-fan, Joss Whedon, has revealed that he never "never got the hang of" video games.
When asked during a talk in the Film Society of Lincoln Centre why he has never made a video game adaptation of one of his movies, he said: "I've been approached a few times. And I've sort of gone down the path a little bit and it's never amounted to anything.
"At first, I was not interested in video games just because there really was no narrative, there was no character, there was no decision-making, there was bang-bang."
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Speaking about modern video games, he added: "And that's really changed, and it's become more and more interesting and the form of storytelling that a lot of people are gravitating towards.
"My problem is, I don't play them. Because those video games, there's a career in those and I never got the hang of them as my nephews found out when they tried to play Gears of War with me. I suddenly wasn't the cool uncle anymore as I kept shooting them by mistake."
He added: "I still don't understand why they never made a Firefly game because it lends itself enormously.
"They were going to do a big massive, multiplayer thing with many M's in the acronym - I don't know what it's called, I'm old, look at me for god's sake. I have reading glasses."
