It goes without saying that movies created from the world of gaming often fall flat on their faces and rarely succeed to create the experience that gamers long for in that form of entertainment. Despite that fact, we’ve watched director after director, namely Uwe Boll, continually fail at creating and immersing the movie going audience into that type of genre entirely and instead, everyone is left feeling as though they wasted their money.

Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, recently spoke to GamaSutra about this growing epidemic and made the claim that movie studios and directors should leave game to movie tie-ins to game makers, as they know best what it takes to create an evolving world.

“There was a whole bunch of meetings with people from Hollywood. Directors down there wanted to make a Half-Life movie and stuff, so they’d bring in a writer or some talent agency would bring in writers, and they would pitch us on their story,” he said. “And their stories were just so bad. I mean, brutally, the worst. Not understanding what made the game a good game, or what made the property an interesting thing for people to be a fan of.”

So, instead of creating a movie, Newell & Co decided not to and opted for Team Fortress 2 shorts in its place. Gamers can obviously be thankful for this situation as Team Fortress 2 has been a highly successful title and pretty addictive to boot.

“That’s when we started saying ‘Wow, the best thing we could ever do is to just not do this as a movie, or we’d have to make it ourselves.’,” Newell said. “And I was like, ‘Make it ourselves? Well, that’s impossible.’ But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet The Team shorts, is us trying to explore that.”

This is undoubtedly great to hear, because when it inevitably means is that we’ll never have to watch Left 4 Dead or Half Life be turned into a garbage straight-to-DVD type movie that everyone wants to see, but still doesn’t.

*Newell doesn’t mention Uwe Boll, but let’s be honest — this is who everyone is pinpointing.