Games spawned from films that don't suck!
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I think the only film games that are good are the ones where they have a licence to be original not just blindly follow the film's plot.
Duck Tales on the Gameboy was pretty sweet.
I seem to remember The Simpsons Game for the PS2 as being the only Simpsons-related videogame that wasn't terrible and/or absurdly difficult.
I seem to remember The Simpsons Game for the PS2 as being the only Simpsons-related videogame that wasn't terrible and/or absurdly difficult.
It was okay, but unless you had like $40 in quarters you didn't stand a chance in hell of beating it.hobob said:
my opinion is the game spiderman game i know it sounds rather homosexual but i liked the open world and then jump off really tall buildings and splat like the empire state bulding whheeeeeeeee!!!! SPPPPPLLLLLATTTT!
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic didn't suck. Neither did TIE Fighter or X-Wing. I'm sure there's other Star Wars titles that weren't bad either, if I could just sort through jumbled memories. (Oh, Republic Commando was supposed to be good but I didn't give it a try myself.) SW: Battlefront wasn't bad, but it didn't inspire me to buy it after the rental. (Dons asbestos underwear. Man, it itches as much as I remembered.)
I had another title in mind, but alas it's completely slipped away from me courtesy of a phone call. Oh well.
-- Steve
I had another title in mind, but alas it's completely slipped away from me courtesy of a phone call. Oh well.
-- Steve
Goldeneye, Riddick... that's about it.
Funny thing about games based on movies is that they have ENORMOUS profit margins, because parents will buy them for their kids no matter how crappy they are, looking only at the "name brand." And kids will play them, because it helps them pretend they are their favorite cartoon characters, even if the game sucks so much that they can't leave the first stage because of a bug. You press JUMP, and Remy from Ratatouille jumps! It's the most awesome thing ever, just seeing him jumping in place when you press the button!
The lower the already miniscule production costs of the game are, the greater the profits become. Only games based on adult-oriented movies like Goldeneye and Riddick can buck this trend, because the parents buy them for themselves, and are far more judgemental an audience than preteens.
Kingdom Hearts bucked this trend, though almost entirely by having no specific movie behind it, just an almagram of Disney classics grafted on to a typical emo JRPG that Squeenix would have turned into Another Freaking Fantasy if they had been denied the license.
Funny thing about games based on movies is that they have ENORMOUS profit margins, because parents will buy them for their kids no matter how crappy they are, looking only at the "name brand." And kids will play them, because it helps them pretend they are their favorite cartoon characters, even if the game sucks so much that they can't leave the first stage because of a bug. You press JUMP, and Remy from Ratatouille jumps! It's the most awesome thing ever, just seeing him jumping in place when you press the button!
The lower the already miniscule production costs of the game are, the greater the profits become. Only games based on adult-oriented movies like Goldeneye and Riddick can buck this trend, because the parents buy them for themselves, and are far more judgemental an audience than preteens.
Kingdom Hearts bucked this trend, though almost entirely by having no specific movie behind it, just an almagram of Disney classics grafted on to a typical emo JRPG that Squeenix would have turned into Another Freaking Fantasy if they had been denied the license.
The SNES Star Wars trilogy was good, but brutally hard.
Spider-man 2, Goldeneye, KOTOR....that's about it. Oh, and The Simpsons arcade game.
Spider-man 2, Goldeneye, KOTOR....that's about it. Oh, and The Simpsons arcade game.