Lack of Twilight Game Has Cost Industry Millions
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i thnik the gas will be, in the words of the great Ben Croshaw: an "interactive storytelling experience", also known as an edward-fangirl wank-off. In Soviet russia, you dump on bad game. In America, Bad game dump on YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!!!!
Three responses to this:
1) What about quality? I was hoping that the gaming industry hadn't QUITE turned into Hollywood yet, where all they care about is big money. Why waste money on a game that will get a lot of money and suck, when you could spend a lot of money on a game that will make a lot of money and be great?
2) 20-30 year old females? I believe someone aimed high on the age range.
3)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
"The Teenage Dollar"
1) What about quality? I was hoping that the gaming industry hadn't QUITE turned into Hollywood yet, where all they care about is big money. Why waste money on a game that will get a lot of money and suck, when you could spend a lot of money on a game that will make a lot of money and be great?
2) 20-30 year old females? I believe someone aimed high on the age range.
3)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
"The Teenage Dollar"
IMO It saved them millions. First off, Twilight is a chick flick....
Sparkly vampire, angsty teens heart throb Buffy/Angel Cast castaways. Target audience.
FEMALES.
Short of making my own REAL vampire and tearing Edward a new orifi and NOT SPARKLING in the character creator... you would have to make one hell of a amazing story line to even get me to watch the game trailer.....
Now, I'm for a good RP, take VTM Bloodlines, I found it a great game. You make Twilight dark and gritty I could go for that....but thats not what Twilight is.
So your now movie to a class of game that has no had a audience in years. The puzzle/adventure. Kings Quest, Monkey Island ect.
So break down the #'s. If let's say in the US we have 20 Million gamers of all ages.
Let's say, 15 are in your age range. Now, yes our girl games have come a long away and grown in numbers. But still maybe 3 mil... the problem of figuring out, RPG, Puzzle, Hybrid, coding marketing, ect doesn't make it attractive project...there would be just to many conflicting game maechanics that would take from what a female game (your core audience) to give to a male gamer (the audience you wish to attract) This disaster hit a small corp in the 90's when Disney asked them to make Two Beauty and the Beast games... one for boys one for girls. The girls was more a puzzle game the boys a action platformer and they lost their shirt. But in the end....
Not many boys related to Beauty and the Beast...
So when think like MW2 grabbed 80-90% of gamers...Twilights core is only about 20% and it's world really can not expand to grab everyone like VTM... Just not ENOUGH money in it.
Sparkly vampire, angsty teens heart throb Buffy/Angel Cast castaways. Target audience.
FEMALES.
Short of making my own REAL vampire and tearing Edward a new orifi and NOT SPARKLING in the character creator... you would have to make one hell of a amazing story line to even get me to watch the game trailer.....
Now, I'm for a good RP, take VTM Bloodlines, I found it a great game. You make Twilight dark and gritty I could go for that....but thats not what Twilight is.
So your now movie to a class of game that has no had a audience in years. The puzzle/adventure. Kings Quest, Monkey Island ect.
So break down the #'s. If let's say in the US we have 20 Million gamers of all ages.
Let's say, 15 are in your age range. Now, yes our girl games have come a long away and grown in numbers. But still maybe 3 mil... the problem of figuring out, RPG, Puzzle, Hybrid, coding marketing, ect doesn't make it attractive project...there would be just to many conflicting game maechanics that would take from what a female game (your core audience) to give to a male gamer (the audience you wish to attract) This disaster hit a small corp in the 90's when Disney asked them to make Two Beauty and the Beast games... one for boys one for girls. The girls was more a puzzle game the boys a action platformer and they lost their shirt. But in the end....
Not many boys related to Beauty and the Beast...
So when think like MW2 grabbed 80-90% of gamers...Twilights core is only about 20% and it's world really can not expand to grab everyone like VTM... Just not ENOUGH money in it.
If I was in the companies possision, I would make it, hear me out, the game would be shit awful, the only reason I would make it is because it would sell.
Plus we might see some good looking girls start to play video games
Plus we might see some good looking girls start to play video games
i know how you make a game like this good. remember how in lego star wars you could kill jar jar binks? just do that. make a game where you play as Chuck Steak, a bad ass Ted Nugent type of person who goes around beating the entire cast of twilight with a giant club made out of king kong's weiner and killing them with it, while using your army of koala bears to have them violate edward in so many ways possible. Everyone on the planet would buy this game.
Well, all the females that have been labeled as "good looking" that I have known can't even hold the controller correctly let alone figure out that the left analog stick controls movement, while the right controls the camera...and yes this is a true story.Haseo21 said:Plus we might see some good looking girls start to play video games
On a side note, if this "game" would be released for the Wii, I'd feel sorry not only for the console, but the television screens as well, especially if "good looking" girls are using them to play the game with. :]
Ok, as far as i can tell, the Twilight tards and the video game nerds are like water and oil, they just dont mix, if a Twilight MMO does happen, it will be like wow, crazy people dying in front of there PCs because they cant pull themselfs away from a game.
Actually, there is potentional for a good game in Twilight's universe. Yeah, it'd have to lock the books in a cupboard and change its name for fear of getting beaten up by all the other games out there, but does anyone really know anything about these vampires besides the sparkly thing?
First off, old school Vampires (really old school) had tons of weaknesses. They couldn't go near garlic, crosses, they couldn't enter a home uninvited, couldn't cross running water, no sun, no stakes, etc. Twilight's vampires have one weakness: tearing off all their limbs and burning them. Holy balls.
How about a Twilight survival horror game? Think of what you, a normal, pathetic human, are up against. You go toe to toe with any of them and you're toast. But then, the tone of the game eventually shifts when you get inducted into a clan of werewolves and find that you're one yourself. Now you and your few werewolf friends must stem the vampiric tide and remove the undead threat without jeopardizing the lives and lifestlyes of the human world.
Sure it's got nothing to do with the books, but there isn't a lot of opportunity for astounding gameplay or epic storytelling when the story has already made most of the internet either moist with tears or pleasure.
First off, old school Vampires (really old school) had tons of weaknesses. They couldn't go near garlic, crosses, they couldn't enter a home uninvited, couldn't cross running water, no sun, no stakes, etc. Twilight's vampires have one weakness: tearing off all their limbs and burning them. Holy balls.
How about a Twilight survival horror game? Think of what you, a normal, pathetic human, are up against. You go toe to toe with any of them and you're toast. But then, the tone of the game eventually shifts when you get inducted into a clan of werewolves and find that you're one yourself. Now you and your few werewolf friends must stem the vampiric tide and remove the undead threat without jeopardizing the lives and lifestlyes of the human world.
Sure it's got nothing to do with the books, but there isn't a lot of opportunity for astounding gameplay or epic storytelling when the story has already made most of the internet either moist with tears or pleasure.
But then the Twitards would find you and burn everything you love because you make their "wuv" story something awesome, and they won't stand for that.About To Crash said:
I could die for that satisfaction. I suppose I just like to imagine that a good game can come from anything. I bet if a team of the absolutely best of the gaming industry spent a week or two, the Twilight game would not only be good for the fans, but also for the legions of the internet who never want to accept this possibility. It's similar, in a way, to the Halo and other game-related books. There's a story and universe changing media, and they write all-new stories, adding lots of things the games don't have. Should we be pissed if the reverse happens as well?Fr331anc3r said:
OK OK OK The world does not need any more Twilight bullshit. Its bad enough with Transformer movies coming out and lowering everybodies IQ several points. The books are boring and badly written and the movies are melodramatic angst-fests with terrible acting. I just can't imagine the shitiness of what the game would be like and I dont want to.