Shows that should have games, and what companies should make them...

[josemlopes]

Futurama: Bioware, just make it like Mass Effect, you interact with your crew and their personal shit and off you go to various planets (each being like a self contained episode).

The Simpsons: Rockstar, one thing that I would like out of a Simpsons game is to feel like I am in Springfield and Rockstar at the moment is the best at creating a living city.

There's been a Futurama game back in the PS2 days [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28video_game%29], personally I thought it was pretty good (although others disagree). That said a new game would be cool, although I think the Mass Effect formula is a little serious for Futurama and putting a load of episodes worth of material into one game would be hugely time consuming.

The dialog wouldnt be as intense as in Mass Effect, its Futurama so they will still just talk about Fry being lazy and Bender being selfish or something, it would just mean that you could interact with them in conversations and have their own personal stuff to overcome (like in most episodes where someone has some sort of issue that in the end gets its conclusion), about the space adventure I would prefer multiple smaller events rather then a big overarching one like in the movies or game.

There's also been a couple of dozen Simpson games including Simpsons Skateboarding, Virtual Springfield, and Simpsons Hit and Run, all of which allowed exploration around Springfield. As good as Rockstar are at creating worlds they have no experience (that I can think of) with taking an existing universe and making it into a game plus the humour in their games isn't really the same as Simpsons humour. To be honest I think the Simpsons' best days are well behind us now and not even the writers could get back the original spirit of Springfield in a game.

This one I agree, although I would still want them as support for the creation of the city and making sure that the world is believeble, as for gameplay mechanics they could pull it off too, they did Bully and with that you would already have something close to Bart's gameplay.

As for them working with existing universes they actually did The Warriors and it was really good although I can see how they couldnt pull off the family friendly humor of the Simpsons (but even like with every other example here the writters would have to be the ones from the show)

 

[Nemusus]

Heroes, made by either Sucker Punch or Radical Entertainment. It would be an RPG, where you start to level up and specialize your power, with cameos from people in the actual TV series. Maybe only the first season or so should be considered cannon, the series really dropped off from there.

 

[Mister K]

How about a Movie that should have a game... Pacific Rim needs a game I think, and maybe the Hawken devs should be the developer?

It did have a game. It apparently wasn't that good.

Haha wow, didn't even realize. Licensed game usually suck

Depends on which PR game we are talking about because there is one for tablets and one for PS3/Xbox360.
I don't know about the former, but latter, for 10$ game, is pretty good.

OT: Megas XLR and/or Samurai Jack game made by Platinum games. I am so down for this!

 

[Silvanus]

Yeah, but it really missed the essence of the show in the gameplay part, as if it was like Mass Effect that stuff would transfer nicely (when I think of Futurama I think of either space adventures in weird planets and personal episodes about the characters relations with eachother, not platforming and shooting bad guys).

The game as it was ended up being Futurama only in the cutscenes and a typical platformer in gameplay the same way most games from shows are. Shows usually are a lot more talkative with much less focus on action so a game to feel like it it really needs to tranfer that focus to a more talkative game (like Mass Effect).

It wasnt a bad game (like you said it was good) but it still isnt the example of what a game from a show can achieve to be (maybe South Park changes it).

Tis true. There was nothing uniquely 'Futurama' about the gameplay, to convince me to play that rather than the numerous other platformers I play.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Given the huge success of the Batman Arkham series, I was wondering if they could make new series of games only set in the future and taking control of the future Batman i.e. Terry McGinnis.

I've been watching Batman Beyond recently and I've come to the conclusion that the developers of the Batman Arkham titles can not only pull it off, but they can make it an awesome new Batman series. You would be able to roam Neo-Gotham and partake in small side missions or incidents (i.e. collectibles or facing Jokers) and choose whenever you wanted to take part in the story-based missions, which include fighting the new Batman's rouges gallery or certain incidents involving other characters.

I think that it would be awesome, and it's more possible now than ever before.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I was going to say RWBY. Good to see I was beaten to it already.

 

[Mikejames]

Could we get Telltale to do a continuation of Firefly?

That'd make me happy.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

A My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game made by the developers of Paper Mario.

I think a JRPG in the style of Paper Mario would work really quite well for the show. Your Party are the Mane 6 who all have different powers in combar and outside, the 6 Elements of Harmony could very well stand in for the star crystals and i think that Equestria has enough interesting locations and characters to make up for six seperate chapters.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Sons of Anarchy by Rockstar North

More or less GTA V but with the playable characters being from SAMCRO, Mayans MC and The Niners.
I rather liked The Lost and The Damned, just throw in the drug dealing from Chinatown Wars, pimping and turf wars from San Andreas and throw in some gun running and you got one hell of a game.

 

[Rob Robson]

I would really love to see an Elder Scrolls MMO licensed to Funcom. Unfortunately, they already assigned the franchise to a new trash studio which are tryin to turn it into Rift 2.0 - well, it's too late, it already happened. ELDER SCROLLS IS NOT HIGH FANTASY!!!111one

 

[Sarge034]

actually there was a black hawk down game.. made by the same people who did the old delta force games, its actually one of my favourite games of the series

I still stand by my answer because of new graphics and the like.

 

[Gill Kaiser]

Could we get Telltale to do a continuation of Firefly?

That'd make me happy.

Came here to suggest this. I think it'd be a perfect fit. They've shown they're really good at adapting established properties and writing enthralling stories. Set it before Serenity and there's so much they could do with the Firefly crew...

 

[Maxtro]

Show- Burn Notice
Company- Bethesda

It would have to be open world and have believable gunplay, stealth and the like. If Fallout 3/NV had CoD-esq gunplay the stage would be set. Needs a lot of side quests too, as anyone who watched the series could tell you.

How about an much more obvious choice.

Burn Notice: Rockstar Games.

It's well within Rockstar's skill set and of course it will be more serious than GTA.

The character switching mechanic from GTA V could also be used.

 

[aozgolo]

What I don't understand is why didn't Disney actually get someone to make Sugar Rush into a real game? I mean Wreck-It Ralph is freaking ABOUT Video Games and while I understand the reason you couldn't license the whole movie into a game due to all the copyright conflicts... they made a simple Flash version of Fix It Felix, why couldn't they turn Sugar Rush into an actual cart racer? I mean I get it's not for everyone but c'mon Disney... you dropped the ball on that one.

As far as TV Shows go I can't really think of any, though I would enjoy seeing a team-based Star Trek game where instead of being an entire damn ship, you are an actual officer, and you work with others to control a ship. I honestly never felt any Star Trek game felt like Star Trek because it focused too heavily on you playing a ship instead of a character, and Star Trek is all about the characters.

 

[Mikejames]

Could we get Telltale to do a continuation of Firefly?

That'd make me happy.

Came here to suggest this. I think it'd be a perfect fit. They've shown they're really good at adapting established properties and writing enthralling stories. Set it before Serenity and there's so much they could do with the Firefly crew...

I can see it now... Book's mysterious background, the conspiracy of the Hands of Blue, the inevitable return of that whack job Jubal.

I've heard there may be another comic on the way, but I can't help but like the idea of someone like Telltale bringing the old crew back together.

 

[Sarge034]

Show- Burn Notice
Company- Bethesda

It would have to be open world and have believable gunplay, stealth and the like. If Fallout 3/NV had CoD-esq gunplay the stage would be set. Needs a lot of side quests too, as anyone who watched the series could tell you.

How about an much more obvious choice.

Burn Notice: Rockstar Games.

It's well within Rockstar's skill set and of course it will be more serious than GTA.

The character switching mechanic from GTA V could also be used.

I was gonna say Rockstar but their gunplay is shit, they do third person games, and they have no real stealth mechanics. I also believe some sort of Bethesda leveling system could be implemented.