What game series would be completely ruined with a gritty reboot?

[Twilight_guy]

Anything owned by Nintendo. Can't be bothered to start listing all there IPs.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Spyro? It's fun because it's silly and shit. If you were just a purple dragon ripping the heads of rhinocs and burning sheep to death then it'd be to dark to enjoy

 

[Pink Gregory]

I'm gon' go with the obvious Katamari Damacy.

Dress him in a turban or something and INSTANT GRITTY OUTRAGE.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I was thinking the worst example is Donkey Kong or Kirby. Would completely bomb.

... Although, a gritty reboot of Pokemon would pretty much turn into Persona. Hmmmm....

I'd support this.

OT: I'd say zelda, but thats what I always though Twilight princess and skyward sword were (especially with them being after windwaker).

id say metroid. because if it was made in this era, samus would be as big as her armour suit or completely overly sexualized and need a strong male support character to make her his *****.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Metroid_Other_M_Cover.jpg/250px-Metroid_Other_M_Cover.jpg

 

[saintdane05]

You know, I'm pretty sure Dark and Gritty Nintendo could work.


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[BrotherRool]

Rollercoaster Tycoon! It can be a nothing held back of the exploration of the secret drug abuse, corporate cheating and manipulatoíon that goes into running a destroying people'S lives through overconsumerism.

 

[War Penguin]

I'm gonna put an interesting twist on this thread and pick a "gritty" games series and make it cute. Because I can.

Gears of War

Just picture it! The comically sized arms legs and head and cutesy eyes and face of Marcus Phoenix with a cute tiny little body! He has his little chainsaw gun and they'll make it a cute little platformer. The locust can also be just like goombas, with big heads and cute angry faces! And it will be awesome!

 

[Sylveria]

Everything is ruined with a gritty reboot. Any game that has its own charm, personality, or identity loses all of it when you dunk it in the grit. DMC is a perfect example of it.

However, some games could be hilarious if they were gritted up but self aware. Imagine Kirby with a Gears of War skin on it....

 

[Terminate421]

Everything is ruined with a gritty reboot. Any game that has its own charm, personality, or identity loses all of it when you dunk it in the grit. DMC is a perfect example of it.

However, some games could be hilarious if they were gritted up but self aware. Imagine Kirby with a Gears of War skin on it....

I actually have written a rated-T pokemon mystery dungeon script, it's not grit and blood and swearing but it's hella dark compared to other stuff.

It's not fanfiction if I haven't put it out to the public, also it's not shite in story telling.

I don't think it would sell well, great reviews but it'd end up like Psychonauts probably.....

 

[Terminate421]

I'm gonna put an interesting twist on this thread and pick a "gritty" games series and make it cute. Because I can.

Gears of War

Just picture it! The comically sized arms legs and head and cutesy eyes and face of Marcus Phoenix with a cute tiny little body! He has his little chainsaw gun and they'll make it a cute little platformer. The locust can also be just like goombas, with big heads and cute angry faces! And it will be awesome!

Too late (This is not photoshopped)

 

[War Penguin]

I'm gonna put an interesting twist on this thread and pick a "gritty" games series and make it cute. Because I can.

Gears of War

Just picture it! The comically sized arms legs and head and cutesy eyes and face of Marcus Phoenix with a cute tiny little body! He has his little chainsaw gun and they'll make it a cute little platformer. The locust can also be just like goombas, with big heads and cute angry faces! And it will be awesome!

Too late (This is not photoshopped)

Yes... YYYEEESSS!!!

Now all we need to do is give it a cartoony anime art style and we'll be golden!

 

[The_Echo]

Kingdom Hearts​

Of course, one could argue that Kingdom Hearts is already (comparatively speaking) a gritty reboot of the Disney universe itself.

But if it got grittier? Oh, my.

Spyro?

Isn't that sort of what the Legend of Spyro trilogy was? That's probably why I didn't like it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Pretty much any of Nintendo's properties.

Everything is ruined with a gritty reboot. Any game that has its own charm, personality, or identity loses all of it when you dunk it in the grit. DMC is a perfect example of it.

Yeah pretty much this, although I can't comment on the new DMC as I've never really been into that series anyway.

 

[saintdane05]

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God damnit, she was going through PTSD! It was natural for her to behave like that!

 

[Evil Smurf]

Actually Plants V Zombies would be pretty badarse.

 

[emeraldrafael]

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God damnit, she was going through PTSD! It was natural for her to behave like that!

the funny thing is i didnt even think about that game until i got through with the sentence and realized that happened.

 

[BNguyen]

Mario game.

Nuff said.

...

Okay, I'll speak a bit more.

I mean - excluding the fact of how gritty the war machines in Mario 3 sorta looked - this series has been the Disney-esque franchise of video game industry. The games have been mostly bright, colorful, and cheerful looking. So to imagine them taking on a dark dystopian setting being-

wait a sec...

THE MOVIE!!

There you go! Take the Super Mario Bros. movie, and you can see just how wrong the series would go if it ever attempted this.

actually, Mario might be interesting as dark and gritty - a bit like there will be brawl with Mario as a cop and Bowser as a crime boss

 

[Nomanslander]

actually, Mario might be interesting as dark and gritty - a bit like there will be brawl with Mario as a cop and Bowser as a crime boss

Any idea could possibly work, but this is one of those that would take a lot of effort and luck to do so.

me thinks.

:/