Why is there no Twilight game?

[Queen Michael]

FACT: The Twilight movies and books have enjoyed enormous popularity among teenage girls for a long time.

FACT: Pretty much all modern teenage girls play some sort of video game.

So why haven't there been some sort of Twilight video game? A visual novel would work fairly well, and if that's not an option for some reason then there must be some way they could turn it into a game good enough to sell. So why don't we have a Twilight game in a world where even Akira Pinball seemed like a good idea?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I think the Twilight fandom has long since peaked in popularity so having a video game of the series at this point and time wouldn't make much since, financially-speaking.

As far as I know those same fans have moved on to The Hunger Games franchise by now.

 

[rahulomon]

As a Gamestop employee, the closest thing I've ever come to selling is a Twilight Scene It game.

 

[Queen Michael]

I think the Twilight fandom has long since peaked in popularity so having a video game of the series at this point and time wouldn't make much since, financially-speaking.

As far as I know those same fans have moved on to The Hunger Games franchise by now.

Yeah, but why wasn't there one to start with?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Yeah, but why wasn't there one to start with?

Who knows.

Perhaps any competent developer didn't want to touch an adaptation like that with a 10 foot pole. The Twilight books/films would make for a pretty poor game, if you really think about it.

 

[Evonisia]

I would say because when Twilight was popular, the average AAA game of the time would be a Halo knock-off shooter or a sequel in a series. Twilight would either be a visual novel, or would be a God of War style brawler with the story explained entirely in cutscenes.

Hmm, maybe there could have been a Twilight game in 2010 when we had God of War 3 and a few hack n slash games near the beginning of the year.

Now for a The Hunger Games video game, well we already have one, it's called Tomb Raider 2013. And unlike in The Hunger Games the film, we are given insight into Lara Croft's thoughts so we don't need a The Hunger Games video game based on the crappy film based on the book.

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

Because the gaming industry has been rather negligent in appealing or trying to apple to women. That basically seems like the easy answer. Another one might be that games still have a hard time with romance. Movie games have kind of left the field. Like if they were to make a vampire werewolf love game it wouldn't be twilight. Actually there could be a twilight game and we just didn't hear about it because the fans swim in different waters.

 

[Methoda]

Dude no, just no, do you really want them to make the most hated game of all times?

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Because you can't have a full game that's pretty much "Press X to look sad and romance boys"

You might get away with that shit in the indie scene but AAA games need at least three explosions to get on the GameStop shelves

 

[Mezahmay]

Because it was a girl franchise and girls didn't buy games seven years ago. Obviously.

 

[HardkorSB]

The only way this game would make sense is if it was a Japanese style dating sim and I honestly don't know about any of them being made in the US.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I can see it as a Katawa Shoujo style "game".

 

[DementedSheep]

What would even do in one? Maybe you could have meter that you have to keep full to keep stringing the guys along and stop them realising what a waste of space you are.

 

[TrevHead]

I've always though that the industry is missing a trick by not having an equivalent to the Otome genre

As to why a Twilight or similarly licensed Omote games haven't happened I'd take a guess that the rights holder is demanding to much money for small indies and publishers already in the genre, while bigger publishers are too risk adverse to even try, instead they'll just continue ploughing the old field of licensed shovelware and Barbie games. Visual novels have recently broke onto the Steam store so such games might be a thing in a couple of years.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Because it is quite difficult to wank and play a game at the same time, works far better with books and movies.

 

[Loonyyy]

Probably because it would work even less well than most videogame adaptations. Most vg adaptations don't "get" the source material at all, particularly what makes them popular. That's why there's a string of sort of platformer Harry Potter games that eventually morphed into 3rd person shooters just as they were dying in popularity. That's why Ghostbusters got a 3PS. That's why Aliens and Predator have a bunch of shooters. Same with Wanted. Same with brawlers, there's a string of poorly made God of War ripoffs. The Shrek games, LoTR film adaptations. Twilight doesn't have a lot of areas where they can insert a bunch of violence, and violence is one of the easiest ways to create interaction in a videogame. The other common one being traversal, things like racers and platformers.

It'd be hard to turn Twilight into one of the few genres that properties are adapted into, and even harder to turn it into something that builds off the source material (A visual novel or text adventure might be a way to systemize a romantic novel. These aren't as popular a sort of videogame, and in particular, aren't going to have the same mass market appeal as a shitty 3PS or brawler). And to turn it into any of those, it'd take far more effort than most studios go to for a lazy cash in. That's why the only videogame of Twilight that gets out is a Scene-It, because it's as much effort as a Monopoly tie-in game or pinball.

Then there's also the bit where it seems that it's hard enough to get focus test women, let alone design a game for a majority female market. Seems like it'd be an incredibly tough sell.

 

[BNguyen]

Yeah, but why wasn't there one to start with?

Who knows.

Perhaps any competent developer didn't want to touch an adaptation like that with a 10 foot pole. The Twilight books/films would make for a pretty poor game, if you really think about it.

how in the world would you make that series a game anyways in the sense of not being some kind of interactive visual novel? what would be the mechanics? there's not much story to go on to even make a prequel game - any fight scene from the movies wouldn't go well, at least to the best of my knowledge, with what a girl would want in a game as a twilight fan, that and they're far too short and end up being extended chase scenes.
at most, I could only guess that twilight would work as some kind of dating sim, but with only two choices that's not much to go on coupled with the fact that one wouldn't have to work at gaining the relationship since both characters already kind of obsess over bella.
on the other hand, there could be a game reminiscent of that cooking mama game where you take care of a baby

on a side note - jacob and his crew remove their shirts prior to transforming (in what I guess is so that they don't rip them up) but then, why don't their pants tear as well? this also makes me guess on edward and his crew - they want to fit in, but sunlight makes their skin sparkle, so why not wear thick skin cream?

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Because there is a God and he has chosen to be kind to us. Seriously though, if there had been a Twilight game I picture it being like those awkward pauses in dialogue you sometimes get while playing Mass Effect where Shepard just stares at whoever he/she is talking to for a few seconds before replying. Only for the whole game.