Your biggest "why the hell not" moments

[dantheman931]

So I've thought of some things that I'm honestly surprised never happened, to wit:

1. Stephen King writing young-adult literature. He's said in interviews that he's a giant Harry Potter fan; and if you consider The Eye of the Dragon, which he wrote specifically for his daughter after she told him she hated his horror stories, he's sort of already done it. Plus, Dean Koontz has written YA lit before. So why the hell not?

2. A game based on Big Trouble In Little China. The movie ended on a massive sequel hook, and the premise of the movie has all kinds of potential for a game. Hell, most of the cast is still alive--they'd have to find someone new to play Egg Chen, but otherwise, I'm pretty sure they could get everyone if the money was right. (And let's face it, what has Kurt Russell done lately?) There's the added advantage that movie tie-in games tend to be way better when based on older movies, and BTILC is over twenty years old. Again, why the hell not?

So the question is, have you ever thought of something that seems so obvious that you're astounded no one's done it yet? What was it?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

A decent movie based on a game.

A Radiohead album this decade with some actual songs on it.

 

[Gardenclaw]

A toupe that looks real......

 

[Valagetti]

I'm surprised that Duke Nuke'm Forever has been going on for twelve years and the release date is only a couple of months away. Something thats been going on for so long, I would of guessed that it would or just died out. Well re-makes do make lots of money.
Lets just hope its not like Wolfenstein.

 

[wammnebu]

A Kinect real-time strategy game: there has been countless times when playing AoE or TA that i just wish i could drop the mouse and just wave my hands around the screen to make them move. We finally have the technology available from all those scifi's-someone is bound to put two and two together.

A really good sci-fi, moulin rouge style, musical

Another Star Trek spin-off: the fanbase is there (and now growing, since star wars has fallen (HAHA!)), there hasn't been one for 6 years now, and there is still plenty of undiscovered country in the roddenbury universe. I personally hope for the mirror universe to have its own series but hey thats just a dream

 

[Radeonx]

Well re-makes do make lots of money.

I'm assuming you mean sequels, because DNF isn't a remake.

OT: A non RTS Starcraft game.
Because everyone will buy it anyways, and I WANT FUCKING STARCRAFT GHOST!

 

[emeraldrafael]

So I've thought of some things that I'm honestly surprised never happened, to wit:

1. Stephen King writing young-adult literature. He's said in interviews that he's a giant Harry Potter fan; and if you consider The Eye of the Dragon, which he wrote specifically for his daughter after she told him she hated his horror stories, he's sort of already done it. Plus, Dean Koontz has written YA lit before. So why the hell not?

Probably cause he has an archtype to fill. He's an adult fiction writer (for the most part) and focuses more on the suspense/thrill literature. If he went into kids books without really explaining himself he would be taken less seriously.

Plus the YA crowd dont think he's scary and it would be a lost cause. He doesnt market himself to them. And just cause you're an HP fan doenst mean you want write books on that level. I think I know what youre talking about when he said that and its more that he likes the style of writing and the story itself, not the audience and writing towards them.

though he has done YA lit. He made a pop up book out of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan, has made comic adaptations of several of his works (his Dark Tower works are in comics as a spin off sorta thing), and he wrote a non fiction book about how to write. ANd of course there's eyes of a dragon, but that was a fair tale for his daughter that I dont htink he ever really intended to be a book.

OT: A Love Movie where the girl doesnt get the guy and ends with her killing herself or moving on or settling or something. That, or Star Wars battle front 3 (though thats supposedly in the works).

 

[dantheman931]

I'm surprised that Duke Nuke'm Forever has been going on for twelve years and the release date is only a couple of months away. Something thats been going on for so long, I would of guessed that it would or just died out. Well re-makes do make lots of money.
Lets just hope its not like Wolfenstein.

Not exactly what I meant, but good point. I think a lot will depend on how kind people are willing to be; yes, the game's been in development for twelve years, but it's been restarted from scratch multiple times in those twelve years. Expecting it to be some huge epic game would be unrealistic.

 

[dantheman931]

If he went into kids books without really explaining himself he would be taken less seriously.

Plus the YA crowd dont think he's scary and it would be a lost cause. He doesnt market himself to them. And just cause you're an HP fan doenst mean you want write books on that level. I think I know what youre talking about when he said that and its more that he likes the style of writing and the story itself, not the audience and writing towards them.

though he has done YA lit. He made a pop up book out of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan, has made comic adaptations of several of his works (his Dark Tower works are in comics as a spin off sorta thing), and he wrote a non fiction book about how to write. ANd of course there's eyes of a dragon, but that was a fair tale for his daughter that I dont htink he ever really intended to be a book.

True enough. He definitely wouldn't want to just jump into it without warning. Still, it's not like YA horror is unheard of.

 

[emeraldrafael]

If he went into kids books without really explaining himself he would be taken less seriously.

Plus the YA crowd dont think he's scary and it would be a lost cause. He doesnt market himself to them. And just cause you're an HP fan doenst mean you want write books on that level. I think I know what youre talking about when he said that and its more that he likes the style of writing and the story itself, not the audience and writing towards them.

though he has done YA lit. He made a pop up book out of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan, has made comic adaptations of several of his works (his Dark Tower works are in comics as a spin off sorta thing), and he wrote a non fiction book about how to write. ANd of course there's eyes of a dragon, but that was a fair tale for his daughter that I dont htink he ever really intended to be a book.

True enough. He definitely wouldn't want to just jump into it without warning. Still, it's not like YA horror is unheard of.

No, I know its not, its just very weak and dry in comparison. He's used to doing Adult Horror, and I honestly think he would be bored doing YA horror. He'd more likely do fantasy like Eyes of a Dragon. and give that slightly dark overtone. and like I said, I dont think he has much of an audience in it. I started reading stephen king when i was... well. When I was 10 I read IT, and I immediately couldnt sleep for many nights, cant go near clowns that look like Pennywise, and shudder everytime someone says everything floats. Then, after I got over it and gave it another chance I started reading King's The Stand at 12 and read as much of him as a could since then (i'm 18 now). In all that time, no one in my peer group wanted to give him a chance because they didnt think it was scary. SO I just dont think he would.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm considering adopting the motto of "Do it! Do it! It'll be funny!" when I think of things. Suffice to say, one of my biggest 'why the hell not?' moments led to a very big rush on the way to see a movie.

 

[DJDarque]

Legend of Dragoon 2

/fanboy

 

[white_salad]

More great platformers, and not the remarketed "find the fucking star with a gimmick" remake of Mario 64 that Nintendo has been making. I mean a real, meaty platformer along the lines of Crash Bandicoot Warped. A great one. No guns, either, except for maybe the bazooka from Warped.

Why the hell not?

I concur with this person. What happened to platformers? I miss all those awesome series. Especially crash bandicoot. Although there is supposedly a Sly Cooper 4 which makes me giddy beyond belief but I need more!

 

[Thunderlot]

A KOTOR 3? Why the hell not?

Or an HD Remake of Kotor even though they're making a new game its still possible to make the old one HD since it was so good. No reason not to for both since the company that made them is still around.

 

[DustyDrB]

Donkey Kong 64 as a digital download anywhere. God, this makes me sad whenever I think about it. It's my favorite platformer of all time.

And I want a Shadowrun remake (in 1993 SNES mold) done by BioWare.

So I've thought of some things that I'm honestly surprised never happened, to wit:

1. Stephen King writing young-adult literature. He's said in interviews that he's a giant Harry Potter fan; and if you consider The Eye of the Dragon, which he wrote specifically for his daughter after she told him she hated his horror stories, he's sort of already done it. Plus, Dean Koontz has written YA lit before. So why the hell not?

He wrote a book called Stand By Me that was adapted to a film. It's about a bunch of like 12 year old boys who find a dead body and think its cool. I think. It's been a while. It wasn't horror, though.

Edit: Had to look it up. The movie was called Stand By Me. The book was called The Body.

 

[DustyDrB]

A decent movie based on a game.

A Radiohead album this decade with some actual songs on it.

The King if Limbs is pretty disappointing. It's like an album full of the least accessible stuff from Amnesiac. I did love just about every track on In Rainbows, though. That was a pretty conventional album.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

How about an RPG based on The Eyes of the Dragon? Or a Fallout 3 style "Dark Tower" game?

 

[major28]

enjoying a motion controlled game