Your favourite film, what type of game would it be?

[GunstarHero]

Operating with the understanding that all movie tie-ins are cash cows, and almost without exception are awful, either take a great movie that's never had a game or one that's had a bad game, and give a little treatment to making it a game you'd love as much as the movie.

Die Hard Trilogy on PSX remains one of my favourite games of all time. The games are blocky, fairly clunky and have a few soundbites they use over and over. It's fantastic. While replaying it today would probably make me throw up, it's the best tie-in I can think of.

Playing Splinter Cell: Conviction makes me think; how would it feel to play John McClane, burned out cop, sneaking around Nakatomi just like the movie? There'd be no need to add endless filler sections (GO FIND DETONATORS! FIND C4! GO TO A TO PLANT! GO TO B TO DETONATE! GET BORED AND STOP PLAYING!) since, if each of the four movies is included each one could take 2 hours, giving a solid and action-packed 8-hour campaign. For a bit of spice, disrupted narrative, perhaps including moments where you take control of a hostage attempting to make an escape, or the police force on the outside?

Any thoughts?

TL;DR, don't be lazy.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Hmmm, A Few Good Men? I imagine it'd end up as 'Ace Attorney: Daniel Kafee'

 

[Mareon]

Doubt, and it would end up as... I have not a god damned clue.

EDIT: Oh wait, it would be the first dialogue-instead-of-fighting game that the Extra Credits people chattet about.

 

[Malk_Content]

The Painted Veil. It would be a non combat RPG based purely around dialogue options ranging from "Doting husband" to "Masochistic Jealousy."

 

[Triangulon]

Last of the Mohicans as an action game similar to Prince of Persia set against the Seven Years War?

 

[GunstarHero]

Last of the Mohicans as an action game similar to Prince of Persia set against the Seven Years War?

I like that! Or maybe a RDR style game, epic in scale and fairly period-authentic?

I think you could get a lot of mileage out of that one.

 

[Vault101]

You know if Kill bill wasnt a Movie it would make an awsome game combining the two volumes

just add a few more enemies to slice up and even out the action

 

[GunstarHero]

You know if Kill bill wasnt a Movie it would make an awsome game combining the two volumes

just add a few more enemies to slice up and even out the action

I agree on principle, but wasn't that basically what WET was trying to be?

 

[TheAbominableDan]

Blade Runner would probably be a traditional PC adventure game. They actually sort of did that. It wasn't based on the movie but still.

 

[The Zero]

You know if Kill bill wasnt a Movie it would make an awsome game combining the two volumes

just add a few more enemies to slice up and even out the action

I've always thought of No More Heroes (especially the revenge led sequel) as basically Kill Bill: The Game. If you just replaced Travis Touchdown with the Bride and took out anime references, you're basically there.

 

[Vault101]

You know if Kill bill wasnt a Movie it would make an awsome game combining the two volumes

just add a few more enemies to slice up and even out the action

I agree on principle, but wasn't that basically what WET was trying to be?

I havnt playes WET so Im not sure how good/bad it is though Im sure what ever problems it had wasnt related to the story or central Idea (other thna the Protagonist being an unlikeable ...aparently)

 

[Trolldor]

The Untouchables.

Holy shit... RDR in Prohibition Era LA?
I need to change my pants.

 

[GunstarHero]

You know if Kill bill wasnt a Movie it would make an awsome game combining the two volumes

just add a few more enemies to slice up and even out the action

I agree on principle, but wasn't that basically what WET was trying to be?

I havnt playes WET so Im not sure how good/bad it is though Im sure what ever problems it had wasnt related to the story or central Idea (other thna the Protagonist being an unlikeable ...aparently)

Ah fair enough. Well, from where I stood the majority of the problems were that it was overly stylish and that pretty much overtook the gameplay.

I'll readily admit though, if the KB story was adapted well (perhaps integrating stories such as early missions from each of the main assassins?) and the emphasis was on gameplay rather than spanking all budget and creativity and style, it would probably be pretty entertaining!

 

[Euhan01]

Every western movie would end up like Red Dead Redemption.

Dunno what Inception would end up as, most of my favorite films (that haven't ended up as games) tend to be story heavy, without neccessairly much action, so there sort of hard to put into games. Speaking of which, i'm sure I saw a Shutter Island game,anybody now anything about that?

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

I'm actually surprised that nobody has tried to make a game set in the Sin City universe yet. Thats pretty much the perfect set up for almost any play style. Stealth/beat 'em up as Marv. Shooter as Dwight. Psychological horror/puzzle platformer as Hartigan.

Imagine sneaking out from the shadows as Marv and necking a thug...then stealing his jacket because your old one was too splattered with blood?

Or accompanying a group of scantily clad hookers as Dwight to gun down a merc party at the tar-pits?

Or what about playing Hartigan as he walks through the shambles of a drug house, looking for a kidnapped girl...punching holes in gang members chests with the hand cannon?

 

[York_Beckett]

My favourite film is Jacob's Ladder. So it would end up as a Silent Hill game, I suppose.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Oh oh oh I just thought of another one.

Repo! The Genetic Opera!

Stalking a handful of increasingly difficult victims as the Repo man in a fashion similar to Shadow of the Colossus. Except instead of finding and scaling a building sized monster, you work your way into the homes and workplaces of the victims. Stalking them like a vulture and conning your way closer to them, before eventually confronting, fighting and killing them. Then carefully dissecting the organs they owe back to GeneCo.

And it's not until just now that I realize what a sicko I must look like....

 

[Dwachak]

Well, I would love to see a Elder Scrolls'esce Avatar game, with some Mirrors edge freerunnimg to get you up trees and stuff. You would start out as 1 of x tribes, and then having to gain the others trust once the 'world changing event' takes place. Earning the trust would allow you to learn how to control each of the creatures the tribes specialice in, and then you would need them all for the final few missions to 'save the world'. And there should be sub stories and sidequests like oblivion, mabye a quest line where you help humans by spying, making guns avaviable. One that ultimatly let you 'join' with Eyva for a big stat boost, and so on and so on...

 

[GunstarHero]

Oh oh oh I just thought of another one.

Repo! The Genetic Opera!

Stalking a handful of increasingly difficult victims as the Repo man in a fashion similar to Shadow of the Colossus. Except instead of finding and scaling a building sized monster, you work your way into the homes and workplaces of the victims. Stalking them like a vulture and conning your way closer to them, before eventually confronting, fighting and killing them. Then carefully dissecting the organs they owe back to GeneCo.

And it's not until just now that I realize what a sicko I must look like....

Would that not work better as a Hitman type game? Getting in close, closer, then nabbing the kidney and hopping on a boat! Imagine the post-level newspapers for that one though..