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Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 11th, 2019, 9:11 pm
by Suits
Dog The Bounty Hunter.

Ace Attorney come runner chase sequence (think Nabbit).

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 11th, 2019, 9:31 pm
by KSubzero1000
Generally speaking, I don't have the highest opinion of crossovers between video games and other forms of media. Converting traditional stories and intellectual properties into video games more often than not leads to gameplay being treated as an afterthought, and video game-based novelizations and Hollywood movies have a pretty abysmal track record as well. The vast majority of what I would consider all-time great games and franchises have been conceptualized as video games from the ground up. With a few notable exceptions, of course (The Witcher, Batman: Arkham Asylum, various visual novels).

With that said, I think that the 1911 novel The Quest for Fire, which is about early humans' struggle for survival during prehistorical times, would potentially lend itself very well to a spin-off gaming franchise with a talented and passionate developer attached to it. Especially considering the current popularity of survival open world games.

And on a purely mechanical note, I always thought that the fully 3D space flight engine of Dead Space 2 & 3 could have been a great foundation for an Iron Man game.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 12th, 2019, 6:30 am
by dezm0nd
I'd love a VR Being John Malkovich

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 12th, 2019, 7:24 am
by Alex79
dezm0nd wrote: February 12th, 2019, 6:30 am I'd love a VR Being John Malkovich
Haha I don't think anyone's going to beat that answer!

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 12th, 2019, 9:17 am
by Alex79
I was going to make a similar thread, about dream games you've always wanted but don't exist. It's not licensed, but I've just always wanted a Rockstar game based on pirates. I know there's Black Flag, but I just want that massive open world, full of islands, mainland, missions, strangers, basically RDR2 with pirates. Nobody has ever made a really good pirate game since Tai Pan on the Amstrad. Proper big open world, trading, smuggling, everything. It would be so good.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 12th, 2019, 10:25 am
by Flabyo
I’d love to see some modern Obsidian style takes on a few novel series I like. ‘The Vagrant’ books have a really interesting post apocalypse fantasy setting going on (imagine Warhammer fantasy after chaos won and everyone just kind of... carries on with those guys in charge now), and I think you could do some interesting stuff with The ‘Imperial Radch’ sci-fi novels cause there’s so much great detail in the setting.

But licensing books to make games from that haven’t been made into movies yet isn’t a risk most western publishers will take. Despite how well the Witcher games did.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 12th, 2019, 10:01 pm
by Bakers_12
A squad based action X-Men game that leans on tactical team work.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 13th, 2019, 12:32 am
by DomsBeard
Telltale Eastenders (no really)

Anything with Saga (comic books not the holidays)

Elder Scrolls VI Middle Earth

Rocksteady's The Punisher

Rocksteady Robocop

The Running Man VR

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 13th, 2019, 10:26 pm
by Bakers_12
I have said this before but rockstar doing a sequel to bully set in an 80’s comp basicly Grange Hill the game!

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 14th, 2019, 6:07 pm
by dezm0nd
Would like them to do a uk based game yeah but it would seem America is just too ripe for the picking

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 16th, 2019, 4:06 pm
by duskvstweak
After watching Alita: Battle Angel, I would mind a really good game based on it. Especially the motorball moments.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 18th, 2019, 11:29 am
by cake_bakery
duskvstweak wrote: February 16th, 2019, 4:06 pm After watching Alita: Battle Angel, I would mind a really good game based on it. Especially the motorball moments.
And I'd like to play a game dedicated to Alita's flashbacks as they were too ununderstandable in the movie.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 19th, 2019, 1:06 pm
by macstat
My childhood licensed game dream already exists. It's Witcher ;)

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 19th, 2019, 10:22 pm
by Sean
macstat wrote: February 19th, 2019, 1:06 pm My childhood licensed game dream already exists. It's Witcher ;)
Same, but, it's Ghostbusters (360/PS3), and, it was...fine?

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 20th, 2019, 6:52 pm
by duskvstweak
ThirdMan wrote: February 18th, 2019, 11:59 pm Some pretty cool suggestions in there. My pick of the bunch has to be 'Rocksteady's The Punisher', although a tactical X-Men game raises a lot of interesting possibilities as well.
X-Men: Legends I & II WERE my dream games when I was a teen. I'd sit in school, writing down ideas for an X-Men rpg akin to Final Fantasy, with some ideas to use their powers out of battle, like ice slides and flying. I still remember reading the preview in EGM and feeling both joy and jealousy that someone else was doing the thing I was never going to actually do...

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: February 26th, 2019, 6:50 pm
by KSubzero1000
Oh oh, I just thought of another one.

The Call of the Wild

Okami x RDR2. Think of the possibilities!

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: March 1st, 2019, 6:16 pm
by Jobobonobo
I always thought due to its story, setting and especially, visual style that a Samurai Jack game could be phenomenal if done right. I know there was a Gamecube/PS2 game but that had pretty mixed critical reception and while it looked alright back in the day, I think with modern graphical capabilities and the right developer (someone like Platinum who know how to make fun combat systems) you could have something truly special on your hands.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: March 1st, 2019, 6:51 pm
by Simonsloth
Jobobonobo wrote: March 1st, 2019, 6:16 pm I always thought due to its story, setting and especially, visual style that a Samurai Jack game could be phenomenal if done right. I know there was a Gamecube/PS2 game but that had pretty mixed critical reception and while it looked alright back in the day, I think with modern graphical capabilities and the right developer (someone like Platinum who know how to make fun combat systems) you could have something truly special on your hands.
Now that is an idea I could be on board with

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: March 7th, 2019, 3:46 pm
by ThirdDrawing
I would like a full on proper Doctor Who game.

That or an Obsidian style Star Trek RPG.

Re: Your dream licensed videogame?

Posted: March 11th, 2019, 12:54 pm
by Bakers_12
ThirdDrawing wrote: March 7th, 2019, 3:46 pm I would like a full on proper Doctor Who game.

That or an Obsidian style Star Trek RPG.
I always thought a Dr Who point click adventure would be a good fit for the licence. Bonus points if the story spans the different eras of the show.