TheJollyCorner
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Great film, pretty bad game. Having it in the 'adventure' genre was a good start- unfortunately not enough effort was put into the gameplay. The graphics at the time (1997) weren't too bad.
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Most Bizarre Movie-to-Game Thread
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Great film, pretty bad game. Having it in the 'adventure' genre was a good start- unfortunately not enough effort was put into the gameplay. The graphics at the time (1997) weren't too bad.
MightyHedgehog
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I bought this around the time it was released...not a very good game, I'm afraid. Definitely one of the strangest movies to bring into a game world, though.
TheJollyCorner
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there was a game shown being in development for PS3/360 (which one I'm not sure) and the creators were going to E3 to try to get a publisher for it.... and shit, I can't remember what the hell it was called!
Anyway, it looked like a City of Lost Children-inspired adventure game. It looked fantastic. I hope it gets picked up... whatever it was.
Anyway, it looked like a City of Lost Children-inspired adventure game. It looked fantastic. I hope it gets picked up... whatever it was.
Red Scarlet
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TheJollyCorner said:
Great film, pretty bad game. Having it in the 'adventure' genre was a good start- unfortunately not enough effort was put into the gameplay. The graphics at the time (1997) weren't too bad.
Haha, didn't that take a FULL 15 blocks for a save, too?
TheJollyCorner said:there was a game shown being in development for PS3/360 (which one I'm not sure) and the creators were going to E3 to try to get a publisher for it.... and shit, I can't remember what the hell it was called!
Anyway, it looked like a City of Lost Children-inspired adventure game. It looked fantastic. I hope it gets picked up... whatever it was.
I think the game you're referring to is City of Metronome.
TheJollyCorner
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Red Scarlet-
yeah... it was a beast.
I rented it, was kicked in the balls with complete disappointment, and promptly erased the cancer from my memory card.
yeah... it was a beast.
I rented it, was kicked in the balls with complete disappointment, and promptly erased the cancer from my memory card.
TheJollyCorner
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Gribbix said:
You, sir, are a hero! This is the game I was talking about! Thank you!
TheJollyCorner said:
Great film, pretty bad game. Having it in the 'adventure' genre was a good start- unfortunately not enough effort was put into the gameplay. The graphics at the time (1997) weren't too bad.
Actually, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the thread title.
How about The Wizard of Oz for SNES? Or Namco's Star Wars Famicom game?
TheJollyCorner
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yeah, I played Home Alone on the SNES (OMFG THE GRAFIX! at the time :lol)... and goddamn, that game was strange.
I think Taxi Driver is a really bizarre choice for a game.
I mean Travis Bickle is a stalker. He only really shoots one guy during the course of the movie. The movie is a drama for Christ sakes, not an action picture.
At E3 I gave the guys at Majesico a hard time, asking them if they were going to do a Midnight Cowboy game next -- they didn't find it funny.
I mean Travis Bickle is a stalker. He only really shoots one guy during the course of the movie. The movie is a drama for Christ sakes, not an action picture.
At E3 I gave the guys at Majesico a hard time, asking them if they were going to do a Midnight Cowboy game next -- they didn't find it funny.
TheJollyCorner
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Flynn said:
Doesn't Bickle kill like 3 guys at the end of Taxi Driver? Harvey Keitel, the Hotel guy, and the sleezy 'client' guy?
...but yeah, I completely agree. Terrible choice for a game.
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DCharlie said:
pretty much unplayable
I watched a friend beat that not to long ago.
That aside, the game is a crane kick and a dragon punch into the realm of stupid.
TheJollyCorner
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isn't guy #3 and #4 the same? The dude with glasses on, right?
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TheJollyCorner said:
Great film, pretty bad game. Having it in the 'adventure' genre was a good start- unfortunately not enough effort was put into the gameplay. The graphics at the time (1997) weren't too bad.
the game wasnt that bad. then again, im a sucker for adventure games. i had the pc version.
Project Midway
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dont know about bizarre but the worst movie/tv-to-game ever is...
Mupepe said:
I was just about to say Goldeneye, because it turned out good, but I'm afraid you have me beat, for at least Goldeneye was a good movie, whereas Riddick (if Pitch Black is anything to go by) was a steaming pile of shit, making the transition to a good game even more bizarre.
eso76
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Not exactly a movie but the winner is :
Everything about this game was bizarre, from the show itself to the license, to game.
Actually i still can't understand why someone would come up with the idea of producing a video game based on monty python's flying circus.
Runner up
Blues Brothers platform, by Titus
Everything about this game was bizarre, from the show itself to the license, to game.
Actually i still can't understand why someone would come up with the idea of producing a video game based on monty python's flying circus.
Runner up
Blues Brothers platform, by Titus
Dr Zhivago
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Jonnyram said:
A platform game!
I read somewhere Bruce Willis specifically requested it be like that.
themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
thread over....
Jack Random
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Westwood's Bladerunner
The game that askes the question: If the girl is a replicant, is it still pedophilia?
Voxels indeed...
The game that askes the question: If the girl is a replicant, is it still pedophilia?
Voxels indeed...
Ghost said:I know this was never a movie but i feel like it should be brought up at every available opportunity so we dont forget how stupid it was...
The first hollywood actor to 'Act' in a game...Bruce Willis, Apocalypse
What was wrong with Apocalypse? It was a great run and gun shooter, the fact that it had a "story" with cutscenes(good or bad)... was extra.
Sure it's a huge step down from the original plans of incredibly smart partner AI, but it was cool dammit.
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Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
The game was in the movie, the movie was in the game!
Jack Random
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moku said:
Now who said I didn't like this game?
I simply found the little girl replicant angle to be a bit bizzare (thus keeping with the original intent of the thread before it turned into yet another "shitty games based on movies" thread)
I loved Blade Runner, played though it numerous times trying to get as many endings as I could.
TheJollyCorner said:there was a game shown being in development for PS3/360 (which one I'm not sure) and the creators were going to E3 to try to get a publisher for it.... and shit, I can't remember what the hell it was called!
Anyway, it looked like a City of Lost Children-inspired adventure game. It looked fantastic. I hope it gets picked up... whatever it was.
The target console(s) haven't been decided yet.
The Bookerman
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Yeah pretty bad.
Haha, I know what you mean. The second time I played through the game, the little girl was actually a human, and was the love interest...she's like 13!Jack Random said:Westwood's Bladerunner
The game that askes the question: If the girl is a replicant, is it still pedophilia?
Voxels indeed...
I did love that about the game though. So many characters COULD be a replicant, but then again, COULD not. One time I shot this guy and he turned out to be human so I got arrested. Second time, he was a replicant and killed me.
Father_Brain
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I got maybe eight or ten endings but most of them were the variaton of the few basic endings. Some of them were kinda happy, like when you escape together with the girl.Agisthos said:
Lolita aspect of the game didn't seem out of place, not more so than other questions that Blade Runner raises in general. I think people living in that whole dystopian garbage world would have bigger problems to worry about than whether their relationship with underage girl was morally correct or not, especially considering that he actually fell in love with her.
Jack Random
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I did 4 myself, a friend of mine did something like 8 and we only overlapped on two or so. I heard that all told there were 11 endings.Agisthos said:
Too many, way too fucking many...moku said:
But that doesn't beat the time i simply LOST.
Apparently since the game has many variables going on (who's a replicant, what clues you leave behind, etc) it's very possible to work yourself into a corner and 'break' the game. I wasted several days before calling Westwood and hearing it from them.
Go me!
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Warm Machine
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Ghost said:I know this was never a movie but i feel like it should be brought up at every available opportunity so we dont forget how stupid it was...
The first hollywood actor to 'Act' in a game...Bruce Willis, Apocalypse
Bruce did pretty good out of that deal though. I think they paid him with a pant load of Activision stock which increased in value quite a bit after Tony Hawk became a massive hit.
Not really; he was just the first actor who wasn't B-list (or C-list, or D-list) to do so. There were a ton of those in early-90s FMV games. Witness, for example, the megawatt star power of Dana Plato in Night Trap! Or Deborah Harry and Corey Haim in Double Switch! Only for Sega CD!Ghost said: