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NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
What could have possibly happened to stop an IP like Rambo? One so tailor-made for video games? What the hell happened to Rambo games?

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Far Cry too.Metal Gear and Nu-Tomb Raider already captured the Rambo experience better than any actual Rambo games.
That said I'd still welcome an attempt at a definitive Rambo game.
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RAMBO Videogame PLS
Think about it.
MGSV: Combat: pick/plan mission + loadout, landing zones & extraction points..
Death Stranding: Traversal element
MGS3: Stealth/Survival
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There's only one Rambo game and it came out on the Mega Drive.
I think people just got over the Rambo franchise in general
Same with Robocop. Cartoons based on violent R-rated movies I wasn’t allowed to seeIn the 80s there was a Rambo cartoon and action figures. WTF man.
I think people just got over the Rambo franchise in general
I'd like a first blood game, I fucking loved the film when I was a kid.Funny, when people say that there should be Rambo games, what they mean is that there should be Rambo: First Blood Part II games.
(*Kind of like when they say there should be Alien games, they usually mean "Aliens", not "Alien", which was one of the hurdles Alien Isolation had to get over.)
The original First Blood was an amazing film (and would maybe make a cool stealth game, like Isolation,) but it's not what people picture when they think Rambo. Rambo III was kind of garbage (though it's got horses and caves and stuff that would be game-like, if people liked wargames in the desert.) Rambo IV was a great film with a gobstopping final battle, but nothing of the first hour was game-like at all. And Rambo V was just tragic (though I guess you could make a Deathtrap Dungeon game?) Rambo somehow became an icon from one film in five, and the whole point of Rambo got lost because Rambo 2 had an awesome explosive bow that shot down a HUEY.
...They should just bring back Ikari Warriors if there's a want for Rambo games. It's Rambo+Rambo.
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Lol Commando is more forgotten than Rambo.Maybe?
It's an unbalanced franchise trying to be both a war movie and anti-war movie at the same time, and I think they actually achieve that goal here and there (First Blood and Rambo IV, maybe Rambo II although you kind of forget the sad/angry parts when so much shit is blowing up) but it's not a solid batting average. Also, it's so tied to Stallone, and Rocky is truly Stallone's everlasting legacy, there may not be room for both.
...You know what franchise these goddamned people never say should be a video game franchise is COMMANDO!
I'm picturing a roguelike where you start in a woodshed stocked with sawblades and bowie knives and for some reason also Remington shotguns and Valmet M78s and FLASH four-barrel rocket launchers, & you'd just see how far you could get blowing up terrorists in mansions and jumping off shopping mall elevator roofs and dropping sleazebags into ravines, but also it'd be a roguelike where you can't actually die because you're fucking Schwarzenegger...
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(*Also, yes, I know there's already a game called Commando. Which, BTW, is basically another Rambo.)
You know, I think another reason why these properties aren't used more often is because they don't need to be. A lone soldier taking down an army is pretty much par for the course for a lot of action games so paying money for these licenses.
Fuck Rambo we still need a proper Predator game.
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“GET TO THE CHOPPA, HARRY”Yeah realize that GIF is from Commando and not Predator, right? Pred is like a top 5 movie all time for me, so I take this stuff seriously. lol
This is not a predator movieFuck Rambo we still need a proper Predator game.
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I never thought about that before. Replace Lara with Rambo in the new trilogy (including his full personality and that’s a great game!Metal Gear and Nu-Tomb Raider already captured the Rambo experience better than any actual Rambo games.
That said I'd still welcome an attempt at a definitive Rambo game.
Commando?This is not a predator movie![]()
Same with Robocop. Cartoons based on violent R-rated movies I wasn’t allowed to see![]()
Rambo: The Video Game is an arcade-style rail shooter video game developed by Polish studio Teyon and published by Reef Entertainment.[2] The game is based on the Rambo franchise and puts the player in the role of John Rambo as he journeys through scenes from each of the three films: First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988).
A teaser trailer was released by Machinima, containing montages from the films.[3] The game was originally set to release in winter 2013, but was eventually delayed to early 2014.[1] The game was panned by professional critics, who criticized the poor quality of the graphics, the repetitive nature of the gameplay, and the overall lack of polish.