Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 785 Joined: 30 Nov 2007     | |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 11846 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | @Jason Smith. You're a sick man, I like you. But just imagine if Tim Schafer/Lucasarts did a House game in the style of Monkey Island/Grim Fandango. That would be Portal-breaking. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 143 Joined: 10 Oct 2007     | How about the inevitable Heroes game? It'll involve time-travel. A LOT of time travel. Minigames will include arranging trivia, timelines and flowcharts to explain what just happened to your mother. This is also the co-op mode. Other minigames will include straightening Milo Ventimiglia's mouth. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Feb 2008    | Speaking of Fox properties. Reno911 the game. Fox news may be the harbinger of the apocalypse but darn it they have some good shows too. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire Posts: 11846 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
Well, Ubisoft won't be doing it after what Susan and others thought of Lost. |
Production Manager  Posts: 18 Joined: 4 Mar 2008    |
Ack! I thought I was the only one...it truly irks me. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1774 Joined: 3 Sep 2008    | Nice ideas. But I would concentrate the Bear Grylls game on using your brain to get from one point to another alive. |
Muckraker  Posts: 300 Joined: 8 Dec 2008    | I actually really liked the Fox News Idea. It's a game I would actually play. Especially if given choices on how to run the network? Do I want to spend time on entertainment news? Is Bill O'Reily worth all the money he's asking for? It'd be like a sports management sim for the news world. Honestly if I were a producer, this would be easy to decide what properties to base a game on. The highest rated ones. As long as it's a highly polished clone of a better game, it won't draw the wrath of reviewers and satisfy fans of the property. It's a surefire way to make money. Too bad most games of this style are not well polished and fun to play. Two and Half Men could be a fun Monkey Island Clone or a The Sims Clone. Wow being a producer is easy. |
Beat Writer Posts: 143 Joined: 10 Oct 2007 |
To be fair, I only bring it up to make fun of him, but it truly irks my sister. We were viewing one of the episodes in which he has no shirt, and she spoke to the screen, saying "That's it, just run..keep it closed...no need to talk..." I'm not joking. |
Paperboy  Posts: 38 Joined: 16 Aug 2007    | The Fox News idea is great. I can't believe that there's no TV Station Manager sim out yet. Developers, go! I'll even take something small and Flash based... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2625 Joined: 14 Jan 2008   | yeah the Lost game did kinda suck...a lot |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 602 Joined: 17 Apr 2008  | The Fox News idea sounds brilliant. But really my first priority for the tv to game conversion is prison break. Just a sand-box modern day super-prison (or maybe multiple), probably an RPG game without the leveling. And unlike every other sandbox game, there would be an actual reason for the border restrictions. No more piles of rubble or endless oceans for me. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 87 Joined: 5 Dec 2008    | SportCenter the game could use the news room simulation idea, but it could also turn the top 10 plays into mini sports games similar to Madden Moments from Madden '09. So while you would have to balance each commentator's salary versus their popularity, you'd also have to succeed at ten highlights from a number of different sports. You'd get multiple attempts at each highlight, the fewer attempts it takes the higher your ratings. |
BANNED  Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008   |
There already is a 24 game, dood. It was well produced, and well written, but the gameplay sucked. Personally, I continue to wait for a Mythbusters game. I imagine it as 45% The Incredible Machine, 10% PAIN!, 25% Adventure game, and the rest just the fun bits from GTA San Andreas, with next gen explosion visuals and breakage physics. User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
BANNED Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | And a Robot Chicken game. It'd be like a way way way funnier and more pop culture obsessed Warioware. User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Muckraker  Posts: 279 Joined: 19 Dec 2008     | mabye they should make a scrubs vs house game sorta like mortal combat |
The Escapist Roundtable #2: Zebra Killin' and Penicillin
This week the roundtable participants look at zebra carcasses, chibi doctors, human cadavers and anything else included in a good TV show to videogame adaptation.
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