Telltale Doctor Who Game? (Merged Threads)
How would one make a Doctor Who game?
Shooter? No
RPG? Nah
Platformer? Maybe
Top Trumps game? Really? No.
Fighter? God no
Point and Click? Yes!
So who should do it?
Rare? British, show interest in the show on twitter. But no.
Top Trumps? No. Why did they do that to begin with?
BBC? No No No No
LucasArts? Stick their name on another popular Sci Fi series? No
Telltale? Yes!
Doctor who has been practially begging for a game for years. But something so story driven is a bit difficult to put into game format. You need something that seems you are playing a tv show. A point and click could work for this. It could also help the players think. Put them in the doctors shoes as he unravels a mystery. Then an episodic content would work even better. Make it seem just like a tv series.
But what about style? How about:
I hope Telltale actually consider this one day. What about you? How do you feel on these ideas? Would they work?
Shooter? No
RPG? Nah
Platformer? Maybe
Top Trumps game? Really? No.
Fighter? God no
Point and Click? Yes!
So who should do it?
Rare? British, show interest in the show on twitter. But no.
Top Trumps? No. Why did they do that to begin with?
BBC? No No No No
LucasArts? Stick their name on another popular Sci Fi series? No
Telltale? Yes!
Doctor who has been practially begging for a game for years. But something so story driven is a bit difficult to put into game format. You need something that seems you are playing a tv show. A point and click could work for this. It could also help the players think. Put them in the doctors shoes as he unravels a mystery. Then an episodic content would work even better. Make it seem just like a tv series.
But what about style? How about:
I hope Telltale actually consider this one day. What about you? How do you feel on these ideas? Would they work?
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People would recognise the franchise, it would work well for an adventure game.
You could do a 2 character system, as in Wallace and Gromit for the Doctor and his Companions. An item combining system would be a must.
Telltale + Doctor Who= Win!
I didn't bother looking down that far -_- .
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8931
People and threads which are at the bottom of the page, a different page or are their own thread.
Amiga sidescroller. Don't remember enjoying it, but maybe it was fine.
You fought the Daleks, duh.
OK, let's see...
Here's what Uncle Moby has to say: http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/doctor-who-licensees
What is the meaning of IP. I thought about intern project but im not sure. :$
Intellectual Property.
It's in the list of Wikipedia abbrevation page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP
or if theres a hair dryer
Unwritten Doctor Who rule:
The final solution may never be solved with a sonic screwdriver.
Flesh eating shadows coming from both sides! How will the Doc escape? After a week's wait it's resolved by him using the screwdriver on a trapdoor which just happened to be beneath him.
Actually, you're thinking about something that happened part-way through "The Forest of the Dead", which was the second part of the story in question. It was never a cliffhanger.
Cliffhangers are almost never resolved by the Sonic Screwdriver. The closest examples I can think of are the Sonic Blaster (the "Squareness Gun") which was used to resolve the cliffhanger at the end of "Silence in the Library", and the TARDIS crystal which was rather horribly used to resolve the cliffhanger at the end of "The Age of Steel".
I don't know how the episode was shown where you live, but here that was the cliffhanger for the end of the first library episode.
Really? That bit is halfway through the second episode, or at least it was here in the UK. The cliffhanger to the first episode was resolved by River Song using the squareness gun, if that's what you're thinking of?
"I can't use a sonic screwdriver on that!"
*Looks playfully at the player*
10th hopefuly I love david
As for the sonic screwdriver it's actually in the series notes that the doctors screwdriver cannot be used to solve a cliffhanger/finish a story this dates back to the 80's when the series producer at the time had it destroyed and never allowed back in the original series due to over use.
yeah he did the role perfectly in my opinion. i just wish he wouldve stayed longer
I'd bet if they decide to do a doctor who game, it'll be after Sam&Max's new season..but I remember them saying at PAX, that their unsure if they will do it.
(OK, not really)
Yeah I too have a huge range of Doctor Who audios. The BBC and Big Finish ones
they may do doctor who first(if that is in fact what theyre doing) first, instead of doing two huge ip's (monkey island and sam & max) back to back
i realize nothing has been announced, but the job of game forums is to overhype things that arent announced =P although seeing as we're on telltale's forums, its much more visual to the company than most other places. but whatever their new game is, i have a feeling itll be out before sam and max season 3
It's common knowledge Telltale first comes out with a surprise or two nobody has been expecting (but are still eager to play with) before they do something the fans want.
Just take a look at Tales of Monkey Island, which only got announced after both SBCG4AP and Wallace & Gromit. And perhaps Bone.