TTGs do Firefly

edited November 2011 in General Chat
TellTale seem to know how to go after cool licenses that everyone fears are dead, and then turn them into something cool again... Or they take highly respected and loved licenses and bring them to a new audience.

The TV show Firefly (also known to some as the movie Serenity) is both of these things, plus it would really allow TellTale to do something very different: Drama.

TTGs skills have progressed so far since they first brought us Sam and Max Season 1. They've become more confident and adept, and their games have improved and improved. There's no reason for them to rest on their laurels now, they could take another step and evolve further.

For those who don't know, or who never got a chance to be properly exposed to the show/move, Firefly is a wonderful world of intelligent comedy and enjoyable drama. It's a futuristic sci-fi universe, but don't let that put you off if that doesn't sound like your thing: This show was different, it focused on the people and their troubles, and not technology and stoic characters. Because of this, the show also enjoyed a large female audience, despite being a sort of a Western, set in space. The world centers around 9 interesting and loveable characters. There's never been anything quite like it, and it's still got a die-hard contingency of fans following it (a new book featuring stories written by the show's original writers has just been released). Just like Monkey Island and Sam and Max before it, this universe is ripe and waiting for someone to come along and tell some more stories.

I know this is a long-shot, but I just thought I'd try to plant some seeds :)

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Please keep up the good work, TellTale!

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  • edited May 2010
    I would pay upwards of 200,000 credits for this.
  • edited May 2010
    (Hypothesizing here - I very much doubt 20th Century Fox would license the 'Firefly' or 'Serenity' property to be made into a game - the franchise is dead as far as they are concertned) As awesome as a Firefly game would be[1], I'm not sure it fits the Telltale Games gameplay style. Apart from Telltale Texas Holdem, ever single TTG game (including CSI) is about solving puzzles. That's not what Mal and the crew of Serenity did... they tried to survive, they were criminals for hire, and they all had deep character mysteries which was what made the show & movie so great to watch. Even if the game style changes from S&M style point-and-click adventures to more of a combined action/adventure game, it's hard to actually work out how to take Firefly and make it into a game at all.



    [1] And there was talk of a Firefly MMO a few years ago, but that didn't and probably never will get off the ground. To be honest, an MMO could work - the Firefly universe at least was well fleshed out although we didn't get to see much of it, so having characters be Alliance, (ex-)Browncoat or neutral merchants, traders, and smugglers in the game travelling around and interacting could have been a good way to explore the universe more, without having to worry about actually putting the Firefly characters (Serenity crew) in the centre of the action.
  • edited May 2010
    I can't believe someone else has thought about this... thought it was my own little daydream ;o)
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2010
    No, it isn't a new idea. As I suggested in the "What game should TTG do next"-thread just 26 days ago:
    Firefly/Serenity.

    Waited for a game adaptation since 2004.

    I'm sure the licence is somehow available, seing that both the TV series and the movie weren't exactly successful, and creator Joss Whedon would probably hop in the boat.

    The series was weird enough for Telltale, and although hilarious at times, the theme was generally very dark and moody. Getting the original actors to voice-act, however... that would be almost impossible.

    Alcoremortis and teflon were quick to reply, feeling the very same. ;)

    Fox unfortunately would have a say in the matter; still, the rights were transferred to Universal studios for "Serenity".
  • edited May 2010
    No, it isn't a new idea. As I suggested in the "What game should TTG do next"-thread just 26 days ago:

    It has been suggested in earlier incarnations of the same type of thread as well.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    It has been suggested in earlier incarnations of the same type of thread as well.

    I am not surprised. ;)

    Could the honorable TTG fan artists design the Firefly main characters as possibly portrayed by the TT engine?
  • edited May 2010
    Wouldn't buy it, and given what a huge Telltale fan I am, that's saying something.
  • edited May 2010
    Wouldn't buy it, and given what a huge Telltale fan I am, that's saying something.

    You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is. :p
  • edited May 2010
    Yep, I'm free to think that nothing good has ever come from the mind of Joss Whedon, no matter how many people disagree with me. Which is apparently just about everyone.
  • edited May 2010
    Yep, I'm free to think that nothing good has ever come from the mind of Joss Whedon, no matter how many people disagree with me. Which is apparently just about everyone.

    I hate most everything Joss Whedon has done, and maintain that he's basically worthless, as my least favorite episodes of Firefly (including the movie, which was just a big episode basically) were the ones he had the most to do with, but Firefly is great in spite of Whedon, not because of.
  • edited May 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    Firefly is great in spite of Whedon, not because of.

    I feel the same way about Toy Story.
  • PsyPsy
    edited May 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    I hate most everything Joss Whedon has done, and maintain that he's basically worthless, as my least favorite episodes of Firefly (including the movie, which was just a big episode basically) were the ones he had the most to do with, but Firefly is great in spite of Whedon, not because of.

    That is some wicked haterade there
  • edited June 2010
    I agree with the general hatred of Joss Whedon too but I have to say that Firefly was good and so was Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. These were enjoyable despite the fact that Joss Whedon put them out.
  • edited June 2010
    Joss Whedon made Buffy which I despise. But he also made Dollhouse, Firefly, Serenity, and Dr. Horrible, so I mean, geez the guys list of good far outweighs his bad in my eyes. I don't have a Firefly episode I don't like.
  • edited June 2010
    My problem with him is Buffy twofold and Angel is pretty bad too. The reason for twofold is I read comics and Marvel handed him the reigns to Runaways 2 or 3 years ago and he took 8 months to put out 3 comics.Why, because he decided to stop working on it and shelved it for the Buffy comics which he decided to start up again. This made Marvel drop the storyline and go with a new one during a series reboot leaving countless unanswered questions.

    As for my thoughts on Dollhouse. Not a fan. Didn't like it but I don't hate it.
  • edited October 2010
    would pay double what GuruGuru214 wouldn't pay. :D
  • edited October 2010
    I like Buffy and Angel. You are all cynical. :(
  • edited November 2011
    Hello! I am an admirer of the "Firefly" serial's Universe. It's well known that the serial was closes long time ago, but it hadn't been finished. I played "Back to the future" game and I wanted to know if a sequel of "Firefly" could be made like a quest-adventure. As far as I know, the game is based on a script which should be assumed as a basis of the fourth sequel, but it wasn't made. I want to ask Telltale Games if they want to make a game like this.
  • edited November 2011
    The more I think about it, the more I envision a great Firefly game being a cross between BTTF:TG and Uncharted. Especially if you were playing as Mal.
  • edited November 2011
    Possible? Yeah probably. I don't know how complicated the rights situation is. I could see a Firefly game working in any number of ways, and I'm not totally sure that TTG is the right team for it, but it could work.

    The BTTF game is basically a story that Telltale made themselves, it's not based on anything that existed beforehand (though Bob Gale contributed to some degree).
  • edited November 2011
    For some reason, I sorta view it working pretty well as an mmorpg. Simply because you've got this whole universe to explore, and it seems a bit limiting to restrict it to the main characters...especially since several of them were killed off at the end of the movie.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2011
    Sorry for the thread merge necro... the idea is not really new though. ;)

    Go on, I'm all for a Firefly game! :D
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