NBC Licences Or More LucasArts?
Personally I am interested to see how Back To The Future and Jurrassic Park work out and I do have faith in Telltale, BUT would YOU ( being a regular forum Telltallian ) have preferred another Updated LucasArts Type Game like Maniac Mansion, Zak Mckracken, (and although already a Movie Franchise Indiana Jones could have seemed a better choice)
Im just interested to see these results before tons of Jurrassic Park and BTTF Fans drown out the voice of the regualar Terrible Telltallians ( thats you
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The Age range is also an important factor in this poll, I think the kids who grew up with the classics are more likely to favor those, as the kids who grew up with GTA and Crash Bandicoot instead of Monkey Island are probabally more into the movies, we shall see.
Im just interested to see these results before tons of Jurrassic Park and BTTF Fans drown out the voice of the regualar Terrible Telltallians ( thats you
)The Age range is also an important factor in this poll, I think the kids who grew up with the classics are more likely to favor those, as the kids who grew up with GTA and Crash Bandicoot instead of Monkey Island are probabally more into the movies, we shall see.
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I don't think it would have changed much for me, though.
So I suppose what I really want is to play the old LucasArts games I missed, namely Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, The Dig, Zak McKrakken, Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, and Loom, and then I want to come back to this discussion with an opinion of those games, so that my answer won't entirely be a desire not to see disengaging film franchises like Jurassic Park made into Telltale games.
Now, all that said, I reject both of your choices and substitute my own: Futurama.
Its still a big budget Licence You could have chosen the movie franchise options, but for god sake man, Play Day of the tenticle at least or even 'Beneath a Steel Sky' is even Free to download now, but they are in 2D if you can handle that these days lol
Seconded.
Thirded.
I think TTG have to do some of their own franchises, but if they want to keep mixing things up, they need to take franchises (such as MI, which seemed successful) from people like LA as well as looking at movies etc.
Plus, there are only so many movies under the sun! I'd personally like to see more of TTG's original concepts so that they might have 2-3 steady franchises of their own which have no legal strings attached, after a few years.
I'm happy to try things that are new to me (for example, I'd barely heard of Sam & Max before I came here for Monkey Island). So personally it doesn't really matter whether it's an NBC licence, a LucasArts licence, or something else altogether. Any of those categories has potential for engaging story/characters/gameplay.
That's just silly. The kids who grew up with classic '80s and '90s adventure games also grew up with classic '80s and '90s adventure movies. If you're simply basing things on age, then the Back to the Future demographic and the Monkey Island demographic are the same. The kids who grew up with GTA and Crash Bandicoot grew up with the Matrix and Pirates of the Caribbean. I just don't see how you're finding a correlation between age and entertainment medium.
Look at Terry Pratchett's Discworld series for example. There are 38 books in the series now and he's still writing good stories, whether they use existing characters or add new ones. It's a rich and detailed world with a specific set of rules, but that doesn't seem to restrict the author's creativity (quite the opposite in fact).
Actually. I shouldn't be arguing about this. I don't even think the issue matters. I don't see why having set rules and a set world automatically equals bad.
I'm with you that you can do a good and enjoyable game with a lot of licences.
But it also happens that some offer way more potential than others and that some IPs are a lot more enjoyable, at least on a personal preference. No, and don't even try to argue against me here, i'll be as stubborn as Avistew (sorry ;O) on this one, you know, hell freezes over and such things.
Clarke, Vance, Farmer, Anthony, Gerrold, Banks, Niven, Dick, Lem, ... they all invented so many awesome, games related most completely unknown worlds, that it just hurts having something unsexy like BTTF instead. It's a little bit like people who get amazed about the ideas in Harry Potter whilst having no idea of what has been written in the fantasy literature already.
@Secret Fawful
I shouldn't argue against you as well. I honour you as a person, or let's just say your nickname, way too much. ;O)
Yes its true I & my age range grew up with Monkey Island & BTTF but I have been a point n clicker since my youth so as I suspected more people my age would favor the classics option , however in a few months im sure there will be BTTF and JP fans who would alter this poll considerabally, Ironically it now occours to me that many new active users on the forum are here because of Tales of Monkey Island so I think they are more likely to choose the classics option also.
And like a lot of posters before me, I'd like a balance between this and that. (Assuming that BttF will be awesome)
Okay back to your previous question, i'll name a few options:
Personally i could deal with some Hard Science like for instance Clement, Clarke or Pohl have written but due to a larger audience i would head for more popular and easier to consume SF books like for instance Jack Vance has written. Alastor is fantastic or if you want some Fantasy then go for Dying Earth serie, both would be just perfect for adventure games. As many other books and series from him (Showboat World, Maske: Thaery, ...) colourful fantasy and space opera always with a interesting unique cultures and characters at their best.
Piers Anthony's Adept serie would be great for both SF and fantasy whilst also enabling lots of well integrated interesting mini games, same as Farmer's World of Tiers.
Something like David Gerrold's Biological Invasion or Ian Banks's Consider Phlebas would be more action oriented or if you want a more current author Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs.
You could explore new words again with Vance, Niven (Ringworld) or Clarke (Rama), …
It really depends on which direction you want to go and there are a couple of wonderful worlds. But again with an Author like Jack Vance alone you're perfectly set already.
Oh and thanks... :O)
Yep the pilot concept would fit perfectly in my opinion as well for something like this.
And something like the Dying Earth with characters like Cugel, Rhialto, Tamurello, Idelfonse, Liane, ... is so full of mean, funny and weird charatcers and situations that, i mean it would be really hard to screw this one up.
I'm not sure if it's the right one but if i'm right there exists a nice shortstory from him called the dream castle.
I'm still waiting for more Day of the Tentacle games now, so I'd vote for more LucasArts games.
I've just started a group on Facebook in order to help us persuade LucasArts
to create Zak McKracken: Special Edition!
http://bit.ly/WeWantZakSE
Maybe Telltale will release a sequel at the same time (kinda like Monkey Island: Special Edition was released at the same time as Tales of Monkey Island)
I think Zak would have to be re-designed (gameplay-wise) to work as a game now, because it had too many dead ends (an absolute no-go for an adventure game nowadays) and some irrational puzzles. Plot-wise though I think it's still interesting, and visually there's a lot of potential for an SE.
Still, I'd love to see an SE of "Fate of Atlantis" more than anything else, now that MI2 is covered. Actually I'd be even more excited to HEAR an FOA:SE, especially the soundtrack. Having that one played by an orchestra? WOW, that'd be something...
Hm... Yes. Yes, we need a new Full Throttle. We have been promised a Full Throttle sequel twice, twice we have been left wanting. I think if anyone can make this game a reality, it's Telltale. Nobody else... save for maybe Ryan Industries. Possibly Double Fine, but Telltale is most likely.
Lots of games have been made in the past of both BTTF and Jurassic Park; and most of them (if not all) have been terrible. Not a pretty legacy to inherit. Besides which, movies don't exactly have a great reputation full stop when it comes to video game tie-ins. I think it'd be a shame to see TTG fall foul of this trap and produce a bad season just through trying to expand into new markets.
On the other hand, I really would love to see brand new DOTT. Perhaps Grim Fandango, although the first story didn't really lend itself neatly to a sequel because the characters' stories were all pretty much tied up by the end (as opposed to DOTT where you can imagine them having equally madcap adventures week in and week out)
On the third hand (and yes I am from a planet where people have three hands), a Futurama season would utterly blow all of these out the water, and considering new Futurama episodes start coming out next week on TV, it would be an active and current franchise rather than something pretty old.
Did I mention new Futurama starts next week?
Who brought up Futurama anyway? Now I'm not going to be able to stop!