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Generic 'Telltale should make...' thread

StalkersStalkers
edited June 2013 in General Chat
Was this ever discussed as a potential license? The book series is immensely popular and I guess the license isn't too expensive since the TV series bombed. The stories contain quite a bit of detective work and therefore could probably easily adapted into a computer game, probably as a kind of side story to the ongoing story arc - I mean, there are tons of novellas and short stories already.
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  • RemolayRemolay
    edited March 2011
    Honestly, I could see it. I'm currently in Dead Beat in the novels, and I haven't finished watching the TV Series, and I love both. If it were a game I don't really think it could have much to do with the huge story of the books, so maybe if it was an alternate Dresdenverse like the TV show, which was honestly quite awesome.

    By the way, with there being a Roleplaying game out there, I could totally see The Dresden Files: The Roleplaying Game: The Video Game.
  • turbotjturbotj
    edited August 2011
    I was just thinking this the other day! My GF turned me on to The Dresden Files a few years ago. I cosplay as Harry when I go to conventions and on Halloween. I'm on Blood Rites right now and I have Welcome to the Jungle and I've started reading the comics of Storm Front and Full Moon.
    I would love Telltale to do a game. It offers so much that could be done with each of the books. Hell they could easily do 2 books in one episode. Plus the cityscape of Chicago and Telltale's graphics would be friggin AWESOME!
    If anyone can do justice to the humor and action of the Dresden files, Telltale can.
  • Wolfstar27Wolfstar27
    edited October 2011
    Wouldnt it be cool if telltales teamed up with HBO and made a Bored to Death Adventure game, I could see it fit quite well, Image it like Sam & Max. with Jonathan Ames solving cases and struggling with his every day life in a 5 part episodic series. personally I think it could work.

    what do you guys think?
  • Insane Guy of DoomInsane Guy of Doom
    edited November 2011
    With all the hubub about the muppets return to fame this year, I got me thinking, if we even have The Muppets perfume now why is there no video game adaptation? Of course though, what kind of game could possibly work for the muppets. Then I thought, a muppet point and click adventure game would be pretty cool!

    Does anyone else think Telltale, or any game studio for that matter, could manage to pull off making a muppets game, or is it impossible?
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited November 2011
    It's definitely possible.
  • Harald BHarald B
    edited November 2011
    What about Tim Shafer's Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster? I remember that being hyped pretty well, though I can't remember how good it was or how well it did.
    There have also been a couple of kiddie adventures in the past, with a lot of charm and fun if non-existent difficulty. (Cue dead horse snark.)
  • Insane Guy of DoomInsane Guy of Doom
    edited November 2011
    I'd forgotten about that completely, something like that could work. But for the non sesame street muppets I'm not sure how well move style minigames would work for them.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited November 2011
    I wouldn't be against it.
  • StrongBrush1StrongBrush1
    edited November 2011
    They've tried releasing Muppet Games before. More often than not, they range from "meh" to... well... "meh."

    I think a point and click adventure would be just what the Muppets needed to make an impression on the gaming world. The episodic format could also work to their advantage, and the story would be played out like a series of episodes comprised of different skits and numbers.
  • EvilDeadFanEvilDeadFan
    edited November 2011
    The game that probably won't happen. What is it? Based on a movie possibly getting a sequel, that contains so many characters in a world filled with noir and comedy that it is considered a masterpiece in filmmaking. Is it possible Telltale could be up to the challenges in creating...




















    Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The Game!


    Obvious things standing in the way are multiple licenses, however, think about how awesome it would be to play as Eddie Valiant and solve various toon-related crimes following the events of the film?
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited November 2011
    They need to wait to release it in time with the sequel.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2011
    Is it kinda weird that I'd prefer a Muppets game mo-capped? No, not with people wearing green ping-pong ball suits, but with green ping-pong ball puppets. The Muppets move in such a familiarly awkward way, that if they are animated normally instead of moving like puppets, it would feel kinda weird.

    I mean, look at how Kermit moves in this video. Look at his hands.
  • xbskidxbskid
    edited November 2011
    Now, I could be mistaken, but I don't think Telltale could execute it properly. If you were going to do a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? PNC adventure game, it would -need- to be mix live action video with cartoon characters, and I both doubt the Telltale Tool would be up to it and that TTG would be prepared to cast and film the live-action bits. Then again, TTG is always improving T³, and if they really wanted to do it...
  • xbskidxbskid
    edited November 2011
    I think I'd almost prefer to see DF do a Muppets game, but that's just me.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited November 2011
    xbskid wrote: »
    Now, I could be mistaken, but I don't think Telltale could execute it properly. If you were going to do a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? PNC adventure game, it would -need- to be mix live action video with cartoon characters
    ...much like Toonstruck. Which also needs a new game!
  • RAnthonyMahanRAnthonyMahan
    edited November 2011
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    ...much like Toonstruck. Which also needs a new game!

    First Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and now Toonstruck. Will you guys stop suggesting Telltale make games that involve Christopher Lloyd? I doubt they'd be able to get him. :p
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited November 2011
    How about a game in which you play Telltale's lawyer, desperately trying to get the rights to hundreds of cartoon characters....
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2011
    I'd want a Muppet game with the strings used to operate them reproduced digitally. Where in fact the environment setup is such that you know exactly where the puppeteers would have to hide.

    That would be the bomb. ;)
  • xbskidxbskid
    edited November 2011
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    How about a game in which you play Telltale's lawyer, desperately trying to get the rights to hundreds of cartoon characters....

    It would certainly hold us over until we actually got WFRR?/Toonstruck games.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited November 2011
    tredlow wrote: »
    Is it kinda weird that I'd prefer a Muppets game mo-capped? No, not with people wearing green ping-pong ball suits, but with green ping-pong ball puppets. The Muppets move in such a familiarly awkward way, that if they are animated normally instead of moving like puppets, it would feel kinda weird.

    I mean, look at how Kermit moves in this video. Look at his hands.

    The Jim Henson company makes some CGI kid's shows now, and they use a machine called a "Waldo" that captures their hand movements to allow them to control digital characters through physical puppetry. It's pretty cool.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited November 2011
    I do think that the look of Toonstruck or Who Framed Roger Rabbit could be achieved by putting cel-shaded characters alongside realistically-rendered characters. Poker Night would probably have looked that way if Max and the Heavy weren't also really cartoony.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited November 2011
    The thing is, WFRR would be almost impossible to get right. The original had such a unique charm.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2011
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    The Jim Henson company makes some CGI kid's shows now, and they use a machine called a "Waldo" that captures their hand movements to allow them to control digital characters through physical puppetry. It's pretty cool.

    Ooh, that's perfect!
  • AnathaenAnathaen
    edited November 2011
    It would be perfect for an action/adventure puzzler game with controls kind of like in Jurassic park! Alot of people would kill for a video game of that show! :D
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited November 2011
    The guy who plays Merlin is from my town, he blanked out friend Steve in the filling station last year some time. Even though Steve is a complete tool, we have all put Merlin/Morgan into our deadly enemies lists.
  • AnathaenAnathaen
    edited November 2011
    JedExodus wrote: »
    The guy who plays Merlin is from my town, he blanked out friend Steve in the filling station last year some time. Even though Steve is a complete tool, we have all put Merlin/Morgan into our deadly enemies lists.

    Still, would you play a game version?
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited November 2011
    We seem to have had a lot of threads pop up lately for games that Telltale should make. In the past we had one thread for these ideas, but that seems lost to the ages now, so I figured I'd make a new one. Hopefully this will reduce the number of threads popping up for people to mock.

    I'll kick us off with...

    I think it'd be awesome if TT made a Battlestar Galactica game. All the dialogue and story development that TT does well, mixed with spaceships and robots. Sweet.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited November 2011
    A baby!
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited November 2011
    Anathaen wrote: »
    Still, would you play a game version?
    I wouldn't.

    I walked in on my Dad watching something on TV a couple weeks ago, and when I looked at the screen I honest-to-god thought it was a parody. The make-up on the old wizard was hilarious, and the acting was so cheesy!

    Then he told me it was Merlin.

    True story.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited November 2011
    Ah, but who with?

    Eyes up Secret Fawful
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited November 2011
    I want a Star Trek adventure game, and at this point I really don't care which series/part of the franchise they base it on. It's been way to long since 'A Final Unity'.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited November 2011
    corruptbiggins wrote: »
    I want a Star Trek adventure game, and at this point I really don't care which series/part of the franchise they base it on. It's been way to long since 'A Final Unity'.

    qft


    also, Red Dwarf. just imagine it.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited November 2011
    Oh god, finally. After all these months, and many times of me pointing that out, we finally have a centralized topic.

    Now if only this were stickied. Stickified. Stickerdisticked. Whatever.

    Buuuut anyway. I'd love to see Telltale take on me, er, I mean, Penny Arcade. Maybe not Precipice of Darkness, although it would be cool to see that be realized.

    Also, Telltale should take on Lovecraft, and play it absolutely straight, make it as scary as possible.

    Finally, Sonic the Hedgehog. I bet somebody here is / was going to love this.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited November 2011
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    Oh god, finally. After all these months, and many times of me pointing that out, we finally have a centralized topic.

    Now if only this were stickied. Stickified. Stickerdisticked. Whatever.

    Buuuut anyway. I'd love to see Telltale take on me, er, I mean, Penny Arcade. Maybe not Precipice of Darkness, although it would be cool to see that be realized.
    :)

    There's going to be a Precipice of Darkness 3, by the guys who did Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World. But a completely different setting with the same sort of characters would work quite well, methinks.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited November 2011
    My triforce of evil. Count Duckula, Seinfeld and Blackadder.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2011
    A Sam and Max game. Then cancel it.
  • FriarFriar
    edited November 2011
    I've never seen a single episode of the show.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited November 2011
    You know, there was someone who suggested a My Name Is Earl game a few thousand threads ago. In my opinion, that's not a bad idea. It would be hard to realize it as a point & click game, but it wouldn't be that far of a stretch. I mean, you've already got the premise, go through the list fixing what you messed up in another person's life. An overarching arc would be hard though.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited November 2011
    I dunno I guess Travelers Tales might be up for it.
  • bloodkiller630bloodkiller630
    edited November 2011
    no i think they should make a really sad video game something that will put you through tears at the end, you know like some of them movies that involves someone dieing at the end from sickness or something, something, that would also get your mind in a twist too like shutter island, my head got so confused a couple of times during that movie, i just dont know the name i would give it for this game, i would buy it, also more action, like someone going into war or something, what yeah guys think the name should be?
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