Indiana Jones thread
Here you can talk about the video games, movies, the upcoming 5th movie, the ride, the Young Indiana Jones TV series, whether or not Telltale should do a game, or anything about the franchise in general. Let it whip!
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Besides the fact that he's not very good at his job... and seems smug... and is rather annoying. On second thought, fuck the beef.
But we can talk about other aspects of the franchise here. I've never gotten to go on the Indiana Jones ride. They don't have one at Disney in Florida (just the Indy sequence in the Great Movie Ride, which is neat but not very exciting). Someday I'd like to go to Disney in California to see the rides I've missed out on
Oh man. I do not have time to watch that right now, but I will probably watch it tonight. I just watched a minute of it and it looks great
They don't have an Indiana Jones ride at Disneyworld?! Yeah, you should come to Disneyland in California. And if you go on Indiana, try to get in the front leftmost seat of the car. Then you get a steering wheel and can freak other first-timers out by pretending to drive. No. Wait. Let me have that seat. You get to sit on the other side.
Hmm. That could be interesting, if viewed by the PC-obsessed as 'racist'.
No worse than 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'.
No, I would assume that it would have something to do with otherworldly powers of invincibility. But when the Chinese try take it, it would probably destroy them and then be mystically brought up to Heaven. Just guessing.
And I kinda liked the title of the fourth movie. It had originality, this one doesn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross#Dispersal_of_relics_of_the_True_Cross
"Indiana Jones and the One Big Huge Jigsaw Puzzle"
Here's an idea: The Chinese and Indy are going around the world trying to find all the pieces of the cross. When they are united, some supernatural powers are granted to whoever puts it back together. The Chinese try, but God comes down and smites them. It's better than nothing.
Good point. Screw the Fountain of Youth guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WY89Mm-dSmM
He made it a couple years ago. It showed in New York Comic Con Festival (2009) and won first award on Tri-City Independent/Fan Film Festival (Washington, 2009)
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Exactly. Trailers can look good, websites, demos, screenshots. And the more you get of the former stuff, the less likely the fan game is to ever come out because its makers concentrate too much on this instead of the actual game.
Fans are not game developers. Some of them have incredible skills in one area while gruesomely lacking others.* They have day jobs or school, possibly even a life, and not that much time on their hands. Some team members might be reliable, others not - and one unreliable member is enough for cancellation. Most fan projects deal with a dev team in continuous deconstruction. Everyone thinks his ideas are best, so creative differences are another dire hurdle to overcome. The most creative and the most enthusiastic are unfortunately often to the eventual detriment of the whole project, as more ambition means more work for everyone.
*The German makers of the video I linked to certainly have a LOT of skills, but judging from their website, the written forms of their own mother tongue aren't among them!!
FoA will always win, due to it's nature for me. But Emperor's Tomb was pretty damn good... and heck, I even enjoyed The Infernal Machine back when it was new, despite it's jankiness. Unfortunately, I've never played Staff of Kings... I have to get around to that soon.
In short, Emperor's Tomb is the best Action-Indy game (that I've tried), and FoA is the best Adventure-Indy game.
I would have enjoyed Emperor's Tomb a lot more if not for the slightly broken whip-swinging mechanic that meant I died quite frequently during the Drill boss battle and the Chinese level where you swing under the bridge. Otherwise it was all right. Nothing amazing, but it did feel fairly Indy-ish, so can't really complain.
Staff of Kings has mediocre graphics and strange gameplay, but if you try to find a positive outlook, then it’s an alright game. Fountain of Youth felt more like Monkey Island in the Indiana Jones universe when I first played it, but i’ve come to respect it more. Infernal Machine is good for a platformer, but if you like play games like Tomb Raider or Uncharted, it’s not really for you. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, though, it’s just a more of a puzzler’s game.
Emperor’s Tomb, hands down. I don’t know why, but I love it when adventure stories are set in China. The only thing I didn’t care for was the auto-aiming mechanism. When you zoomed in and try to fire headshots, the guy will just get up again. What, are they superhuman? Aside from that, I fucking love this game. And Farlander is right about the combat system, it is awesome. It is the only Indy game that truly feels like one of the movies.
Hey, I just got this idea. What if Lucasarts developed an Indy game where you play through the movies, but the gameplay is like Emperor’s Tomb? Remember the Von Beck level where you run through the ruins? Didn’t that remind you of the giant boulder?
If Lucasarts tried something like that, it would be a hit! Unless they fuck it up like they do most of the time.
Indiana Jones and the Bob Vila Carpentry Project of Doom
Well, why the hell not? It would make up for Staff of Kings, which was a huge disappointment. Besides, the trailer they were going to make in 2007 was basically turned around in a huge way probably because of budget cuts. What looked like a GTA Indiana Jones ended up being a shitfest with bad graphics and fighting mechanics.