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Special Live Action Episode!

Red PandaRed Panda
edited August 2012 in The Walking Dead
Could you imagine an episode of The Walking Dead Game acted out with all the gameplay elements we've come to love? (Examples Below)

I love the comic look. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to put any artist out of work. They do a fantastic job.

I just happen to also think that the point and click style gameplay could possibly be adapted to live footage. I think 20 years after the first FMV games were put out, the genre can be redone.

Maybe some mechanics would have to change, but the basic idea of player center choices driving the narrative would be largely intact.

It would be ground breaking in blurring the lines between games and film that has been going on for years if can be improved upon old FMV games. Films use CGI and special effects to add fantasy. Video games mimic facial expressions and use motion capture to add realism.

I find the whole idea exciting.

Here are some examples of the concept in action:

1. "The X-Giles Game" FMV (Full Motion Video) Adventure Game from the 90's
http://youtu.be/vmRmyZJ7ZK8

2. An Interactive Movie (Close in Concept)
http://youtu.be/9p1yBlV7Ges

3. A First Person Shooter Live Action (Not Interactive)
http://youtu.be/wwnMfvfPQQE

What do you think?

Comments

  • The_Cheshire_CatThe_Cheshire_Cat
    edited August 2012
    I love the interactive movie stuff.

    reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I use to read back in the day when I was starting out in English.

    brought me to this game here.
  • MilosuperspeshMilosuperspesh
    edited August 2012
    lol not spam at least...

    it could use kinect/leap too
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    The_Cheshire_Cat wrote: »
    I love the interactive movie stuff.

    reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I use to read back in the day when I was starting out in English.

    brought me to this game here.

    Then you should look up some old DOS games that were just that.One was called Might of the Minotaur or something like that.
  • The_Cheshire_CatThe_Cheshire_Cat
    edited August 2012
    NickPope wrote: »
    Then you should look up some old DOS games that were just that.One was called Might of the Minotaur or something like that.

    DOS?

    Is that the old computer system?

    Sorry man I'm relatively new to computers. I'll pm you.
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    Yes Old Operating System,and lots of reading,and Decision making.Just like this,but early Dos games had very little pictures or none at all.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yNsBBbv3o
  • Red PandaRed Panda
    edited August 2012
    Milosuperspesh wrote: »
    lol not spam at least...

    it could use kinect/leap too

    Use with Kinect/Leap would be awesome.

    Since an episode is basically the length of a movie and then some, I would pay a higher price for a project like this. I think $20 would be reasonable.

    If they do it right, they could make more money with one episode than they did the entire season. They're artist but they're also business people. I'm realistic.

    This would have to get the film/TV and video game industry buzzing. It could open doors for the studio if it's a hit.

    I can imagine it being a precursor to season 2 or an epilogue to season 1. Maybe something that bridges the gap.

    Perhaps they could work with the show producers. It would not only draw fans of the show that don't read the comic but they have the infrastructure to make something like this happen fairly quickly. They have the props, the special effects, the studio, and all that good stuff in place.
  • MilosuperspeshMilosuperspesh
    edited August 2012
    saints row the turd had a brief dos game section..with the deckers
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    Milosuperspesh wrote: »
    saints row the turd had a brief dos game section..with the deckers
    How can i find that?
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    Milosuperspesh wrote: »
    saints row the turd had a brief dos game section..with the deckers

    Give more info on that.I really like to see it.
  • WarfolomeiWarfolomei
    edited August 2012
    Firstly, DELIVER ME TO HELL, thumbs up.
    Second.. Walking Rain ? It would require faster reflexes though.
  • donmike84donmike84
    edited August 2012
    there was the xfiles on the old psone console that had a live action and point and click style games
  • thesporkmanthesporkman
    edited August 2012
    You realize FMV adventure games were a thing in 90s, right? Like, there were a lot of them. Phantasmagoria and Gabriel Knight and Tex Murphy et cetera, et cetera.
  • Red PandaRed Panda
    edited August 2012
    thesporkman wrote: »
    You realize FMV adventure games were a thing in 90s, right? Like, there were a lot of them. Phantasmagoria and Gabriel Knight and Tex Murphy et cetera, et cetera.

    Well, obviously I did!

    haha. I had a vague memory of something similar but nothing concrete. Thanks for sharing.

    It's great because it shows there was an audience for this kind of work.

    Second, after 20 years, I'm sure tech has come a long way. And if they could do it back then....

    Third, it's not crazy to revisit old ideas. In film, what was color? Or more recently, 3D? "Avatar" really pushed what you could do with an existing tech in terms of story telling.

    The idea of the iPad was thought of in the 90's: Newton MessagePad 100. It came into it's own 15 years later.

    If anybody could reinvent the wheel and create a product nobody knew they wanted I think Telltale could.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited August 2012
    We need another Space Ace.
  • MilosuperspeshMilosuperspesh
    edited August 2012
    NickPope wrote: »
    Give more info on that.I really like to see it.

    shame on the double posting use the edit button ;)

    in the enter the dominatrix mission (not the cancelled dlc expansion) with the deckers.

    i think after a couple of missions the fbi hacker kensi calls you to one of the deckers old bases on a pier/near the water.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSg-AwpuQUs the video is a full guide so contains spoilers ;)

    you then enter matrix style in to a tron like parady mission the dos game section is in that.just as you find the firewall area...it's short but funny..
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    No idea how i double post.Looks like a fun game.
  • MilosuperspeshMilosuperspesh
    edited August 2012
    lol it's fun to a point depends how much you like gta with a mad sense of humour
  • AceStarrAceStarr
    edited August 2012
    I remember a live acted video game back in the early 1990's but i guess it did not catch on and it was on an arcade coin system at the time. But that would be hot to do a live action video game of the walking dead great idea:D
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited August 2012
    Was it holographic?
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    Was it called Dragon's Lair?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_lair

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=znO_m00s8II#!
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited August 2012
    He said live action.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Interactive_movie_video_games

    Try those, or google a more specific search.

    http://youtu.be/jbl_23GwjJ8

    Here's the hologram game I mentioned.
  • AceStarrAceStarr
    edited August 2012
    No it was not a hologram it was live actors just like how the video game at certain points you press the button and depending how fast you press you either win or lose. So it runs just like the walking dead video game just acted out with live people in place of graphics. Now that i remember it was a game based on a gun slinger in the old west.
  • AceStarrAceStarr
    edited August 2012
    Master yes something like those links u placed in box. That would be sweet if the telltale can make a special addition version with live actors playing out a backstory to the walking dead :D
  • NickPopeNickPope
    edited August 2012
    Thats so far back in the day.I can remember something like that.Its in the left or right part of my brain.I just need to dig it out.It had to be on lazer Disk,and it was right in you face.They tryed it with VHS plus a book,but thats not it.
  • ZeruisZeruis
    edited August 2012
    Ehh...not that interested in a live action episode. Perhaps it's because of rumors of a TWD movie. Kirkman's been milking this thing to every element he can think of: tv show, comic, novel, game, theme attractions, etc.
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