Garfield+Telltale=Awsome?
I was recently thinking how awsome it would be if Telltale and Paws Inc. created a Garfield game in 5 episodes! It just boggles the mind thinking how great this would be! Post down suggestions on what you would want to be seen in the game or just plain say how you feel about this from ever happining!
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Could be good but more likely just a cash-in by Paws Inc. Don't even think Jim works on it anymore really.
Although Garfield Minus Garfield could be great.
(yeah right)
Garfield comic strips can be funny when handled properly
Videos of Garfield strips being acted out deadpan, with music videos
Garfield talks in thought bubbles, so Jon must hear nothing, which is weird if you think about it
Garfield strips minus Garfield
Randomly-generated Garfield strips
This.
Also, my favorite post-internet-hate-machine Garfield strip:
My favorite humorous comic strips are probably Calvin & Hobbes by Watterson and the Peanuts by Schulz (rip). That's some genius!
(And I can think a tons more before Garfield...)
Oh. Also that Purcell guy ain't bad at all
(I don't think Sam & Max stories are qualifiable as "strips" anyway.)
Why not? Aside from Garfield he's had one film in the last 10 years that was critically acclaimed but that didn't make people want to watch it.
But his price will be going up in the next few years, what with the new Ghostbusters game and Ghostbusters 3 coming out in just a few years.
Does anybody else find it ironic that Bill Murray voiced Garfield, who was voiced by Lorenzo Music in what I suspect was the longest running Garfield cartoon; 'Garfield and Friends' and was also the voice of Dr. Peter Venkman on the cartoon of Ghostbusters (which, ofc, was Murray's role)
As voice actors go I think Bill Murray might be a cheap alternative to Tom Hanks, who would presumably cost much more at the moment)... Whenever I try to think of the voice of Bill Murray all I can imagine is the voice of Tom Hanks anyway.
Not really ironic, but it is a loop that always fascinated me. I would actually be pretty surprised if the Lorenzo Music connection wasn't a big part of the inspiration for casting Bill Murray as Garfield later.
Aye. I like this suggestion much better.
To rip off Jake, (Calvin + Hobbes - Garfield) + Telltale = Awesome.
About Telltale making games based on comic books... Has anyone here read "Spirou"?
I think Bill Murray is effectively just a mercenary (just my conclusions) but often they're the most expensive :<
Nay! Bill Murray is not a mercenary, he is a god. (Well, maybe not, but if somebody asks if you're a god...)
I can understand a lot of you guys not finding Garfield funny. I found it funny as a young child but that was it. Sometimes I'll take a gander at it, though I rarely get a chuckle out of it.
But I have never understood the following 'Peanuts' always seems to have had. Not one strip has ever made me laugh.
As for Calvin and Hobbes... Well, I don't think I'm in a position to comment.
Best. Comic. Ever.
It's honestly not really a "laugh" comic. It's more of a "charm" comic.
Actually I laughed a lot when I read them as a child, but nowadays as an adult things have become different. I´d rater have Dilbert nowadays hehe...
But now that you people mentioned it... In fact it seems far more feasible to me a Peanuts game, than a C&H... even if I would love a C&H game if someone can come up with a proper concept! I would like very much a Peanuts game, of course. Snoopy in its diverse imaginary characters should be playable
As for Watterson, wait a moment: I remember from "10 Years of C&H" that he was very strongly against merchandise of C&H... but would he be against a translation in other narrative media if he'd have creative control or at least veto? TTG showed to care very much for it.
Did Watterson mention to be against an animation series of C&H for example? I don't remember. If he did, was it a creative control issue or rather an "factual impossibility to properly render the characters in a single illustration on mug or something like that" issue as was for merchandise?
Those seem to be rather different issues to me.
ROTFL!!
Ghostbusters for the Wii is being delayed in Europe to late 2009 by those s*ckers at Sony EU, which had the distribution from Atari, while PS2 and PS3 versions are available :mad:
I have also laughed many times... but, yes, I agree with your interesting definition
Yes, I dreamed to play it, and it seemed to be very funny
In short, it was similar to Lost Vikings: a puzzle platformer, in which you have to coordinate and switch taking control between characters with different specific abilities... but in my dream the game was based on... The Smurfs! A dozen of them available for each level, with abilities derived by the personality we've seen in the animated series... (comics have less distinctive characters).
For an adventure game, it would be some kind of Maniac Mansion/DOTT (or Zak while on Mars)... on a much greater scale!
Hey, I can't control my dreams... If I could, it would have been "Scantly-clad Lost Vikingesses!" starring Ms. Jolie, Ms. Jovovic and Ms. Knightley... Oh, yes
But I used to quite like 'Dilbert'. I think that might make a better adventure than Garfield, the main problem being that Dilbert seldom has 'adventures', or do anything very exciting.
I did quite enjoy 'Nemi', but they stopped printing it in the UK and I wasn't able to find any english translations online. (Actually it's been years since I even looked, I might take another search later on.
I loved the Dilbert cartoon series.
I think it only got 1 or two series, but yes there was.
I felt it was actually a lot better than the strips, as the half-hour episodes meant that there was a lot more time to flesh out the characters and plots than on a gag-a-day strip.
The whole "Todd" episode was definitely my favourite. There's so much subtle social commentary in there I can't believe they'd dare put it out without offending people.
Maybe it's okay to make sweeping religious and political statements if you have talking animals an keep punning badly..?
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/garfield-attack-of-the-mutant-lasagna
"I can't use the shattered pieces of my life with that."
"I can't pick that up. What's the point anyway?"
Can't be that hard to license, right?
Farside: the adventure game
However, after thinking about it every so often... it's not such a bad idea.
As far as the Garfield comic strips go, on the whole some strips are better than others. But Telltale have the right kind of humour for cartoon-based games (just look at Sam and Max!) and would use the characters to their potential and fill the games with comedy.
I also think Garfield is one of the few newspaper strips that would work as an episodic game series.
My favourite newspaper strip is and will always be Peanuts, but Charles Schulz left it in his will that he doesn't want anyone continuing the strip in any way that could alter the characters or anything, so basically it will never happen.
Calvin and Hobbes, on the other hand, would be awesome. Not only could you incorporate some wild pranks and trouble-making, but you could also go into daydream mode, and suddenly be chasing down dinosaurs or launching into space. Not to mention all the crazy snowmen! (sigh) Now I want it.