We need more games based off of movies/tv shows!

Started by acatfrommars December 31st, 2015 1:26 AM
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acatfrommars

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2016 is the year of movies! Batman vs Super, Suicide Squad, X-men apocalypse! Then there's shows like Marvel's Jessica Jones and Daredevil; I could see some kick ass games coming from movies and shows like this. Why do you think that we see a lack of games based of movies/tv shows these days. I feel like more superhero games would actually sell really well! What are your thoughts of games based off of movies/tv shows, did you play any that you actually liked?

I remember playing Transformers 3 back in the day on PS2 a lot. That game was free roam and was really good imo! Also let us not forget the best movie game of all time:

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Pinkie-Dawn

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There's still more games based on TV shows, but I'm glad there aren't as many movie-based games as there use to back in the day. The majority of movie-based games have been infamously known for being average to mediocre, with E.T. being one of the absolute worst movie-based games of all time. I guess in recent years, game companies have learned their lesson. Also, I find it kinda hypocritical that you also ask for more TV show-based games when you gave the moon theme from Ducktales Remastered, a TV show-based game, a 2/10.

JJ Styles

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I was tempted to activate my inner AngryJoe towards the whole trend of movie licence games but seeing that PC is primarily a ground for a lot of Nintendo fans, and AngryJoe being a mortal enemy of Nintendo, i might as well save that for later.

Anyway, Movie-licence games are some of the more polarizing things for me. On the other hand, most of them nowadays are lazily made clones of other overused game genres, while some of them become cult classics.

Possibly my favorite movie licence games are those from older consoles. The Batman games based on the Tim Burton Bat-movies on NES and SNES are some of the better examples out there, such as the NES Batman being a Ninja Gaiden-esque game with the same level of fun and challenge from such, and SNES Batman Returns being a nice Beat-em-up Streets of Rage, Final Fight esque type of game.

Also, The Playstation 1 has a couple of them, but my favorite among that library was Die Hard Trilogy. Die Hard Trilogy may not have been a "great" game by most people's standards but that I loved about it is that the three Die Hard movies are portrayed in three different genres according to the movie with Die Hard 1 being a 3rd person action game, Die Hard 2: Die Harder as a Rail shooter, and Die Hard with a Vengeance as a driving game. Obviously these are not super accurate to the movies or the source material, but the gameplay was fun. Heck, Die Hard Trilogy was great enough to even spawn its own sequel to Die Hard with Die Hard Trilogy 2, which in my opinion, is a better sequel than any of the other Die hard movies after "with a vengeance".

There's also the PSX Harry Potter games. Those were pretty playable games at the time, and i found them to be rather enjoyable since it was pretty immersive and it made me feel like i was experiencing both the book and the movies. Also, those Harry Potter games are much better than EA's mud-spawn of "Gears of Hogwarts" aka Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2.