ITT: Games that would make good cartoons.
Pic related should have been a cartoon from the beginning since the writing wad the only good part.
ITT: Games that would make good cartoons
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Connor Flores
Borderlands. If Tales from the Borderlands can be taken as an indication.
Nolan Edwards
Dragon warrior monsters
John Cox
I take it that Brutal Legend was inspired by Heavy Metal.
Hunter Stewart
Megaman inspired by the Archie comics youtube.com
Dylan Torres
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga felt like an early 00s cartoon in video game form, even had the art style and everything.
Jordan Gomez
Yeah, but it sucked ass.
Day of the tentacle and psychonauts are Schaeffer's only good work.
Jacob Bell
Played BL. Setting was fun, soundtrack was great, cast was epic. It failed because the gameplay was too repetitive. Also, you forgot Grim Fandango. I liked the Remastered.
Speaking of DF, did you check out the Costume Quest series on Amazon?
Henry Martin
I could see this adapted into a three-part web series.
Oliver Ross
Sonic the Hedgehog comics
Jayden Gutierrez
Pyre
Nicholas Reyes
Netflix, do the same to Shadowrun as you did to Castlevania
Also if they were to adapt one of the games, would Dragonfall or Hong Kong be better?
Wyatt Diaz
And if you don't do it as a serious series, then do it in the vain of the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.
Leo Cooper
Mandatory, we can make some filler episodes with a little background of the character, like episodes dedicated to them.
Brandon Rivera
Adult show.
Jaxon Sanders
Excuse you. Brutal Legend was great.
Jaxon Brooks
It better have hella fan service, though.
Luke Turner
Gavin Cox
This, so much.
Thomas Young
Civilisation, except it's clone high meets enders game
Aiden Long
Well it was kinda repetitive. The open world hack n slash stuff was underdeveloped and the RTS elements were underused (and kinda awkward, as an RTS on a controller would be). And the second half of the game was clearly rushed. The first act against Lionwhyte's army was pretty decent length, but then the arc against Ophelia's army went really fast and Doviculus only had a single battle.
That said, the concept was great, the cast was amazing, and I'd love for them to give it another shot.
Anthony Parker
Fuck, i'd love a pyre limited series.
Brandon Morales
Andrew James
I could see it being an adult swim show
Colton Kelly
Mother 1 and 2/Earthbound
Gravity Rush
Puyo Pop
Grayson Baker
Eli Evans
Robert Sullivan
Earthbound would make for a fucking great cartoon, holy shit
Nathaniel Morales
Elijah Collins
It IS getting one, but everything I've been hearing it about it makes it sound like complete dogshit.
>movie trailer's awful CGI
>restricting a globe-trotting series to one city
>11 min. episodes
>"animated comedy"
>coming to PlayStation's shitty streaming service
How do you fuck up this badly?
Michael King
Ian Phillips
Benjamin Moore
Sebastian Morales
Wyatt Lee
I guess you can talk about literally anything on this board if you just ask "What if it were a cartoon?"
Wyatt Cox
Adam Edwards
Let's pretend that doesn't exist and pretend they can make something.
Yes, so much yes.
Dylan Murphy
>Not SteamWorld dig 2/ SteamWorld Heist
Gabriel Sanders
Game was overrated as fuck imo
Jose Mitchell
It's a shared universe after all.
Kevin Kelly
Does it bother you THAT much?
Michael Flores
Camden Brown
Yes but you're going for the weakest game with the weakest plot? Dig 2 has a stronger character focus and intrigue with the shiners and Heist has overall better world building and a cool setting with robots in space. Dig 1 is just not that interesting now.
Nathan Green
Maybe we can actually get a developed story based E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.
Charles Parker
I feel like I'm the only one aware that this game exists.
How would you write it Yea Forums
James Anderson
How would this work?
Easton Allen
>West of Loathing
Now that's a nane I haven't heard in a long time.
Parker Rogers
I really liked Brutal Legend
Nathan Green
Alright then pardner, didja play the new DLC?
Liam Wilson
>no adult swim TF2 show
Ugh... what might have been...
Eli Green
I still find it weird that Expiration Date was a pilot. It's a well directed and self contained story. It didn't need a continuation and it didn't really leave an idea for how such a series would play out.
Jack Harris
Wish Swain would make another one.
John Hernandez
Eli Nelson
There technically is a cartoon in this game's cutscenes but fuck around and make it a full one
Jacob Howard
>Do the same to Shadowrun as you did to Castlevania
Turn it into a circlejerk for atheism?
Luke Gray
I dunno, this one is pretty meta and reliant on videogames to really work as a show IMO. I'd be interested in like original stories with the characters, but not a retelling
Elijah Cox
There was a Megaman cartoon though
Charles Gomez
It was supposed to be short segments. Under 15 minutes with room for commercials
Oliver Bennett
Crash Obviously. I always thought the classic, Warner Bros-esque slapstick style would really work as an Animated series. I wish it were done in the 90s.
Colton Moore
>he didn't like the exploration and the challenge
I bet you only play "games".
Christopher Cox
The "exploration" wasn't all that different from any other 6th generation platformer and the challenge came from the poorly implemented camera.
Asher Clark
Maybe, but I always found it comfy.
Daniel Russell
There was an opening animated.
Justin Stewart
>create fun animated intro
>dont use it
Anyway I feel like a Crash cartoon could work well enough nowadays if they just take the Sonic Boom route.
Blake Sanders
I've been replaying Brutal Legend for a couple weeks now and love it. Hell, even the stage battles are fun. Favorite video game overworld.
The only problem I have with it is I really want MORE.
Luke Miller
Would probably have a story that borrowed plot points from the good/bad paths you could take and ultimately create a more epic narrative as Vanilla went on adventures with the band.
Jeremiah Butler
Monkey Island would be fun. The 4th one must be done in super dated god awful CGI tho.
Alexander Peterson
Eh, I'd rather they just ignore Escape, and Tales. Of course, Curse would probably be ignored as well since it's not the true third game Ron Gilbert had in mind. Ideally, it'd be fun to see the first 2 games made into movies, along with a proper third story, then maybe have Curse be animated as just a "what if?" kind of story. Of course, I'd love to see them update CMI by remastering the existing scenes, and creating a few new ones, namely the lost scene that sets up the final act.
Liam Evans
I always really wanted to see Psychonauts animated by Studio Laika. Seems to really fit their style.
Lincoln Clark
Your lack of Grim Fandango disturbs me.
Jason Sanders
Underrated. I loved Pyre's style and characters. Would have been great to see more of the setting.
Nathaniel Kelly
4 parts, like the seasons
>Spring, covers the first part of the game up to the fight with Orochi
>Summer, goes up to at least the fight with the Ninetails
>Fall, wraps up a few side plots and the time travel segment where Orochi is defeated again
>Winter, involves the battle against the owls Lechku and Nechku before ending with the battle against Yami
Brayden Foster
>it's just another random slapstick comedy building off of the nostalgic hype of classic characters
I was expecting it, but it still hurts to hear.
It's a shame, because it seems like the perfect style and setup for a decent family action show.
Hunter White
I'd kill to see Laika do this in stop motion. Would even be fun to maybe expand Manny's story a little just to give some better insight into his life prior to finally taking control of things and setting off the chain of events.
Caleb Carter
That'd be a fun one. I could picture that in Treasure Planet's style really well for some reason. The space exploration, alien/animal characters, space whales, etc.
I miss that game. Seeing the sequel use a lot of gritty realistic graphics and swearing makes me vaguely sad.
Dominic Fisher
While I could see this working in live action, a pseudo animated film that captured the "Take on Me" look of the games would be pretty fun. Could probably do it a series of mini films, each of varying length to capture the chapters of the story.
Luis Scott
Is it true that all the characers are written as LGBT?
Michael Green
Could never see it happening, but I'd love to see a proper dark-fantasy political drama of Bloodlines.
Jonathan Foster
It would be comprised of two parts, the core show that would be the loving homage to the classic comics and have the heart and occasional grit those carried, while having extremely cornball mini-segments that more greatly echoed the likes of Super Friends and other early comic book cartoons with purposefully bad animation and voice acting.
Isaiah Hill
No? You can choose to be a lady that's into another lady, but I don't recall any other gay characters.
Joseph Bailey
The fact that the anime for Lady Layton did pretty well kind of has me hopeful they might adapt the original six games, maybe even telling a somewhat more coherent story.
Evan Bailey
I'd love to see Psychonauts animated.
Even if it was just some shorts of Milla and Sasha going on secret agent adventures or something.
Anthony Torres
Of course, it's very well possible that they might be focusing on Mystery Room next since Al and Lucy appeared in the finale.
Xavier Cook
Charles Hill
As neat as the Overture OVAs were, I'd love to see something that had more of the colors of the comic cutscenes, but of course with full motion rather than the largely static comic panel scenes. First game would need the story expanded somewhat given a fair portion of it was just "go and stop a monster attack" and only so much really made Kat grow as a character and connect with Hekseville.
Noah Clark
That'd be great, though I'd kind of want to avoid any concrete explanation of what Manny did wrong in life.
Chase Adams
I'd be cool with them patching up some of the loose ends that got frayed inbetween games.
And giving Yunica a backstory.
Christopher Morris
Still, it would be fun to see something like that fan-novel where we at least see his early days in the DOD, mentoring Domino, and his fall from a star salesman to barely making any work.
Jonathan Morris
As long as the narration stays the same it'd be golden.
Samuel Nguyen
Only really confusing thing that occurred between games was the whole Raven DLC bit, which really just feels like it was missing a line from Cyanea or Gade or Bit explaining why Raven still remains despite effectively undoing the origin of her very existence.
Joshua Bennett
Lobotomy Corp, but instead of following the main story, make it everyday lives of employees of lobotomy corp. Kinda like superjail
Andrew Anderson
Something depressing and without much dialogue for Hollow Knight.
Like Angel's Egg. Just taking in the environment and the loneliness of the few stragglers left wandering the world.
Leo Young
all of supergiant's games could work as animated series. Even transistor and hades
Dominic Williams
Faithful art style that resembles the games, but borrows elements of the characteristics of the canceled comic book series from a while back. First series would follow a loosely condensed version of the 11 games, with Rock facing off against the various Robot Masters and gaining recognition as a hero, ending in a conclusive enough way that doesn't completely spoil what happens to everyone once it goes into the X series. Speaking of, the X storyline would follow most of the games, but combine or remove some plots to reduce the repetition of the narratives, but at least lay out the seeds for what would come in the Zero and ZX part of the story. And from there, conclude with the Legends storyline, which could maybe end with some kind of arc words that tie everything all the way back to the very original.
Lucas Flores
Don't Starve would be amazing as a cartoon.
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Evan Collins
Fucking these.
Brayden Ross
Either as a collection of segments with little to no music and perhaps each involving a "theme" or tone" that still tell the overall story, while largely using an artstyle that would have a dreamy feel to it. I kind of imagine something where oftentimes the colors might be all smeared and kind of wavy, like those filters that can make everything super blurry and almost just shapes of their predominant colors.
Elijah Allen
Shadow of the Colossus on the other hand, would work as multiple segments in the vein of something like the animated Clone Wars. While the bulk of the segments would capture the colossi battles, others could just be Wander traveling around the Forbidden Lands and taking in the sights, along with a few flashbacks to show his days with Mono before her sacrifice, which could even use the cut song that was presumably for such a flashback scene.
Hudson Flores
Finally, Last Guardian would probably work as a traditional story, but take some time to build up to the boy's capture and expand what little lore is revealed about the Trico species and how they became tied to the Master of the Valley.
Jose Bailey
Austin Murphy
You should think twice after that ape-omination they did.
Austin Williams
I don't recall hobo girl being that well endowed, or is it Raven transformed into Kat or taking her role/outfit?
Forgot most of the ending already.
Thomas Reyes
She still had pretty decent tits.
Jace Richardson
Mason Green
Way better than "in your setting" threads on /tg/
Carter Murphy
More like a comic than a cartoon. They don't even have that much animation in game. And they did make a series of comics with the origin stories of all the heroes.
Aiden Cook
I'm aware.
Gavin Rivera
I'd love to see a show that starts continues on lumine and Axl's arcs far enough to set up X9. The two three-way duos of X/Zero/Axl and Alicia/Layer/Pallette give a way for there to always be personalities to bounce between as well as the differing perspectives of navigators and hunters.
Jayden Peterson
Tsioque had nice designs that reminded me of Leszek Gałysz's creations. I'd totally watch this little princess fight evil imps while sporting her trademark spiteful glare.
I don't think that the adventure game format was the best way to showcase the hand-drawn animation - a major selling point of the game. Half the time the characters are so far away from the foreground that you have to crop the video to even show it off in a webm.
Justin Campbell
Connor Hughes
and before someone says it would be anime, the in-game character art is more cartoony than anime, even though fan artists don't draw it that way. pic related is what it should look like.
Joseph Ortiz
>the writing was the only good part
Disagree, but the concept of Psychonauts is fantastic for a cartoon. You can have both fun kid adventures and subtle drama while you discover the deep psychology of the brains Raz visits.
Robert Cook
psychonauts was basically already just a cartoon that you play as a video game
Connor Clark
Sebastian Perry
A lackluster comedy doesn't mean that they don't still have stellar animation.
Easton Nelson
The game is already pretty much a saturday morning cartoon in the form of a game. All the different cartoon worlds and characters you get to meet, all the wacky minigames, the intro and outro cutscenes to each world that usually feature characters getting hurt in crazy ways
Easton Bennett
It was already made though.
Adam Brown
I loved the mechanic where you jump into other people's minds and see how different the mc looks through their eyes
Brody Bennett
It's a great choice for this thread because how much the developers tried making the games look like a cartoon and all that, the art style would indeed be great
Luis White
If the rumors are true, they might be doing an X9 at some point. Though one can hope they can finally decide on a design that doesn't feel clunky like the last few X games. Either go back to being completely 2D or go full 3D to something similar to the Legend games sans the RPG stuff.
Anthony Brooks
>ctrl+f
>no Toonstruck
let me fix that
Nathaniel Sanders
What's the damn hold up with all the extra material? The guy who directed the game said there was more than enough to make a sequel game or a revised version of the original. Is he being a stickler for interest?
Christian Howard
Could be fun seeing the entire series told with a more consistent story (meaning that it doesn't just randomly ratchet up the edgier content without warning as the games did)
Jack Foster
>the writing was the only good part
>game had solid platforming
>art design for the different levels was amazing
>great cast of characters + voice actors
>i am the milk man
Brody Long
F
Henry Perez
Well they did have that one cartoon way back in like 91 or whatever. Of course, they were forced to tone down the show greatly from the comics, whereas something like Adult Swim would probably be great to let them go more hog wild with the language and jokes. Not that they have to be South Park levels of vulgar, but at least able to speak with less restriction. Would be interesting to see who would play them, given the duo have had 6 actors collectively for the various adaptions.
Logan Cox
You could center it around Flowey, and have each episode be another timeline. And then the plots would be the different ways that Flowey fucks with people. The main problem, though, is that most of the episodes would not be "family friendly".
Henry Gray
its fine nintendo its like you don't want to make more money
Robert Hill
Too bad the game itself was just okay.
Mason Gray
I remember watching that show and not understanding what is going on and most of the dialog.
Returning to it now, seems like they pushed quite hard on surrealism and convoluted writing, One needs to have certain cultural baggage to appreciate it. The joke 'if prison shower walls could talk' was wacky tho.
So I'd say the direction's right.
Telltale games were definitely toned down, but had stronger jokes later on, if a bit drawn out and sloppy rhythm.
Samuel Cruz
This pretty much speaks for itself. For a cartoon all they have to do is add some more characters like XJ9, Aang/Korra and El Tigre while using Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Justice League as inspiration on episode structure. Make the show take place in an AU after all their shows end then they can can have creative freedom while not messing up established lore. I'm still surprised Nick didn't jump on this while the games were popular. I hope the remasters from THQ Nordic will bring it back to the spotlight because these games were every kid watching Nick dream come true.
William Cox
X8 was an amazing 2D game and would have been literally perfect if half the stages weren't gimmicks. They had absolutely everything perfected otherwise
Cameron Phillips
Well Dragonfall have Eiger so that's a big plus
Charles Edwards
Hong Kong is going to work infinitely better. Gobbet and Is0bel have a really good dynamic that will work for a show, duncan and the runner have a real good dynamic too. Auntie Cheng gives a sort of anchor as far as tone and severity of things. The ruski on the boat would be a fun little mystery to set up
For as much as I want to climb Mt. Eiger I'm not sure Dragonfall will do it for a show. The real plus of Dragonfall is the fact that it has Harlequin in it. Harlequin would provide stupid potential for action scenes and raising stakes of the narrative since he will always set the bar for things
Hudson Gutierrez
Metroid would be pretty badass, basically imagine each game but relatively compressed into two or three episodes and some unrelated misadventures sprinkled through out
Camden Myers
Only if they do it like Samurai Jack, and there's a lot of scenes without dialogue that go from long, slow establishing shots to action sequences.
Hunter Campbell
Fucking this, I would pay to see a Spyro cartoon be made. Spyro 2 is my favorite of the whole trilogy, I've 100% it so much my original disc is scratched so now audio cuts out. Something about Avalar and the worlds and the inhabitants of those worlds always put a smile on my face in how Spyro is helping them by fixing the chaos caused by Ripto.
Ripto himself is a pretty good villain too, his hatred for dragons makes him a dangerous enemy despite his size. In many ways Ripto and Spyro are 2 halves of the same coin. Both are short for their species and not as physically powerful as the rest. But while Spyro got to prove himself with the first game battling Gnasty Gnorc, Ripto never had that chance so he was probably mocked and bullied by stronger Dinosaurs until he gave into rage and violence to get respect. Spyro could've become the same as Shadow Legacy reveals purple dragons like Spyro become extremely powerful, with the villain of that game being a purple dragon himself. If it wasn't for Gnasty giving Spyro a chance to prove himself, he could've easily become like Ripto. A cartoon could go into that dynamic really well. Sorry if I went on a tangent there, I love the OG Spyro games. So many happy memories with them.
Grayson Harris
I've got the joy joy joy down in my heart... Down in my heart... Down in Marty raped Lisa.
Tales of the Borderlands had no right being as good as it was.
Little did I suspect when I came in to this thread I would find my niggas
Matthew Diaz
I was going to go with Ratchet and Clank, but that series got craptastic movie that killed the games despite the PS4 title selling extremely well. With that in mind I'll go with another sci-fi series for my suggestion. And yes, I know DaH! had a animated show in development with Fox but we all know where that went. That and YOU try making a game like DaH! in this day and age.
Asher Diaz
I find it amusing that everyone always parrots the same sentiment every time.
>Make it like Samurai Jack, but with Samus!
I guess sometimes, something is self-evident, that everyone can come to a rare consensus. Just some good old fashion planetary romance style adventure.
Isaac Cruz
Joshua Ortiz
>tfw no comfy, youth culture-inspired Splatoon comedy show
Samuel Scott
Honestly this would be great as an old 80s 90s anime series, in the stylr of Nadia of Blue Water or similar. Just a fun journey with an eccentric cast of characters.
Oliver Wood
I would pay an arm and a leg for this.
Carter Jenkins
It was a comfy game, I liked it.
Gavin Rodriguez
Thank fuck Nintendo stopped that kind of shit, I have a feeling it'd be like TTG with a coat of ink.
Nolan Morris
Overwatch.
Everything about that game begs to be made into a 90s action cartoon. Sadly, fucking Actiblizz are a bunch of cheap cunts who only care about milking more cash than actually exists, so they could not give less of a fuck about a campaign mode.
Cameron Wood
The inner struggles of the Camarilla can easily take a couple of seasons.
Justin Turner
>Overwatch
I want this, with how much backstory they've given the characters, the least they could do is either add a story mode to Overwatch, or go with your idea.
Luke Price
It's absurd that there's so much lore, but no actual story. Shit, there's a perfectly good setup for a plot built in. Overwatch has been disbanded, and now a bunch of former members want to get the band back together. This almost writes itself, especially with the main conflict being Overwatch vs Talon, which is basically just Gi-Joe vs Cobra. Come the fuck on.
Owen Johnson
I was curious who they were referring to when they did the puppet. "Russell Sylabus" or whatever, doesn't sound like a name I've ever heard.
Evan Kelly
This series having so much backstory that's barely even touched on in the actual games is a crime. It being dead doesn't help much either.
>The real plus of Dragonfall is the fact that it has Harlequin in it.
Wasn't he just in Returns?
Austin Morgan
Eh, Ratchet and Clank deserve another chance since the movie was butchered after the Rainwalker director stepped in, shame they never released the details of Fixman's script, I can imagine it as significantly more tolerable.
Michael Bennett
Deus Ex
Caleb Evans
I'm picturing simething that follows pacifist Frisk, with shenanigans near the end that has them meet Chara and Neutral route Frisk
Ayden Davis
Oh shit you're right
Jace Young
Would be fun to see something that adds in content leftover in Spielberg's script, though I guess they would have to tone it down if they were to aim for a more family audience given the more gruesome deaths that were cut.
Wyatt Phillips
That could work. I've seen Marina and Pearl get far more love and discussion than anything about the actual gameplay.
Jeremiah Hill
I don't know. It could happen.
Game of Thrones was huge with its political drama and that didn't have the sexy vampire angle.
An HBO live action Vampire: The Masquerade would probably work.
As long as they ignore 5th edition.
Brody Johnson
Sly Cooper Boom?
Bentley Mitchell
it would be perfect, but also incredibly expensive and time-consuming.
Nathaniel Campbell
Nah, Nintendo should be more free with their licenses imo. I get why they're so defensive but honestly, I really think people could do a lot of good with their properties. Pretty much any of them would work really well as a cartoon show or even a movie.
>than anything about the actual gameplay.
For as much as I like Marina and Pearl, as well as the Squid Sisters, I do fucking hate this about Splatoon threads. I'd rather talk about the gameplay in all honesty. But Splatoon really is just begging to be made into a cartoon. It's one of those things where a Western show would probably work as well as an anime.
Dominic Long
And wait for the author to finish laying the ground work before trying to adapt it halfway through and start winging it themselves.
Oliver Wilson
I've never felt much investment over Star Fox lore beyond repeatedly quoting Star Wolf, but I love A Fox in Space.
Ryan Davis
Wonder if any of the Star Fox VAs would actually be interested in reprising their roles.
Gabriel Rivera
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if Netflix or Amazon did liveaction of this one. The game never really had a cartoony style
Asher Hall
This comment made me cum.
James Stewart
If you stretched the story out a bit I think it could be a really nice one-season show.
Carter Hill
No. Aside from a female Reader being able to hit on Jodariel and the crystal girl as much as a male reader, there weren't any gay characters.
Transistor multiple gay characters though.
Samuel Green
I have some assorted ideas about how a Bastion series could work, mostly with regards to time travel:
>first loop plays out like normal until Zia is introduced
>Kid doesn't take her father's journal, Zulf doesn't learn about the Calamity, no betrayal
>cores are gathered, Restoration Protocol goes off without a hitch
>second loop, starts with abridged repeat of the first
>Kid makes some different choices, implication that he vaguely remembers previous loop (possibly even multiple loops; the Jawson Bog nightmare sequence might go places here)
>betrayal happens, story proceeds to second/third acts like it does in the game
>ending choices: Kid saves Zulf, triggers Evacuation Protocol
Blake Butler
Would it really be the same without all the gratuitous deaths?
Benjamin Wilson
Could still have plenty of harrowing moments and maybe give some of the deaths to random monsters and the Amigos or something.
Andrew Rogers
The deaths are more slapstick than anything.
It's up to interpretation if the game is Andy's imagination or not. They could take it either way. Implement them into the cartoon and give it a morbid edge where he can come back from them or assume it's not his imagination and make it a high stakes adventure series.
Brody Sullivan
Personally, i'd want a Bastion movie or miniseries. For the most part it's like the game where most of it is narrated by Rucks, with other characters getting voices at 2 points. The first time would be when the Kid affected by the hallucination gas, we'd hear his voice for the first time. Then when the Kid meets Zulf being attacked by his own people, from then on he and Zulf are fully voiced for the rest of the story.
Basically when Rucks isn't able to fill in the story, everyone has their own voices.
Then the story would end right before the Kid makes his choice on what to do, and the credits would show stills of both endings over the credits, but expanded from the game's ending slides.
That would work
Benjamin Cruz
IIRC, it's also implied that Volfred is gay (Bertrude has unrequited feelings for him, and if Oralech is alive and on the same side in the ending, they reconcile and are mentioned to "always be at each other's side" or something like that).
And yeah, Transistor does have a bunch of them, and some non-binary characters as well (one of the traces you pick up is listed as Gender: X).
Michael Cook
I just assumed that Volfred and Oralech were really close friends. But I guess that would conveniently explain why Volfred has no interest in Bertrude. I kinda assumed it was because she was a bogwitch, but this would make him less unsympathetic for lack of a better word I suppose.
Luis Ortiz
While I think that Bastion pretty much ended perfectly, a part of me still always wanted to see some form of continuation of the Evacuation ending.
Ethan Gutierrez
>The deaths are more slapstick than anything
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I don't know, getting your head bitten off doesn't exactly sound like slapstick, lol
Dominic Walker
>which death is his head visibly shown to be bitten off?
I mean, the deaths are implied to be violent. But Andy just stretches like a piece of gum.
Benjamin Wilson
Still, it'd be pretty hard to sell that to a wide audience unless it was made even more cartoony than before or if the more gruesome things like drowning the bone snapping ones weren't included. Though really a lot of the deaths would probably just be left to unwitting monsters to show how harsh the world is while Andy is equally lucky and witty to get around the problems.
Elijah Ortiz
X-COM
Jack Diaz
If they were more detailed it would be easier to tell that there isn't gore. You wouldn't have people on youtube trying to say that the blue of his shirt is "really intestine" or whatever fearmongering "too violent for children" shit people like to say about the game now.
If you checked the coverage of the game when it came out you didn't see people crying about the violence. Not nearly as much as there is now.
If they made the cartoon today you'd see those same people but they're just the same loud boomers that get too upset about violence in vidya now that it's become more mainstream.
The game could do really well as a netflix series for a teen audience.
Nathan Lee
It might not have been super detailed, but that was because of the perspective and lack of any detail beyond little touches here and there. Putting that into a full animation would be extremely risky since it would be harder to pull off without getting a high rating. And the people who complained about violence were hardly boomers, that was more often Christians and just concerned parents of the day.
James Bennett
Wonder how long before they announce the next game. Of course, I recall a few months back there were rumblings of another possible expansion, though I guess that might have just been those flashback missions.
Aiden Phillips
It's the same animation company, at least.
Anthony Bell
The art style being like a cartoon so the violent deaths were more funny and less graphic was an intentional choice. It could easily be translated into 2D cell art. Motion smear is motion smear.
I guess it was mainly Christians and pearl-clutching parents. But everyone who got media coverage looked no younger than 40.
William Butler
Still, it's not exactly like you can just show a kid getting crushed and torn apart in a cartoon like nothing. Things like Invader Zim and others were just barely getting by with some of the shit they pulled.
Jack Butler
this would be good on adult swim if they wanted to make serious stuff
Aaron Myers
You keep acting like what is seen in the game is something close to Happy Tree Friends level of violence. the ESRB had no qualms with it and since right from the beginning of the game it's possible to encounter the most violent of the game's deaths it's really not possible that they just didn't know.
Times are different, but not everyone is that sensitive user. Provided the hypothetical adaptation remains as independent as the original studio was they wouldn't have too many problems.
Brayden Perry
The ESRB had plenty of problems with some games that were violent, the game just didn't have any blood, but that doesn't change the fucking fact that it had bone snapping and very obvious death. And it's hardly about sensitivity, it's the fact that animated violence can and often is rated highly if it's detailed greatly.
Kevin Fisher
I still think you're taking it far too seriously. The fact that it wasn't an issue when the game was actually released and people are only complaining about it now is a clear indication that it's just a current trend of sensitivity. The sound effects are the most graphic aspect. It really feels that people only think it's violent now as adults and it was something nobody thought about as a kid.
I'll never understand how everyone cries when the game is brought up on Yea Forums like it's somehow comparable to dead space or some shit. It really isn't.
Jeremiah Lee
I'm not, I'm looking at it as practically as anyone who knows that when violence is done in animation, it's going to get rated high unless it get released in some way that steps around the people who handle rating programs. The game didn't get too detailed since they likely blew most of their load on the CGI scenes which were pretty high quality for back in the day (and the fact that someone at the company decided to make them work in 3-D as well). And loads of people thought it was violent when the game came out, hell, I recall plenty of kids at my school talking about how violent it was since the game just outright shows the kids being chomped on by monsters and getting crushed with audible snaps, it's not some new realization that only now has been made.
Jayden Rogers
Guess I'll settle for the sequel hopefully being good then.
Daniel Sanchez
lol okay.
Cameron Wright
They were a team of twelve and the cutscenes were trained in-house.
The offending material, the 2D sprites were made by one guy.
It's your word against mine then. I never encountered much objection to the deaths until I started seeing people talk about the game on the internet. That wasn't an objectionable issue that I encountered. The game was actually not known too often but the kids who played it thought the violence was "cool" and had no problems with it. It was actually the appeal of the game. There'd be the occasional younger sibling freak out but nobody should let their kid play anything without guidance. The ratings are suggestions.
The original game was largely independent and I really don't think they'd just let anyone else work on the property. Censorship wouldn't be too much of an issue unless they wanted to air it.
Colton Foster
borderlands itself is a borderline (heh) ripoff of a cartoon short film called codebreakers
Brody Cruz
I'd imagine if you could dig up some forums from back when the game was still new, you might see quite a few people mentioning how they would have expected a T rating at most for the game, and by today's standards it'd at least be bumped up to E-10 no question. As for the game being known, it got a pretty big promotional campaign, not as huge as what Final Fantasy or Resident Evil had, but there were plenty of ads in magazines and I recall quite a few airings of the commercial ads, I think those were the ones that boasted the whole London Symphony Orchestra soundtrack. Plus, it was by Eric Chahi, the guy behind Another World, which was still getting a lot of applause in the day. As for whether or not it'd be censored, that depends on if they made it really violent to begin with. Given death wasn't the primary focus, just a facet of the gameplay that had wide variances, they'd probably just make it pulse-pounding action with some violent moments but otherwise never have Andy suffer more than a few tumbles. Of course, they could maybe play with something once he gets the powers from the glowing rock and have him tank some more brutal hits.
Ian Brown
You like Lili, don't you user?
Ryan Davis
So was your mom.
Nolan Garcia
The game was going to be rated T. Advertisements ran in magazines (I remember a game pro one?) advertised it as such.
But the ESRB gave it an E anyway.
The game had (honestly) way too much hype in development but it had a warm but not too noticeable reception when it actually was released. It wasn't a game that received a lot of people outside of the industry talking about it. It was mostly just a kid friendly Oddworld and the Oddworld games weren't very known compared to more popular games either.
I don't think the deaths would feature too heavily in a cartoon either. I just think people complaining about their violence have to take a couple steps back.
Jack Peterson
Nobody's complaining about the violence though, just pointing out that it was pretty intense for an E-rated game. Certainly odd that it got bumped down from T, though it was 98/99 or whatever and the ESRB was still pretty new so they probably just figured "no blood or guts, so it's good". And the Oddworld games were kid friendly as well, albeit with a more black comedy sense of humor given the fact that you could make NPCs commit suicide or blow things up with farts in massive chain reactions. Of course, that was with fish-lipped blue/green people so it was able to be zanier and wackier with the violence even though it did have the heavy nature vs industry theme.
Thomas Cox
She's a good egg.
Noah Harris
Lisa.
Ayden Anderson
It was a standard 6th gen platformer with clever writing. That's it.
Michael Peterson
Nice opinion, friend.
David Powell
Care to dispute it and tell me what makes Psychonauts so special? Because any of the Ratchet and Clank games are much better examples of the genre from the same era.
Cameron Perry
Maybe after you actually articulate what's so "standard" about it among your other vague as hell complaints.
Alexander Watson
The simple platforming objectives and the poor camera control.
Jason Sanchez
Different user, but I'd say Ratchet and Clank wins in terms of general gameplay easily.
But I still think Psychonauts is worth commending for its writing and great level design. It's packed with fun things to find and every world was a memorable character in itself. The platforming was just a means to an end to explore it all.
Oliver Hernandez
>simple
>poor
To you, not everyone.
Charles Nelson
Meat Circus had good camera controls?
Adam Cox
It wasn't completely unplayable.
Jack Butler
I don't know if it would be good, but it'd definitely be one of the lost media cartoons everyone wrote off as a childhood collective fever dream.
Carson Young
>Okage
Make it stop motion, with Stan's shadow being 2D animated.
Ryder Flores
Man, early Carmel was so cute. No stupid lipstick on a wolf muzzle
Mason Nelson
Tyler Sanchez
I think Backyard Sports would be a good choice. It's a shame they gave the characters so much personality and then basically had nothing to do with them.
Hudson Rivera
I want to see what kind of fucking mess would come out of someone trying to make a series for it.
Angel Turner
Has anyone been to the Psychonauts campster website? Reveals a lot of interesting facts about the campers (like how most of them enjoy R-rated movies despite being 10). Also apparently Kitty is bisexual?