Interesting but strange suggestion

[Undertow]

A really weird idea popped into my head.

I was just playing some Brütal Legend and as a break I watched what was new on the Inside XBox thingy.

They had this item on Call Of The Dead (a Call Of Duty addon), now I am not into FPS games, so I'm not suggesting anything like that.

I noticed they had some really fun cameos in the game, and I noticed they didn't include Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead movies.

Now this is where it gets interesting, I was trying to remember some scenes from Evil Dead and it was playing out in my mind just like I was playing Brütal Legend, and thought "That would make a great game!".

Now to my knowledge there aren't any Evil Dead games and with Double Fine creating such diverse and super great awesome games, I thought that an Evil Dead game would fit right in.

Something like a fun action/puzzle thing like Psychonauts or something.

(Also, those movies are awesome! If you haven't seen them, SHAME ON YOU!)

[seniormeld]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(computer_game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_Hail_to_the_King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_A_Fistful_of_Boomstick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_Regeneration

Fail at internet research.

[Undertow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(computer_game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_Hail_to_the_King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_A_Fistful_of_Boomstick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead:_Regeneration

Fail at internet research.

Well, didn't do any internet research, I was just writing that from the top of my head. I should have actually researched it.

But those games must have flown completely under the radar, since I never heard about any of them.

But then again, being European means we only get the games that are sure to sell since most of the companies here that sell games don't want to get stuck with stuff that doesn't sell.

But I did notice that those game that you linked to are games that are "based on" and not a complete adaptation of the movie into a game, which was what I was going for.

Sure adapting a 90 minute movie into a game isn't going to work, that game would be way to short, but I mean, not straying very far from the original plot of the movies.

[seniormeld]

Honestly, that's a good thing that they are just based on the movies since movie games suck 99.99% of the time.

Edit: also they did have a European release too.

[Undertow]

Honestly, that's a good thing that they are just based on the movies since movie games suck 99.99% of the time.

Yeah, that's because a movie studio wants to cash in even more on their IP and also orders a game developer to make a game out of it and release it at the same time as the movie goes out.

Now to make a good game, you need a LOT more time than to make a movie, so yeah, movie based games usually suck, but that counts only for games that are created simultaneously as the movie.

Creating a game based on an older movie can create something a whole lot better since you aren't working with the same time pressure and can seriously create something good, not something slapped together to cash in on the movie sales.

[seniormeld]

So far that's only worked 1 out of the 3 times that I can think of it being done. The Thing video game made 20 years after the movie sucked, the last Jaws video game sucked, the only one that had worked was GhostBusters which only worked for 1 out the 2 versions they made.

Edit: I forgot about the Godfather and Scarface video games which also sucked.

[Milkman]

I liked the Godfather game. It was fun getting to insert yourself into the movie which is where many movie games fail.

[seniormeld]

Oops, just remembered the Dirty Harry game to. *shudders*

My point is that no matter what time the movie tie in game comes out, its usually just going to suck.

[Undertow]

Oops, just remembered the Dirty Harry game to. *shudders*

My point is that no matter what time the movie tie in game comes out, its usually just going to suck.

Well, that basically comes down to a problem within the team that makes the game, like sub-par writing, bad design, or something else.

I was suggesting Double Fine making this, and I cannot imagine them making a bad game.