Movies that would make great adventure games

CaptainD · Tue 26/07/2011 15:11:47

Not sure why it popper into my head, but it occurred to me that A Princess Bride could make an awesome adventure game. Any other films you'd love to see converted to our favourite genre?

Dualnames · Tue 26/07/2011 15:15:41

Brazil.

Ghost · Tue 26/07/2011 15:23:53

Labyrinth- there was a game waaaay back then, but I'd love to see it done with style.
Donnie Darko- come on, I can't be the only one thinking o' that??
And probably Puppet Master- the base formula for ridiculous horror movie concepts done RIGHT.

Anian · Tue 26/07/2011 15:25:39

Quote from: Ghost on Tue 26/07/2011 15:23:53
Donnie Darko- come on, I can't be the only one thinking o' that??

And how would this happen exactly? Are we talking lik if there wasn't a movie then this would make a great game?

ddq · Tue 26/07/2011 15:30:29

The Happening (aka Marky Mark runs away from the wind).
Obviously.

LRH · Tue 26/07/2011 15:38:09

If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure a certain someone around here made a Donnie Darko game some time back.

@anian- I'm pretty sure they just mean movies that already exist that would make for good plots/gameplay if they were to made into adventure games.

NickyNyce · Tue 26/07/2011 15:41:18

(On the creepy side of things I would say)

Childs play
constantly try to stop chucky from getting you

interview with a vampire
As the story is told you warp back to surving as a vampire in different times

13 ghosts
crazy house, crazy ghosts, get out alive

A princess Bride was great, I think that would work

Ghost · Tue 26/07/2011 15:42:58

Quote from: anian on Tue 26/07/2011 15:25:39
Quote from: Ghost on Tue 26/07/2011 15:23:53
Donnie Darko- come on, I can't be the only one thinking o' that??
And how would this happen exactly? Are we talking lik if there wasn't a movie then this would make a great game?

Nope- it's a movie with many elements that lend well to an adventure game, and thus, just by existing, is considered by my as a good movie to have a game made out of, though possibly not by me. If it didn't exist, it couldn't be made into a game. QED.

Quote13 Ghosts

Second that!

Radiant · Tue 26/07/2011 15:45:37

Inception. I'd love to see that.

arj0n · Tue 26/07/2011 15:51:17

Donnie Darko: The Adventure Game [June MAGS 2003]

DL from AGSarchives

Some screenies

Anian · Tue 26/07/2011 15:55:32

Quote from: Ghost on Tue 26/07/2011 15:42:58
Nope- it's a movie with many elements that lend well to an adventure game, and thus, just by existing, is considered by my as a good movie to have a game made out of, though possibly not by me. If it didn't exist, it couldn't be made into a game. QED.

Don't you QED me young man

, I meant as a story and gameplay, because a game made of DD an having the same plot is just silly because you know how it ends and a game where the story takes place in the same universe, probably wouldn't be that good (case and point Donnie Darko 2).

Ali · Tue 26/07/2011 16:12:28

Quote from: Dualnames on Tue 26/07/2011 15:15:41
Brazil.

And 12 Monkeys, and Baron MÃ¼nchhausen. A game of Brazil would probably play a bit like Douglas Adams's Text Adventure 'Bureaucracy'.

It seems there was an adventure game of City of Lost Children, but although I haven't played it I've heard terrible things. In many ways, I think it ought to have made a better game than a film.

CaptainD · Tue 26/07/2011 16:17:11

Quote from: Radiant on Tue 26/07/2011 15:45:37
Inception. I'd love to see that.

Me too! Especially the idea of swapping between dream levels and your actions on one level producing an effect in the next etc.

On a similar(ish) theme, what about Enemy Mine? That could make a good adventure game.

Secret Fawful · Tue 26/07/2011 16:19:34

Any horror, sci-fi, or adventure film, really. I have a hard time figuring out what wouldn't work. All it takes is a little imagination.

I'll say E.T. as an example, just because that game has such a rocky relationship with video games. An adventure game would be perfect for it.

NickyNyce · Tue 26/07/2011 16:33:30

I agree ...ET the adventure game...Theres a lot of cool scenes people would love to see again...

CaptainD · Tue 26/07/2011 16:36:36

Quote from: Secret Fawful on Tue 26/07/2011 16:19:34
I'll say E.T. as an example, just because that game has such a rocky relationship with video games.

You mean you didn't like the Atari 2600 version?!?!?

Secret Fawful · Tue 26/07/2011 16:47:05

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate E.T. on the Atari 2600 since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for E.T. on the Atari 2600 at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate.

pmartin · Tue 26/07/2011 16:52:24

I read that in AM's voice. And it really creeped me out.

And I don't know why but I've always wanted to play a Who Framed Roger Rabit adventure game.

hedgefield · Tue 26/07/2011 22:48:11

Quote from: Dualnames on Tue 26/07/2011 15:15:41Brazil.

*shudders* That movie was way beyond weird, holy hell.

Besides being an awesome film, MOON would make a pretty cool adventure game too. And there are more people that feel that way apparently:

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Wed 27/07/2011 00:38:21

I don't see Moon working because it's too self-contained as a story (99% of it takes place in the very cramped station where very little happens). It was a good, if depressing, film, but I don't see it translating well without major alterations that would almost make it a different story.

I think you could make a case for a hybrid adventure with Die Hard since McClane has to make so many jury-rigged devices, traverse elevator shafts, steal equipment, and generally avoid confrontations. The confrontations could be handled like a combination of Indy (with better fight controls) and a cover-based shooting mini-game.

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