/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1833864]

why are games based on movies always so shitty? why couldn't they be more like aladdin?

[Anonymous No.1833868]

>>1833864
I had the GBA version of this and didn't know what to do. The PS1 version wasn't awful.

[Anonymous No.1833897]

Hercules for the PlayStation was God tier.

On a side note:
Why didn't Disney do more with Atlantis? I liked it.

[Anonymous No.1834474]

>>1833864
>lists aladdin
>why are games based on movies always so shitty

[Anonymous No.1834489]

>>1833864
the vast majority of them were made by developers who had no experience making games (just people assembled into a "studio" to make a game for the sake of cashing in on the hype (see also a plethora of rock bottom mascot platformers that tried to cash in on the sonic hype).

[Anonymous No.1834492]

>>1834489
to add to this, in some cases they just slapped new graphics on the same game multiple times (example being the NES robocop and darkman games).

[Anonymous No.1834496]

Also, usually these games are developed on a tight schedule to coincide with the movie's release date.

[Anonymous No.1834505]

>>1834496
Exactly. This is why games like Aladdin and The Lion King -- both released around the time the movies came out on tape -- were actually well done.

[Anonymous No.1834534]

>>1834505
aladdin's game adaption was made by different companies. personally, I loved the sega genesis port. that was the one I had growing up.

[Anonymous No.1834561]

>>1833864
Because publishers know that no matter what shit they slap together It'll sell based on the licence alone so why bother spending lots of money on development

[Anonymous No.1834603]

>tons of Star Wars games
>Batman
>Batman Returns (SNES)
>Gremlins 2
>Little Nemo: The Dream Master
>Willow
>Sweet Home
>Ghostbusters (Genesis)
>Aladdin
>Aladdin
>Goldeneye 007
>Bladerunner
>other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head

Most are shit, but you could say the same thing about video games as a whole.

[Anonymous No.1834630]

Because any retard will buy a game based off a movie whether they know it's good or not. Because of my brother I'm stuck with several movie licensed titles on my Wii. I'd trade them in but they wouldn't get a lot of credit either so I feel like I'm stuck with them.

[Anonymous No.1834942]

>>1833864
That game had good music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCfOKdUiDO0

[Anonymous No.1835557]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzIoLhVX-cU

[Anonymous No.1835731]

>>1833897
It didn't do as well as they hoped.

[Anonymous No.1835773]

Aladdin was pretty shit too, it was just full of eye candy and was a good game to have console wars over

[Anonymous No.1837157]

>>1833864
Usually, yes.
Although I really loved 102 Dalmatians for the PC. Did anyone else play that as a kid? It was one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.1837165]

>>1833864

What's that? A chinese knockoff of this?

[Anonymous No.1837192]

>>1835773
this, those two games are as mediocre as can be. not necessarily bad in the sense that they're unplayable, there's just no reason to play them other than nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.1837219]

>>1834534
It wasn't a port though, the SNES and Genesis versions were quite different.

[Anonymous No.1839108]

>>1837165
It's an actual game based off some Japanese cartoon that nobody really cares about.

[Anonymous No.1839110]

>>1839108
>that nobody really cares about

Nadia has plenty of fans online. It may not be popular with the /a/ kiddies but it is not a lost, forgotten series. The Genesis game was even translated, if you want to try the game without giving a shit of how well it adapted the license.

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1630/

[Anonymous No.1839118]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH4sGsy8BSs

[Anonymous No.1839124]

>>1839110

Nadia>Evangelion

[Anonymous No.1839126]

>>1839124
What am I supposed to be looking at?

[Anonymous No.1839132]

>>1839124
I don't even watch anime (slowly trying to get into it, but it's just... off) and from what I heard of it I'd probably hate Eva (I don't really like mopey emo protagonists or pretensions convoluted plots.) I just want some good ol' Michael Bay-style explosion fest.

[Anonymous No.1839137]

>>1839126

These enemies from Gunstar Heroes are actually characters from Nadia, Grandis and her henchmen.

[Anonymous No.1839159]

>>1833897
They actually made a Quake-style FPS in the Atlantis universe. It was pretty cool, if anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_The_Lost_Empire:_Search_for_the_Journal
Had multiplayer modes and everything.

>>1835773
This.

[Anonymous No.1839187]

>>1839132
Not sure if serious, but if you wanted good ol' Michael Bay style explosion fest, you can try something like Black Lagoon, which is mostly A-Team: The Anime

[Anonymous No.1839193]

Bubblegum Crash was a shitty continuation to the original series but the PC Engine text adventure game of it is pretty based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09IA7FJkwKk

[Anonymous No.1839212]

>>1839137
What you mean, then, is that the characters in Gunstar Heroes are an homage.

[Anonymous No.1839239]

I like some of the Spongebob games, as they are competent Mario64 clones. Not /vr/ though.

[Anonymous No.1839248]

>>1839239
Toy Story 2 was the best Mario64-esque platformer.

[Anonymous No.1839270]

>>1839212

Yes, of course they didn't had the license from NHK/Gainax, I don't think.

[Anonymous No.1839432]

>>1834603
>Sweet Home

[Anonymous No.1839434]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqt8aIPn_9M

[Anonymous No.1839440]

>>1839434

guilty pleasure when I was a kid. It was the only Godzilla vidya I could play, of course I loved it.

[Anonymous No.1839446]

>>1839440
I don't think it is as bad as the AVGN made it out be, but I guess he cared more about the license

[Anonymous No.1839465]

>>1839446
AVGN is shit. He's literally called angry video game nerd, and his whole schtick is going off on a dumb rant with lots of faux-angry swearing. Nothing he says is worth listening to; he's just an entertainer.

[Anonymous No.1839503]

Developed with time constraints.
Contracted out to lowest bidder.
Movie plot has to be shoehorned into platform genre.
Has to conform with movie plot possibly compromising quality.
Or if they break from plot, people complain it doesn't follow movie.

[Anonymous No.1839510]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QNPqD8UGA

[Anonymous No.1840532]

>>1833864

Because it's a movie tie-in of an american movie based on a japanese anime based on a japanese anime movie and a french book from the XIX century

[Anonymous No.1840591]

>>1840532
Does it really matter how far back you recognize and can trace the influences, or how many different cultures were involved in said influences?
How do you explain the licensed movie games that are good, if so?

[Anonymous No.1841273]

>>1839503
these games almost never conform with the movie plot.
otherwise I agree.

[Anonymous No.1841362]

>>1839159
the demo for that was the shit

[Anonymous No.1841373]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY1j3rlRiA

[Anonymous No.1842309]

>>1833864
>Young Guile.jpg

[Anonymous No.1842314]

Some of my favourite PS1 games were movie tie-ins
>The Italian Job
>Spiderman
>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

older consoles really suffered from already having hardware restrictions and then trying to make something like the movie on top of that.

[Anonymous No.1843479]

>>1837157
I had the PSX version but yeah, decent game. I really had fun with it as a kid.
One of the stages utilized Danse Macabre for its musical theme, but remade into a major-key carnival piece. Always thought that was cool.

[Anonymous No.1844531]

The Grinch on Dreamcast was my shit, and still is. Its no godlike game but i love it.

[Anonymous No.1844569]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0HdbV-gqxo

[Anonymous No.1844658]

>>1839465
don't forget, he doesn't even play most games himself