I disagree, Doctor Who has a great universe for games, they are just implemented so badly. They are choosing to form new questions and push current show issues when the fact is there are a lot of unanswered questions from the gap between the 1996 movie and the 2005 reboot. The Time War could make an excellent game. The universe has plenty of lore but the BBC seem unwilling to implement it in order to keep the games to a child-friendly level.
Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Review
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In all honestly, the only kind of gameplay that makes sense is for it to be a point and click adventure (ala Telltale games). Any other gameplay style will never fit in. And it should not be mimicking the show or working within the confines of the show at all, but it should happen in the universe. There was no way this was going to be good.
See, that is EXACTLY why I think a Doctor Who game needs to be an adventure title. The Doctor isn't an action here, he's a guy with a screwdriver and a sharp intellect. It's really the only genre that the franchise is suited for.Vegan_Doodler said:
Love and Monsters is the only Tennant episode I skip. Well, its a Doctor-lite ep. He's barely in it.Susan Arendt said:
I thought it was going to be a free game. I know it's the Doctor and all, which means he's supposed to be violence free. But, there's only so many contrived circumstances you can put puzzles in to solve a crisis, and after a while it gets boring.
Actually that could work, they wouldn't have to try and tie into any current cannon and as a result the story could carry a lot more weight. The gameplay could be a lot more action oriented seeing as we already know the the Doctor was a soldier and that he got up to some pretty nasty stuff. There could be a slew of new characters and creatures, and the doctor wouldn't nesaseraly need a companion and thus the game wouldn't be an extended escort mission or protect the NPC mission.La Kias said:
I think a Dr Who game could work if it was based more around the universe than the Dr. himself, I'm thinking like an episodic game where you play a short segment of a characters life in relationship to a big event. Dr who baddies have this thing where they usually have one good guy among them, in the game you play that good guy and help the Dr. The game would involve the Dr. but you wouldn't be him
Ahh, as soon as this game was released I was looking for a review from my favourite reviewer! I love Doctor Who but my first impression was how disappointing this game was. Not particularly bad, just disappointing. Matt Smith really shone, like you say, but everything else was just so dull. Such a missed opportunity.Susan Arendt said:
I've read several reviews about this game and no one seems to mention the ending at all. I could be completely wrong but does it seem to you like the game just kind of stops before finishing the story? I was gearing up for one final epic battle and then... end credits. What gives?
Also, in one of the trailers where the developers spoke about the monsters they said they created two of their own. I only saw one of these new monsters. Or did I miss something there as well?
I didn't finish the game. It was so utterly dreary that I couldn't force myself to keep playing. I wanted to, actually, because I was genuinely curious to see where the story went, but the gameplay was just so bad that I finally got fed up and turned off my PS3 in disgust.Proverbial Jon said:
Why do people hate love and monsters? I liked it I thought it was important the way the show had these horrible cheesy monsters against regular joes. Sure the DR makes an absorbalfv seem silly and useless but it pretty much eats anyone when he isn't around.008Zulu said:
"Love and Monsters" was so interesting at first...but then they kept going to the guy randomly dancing to ELO for no reason, and then they tried to keep the love story going even though the interest was stuck in the ground (setting up the worst sex joke of all time). That has to be the worst episode I saw from the show.Kurt Cristal said:
I actually have only gotten to season 4 so far (I just got into the show on netflix), so I haven't seen Curse of the Black Spot. Tell me about its horribleness in advance, if you would be so kind.
Well, the whole show relies on the Doctor being this supremely smart being who can solve everything with techno-babble,wiring, and an advanced understanding of things humans don't usually know about. I can see how that would be hard to translate into an easily playable game, but turning the whole thing into a platformer? That's just kind of lazy.saintdane05 said:
Vegan_Doodler said:
I'm going to be honest, I wrote it a few years back, a game idea for the time war in which the player takes control of a Time Lord agent other than the Doctor. The design would have seen a mixture of stealth, cover based shooting and jak 3 style abilities (with lore to back them up) that would see the agent fighting in the dying days of the time war. But of course the BBC don't take unsolicited ideas.IRBaboon said:
Since I have now finished my second year of a games design course and still, even now, it is an idea that I can see just works, and with the recent shake up at BBC worldwide, maybe its time, even as a fools errand, to give it another push.
the reason I made a point of mentioning lore here is because that was the best bit of eternity clock, River's diary, and its what all the other games don't have, it adds to the universe. The game itself gives nothing but that little set of collectibles was great. They don't seem to understad that the universe has too many unanswered questions that can and should be answered for those who want answers before they make new spin-off media. For example, that woman in the end of time, I'd like to think its Romana but at this rate we'll never know.