Lack of Twilight Game Has Cost Industry Millions

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Prometherion

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A glimpse of the future; an old man tells his grandchildren of the past.

"We didnt see it coming, we were so busy fighting each other, xbox vs sony, wii vs pc. Then the fan girls came, we spent so long fighting each other we couldnt unite against them. Now the world belongs to them, and we let it happen..."
 
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Maybe no one in the industry has made one because we still have a faint shred of dignity left.

thenumberthirteen said:
Now comes the question. If you can make money from an idea, does that mean it is the right thing to do so?

On a slightly related matter next month there is a "Twilight day" at the cinema where I work. All employees are encouraged (read: forced) to get into the spirit of the event by dressing up, or participating in the fun and games. Therefore I shall go into work wearing...

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I have only 2 words for that:

Epic. Win.
 

orangeapples

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The game would involve a whole lot of nothing going on.

If you haven't read the book, Alex Day on Youtube is having an ongoing series of his journey through Twilight. It pretty much sums up my feeling of it while I had to read the book. (It was for a children's literature class).
 

Rathy

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thenumberthirteen said:
Now comes the question. If you can make money from an idea, does that mean it is the right thing to do so?

On a slightly related matter next month there is a "Twilight day" at the cinema where I work. All employees are encouraged (read: forced) to get into the spirit of the event by dressing up, or participating in the fun and games. Therefore I shall go into work wearing...

<spoiler=This>http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sJmpiYbaE9E/SxZCXP1YAKI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/_N_o2cysXSw/s320/300.jpg
Personally, I'd show up in a classic old movie vampire costume, or something van Helsing-ish, and watch people not understand the concept that vampires have been hunted until Twilight came along...
 

xyrafhoan

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Somehow, I think a Twilight game could work... As a date sim game, not some crappy adventure-action movie tie-in that we always see. Girls would fall over themselves for the chance to date Edward or Jacob or whatever and live out their vampire rape fantasies.

Or would that just make the fandom even more rabid and obsessive over fictional characters?
 
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So what exactly fo you do in a Twilight game? I notice that while he says there should be a game marketed to the 20-30 females (because let's be honest, what serious or casual gamer would buy this thing? In fact, what sort of functional human being with a rational world view would buy this game?), he doesn't say what the game should be about.

Puzzles don't work because solutions fall into the characters' laps, and most of their 'problems' revolve around how beautiful and immortal they are, an action adventure wouldn't work because the adventure part would consist of walking around a school very slowly and 'Adonisly' staring at underage girls, and the action would happen offscreen in the last minute while your character is unconscious in a corner. RTS doesn't fit, RPG doesn't fit because you're already immortal and invincible and have maximum glitter-potential, FPS wouldn't work and for God's sake not even that ball bouncing Peggle game or Pacman would fit unless it was about trying to bounce your vampiric blue balls into an emotionally dead 17 year old.

Sometimes there are other reasons a game hasn't been made, like no genre fitting, and I feel that in this case defying genre would be an idea right up there with making ET again.

In fact, I wholly support the idea of a Twilight game, because it would be so excrementally boring whatever they made that it might even penetrate the minds of the fangirls that this is not a good series, and it can go die under a pile of shit.
 

Exterminas

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Nonsense.

There are actually a lot of pc-owners, who like coke, but that doens't make them produce video games. Just because some consumer interests overlap doesn't qualify them for usage in games.
 

The Great JT

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You have to remember that there has to be a possibility of a game to make a game. Even the games that were horrible had an idea for a game in there. Twilight has absolutely nothing. Nil. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis. It is lacking any sort of adaptability into a game medium.

That said, even if there WERE an idea for a game in there, nobody would buy it because TWILIGHT SUCKS THE BIGGEST ONE THERE IS!
 

Bob_F_It

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Track record shows that it will be a critical pile of crap, and financially questionable. Games cost quite a bit to make these days; I think that's a fact that Gibson has overlooked.
 

GeekFury

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Is it just me, or did anyone else automaticly think 'Japanese Dating Sim' when they thought of a Twilight game?
 

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Prometherion said:
A glimpse of the future; an old man tells his grandchildren of the past.

"We didnt see it coming, we were so busy fighting each other, xbox vs sony, wii vs pc. Then the fan girls came, we spent so long fighting each other we couldnt unite against them. Now the world belongs to them, and we let it happen..."
All that matters is that.... a couple million stand against many. And if you do not listen? Then to hell with you!
 

Dorkmaster Flek

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This just in: Guy who doesn't understand gaming says game industry should exploit lucrative licenses for a quick buck! Film at 11!
 

razer17

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I'd like to see the QTE's that the game would have:
Press X to sparkle
Press Y to not suck blood
Press LB to make all teenage girls nearby by squeal
 

Mr_Paisley

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I would pray that the gaming industry maintains an integrity NOT to simply make what will sell, but take risks on what is creative and truly game-worthy.