What game series would be completely ruined with a gritty reboot?

[Squilookle]

Conker's Bad Fur Day!

Spoiler: Oh wait...

Battlefield Bad Company!

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Goldeneye!

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Refined my ass...

Grand Theft Auto!

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Hell I'll just say it's all of them and call it a day. Thank god it never happened to Just Cause, or Star Wa-

Spoiler: spoke too soon...

 

[Catfood220]

time crisis the main characters moody emo fringe would obscure your view

I actually like your idea, instead of ducking behind the shield when you pressed on the peddle, the fringe would swing forward to protect you.

Ok, my choice would be Valkyria Chronicles. Imagine if you will, the awesome watercolour graphics replaced with the dirt and brown spectrum on modern modern shooters, Welkin Gunther goes from normal (for a JRPG) guy fighting to protect his country who just so happens to have a famous military father. To a harden military man trying to break out of the shadow of his famous father while swearing repeatedly and not caring about anything but "the mission", which is to rescue his sister that has been captured by the bad guys.

 

[Bob_F_It]

If it happened to Phoenix Wright, you're probably end up with straight Noire.

 

[suitepee7]

crash bandicoot, although i would be genuinely interested in a gritty reboot of medieval, i don't think i could play it without missing the sarcastic humor throughout the original/remake

 

[Scythe]

Fable.

No more pots-and-pans Hobbes, no more nymphomaniac villagers and no more giant chicken suits.

Also Army of Two... WAITAMINUTE...

 

[Blunderboy]

Mother fucking Bubble Dizzy man!

Though actually, the cover is a lot more bad ass than I remember.

Look how happy that egg is man!

 

[johnnyLupine]

Everything is ruined with a gritty reboot. Any game that has its own charm, personality, or identity loses all of it when you dunk it in the grit. DMC is a perfect example of it.

However, some games could be hilarious if they were gritted up but self aware. Imagine Kirby with a Gears of War skin on it....

I actually have written a rated-T pokemon mystery dungeon script, it's not grit and blood and swearing but it's hella dark compared to other stuff.

It's not fanfiction if I haven't put it out to the public, also it's not shite in story telling.

I don't think it would sell well, great reviews but it'd end up like Psychonauts probably.....

While not techinically a game im certain there was an episode in the pokemon TV series in which Ash died. I don't remember much about the episode but the premise is certainly much darker than the other episodes.

 

[Terminate421]

Everything is ruined with a gritty reboot. Any game that has its own charm, personality, or identity loses all of it when you dunk it in the grit. DMC is a perfect example of it.

However, some games could be hilarious if they were gritted up but self aware. Imagine Kirby with a Gears of War skin on it....

I actually have written a rated-T pokemon mystery dungeon script, it's not grit and blood and swearing but it's hella dark compared to other stuff.

It's not fanfiction if I haven't put it out to the public, also it's not shite in story telling.

I don't think it would sell well, great reviews but it'd end up like Psychonauts probably.....

While not techinically a game im certain there was an episode in the pokemon TV series in which Ash died. I don't remember much about the episode but the premise is certainly much darker than the other episodes.

I think the only deaths have been in the movies.

He did however come across Marik Ishtar from the Shadow Realm (Not really but I like to think that):

Ash Possessed:

Marik:

The whole franchise has taken extremely dark steps at points. Believe it or not, in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, suicide is talked about, not in the same term but the ending is dark as black construction paper in the middle of the night. It's done relatively well and unforgettable, but comes right out of nowhere.

 

[D-Class 198482]

LIMBO.
Fairly recent, I know, but we don't need any more explanation than what it described itself as. If it got a gritty reboot (in a sense) it'd probably be some mutant kid with a dislike for human life trying to survive in a cross between a wasteland and Bloody Trapland and not giving a single shit, alongside with having an overblown story. LIMBO was one of those games that was okay without too much of a story, which was essentially just a reason for the ending.

 

[Theminimanx]

Metroid

Gonna have to disagree with you on that one. Metroid prime wasn't quite a gritty reboot, but it was a certainly darker than the 2d games. And yet it still has the best atmosphere in any Metroid game.

 

[Forobryt]

Harvest moon.
Though thinking about it harvesting crops with a chainsaw gun..... no still not a good thing.

 

[RJ Dalton]

Most of them, I'd say.

 

[Reaper195]

Crash Bandicoot.

Although...now that I think of it, that wouldn't ruin the series. It'd be incredibly hilarious, since the games never had any real depth (Aside from just being fun platformers...and then racing games...and then flying combat games...and then an actual racing game that was nothing but racing, not just a few levels on a motorbike).

 

[nohorsetown]

Gritty Rock Band: Early in the game, you drive a van for hours on end, endure poverty, and struggle for recognition. Later on, if you do well, you can do drugs, bang groupies, and trash hotel rooms. Either way, you're in a shitty cover band without an ounce of original material, and you hate yourself.

Gritty Custer's Revenge: 'nuff said.

Gritty Harvest Moon: Geld the bulls, slaughter the chickens, clean up shit, get screwed by Monsanto corp.

Gritty Imagine Babyz: Oh, I don't know. Something with shit and puke and crib death, right?

 

[crazyrabbits]

The NES classic Ice Climbers.

Popo and Nana are now inner-city youths living in Chicago (or any other urban city). They somehow became expert parkour/climbers because they often had to steal (and subsequently run from the police). The duo have some tragedy befall them (parents die, Nana gets assaulted by a corrupt cop, etc.), they head up north to escape from the pressures of the city.

They end up making their way to Alaska, and get embroiled in a complex plot involving a multinational corporation letting genetically-modified creatures run amok on the mountains and terrorize the tourists. Popo and Nana get conscripted (under threat of imprisonment) to take out the creatures no matter the cost. They also collect vegetables, for some reason.

 

[WorriedSandwich]

Burnout.

Everytime you get a takedown, you see in slow motion how the opposing driver's body gets mangled and crushed upon impact, followed by a flash-forward to his funeral. Then the camera zooms in on the crying wife and son while 'Mad World' by Gary Jules plays in the background.

 

[Salad Is Murder]

Resident Evil.

 

[sextus the crazy]

I was thinking the worst example is Donkey Kong or Kirby. Would completely bomb.

... Although, a gritty reboot of Pokemon would pretty much turn into Persona. Hmmmm....

I'd support this.

OT: I'd say zelda, but thats what I always though Twilight princess and skyward sword were (especially with them being after windwaker).

id say metroid. because if it was made in this era, samus would be as big as her armour suit or completely overly sexualized and need a strong male support character to make her his *****.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Metroid_Other_M_Cover.jpg/250px-Metroid_Other_M_Cover.jpg

I'm pretty sure a gritty metroid reboot would be metroid prime but without a good color scheme. Metriod is already pretty dark.

 

[Miles Maldonado]

Command & Conquer Red Alert.

Because Gritty Red Alert is just World in Conflict with giant tanks.

Aside from that, I'd have to say I'd be pretty irked if Activision handed Crash Bandicoot to Infinity Ward. The sad thing is is that Call of the Bandicoot might actually outsell the entire franchise up to that point.

 

[Souplex]

I was thinking the worst example is Donkey Kong or Kirby. Would completely bomb.

How the hell would you make a gritty reboot of Kirby?
There is nothing darker than Kirby.
You play as a cannibalistic, regicidal terrorist on his campaign to destroy dreamland.