Gahars said:
N, The Stand, Duma Key, or The Shining could make great adventure games.
Firestarter could work well.
If someone could make something out of The Running Man (NOT the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie) and/or the Long Walk, I think they would have potential.
I think it'd be difficult to translate his works into an entirely different medium. They already have extremely mixed results in film, so the leap to video games might be even worse.
Besides, the Stephen King game already came out and rocked. It was called Alan Wake.
Did it now? Last I heard it failed in every aspect minus atmosphere building, and even that was dropped. As a story? It is GOOD. As a Game? Fails. Why is Silent Hill better in every way? Because it has Atmosphere, Story, Narratation, even if Gameplay is a little bad, you know what? Everything else in Silent Hill plus Music is great. Alan Wake get's as far as Atmosphere and Story, but drops Narration completely, and fails at Gameplay even worse. How do we pad out a long game? We make shitty Combat that is predictable! How do we make it worse? We make MORE Shitty Combat! How could that not sell? PAH! The best horror game has already been made, and it's the Call of Cthulhu Dark Corner's of the Earth. I certainly haven't heard any bad-ass remix's of Alan Wake Music, so I suppose it fails there too if it's forgetable. And worse, Alan Wake is a little too blatent. Yes, we get it now, the makers are lousy lazy bastards who not only are Steven King fanboy's, but they'll waste nine years of our time sitting at a desk going,".....is it done yet?" when no one is working at all.
And they should be awarded for trying too hard to be a movie-game. You know what? Cinematic's are amusing at best, utterly annoying at worst. Why should we, the gamers, shell out nearly fifty dollers to play a game which says," WAIT! I'm trying to tell a story, shut up and sit back you dumb fool! Your stupid controller and wish to be entertained are ruining my story!" That is not a game, that is us drinking soda and eating pizza while the writers force us to watch this and stroke their ego's with thoughts of how good their tale is. I've probably forced the collective opinions of nearly a ton of people to come at me with my last comment, so back on topic and making more people angry with me because I am voicing my opinion.
Alan Wake has a good story, fairly well told, very gripping, would've been without the Game developers sitting in our rooms going," AREN'T STEVEN KING AND TWIN PEAKS AWESOME!? LET'S QOUTE THEM SOME MORE BECAUSE WE LOVE THEM!" Atmosphere is utterly top-notch, if they hadn't been so eager to push Steven King and their most favorite show ever into our face's, it'd have been a great Atmosphere and Story minus some nit picks on gameplay, and more importantly would have been an average but fairly good cult classic game with a must buy for story and Atmosphere. That being said, The Twilight Zone is still better, H.P Lovecraft is still more crazy and spooky, and Alan Wake still sucks. This has been a review that might as well get me some serious hate, bring it on, I'm ready for it.
