my entry

[honookatana]

Seeing as there's a total of 0 posts in 'the competition', someone just has to post any old crap to win. So, here it is....

This thread is about games based on great non-games things that you think would break the run of ducks they have previously had when made into games. 'run of ducks' is a cricket term. A duck is getting out for 0. Hence, a run of ducks is a lot of failure.

Lord of the Rings : I enjoyed the Two Towers and Return of the King games but I have a game I'd love to see. LotR Shogun : Total War style. There's just something about seeing your 1000 man army fighting another 1000 man army that's just so great. It really helps convey a large scale.

On a side note, I played a demo of War of the Ring and I wasn't impressed. I guess I was expecting something like Battle Realms from Liquid.

Transformers : I can't think of anything right now but there must be some way to do this great show justice.

[Gideon Zhi]

Incidentally, the film may not be out yet, but if they let Konami do a Castlevania-style game based on the Van Helsing film, I bet it would kick major arse.

[honookatana]

You mean a Castlevania 64 kind of game?

You might be interested in this : http://ps2.ign.com/articles/489/489943p1.html

[Gideon Zhi]

I was thinking more along the lines of SotN or LoI than Devil May Cry :p

[Nightcrawler]

Alright! An entry!  

I hope you mean the original Transformers and not Beast Wars or Armada.

No video game to date has ever really done Transformers justics, and I doubt one ever will.

On a side note, I have all 98 episodes of the original Transformers series.

Speaking of army battles.  I heard that in Suikoden 1 you get to have armies fight each other.  Is that fun?

[honookatana]

I think you should just enter everyone in retrospectively.

Of course I mean the original Transformers. What do you take me for? There's a reason Optimus Prime is called konboi in Japan and that's because he's a damn semi, not a fire engine. They already had a fire engine.

I think you could make a good game about Transformers but you'd have to put some effort into it. One hard part is that you don't really want to make a game that just follows the storyline of the anime.

A game I would love to see is a real Jackie Chan game. One where you can jump everywhere, fight with everything and so on.

I never managed to see all the transformers episodes. It's a real shame.

Yeah, there're army battles in Suikoden. In every version, it's done differently (unless the bit I saw in 3 with the linked dots was just for that part). The first one was ok but I much prefer the second one. The first one was pretty much rock-paper-scissors and hope for the best. The second was a turn-based strategy with more skills and stuff chucked in.

The army is what I like about Suikoden games. It really involves you more. You're not just some group of guys that defeats a whole world, you're more than that and so are they.

[Nightcrawler]

I've definitely got to make it a point to play through the Suikoden series.  I've played about 2 hours of the first two and liked them both.  I just never finished them.

A Transformers game with the original voice actors would be awsome too.  Maybe a game based on the Transformers movie would be good.  I loved that movie.