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On Licenses That Should Be Made Into Games

Posted by simoniker on from the slashdot-a-good-choice dept.

Ant writes "GameSpy has an article discussing their favorite ideas for licenses that should be made into games, but haven't made the transition yet." The piece, thankfully, notes that we "often get slammed with hideously inappropriate or just badly implemented and misbegotten licensed creations", but also argues: "For every Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Superman for the N64, we'll occasionally get a Tron 2.0, or Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", before picking The Road Warrior, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Ender's Game, among others, as licenses they'd like to see made into games. Which licenses do you think could survive the transition to games intact?

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  1. Ender's Game a Game? by peripatetic_bum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I first read this I was thinking, you want to make psychological torture a game? (then I remembered daikatana) but seriously, I was thinking that while Ender's game is probably one of the best science fiction books I am trying to think how one would make it a game that needs to be made

    1. The initall battle seens at battle school never really were about the battle but about Ender being tested to see just how much they could push him before he broke. ie Could they push him more than the enemy could and of course we find out (at least I think so) that "we" pushed him much harder than any space-faring alien race could, and it made much about our nature and what we will do achieve them

    2. I was thinking about the space seens but I tell you, they were always abstract in the book , and I think the closest thing I can think of, is HomeWorld2, again a game that's already been made and made well

    anyway, would care to hear your thoughs

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  2. One license that should really be made into a game by 3141 · · Score: 5, Funny

    THE GPL!

  3. As Gabe and Tycho put it... by Emexies · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they're ever going to develop an Ender's Game, uh, game, I sure hope that the developers doesn't read this Penny Arcade strip.

  4. SPACE BALLS THE VIDEO GAME! by Major+Scud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Space Balls the first person shooter! Space Balls the real time strategy! Space Balls the turn based strategy! Space Balls the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game! Space Balls the role playing game! Space Balls the fighting game! Space Balls the racing game! Space Balls the kart racing game! Space Balls the platformer! Space Balls the flight sim! Space Balls the vehicular combat game! Space Balls the stealth espionage action game! Space Balls the point and click adventure game! Moichandizing! Moichandizing! where the real money from the video game is made.