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KamaItachi
05-11-2005, 12:34 AM
Well, good news for everyone in the entire world. Looks like the latest classic film to get a videogame update is Scorsese's Taxi Driver. The title is under development and slated in to be a next-gen title and released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the film.

"'Taxi Driver' remains one of the most iconoclastic films of our time," Majesco marketing vp Ken Gold said. "Compelling and powerful, the movie ensnares viewers in the seedy urban world of New York cabbie Travis Bickle, and we hope to do likewise with our game."

Get the full story over at Worthplaying (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=25343&mode=thread&order=0).

Now we can all be our favourite iconoclastic hero!
DeadPixel
05-11-2005, 01:17 AM
Fogedaboutit
GrinR
05-11-2005, 01:24 AM
We already have it. It's called Crazy Taxi and it has already been ten billion times more fun than "Taxi Driver the Game" could ever be times infinity.
jeffool
05-11-2005, 02:07 AM
Okay, I was begrudgingly interested at first, now I'm just indifferent to all of them. And let's not forget the Jaws game...
Scaryboy
05-11-2005, 03:05 AM
No
No
NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Just how irrelevant to gaming to does an idea have to be before it's considered a bad idea?
What next, a "Before Sunset" FPS?
dr_qwandry
05-11-2005, 03:20 AM
wasn't Crazy Taxi auctioned as a movie a while back?
Subbacultcha
05-11-2005, 03:32 AM
File this under "nice movie, too bad about the game".
Cubfan
05-11-2005, 06:07 AM
Sweet I wanna play as Judd Hirsch.
PIPBoy3000
05-11-2005, 06:18 AM
Does it come with underage prostitutes? Assassination attempts?

I'm trying to figure out how this could possibly be fun . . .
Furious Wang
05-11-2005, 06:42 AM
Breaking News:

Capcom has announced it has acquired the rights to make a video game based on the classic film "The Deer Hunter". They've also said the game will include an actual gun so you can play real life Russian Roulette once you realize you just wasted 50$ on the game.
KarmaGhost
05-11-2005, 08:06 AM
What next, a "Before Sunset" FPS?Shhhh!! Shut up!! Don't give them any more ideas!
kid cabelgo
05-11-2005, 08:37 AM
wasn't Crazy Taxi auctioned as a movie a while back?


didn't that turn in to that craptastic movie with jimmy falon and queen latifa?
Triprotic
05-11-2005, 09:20 AM
I'll hold off on this one, I'm still waiting for "Carlito's Way Vs. Raging Bull" to come out personally.
PixelSamurai
05-11-2005, 09:41 AM
Breaking News:

Capcom has announced it has acquired the rights to make a video game based on the classic film "The Deer Hunter". They've also said the game will include an actual gun so you can play real life Russian Roulette once you realize you just wasted 50$ on the game.

Hahahaha! Was about to make a similar joke myself.. How about EA presents: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", pillow peripheral included!
KNOTE
05-11-2005, 10:17 AM
Note to marketing: LET GAME DEVELOPERS COME UP WITH THEIR OWN IDEAS. YOU ARE NOT CREATIVE OR COOL. STOP ACQUIRING LISENCES. YOU WILL DESTROY THE INDUSTRY IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS.

that is all.
CacheMoney
05-11-2005, 11:56 AM
Note to marketing: LET GAME DEVELOPERS COME UP WITH THEIR OWN IDEAS. YOU ARE NOT CREATIVE OR COOL. STOP ACQUIRING LISENCES. YOU WILL DESTROY THE INDUSTRY IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS.

that is all.
It isn't marketing that is driving these decisions. There are legitimately cool franchises out there that deserve to have games made for them i.e. Scarface and Dirty Harry. What you have to realize tis that it take s a lot of time and $$ to build a brand/establish a new IP in the current marketplace. So it make a lot of sense for studios to go after big name franchises that already have a stable fanbase or at least an initial word of mouth that new gmaing IP doesn't have. Of course there are always exceptions to this so please don't waste my time with examples like Half-Life and Halo as proof that new IPs can be successful. There are maybe 1 or 2 new IP games a year and the rest are sequals or based on an established IP. The cost of a next gen game (~$5MM minimum for a good one) is too high to risk on an unproven property. Of course sometimes it is too much to risk on a proven property as well.

That all being said - this Taxi Driver thing has to be the dumbest idea out there. It's called grasping at straws by a studio that doesn't have cooler stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix, or LOTR (to name a few) to draw from.
sTubbs
05-11-2005, 12:12 PM
Ok, we are seriously one step away from seeing straight dramas turned into games. There is absolutely nothing in Taxi Driver that can be turned into an interesting game without absolutely perverting the subject matter. I mean, there is only one brief action scene, and the rest of the movie consists of a lonely loser misfit being pushed closer and closer to the edge. The movie is brilliant, the game WILL be terrible. If this can be considered game worthy, then what is next? Mystic River the game?
jeffool
05-11-2005, 12:36 PM
It isn't marketing that is driving these decisions. There are legitimately cool franchises out there that deserve to have games made for them i.e. Scarface and Dirty Harry.

First, I think 'no'. They don't 'deserve' to have games fashioned after them. What can those licenses offer that original games couldn't? The ability to say "Do you feel lucky, punk?" At least Star Wars licenses have lightsabers and the Force to toy with. Spider-Man has webslinging and X-Men has their powers. Scarface is a work of art not because he shoots people and snorts metric tons of coke, but because of the emotional journey of a Cuban immigrant who goes from a dishwasher to a drug kingpin.

Games don't currently offer that. When they do? Sure, I'll gladly play a Scarface game, but I imagine when that happens developers have a million other games they'll personally want to make. But they won't be able to, being Hollywood's bitch. Which leads to the other, typical, opinion of mine...
What you have to realize tis that it take s a lot of time and $$ to build a brand/establish a new IP in the current marketplace. So it make a lot of sense for studios to go after big name franchises that already have a stable fanbase or at least an initial word of mouth that new gmaing IP doesn't have. Of course there are always exceptions to this so please don't waste my time with examples like Half-Life and Halo as proof that new IPs can be successful. There are maybe 1 or 2 new IP games a year and the rest are sequals or based on an established IP. The cost of a next gen game (~$5MM minimum for a good one) is too high to risk on an unproven property. Of course sometimes it is too much to risk on a proven property as well.
Sorry man, but if the game companies want to be big boys they're going to have to learn to play the big boy's game. Hollywood spends millions on movies that only a tiny segment of the population will ever enjoy because they realize they have to invest in the future and need products like that to gauge their viewers. Games on the other hand are driven by the extremes of making only "Game of the Year" titles, and licensed titles. So this is our industry folks. GotYs and Barbie.
Drinking_Buddy
05-11-2005, 01:04 PM
Hahahaha! Was about to make a similar joke myself.. How about EA presents: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", pillow peripheral included!

Ha, I was going to make a joke about that. Maybe they will come out with a "Cool Hand Luke" game, or a "Chariots of Fire " game.

I'll just wait for the "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" racing game.
PIPBoy3000
05-11-2005, 03:44 PM
Blues Brothers. I want to be able to say "We're on a mission from God." with that accent only Dan Akroyd can do.
KamaItachi
05-11-2005, 04:49 PM
Blues Brothers. I want to be able to say "We're on a mission from God." with that accent only Dan Akroyd can do.

Already been done.
http://w-create.com/~bisqwit/nesvideos/bluesbros.png

And believe me, it was nowhere near as fun as it looks.