Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one

dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

  • Goldeneye 007

  • Alien Isolation

  • Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

  • Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the With (the game)

  • The Chronices of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

  • Mad Max (2015, the game)

  • Robocop Rogue City

  • SpiderMan 2 (2004, the game)

  • Basically every LEGO game

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • Cool Spot - an unreasonably good (and challenging) platformer that is basically just an add for 7-up
    • Chex Quest - DOOM but with Chex cereal - it’s stupid, it’s fun
    • The Simpsons: Hit & Run
    • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
    • Star Wars: TIE Fighter
    • Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unreasonably good is the perfect description for cool spot.

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  • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • The Return of the King
    • Harry Potter 1-3 (pretty much all different versions)
    • Super Star Wars
    • Blade (for Gameboy)
    • Star Wars Episode I: Racer
    • DuckTales
    • Alien Trilogy
    • X-Men Origins Wolverine: Uncaged
    • The New Addams Family

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.

    And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.

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    • Quicky@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      X-Wing
      Tie Fighter
      X-Wing Alliance
      Star Wars: KOTOR
      Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
      Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
      Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
      Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
      Hogwarts Legacy
      The Thing
      Aladdin 
      Blade Runner

      And these are just a few off the top of my head that I’ve played.

      Although to be fair, I guess we could just as easily reel off a list a garbage equivalents, but I think the throwaway that licensed games suck is a misconception.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your list here and the one above it are all full of great examples, and we didn’t even mention Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        KOTOR is such an amazing game… I’ve replayed it recently hoping it would ruin my childhood recollection of it being god tier. It didn’t, it’s still an amazing game after all these years

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also remember a great LOTR Two Towers game that game out around the movie

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Toy Story 2

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    those suck

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t put the LEGO games on that list. Traveller’s Tales just basically copy-pasted most games, to the point 3 were releasing within the same year.

    It made them horribly bland.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, all of the one’s I’ve played are fun. I’m sure there are duds, but here are my favorites:

      • Marvel Superheroes
      • both Harry Potter games
      • Jurassic Park
      • Lego Movie
      • The Hobbit

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      • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Any LEGO game can be good if it’s your first LEGO game. None of them are badly made, with the exception of a few, but they’re all made the same way.

        If you’ve played one…

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m going to save this as an example of cherry picking

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• magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rushed games suck. Movie tie in games tended to be made with tight deadline and budgeting. On top of that, the developers were supposed to make a game of a movie that don’t exist yet.

  Thankfully, the trend of making movie tie in games stopped.

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  • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The trend has stopped for modern films, but tons of releases are retroactively showing how it could have been done. Games that capture the creative intent of great films really well like pretty much any of the Alien games from the last decade, those terminator and robocop ones, even Dead by Daylight directly invokes specific director’s visions on characters, scenes, and even campy acting.

    All of which are not rushed and who’s scope have appropriately matched their budget.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *Most licensed games suck. There are some good ones.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like the Batman Arkham series.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Usually. Enter The Matrix was one of the rare exceptions. That game genuinely slapped. The gameplay was crazy fun; it took all the slow-mo coolness of Max Payne and added wall-running, super jumps and martial arts. The combat was lots of fun, and the story was all written by the Wachowski’s to tie in with the second and third movie, including actual scenes that they filmed as part of the process. They took it really seriously, to them it was an essential part of the story.

  Obviously the whole Matrix 2 & 3 saga has some problems, it’s not the Wachowski’s best work (how could it have been, they had a plot for one movie that they were told to expand into two), but the game is still a really fun entry in their ouvre.

  BTW, another excellent licensed game was Chronicles of Riddick Escape From Butcher Bay, a genuinely fantastic game tying in with a genuinely terrible movie.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Enter The Matrix was one of the rare exceptions. That game genuinely slapped.

    The game was glued together with duct tape. And not the good kind.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The level design was crazy repetitive and the run animation (which, being a 3rd person game you watch a my) was laughable.

    The combat was pretty solid and the story and cutscenes tied in directly with the movies which was cool.

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• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I enjoyed both Matrix games.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I certainly thought I wanted to play Enter the Matrix but as Neo, but I felt Path of Neo jumped the shark with things like MC Escher, fire ants, and giant Smith.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I preferred path of neo personally. It just played better in my opinion and i found the extra bits fun padding for a game i wanted more of

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