Firefly: the video game?

POSTED BY: Haplo721
UPDATED: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:32
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HAPLO721

Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:09 AM

There's a game in development called Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter that looks like it'd be perfect for a Firefly total conversion (means you take the game and change all the levels, characters, weapons, etc. into something else, in this case, stuff from FF.) Assuming the game code is modifiable (most first-person shooters are,) it's something that'd be worth looking into.

The website is www.huntthemdown.com and you can see from the screenshots and trailer that the game has a very "frontier sci-fi" feel to it (Mace wears a cowboy hat!) Another bonus is that you can pilot ships, though in the official game it's for the purposes of combat.

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Kaylee: You know, it's funny you should mention that... ever heard of the Fox network?

HOTFORKAYLEE

Thursday, March 6, 2003 5:45 AM

Hey, thanks,

Thank you for listing a link that goes to a site that takes over your computer and brings up a window that you can't close. Come on, a little warning or did you want everyone to either have to shut down or go to task manager if they have the ability?

Be warned people.

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HAPLO721

Thursday, March 6, 2003 6:43 AM

Te whubba who? Yes, it's fullscreen, but I have no problem closing the window. There's a set of minimize/restore/close buttons right where they should be.

Sheez, I try to share stuff and people think I'm trying to crash their hard drive. Chill.

Early: You ever been raped, Kaylee?
Kaylee: You know, it's funny you should mention that... ever heard of the Fox network?

GROOVYAL

Thursday, March 6, 2003 7:03 AM

hey!
i've allready proposed something like this... or better exactly this but wit the unreal warfare engine, nobody would give me an answer either.

NEVERFEARSTEVEISHERE

Friday, August 15, 2003 7:23 AM

i'm working on a couple of games for fun with others - one of the guys, dante, also a firefly fan is making a firefly object.

we wonder if we firefly fans accept the idea of armed ships in the firefly universe - rather like privateers might have cannons to deter pirates.

The serenity was armed - why not? why was nothing attached to it to deter aggression?

The main game we've been developping is actually a harrier game - but now we wonder about space?

And so develop in several different directions.

i would enjoy it a lot myself to see all this combined into a sort of firefly game.

ANTHONYT

Friday, August 15, 2003 11:46 AM

While there has been comment made on the show to the effect that Serenity is not armed, I have always wondered: "Why not?"

I can only imagine that the answer is, "Because Mr. Whedon wanted it so."

Though I can't find a good reason why she shouldn't be equipped with something. We've even seen that small arms can be useful in space. One might expect that she'd have some flavor of turret mounted squad gun or some such.

--Anthony

JUSTME

Friday, August 15, 2003 2:11 PM

Of course that's how Joss wanted it; the whole WORLD of FF is how he wanted it. But for consistency, every decision of the writers still has to have a plausible explanation. Here's mine:

Serenity (and other private vessels) are not armed because the Alliance doesn't allow it. Why would the control freaks running the Alliance want the serfs to have ship to ship combat ability? They might get uppity again! Isn't it enough to allow them old fashioned firearms to defend their border world homes?

And if a few private vessels are attacked/destroyed by pirates, Reavers, etc, well who told them to leave their border worlds anyway? Don't they know their place?

Anyway that's my take on the situation.
JustMe

GAMBIT3

Friday, August 15, 2003 2:16 PM

I agree with the previous poster.

I think that Firefly (or pretty much any non-Alliance ships for that matter) were NOT allowed to have guns, cuz the alliance said so.

Being the big boys on the block, they could get away with stuff like that. Consider how much caution the crew always exercised when they ran into Alliance patrols.

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CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Friday, August 15, 2003 2:22 PM

I agree. Look at how Mal and company sweat an alliance search with nothing but a couple of fugitives on board (and maybe some contraband under the deckplates). Now imagine if Serenity were armed with, presumably, difficult to conceal weapons.

Plus, shipboard weapons probably aren't cheap. And I'd speculate there would be engineering challenges in mounting them onto the utilitarian Firefly spaceframe.

(Space... western... space... western... Relax. Right.)

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ANTHONYT

Friday, August 15, 2003 5:21 PM

I suppose I just always thought there should be some sort of light popup weapon for ship defense. Even a .50 cal squad gun in a retractable mount would have some defensive utility, and be difficult to detect on a routine search.

--Anthony

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