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POSTED BY: nuclearday
UPDATED: Sunday, December 9, 2007 19:52
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First off, hope I'm posting this in the proper section. I tend to leap before I look and I don't have much experience with forums. It was my Firefly obsession that led me to realize that the internet was good for stuff other than looking up porn. :P
Seems I remember reading somewhere awhile back either something here or on IGN.com someone suggesting that turning Firefly into a console or PC game might help to raise awareness and boost popularity of our Big Damn Show. Wherever it came from, the idea just won't get out of my head.
I only wish I had some contacts or had some sort of power in the video-game industry (some day mayhap... but I'm certainly a long way off to realizing that dream...) so I could see something like this done, cause I think it makes alot of sense. We're talking about one of the biggest growing industries on the planet right now, and in the right hands, it could serve to introduce alot of people in just the right target audience to our shiny little 'verse.
Course it could also be a complete and total flop as well. Movie to videogame translations have a long and storied history of being fine examples of the worst things that can happen in a videogame entertainment. (Actually, pick a movie, or a show, or a comic book, and most likely you can find a really, horrendously terrible game loosely based on it.)
Still, in the right hands, Firefly could have the makings of a really good game. Plus for me, it might go a long ways to filling this gaping hole in the pit my soul that is the cancellation of Firefly. Done right, I'd give my left leg for a chance to spend another couple hours with the crew of the Serenity.
I guess first off: has anyone heard any news of something like this going on? I fancy myself as somewhat of a videogame geek, so I'd be suprised if anything was in the works and I hadn't heard of it. But such things have been known to happen, I suppose...
I'll add another post below this one to add my own thoughts on what I'd like to see in a Firefly videogame. Feel free to add your own. I just thought maybe it would be a fun exercise, something to pass some time before I can see the Serenity up and flying again.
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I think they had the basis for a Serenity video game. But obviously nothing happened. Here's what Nathan Fillion had to say about it from April of last year.
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20034
"Holly: Is there going to be a Serenity video game? I don’t know how you could make a video game out of it . . .
Nathan: I went to E3 with some of the Firefly/Serenity people, and I was party to some meetings with some kids who developed the video game engine, wanted to talk. It was very exciting just to see the beginnings of a video game . . . I hope it’s X-Box, and I hope it’s great. (To the recorder) X-Box, if you’re listening, I need Halo 2, in advance . . . "
If anyone could track down the production company who designed the game, it would be great to see some screen shots.
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So here's my thoughts:
First off, I think it would be best if this didn't try to be another free-roaming, do-anything type of game. I think I'd like to see it a bit more structured. Trying for a Grand Theft Auto in Space thing would probably be over-reaching, it's been done anyways, and would probably hurt the reviews of the game among the hard-core gamers.
Maybe a little bit of freedom as to how and where you go or something, but still a generally linear story-telling pattern would be the way to go, make it feel a bit more like a series of episodes. That's how I would see it anyway. Maybe set up like a series of hour-long episodes.
Nice thing about a game, as opposed to a movie, is that in a video-game you're allowed to take your time, so there's plenty of room for exposition, and you could have lots of those little Firefly moments that I loved about the show, but for obvious reasons missed in the movie.
I figure, you'd have to have quite a few different modes of play throughout the game, and the story would have to let you play as all nine of the crew throughout. So let's say that for the most part you've got a basic exploration/ adventure game format where you're taking on the role of one of the crew (usually Mal of course) in a third-person view. But then you'd have your gun battles, your melee combat bar-brawls, and of course at least a couple scenes where you have to pilot the ship.
With nine characters to run through, I think maybe it would a little easier and less frustrating if the switches were decided by the game, instead of allowing the player to pick through them at will.
Or maybe as dictated by the story, you'd have three or so crew you could switch between on the fly. (So in the combat sequences you could choose to play as either Mal, Zoe, or Jayne, and they'd have their own strengths and weaknesses. For game purposes, say Jayne can take the most damage, Zoe's the best shot, and Mal has his special power-up move, that always effective Right Hook of Justice :)
I really, really think this could be quite a shiny game if the right company were to get on board and run with it. I think what I envision when I think of a Firefly game is more of an investigation/ adventure game (lots of easter eggs to look for, and I'd probably have tons of fun just wandering around the Serenity for hours on end), since the show wasn't primarily an action show anyways.
If they could get maybe one of the writers to do the plot, get the original cast to do the voice-overs, and a digital Joss Whedon to walk me through the tutorial level, I'd play it over and over again.
On the off chance anyone actually makes such a game, I could also see it going seriously over to the dark side. But I'd probably still buy it and play it. (Hell, even if it was Kaylee and River's Horse Racing Dream Date, I'd still buy a couple copies I'm sure.)
So come on, Bioware, Neversoft, Ubisoft, hell Fox Interactive even, get off your gorramn asses and give me what I want!
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I'm a huge fan of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games. I'd like to see a Firefly/Serenity game similar to that. Here's something I'd like to see (but I'll leave out the little details otherwise I'd be typing all day):
You start out by creating your own character - your own Browncoat soldier. You can customize your whole appearance, gender and class.
The game starts and you're playing alongside Mal and Zoe and other Browncoats in the Battle of Serenity Valley. The battle would be intense, Alliance soldiers all around you. And eventually you get separated from Mal and Zoe, you're shot and captured by the Alliance - imprisoned for years.
Years pass and the crew of Serenity find out that you're alive and they bust you out of an Alliance prison. Wash and Book are dead. You become the new crewmember of Serenity. You take different jobs from Badger and other scumbags.
You'll also have to battle Reavers, Bounty Hunters, Alliance Soldiers and Operatives.
Mal would kick Han Solo's ass.
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I would so buy that game...
I'm a big fan of the KotOR series of games as well. I think it would be a much better option to be able to create your own browncoat rather than try to live up to being one of the crew.
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Originally posted by Jonus:
I'm a huge fan of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games. I'd like to see a Firefly/Serenity game similar to that. Here's something I'd like to see (but I'll leave out the little details otherwise I'd be typing all day):
You start out by creating your own character - your own Browncoat soldier. You can customize your whole appearance, gender and class.
The game starts and you're playing alongside Mal and Zoe and other Browncoats in the Battle of Serenity Valley. The battle would be intense, Alliance soldiers all around you. And eventually you get separated from Mal and Zoe, you're shot and captured by the Alliance - imprisoned for years.
Years pass and the crew of Serenity find out that you're alive and they bust you out of an Alliance prison. Wash and Book are dead. You become the new crewmember of Serenity. You take different jobs from Badger and other scumbags.
You'll also have to battle Reavers, Bounty Hunters, Alliance Soldiers and Operatives.
Mal would kick Han Solo's ass.
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Originally posted by nuclearday:
So here's my thoughts:
First off, I think it would be best if this didn't try to be another free-roaming, do-anything type of game. I think I'd like to see it a bit more structured. Trying for a Grand Theft Auto in Space thing would probably be over-reaching, it's been done anyways, and would probably hurt the reviews of the game among the hard-core gamers.
Well, personally, I've long dreamed of a Firefly game that would be a free-roaming RPG experience; something more akin to Fallout than Grand Theft Auto. Yes, it would be more difficult than a simple shooter, but that's why they call them dreams.
Structure is fine, and there could be set story missions, but I think freedom is also an important part of gameplay. Choice is nice, and allowing exploration is a good way to pull the player into the world.
EDIT: I can totally dig Jonus's idea. The character creation would allow for the RPG element that I so desperately crave, and it also would also allow us to experience the 'verse by proxy. Sort of like if we had just gotten hired by Mal ourselves, rather than taking the role of one of our Big Damn Heroes. (Although that would be fun, too.)
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I love the idea! I'd buy it in a heartbeat. one game I really enjoy that I think would be a good template is the X-Men-Legends series that I've played on PS2. I'm by NO means a hardcore gamer type, but I really enjoyed the team approach, and I think it would translate well to the FF verse. It's a little more action oriented, but I think it would be great. That being said, I think the RPG approach would be cool too. Creating a character and then crossing paths with Mal and the gang would be fun.
Remember, that but for one trifling exception, the entire universe is made up of others.- Oliver Wendall Holmes
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i absolutly love the idea of a kotor type firefly game, especially if its on the x-box.
i dont know if any of you know this or if its been said else where but there is a serenity game you can buy for your mobil phone!
unfortunatly my phone isnt good enough to use it! (cry)
i believe this is a link to it. http://downloads.carphonewarehouse.com/games/260541/Serenity.htm
not sure how good it is.
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Nine people... Book and Wash are dead (via Alliance and Reavers) so it would be 7 people. And Inara may or may not be going back to the training house...so maybe six. And How could you have a Serenity games without being able to play as River the most bad@ss member on the crew.
And who would want to play as a punk like Kaylee or Simon
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Wasn't there a videogame that came out in 2000/2001 that had very firefly overtones.....it was in space and you could be in charge of a ship that went on missions and such....there was a posting about it recently about a Firefly ship being added as a mod...
How much is that little Geisha in the window?
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