With costs like that, I don't think we'll see many more FMV games again. It was a fad, and unfourtanetly, that fad is over. With a few exceptions, I haven't seen a FMV game in years. And in my opinion, games like Fork in the Tale, Silent Steel, The Dame Was Loaded and assorted other stinkers ruined the genre.. (At least in critical minds... I kinda liked Silent Steel.)
I loved the FMV game, and believe me I'd love to see it again. But 10 million dollars? I could film 5 guys off my block with a little bit of talent who'd do it for free ... have a few props, and come up with something half way decent. Not video game quality mind you, but at least watchable for the enterntainment factor. What are we looking at here, hollywood production quality? They've filmed some independent movies with a heck of a smaller budget. I'm not complaining or anything, because believe me I'm in the boat of "Any Tex at all is better than no Tex", but I just ... can't believe it'd be that much money. What would you be spending it on? I don't want Nicholas Cage to play Clint, Sean Connery to play Rook, or Cheech Marin to play Nilo. I'd just like anything that came close to the quality that was pulled off before...
Then again, sometimes, I just don't realize how much money goes into these type of things. Integrating with video graphics, and blue screens, and all that might be a lot more expensive than I give it credit for. As a matter of fact, it probably is.
The only thing I ask is, or hope, rather, is that they keep the same gameplay format. I could deal with the conversation dialoge being lip synched by 3D representations, as long as all the gameplay is left to solving crimes by searching areas for clues, and solving puzzles. As long as its adventure game format, it'll be great. I'd cry if it turned into an FPS ... Tex Murphy, The gunslingin, wisecrackin, bourbon drinking run and gun P.I. with a purpose... I'd cry ...
Of course I'd buy it too ...
I loved the FMV game, and believe me I'd love to see it again. But 10 million dollars? I could film 5 guys off my block with a little bit of talent who'd do it for free ... have a few props, and come up with something half way decent. Not video game quality mind you, but at least watchable for the enterntainment factor. What are we looking at here, hollywood production quality? They've filmed some independent movies with a heck of a smaller budget. I'm not complaining or anything, because believe me I'm in the boat of "Any Tex at all is better than no Tex", but I just ... can't believe it'd be that much money. What would you be spending it on? I don't want Nicholas Cage to play Clint, Sean Connery to play Rook, or Cheech Marin to play Nilo. I'd just like anything that came close to the quality that was pulled off before...
Then again, sometimes, I just don't realize how much money goes into these type of things. Integrating with video graphics, and blue screens, and all that might be a lot more expensive than I give it credit for. As a matter of fact, it probably is.
The only thing I ask is, or hope, rather, is that they keep the same gameplay format. I could deal with the conversation dialoge being lip synched by 3D representations, as long as all the gameplay is left to solving crimes by searching areas for clues, and solving puzzles. As long as its adventure game format, it'll be great. I'd cry if it turned into an FPS ... Tex Murphy, The gunslingin, wisecrackin, bourbon drinking run and gun P.I. with a purpose... I'd cry ...
Of course I'd buy it too ...
I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.
Last edited by Jerry Dan on September 08, 2005 • 2:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Actually, its #666 right now.