When it comes to E3, most people familiar with it would think of major gaming companies, like Nintendo, Xbox, and Square Enix. But this year's event will also be hosting the streaming media giant Netflix, during a panel called "Bringing Your Favorite Shows to Life: Developing Netflix Originals into Video Games". It'll take place at E3 Coliseum, which is a three-day event show that occurs alongside E3, and exists to give more information about developers and their individual projects. In the announcement, Netflix teased that it has multiple games lined up for E3, all based on their popular original TV shows.

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[jt_1258]

You all do know they have already been dipping there toes into this with tell tale style pick your path adventures right?

 

[pedro702]

Erm...can it be that you're too young to have played games from the eighties or nineties? It seems to me you have your opinion based on how horrible SOME movie tie-in games became, and try to mask your lack of knowledge with an unhinged response (don't get me wrong: I like the video game historian. But he can't really convince me that there were only bad games based on video games when I lived and played games in that time).

Look...there are certainly infamously bad games based on movie franchises (ET and superman 64 come to mind). And with the dawn of 3D games (which became increasingly complex, and as such costly) quite some video game companies attempted to cash in rather than make a good/great game. This came from both sides, btw: movie distributors also started asking more for the privilege of having a known face on a video game.

The thing is: games weren't as expensive to make in the eighties and early nineties, and from interviews I've read (IIRC from former Ocean developers), movie distributors often had no idea about the value of video games so they charged little or didn't had much requirements. As such, developers had far more freedom, which resulted in better quality games.

On top of that: your example of star wars as being bad is particularly badly chosen. Star wars games were made by the legendary Lucasarts studios, who practically set (if not raised) the bar of quality for video games in general. Heck...I've played star wars games DESPITE their franchise (I think they're "kind of okay" at best), simply because the quality was so good.


EDIT: heh...just noticed @DANTENDO mentioned Ocean as well.

i never said the are all bad, i say for each good one you find you can easily find 20 bad ones, basicaly anything disney that wasnt made by konami is pure crap, every ame made by ljn and they had like 90% of all movie based games on the snes is crap, when 3d ame aaround then it was a shitfest with every movie getting a game and they were awful i know becuase i own most of them from robocop, to marvel movies games, to even some star wars games speiclay most of the ps1 and ps2 games with few exceptions and we got back into crap star wars games on this new generation lets see if fallen order does any good.

i know there are some good games based on movies and tv but they are rare the comom ones are just bad or meh at best.

 

[DANTENDO]

, i say for each good one you find you can easily find 20 bad ones,

Tht ratio is as someone in England would say complete bolox

 

[pedro702]

Tht ratio is as someone in England would say complete bolox

well show me one good marvel movie based game and i will show you the huge list of the ones that suck its probably higher than 20 from being based on the movies or tv series.

 

[AceX]

well show me one good marvel movie based game

Lego Marvel's Avengers

 

[pedro702]

Lego Marvel's Avengers

cmon all lego games are just reclycled crap there is a reason this generation they make the games 40$ even instead of 60 lol its a standard lego game, its not a good game even at best its an ok game, when we talk about Good games lego games shouldnt be called upon becuase they got the same exact gameplay ever since star wars lego lol they havent changed one bit.

 

[DANTENDO]

cmon all lego games are just reclycled crap there is a reason this generation they make the games 40$ even instead of 60 lol its a standard lego game, its not a good game even at best its an ok game, when we talk about Good games lego games should be called upon becuase they got the same exact gameplay ever since star wars lego lol they havent changed one bit.

Crazy talk - some of those lego games the puzzles do get yr brain thinking and are very intelligent and for the younger generation kids teens thousands of them luv the games

 

[AceX]

cmon all lego games are just reclycled crap there is a reason this generation they make the games 40$ even instead of 60 lol its a standard lego game, its not a good game even at best its an ok game, when we talk about Good games lego games shouldnt be called upon becuase they got the same exact gameplay ever since star wars lego lol they havent changed one bit.

Oops, I meant to say Lego Marvel's Super Heroes

 

[pedro702]

Crazy talk - some of those lego games the puzzles do get yr brain thinking and are very intelligent and for the younger generation kids teens thousands of them luv the games

i like lego games i own them too but lego marvel avengers is bad is the worst lego marvel game imo, i got every lego game released until lego marvel super heroes 2 some were fun some were just boring, lego marvel avengers just fell flat lego marvel super heroes 1 and 2 are much better imo even tough they arent based on any movie or tv show.

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Oops, I meant to say Lego Marvel's Super Heroes

that isnt based on a movie or a tv show therefore cant be picked lol.

 

[ninjafrog658]

I just hope it's like the 80's and 90's, where the movie/TV tie-in games weren't crap and we're actually fun to play.

Someone's never seen AVGN...

 

[l13f4k3]

altered carbon related games would be awesome

 

[WhiteMaze]

At this rate, it won't be long before there's a Netflix chain of fast food restaurants.

They will stream your burger in 1080p quality and you can just stare at it.

What a bargain!

 

[AceX]

At this rate, it won't be long before there's a Netflix chain of fast food restaurants.

They will stream your burger in 1080p quality and you can just stare at it.

What a bargain!

Heh, that burger won't last very long at 10MB/s

 

[orangy57]

13 Reasons Why- The Game: press X to kill yourself

 

[Joshifer34]

Probably stranger things

 

[XDel]

Finally I get to see that Clu Clu Land TV series I have always dreamed of.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Stranger Things is a smart call for a video game adaptation, but man I'm not seeing much else that would make for a good video game in their arsenal. They'll probably do something with Black Mirror, I could see that working. But beyond that, nothing that's original of theirs really makes for a good foundation of a video game, unless I'm missing something. (And no I wouldn't count any of the Marvel series, as a Daredevil video game would be based on Daredevil, which is a property that goes far beyond just his Netflix original series)

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Finally I get to see that Clu Clu Land TV series I have always dreamed of.

No, they're saying they intend to make more video games based on their original properties. (Though having said that, their adaptation of Castlevania is fantastic and I'd happily welcome more shows like that for other great video game series)

 

[XDel]

No, they're saying they intend to make more video games based on their original properties. (Though having said that, their adaptation of Castlevania is fantastic and I'd happily welcome more shows like that for other great video game series)

I was not impressed by the Castlevania anime in the least. Vampire Hunter D has always been my answer for that...

 

[pedro702]

Stranger Things is a smart call for a video game adaptation, but man I'm not seeing much else that would make for a good video game in their arsenal. They'll probably do something with Black Mirror, I could see that working. But beyond that, nothing that's original of theirs really makes for a good foundation of a video game, unless I'm missing something. (And no I wouldn't count any of the Marvel series, as a Daredevil video game would be based on Daredevil, which is a property that goes far beyond just his Netflix original series)

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No, they're saying they intend to make more video games based on their original properties. (Though having said that, their adaptation of Castlevania is fantastic and I'd happily welcome more shows like that for other great video game series)

they have alot of original movies so they can make that too, but i dont think any original movie is even famous enough to warrant a videogame imo.

 

[eyeliner]

2020 BAFTA videogame achievement winner right here, yo.