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Fun Fact: He was also a selectable fighter in the Japan version of Fighting Vipers on the Sega Saturn
Licensed Games Appreciation Thread - Why yes, a Scooby-Doo game is better than a Resident Evil game
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Golly Bo-Bolly
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Here are some sudo-licensed games.
Stranglehold is the official sequel to John Woo's Hard Boiled, made fifteen years later, on the Xbox 360. The game is very much inspired by Max Payne which is fitting since Max Payne's gameplay was inspired by Hard Boiled.
Spyhunter: Nowhere to run is the game tie-in for the Film Adaptation of Spyhunter which was canned in development. Shame since the film would've fit right in with Fast and the Furious, Death race and xXx.
Alice in Wonderland is public domain so American McGee's Alice technically isn't licenced, still the games are amazing.
Earlier this year, McGee pitched Alice: Asylum to E.A after years of development, but obviously E.A rejected it and McGee can't make the game himself since E.A owns the Alice license.
Though he did share the 414 page design bible to the public here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EODy3bZI4xJLyvKA2F8zQgqIEGaD5tIi
Stranglehold is the official sequel to John Woo's Hard Boiled, made fifteen years later, on the Xbox 360. The game is very much inspired by Max Payne which is fitting since Max Payne's gameplay was inspired by Hard Boiled.
Spyhunter: Nowhere to run is the game tie-in for the Film Adaptation of Spyhunter which was canned in development. Shame since the film would've fit right in with Fast and the Furious, Death race and xXx.
Alice in Wonderland is public domain so American McGee's Alice technically isn't licenced, still the games are amazing.
Earlier this year, McGee pitched Alice: Asylum to E.A after years of development, but obviously E.A rejected it and McGee can't make the game himself since E.A owns the Alice license.
Though he did share the 414 page design bible to the public here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EODy3bZI4xJLyvKA2F8zQgqIEGaD5tIi
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The Warriors. That game was my youth.
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Such a shame that Rockstar stopped supporting PC games around that time and their support of PC games not named GTA 5 is abysmal. There should be a rule on Steam th
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I've played Road Rage, Hit & Run and the 2007 title. Hit & Run replicated the Simpsons license with the GTA formula quite well. I consider it a massive improvement from Road Rage. The 2007 title felt like an extended Simpsons movie with its amazing writing and respect of its source material. I wish DLC would've released for it.
I bought The Simpsons Game twice. The PS3/360 versions has Springfield as an interactive hub world with collectibles, NPCs and interiors to explore. The other versions lack that hub world for memory limitations; you're confined in the Simpsons' house or the theatre. I actually prefer the omitted hub world; you don't move as fast to travel through it efficiently.
It goes to show you that I haven't played the 2007 game since the early-2010s. But yea, I still love Hit & Run and Road Rage is an underrated gem.
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The one mission as Officer Marge using a hoverbike....man it was fun just wasting time because the music for that mission was so fitting. It was like a seventies Charlie's Angels jazz heist type of instrumental. (Wolf Steal My Pills I think it was?)
Just the entire soundtrack is so great.
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To repeat games I mentioned in another topic:
Scooby Doo Mystery specifically the Sega Genesis version (there's a SNES game of the same title but its a completely different game). This one surprised me when I first played it for being a point n click adventure (the only game of its type on the Genesis as far as I know), and a pretty decent recapturing of the cartoon, with puzzles that are only occasionally kind of moon-logicky, but all in all it captured the spirit of Classic Scooby better than even most of the modern movies do.
It just sucks that almost every other Scooby game in existence is a sub-par platformer. Like seriously what about Scooby of all things screams "platformer" to people?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has an astonishingly good history of licensed games, especially the 1987 cartoon (I've heard games based on the 2003 cartoon tend to not be as good).
Potential unpopular opinion, I even kinda like the infamous first NES game.
Animaniacs for SNES (I never did play the Genesis one) is... well, here's what says it all: I love this game and I speak as someone who hates the cartoon. For some reason though this is a game a lot of people like to shit on, and I don't get why.
On that note... a lot of early 1990s Tiny Toons games were actually pretty good. I think I would call the SNES entries a particular stand-out, even though Wacky Sports Challenge can kinda hurt your hand.
Scooby Doo Mystery specifically the Sega Genesis version (there's a SNES game of the same title but its a completely different game). This one surprised me when I first played it for being a point n click adventure (the only game of its type on the Genesis as far as I know), and a pretty decent recapturing of the cartoon, with puzzles that are only occasionally kind of moon-logicky, but all in all it captured the spirit of Classic Scooby better than even most of the modern movies do.
It just sucks that almost every other Scooby game in existence is a sub-par platformer. Like seriously what about Scooby of all things screams "platformer" to people?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has an astonishingly good history of licensed games, especially the 1987 cartoon (I've heard games based on the 2003 cartoon tend to not be as good).
Potential unpopular opinion, I even kinda like the infamous first NES game.
Animaniacs for SNES (I never did play the Genesis one) is... well, here's what says it all: I love this game and I speak as someone who hates the cartoon. For some reason though this is a game a lot of people like to shit on, and I don't get why.
On that note... a lot of early 1990s Tiny Toons games were actually pretty good. I think I would call the SNES entries a particular stand-out, even though Wacky Sports Challenge can kinda hurt your hand.
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The SNES Adventures of Batman and Robin game is pretty good.
I know people like to say the Genesis version is better, but IMO the SNES game is a better representation of Batman. Batman on Genesis is still good, but it's always going to feel weird in my head for it to be a run and gun.
I know people like to say the Genesis version is better, but IMO the SNES game is a better representation of Batman. Batman on Genesis is still good, but it's always going to feel weird in my head for it to be a run and gun.
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This is called Sheep Raider in N. America. It's excellent.
Looney Toons Space Race on the Dreamcast aka just "Space Race" on the PS2 is a decent WB based kart racer.
Looney Toons Duck Amuck is a fun and unique game but sadly doesn't work on the 3DS because you need the DS microphone.
Muppet Race Mania on the PS1 is also a fun kart racer.
Terminator Resistance is a surprisingly decent FPS on modern consoles. Not perfect, but good and worth playing.
The Discworld point and click games are fun and well written.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a great point and click game.
The Blade Runner PC game is quite good
Vampire Hunter D is a decent Resident Evil style horror game on the PS1.
There are two good Ghost in the Shell games. One on the PS1 where you play as a Tachikoma. One on the PS2 where you play as the Major
The Lupin III game on PS2 is disappointingly bad.
All the EA Bond games of the PS2/Xbox/GC era are pretty good and worth playing as is Bloodstone on PS360.
The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction and Punisher games on PS2/Xbox are excellent.
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron on PS2 is a genuinely fun air combat shooter. Nobody talks about this game, which is a shame.
The two Robotech games on PS2/Xbox/GC are good if you're a fan of the series.
Any Spider-Man game between the PS1 and PS3 era will be fun compared to the Insomniac Games
Aliens Infestation on the DS is good but sadly expensive. (I bought it for $20 at a Walmart! Haha!)
The Wizard of Oz - Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is an interesting rpg on the DS with weird gameplay.
I have a big soft spot for the SSI Goldbox D&D games along with the two Capcom Mystara beat em ups.
Someone mentioned the X-Men Legends games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is also worth playing.
Most of the older Lego games are worth playing. The first Lego Marvel Superheroes was quite fun and not really tied to the movies.
The Back to the Future Telltale game is good and well written.
Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth, Call of Cthulhu (PS4) and Sinking City are all pretty good Lovecraft related games.
Samurai Jack Battle Through Time is a decent hack and slash.
The first Shadow of Mordor is a good third person action game.
I'll second whoever said Mad Max.
The recent Shin Chan - Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation is a fun game in the style of the Boku no Natsuyasumi games.
The Super Robot Wars games are technically licensed but good if you like strategy RPGs.
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Remembered one I quite liked, Gemini: Heroes Reborn. Wasn't really much of a fan of either Heroes or Heroes Reborn, but the game was interesting and short enough that it didn't get boring. You could instantly time travel between two set times, past one crawling with enemies and present dilapidated one, and use that to surprise and destroy the enemies. I think later something like that was in the Titanfall game with a singleplayer campaign (2?).
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I'm gonna toss out a weird one:
The three Burger King games they released as holiday promotion for like 3 bucks each back in the early 2000s.
They were not great games. They were buggy, short, simple games.
But they weren't terrible games, you know what I mean? For what were, basically, an advertisement for Burger King that you paid 3 bucks for, they were actually amusingly fun. I remember actually getting a fair bit of enjoyment out of the stealth Sneak King game.
For what they were, they actually were okay.
The three Burger King games they released as holiday promotion for like 3 bucks each back in the early 2000s.
They were not great games. They were buggy, short, simple games.
But they weren't terrible games, you know what I mean? For what were, basically, an advertisement for Burger King that you paid 3 bucks for, they were actually amusingly fun. I remember actually getting a fair bit of enjoyment out of the stealth Sneak King game.
For what they were, they actually were okay.
Honestly up until now, I didn't know there was a literal RPG game of the Wizard of Oz for the DS. I know there was the infamous SNES one in the early-90s, but never a DS RPG game. That sounds awesome honestly.
It's weird that a Burger King stealth mission game made exclusively for the 360 managed to be really fun to play.
But while we're on the topic of fast food tie-in games, both Treasure's McDonalds games (Global Gladiators and Treasure Land) were legend.
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It was around 2009 I think because I remember being in uni when it came out. It ended up being a snow day (a rarity in Canada) so I walked down to the beer store and my local game shop and picked it up. Spent the day lounging in bed half drunk and playing it all day. Those were the days.
Huh. I got some time to kill this week, so I might emulate the game to give it a fair shake
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Depending the decent DS emulator (for example, desmume is arguably considered to be the best DS emulator out there), I'll take my chances