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    Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
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    Image of Admore thinks really long names make you funnier Admore thinks really long names make you funnier
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    If you don't want a game, movie or some other commercial thing made of your precious work of genius, don't sell the precious rights, genius.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    For the record Alan Moore's worst nightmare is being chased by Sean Connery who threatens him with a giant tube of Nair.
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    Image of Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    Am I the only one who thinks this could be good? I mean, a few things need to be kept in mind.


    1) It is not based on the comic itself, it's a prequel.


    2) The comic might make you forget, but there WAS a time when the Crime Busters actually fought crime and busted heads. That's sorta what vigilantes do most of the time.


    I love the comic, but I'm not gonna damn this game just because it exists. Same applies to the movie. I'm not expecting deep insightful analyzation of philosophy in the game. As long as the gameplay is solid and the writing is serviceable, I'll be happy. Will it be Moore-caliber writing? Probably not, but if it isn't BAD writing that's good enough for me. Moore is a genius, but he's also kind of a stuck-up elitist concerning things like this.

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    Image of wormguy wormguy
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    What's next? A Johnny the Homicidal Maniac game?
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/17/08

    @wormguy: SQUEE!
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    Image of Erwin Erwin
    11/17/08

    @wormguy: As long as Wobbly Headed Bob runs you through the tutorial, I'm buying.
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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    As directed to by your sister site, Kotaku:



    The thing is, there's no reason why classic literature and video games can't go together, or even do so well. Watchman in itself is no different.


    The problem, however, is that the comic has a very specific anti-...er everything, really, all of this merchandising and what not message to it. This runs squarely against that message. It's like the All Quiet on the Western Front FPS.

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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    11/17/08

    @Slatz_Grobnik: ER, bonked the HTML there. Sorry.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    I hope this is as good as the Maus video game.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    @Grey_Area: Dammit. That was the line I was trying to come up with.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/08

    @Moff:You can do the bit about Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Boy in the World game. Now that's funny.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    uuuggggghhhh.... i was talking about the impossibility of a Watchmen video game to my brother a few months ago....


    about how they could never fit the complexity of the gn into a game..... and all that stuff.


    i'm too lofty. most obviously.

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    Image of Asari Asari
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    This weekend i finally finished the Tightrope level of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.


    Finally I get my eagle and snake!

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/17/08

    @Asari: Nice. I read that they're going to make a special Dionysus Dithyrambs edition of Rock Band.
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    Image of grime grime
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    what's sad here in this thread isn't the hate ... but hating on shit is pretty sad, really, it's the lack of creativity.


    THIS game in particular seems pretty bad, sure. doesn't mean a good game can't be made.


    any ideas?

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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    @grime: Now what's sad here in this thread is this picture of an imprisoned, lonely puppy:


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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    It's like making a video game out of Moby Dick.


    The rendering-blubber minigame left something to be desired, I felt, though I got the "From Hell's heart I stab at thee" Achievement the first time I played it.

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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/17/08

    @Rasselas: Ya know, I would TOTALLY play the Moby Dick video game!
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    Image of holographicProfessorMoriarty holographicProfessorMoriarty
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    What you didn't know about the Moby Dick game adaption...


    Its out there I swear... and you get to play as either Ahab or Moby!

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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    11/17/08

    @dOk: Yeah but there's 135 game levels and you only get to the whale on the 133rd level.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    Hey, fuck you. Moby Dick is one of my favorite games. I love the timed button-mashing game when you play as Ahab clomping on the deck over Ishmael's head as he's trying to sleep.


    (I kid, I kid; I love ya, Meredith.)

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/17/08

    @Smeagol92055: This confuses me to no end. Link please.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    Actually, Alan Moore's worst nightmare is the Watchmen Trapper Keeper.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    @Moff: Or discovering that Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, and McG just purchased the rights to Lost Girls.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/17/08

    @Moff: yeah but you would buy said Trapper Keeper in a heartbeat.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/17/08

    @Moff: I hate to say this, but Bruckheimer, Bayhem, and whomever you mean by McG might actually improve Lost Girls.


    I love Moore, and he deserves all accolades for his brilliance. However, I was VERY excited for Lost Girls and rarely have I been so disappointed in an icon's work.

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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    @Lassus: I'm glad you said that before I asked my mom to get it for me for Christmas.


    Meredith Woerner: I'm gonna make my mom get it for me for Christmas!

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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/17/08

    @Moff: I thought it would be "Watchmen Babies" the TV show? I'm crossing my fingers for Watchmen Pop Tarts.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    I cannot wait for the level where you play Silk Spectre and have to convince Doctor Manhattan of the value of human life.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/17/08

    @Moff: what about the rape level?!
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/17/08

    @GreyHammer: Did you ever see this review of Blindness? Maybe the best lead sentence of any review ever.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/17/08

    @Moff: oh my goodness... that's gotta be the worst (read: best ever!) way to start a review.


    the book was way worse than the movie though.... and by worse I mean more graphic - but it was better to experience because books are generally (and infinitely) more often than their film adaptations....


    WHICH BRINGS ME TO WATCHMEN...

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    Image of megam123 megam123
    11/17/08

    In reply to Alan Moore's Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game
    Lets get this out of the way quick, Is the squid in the game?
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/17/08

    @megam123: If there's no squid in the movie, I doubt there will be in the game.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/17/08

    @megam123: It's a prequel, so there's no squid. :D
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