What video games do you think would work well as cartoons?I didn't provide an example myself because I don't want the thread to become a discussion on that specific example.
I'd like to see an animated film based on the secrete of Monkey Island.
though I guess Curse of Monkey Island is pretty close with that crisp art style
>>91798169
The last thread got nuked for some reason, but a Samurai Jack esque Metroid series would be awesome.
I think Donkey Kong should be given another try
An adventure series with the Mother games
>>91798491
Was gonna say this, so Mother 1 in particular
I would like to see an Oddworld series. Stranger's Wrath is still one of my all time favorites.
I don't know how I'd want it executed, but I feel like OOT might appeal to /co/ considering how much we're willing to overlook as long as a show has some shipping fuel.
>>91798396
OP here, had no idea there was a last thread, I just created this because I thought it would be interesting.
>>91798656
Four Swords would be RADICAL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyipQroo7EM
a 2D rayman cartoon would be nice. it would probably feel a little like wander over yonder
Final Fantasy 14
>>91798396
As long as she has her poncho.
Fallout: Day in the Life of a Super Mutant
This would make a perfect mini-series and you all know it.
>>91798362
Was going to be my pick. Nice to see it as first post.
I can only pray that DisneyXD makes a Monkey Island series since they own LucasArts now.
>>91798169
A Roughnecks-esque Halo cartoon would be pretty baller. Until ten years after it's made when you look back at the CGI and realize it was shit.
>>91798656
>>91798717
I might want to see a retelling of Link's Awakening. As far as storytelling, the game, with its limitations, didn't capture the somber tone that I felt at the end of the story as a kid.Also I shipped the hell out of Link and Marin.
Or, if they ever make another LoZ cartoon, maybe they'd go with an original story. Like they did before, kind of, but better.
>>91798656
botw had better shipping fuel
Honestly, the game portion of Skullgirls is the least exciting part of it. The characters, setting, aesthetic, and music are all amazing and would be perfect for a longform series of some kind to explore the lore.
>>91799292
I haven't picked it up yet. Looks like I'm in for a ride.
I find the series tends to have some pretty high-tier waifus overall.
>>91799359
It helps one of the most popular characters is a direct reference to the golden age of animation
>>91798169
I'd love a Skullgirls cartooon. There's enough personality and lore in those games to easily last 100 episodes. Plus there's a ton of story and characters that are hinted at in the game but never actually revealed, a cartoon could finally bring those to light.
>>91798169
Pic related would be pretty interesting, IMO.
>>91799404
top tier waifus and husbandos and crossdressing
>>91799513
Oh fuck
>>91798169
Deus Ex' setting could work with an animated series
>>91799532
Trap Link is going to be the death of me. HNNG
>>91799989
Calm your tits, we're fantasizing here.
>>91800017
>>you will never get an animated version of link adventuring across ruined hyrule in gerudo dress, beating up lynels
>>91799989
Girls in BOTW were strong and in charge, only Mipha fit the overly-gentle cliche, and since there were so many to balance her out even her personality was fine. Thanks to characters like Urbosa even the west is pleased with the female representation in BOTW.
Sure tumblr will probably try to say that link is trans and zelda is a lesbian but who cares
>miniseries
>first episode introduces all the characters through their past (showing the fail state)
>running gag is that they restart at the entrance to the gungeon at the start of every episode
>every other episode someone finds an overpowered gun or item combination that allows them to beat the Dragun and deliver a piece of The Bullet to the forge
>final episode focuses on each of them going back to their past again (this time succeeding)
>bonus OVA or whatever it's called where the Bullet and the Robot team up to tackle the Gungeon
>>91798396
the 4th episode of the new series was Metroid as fuck
Castle Crashers; dialogue free
Worms
Pic related.
Night in the Woods felt like a interactive cartoon show to begin with, so it would work seamlessly.
>>91799989
>And Link will become a bumbling butt monkey who doesn't know how to fight very well and shit like that.
Aww man, I'd love a Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass cartoon.
>>91800017
You and me both
Space Station Silicon Valley or Pikmin seems like it would be harmless fun. The premise is really simple but I figure simple is better since giving a cartoon room to expand on its source is better than trying to fit and adapt all the details that sucked in fans of the original.
>>91798169
I've long wanted a Metroid series in the vein of Samurai Jack or the original Clone Wars cartoons.
>>91798396
I swear to god I'm not Samefag, I posted >>91802496 before reading any replies.
>>91799029
what game?
also, i think the whole sly series would do well in comic form (cutscenes were literally comic panels).
Sly Cooper.
PaRappa the Rapper AND Um Jammer Lammy in the same universe / town/ relationship.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
I think this game would make a great show!
A Fallout series of shorts from the prospective of different factions and characters
>Brotherhood of Steel Paladin on a mission to recover Old World tech and fighting mutations along the way
>Enclave soldier going around cleansing the impure
>Super Mutant reevaluating his place in the world
>Ghoul contemplating the possibility of turning feral
>Episode where different Wastelanders tell stories about the Mysterious Stranger or the PCs
>Deathclaws start attacking an area and it turns into a Jaws homage
>Companions going about their daily lives
>>91800224
I tried reverse image searching it and nothing came up, source image pretty please?
>>91803145
ffs does nobody know how to use boorus anymore?
Kid Icarus had a few shorts and I really wish they were expanded into a full series. Ideally with the Voltron team behind it.
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>>91798491
These would be great.
But only as an 80s gritty action cartoon.
Probably would be cool to see
>>91802925
Just watch this fucking intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhlMMrOrZ5s
>>91802617
>what game?
Night in the Woods
Team Fortress 2 could be absolutely fantastic as a show.
Required for a thread like this.
Beyond Oasis and Brave Fencer Musashi
>>91799254
This too.
>>91798169
Star Control 2
Not even joking, although it'd be more of a tongue-in-cheek take on RPGs.Especially since it'd be based on the Gameboy Color version.The majority of the first season would be based in the prison in the first level, where the MC comically tries to escape while trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
>>91798169
XCOM. Seriously. A squad of heroic diverse youth drawn from militaries around the world defending their planet against ayy lmaos?
Obvious answera cartoon would probably be better than the games
Just don't get the retards that worked on DotR to work on it again
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It probably wouldn't work too well but I nominate Metal Arms: Glitch In The System simply because I like it so much.
>>91802925
why the fuck did you go and remind me this shitty excuse for a show ever existed?
>>91805818
keep the same humor and I'm in.
Always thought this would make a good crime/gore story about gang life or a big heist or something
I nominate the Ratchet and Clank series, just keep Kevin Munroe FAR away from the project and shoot him on sight if he shows up at the studio's doorstep.
>>91805914
The sad thing is that the show was meant to come out at around the same time the original game did, but it was delayed for unknown reasons.
>>91806262
please leave
>>91805917
Haha! Take that you f#ckin sh%t piles!
Krunk, Mozer, Colonel Alloy, The Barter Bots, the grunts.... I love 'em all. No idea what age range the show would be for.
smt would be cool, if only to see the reactions that hardcore bible thumpers would have to a series like this getting a popular western release
>>91798403
careful, anon
>>91803393
>Ideally with the Voltron team behind it.Ideally with Bones or Madhouse behind it.
A Kingdom Hearts miniseries that focuses on non-movie worlds with its own original plotline. Something that might not be referred to in the games, but at the same time doesn't directly contradict them either.
I honestly don't know how Psychonauts never got a cartoon. It's perfect for it.
There is no better answer.
I am contractually obligated by Blabl Zork to post this every thread.
>>91798396
Speaking of "Samurai Jack styled" shows, this would fit perfectly.
A crossover between the two would be nice to see.
>>91806620
There's a lot of things Psychonauts should have gotten but didn't. Maybe now it can finally become the franchise it should have been back in 2005.
>>91799359
>>91799521
there's a lot going on though, I'd reckon each loose end would have to be dedicated to a season to get a cohesive storyline established
specifically Lab 8s pursuit of Lab 0 after 8s destruction, the Medicis struggle to keep their empire intact while their leader is dying and their adversaries are breathing down their necks, and finally Marie and the Skullheart themselves, which would have to involved basically everyone in their race to claim it/destroy it
Ace Combat would make a sick mecha/sci-fi show a la Voltron. AC5 is pretty much Avatar with fighter jets anyway.
My question is, should it be about Original Doomguy or The Doom Slayer (if they're not already the same person)?
>>91806898
despite how shit the game is now, the movies have always been top tier
>>91798169
>>91806234
I gotta get Hoxton back!
>>91799029
Huh, I could have sworn Germ was green.
Airship fights, giant monsters, dungeons, shit ton of colorful npc's, two girls who like one boy, and a cute shapeless pet; what's not to like...
>...no sequel
>>91806262
Blizzard is way too focused on making sure that every character is a badass to let them have actual character.
TF2 would be better in every way except for diversity.
>>91798169
Battleborn might be worth something as a cartoon.
At least just so I could have more of my waifu, Phoebe.
>>91805524
Can only imagine how shantae came to be
"Three wishes I grant ye, mortal"
"I want a kid"
... "Is that all"
"Your kid"
" . . . " "You're fucking joking, right?"
"No. I want to have sex with you."
*sigh* "Your wish is my command... You fucking weirdo..."
>>91810499
I'd imagine a genie would just poof a baby into you, no sex involved.
Warcraft.
A series in the vein of Pokemon or Avatar, as in a group of random characters travelling through Azeroth and meeting important people along the way would be comfy as hell.
Either that or have the characters be Fiona's travelling caravan.
Every episode will be about a new team attacking and defending
>>91811842
YES maybe even a fucking comic
>>91811842
and they do everything in their combat gear and never take it off
>>91809616
He is? Your eyes okay anon?
>>91811939
A brighter green, this is more of a dark blue-green.
>>91798169
I'd really like to see something with the souls series or bloodborne. It'd have to be some really artsy shit though. No dialogue from the main character/chosen-undead, it would be from the npcs in the game. It would be stylized as hell, like samurai jack or something.
The cool thing is that souls series could easily work as a comedy series. I'm not trying to be an edgelord but I find that the best humor tends to be in dark atmospheres because there's the most room for it, just like Courage.
>>91798169
I remember a while back we had a thread about if TF2 was a cartoon. shit was golden.
>>91806297
I was so excited for the movie when I first heard about it years before its release. I still haven't watched it and I'm not sure if I'm going to.
When I read that statement by TJ Fixman basically saying he got fucked over and was forced to jump ship due to executive meddling, I lost all hope. In that industry you literally can't say bad shit, but you could just tell what he meant by reading between the lines. Such a shame.
>>91812772
Found the blog post.
https://tjfixman.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/a-farewell-to-lombaxes/
>simple difference of opinion
Basically a nice way of saying Munroe had the final say, and it was shit.
Overwatch.
Rimba Racer
Time to post all the stuff I always post in these threads...
>>91813891
Seconding this.
>half these of this thread is pure trash
I knew /co/ had shit taste in games
>>91809657
I was thinking about this last night.
I just reached the desert in BotW and saw that big ass camel stomping around and immediately had flashbacks to the Gigases and then started thinking about a SoA cartoon.
>>91798169
This thread comes up every week and no one posts the clear best answer
>>91798396
>>91800189
A Genndy Metroid series has been something I've wanted for nearly a decade. His art direction for alien worlds and creatures and the silent exploration and music-less action scenes he used in Jack would be perfect for Metroid.
>>91814058
Tim would handle the money shittily and only produce half a season, which people would have to buy to fund the second half.
>>91798169
I've always wanted an adaptation of The World Ends With You. I suppose Genndy would be a good choice for director, at least for the action sequences. Not sure what studio I'd want to actually animate it. I'd probably go with Titmouse, since it is probably the best American studio when it comes to action, but maybe outsourcing to Myr or Trigger.
>>91811907
This. I would want it in a 2D, old-cape-comic-style (or, well, anime, but it's not /co/).I wish I could animate.
>>91807488
They are the same guy, and every episode needs to basically just be an animated version of the comic.
>>91814765
>wanting to hand off something with a setting that's specifically urban Japanese as fuck to a bunch of Westerners to produce
Much easier chance of not sucking as anime. Make it like the Persona anime but heavily stylized.
>>91807492
Don't forget the comics. God-tier all of them
>>91815309
As long as they follow the script and use the aesthetic of the game you can't really fuck it up. In all honesty I'd take a fucking motion comic at this point. Anything in an attempt to keep the IP alive to some degree.
Twisted Metal, every episode would focus on a different Contestant and location. Tone wise you'd probably get away with a lot more if it was cartoony like 3 or Small Brawl, but Black and 2012 handled the franchise well enough to work as a series of shorts or comics, in my opinion.Yes, I do know Twisted Metal had a comic focusing on Calypso.
Namco Museum.
Have PAC-MAN be the star and other namco characters work as part time employees.
Pac and Heihachi can complain about their kids on Lunch Break
Klonoa and Cid can get stuck in the displays
MAD DOG is the villain
Overwatch, if they could get all their lore in order. It should be used to introduce characters not attached to the core group into the plot (basically, Winston and Tracer go around the world trying to recruit people or something like that) because at the rate we're going it'll be a decade before the lines are drawn in the central conflict and everyone has picked a side.
It probably would be messy and the characters would be flat, but the Smash Mansion is a fan-favourite concept.
>>91816020
Pity most of those fanfictions are just sitcoms with Nintendo characters.
An Adult Swim cartoon based on No More Heroes would be fuckin' rad.
>>91798169
Destiny
especially The Taken King
The first two Fallout could make for a couple of really kick ass TV Series. You got the drama, the comedy, the action; it could be great.
I'd introduce some changes, such as making the Vault Dweller the three people who came out of Vault 13 instead of making just one guy. Albert, Natalia and Stone walking the wasteland together as a group and being mistaken in the future as one entity.
The sequel with Fallout 2 could have some characters talking about what a smooth talker the Vault Dweller was, how he was a girl or he was dumb as rocks.
>>91798169
Metal Gear would be a really cool cartoon series. just adapting the story of each game as a season like Netflix does it. although the usual 'story of the week' format would be really awesome for a series set during 74 with MSF.
>>91803393
>Voltron Kid Icarus
I'd be down.
[Spoiler]Bayonetta crossover?[/spoiler]
Deponia
>Adventure driven
>Contains comedy
>contains waifus and a NEET as MC, characters are generally loveable but dumb
>These characters actually develop during the series and thier character
>Platypus
>The game contains an artstyle which can be easily adapted for a cartoon.
>>91818462
It might work, except for the shit ending. That and they'd have to not insult the fans with the sequel. But most importantly,droggeljug
>>91815924
To accentuate my point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81iOMGMbfmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLjaqm7kxfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJkXqEQ4I8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFs8REgq8I
>>91810240
I would support this.
Specially if you send the battleborn on teams that their personalities clash with each other.
Make it 2d, and you have your story arc to the end of the story like it should.
>>91800158
Yes! How come no one else is saying this? Love me some Pikmin. I need to get a Wii U and finally play Pikmin 3
>>91798169
I would watch the shit of a Silent Hill animated miniseries done in the art style of Aeon Flux.
>>91815924
I love the opening to 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Z3C3ds8vU
>>91817763
I would prefer an entirely original story. Maybe set somewhere the games likely won't touch like the UK.
>>91798169
think of a game that you hate to play but like to hear stories about people playing. Those would make good cartoon.
>>91820357
Some of BB's character's designs were good, its sad that it was made by such awful people and had such awful reception.
>>91821323
>like to hear stories about people playing
That sounds like an incredibly shitty way to determine if a game would make a good cartoon.
>>91814202
Perfect for Frederator!
>>91817763
Reminds of those Fallout threads on/k/ where people roleplay npcs witnessing first hand the PC doing insane things in-game and arguing about which accounts are true
>>91798396
Absolutely.
I also really, really fucking want a W101 cartoon.
>>91809657
Was going to post this. Plenty of room to explore various cultures under the different moons so easily paced as fast or slow as popularity demands.
Cartoon When?
Also:
Broken Age
Skullgirls
Indivisible
>>91800173
>Enter the Gungeon
Excellent choice.
>adhering strictly to the game's mechanics and structure
Not so excellent choice. The game works well as a game, but as a cartoon series it would be repetitive and leave little room for episodes to be distinct or have a sense of progression.
I'd make it a sort of prequel series. It would start with the four main characters meeting up with each other, talking about the rumors of the Gun That Can Kill The Past, and teaming up to seek the Gungeon together. The rest of the series would be about them exploring a galaxy filled with weird sci-fi and fantasy elements, chasing various rumors and clues that could lead them to the Gungeon, seeking treasures that could help them solve its mysteries, or dealing with other situations that they encounter. Occasionally there would be hints to the characters' pasts and the mistakes they want to fix, but none of them would be made clear until late into the series.
The series would mainly be a mix of action and comedy, with the characters frequently getting into gunfights (of course) and showing off strange weapons which may or may not have been previously mentioned. At least one of the Gungeoneers would die in every episode, complete with the special clock crosshairs showing up and a freeze frame that described when and how they died, but everyone would be fine the next episode. At first the episodes would seen largely disconnected, but as the series went on it would become apparent that there actually is continuity and progress between the episodes, and the characters really are dying repeatedly and coming back like nothing happened. Late in the series, they'll actually find the Gungeon, and then the mysteries will all start to come together.
Jet Set Radio.
who would ideally write for it ?
>>91827315
I'll be honest, unless it's some sort of alternate universe or post-game thing, Undertale's story relies too much on it being a video game to translate well into other mediums.
>>91827041
>bump
Hey, I remember that game. I don't think it would make a very good cartoon, though; there's not much in the way of plot or characters. Its animation style could make for some interesting visual effects
>>91805489
>A squad of heroic diverse youth drawn from militaries around the world
BY OUR POWERS COMBINED WE ARE XCOM
>>91827367
Undertale is so heavily mired in deconstructing video game tropes and mechanics that I really can't see it working in any other medium.
>>91827367
Thankfully its time has come and gone, so we probably won't get one.
>>91798618
>Oddworld
My nigga
>>91810499
>I imagined Robin Williams saying it.
Goddamnit Aladdin
>>91827367
it would probably be good if there was decent banter
FTL: Faster Than Light
>>91799292
>Fish fag
>Not fish loli
you fucked up