Licensed Games

Shujinco2 · January 22, 2011, 12:10:34 PM

Throughout my years as a gamer, I have realised one thing: sometimes the best games on earth are licensed video games.

FMA and the Broken Angel: Seriously awesome action/rpg game.
Simpsons Road Rage: Great Crazy Taxi clone.
Dragonball Z Budokai 1, 2, (and especially) 3: Best fighting games ever.
Kung Fu Panda: Not a bad game to start out with.

Recently, I have began another decent into the world of licensed video games: NeoPets, the Darkest Faerie. I had started playing it because, well, why not. My sister had picked it up; being a big NeoPets fan. And one day, while being bored, I flipped upon this game, and decided to give it a go, despite not knowing a darn thing about NeoPets.

The game is pretty fun.

I haven't gotten very far, but already, I can see this game's potential. The mechanics are great, even if the fighting could use a bit of work. Gameplay; well, I haven't gotten far enough, so we'll see. Music is automatically catchy: somewhat modern Irish folk music. Cool poop.

My point is, a lot of people look down at licensed games for being sellouts or makeshift copies of pre-existing games. Some are even put off of them from the BAD examples of licensed games: E.T. and the like. But I say, why? Yes, some of these are copies, but they're GOOD copies, right? I've found that, in general, I can pull out much more game time from Simpson's Road Rage than I could for Crazy Taxi. I can even say I've even had slightly more fun. And more still are completely original ideas. Marvel Ultimate Alliance draws it's influance from the genre itself, and from no particular game. And it's fun as hell, with a good story.

So, I ask the question: what do you think about Licensed video games?

DededeCloneChris · January 22, 2011, 01:22:18 PM

I think you pick odd choices from licensed games.

Neerb · January 22, 2011, 01:52:55 PM

Batman Arkham Asylum. Transformers: War for Cybertron. Ghostbusters The Video Game. About half of the Spider-man games (mainly Ultimate and most recently Shattered Dimensions). The Marvel Ultimate Alliance/X-Men Legends series. Most Star Wars games (mainly Battlefront and KOTOR). And of course, the Kingdom Hearts series.

Good licensed games aren't as hard to come by as people think. Good movie tie-ins (games released around the same time as their movies) are hard to find, but general licensed games are not.

Custom · January 22, 2011, 03:52:37 PM

Quote from: Tiger Barb on January 22, 2011, 12:10:34 PM
Throughout my years as a gamer, I have realised one thing: sometimes the best games on earth are licensed video games.

Kung Fu Panda: Not a bad game to start out with.

dear jesus

Shujinco2 · January 22, 2011, 04:01:44 PM

Quote from: Black Mage on January 22, 2011, 03:52:37 PM
dear jesus

For a first game on a counsol, it certainly did it's job: entertained me until I found more games. It wasn't at all bad; I don't know where people get that from.

Neerb · January 22, 2011, 04:08:02 PM

I never played it myself, but I know Game Informer liked it.

Custom · January 23, 2011, 10:29:08 AM

Quote from: Tiger Barb on January 22, 2011, 04:01:44 PM
For a first game on a counsol, it certainly did it's job: entertained me until I found more games. It wasn't at all bad; I don't know where people get that from.

how old are you?

Shujinco2 · January 23, 2011, 06:08:55 PM

Quote from: Black Mage on January 23, 2011, 10:29:08 AM
how old are you?

18, with a 15 year old personality.

Again, not a bad game. It was an average platformer that was entertaining until I beat it.

Mystic · January 23, 2011, 08:48:17 PM

Simpson's Road Rage was badass from what I remember.

Shujinco2 · January 23, 2011, 08:55:36 PM

Quote from: Mystic on January 23, 2011, 08:48:17 PM
Simpson's Road Rage was badass from what I remember.

It was. Like I said, I had MORE fun with it than I did with Crazy Taxi.

Custom · January 25, 2011, 02:47:47 PM

Quote from: Tiger Barb on January 23, 2011, 08:55:36 PM
It was. Like I said, I had MORE fun with it than I did with Crazy Taxi.

stop playing games

Shujinco2 · January 25, 2011, 03:19:26 PM

Quote from: Black Mage on January 25, 2011, 02:47:47 PM
stop playing games

You're a retard. Crazy Taxi was fun and all, but it had 2 levels, and unless you're FUCKING GOD, you couldn't play for more than 10 minutes. It got old, fast.

In the meantime, Simpson's Road Rage had UNLOCKABLES! Had more stages, more characters with STATS, and they even had a mode where you could just goof around.

Only thing it lacked was a good soundtrack, but then again, Crazy Taxi really didn't shine there either. (A GAME NEEDS MORE THAN 6 SONGS!)

Magnum · January 26, 2011, 11:11:25 PM

Kung Fu Panda is awesomeness.

Doodle · February 10, 2011, 07:52:02 PM

Road Rage was intercourse ing awesome. I had it for the Gamecube. Hit and Run was pretty fun, too.
Kung Fu Panda? Not sure why you would actually want to support that sort of game by buying it. You're not really supposed to buy those almost-always-poopty games based on a movie. Some are okay, but usually not the case. ;U

DededeCloneChris · February 10, 2011, 07:57:09 PM

Quote from: Doodle on February 10, 2011, 07:52:02 PM
Road Rage was intercourse ing awesome. I had it for the Gamecube. Hit and Run was pretty fun, too.
Kung Fu Panda? Not sure why you would actually want to support that sort of game by buying it. You're not really supposed to buy those almost-always-poopty games based on a movie. Some are okay, but usually not the case. ;U

It all makes a lot more sense when you have the username Shujinco in a sentence.

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