Those are movies that didn’t come immediately to my mind when I thought about adventure games (I assume because I didn’t like some of the aspects of the PnC games that were based on Indiana Jones) but if I think about it it’s quite straightforward that it’s difficult to find movies more “adventurous” than those ones!
I never watched that movie. I’m reading a synopsis and it has a nice “Broken Sword vibe” in it. It even has Knights Templar!
It’s for sure a good candidate for an adventure game. I can remember a few scenes that might be easily transformed into puzzles, like the escape from the trolls or the Gollum riddles. And of course the magic ring could become a very precious inventory tool for a PnC game, able to provide interesting mechanics and puzzles!
I would just avoid the anticlimactic ending, but that’s just my personal taste.
I have not read the book, but I’m not surprised to know that the movie adaptation lose a lot of the charm of the novel. Unfortunately, it happens a lot with many novels…
…which made me think to a book that was hundreds of times more interesting than its movie version and that is full of brain-teasing puzzles: The Martian! That would be a fantastic PnC adventure game, in my opinion!
Every single issue suffered by the protagonist of that story can be easily transformed into a puzzle.
I have to watch that movie again, a lot of people talk about it as a masterpiece. The only time I watched it I was at some friends’ house and I suspect that I was distracted by other things, not enjoying the movie very much.
It’s one of my favorite movies. I can foresee me spraying glue on an accelerator pedal.
I’m a big fan of (both theater and movie) musicals. The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show is one hell of a comedy musical and one of the most iconic ones. Not sure about how well it might be converted into a PnC adventure game, but the story has for sure a Maniac Mansion vibe in it.
Or TWP vibe…
As the story unrolls, you can take control of five playable characters: Brad , Janet , Frank , Rocky and Columbia . Every character has different motivations and abilities, but they discover that, in the the end, have a similar goal.
Contemporary reviews certainly compared the game to that movie. But I always thought it was more the case of common inspiration (Rocky Horror being influenced by the same old B-Horror Movies as Maniac Mansion).
For a detective story, I think Beverly Hills Cop could work.
Of course, a game should not just copy the story of any movie. That would always result in a very liniar game without any freedom to explore, I guess. Also, the movie would be quite a spoiler for the player. Instead, a game can be based on the same universe and use the same characters, but introduces a new story to that. Back to the Future from Telltale is a great example of that. Also most of the Star Trek adventures do that.
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did somebody play the text adventure?
[/quote]I never bothered. It’s known to be very unfair. To the point where you have something to do which the game insists you can’t, iIrc…
Going over my DVD collection, I didn’t really find any one that screamed “Adventure game material” (and if it did, like those Sherlock Holmes movies, the games are already there). The one I thought might work is a little indie film called “Moon”. Maybe Sleepy Hollow might also be a candidate.
However, if the potential game wasn’t a literal adaptation, but more something that is set in the same universe, I’d love to see something from classic Star Wars or Dune and possibly James Bond as well.
Yeah, something like this might be interesting for an adventure game indeed, if there would also be some humor!
There has already been a Dune adventure game by Cryo from 1992.
Though, I’m curious as well about what would have been the result, if Lucasfilm/Terrible Toybox had done a Star Wars or a James Bond point & click adventure game.
You´re saying that as if it was the most natural thing in the world. But who knows maybe there are people in the Lucas Film film division who are eager to get Harrison Ford to star in Indiana Jones 4a The Fate Of Atlantis.
, Janet 
, Frank 
, Rocky 
and Columbia 
. Every character has different motivations and abilities, but they discover that, in the the end, have a similar goal.
