What happened to all the good movie games?

I remember when they used to try and put time into the games that they based off of movies that actually had plots and goals to achieve. Anyone remember the old aladdin game for SNES? Pretty well laid out levels testing different techniques throughout the game , not to mention difficult bosses. Yeah that game was good.

thanks for the memory, aladdin was a great platformer.

u can also add the super star wars games to list of great movie license games.

the only recent movie games that i thought were halfway decent, was that jrpg based on the lord of the rings movies for ps2 LOTR:Third Age. It wasn't anything new, but was a solid jrpg.

Developers figured out that impressionable people will buy a movie-based game based on the strength of the license alone, so they don't see any reason to spend the time and money to make a good game.SmashBrosLegend

Bingo.

Street Fighter: The Animated Movie.

[QUOTE="SmashBrosLegend"]Developers figured out that impressionable people will buy a movie-based game based on the strength of the license alone, so they don't see any reason to spend the time and money to make a good game.ThePlothole

Bingo.

yea the rogue squadron games were good. i owned the 64 and the first 1 for gc and they were good games. not sure how the third one was, that one fell off my radar and i never got around to pickin it up.hards80

Battle for Naboo was really good also. It was another N64 game in the Rogue Squadron mold.

[QUOTE="hards80"]yea the rogue squadron games were good. i owned the 64 and the first 1 for gc and they were good games. not sure how the third one was, that one fell off my radar and i never got around to pickin it up.mcknightvt

Battle for Naboo was really good also. It was another N64 game in the Rogue Squadron mold.

Developers figured out that impressionable people will buy a movie-based game based on the strength of the license alone, so they don't see any reason to spend the time and money to make a good game.SmashBrosLegend

that and less skilled developers take the projects on, and they try to have the game out, when the movie is released, puttting a time constraint on the developers

I'll have to agree that most movie tie-in's aren't that great. Star Wars Episode I and III weren't really outstanding offerings (Super Return of the Jedi was awesome though!). Generally, and especially these days, they just pump games out to launch in synch with the movie releases and ride that momentum.

Star Wars has had some great spin-off games (Think TIE Fighter!!!, all the Jedi Knight games, Knights of the Old Republic, etc...) but it's had it's fair share of stinkers as well (Force Commander anyone? I tried so hard to like that game).

But as far as games that follow a movie's plot, only Goldeneye stands out as being really great. I did however really enjoy the Aladdin & Lion King games as well, but I'm not sure anything will touch the quality of James Bond on N64.

Developers figured out that impressionable people will buy a movie-based game based on the strength of the license alone, so they don't see any reason to spend the time and money to make a good game.SmashBrosLegend

Agreed, Aladdin, Star Wars, and Lion King were of yester-year in a matter of speaking. I don't remember many critically acclaimed movie based video games by reviewers and user alike of recent times except for Spider-Man 2 and The Chronicles Of Riddick. Other than that ppl just push out mindless dribble on a every platform scale so a parent that doesn't know any better will go out and buy Alvin and the Chipmunks for their child.

[QUOTE="SmashBrosLegend"]Developers figured out that impressionable people will buy a movie-based game based on the strength of the license alone, so they don't see any reason to spend the time and money to make a good game.ThePlothole

Bingo.

Indeed. Totally agree.

lately all i have seen is like king kong with 2 movessonic_rusher

Urrm did you actually play King Kong? It's probably the best movie to game adaptation for a long long time.

What are these 'good' movie games you speak of?

when have there been good movie based games?jsrock_on54

What are these 'good' movie games you speak of?

aransom

[QUOTE="jsrock_on54"]when have there been good movie based games?ag1052

What are these 'good' movie games you speak of?

aransom