Licensed for Greatness

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories

I played that game for countless hours going through the same exact story over and over again. I loved the fusion system this game had as it was mostly logic based. Combine a dragon with a zombie, Zombie Dragon. Combine a warrior with a FIRE or Pyro monster, you get Flame Swordsman. Experimenting with this was fun.

I wish Konami would make a game like this again instead of one that follows the rules of th real card game to a T.

 

[drizzes]

The toy story games were pretty good, but the buzz lightyear platformer was great. Also the platinum licensed games are all at least.... playable. Legend of Korra and Transformers Devastation are both good times.

 

[Lena CE]

The Harry Potter games were pretty great, at least for the first 3 movies. Kinda funny how the games and movies hide how mediocre the books are (imo).

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Transformers War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron were also incredi le third person shooters. Some of the best you'd get from that entire generation of consoles! Really hopin the rumors of remasters are true.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

As a kid I liked the Spider-Man 2 Nintendo GameCube game as well as Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! on the Nintendo 64.

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

Hook - (I played the genesis/snes versions) but the sega cd version contains that amazing soundtrack from the movie.

Vampire Hunter D - yes it's a resident evil clone. But it contains most of the characters from the film with the original voice actors. Great opening sequence, solid soundtrack which sets the mood, and fantastic credits music. Only on PS1 lol.

Batman and Robin PS1. Say what you like about it, but this game had great ambitions. Fighting system. Batmobile. Open world. Gadgets. Actual clue solving / beating criminals to the punch. Execution was lacking clearly. But it was pretty ahead for it's time and I enjoyed it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Scarface: The World is Yours

Simply put, ¿What would happened if Tony Montana survived the events of the film? In this game started by a literal turn of events, Tony makes it out of his mansion alive, alas, he ends up in the dumps, with only the clothes in his back he decides to start again, but this time, he learned of his mistakes

With a more TPS aproach to GTA Clones (You cant even melee) you get to explore Florida in all it's 80's glory, with empire building mechanics similar to Vice City Stories and a predescesor to GTA IV's Police system, your journey to recover your empire and get revenge on Sosa and his army, you will feel like the World is in fact, yours

That said avoid the Wii version like the plague

 

[Cuestionador]

Simpsons Hit & Run, although it has some missions that are infuriating.

The Thing, my favorite horror game, from my favorite movie.

I played the Beavis and Butthead Snes game a lot with my dad back in the day.

I also like the Lego games, especially the LOTR and Star Wars ones.

Love the Beavis and Butt-Head games and the Ren & Stimpy ones for the Genesis, they are really good.

 

[fishboneKiller]

Love the Beavis and Butt-Head games and the Ren & Stimpy ones for the Genesis, they are really good.

have you tried out the beavis and butthead point and click, Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity? i like that one a lot

 

[Cuestionador]

have you tried out the beavis and butthead point and click, Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity? i like that one a lot

I have to check this game and Daria's Inferno, too.

 

[frogphoria]

A thread for games based on a show, movie, brand, etc that you love, hate, or just find interesting in some form.


For one, the original Shrek tie-in game being not just a launch title but a whole exclusive for the original Xbox has always been interesting to me, big movie tie-in games arent usually the type of game I'd associate with being exclusive to a single platform.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I love the T&C: Surf Design games on NES because they seem like the wildest overlap -- could anyone involved think that both groups (gamers, outdoor sport fanatics) would be interested in it? And, yet, it was probably one of LJN's safest, most profitable bets.

I also really like the utterly ridiculous/awesome Revolution X game.

 

[arkasth]

 

[GundamJehutyKai]

There were a bunch of licensed anime games that never left japan that were super interesting and even fun!

Off the top of my head, I remember Shinkon Gattai Godannar (PS2), Gear fighter Dendoh (PS1).. Heck, Queens gate on the PSP was really great!

On the western side of things, I always liked the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer game on Xbox.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2:Battle Nexus on the Game Boy Advance. Unlike the first GBA game and the console ports which were straighforward beat em' ups, the gba port is basically Ninja Five-O 2(was even developed by the same team as that game), and goes for this weird sorta linear metroidvania-lite stealth vibe for it's gameplay with you having to backtrack around every level looking for your weapons (The turtles dont start off with their iconic weapons for some reason) and keycards to advance. Music also has this weird sorta relaxing futuristic Bomberman vibe to it rather than the rock'n'roll Turtles games typically go with.

Weird game, far from perfect, but also super interesting and worth a shot if you're into experimental 2d platformers

Also shoutouts to the surprisingly good Knight Rider and Die Hard PC-Engine games lmao

 

[JPchicre]

Whenever i talk about video-games with people that are not into video-games, i like to bring up any game based on a reality TV-show and see their confused faces.

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

I find it surprising that there's a couple of wonderswan games for Junji Ito's Uzumaki series, although it seems like no one has ever released a fan translation of them... Also like both korean titles released for the DS, inspired by Nexon's franchises Ragnarök and Maple Story. And there's also those PS1 promo games for Ghost In The Shell and Cowboy Bebop.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I'm completely obsessed by games made as a promo of wide-known trash food brands, like the ones for the SNES staring Chester Cheeta (shitty platform mechanics lol), the M&Ms games (my fav is the GBC one), Yo! Noid (NES), Coca-Cola kid (Game Gear) and so many others lmao...

Also love anything cartoon network-related, limited to early 2000s shows.

 

[JPchicre]

BBB: O Jogo (2002) : Continuum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Este arquivo contém o lendário jogo de 2002 do famoso reality show Big Brother Brasil.Para instalar, extraia o arquivo .zip e abra o arquivo setup.exe....

archive.org

This one is interesting, it is based on specifically on the Brazilian version of Big Brother, and is a The Sims like life sim.It was published by a Brazilian Publisher and no one remembers it.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Been playing that new Guardians of the Galaxy game, it got overshadowed by dogass Marvel's Avengers, but it's really cool.

I recently played through Code Lyoko DS and Quest for Infinity on Wii, sat through the show not too long ago after getting a blast of nostalgia and decided to try them, pretty cool little experiences for the time.

For the 4th I went to my buddies house and we all shot the shit while drinking, and I remembered that I had just modded up my friend's PS3, and I saw that I put Shrek SuperSlam on there, so I had them play it, really awesome game even after all these years and getting older, I especially like the short stories all the missions have.

I remember the old Chronicles of Riddick game that I thought was cool as a kid, it was on PS2.

Speaking on Code Lyoko, Cartoon Network actually had quite a few games from the time that were really well made for being kids games. I especially like Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Misadventures, and Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. One was a platformer and the other was a Power Stone clone.

That new Robocop game is a hidden gem I swear. Really awesome.

You don't see a lot of licensed games outside of comic book stuff and the occasional movie tie in, like John Wick Hex. It's kinda a lost art from the NES to PS2 eras.

 

[middler]

My favorite licensed game was always: Yo! Noid

As a kid I thought this was a much better game then any of the other licensed games I had played like Total Recall. Of course the quality of the game (as I learned later) is because its a reskin of this game.

 

[Stookymalarkey]

The Home Improvement game on the SNES. It still baffles my mind that someone thought turning a family sitcom into a platformer was a good idea worth programming.

 

[frogphoria]

I love the T&C: Surf Design games on NES because they seem like the wildest overlap -- could anyone involved think that both groups (gamers, outdoor sport fanatics) would be interested in it? And, yet, it was probably one of LJN's safest, most profitable bets.

I might be stupid, I've known about those games since I was a young kid and despite all of LJN's other videogame output I never once realised it was based on a clothing brand.

That new Robocop game is a hidden gem I swear. Really awesome.

Yeah, I played it when it was free on PSN this year. Real fun blasting enemies into bloody messes with the burst-fire pistol.

The Home Improvement game on the SNES. It still baffles my mind that someone thought turning a family sitcom into a platformer was a good idea worth programming.

Can't forget the entire manual being blocked off with a "REAL MEN DON'T NEED INSTRUCTIONS"

 

[Frickinfrik]

Scarface: The World is Yours.

It acts as a what-if sequel to the 1983 film. It also adds more lore to the world of Scarface. It was a pretty cool game. Best of all, it was also released for the Wii, which it makes up for the lack of GTA on the console. Dare I say that it might be better than Vice City?

 

[Bakuma1997]

You won't believe me if i tell you there is a Wizard of OZ JRPG that makes you move a sphere in the DS's touch screen... nor the fact is actually great (Weird and annoying "Touch a trackball to move" gimmick aside)

EDIT: I was under Mandarina effect that it was Japan Only, but actually it came to USA too

 

[99nereids]

Darkened Skye aka the licensed skittles game for windows/gamecube (thought this was a psx exclusive but i guess i hallucinated that part)

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

That new Robocop game is a hidden gem I swear. Really awesome.

TBF Robocop in general has one of the best track records when it comes to licensed games. With a few exceptions like Robocop 3 on snes and that dookie-ass Titus Xbox game his stuff consistently ranges from good to literal peak fiction (Robocop vs the Terminator on Genesis my beloved.,,..,.,,.)