keltickennedy
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So this guy is writing all of this because he mentioned the idea to Rocksteady at E3? Fucking sounds like a crazy person.
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Paul Gale: Rocksteady Making TMNT: Manhattan Crisis / Rocksteady: Nope, we're not
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Hot Coldman
Banned
Really hoping it's going to be the very first, dark/badass TMNT not the horrible/ridiculous goofy ones...
Yeah, they're fucking awesome
WB should pick this up, but something tells me the developer is probably closed by now.
I have no doubt that somewhere in that guy's house he has a severed human head in a jar of apple juice which he tells people is a prop from Futurama.
Really hoping it's going to be the very first, dark/badass TMNT not the horrible/ridiculous goofy ones...
This. Complete with everybody having red headbands, instead of the color-coded ensemble that the '80s toon started.
On that note, if this game was actually standing to be based on the new IDW series (which Eastman is on board with), I wouldn't mind that at all, either.
infinityBCRT
Member
I wish Rocksteady could get their hands on the Transformers license. To be fair, High Moon's War for Cybertron was decent, but I think Rocksteady could make an incredible game based on that license.
Chip N Chance
Member
As long as they dont have pupils im in.
It was Bottlerocket - they shut down back in fall '09.
Paul Gale
Member
You don't have to "not trust" me, I said it's a rumor from the start. A good chance it's not true, even, but I put it up because people wanted "in". That's all.
sixteen-bit
Member
They'd actually have to add polygons to those models to make it look good for a modern videogame
Bahaha. Indeed.
MisterHero
Super Member
This is a crappy rumor, but the important stuff needs to be said!
If they want to make the most fun game possible they have to use the 80s Cartoon Turtles universe. They need the true voice cast and the music. Any decision to settle for other TMNT versions will only become increasingly generic and less fun.
Alternative preference for art direction:
I'm sorry but I hated the Arkham games' art.
If they want to make the most fun game possible they have to use the 80s Cartoon Turtles universe. They need the true voice cast and the music. Any decision to settle for other TMNT versions will only become increasingly generic and less fun.
Alternative preference for art direction:
I'm sorry but I hated the Arkham games' art.
What? The fact you clearly mark it as a 'rumour' doesn't mean that it's suddenly okay stick it up on your site. It's bullshit. It's no different from the nonsense that the National Inquirer sticks up week in week out.
Are you telling me that your 'journalistic integrity' is so lax and you are so desperate for page views that you'll literally stick anything on your site whether it's remotely true or not?
This would be the single best thing to occur in the past couple years of life, easily. I don't care what that says of my life
I really hope for your sake you are either A) joking or B) 14 years old.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
he originally wasn't going to post it, he asked people here whether he should bother or not, we said what's the harm, speculation is fun.
And then hateful mofos like you come around reminding everyone what the "harm" is, lol. Calm yourself.
This is a crappy rumor, but the important stuff needs to be said!
If they want to make the most fun game possible they have to use the 80s Cartoon Turtles universe. They need the true voice cast and the music. Any decision to settle for other TMNT versions will only become increasingly generic and less fun.
Alternative preference for art direction:
I'm sorry but I hated the Arkham games' art.
The rumor points to Rocksteady being the developer.
Besides the only "fun" Turtles are the rinky dink 80s cartoon. The overwelming majority of the Turtles history has been a bit more serious.
If this exists I'd expect them to use a more refined version of the original comic art.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Damn, someone is a little touchy about Ninja Turtle rumors.
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah simmer down Busty.
The Lamonster
Member
Please be true. Their name is Rocksteady; fuck it's so perfect.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. It's not reporting. It's fan fiction. Plain and simple. It's almost a kind of bizarro slash fiction but you're dreaming of pairing developers and IPs.
You might as well make posts about hearing 'rumours' about Naughty Dog developing a new HALO title and discuss that in depth.
It's an actual story. It's not a rumour. It's total fiction.
Kiss me you fool.
Alternative preference for art direction:
Still waiting for a TMNT game that beats this one!
And yes, the art direction would be perfect like that.
Slamtastic
Member
Someone should make TMNT Tournament Fighters 2.
evilromero
Member
This is a crappy rumor, but the important stuff needs to be said!
If they want to make the most fun game possible they have to use the 80s Cartoon Turtles universe. They need the true voice cast and the music. Any decision to settle for other TMNT versions will only become increasingly generic and less fun.
Alternative preference for art direction:
I'm sorry but I hated the Arkham games' art.
I agree. The 80s cast and style is very endearing. Everything they've done since then has sucked. The games, including the first and second arcade game, were great. There's no reason Rocksteady can't take the 80s style and run with it.
John Rabbit
Banned
the fact that this post didn't happen until the near-bottom of the second page is more disappointing than this rumor potentially being bullshit.Rocksteady? Make a Toitles game?
i mean really.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Meh, too much 80's. Gimme comic/movie/2k3 rendition then we're all set.
HitokiriNate85
Member
Posting for no other reason than to say that I have rarely wanted a rumor to be true as badly as I do now. I can't even fathom how cool that could be. Just...fuck. Please happen.
I don't think TMNT is remotely relative enough for Rocksteady to make a big-budget game based on it. At the same time, I'd like to think anyone over the age of 20 would have a huge interest in it, so I dunno.
I don't think TMNT is remotely relative enough for Rocksteady to make a big-budget game based on it. At the same time, I'd like to think anyone over the age of 20 would have a huge interest in it, so I dunno.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah, reeks of fakeness, especially when it panders so much to the 80's that you can tell their limited knowledge. Nick owns the license now anyway, so I really doubt they'd hand it to Rocksteady.
That about clears it up.
That's fine, we can just sit back and watch the games roll in made by nick and whomever, I wonder if they'll be as amazing and original as TMNT smash up I heard about once
The Nature Roy
Member
Keep in mind that it's not just that WB could make more money using characters they already own, the games are also great for cross promotion (directly and less directly). WB sells Arkham City comic books and toys, etc.
Plus, the game's success and profile also has to help promote all things Batman for WB/DC like the mainline Batman comics, movies, cartoons, lunchboxes, t-shirts, etc.
Why would WB want to put their best studio on a license they would have to pay for and couldn't reap any additional benefits from? Why would they want to strengthen a key rival's IP at the expense of their own (opportunity cost)?
Makes zero sense.
Plus, the game's success and profile also has to help promote all things Batman for WB/DC like the mainline Batman comics, movies, cartoons, lunchboxes, t-shirts, etc.
Why would WB want to put their best studio on a license they would have to pay for and couldn't reap any additional benefits from? Why would they want to strengthen a key rival's IP at the expense of their own (opportunity cost)?
Makes zero sense.
Host Samurai
Member
I would like the 80's cast of villains mixed in with the 2K3/Comic more serious type characters. Best of both worlds.
A cel shaded 80's game sounds good but we will never ever get that.
A cel shaded 80's game sounds good but we will never ever get that.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
This is something with which I cannot disagree.
Like FOX would never produce a tv series for CBS, right? RIGHT?
MisterHero
Super Member
you can hang on to your Dragon Ball fandom and I'll hang on to my Classic TMNT cartoon fandom
wait, screw that. Dragon Ball needs to be DARKER
DARKER and with MORE BLOOD
The 80s cartoon was made overly kidfriendly and clearly cut corners animation wise all the time, but I still prefer the designs of that to anything that came after.
The first live-action TMNT movie was actually pretty dark in tone. (bad acting aside)
Hell, half the Batman villains are just as silly as anything in TMNT.
Useless piece of trivia, prior to the 2K3 show a new TMNT show was pitched to none other than Warner Brothers. They turned it down, and then a few years later would pick up broadcast rights to the 2K3 series.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
The first TMNT movie was an amalgamation of comics and the 80's show, that's why it worked.
Also I find it weird that I am subscribed to two TMNT threads.
Also I find it weird that I am subscribed to two TMNT threads.
Neuromancer
Member
Off topic: I met a kid in the 6th grade who swore he was Raphael from TMNT. He kept it up almost all year.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
People still like the Ninja Turtles ?
gee I wonder why