What Breaking Bad Videogame would you want?

I keep thinking over and over that Breaking Bad would make a great video game. I could see it being an open-world videogame like GTA with Walt and Jesse as playable characters or they could even go the Walking Dead route and have Telltale make this very story-driven adventure game, or just some linear-based action game. 

I really don't see why the show ended so soon. A game would be a great way to make the show live on for much longer. What kind of game would you want Breaking Bad to be?

It would make a crap video game, can't think of a good tv series vidja game adaptation myself.

Maybe MethLab Tycoon?

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

ReddestSkies

Eh?

Stealth games?

[QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

Ilovegames1992

Eh?

Stealth games?

[QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

Ilovegames1992

Eh?

Stealth games?

Stealth gameplay forces the storyteller to include a ton of weak henchmen too, you just try not to kill them. It still limits the kind of stories that you can tell. You can't really tell the Breaking Bad story using stealth gameplay without changing every major confrontation in a major way.

Telltale Games is the only company I'd trust with it (since they always end up making faithful adaptations of beloved franchises), but even then, I wouldn't really want them to do it.

Still, if it had to be done...I'd expect some kind of Walking Dead-esque adventure game. The player would alternate control between Walt and Jesse, getting out of situations through convoluted dialogue tree lies and/or item-combining inventory puzzles. There would be sparse action, emotional turmoil, and a hell of a lot of character development along the way.

Eh, Telltale *could* pull it off, now that I think about it...but I still wouldn't really want them to. It's great enough as it is.

*edit* In hindsight, that would probably be more like their Wallace and and Gromit series than The Walking Dead, but you get my point. 

Cooking mama with Heisenberg!

It would be great if it was done the way you described it. But I imagine if they were to make a game of it, it would end up something like the walking dead video game. LAME!

What if it was done David Cage style? Just button prompts and QTEs and all that.

The only way it could work is if they make a spin-off point and click adventure game like The Walking Dead.

I keep thinking over and over that Breaking Bad would make a great video game. I could see it being an open-world videogame like GTA with Walt and Jesse as playable characters or they could even go the Walking Dead route and have Telltale make this very story-driven adventure game, or just some linear-based action game. 

I really don't see why the show ended so soon. A game would be a great way to make the show live on for much longer. What kind of game would you want Breaking Bad to be?

Meta-Gnostic

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I keep thinking over and over that Breaking Bad would make a great video game. I could see it being an open-world videogame like GTA with Walt and Jesse as playable characters or they could even go the Walking Dead route and have Telltale make this very story-driven adventure game, or just some linear-based action game. 

I really don't see why the show ended so soon. A game would be a great way to make the show live on for much longer. What kind of game would you want Breaking Bad to be?

Jacanuk

Yeah, because all Breaking Bad is is some show about a chump chemistry teacher who becomes a champ drug lord and then does hookers and blow for the rest of his life.

I suggest that you stop posting about stuff you know nothing about. You do it often, and it doesn't work. I don't want to go into the spoiler buiness, so I'll leave it at that.

[QUOTE="Jacanuk"][QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"]

I keep thinking over and over that Breaking Bad would make a great video game. I could see it being an open-world videogame like GTA with Walt and Jesse as playable characters or they could even go the Walking Dead route and have Telltale make this very story-driven adventure game, or just some linear-based action game. 

I really don't see why the show ended so soon. A game would be a great way to make the show live on for much longer. What kind of game would you want Breaking Bad to be?

ReddestSkies

Yeah, because all Breaking Bad is is some show about a chump chemistry teacher who becomes a champ drug lord and then does hookers and blow for the rest of his life.

I suggest that you stop posting about stuff you know nothing about. You do it often, and it doesn't work. I don't want to go into the spoiler buiness, so I'll leave it at that.

[QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

[QUOTE="Jacanuk"] What? Breaking Bad is a piss poor show about some girly man who becomes "powerfull" because he can deal drugs.... drugs that actually destroys other peoples life, destroys kids future ect. So what kind of game would you make? Scarface is made so if you just want to be a drugdealer go play that, at least that also have a decent ending where he gets whats coming to him.Jacanuk

Yeah, because all Breaking Bad is is some show about a chump chemistry teacher who becomes a champ drug lord and then does hookers and blow for the rest of his life.

I suggest that you stop posting about stuff you know nothing about. You do it often, and it doesn't work. I don't want to go into the spoiler buiness, so I'll leave it at that.

You're lacking quite a bit (of something?) to make a coherent sentence :|

My post was 100% objective. You're commenting on the ending of Breaking Bad while very obviously not knowing what it is (especially considering that it's not over yet). You're also saying that the show implies that Walt is better off as a drug lord than he was before, which is laughable.

[QUOTE="Jacanuk"][QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

Yeah, because all Breaking Bad is is some show about a chump chemistry teacher who becomes a champ drug lord and then does hookers and blow for the rest of his life.

I suggest that you stop posting about stuff you know nothing about. You do it often, and it doesn't work. I don't want to go into the spoiler buiness, so I'll leave it at that.

ReddestSkies

You're lacking quite a bit (of something?) to make a coherent sentence :|

My post was 100% objective. You're commenting on the ending of Breaking Bad while very obviously not knowing what it is (especially considering that it's not over yet). You're also saying that the show implies that Walt is better off as a drug lord than he was before, which is laughable.

This thread is now about what Breaking Bad Videogame people would want to see. I apologise to anyone who had to go through these awful, empty, borderline nonsensical Jacanuk posts, I won't reply to him again, I promise.

What if it was done David Cage style? Just button prompts and QTEs and all that.

Ilovegames1992

That would work very well imo! 

Only would be great if  Naughty Dog or Rockstar made it. It could be sort of a sandbox game like GTA. They would have to make the story a bit different, could be a good game though.

What? Breaking Bad is a piss poor show about some girly man who becomes "powerfull" because he can deal drugs.... drugs that actually destroys other peoples life, destroys kids future ect.

Jacanuk

The show is absolutely brilliant, as evidenced by the effusive critical praise and the loyal following of people absolutely entrenched in this effective drama.

It is an A-Tier show, sharing space with luminaries such as The Wire, The Shield, Dead Wood, etc.

And the show deals in many themes but the crux is the notion of an intelligent and gifted man, marginalized by circumstances, becoming a manufacturer of methamphetamine for the express purpose of leaving his family sufficient funds once his terminal cancer steals him away. In this endeavor he radically changes and becomes a kingpin and egomaniac precisely because of his previously marginalized existence.

It truly is one of the best television shows ever made and I'd urge you to give it a fair shake because the quality of the writing and acting eclipses most theatrical films.

It would make a crap video game, can't think of a good tv series vidja game adaptation myself.

Maybe MethLab Tycoon?

Ilovegames1992

It would make a crap video game? If it were open world it could be similar to GTA but easily better due to better characters and better writing. If it were an adventure by Telltale it would have the same type of tension that is exhibited in the Walking Dead game, with better characters and if the show's writers were on board, better writing as well.

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

Hallenbeck77

It would be cash grab just like Telltale's Walking Dead game...

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

ReddestSkies

First of all, other games work just fine with you killing tons of people. You haven't played Uncharted? That's what a video game involves, some things that are there for the game itself. Ever play a FPS that has autoregenerating health? Wait, no that would mean the game can't be made.

Walt doesn't have to do all the killing. Have you forgotten the other characters from the show that kill people? Have you considered that the game wouldn't be about solely about killing people? Have you forgotten about who Walt has become where he puts hits out on his closest allies, poisons children, carries around an assault weapon in the final episodes? Who knows what he'll do with it.

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"]

I keep thinking over and over that Breaking Bad would make a great video game. I could see it being an open-world videogame like GTA with Walt and Jesse as playable characters or they could even go the Walking Dead route and have Telltale make this very story-driven adventure game, or just some linear-based action game. 

I really don't see why the show ended so soon. A game would be a great way to make the show live on for much longer. What kind of game would you want Breaking Bad to be?

Jacanuk

What? Breaking Bad is a piss poor show about some girly man who becomes "powerfull" because he can deal drugs.... drugs that actually destroys other peoples life, destroys kids future ect.

So what kind of game would you make? Scarface is made so if you just want to be a drugdealer go play that, at least that also have a decent ending where he gets whats coming to him.

Never enjoyed Scarface's characters or story, whereas I love Breaking Bad's characters and story. If you have that already all you need to add is gameplay.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

It would make a crap video game, can't think of a good tv series vidja game adaptation myself.

Maybe MethLab Tycoon?

Meta-Gnostic

It would make a crap video game? If it were open world it could be similar to GTA but easily better due to better characters and better writing. If it were an adventure by Telltale it would have the same type of tension that is exhibited in the Walking Dead game, with better characters and if the show's writers were on board, better writing as well.

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

Hallenbeck77

It would be cash grab just like Telltale's Walking Dead game...

It would still make a crap video game. Just wouldn't happen.

As for the show itself. I have the first season on dvd and it was ok but its nowhere near Wire or Sopranos level. I'll wait a long time before I push myself through the other seasons. 

It would still make a crap video game. Just wouldn't happen.

As for the show itself. I have the first season on dvd and it was ok but its nowhere near Wire or Sopranos level. I'll wait a long time before I push myself through the other seasons. 

Ilovegames1992

The first season was the weakest one. Don't do the same mistake I was about to make; I too was about to abbandon the show after its first season, but then decided to give the 2nd season a shot and boy am I happy I did.

Back on topic: I would really like to know how The Walking Dead game was a cash grab? The game was excellent and if TellTale Games were to make a similar spin-off based on Breaking Bad, I would be all for it. 

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

Hallenbeck77

I agree with this completely. 

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[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

It would still make a crap video game. Just wouldn't happen.

As for the show itself. I have the first season on dvd and it was ok but its nowhere near Wire or Sopranos level. I'll wait a long time before I push myself through the other seasons. 

Ilovegames1992

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

Vari3ty

I agree with this completely. 

So Walking Dead Telltale game was a cash grab with inferior writing to the tv show... keep talking out your ass. You're also ignoring the fact that the writers of Breaking Bad could sign on to write the game's story.Meta-Gnostic

I can't comment on the quality of the writing on The Walking Dead game or show because I've not the chance to play or watch either of them. I do know that aside from the comic it's based on, there's a lot of merchandise from it--toys, shirts, what have you, so it seems like just another way to make money off the license. However, a game for that would work because it's much more easier to expand beyond the central storyline--a group of human survivors try to cope and deal with the onslaught of an undead apocalypse. There's so many ways to tell multiple stories and use characters that's not be in the original source material. In a way, it's almost expected, because it's a genre show. There's almost unlimited directions you can go with works in the horror and sci-fi genre

It's much more difficult to do so with something like Breaking Bad because from a storytelling standpoint, it's a drama that focuses mainly on one central character--Walter White--and the consequences that he and the people in his life face when he decides to cook meth as a way to financially support his family. That story is almost at an end with only two episodes remaining. The main question is: How do you have the writers properly expand on that story with a video game in a way that isn't possible with just a regular episode?  

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"] So Walking Dead Telltale game was a cash grab with inferior writing to the tv show... keep talking out your ass. You're also ignoring the fact that the writers of Breaking Bad could sign on to write the game's story.Hallenbeck77

I can't comment on the quality of the writing on The Walking Dead game or show because I've not the chance to play or watch either of them. I do know that aside from the comic it's based on, there's a lot of merchandise from it--toys, shirts, what have you, so it seems like just another way to make money off the license. However, a game for that would work because it's much more easier to expand beyond the central storyline--a group of human survivors try to cope and deal with the onslaught of an undead apocalypse. There's so many ways to tell multiple stories and use characters that's not be in the original source material. In a way, it's almost expected, because it's a genre show. There's almost unlimited directions you can go with works in the horror and sci-fi genre

It's much more difficult to do so with something like Breaking Bad because from a storytelling standpoint, it's a drama that focuses mainly on one central character--Walter White--and the consequences that he and the people in his life face when he decides to cook meth as a way to financially support his family. That story is almost at an end with only two episodes remaining. The main question is: How do you have the writers properly expand on that story with a video game in a way that isn't possible with just a regular episode?  

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"] The first season was by far the worst. Not sure how an insanely popular show, with great characters and great writing would automatically make for a bad game. Not sure why you say it would never happen. Last time I checked The Walking Dead won GOTY awards, a show from the same network as Breaking Bad, a show that is very similar to BB in the way it tells its story with the same type of focus on it's characters.[QUOTE="Vari3ty"]

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

None.  

Making this into a game would just scream cash grab, and would cheapen the writing to what is arguably one of the best shows out there, bar none.  

Meta-Gnostic

I agree with this completely. 

Well for one thing Walking Dead is also based on a comic book series, not just a tv show. Also, TWD is set in a post apocalypse world with the undead everywhere. Means there is a LOT of opportunities for action set pieces and all that. Breaking Bad couldn't do that as well.

I could see a decent point and click adventure game like Telltale's The Walking Dead. It would only be good if wasn't based on the tv show and had completely different different story with the same concept of cooking meth.

Nice idea, but seeing it already as a show it wouldn't work. Gta is really the cloesest we'll get. Guns, drugs, deals gone wrong. All the good stuff.

This :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUK4WgQ3vk

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"][QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

I agree with this completely. 

Ilovegames1992

Well for one thing Walking Dead is also based on a comic book series, not just a tv show. Also, TWD is set in a post apocalypse world with the undead everywhere. Means there is a LOT of opportunities for action set pieces and all that. Breaking Bad couldn't do that as well.

[QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

It wouldn't work as an action game, wtf. Walt doesn't kill thousands of weak henchmen like action games/shooters gameplay requires. Every time he kills someone, it's meaningful, which is the absolute opposite of action games.

Adventure is the only correct answer, as it is the only genre that can convey a story in which you don't commit a genocide.

Meta-Gnostic

First of all, other games work just fine with you killing tons of people. You haven't played Uncharted? That's what a video game involves, some things that are there for the game itself. Ever play a FPS that has autoregenerating health? Wait, no that would mean the game can't be made.

Walt doesn't have to do all the killing. Have you forgotten the other characters from the show that kill people? Have you considered that the game wouldn't be about solely about killing people? Have you forgotten about who Walt has become where he puts hits out on his closest allies, poisons children, carries around an assault weapon in the final episodes? Who knows what he'll do with it.

Evidently, you haven't played Uncharted. Within the first couple hours of the game, you've killed at least a hundred dudes...

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"] So Walking Dead Telltale game was a cash grab with inferior writing to the tv show... keep talking out your ass. You're also ignoring the fact that the writers of Breaking Bad could sign on to write the game's story.Meta-Gnostic

Well for one thing Walking Dead is also based on a comic book series, not just a tv show. Also, TWD is set in a post apocalypse world with the undead everywhere. Means there is a LOT of opportunities for action set pieces and all that. Breaking Bad couldn't do that as well.

People who make sense? Fair enough then. 

They should make another Sopranos game, its wonderfully scripted so it would automatically be an awesome game.

None...at all. That would be so stupid

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[QUOTE="ReddestSkies"]

Well for one thing Walking Dead is also based on a comic book series, not just a tv show. Also, TWD is set in a post apocalypse world with the undead everywhere. Means there is a LOT of opportunities for action set pieces and all that. Breaking Bad couldn't do that as well.

Mcspanky37

People who make sense? Fair enough then. 

They should make another Sopranos game, its wonderfully scripted so it would automatically be an awesome game.

People take source material or an idea and whether it is good or not matters greatly on whether they executed it well or not. Breaking Bad is simply excellent source material, and as you'll see with the last 2 episodes it will become even better source material for a videogame. You're just incredibly ignorant.

No I'm not discussing it with someone who thinks just because something is a comic book it's so much better being a videogame than a tv show could be. DUMB.

Meta-Gnostic

To be honest, I don't think that was his point at all.

I think he was trying to make it clear that TWD is already very much an established IP spanning more than one form of media and thus more easily made into a videogame.

[QUOTE="Not ReddestSkies"]

Well for one thing Walking Dead is also based on a comic book series, not just a tv show. Also, TWD is set in a post apocalypse world with the undead everywhere. Means there is a LOT of opportunities for action set pieces and all that. Breaking Bad couldn't do that as well.

Meta-Gnostic

No I'm not discussing it with someone who thinks just because something is a comic book it's so much better being a videogame than a tv show could be. DUMB. You fail to realize the simple fact that what matters most is execution when making a game, movie, book, etc. Look at the developer that made the Sopranos game, pure crap unknown developer. http://www.ign.com/companies/7-studios Look at the 2 different Walking Dead games.

People take source material or an idea and whether it is good or not matters greatly on whether they executed it well or not. Breaking Bad is simply excellent source material, and as you'll see with the last 2 episodes it will become even better source material for a videogame. You're just incredibly ignorant.

Not entirely sure why I'm quoted to say that since it was Ilovegames1992 who posted it, but the first quote is entirely and completely true, very very far from dumb, and very well worth a decent reply. 

The Walking Dead has proven to be adaptable across mediums, which is a plus for it.

The Walking Dead has zombies everywhere walking around just waiting to be killed, making action setpiece possibilities a lot more numerous. In Breaking Bad, Walt certainly doesn't kill thousands of weak enemies, which limits a video game adaptation to the adventure genre. Every time Walt kills someone, it's very meaningful, and that goes completely against the point of action games.

[QUOTE="Mcspanky37"]

[QUOTE="Meta-Gnostic"] I'm not going to even bother discussing it with people like yourself.Meta-Gnostic

People who make sense? Fair enough then. 

They should make another Sopranos game, its wonderfully scripted so it would automatically be an awesome game.

That wasn't my point. And yes the Sopranos game sucked.