THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on June 08, 2008, 09:22:55 AM

Title: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 08, 2008, 09:22:55 AM
Couldn't they pretty much just use the Phoenix Wright engine with some minor tweaks?
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 08, 2008, 02:26:29 PM
i don't think that would make a good game...there's no way to win.  :lol 

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on June 08, 2008, 07:27:15 PM
damn
Ha ha, you're dyslexic, why don't you go to a bra and drink down your sorrows.
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: chronovore on June 08, 2008, 07:30:18 PM
damn
Ha ha, you're dyslexic, why don't you go to a bra and drink down your sorrows.

:lol I love this plan. I'm glad to be a part of it!

The Trial had a pretty good mid-'90s skinflick adaptation; maybe that would be the superior videogame.
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 08, 2008, 10:21:37 PM
I'm trying to think if there are any games that end with failure/death after a whole lot of bad shit happens to the protagonist...not ringing any bells.  perhaps a Kafka line of games is in order.
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: Eric P on June 09, 2008, 12:40:43 PM
Couldn't they pretty much just use the Phoenix Wright engine with some minor tweaks?

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Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: jiji on June 09, 2008, 02:42:50 PM
I'll wait for the sequel, The Castle. I look forward to truly endless dialog trees, endless backtracking, loops in quests, and no map.
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: jiji on June 09, 2008, 02:45:37 PM
And I think we already have a game of The Metamorphosis. Anybody played Bad Mojo?
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 09, 2008, 04:00:58 PM
if I blatantly rip off all of Kafka's stories and novels in my DS RPG, do you guys think I'll get called on it, or just praised for bringing literary refinement to the world of video games?   :-*
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 09, 2008, 06:57:02 PM
if I blatantly rip off all of Kafka's stories and novels in my DS RPG, do you guys think I'll get called on it, or just praised for bringing literary refinement to the world of video games?   :-*

It'll be fine.  The only criteria you'll be judged on is whether the story is Oscar-worthy or not.  I don't think Soderbergh won an Oscar for Kafka though...which used elements of all of Kafka's stories and put it into a movie ;)
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: Eric P on June 09, 2008, 07:44:00 PM
ha

i forgot about that movie

i caught it on Bravo like 13 years ago or so and liked it so much i stayed up late so i could tape it and show it to friends



(my vcr programming was borked)
Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone made a Franz Kafka's The Trial video game yet?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 09, 2008, 07:49:06 PM
the genre will be Tactical Theorem Proving Action