Why a hunger games game could work

ThatSentinent · 12-01-2014 1:53am #1

This is what i think and is my personal opinion so no haters

Frist off no relation to katness everdeens story.A mmo based around 50th-73th hunger games with a non-canon ending.You have A personal customesible tribute but no stat progession.Every new match will have your characther with no tools or weapons.The same get to safe ground or fight to middle to get the goodies.No fancy weapons like guns or grenades.Longbows and melee weapons.Food has to hunted or found.Plants are more common than meat but have a risk of poisoning your tribute.the game can NOT be free to play! no microtransections or anything like that.Doing certains tasks like a stylish kill or a stunts can earn you ''sponser points'' the more of these you have,the more sponsers you get.Like in the books and films the 'gamemakers' can put nasty surprizes on the playing feild like violent dogs or fireballs.This will be based off a AI stystem,of course.
Well,what do you guys think???

Fnz · 12-01-2014 2:00am

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters.

SeantheMan · 12-01-2014 4:56am

i think Battle Royale > Hunger Games

Dacelonid · 12-01-2014 9:16am

SeantheMan wrote: »

i think Battle Royale > Hunger Games

In general, or as an idea for a game?

SeantheMan · 12-01-2014 9:29am

Dacelonid wrote: »

In general, or as an idea for a game?

Both

Hunger games, is basically a kids version of Battle Royal.
Also, I was suprised on seeing the 2nd film (not read the books) ....that they copied the Battle Royale idea further with the use of 'Danger Zones every hour' etc

Mickeroo · 12-01-2014 3:20pm

There's a Hunger Games in halo 4 customs thats a bit of fun. You start unarmed with all the weapons left in a cornucopia in the middle and everyone has to dash in and try and grab one. Of course there's a gentleman's agreement that you wont kill anyone with your bare hands while everyone is dashing for the weapons.

Retr0gamer · 12-01-2014 3:29pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

Both

Hunger games, is basically a kids version of Battle Royal.
Also, I was suprised on seeing the 2nd film (not read the books) ....that they copied the Battle Royale idea further with the use of 'Danger Zones every hour' etc

Also Beat Takeshi > Jennifer Lawrence

Professey Chin · 12-01-2014 3:32pm

I thought this was for real

Bringing a whole new meaning to the games catagory :pac:

ThatSentinent · 12-01-2014 3:32pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

i think Battle Royale > Hunger Games

hunger games would work better as a game cause if some players get guns and some useless thing its gonna lead to unfair adventages, ans rage quitting...

ShadowHearth · 12-01-2014 3:33pm

Aint DayZ pretty much a a gaming version of Hunger Games? :pac:

Just add some sort of helicopter to drop off sexy loot in random map locations and say: "well bitches, there are some awesome loot in that spot, go get, but dont forget to kill each other on the way there!".

Mickeroo · 12-01-2014 3:36pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Aint DayZ pretty much a a gaming version of Hunger Games? :pac:

Just add some sort of helicopter to drop off sexy loot in random map locations and say: "well bitches, there are some awesome loot in that spot, go get, but dont forget to kill each other on the way there!".

Rust doesn't sound like a world away from it either.

johnny_ultimate · 12-01-2014 3:41pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Also Beat Takeshi > Jennifer Lawrence

It's actually Donald Sutherland who is in competition here as the token psychotic overseer. Kitano still wins

ShadowHearth · 12-01-2014 3:59pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Rust doesn't sound like a world away from it either.

Aye, if what Rust is even more of that. You start naked with a rock in your hands!

Mickeroo · 12-01-2014 4:03pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Aye, if what Rust is even more of that. You start naked with a rock in your hands!

As god intended.

edit: hah actually misread that as rocket not rock.

TheFairy · 12-01-2014 4:08pm

There is a Battle Royale version of Dayz Mod, working on getting a server set up at the moment.

calex71 · 12-01-2014 4:11pm

We'll probably see a hunger games ... game. It will be called Lego Hunger Games I bet :pac:

They seem to be doing it with every other franchise these days so I wouldn't be surprised to see a lego one.

A game would have to be closer to the books though, films were far too PG13 for my liking.

johnny_ultimate · 12-01-2014 4:22pm

Here's a problem with either a Battle Royale or Hunger Games game: the pacifism, or at least reluctance at engaging in violence, of its protagonists. That's a major part of the story in both works, the creators critiquing the violence rather than celebrating it. Giving the player to chance to participate would sort of undermine the creators' respective visions, and I'd imagine certainly Collins might be reluctant to surrender the rights for such reasons. And game makers would likely be a bit wary too: at least in the films, they can justify the violence aimed at a teen audience in terms of Katniss being a very reluctant participant. This would be very challenging to translate to a game.

o1s1n · 12-01-2014 6:04pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Here's a problem with either a Battle Royale or Hunger Games game: the pacifism, or at least reluctance at engaging in violence, of its protagonists. That's a major part of the story in both works, the creators critiquing the violence rather than celebrating it. Giving the player to chance to participate would sort of undermine the creators' respective visions, and I'd imagine certainly Collins might be reluctant to surrender the rights for such reasons. And game makers would likely be a bit wary too: at least in the films, they can justify the violence aimed at a teen audience in terms of Katniss being a very reluctant participant. This would be very challenging to translate to a game.

DayZ does touch on this though. You can murder everyone you see or else form a team and work together - all the time worrying that someone could stab you in the back at any moment.

If you do have a really strong team (which is 100% based on trust) you'd be surprised the bond you can form. It's awful when one of them dies.

Daith · 12-01-2014 6:19pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Here's a problem with either a Battle Royale or Hunger Games game: the pacifism, or at least reluctance at engaging in violence, of its protagonists. That's a major part of the story in both works, the creators critiquing the violence rather than celebrating it. Giving the player to chance to participate would sort of undermine the creators' respective visions, and I'd imagine certainly Collins might be reluctant to surrender the rights for such reasons. And game makers would likely be a bit wary too: at least in the films, they can justify the violence aimed at a teen audience in terms of Katniss being a very reluctant participant. This would be very challenging to translate to a game.

So screw both and just do The Running Man!

Retr0gamer · 12-01-2014 9:18pm

Smash TV already kind of did that.

johnny_ultimate · 13-01-2014 12:18am

o1s1n wrote: »

DayZ does touch on this though. You can murder everyone you see or else form a team and work together - all the time worrying that someone could stab you in the back at any moment.

If you do have a really strong team (which is 100% based on trust) you'd be surprised the bond you can form. It's awful when one of them dies.

It's great that these type of experiences are available, but the problem is it simply wouldn't fit with The Hunger Games outside of, say, fanmade mods

Once you give the player the chance to murder everyone, then you're in a very different type of experience than the one the series offers at the moment (same with Battle Royale, but that would be a more comfortable fit). Franchises far more bankable than the Hunger Games have received video game spin-offs, but the strict, pacifist morality of the book and film stories is very likely a major reason why we haven't seen a HG game yet. The concept of The Hunger Games implies brutality and bloodshed - the two films (all I've seen or read of the franchise) actively go out of their way to avoid that. It's moralised to ensure that violence is only the solution in the most extreme of circumstances, and Katniss (the protagonist and in a sense our implied moral compass) is consistently shown to militantly actively violence against others wherever possible, sometimes even putting herself at risk. I think she kills maybe one person between the two films so far, and that's a huge psychological trauma. That would be slightly compromised if the player was murdering dozens of generic enemies every level (although games like Uncharted have tried to develop a morally righteous protagonist: not particularly convincing thanks to the high body count Nathan Drake manages to amass :pac:)

It would be interesting to see if one does get released somewhere along the line, and what developers do with it - I'd bet on a fairly bloodless platformer or something if it ever comes to that, as opposed to a more complex survival simulator. At the very least, it would restrict you to the 'working together' aspect, and I'd be very surprised if it was anything darker or more violent. Because making a Hunger Games game that offers the player the capability to be a willing, merciless participant in the games would be a rather wild variation of the source material, and certainly not something a game company would be able to happily market to a teenage or 'young adult' audience.

There's undoubtedly the potential for a game using a concept like the Hunger Games or Battle Royale - one could argue they already exist as these newly popular survival games, or mods based on the concepts. But I'd be amazed if a game of that sort of depth or player agency ever emerged with the official name 'The Hunger Games'.

SeantheMan · 13-01-2014 5:19am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Smash TV already kind of did that.

Smash TV was brilliant!
Totally reminded me of Arnie's 'Running Man'

ShooterSF · 13-01-2014 7:14am

I think The Condemned would fit better than either HG or BR.

Shiminay · 13-01-2014 11:29am

There are a stack of games that lend themselves to it if the players agree on it. Minecraft, DayZ, Rust all seem to offer that option, but if there's no "official" mod/game mode for it, then it is up to the players to stick to it.

Dravokivich · 13-01-2014 12:54pm

Wouldnt really make it as an mmo either. You are basing you're entire play around upto 25 people in 1 place to compete. If you need food or have to scavenge for wealons in a similar fashion to the books/movies, itll need to be an event that gets spread out. Not all competitors will stay online for it.

The thing about mmos is you can log in/out whenever you feel and with a big enough population on the server it doesnt impact gameplay.