I'm an Assassin Creed fan and I own most of the games except for Assassin's Creed and Revelations. I love the fact that you can do mostly whatever you want in the game and I also enjoy story mode. 've pre-ordered Watch Dogs which will be open world; and I am really excited for both Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed Black Flag. My dad was watching me play the games and he asked was there a Lone Ranger video game or Zorro game that played similar to the Creed series. It motivated me to some how say something to Ubisoft about the idea and how wonderful it would be. There was a Zorro game but it was not open world and the game simply wasn't that great. I'm not aware of the existence of any Lone Ranger open world video games at all.
I really would like to see a Zorro open world game that follows closely to the comics and the classic Disney television series starring Guy Williams. Lots of features and side quest's and of course DLC Packs that you'd have to purchase from the PSN Store, Nintendo eShop or Xbox LIVE Market. And the same with The Lone Ranger based on the comics and the classic TV series Starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. Being able to play as Tonto or The Ranger and both would have their own story deciding on who you play either Tonto or the Ranger! With both games I hope that Ubisoft would start the game off with the player experiencing the childhood of Both characters which I read in the comics then skip to the point where Diego becomes Zorro and John losses his brothers and the Rangers.
I also would love to see a Western video game where you can either be a Cowboy, Cowgirl, Bounty Hunter, Marshall or American Indian of which various tribe you'd choose (i.e. Apache, Commanche, Sioux ect).
There would be a main story-line but with variegating story plots depending on how you played the game, choosing to be good, bad or neutral; example you could either do good for the people, peace seeking, diplomatic, verdant, choose to get along mutually with the Settlers and Natives. Or start a war between the setters and the Native tribes or stay out of sticky situations, staying quite or work with the Bounty Hunters to track down criminals and root out villainy or even hunt down innocent civilians or your friends and family members that crossed you. Also the ability to raise a family and get married and own your very own plantation, own a simple home and farm, become Chief, pitch a Teepee or even become a legendary Bounty Hunter that has decided to start a family and answer the cold hard cash call of Justice. Have a mode where you fight or hunt along side other players, go to their homes and visit their towns or tribe. Have a mode where you PvP players or have team missions. Also choosing your Race, Gender in Game. Another feature that I Would love to see in the western game which is not in the AC series is the ability to ride carriages, wagons and the ability to go inside more buildings and homes. I love the idea of being able to hold up a bank, business or home and then being chased by the Sheriff and Posse. Also the feature to have a stables where you can purchase horses and dogs. Crafting, smiting, farming. Pet dogs would be able to fight along side you as well and the ability to have more than one dog where you can have a pack of dogs that protect your home, farms, or travel with you. Also the ablity to tame Wolves. DLC Packs to purchase for Extra content as well.
It would also be wonderful if they could do the same with a game that has to do with the Roman Empire and Greece as well! Being able to have a open world roman game and being able to play as a gladiator, slave fighting your way to freedom, soldier or thief. Having the ability to rank in your class of soldier, gladiator etc. The Ability to have a family, own slaves etc! Just many different possibilities. A market where not only you purchase, food for health, tailor for civilian clothes, and blacksmith for weapons and amour but a craftsman shop for furniture, chariots and wagons, a pet shop to buy, dogs, horses, mules and other livestock and a equipment shop where you buy travel bags, etc to store your items which would be mounted on your mule or small bags for your horse. Also the samething if you steal, break into something or kill someone innocent you are chased and attacked by the guards and soldiers and if they catch you, you will be thrown in prison and you have to pay to get out, fight your way out or if they refuse to free you you will be sentenced to die, right before you are killed you have to escape and jump into crowd, hold someone hostage or find another way to escape the executioners. The ability to choose your own gender in game. Again the feature where your dog would fight along side you when you are fighting enemies or hunting animals or have a pack of dogs. You would be able to ride your horse and have a mule that would travel along side as you ride your horse. Don't forget you would have your dog traveling with you too. The game would have single player story offline & online multiplayer which would be really awesome if you had a good internet connection. Another feature about having dogs you would be able to hunt wolves and tame them to be your pet. And you would also have to buy DLC packs for extra content.
Its rare to see a Historical Western or classical Roman/Greek game on traditional video game consoles nowadays instead of PC/Mac. I am a big fan of Westerns and Roman based movies, TV shows, comics and anything to do with World History! Its disappointing not being able to find a good Western or Roman historical game that is Third Person and open world. And I would love it if Ubisoft considered the idea. It would bring in the established Assasin's Creed fan base and more new customers than ever!
For all of these games that I am suggesting you would get extra content that is different solely on each console! It would also be great to if the games were released for the incredibly capable Sony PS Vita.
Does anyone else have any ideas for this type of game? Let me know what you think. I am still trying to find Ubisoft's email address so I can email this directly to them. Hopefully someone here on the forum will see this from Ubisoft!
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So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Whoa, that was definitely a TL;DR... sorry about that... maybe someone else will be more interested than me...?
TL and DR? What's that mean?
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Well it was pretty long not trying to be rude but you should condense it because people on the interwebs don't care what a stranger has to say if it's too long to read.
Well it was pretty long not trying to be rude but you should condense it because people on the interwebs don't care what a stranger has to say if it's too long to read.
Yup. Some people like to add a "TL;DR" version of the post at the bottom. Sometimes, if I see an interesting one of those, I go back and read the rest. Or at least give some sort of productive feedback...
Sorry but I can't its to important to shorten things down. Hopefully people that know me here on Nintendolife will take the time to read this. My parents brother and friends told me I needed to put this out there for people to read and if there are people willing to read the whole thing. That's wonderful. I have no clue why anyone that doesn't know me wouldn't want to read this. Anyway back on topic. IF you guys want to actually talk about a Lone Ranger, Zorror etc open world game that would be great.
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Sorry but I can't its to important to shorten things down. Hopefully people that know me here on Nintendolife will take the time to read this. My parents brother and friends told me I needed to put this out there for people to read and if there are people willing to read the whole thing. That's wonderful. I have no clue why anyone that doesn't know me wouldn't want to read this. Anyway back on topic. IF you guys want to actually talk about a Lone Ranger, Zorror etc open world game that would be great.
Question is how do you get Ubisoft to notice?
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The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Well the reason the Lone Ranger movie did not do so well is because it did not follow the old tv show with Clayton Moore and it sure did not follow the comics. The movie was like watching a comedy! I truly believe that if they can actually get this type of game out, people would love it! And I hope if they do these games the Lone Ranger and Zorro won't be rated M but instead Rated T for a larger audience and they can play without all the curse words, nudity and strong language .
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Well I posted to Ubisoft and Hopefully they will see it. I'm going to make a petition as well! I've suggested other things to companies before and they have listened. I got groups together to stand against COD Ghost until they added women and they added them! So hopefully I will be successful again.
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Generally, there's a reason companies don't take fan suggestions... Not to say your ideas are bad, because they aren't; it's just that they won't take any fan suggestions.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Well the reason the Lone Ranger movie did not do so well is because it did not follow the old tv show with Clayton Moore and it sure did not follow the comics. The movie was like watching a comedy! I truly believe that if they can actually get this type of game out, people would love it! And I hope if they do these games the Lone Ranger and Zorro won't be rated M but instead Rated T for a larger audience and they can play without all the curse words, nudity and strong language .
RIPD was based off of the comics of the same name it certainly didn't shake the box office but it did reap minor praise from those who watched it and it was a modern mass-up of Western/Comedy. I actually read a handful of reviews that praised Disney's Lone Ranger and the authors praise the film for it's creatively humorous dialogue, beautiful cinematography, frenetic action and last but not least, a lot of blogs and even Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine and Washington Post praised the Train fight scene as the highest and best action scene in any movie of this decade; some reviewers said it was better than Man of Steel's battle scene between Superman and General Zod. The major complaint and criticism from critics and general audiences alike was that Disney's Lone Ranger was far too long, pressing on for nearly four hours with unnecessary violence than substance in an attempt to set it apart from Pirates of the Caribbean in tone and presentation.
I certainly agree, that video game studios need to take a serious step back from all the ultra-violence, vulgar language and borderline pornographic content in some M rated games. A video game like Zorro or Lone Ranger certainly should be rated nothing more than T or T+ (Older Teen). Thankfully, the video game industry has been going in a more general audience direction as of late with titles like Injustice Gods Among Us, Gravity Rush, Rayman Legends, Batman Arkham, Child of Light and Blaze Blue. I was definitely disappointed that Tomb Raider went from T to M rating. It would be really nice Ubisoft got off their lazy bums and started reviving the Prince of Persia franchise. 2008's Prince of Persia reboot needs a sequel game.
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Er red dead was a critical and commercial darling selling over 12 million copies. But I do agree westerns aren't en bouge anymore.
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Generally, there's a reason companies don't take fan suggestions... Not to say your ideas are bad, because they aren't; it's just that they won't take any fan suggestions.
Its rare that they do. But if they see its a pretty good suggestion I am crossing my fingers that they will take a look at it. I mean we are the customer and we are the ones keeping these companies up and running by purchasing the companies games and products. IF they actually take a look at this I think they would talk about it and maybe put a poll out there asking for everyone's thought on such a game. Wow I am just imagining how the game would look and it sure would be amazing to actually get into a game like this and play! Would be so amazing and breathe taking! Not only that they'd have such amazing games that would hold the attention of people and get them to stop and check it out. They'd be a top gamer seller too! People love Zorro and they love The Lone Ranger. I have also talked to a lot of people who want to see a really good western game.
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Er red dead was a critical and commercial darling selling over 12 million copies. But I do agree westerns aren't en bouge anymore.
Red Dead Redemption sold really well and people liked it. Now Call of Juarez I don't know much about, I did play it and was greatly upset that it was first person and the gameplay wasn't that great. The only problem Ubisoft would have is getting the rights to The Lone Ranger and Zorro. But maybe they could work with the studios and owners of Both Zorro and The Lone Ranger.
Love is the Answer!
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34
So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Er red dead was a critical and commercial darling selling over 12 million copies. But I do agree westerns aren't en bouge anymore.
My remarks are in regards to the comments made by Game Informer magazine and some other gaming news sources which compared Red Dead Redemptions numbers to other franchises such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Borderlands, Tomb Raider, BioShock, Legend of Zelda, Ratchet and Clank, Battlefield, Uncharted, Killzone, Call of Duty and Street Fighter all of which has incredible selling numbers which put Red Dead Redemption's poultry 12 million to a miserable shame. I know the Tomb Raider reboot failed with sells of only 3.4 million while both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Underworld had something of 17 and15 million. As of 2012 Uncharted hit 17 million. Eurogamer.net has confirmed that God of War 3 sold well over 21 million copies. Before the Black Ops games released Call of Duty had hit 50 million units sold. The Legend of Zelda franchise has hit 67.93 million copies as of 2013. Bayonetta has also hit more than 16 million units sold. Borderlands 2 is on it's way to selling more than 14 million units. Battlefield 3 sold 15 million units in the United Sates alone as of 2012.
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Er red dead was a critical and commercial darling selling over 12 million copies. But I do agree westerns aren't en bouge anymore.
Red Dead Redemption sold really well and people liked it. Now Call of Juarez I don't know much about, I did play it and was greatly upset that it was first person and the gameplay wasn't that great. The only problem Ubisoft would have is getting the rights to The Lone Ranger and Zorro. But maybe they could work with the studios and owners of Both Zorro and The Lone Ranger.
From the reviews I've read online and the people I have talked with on various message boards along with Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook all seem to agree that Call of Juarez sucked major nasty chicken eggs. Also, Red Dead Redemption is one of the MOST (and this has been confirmed by GameStop employees and online chatter) traded in games. In fact, I remember asking a guy in the local comic shop if Red Dead Redemption was a good game and he responded by saying "hell, that game sucked so bad I'm ashamed to say that I bought it" and then he went on to tell me how he almost broke the disc is frustration. So much for a game that's supposed to be good eh? I lump RDR right in their with Duke Nukkem. Also, a lot of stuff is overrated like Skyrim for instance. It's so hyped up that in the end it's unbelievably lame and sucky. To each his own I guess.
Great idea. It's certainly impressive. However, only time will tell if Ubisoft will actually do something like this. Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, Square Enix/Eidos and BioWare are most certainly the best choices for developing a video game around the ideas that you've suggested.
The only major hurtle is that studios seem to feel that the Western genre centered around Cowboys and Indians is pretty much obsolete and that general audiences of the present time don't really buy into it as was evidenced by the epic fails of The Lone Ranger, John Carter, Red Dead Redemption, Cowboys and Aliens. However, I would like to disagree, personally, I like Westerns. I've been raised on great classics such as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Annie Oakley, Bonanza, Little House of the Prairie and many of the classic John Ford films. Recently, we've had a few financially successful films in the Western genre such as True Grit, Rango and the highly controversial Django Unchained. Although Cowboys and Aliens wasn't a financial success I liked it a lot and the same goes for Disney's Lone Ranger and John Carter. Although the disgusting movie critics panned the movies as lackluster I beg to differ as I loved both movies.
It is my belief that the Western genre isn't dead on the film/television screen nor video game market. It's just that someone has to strive a perfect balance and I believe that is what happened with Borderlands. Gearbox Software's Borderlands is nothing more than a stylized and ingeniously crafted "Western" meets "Space Opera" video game and I loved it! Nintendo has a really cool cowboy video game in "Dillion's The Rolling Western" and the new Secret Ponchos on PS3/PS4/PSVita is a really neat Western stylized shoot em up which has gotta a lot of praise at PAX East and PAX Prime. Nope, I don't think Cowboys are dead in pop culture but they aren't hot either but it's up to studios to reinvent Westerns like Disney did with Pirates which were once thought dead also. Heck, who said dead men tell no tales?
Er red dead was a critical and commercial darling selling over 12 million copies. But I do agree westerns aren't en bouge anymore.
My remarks are in regards to the comments made by Game Informer magazine and some other gaming news sources which compared Red Dead Redemptions numbers to other franchises such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Borderlands, Tomb Raider, BioShock, Legend of Zelda, Ratchet and Clank, Battlefield, Uncharted, Killzone, Call of Duty and Street Fighter all of which has incredible selling numbers which put Red Dead Redemption's poultry 12 million to a miserable shame. I know the Tomb Raider reboot failed with sells of only 3.4 million while both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Underworld had something of 17 and15 million. As of 2012 Uncharted hit 17 million. Eurogamer.net has confirmed that God of War 3 sold well over 21 million copies. Before the Black Ops games released Call of Duty had hit 50 million units sold. The Legend of Zelda franchise has hit 67.93 million copies as of 2013. Bayonetta has also hit more than 16 million units sold. Borderlands 2 is on it's way to selling more than 14 million units. Battlefield 3 sold 15 million units in the United Sates alone as of 2012.
Red Dead Redemption was one game, your comparing it to the sales of entire franchises. It sold better than a number if those franchises games individually.
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