Why have no videogames ever used Shakespeare as a source?
>Macbeth and Richard III murdering simulator
>Big battles in Henry V and Coriolanus
>Being an utter dickhead that ruins lives in Othello or King Lear
Even as VN I think it could be pretty entertaining. Is it just too highbrow for vidya?
who the fuck is shakespear
>>320380237
>shakespear
A botherer of fruit
Because it wouldn't fucking work in the medium you fucking dunce.
For every piece of action in Shakespear there are at least 500 lines of dialogue.
>>320380397
The hamlet thing is just a coincidence
>Shakespeare
>high-brow
what?
>>320380169
I don't think you thought this through.
>>320380169
DmC did.
>>320380452
What? Nope.
>>320380169
>Why have no videogames ever used Shakespeare as a source?
Because they would make crappy video games.
>Even as VN
Which aren't video games.
Vagrant Story and Matsuno games in general have some Shakespeare throwbacks.
>>320380673
How? The stories are all blood and guts as that's what audiences liked back then.
>>320380561
[Wubeth reverberating in the background]
King Lear a best
>>320380561
SHAKESPEAREAN
>>320380169
>Shakespeare
meme tier
>>320381449
#TheStruggleIsReal
I would like the see more novels given the video game treatment, Voice acting in parts, a small bit of interaction, nice visuals, extras that give a little peak into the time period
http://store.steampowered.com/app/234940/
>>320380450
this. what are you, OP, a retard?
>>320381550
>>320381550
#TheStruggleIsReal
top fucking kek
this generation is lost
>>320381634
>>320380450
That's why its a ps4 exclusive.
>>320380169
Because Shakespear would create soap operas if he was alive today.
To many pathetic scenes and pathetic deaths are hard to translate to the video game medium.
>>320380169
Why have no videogames ever used Ariosto as a source?
>>320381550
>>320381645
this is some 1984 type shit right here
>>320380169
Mabinogi gave it a try for an entire season and 4 generations.
The first two were kinda just 1:1 with Hamlet and R&J but you got attacked by the grim reaper every now and again who comes to fuck up everything because Shakespeare is a prisoner of the gods.
Then they used Macbeth and The Merchent of Venice for two more generations, and instead of being 1:1's they used them as sort of story frames and used other characters in place, people liked that half better if I recall.
>>320380169
DmC:Devil May Cry
It's Shakespearean.
>>320380169
Because he's boring as fuck?
>>320380169
Devil may Cry: Devil may Cry was Shakespearean
>>320380169undertale makes a reference to shakespeare
[spoilter]when you kill papyrus
How would that even work?
>>320380169
How's the first year of majoring in English treating you, OP? I bet you feel like a real academic.
Fuck off, come back when you major in something relevant.
>>320380237
AYOO HOL UP
>>320383950
AYOO TEACH, ROMEO GOT A MONTAGUE IN HIS RUCK SACK.
>>320381645
>>320380169
Why do people think Shakepeare was highbrow? Because it's old?
His plays were entertainment for the masses. They have a lot of toilet humour in them.
>>320381550
America please stop
Please
For the good of the world
>>320380169
I think the problem is if you can do it in a way that won't make you, the creator, seem like an idiot. Are you gonna use 100% Shakespeare lines? for a VN sure, and that seems like a good idea, but for anything else that's gonna be tricky. And so- are You gonna write lines and put them into shakespeare and trust that you live up to his standards?
>>320381550
Who cares? It's just some lolsofunnay gimmick book.
>>320383950
HOL UP
HOL UP
YOU FINNA TELL ME
YOU FINNA TELL ME CASSIO LAYIN WITH MY BITCH
>>320381645
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>>320382347
Underrated post
>>320381449
>>320381550
I think it's funny and you're blowing this out of proportion.
>>320384560
>Why do people think Shakepeare was highbrow
I guess because it uses archaic language. Also, don't try to imply his soliloquies weren't GOAT. Even if it did have more base humour sometimes he's a 10/10 wordsmith.
>>320380169
I guarantee you that many of them have. It may not be explicit, but tons of plotlines that get used in modern books, TV, movies and video games have roots in Shakespeare's work.
>>320384912
I think you mean "niggers," anon
although people who ironically speak like them are a part of the problem too now
>>320384560
good structure, and he's also responsible for many words that entered the English language
the sonnets aren't "entertainment for the masses" and are usually pretty deepwhen they're not verbose porn for patron X
>>320380169
>>320386478
What was the story of that again?
>>320380169
>Why have no videogames ever used Shakespeare as a source?
I feel like Blood Omen took quite a few things from Shakespearean literature. The game even references Hamlet in one easter egg.
If they made a Macbeth game that was 100% true to the source material, I would totally be fine with an episodic release. There is most certainly a justifiable amount of content that would need to be split, AND they'd be in acts.
In before
>episodic
>>320380450
Sounds like a Telltale game
>>320386993
How the fuck would that play? Macbeth stabs a king and spends the rest of the story being a huge cunt before someone beheads him.
>>320386603
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops
see if you can spot the similarities
the ingame terminal also has multiple Shakespeare quotes in the emails
>>320387096
First episode has nonstop action. Maybe a little downtime for dialogue.
Second episode is the fallout after the action.
Third episode is the tension and buildup to the ending.
Fourth episode is the ending.
>shakespeare
>high brow
he's a filthy bard from the slums who did generic historical drama for a quick buck
>>320385516
>>320386291
I'm not saying his plays were bad, not at all, but they were definitely mass entertainment.
>>320380169
Because that would require creativity
What's the point of using anything as inspiration if it doesn't result in a dull sandbox game using AC combat?
Cooking with Titus.
>>320388051
Mass entertainment doesn't stop something being highbrow anyway; Liszt was considered one of the most advanced pianists of his age, yet his stuff was the "we want the Call of Duty audience" of piano designed for a mass audience
Hardly any art or music considered highbrow today wasn't mass entertainment in its time. Dickens was also mass entertainment, as another example. His stories would be published in episodic format in newspapers and shit like any TV show.
>>320380561
>>320388051
Even at the time the average person wouldn't have understood a lot of Shakespeare.
>>320380617
Do you have any evidence that its more than a coincidence beyond your childish love of cracked articles and mind=blown posts on facebook
>>320388051
Doesn't mean shit anon. Most, if not all of the old composers that helped shape music made music "for the masses".
>Shakespeare
>Highbrow
lel
>>320381550
>I'd had no more sweat or heart break
>>320385054
Shakespearean dialogue isn't hard to write anon, you just need to be good at coming up with metaphors.
Metaphors are why scholars consider Shakespeare's works worth studying in the first place.
>>320389967
Yeah, his stories aren't anything special, it's the way he tells them.
I just want an Iliad/Odyssey game.
>>320383347
>1984
how about you read the book before you make dumb comparisons.
>>320392446
Titan quest
