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Oh dear, couldn't they make a TV show based on a good game instead?

The Sims and its sequel are perfectly good games, thankyouverymuch. Just not ones to make a TV show about.

How on Earth is one supposed to make a show where the viewers control every facet of the cast's lives? May as well just tape a guy playing the game and put that up, for all the idea's worth...

If they want to do a show based on a game with a sense of user control, they should choose one of those game series' that has branching storylines depending on what choices you make. Hell, I've got an idea for an anime series based upon the storyline of the Shin Megami Tensai games where viewers, every so often, could dictate in what direction the show would go, with a set of three finale episodes being made depending upon the choices viewers made. Then,, when television stations start on the second loop of the show, they give the viewers the choice between the two options they didn't take last time at a particular scenario, then just writing the third episode on the choice that didn't get picked the first two times. Total episodes could be something in the area of 65 or so, with the average run lasting 25 from start to finale.

Of course, the Christian fundies would probably scream for a total banning in the US when viewers choose to support the demons instead of the Messian Church, or when the Messian Church gets shown to be a bunch of murderous, totalitarian lunatics...

Sharpshooter wrote:If they want to do a show based on a game with a sense of user control, they should choose one of those game series' that has branching storylines depending on what choices you make. Hell, I've got an idea for an anime series based upon the storyline of the Shin Megami Tensai games where viewers, every so often, could dictate in what direction the show would go, with a set of three finale episodes being made depending upon the choices viewers made.

Thats been done before. It used to be quite a big thing in fact, a few years back. Of course, it used to be usually just the studio audience who got to choose; but I remember Children in Need did it one year where you phoned in.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18360.html

Oh dear, couldn't they make a TV show based on a good game instead?

Considering even good games usually make a crappy show (Tomb Raider: The Movie, anyone?), imagine what a crappy game would be... *shudders*.

But the guys that do Red vs. Blue are now making their own Sims 2 "reality show". It's called The Strangerhood. Are they trying to profit from that?

Fin D'ah Gub wrote:But the guys that do Red vs. Blue are now making their own Sims 2 "reality show". It's called The Strangerhood. Are they trying to profit from that?

Given it'd be illegal, I'd guess no.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

Fin D'ah Gub wrote:But the guys that do Red vs. Blue are now making their own Sims 2 "reality show". It's called The Strangerhood. Are they trying to profit from that?

Given it'd be illegal, I'd guess no.

Actually last I heard Strangerhood was sponsored by EA. In fact I heard EA actually went to them to see aobut making that, not the other way around. Perfectly legal though as yet we have to see if ti will work.