Sonic the Hedgehog helped revive 63-year-old Sega. The firm wants a repeat with its other classics
Sonic the Hedgehog helped revive 63-year-old Sega. The firm wants a repeat with its other classics
Sega Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi said that the company is thinking of bringing more of its lucrative intellectual property to other platforms.
A Yakuza movie would be hilarious.
They already made one in 2006. It's a bit... weird. Certainly a movie of all time. And it shares it's name with the western release of yakuza 7 (Yakuza: Like a Dragon).
On the plus side, the full movie has definitely not been uploaded to youtube in it's entirety, so you definitely couldn't watch it right this moment for free.
Battle toads the movie confirmed
Alright, what if we had a movie based solely on the Dreamcast version of the game Seaman? And also made it a psychological horror like that game is?
Golden Axe could make for a really great, or a really terrible movie. If they went with the campy D&D movie style with some heartfelt homages to Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja thrown in I think they could pull it off.
I'd put the Kung Fury -crew on that, but considering the size of Sega, they probably want something family friendly and sanitized, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
Inb4 we get a really shitty Jet Set Radio movie that bombs hard and ruins any chance we had of getting a third game.
At least Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a good spiritual successor.
HOW ABOUT YOU FUCKS JUST GIVE ME BACK THE CHAOS
I can only hope that I get revived when I'm that age.
Ristar cinematic universe, let's go!
Seriously though: the dumbest answer that might work is Daytona USA. A live-action anime that's relentlessly cheerful and energetic. Like the Speed Racer movie, but with less melodrama, less surrealism, and not two hours long. Establish a rivalry with no villains, some stakes low enough that the protagonist might lose, and the sort of heightened realism you get in musicals. If the pit crew do a choreographed spin before changing the tires, you think nothing of it, because it happened in time with the soundtrack.
Phantasy Star in the style of Guardians of the Galaxy
I just really hope they select games that have a good story or even better have a great story that and attach it to some IP that has very little storyline. People come for the IP but stay for the story. Unfortunately they'll probably just pick the game with the largest fan base, attach some well known actors to it and then cram a bunch of nostalgic references into it and call it a day. Especially since the success of sonic means a lot of money will be sunk into it and a lot of suits will try to push dumb shit through.
I am so ready for a Space Harrier movie.
Genuinely not a bad idea, if you lean into the nearly transhumanist power fantasy of a guy taking on an alien armada with a jetpack and a rifle. It's an excuse for ridiculous set-pieces where a proper aircraft or vehicle would not work. You can't sustain that continuously for two whole acts - but fortunately, every time the guy stops, he is just a guy. The difference between standing around talking and zooming away at face-melting speeds is whether he feels like it.
The major downside is that Tony Stark's already been there.
I was thinking something more like a sci-fi, existential horror film where Harrier is the only force preventing the utter ruination of the universe by an endless horde of Lovecraftian monsters, and his loneliness and indestructibility drives him to extremes, but the Iron Man-esque angle could work, too.
Altered Beast would be great. Make it rated R too.
