/v/ - Video Games

I was just thinking about this yesterday actually, because I was thinking about how much I love the idea of games where you're fighting various atrocities while being a scarier monster yourself (although it works best when you're only scary when you're good at the game).

Some things are too edgy to program.

>>13721121

Actually I never considered Hellsing to be edgy the same way the new Sonic game is edgy, although I can't put my finger on why that is.

>>13721061

What kind of game would fit Hellsing the best?

Musou?

RTS?

Devil May Cry style Curhayzee-Ness?

>>13721131

It was so edgy that it stabbed your eyes out, and you are now blind to how edgy it is.

>>13721156

It’s Nazi Vampires eating babies edgy.

>>13721150

There are way too many musou games in this world already, we really don't need any more, even though it'd be easily adaptable into one. I personally think something like Prototype, but far less shit would lend itself best.

>>13721156

I suppose that's also possible. Chances are it's just that I read / watched it first as a little kid so it's one of the first "edgy" things I've experienced, which made it stick with me. Guess it's the same with stupidly mediocre retro games that just so happened to be the first of their kind you play so you look past the silliness.

>>13721061

Alucard is OP for every scenario with powers that aren't entirely well defined he is in and nobody wants to play as the supporting cast. It is hard to do well. Same reason Superman still hasn't had a good game.

>>13721192

You could easily work around this like most games do - something happens that strips Alucard of his powers, you regain them throughout the game. It both gives you a base to start with and empowers the villain that has the ability to do this. Any sort of ancient artifact used for sealing supernatural powers can be used to explain this. But eh, it's all just wishful thinking.

>>13721216

> "what happened to muh vampire powers"

> I must gets them bak

I said good game, anon.

This isn't to say I don't want to see a Hellsing game happen specifically if they can get the people who did the soundtrack for the 13 episode Studio Gonzo run on board.

>>13721150

DMC rip off to the max.

>>13721257

You can have OP protags work just fine. I mean in bayonetta you punch the supreme deity into the sun and you basically had the ability to do that to whole game, but the game is all about styling on your enemies, so you have fun beating each one up. Also the whole stolen powers thing would work fine, especially for a vampire. You could have the church or the vampire nazis fuck with you, or just create equally strong vampires/ vampire hunters so you aren't as overpowered comparatively.

>>13721061

because anime is faggy

>>13721285

Haven't played either of those, but

>Xbawks game based on mediocre movie

Yeah, that sounds just dandy.

>>13721353

>Movie based game

>Movie wasn't that good to begin with

How can this be anything but a disaster?

>>13721285

>Trigun game is announced

>uh oh it's sega

>the game gets quietly swept under the rug

>they make Gungrave instead

>tfw I won't live to see a game in Trigun's setting

>>13721257

Just have the MC be Seras with Alucard as the New Game Plus bonus character.

Have the bosses be a scale from the Valentine brothers, up to Zorin, finally ending at the Captain. Have some OC fights in between, a fight with the Card guy from South America, those two nuns that Anderson hangs out with, Yumi and Heinkle I believe we’re their names. Young Walter, the possibilities are endless.

>Hellsing game

Fuck yes. How fucking great would an FPS where you're an SS Vampire fucking up (((current year))) 10% white London and the military forces of the Catholic Church with vintage WW2 weaponry be?

>>13721482

The entire reason I added RTS to the list of possibilities was because I can see the game working well as a fast and loose strategy game with a focus on hero characters.

Basically, there would be three factions.

The Hellsing Organization, Led by Integra Hellsing.

Vatican Section XIII, headed by Enrico Maxwell.

And Millennium, led by Ze Major.

Each leader unit gives passive buffs but triggers and instant game over upon death.

You have the heavy hitters for each faction, being Alucard, Anderson, and the Captain respectively. All of which have a secondary mode that lets them wreak even more shit in exchange for health. (Full vamp for Alucard, Nail vine monster for Anderson, werewolf for the Captain.) beyond that, I really have nothing.

>>13721061

Alucard is quite OP, you would need to play as Seras to at least have some challenge, yes, we know there are the restraints, but still.

>>13721257

just make integra be a controlling bitch that forbids him from using stuff as the reason for leveling/unlocking skills

that or set it after he kills off every single familiar so he can exist again

>>13721061

>Hellsing

Vampire Hunter D was superior in every way that matters. Hellsing a shit and you know you can't prove otherwise.

>>13722343

>hunting Juden and Untermemsch

wasnt the whole deal of that unit to kill alucard? and didnt give a fuck about hitler or the nazis.

>>13721285

Watch the gungrave animu based on the gungrave game. It's pretty great until it skips to the future.

Gungrave plays like a kind of onrails TPS. I'd recommend the sequel, Gungrave Overdose.

Van Helsing played kind of like a DMC1 ripoff. If memory served it also had the same sound effects.

Neither are really close to being a hellsing vidya I guess.

>>13722385

How was D: bloodlust such amazing eyecandy?

There's something about it that looks so damned good.

>>13721150

>Devil May Cry style Curhayzee-Ness

Yeah, give it a bayoneta like combat system. Maybe give it some action-RPG elements to level up/specialize in different fighting styles/weapons.

>>13721192

I'd play a game about being Alexander.

>>13722140

>>13722150

Dante is pretty damn powerful, but the character generally doesn't sit there and take hits. Plus, the general thing with him is having a good time doing what he does, and essentially encouraging players to put in the extra effort to make fights look easy. Alucard just sits there and takes whatever they have to dish out and then releases whatever seal and goes apeshit on the enemy of the week.

An RTS or RTT might work better, but again, Alucard is ridiculous compared to everything else in the setting. He works better as a multi phase boss fight than a protagonist.

>>13723307

>generally

Nigger, him getting impaled in 3 was supposed to be a humbling thing. He fought someone on his fucking level and got his ass beat. Even beyond that, its once per game, and not every fucking fight.

>>13723307

>it's just a level or two less edgy

I think DMC being less edgy than anything ever is quite debatable

>>13721413

Why did they even bother retooling the game exactly? Not enough of a budget? I mean the author still worked on it.

>>13721061

How would it even work? I mean, playing as Alucard is out of the question because he is a living cheat, but another character, a young vampire like Seras between the end of the manga and the epilogue could work.

>>13722100

>Jeffrey Lyons, ABC-TV

>Non-Stop Action…A Breathtaking thrill ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lyons

>Lyons was born in Manhattan, one of the four sons of Sylvia and Leonard Lyons.

>Leonard Lyons. father

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lyons

>born in New York City. He grew up in a large family of Jewish immigrants

>>13721413

>trigun game

Imagine

>split the game up into different characters

>vash has bullet time that lets you see other character's vitals when activated because of his dedication to knowing where to hit and his impossibly keen reflexes

>if you hit someone mortally, let them bleed out, or don't make sure they're taken care of, it's game over

>vash levels are about strategically dispatching foes while never breaking your promise

>wolfwood levels would be more typical fare but mainly based around using the two ends of his cross, maybe a focus on bossfights

>and maybe some insurance girls levels

>>13721257

I mean, it would be partly retarded, but it would make the game fun enough. Probably just limit his power or play Seras.

>>13722343

I want to devour her soul and make her my eternal slave.

>>13723822

>Being so autistic that you spend time trying to trace everything back to jews and ignoring the point of my post completely

You disgrace your dubs

>>>/pol/

>>13724338

Yes, seriously, because Alucard is pretty much unkillable and can just summon an army if things get too dicey, on top of all the other reality breaking powers he has. Read the manga or watch the anime, the overarching plot is basically the bad guys wracking their heads trying to find a way to kill him.

Devil may cry sucks, they would probably make some trash like that though

It needs to be cuh-razy.

>>13724569

>That ID

What the fuck, 2D is best D

>>13724595

>lock on

>mash button like a mongoloid

come on kiddo, its trash

>>13724616

Not even the reboot is that braindead

>>13721186

>even though it'd be easily adaptable into one.

Everything is easily adaptable into one. The games are generic shit.

>I personally think something like Prototype

You better cut out that open world/city shit.

>>13721192

>nobody wants to play as the supporting cast.

You can fuck right off.

Can anyone name games that do over powered MC right?

>>13724628

is this nigga being cereal?

>>13725419

No, he's serial.

Its called Bayonetta

>>13725448

People here want a literal Hellsing game, not a spiritual one.

>>13725448

Bayonetta is too upbeat and light hearted.

>>13722440

With how much the major loves war do you honestly think that if he had succeeded in killing Alucard he wouldn’t have gone full steam towards Israel at some point.

>>13728482

I'm not going to argue powerlevels, my point is that Alucard makes for a terrible video game protagonist because there is basically nothing in the setting that can actually kill him. The best they could come up with is flood him with so many bodies that he wouldn't notice them slipping in some pozz into his bloodstream, and even that failed.

>>13722351

>Eatman 98'

My melanin-enriched brethren. That's the curse of people with taste such as ours.

>>13728624

>SMT, DMC, DBZ and shitton of other series have characters far stronger than Alucard and still have great games in them.

And with those powerful characters come antagonists that can match them, which is clearly not the case with Alucard, since it's basically established the only limiter is his own boredom and whatever magic Hellsign put on him, though it's implied he could easily remove that if he wished.

You seem quite stupid. The issue isn't that Alucard is powerful, it's that there is nothing else in the setting that can kill him, and the fact his gimmick is basically having practically infinite lives. How are you supposed to structure a game around a character that does not have a fail state? You're better off using someone else from the cast or just creating a new character from scratch, at which point you might as well just not bother with the Hellsign license since it's extremely generic outside of Alucard.

Fuck punching nazis, at least baby eating nazi vampires are entertaining.

>>13721131

Hellsing is edge done right.

Nigtendo.