What FF would you like to see made into video games?

[CharlesX]

This is not about previous FF that have become video games. Briefly, some such as Sorcery! and TWOFM have been very successful, some such as Deathtrap Dungeon have been mediocre, and others such as FF Legends and the 8-bit cassette versions are somewhere in between. The TinMan Apps are great making use of music, graphics and alternate modes.

   Like I say this is about what can be done rather than what has been. I would like to see some of the very big Jon Green gamebooks become apps, perhaps apps of heavily error-ridden FFs that could do away with those errors, maybe a PC version of Deathtrap Dungeon or Creature Of Havoc (that the old one was probably not brilliant doesn't mean a new one can't be). I'd like App versions of gamebooks to be bigger and better than their original like I've heard Sorcery! is.

[scouserob]

My wish list would be as many gamebooks as possible, converted as faithfully as possible with all the original mechanics.
(And obvious errors corrected.)

Yes, include easy, hard, allow those +1 Skill swords to be attack strength bonuses, modes but have a purist mode as default.

Anything on top of that is just icing on the cake, cool music, achievements, animations, cut scenes, new art, etc, but the original core has to be there for me.

The Inkle Sorcery! Apps ARE very good but I would love the chance to play those gamebooks as originally designed on my PC/iPhone.

In fact the Sorcery books would be top of my wish list for a faithful adaptation.
I’m happy enough with the Tin Man Games adaptations to move onto anything they haven’t covered as being next on my wish list, such as Shadow of Giants.
(Though I wish Tin Man Games would code in multi-way fights and stop giving you over initial value bonuses with every magic Skill +1 item so you end up at something like Skill 15 by the end.)

[Pete Byrdie]

I was always a fan of open ended gameplay. Perhaps Robot Commando, with a few more locations and details, might at least inspire a game world.

[sylas]

I'd love to see side-scrolling games based on the FF world. You only need one overarching story with a little plot progression.

Or for open world video games, something like Daggers of Darkness could work well as would Night of the Necromancer and Seas of Blood.

[CharlesX]

Mar 12, 2024 22:28:00 GMT sylas said:

I'd love to see side-scrolling games based on the FF world. You only need one overarching story with a little plot progression.

Or for open world video games, something like Daggers of Darkness could work well as would Night of the Necromancer and Seas of Blood.

Seas Of Blood would remind me of Sid Meier's Pirates! which I enjoyed in the day (and wasn't bad at). A mix\hybrid of the two could be really good with more options in the town, encounters with rivals and your opponents, sea monsters and fantastic maps as well as those from our middle ages.