Activision Probably Making That New TMNT Game

Activision plus licensed game that sounds like a recipe for a giant pile of suck! Not only that they probably have almost no real incentive to make a good game because people will buy it anyway. Parents for their kids because it is relatively safe, and Turtles fans because it is Turtles.

@Snejk said:

Yeah, at least they got the name to back it. But when was TMNT last popular?..

When has TMNT ever been unpopular?!

FUCKING BRING IT ON! I've been dying for an honest-to-goodness awesome TMNT game for a while now. I'm practically salivating about this shit!

It'll probably be based on the new TMNT series that Nickelodeon is making, Which will be entirely CGI and Rob Paulsen, Who originally voiced Raphael in the original series will be voicing Donatello in this one.

Cool. I hope this comes to pass.

To those of you who look at the 1987 Turtles and call the 2003 Turtles silly by comparison...

You... are... WRONG.

@KaneRobot said:

@UnbreakableVow said:

Turtles Forever was a nice mix of both series.

No it wasn't. it treated the 80's series as laughable nonsense, just as it seems most new incarnations of franchises do. "Ha ha, look at how silly we all used to be. But we're grown up now and this is legit." Yeah, sure. For a show about mutated turtles that like pizza.

I hope when they do a new series in 2014 (or whatever) they treat the 2003 series the same way. "Oh that 2003 series was so silly. These are the real TMNT!"

I felt they already kinda did that in Turtles Forever when they brought out the Prime universe Turtles, because obviously those are the coolest and the 1987 and 2003 Turtles are silly in comparison. But 2003 is certainly not anywhere near as bad as 1987.

@marsh14 said:

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To hell with her, you, AND the horse you both rode in on...

And Activision? Christ... may as well just let Ubisoft keep the license!!!!

@KaneRobot said:

@UnbreakableVow said:

Turtles Forever was a nice mix of both series.

No it wasn't. it treated the 80's series as laughable nonsense, just as it seems most new incarnations of franchises do. "Ha ha, look at how silly we all used to be. But we're grown up now and this is legit." Yeah, sure. For a show about mutated turtles that like pizza.

I hope when they do a new series in 2014 (or whatever) they treat the 2003 series the same way. "Oh that 2003 series was so silly. These are the real TMNT!"

I agree. They did the same in Sonic Generations when they treated "Classic Sonic" as this innocent steamboat willy Micky Mouse type silent character when the fact was in 1991, Sonic was supposed to be portrayed as the "cool" counterpart to Mario.

I'm a fan of both the 1987 and 2003 turtles and I have to say both were very similar in the sense that both in the earlier seasons, were more serious and competent while in the later seasons both got more tacky. In Turtles Forever they took the best of the 2003 and paired it with what they think they remembered of the worst of 1987 based off the art you would see in paper cups and plates for kid's bday party's IMO.

And FYI there's already gonna be a new series in Nick this 2012 and it already kinda looks tacky right off the bat for some.

edit: grammar errors.

@UnbreakableVow said:

Turtles Forever was a nice mix of both series.

No it wasn't. it treated the 80's series as laughable nonsense, just as it seems most new incarnations of franchises do. "Ha ha, look at how silly we all used to be. But we're grown up now and this is legit." Yeah, sure. For a show about mutated turtles that like pizza.

I hope when they do a new series in 2014 (or whatever) they treat the 2003 series the same way. "Oh that 2003 series was so silly. These are the real TMNT!"

@AgileNate said:

With Activision in charge I could only picture a low budget, fast developed, tv series to video game adaption. With Rocksteady, I see serious potential in quality.

This could be based on the new Michael Bay TMNT revival. Yes, that's a thing. Yes, it's probably going to be terrible.

The Rocksteady rumor was never realistic because of the parent companies involved (Time Warner/Viacom).

With Activision in charge I could only picture a low budget, fast developed, tv series to video game adaption. With Rocksteady, I see serious potential in quality.

TMNT remains a pretty great and versatile property.

The 2003 animated series is really good, actually better than the 1987 series if you take off the rose-tinted glasses. Turtles Forever was a nice mix of both series. The 2007 CG movie was pretty great when it really had no reason to be. The new comic series from IDW has a nice sense of the original comic series from the '80s while taking the story in pretty interesting new directions, even tinkering with the origin of the turtles in a very interesting way.

Not everything Activision puts out is total shit. I think. I seem to recall liking a game from them in the past couple years? Oh yeah, Singularity, that was basically it though. Still, get the right developer on this with the right vision and it could be awesome. But I'll always think about what could have been with Rocksteady at the helm.

Rocksteady TMNT would have been awesome.

By the way, am I the only person who enjoyed the movie about 5 years ago? May not have had Shredder, but I thought it was great anyway!

@Moncole said:

I think this is good. Activsion has a lot of good devs to make it.

This post looks like someone FROM Activision posted it to make it look like something non-derivative was going on here...

All I want is a 16-bit TMNT 5: Irma's Revenge!

It's too bad the awesome gritty comic book style is somehting that will probably never be replicated in another game or movie

@LiQuid3600: You mean besides the two arcade classics?

Ah what could have been...

Such a shame. Just going off of Activision's track record, this won't be as good as I hope it is. :(

@Tebbit said:

@UltimAXE: Wow, I didn't even know that movie existed. I'll definitely check into it. And you're right, that 4Kids TMNT was totally OK, I think by the time that came around I had just stopped being so heavily influenced by cartoons, so it didn't impact me like the original series did.

The entirety of Turtles Forever seems to still be up on youtube, so you may as well watch it there. I hear that the DVD release is kind of poor (it's not even the uncut version).

And I get where you're coming from. Thing is, with me, even as a kid I thought that the turtles had become a little too goofy. 4Kids TMNT came out at just the right time for me and was pretty much exactly what I wanted out of those characters. I think that I've enjoyed the concept of the turtles more so than any one incarnation of them.

@Snejk said:

Yeah, at least they got the name to back it. But when was TMNT last popular?..

They had that series on Fox Kids for a good number of years awhile back. There's a new comic series too, but I doubt that'll do well enough to continue.

Damn and my hopes were really high too! Really high...

But not anymore. Bobby Kotick will take one look at the game and go "I don't get it" and then he'll throw left overs from 6 various companies of which 1 has made a solid real game at it all at once while trying to shoe horn in "Picatinny Rails", 15 Hours of Quick Time Cinematics, and 45 physics driven normal mapped american flags before they just up and cancel the whole thing entirely.

Allow me to exhale.

Give it to Treyarch, see what they can do with the licence.

If Rocksteady made a TMNT game that was basically a 4-player co-op Batman AA/AC, I'd buy 4 copies for myself in a heartbeat.

Hoping for TMNT Skylanders.

@UltimAXE: Wow, I didn't even know that movie existed. I'll definitely check into it. And you're right, that 4Kids TMNT was totally OK, I think by the time that came around I had just stopped being so heavily influenced by cartoons, so it didn't impact me like the original series did.

Such a bummer.

Hmm, i feel disappointed about this news.

FUUUUUUU....

Footage or GTFO.

In other "wouldn't that be great" ideas, Nolan North should totally make the next TMNT movie.

God dammit... the possibility of Rocksteady reviving the Turtles hadn't even crossed my mind until reading this, now I could not be more disappointed. All in the span of the 10 seconds it took to read the friggin article. Thanks Patrick.

If the Activision/toyline connection is true, I don't see how this wouldn't end up going the Skylanders route. Which means they'll have to cram in as many playable characters as possible, which means it'll most likely end up being another 2D fighter like Smash Up or something. Thanks Patrick.

Hmmm.,...good news? It depends on who Activision puts on the job. Amongst their non-Call of Duty studios, they have Skylanders' Toys for Bob (that would be good), Vicarious Visions (could go either way), Spiderman's Beenox, High Moon Studios (that would be AMAZING), and...uh...Neversoft. If they're still around - they haven't done anything since Bobby Kotick forced them to ram Guitar Hero into the ground. Raven could also probably do a great job, if they worked off their Wolverine engine...but I'm 100% certain they're in "forced labor mode", cranking out shit for Call of Duty map packs or who-gives-a-fuck. I fucking can't stand COD.

Here's hoping we get a great game out of this. Any of those studios SHOULD be able to knock out a great, new TMNT game based on Nickelodeon's new series.

But man, a Skylanders approach - using a "Pizza of Power" pedestal (I'm calling the name, right there) - is already hurting my wallet. It would totally make sense though. I'm surprised Activision hasn't ordered High Moon to include that functionality for Transformers already...

@LiQuid3600:

You mean a good modern game, right?

Turtles in Time is still pretty great. The SNES version, not the remake.

I remember the Rocksteady rumor being plausible because of all the non-lethal fighting and gadgets that the Turtles in a Half Shell use.

Oh well, more licensed dreck from Activision.

Last Gremlins I played was http://www.giantbomb.com/gremlins-the-adventure/61-6309/

Never completed it, but I still have fond memories of it.

So, why not, count me for more Gremlins.

Call of Duty: Cartoon Warfare SHELL SHOCKED

@Tebbit: Nostalgia will do that to you. The 4Kids TMNT cartoon is on a completely higher level than the original cartoon, and the Turtles Forever film was an amazing send off to both eras. I think that any turtles fan who feels the same as you should at the very least seek out the latter.

As for the topic at hand: boo. I sense Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 with a TMNT motif coming on. Please shock me and pump out something awesome instead.

While my love of the original series knows no bounds, pretty much everything out of TMNT in the last decade has been... Mediocre at best.

I guess I want to give Activision the benefit of the doubt.

I just want a survival horror Gremlins game... and a Telltale Quantum Leap game!

Wise man say...never pay full price for late pizza (or terrible TMNT games).

Pre-order from GameScrewer stores to unlock Pizza health kits
Purchase access to player character Leonardo for only $5
Exclusive April in her Yaranaika Jumpsuit DLC for $2.99

I would rather Rocksteady develop.

I never played the original TMNT game(s) so I have absolutely no affinity for the series. I did like the live action movies, though. I mean, Kevin Nash as Super Shredder!

PIZZA TIME!

I watched the 1st live action TMNT movie a few months ago with a couple friends and that movie is still so awesome.

So we can assume this will be a new annualized franchise? TMNT: The Call of Pizza?

@algertman said:

I was actually amazed anyone took the Rocksteady rumor serious and didn't get the joke.

It was so delightful a rumour that I could not help but convince myself that it had to be true.

I was actually amazed anyone took the Rocksteady rumor serious and didn't get the joke.