Cartoon/Anime/Comic settings you would like to see a rpg set in

[kirottu]

Ergo Proxy

 

"...because raison d'

Edited April 16, 2012 by kirottu

[HoonDing]

Obsidian should do sequel to Largo Winch: Empire under Threat as spiritual sequel to Alpha Protocol.

 

Ther groundwork is there already.

 

Turn-based combat!

 

Checking e-mails!

 

Hacking minigame!

 

Romance!

 

And remember, folks, this was 2002!

 

Obsidian, do EET!

 

Also, I had no idea there's a Thorgal videogame, also from 2002!

 

 

I must check this one out, Thorgal is best Euro comic ever, after 666/6666!

[BobSmith101]

Most of the anime I can think of has already been done....

[Aedelric]

I do not see any cartoons making exceptionally good rpg's full of depth. Basically because by their nature cartoons and comics are fairly shallow. I could not choose a cartoon, as the last time I watched any was when I was a kid in the 80's, and I have no real desire to see Danger Mouse revisited.

[Drowsy Emperor]

Thorgal's art (the comic) leaves a lot to be desired. I never liked it. Loisel's La Qu

Edited April 16, 2012 by Drowsy Emperor

[Mamoulian War]

... and every Anime,Comic,Manga already mentioned has crappy games already made about them. Specially Ghost in the Shell.

 

That does not mean, that a not crappy game from these universes could be a nice and enjoyable addition to the gaming world... And for me, If the game is crappy, it does not exist...

[Amentep]

Not really a cartoon/anime setting and only tangentially a comic setting (thank you licenses!), but I'd love to see a game set in Street & Smith's pulp hero universe with Doc Savage, the Shadow and the Avenger (plus their crews) taking on criminal masterminds in 1930s New York.

[Majek]

Oh yeah, Doc Savage and the gang would be awesome.

[Orogun01]

I don't know much Anime. Saw 'Akira' once and didn't "get it"...

 

South Park is a WIP, so we can leave that one out too.

 

As for Comics, I would love some older stuff, like Conan or Richard Corbens 'Den' setting. Maybe 'Blueberry' for those into all things Western and M

[entrerix]

Hellblazer rpg could be amazing, it could work if it was text heavy like planescape torment but without the combat

 

ghost in the shell - its almost the same setting as deus ex though

 

cowboy bebop? would be hard to make a game i think, but its such a good anime (gorth, watch this one if you are curious about why people like anime)

 

and i second the Black Company suggestion made earlier in the thread

[LadyCrimson]

Think someone already mentioned it, but I'll say it myself: Samurai Champloo. I love that anime.

 

I also think Slayers would make a good setting for a Diablo clone or something along those lines. Not saying it'd make a good story-rpg (it might, but I doubt it). But with the absurd sense of humor and constant action, I think it could be a fun game.

[Calax]

Technically Champloo did have a game, but I think it was just a fighting game.

[Majek]

BUt Champloo is just Edo period with rap. It was a great anime but i haven't got the slightest idea why it'd make a good rpg.

[HoonDing]

Shigurui/Berserk is the only anime I want to see turned into RPG.

 

Record of Lodoss War has a special place in my heart, but that's already the Japanese version of D&D. Sailor Moon, though, could be interesting.

[Majek]

But Berserk is just your simple "steal from every mythology and mix " setting.

[LadyCrimson]

BUt Champloo is just Edo period with rap. It was a great anime but i haven't got the slightest idea why it'd make a good rpg.

Because the 3 main characters are so awesome. A game based on them doesn't have to follow the actual anime plot y'know...you could base a rpg around those characters that occurs soon after the events in the anime. Or something.

[Oerwinde]

I do not see any cartoons making exceptionally good rpg's full of depth. Basically because by their nature cartoons and comics are fairly shallow. I could not choose a cartoon, as the last time I watched any was when I was a kid in the 80's, and I have no real desire to see Danger Mouse revisited.

 

So you haven't seen any cartoons since the 80s, but cartoons have no depth. Watch G.I. Joe Renegades, Young Justice, Justice League Unlimited, Ben 10, Thundercats(new one) etc. Modern Cartoons are made by people who grew up enjoying the ones of the 80s, but try to do it better.

[Amentep]

Thinking about it a bit, I'd love for an RPG game set in Imagawa's GIANT ROBO: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL universe. Not entirely sure how it'd work, but I thought that was a great distillation of a sort of "everything and the kitchen sink" universe since it homages so much of Yokayama's career, not just Giant Robo and had a lot of fun ideas to play around with.

[LadyCrimson]

I do not see any cartoons making exceptionally good rpg's full of depth. Basically because by their nature cartoons and comics are fairly shallow. I could not choose a cartoon, as the last time I watched any was when I was a kid in the 80's, and I have no real desire to see Danger Mouse revisited.

 

So you haven't seen any cartoons since the 80s, but cartoons have no depth. Watch G.I. Joe Renegades, Young Justice, Justice League Unlimited, Ben 10, Thundercats(new one) etc. Modern Cartoons are made by people who grew up enjoying the ones of the 80s, but try to do it better.

Agree with Oerwinde. There are still plenty of "very young" cartoons, to be sure, but there are also plenty of more adult cartoons, anime, and comics. The Walking Dead, for example. Even Superman got the "dark and tormented" treatment a while back.

I haven't personally seen many of the modern day versions of my childhood cartoons (like GIJoe/Justice League etc) but...shrug...I figure if they have more adult themes now, that they're just as likely to have RPG potential as something like South Park.

[C2B]

The setting should be somewhat established though and important in the manga/comic/cartoon/anime itself. Charachter driven narratives are fine but as others said before if the setting itself is easily replacable its kinda missing the point of this thread.

 

Thats also why I thought FMA is a really good suggestion. Or Avatar too. Or HxH as I suggested.

[LadyCrimson]

The setting should be somewhat established though and important in the manga/comic/cartoon/anime itself. Charachter driven narratives are fine but as others said before if the setting itself is easily replacable its kinda missing the point of this thread.

 

Thats also why I thought FMA is a really good suggestion. Or Avatar too. Or HxH as I suggested.

But chr. driven narratives are all there really are anymore. No setting is really original. It's the story and characters within that setting that give it spark. Game of Thrones would be just another medieval setting with kings and princes if it weren't for the characters and the fact the author likes to kill them off willy nilly, unlike most authors.

 

Avatar's setting isn't original. Far from it. Adding sci-fi space props and CGI humanistic aliens to such a setting does not make it original.

Edited April 16, 2012 by LadyCrimson

[HoonDing]

One of the cartoons of my youth had a very thinly veiled allegory to Third Reich and German occupation.

 

 

Nowadays, in our politically correct society stuff like this would never be able to pass.

[Sannom]

Avatar's setting isn't original. Far from it. Adding sci-fi space props and CGI humanistic aliens to such a setting does not make it original.

Avatar : The Last Airbender, the cartoon series, not the Cameron movie Your point still stands, obviously, but this is a confusion that should always be corrected .

 

In a FMA setting, I want to play an Armstrong spawn with a bonus in every skill there is but with a big narcissistic malus of some sort A subset with the characteristic 'huge' would be appreciated. And of course, the obligatory two names.

[LadyCrimson]

Avatar's setting isn't original. Far from it. Adding sci-fi space props and CGI humanistic aliens to such a setting does not make it original.

Avatar : The Last Airbender, the cartoon series, not the Cameron movie Your point still stands, obviously, but this is a confusion that should always be corrected .

Oh....I did it again. My sig gets more apt every year.

I tried watching that anime once, because I heard such good things about it. It was a little too...youthful in execution for me, couldn't get into it. But yes, my point still stands.

[Aedelric]

So you haven't seen any cartoons since the 80s

 

Correct.

 

Edit -

Thundercats(new one)

 

They remade Thundercats? How dare they!

Edited April 16, 2012 by Aedelric