anyone else seen this?

[chibiphonebooth]

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37694738.html

Evidence has emerged that Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios is working on a game codenamed "Epic Mickey" for the Wii, offering a dark, steampunk-style take on Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom.

Most of the evidence comes from the rumour-hunter's faithful friend - concept artists' websites - and appears to corroborate a Gamasutra report from late last year that first identified the "Epic Mickey" codename. (that means its a temporary name til they get the real one.

[blkmage]

I heard about it on some podcasts a few weeks ago and I saw it hit various gaming news sites. Personally, after Kingdom Hearts, this doesn't seem as surprising. Most commentary on this has been wondering whether the Wii hardware can do the concept art justice.

[Makachop^^128]

yes! i saw that before

I love steampunk

[Robin Firedrake]

*shakes his head* I really don't think this can end well. I just don't. Mickey is not meant to be a video game. I don't care what people say. When someone plays kingdom hearts do they really think of the disney characters as being anything other than tacked on? Everyone talks about the heartless and nobodies and sora and all that. But almost never the disney characters.

[blkmage]

You have to remember that opinions of Kingdom Hearts when it was first announced were a lot less charitable than they are now. Today, Kingdom Hearts sits alongside other huge JRPGs and it's easy to forget that the entire concept was brutally maligned.

Just because the things that are discussed about aren't the Disney elements doesn't mean that they're tacked on. Can you honestly say that you can completely divorce Kingdom Hearts from the Disney elements and still end up with the same narrative and style?

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Yeah, I heard Spector was trying to slip us a mickey a couple months ago.

[KeybladeWarrior]

I have never heard of this. After seeing some of the concept art I am not really interested in this game. It doesn't look all that appealing. The concept art on the other hand is pretty good.

[MasterDias]

Yeah, that art is pretty eye-catching. I don't think I've ever played any of Warren Spector's games before. Apparently, it's a name I should know, given that it's being thrown around by the articles?

[blkmage]

Warren Spector is most famous for being behind Deus Ex. He's also done stuff like Thief and System Shock. It's not too surprising that he's less well known now, since Deus Ex was almost ten years ago.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

He's kind of a big deal. Like, back in the day he was John Carmack big.

[Bobtheduck]

He's kind of a big deal. Like, back in the day he was John Carmack big.

Who? That's an identification I'm not familiar with.

No need to quake with rage, I'm sure his work isn't doomed because no one knows who he is anymore... I'd work Wolfenstein into this, but it's much harder to make a pun out of that.

[Monkey J. Luffy]

-_- BtD, You're kidding right? That was the most horrible affront to comedy I have ever seen. No seriously, that was an insult to all things funny.

The game looks pretty good though.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Who? That's an identification I'm not familiar with.

No need to quake with rage, I'm sure his work isn't doomed because no one knows who he is anymore... I'd work Wolfenstein into this, but it's much harder to make a pun out of that.

[blkmage]

Who? That's an identification I'm not familiar with.

No need to quake with rage, I'm sure his work isn't doomed because no one knows who he is anymore... I'd work Wolfenstein into this, but it's much harder to make a pun out of that.

You're missing id's greatest franchise ever: Commander Keen.

Speaking of being forgotten by history, remember John "suck it down" Romero?

[WhiteMage212]

I so want this game. The concept art already caught my eye.

[BubblegumNinja]

D: ... that whole page had me drooling. Especially the first three pictures and the elephant wall climber thing.

If this does pull through, I hope they maintain the grungy look of it all without getting creepy. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[S.M.O.G.]

A steampunk Mickey game might work, but what caought my eye was the word "dark." NO! KH was good, but it still had that Disney "feel." Dark, yes, but the little M himself wasn't really dark. He (and the rest of the Mickey characters) balanced it out by being pretty much not dark at all. All I can think of off the top head is when Goofy gets hit on the head with the boulder in KH2, but since all he did was get knocked out, it seemed pretty "disney."


Judging by the screenshots, it looks good, but the robots were kind creepy. After seeing how well KH worked, I'm gonna wait for more info before I judge too much.

[Shiningmonk_e]

nuff said.

[Song_of_Storms]

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I'm not really for or against it. I'm not a huge fan of the Steam-Punk movement/lifestyle/genre, whatever its classified under, but I know plenty of people are, which is probably where Disney is hoping to fill a niche with this particular title.

That being said, I have to admit I find the concept art very... disturbing. It's just a little to unpleasant a mixture with such normally gleeful characters. Sort of like those awful late 80s/early 90s comics that were obsessed with portraying Batman and Superman as dying old men. [/SIZE]