Dexter: what happened when he grew up and left his lab.
Showtime Network's cuddly killer, Dexter (not the kid in the lab) is to be brought to the video games market courtesy of yoof fashion prince, Mark Ecko.
It's about this time what we insert the word 'controversial' and the phrases 'Jack Thompson' and 'murder training' - so we have.
Of course, Mark Ecko himself won't be coding the game, that'll be done (on as yet unnamed plaforms) by the crazy guys over at Marc Ecko Entertainment - already responsible for the 'banned in Australia', Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure action adventure.
The TV series - and we assume the game - "...follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: he is a serial killer who hunts down people who have escaped justice".
Yes, he's a good serial killer in the same vein as: Harry Callahan (Crims generally) or John Rambo (South East Asians, Arabs, Russians) or John Wayne (anybody not American). Except, where those chaps liked to kill, Dexter is conflicted: he loves killing but has been trained by his dad only to like killing bad people.
It's all very complicated you see. We await an eruption of complaint as the show makes its way from inoffensive television where it's on after the watershed on cable, so won't turn kids into conflicted serial killers, to offensive video games that can be played at 10:00am and will turn kids into conflicted serial killers.
One thing we're sure of, Dexter will be dressed real cool.
It's about this time what we insert the word 'controversial' and the phrases 'Jack Thompson' and 'murder training' - so we have.
Of course, Mark Ecko himself won't be coding the game, that'll be done (on as yet unnamed plaforms) by the crazy guys over at Marc Ecko Entertainment - already responsible for the 'banned in Australia', Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure action adventure.
The TV series - and we assume the game - "...follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: he is a serial killer who hunts down people who have escaped justice".
Yes, he's a good serial killer in the same vein as: Harry Callahan (Crims generally) or John Rambo (South East Asians, Arabs, Russians) or John Wayne (anybody not American). Except, where those chaps liked to kill, Dexter is conflicted: he loves killing but has been trained by his dad only to like killing bad people.
It's all very complicated you see. We await an eruption of complaint as the show makes its way from inoffensive television where it's on after the watershed on cable, so won't turn kids into conflicted serial killers, to offensive video games that can be played at 10:00am and will turn kids into conflicted serial killers.
One thing we're sure of, Dexter will be dressed real cool.
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InsaneJonny 5 Mar 2008 12:09
1/6
Love Dex but we don't need this as a video game at all.
config 5 Mar 2008 14:06
2/6
Agree. Great show, but how could you ever make a decent game out of it?
Mind you, I thought the same of Lost (thos the link to the garbage that as Under Pressure may have a bearing here)
If you missed it on Hallmark last year, Dex season 1 has just started the rounds on ITV on Wednesdays. Think of the children that might be up watching TV at 2230? <shudder>
Mind you, I thought the same of Lost (thos the link to the garbage that as Under Pressure may have a bearing here)
If you missed it on Hallmark last year, Dex season 1 has just started the rounds on ITV on Wednesdays. Think of the children that might be up watching TV at 2230? <shudder>
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InsaneJonny 5 Mar 2008 17:42
3/6
Hallmark? Don't you mean FX? That's what i watched it on. Love it so much i downloaded the whole second season (better then the first imo) but again what the f**k would a game entail? Phoenix Wright style investigation with courtroom drama swapped for trauma centre style "surgeries"
Really want the Season 1 box set released over here now.
Really want the Season 1 box set released over here now.
config 5 Mar 2008 18:31
4/6
S**t! My first thought *was* FX, but then I thought I was confusing Dex with Charlie Jade which just finished on FX. Make sense - it'll have been during an ad break in Dex that I spotted Charlie Jade.
Anyhoo, re: season 2, I might have to crank up Azureus and follow you lead. I'm missing that darkly dreaming Dexter.
Anyhoo, re: season 2, I might have to crank up Azureus and follow you lead. I'm missing that darkly dreaming Dexter.
TimSpong 6 Mar 2008 10:01
5/6
config wrote:
I'm missing that darkly dreaming Dexter.
See, I watched all of series one over one weekend - great start, and then the last three episodes were a pure bottle job as the producers realised that they had a marketable character but too much icky stuff.
Making a videogame from Dexter would be as much of a challenge as making a good one from American Psycho - all of the real meat of the action goes on in their heads.
Dexter game will be:
1) Track down you victim - stealth level.
2) Before killing - have tedious Mass Effect like conversation with your dad.
3) Cut scene of Ice Truck Killer - car chase level.
4) Kill someone and don't get caught - fighting level.
5) Repeat 2.
6) Repeat 3.
7) Repeat 1.
Etc etc
Cheers
Tim
tyrion 6 Mar 2008 14:04
6/6
Tim Smith wrote:
Dexter game will be:
1) Track down you victim - stealth level.
2) Before killing - have tedious Mass Effect like conversation with your dad.
3) Cut scene of Ice Truck Killer - car chase level.
4) Kill someone and don't get caught - fighting level.
5) Repeat 2.
6) Repeat 3.
7) Repeat 1.
1) Track down you victim - stealth level.
2) Before killing - have tedious Mass Effect like conversation with your dad.
3) Cut scene of Ice Truck Killer - car chase level.
4) Kill someone and don't get caught - fighting level.
5) Repeat 2.
6) Repeat 3.
7) Repeat 1.
It could be better if they take Hitman and LucasArts adventure games and merge them.
Hitman missions, obviously would be Dex doing his out of hours "work". Then point and click investigations. Might be fun, especially if there's a crime scene cross over where you have to find evidence against the killer while hiding evidence that points to you.
Note: I have never watched Dexter and don't know if the above goes against the "spirit" of the show, I just think it could make for an interesting game.