Dragoness_Muir

However, these are hard to make. You would have to either outsource it to a studio with experience like Ubisoft, or you would have to give it a long development time.

mcderek3000

It was so frustrating how people mindlessly attacked in the last Bourne post. It's nice to see there are some thinkers around.

I think it's great that he did actually try to get them to make something different, rather than another cookie cutter shooter, and can completely understand why he might not want to be involved with the game - they didn't really need him anyway, it would've only been done to attach him name to the project.

dnzperson

That said, I wonder, if pressed, would he acknowledge that a lot of the appeal of the film to many movie goers was the kinetic action presented within (which I think is also a pretty cool thing to emulate within the game).

Now, on the other hand, if Matt Damon wanted to provide design input on an adventure game of his own design... I think it'd probably turn out pretty damn good.

DannoHung

Your best punchline so far Bash!

Kirth Gersen

Xcite79

I wish this game could be like THAT.

liquidnumb

Kayeliminal Antithesis

Samos42

Muffin_Man

Bourne movies are about kicking ass and breaking bones. If he wanted a Myst style game, forget Bourne.

Or people here will actually insist that Bourne has a plot good enough for a puzzle game? Guess not.

Also, quoting family guy. MATT DAMOOOON!! Matt Damon! MATT DAMOOON!!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

(Ask yourself which would be more like the Bourne movies, the game we're getting or an adventure/puzzle based game with a strong dramatic narrative and occasional intense action sequences ...)

DARTH_TIGRIS

That is, if the puzzles don't have that insane "Roberta Williams" quality to them that makes them unsolvable by anybody but those possessed by the spirit of the Dark Lady Williams herself.

zoesch

PatMan33

Greeklightning1

TearsandScreams

HOLY SHIT. Hypercard! I made a game with Hypercard back in highschool, on a Mac classic.

Koztah

If you've read the Bourne novels, you realize that the action is secondary to the psychological development of Jason Bourne.

zoesch

sloner

/damn no edit!

mouroutaru

Matt Damon "hates" video games, get him!

Ah wait, he doesn't hate them, he just doesn't get them.

/sarcasm off, in case you didn't get that

Seems like there are a few people that actually thought about what was being said and figured maybe there was some merit in there.

A video game seems the perfect opportunity to slow down the action of a 2 hour movie and through some more cerebral action in there. Imagine a point to your violence.
@Balius: I think you hit upon a nice mix there.

I could see this working as a GTA meets Assassin's Creed meets Myst type of thing. Oh crap, I just did the equivalent of a movie pitch for a game.

mouroutaru

Then again, this is Matt Damon... Maaaattt Daaaaaaaaaaaamon...

zoesch

coffinmouth

It's not an FPS tho, it's a third person shooter.

dead_red_eyes

dead_red_eyes

L_K_M

goonface

It looks like his pistol is, after firing, ejecting an unfired cartridge. If the round had failed to fire, there would be no recoil, and thus there would be no force to eject it.

I need this info so I can frame by frame it in high definition!

Also, it looks like you can see a second cartridge entering the breech. This couldn't actually happen as the slide is still in its rearward position, and the cartridge should only enter the breech as the slide rides forward and moves it out of the magazine and up the feed ramp. It also looks like there's a third one tangled up in there somehow, and I'm completely at too much of a loss to even attempt to explain it.

Again, it's only one pic, and it's blurry, so i need details!

ThatGuyOverThere

/high-five, brotha
//long live D'ni!

MPgmr

paulpc

rainofwalrus

The Outrage

I'm going to pass on buying this game.. Rental probably as there I already have quality other quality non-cerebral games to play. COD4, TF2, GTAIV and many more coming out. A clever action/puzzle game that centers around his amnesia would have been refreshing for this genre. Oh well - back to shooting things while we wait for a game like this to come out.

hyperhyper2099

kingme

Matt Damon 1, Internet Dummies 0

DrFresh

Beasterling

mardigan71

arstal

KM91

Lov3

Salen

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

kiigan

At the same time, I'm not that the Bourne Conspiracy has the balance right either. It looks to me like a fairly generic action game. A lot of the best bits of the movies involve built-up urban locations, European cities, blending into the crowd, surveillance, and re-tracing Bourne's steps as he learns more about himself etc. So although Myst is way off the mark, a balls-out action game isn't right either.

kiigan

Ghirofelgo

g8or8de

+ Watch video

KroKan

boopadoo

I imagine a lot of developers scratching their gameplay and engine after playing GTA.

I was waiting for Mafia II, but I don't see what can be more epic then riding in a taxi in GTAIV. The most prettiest, best way to waste your time.

Fyren

"if you're not sure your puzzles will be GREAT, just make it straight action", for example.

"if you're not sure the online mode will be AWESOME, just don't include one".

if only the makers of devil may cry had such a conscience on their shoulder, they'd make the games room-to-room, battle after battle, and leave out the key-searching bullshit.

et cetera.

@Pinhead: Yeah, because the amnesia card has never been played in video games before.

hah. that doesn't mean it's ever been played in a winning hand, if you know what i mean.

108

Yeah, because the amnesia card has never been played in video games before.

Pinhead

A game like that would certainly fit the style of the Bourne saga more than either Myst's extremely slow pace or a FPS' ultra-violence.

Balius

Brian Ashcraft

johnnywashngo

Rockbot

PJK

Insomnia Bob

And, you know, an action title with a cool amnesia mechanic would be pretty rule. Damon just didn't explain what he was talking about very well.

Insomnia Bob

Netnavi

beem

Superman

though the bourne series is known for its action scenes, there is also an element of "mystery". i think what my good friend and fellow harvard alumnus* matt damon is trying to say is that bourne isn't constantly killing in the films -- he's working toward a goal, and killing when absolutely necessary. he's not a reckless everyone-murderer.

think, for example, of the goldeneye game. bond kills a lot more people in that game than he'd ever killed in all the bond movies combined.

i think MD is trying to say that the game should have some sort of dramatic "weight", which isn't a psycho-radical suggestion. i'm pretty sure he saw the game design document and realized that the game would just be a mission-to-mission FPS-slog.

yay for quotes getting taken weirdly out of context.

i'd type more on this subject if MD had name-checked riven instead of myst. seriously.

(*in that he's a fellow and that he's also a harvard alumnus)

108

KirbySS

An adventure type game kinda like alone in the dark but with bourne would have been great. In the game as it is now we get to shoot guns and have firefights and crap. Then we do a little cqc. I don't like the idea of using guns in when it has to do with the Bourne franchise. I know he can use guns (he's trained for it) but he doesn't in the movie and he shouldn't in the game.

All those cool tricks he does to get the information and avoid detection were great in the movies.

As the game is now it is just another action game.

anyway. sad I didn't get MGO beta key. :(

Netnavi

justhesh

Snake726

interficium

Chris3000

Then again, Damon's a smart guy. He might be on to something, even if Myst might have been the wrong game to invoke here, being a bit past its prime.

Archaotic

mindscienceofthemind

Oh, and isn't it "Memento?"

Hrist

Bicro

Schabrak

Zhal

riffleraffle

MichaelBlacklist

Kro

... Bourne style!

that_happy_cat

Evdor