Malifaux videogame

[Pedro Caetano]

How would you guys feel about one? Could be anything as long as it wasn't just a digital conversion of the tabletop game. Like an Isometric RPG (like the first 2 Fallouts) or some sort Tactical game like x-com or Silent Storm ( gameplay vid because it's not a very popular game ).

[Daysleeper]

Personally i don't need/want one.
Some novels would be nice though, more fluff is always appreciated ;-)

[Pedro Caetano]

What's to say the game wouldn't add more fluff too? Or would that just frustrate you with having the fluff behind a "gameplay barrier"?

[Daysleeper]

I just can't imagine it to be good - wich doesn't mean it couldn't be.

[clockworkspide]

Personally, I tend to imagine a Malifaux video game would be best as a sandbox RPG, sort of like a blend between Fallout and Grand Theft Auto.

[SpiralngCadavr]

As a sandbox... maybe? As anything else... eeugh. Which is to say, Through the Breach (RPG) would be the basis, rather than Malifaux (competitive and or strategy).

[Ratty]

You could build something based on the X-Com engine, but with more special abilities that could be quite fun.

 

Have a team of Guild Guard, that get abilities, can equip stuff and hunt Rezers and Arcanists.

[AverageBoss]

As much as I rarely like the genre, it could work as a first or third person shooter, most likely from the point of view of the guild. They could even have you switch characters and/or factions as the story progresses much like the recent Transformers Cybertron games (two of the few shooters I like).

 

Just as a very basic, and not at all thought out example: start with a Guild operative for example trying to get something from a group of Archanists. Switch to a member of the Outcasts who has been employed to retrieve the same item, he must now attempt to intercept the Guild operative before he can return to Guild controlled territory.

[Mako]

Even if you started as a guard, I'd want some way to end up working as a resser, arcanist or outcast. Or stay and become an elite guildie like a death marshal or witch hunter. That would involve multiple factions offering things if they like you, and a pretty wide spread of ability trees though I assume. 

 

By that point it's basically just a digital version of Through the Breach though in some ways, I guess.

 

I certainly wouldn't want the canon fluff to be continued in it, since that would mean having to buy it (hope my computer will run it) and play it through just to be able to follow the story in future books. Side stories, like the ones in the Chronicle that don't cover the main characters, would be ok though.

[Douglas Nicol]

i kinda think that malifaux would lend itself to a animated show in the power ranger style monster of the week type format with opposing crews (monster of the week). And i'd love to see some of the art animated in general.

[Hagisman]

I'd like to see Telltale games do a game in the style of Walking Dead or Wolf Among Us.

Those adventure games a re very good drama and mystery

[Thaarup]

There are a couple of different types of games which I think would be a fun way to try the Malifaux experience.

1. Adventure style. A dark/horror version of monkey islands/loom/... with a mix of a little Malifaux humor could be great.

2. A good old squad strategy game. Good old Incubation/space hulk style with maybe small minion squads lead by an enforcer from the different factions could be interesting. I could see a Freikorps unit evolve in a singleplayer campaign

3. RPG horror game. Either single player or a multiplayer version could work.

4. A straight up shoot ´em up game - 3d style- with some horror/shock encounters. Maybe a bit like "Fear" or the good old "Blood" game.

[LunarSol]

Shadowrun (the good one, not that awful FPS) is the best lens for this kind of world, IMO.

[entropolous]

Bejeweled - Soulstone Edition is obviously the ideal route.

J/K

[Nickienogger]

Wyrd could use its quirky ideas and talent in game concept designing to make a good mobile app game.

 

I could totally see Wyrd inventing a new killer to plants vs zombies. Although I dont even know what kind of game it would be - I believe they can!

[David Blank]

I want to just Second Daydreamer, I want a novel and a graphic novel, but mostly a novel. 

 

Actually I would love all of the stories from the first three book placed into one novel, plus some extra stuff that maybe didn't get into the first couple of books.

something like "Tales through the Breach." 

 

That would be a great start, and help to those of us who started the game in M2e

[Dryzen]

If I knew the fluff better I would be very tempted to make one in RPG maker. Nothing extreme but a fun way to tell the story.

[Hagisman]

I'm still going to say they need to infect the Telltale game staff. Needs to happen,

[Dracomax]

Am I the only one who saw the title and immediately thought "2D side scrolling beat-em up?"

 

I may have grown up in the 80s where that was 90% of all liscensed games, and the other 10% were paperboy clones.

 

Shudder. Gremlin on a pig trying to avoid goddamn bats, neverborn, bullets from the Ortegas, etc. WHile delivering booze, with the control of a poor 80'S paperboy clone....It would either be hiliariawesome or terribad.

[MasterDisaster]

I'd happily play a Malifaux Video Game. Perhaps something along the lines of the Dragonage Series or even Neverwinter Nights/Baldurs Gate I could see being very fun. Novels would also be pretty kick ass!

[Emberlost]

Just as long as it doesn't end up like the Warmachine game. That was stuck in development hell forever, until Privateer Press got more directly involved and ran a kickstarter for it. Apparently it's now making real progress.

[doubledragon]

I'd be very excited about a Malifaux video game. Maybe do it like Dragon Age/Mass Effect? Gameplay wise? You control your master and give orders to your crew to do different things/activate their abilities. You design your master, then depending on how you play the game story wise and the abilities you choose for your master, that unlocks other characters to add to your crew who help you a long your epic quest. Dragon Age reference:

[TarlSS]

Honestly I think it would work best as a squad based strategy game like X-Com. The rules are all there, so why not? There aren't as many issues like scaling to deal with you'd have in say, like Warhammer.

[Claymore65]

If you wanted to make a fan style game, a Doujinshi fighter would be awesome. Pick a couple of masters from each faction and duke it out. The Viks could use tag-team attacks like in Marvel Vs Capcom, Rasputina could freeze her opponent mid battle, and tons of other cool options. It would be mighty fun.

 

Something X-Com Style (like Warmachine Tactics I guess) would also work well. My favorite though would be one based off of Through the Breach, and set up a long RPG where we get to explore Malifaux's cool world. You could have master cameos, new characters, and could implement any kind of combat system you would like.

[Rekeiji]

For me the draw of Malifaux is the world and the characters so a Bioware style game would probably be the best way to realise it.