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Geo

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Why aren't there more games that spoof (in a tribute kind of way) a particular genre like The Bard's Tale. There are loads of games that spoof movies and loads of movies that spoof movies so why no games that spoof games (that gave me a headache)?

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Burai

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Because of the money it costs, probably.

To successfully spoof Halo would likely cost the same amount of money it took to make Halo in the first place. So if you're going to be chucking that sort of money about, you might as well make a game that is a proven seller (like Halo), rather than a piss-take that could bomb.

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True, there aren't many games whose sole purpose is to spoof, but there are spoof elements in TONS of games, a good example being early 90s RPGs.

Someone evidently realised that games in the genre were becoming quite formulaic and made them jollier by messing with stereotypes, such as reactions from walking into strangers houses and uncomfortable dialogue of explanations of features in the game. Cunning.

There are still lots of spoofs though in other games, such as Vice City where they have street racing posters taking the piss out of MSR and PGR.

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Has there ever been anything that's spoofed Resident Evil in a way? If not then there damn well should be (though the original is funny enough in it's own right).

Yes, the silent hill games, by actually having a story in them

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Mario RPG's tend to spoof the Mario World conventions pretty well.

Links Awakening and Animal Crossing poke fun at all things Nintendo too.

I seem to remember Turok on the N64 having a cheat called 'Quack' Mode, which was a dig at Quake....

GTA games are littered with video game parodies, usually in the form of posters or radio ads.

I'm sure there are more.

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Jack

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I seem to remember Turok on the N64 having a cheat called 'Quack' Mode, which was a dig at Quake....

Top Gear Rally, IIRC, had a "PlayStation mode" cheat which removed all of the bi-linear filtering and made the textures very blocky.

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If I was making a sequel to a classic franchise I'd totally rip the piss.

Think an overweight Alex Kidd. A truly embittered and broken mascot. 80's relic. You could have loads of fun spoofing old games. Put a level where he fights his way up the dole queue taking on lots of out of work characters you haven't seen in ages.

If you went with a sort of frentic Wario Ware gameplay model intersperced with tons of MTV/FamilyGuy style 10, 15 second spoofs I think it could work.

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Think an overweight Alex Kidd. A truly embittered and broken mascot. 80's relic. You could have loads of fun spoofing old games. Put a level where he fights his way up the dole queue taking on lots of out of work characters you haven't seen in ages.

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Qazimod

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Whilst not completely spoof, I am a sucker for self-concious jokes in games that poke fun at their own generic nature making me wonder if the developer intended to make the game feel like a parody. And I've also poked fun at generic features in games, esp. back in the days of coding text adventures in BASIC...But if Naked Gun, Casino Royale, Hot Shots! et al can successfully poke fun at hit films, why can't games do the same?

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Its harder for games, how do you spoof a game exactly and make it funny and work? Film spoofs work because you can take any type of film and totally turn it on its head while keeping the spoof still there. For example Hot shots. Now try to spoof Microsoft flight simulator...how would you do that?

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Comrade

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I seem to remember that there was a terrible game that was a full piss-take of Myst called (wait for it) "Pyst". Ho ho! I also seem to remember that Rosanne Barr was in it, but that's so bizarre I might just have imagined it.

EDIT: Actually, it was John Goodman. Clearly I just slipped into a "Rosanne the sitcom"-inspired haze. More about it here.

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Why aren't there more games that spoof (in a tribute kind of way) a particular genre like The Bard's Tale. There are loads of games that spoof movies and loads of movies that spoof movies so why no games that spoof games (that gave me a headache)?

I don't know about spoofing, but Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars put together by German dev team MindFactory is looking most interesting.

http://www.baphometsfluch25.de/eng/news.php

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