RoboCop: Rogue City - new game from Terminator: Resistance devs

Bad Sector · Jul 8, 2021

Pound Meat said:
From the trailer, however, it's clear they're making a sequel to the third movie where Robocop had a jetpack and was best friends with a cute little hacker girl who is the real hero of the story.

The trailer reminded me of one episode of a RoboCop TV series - i thought it was the 1994 one (which btw while it was more light in tone than the films, it was still a good cyberpunk TV series - or at least i remember liking it back in the 90s) but actually turns out it was the Prime Directives from 2001 - which i only caught a glimpse at some point but i do remember the city being more futuristic and having a darker tone (...also there were two robocops, which is basically how i realized it wasn't the original series :-P). Wikipedia mentions that the Prime Directives is closer in tone to the first two movies than the series, but TBH i remember nothing from it aside from the few glimpses of the city and the more futuristic style.

I should rewatch that stuff at some point, i've forgotten pretty much all of it aside from the original movie.

Pound Meat · Jul 9, 2021

Bad Sector said:
Pound Meat said:

From the trailer, however, it's clear they're making a sequel to the third movie where Robocop had a jetpack and was best friends with a cute little hacker girl who is the real hero of the story.

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The trailer reminded me of one episode of a RoboCop TV series - i thought it was the 1994 one (which btw while it was more light in tone than the films, it was still a good cyberpunk TV series - or at least i remember liking it back in the 90s) but actually turns out it was the Prime Directives from 2001 - which i only caught a glimpse at some point but i do remember the city being more futuristic and having a darker tone (...also there were two robocops, which is basically how i realized it wasn't the original series :-P). Wikipedia mentions that the Prime Directives is closer in tone to the first two movies than the series, but TBH i remember nothing from it aside from the few glimpses of the city and the more futuristic style.

I should rewatch that stuff at some point, i've forgotten pretty much all of it aside from the original movie.

If you ever wanted to watch a cheap 2000-era tv show made by Canadians, then Prime Directives is for you. They even slip that John Woo crossing guns thing in there because that's what you did back then.

bertram_tung · Jul 9, 2021

luj1 said:
Nigger you like Fallout 4. Shut the fuck up.

hahahaha, nothing else needs to be said

Bad Sector · Jul 9, 2021

Pound Meat said:
If you ever wanted to watch a cheap 2000-era tv show made by Canadians, then Prime Directives is for you. They even slip that John Woo crossing guns thing in there because that's what you did back then.

Not sure if you mention that as a positive or negative TBH :-P as i do remember liking the original TV series which was also Canadian and much older.

In any case, i just watched the first two movies and i think even right from the second movie the quality dropped, so perhaps it is the original that is the only outlier. Not that the second one is bad, i just get the feeling that the first was more well thought overall.

BTW in the second movie Robocop gets to drive a motorcycle for a bit so there is also that as an option the game could implement for faster movement.

Nutria · Jul 9, 2021

I think the first Robocop just fucking hit it out of the park in every way: writing, directing, acting. Once you've got a masterpiece Robocop movie that completely fulfills the potential of the idea 120%, where do you go from there?

JDR13 · Jul 9, 2021

I didn't think there was a big drop in quality with the second movie. It was Robocop 3 that made me go "wtf?" It's hard to believe Frank Miller wrote that.

Pound Meat · Jul 9, 2021

Frank Miller pretends like his script for RoboCop 2 was completely mangled so I'm sure he refuses to even acknowledge the third one, which used ideas from said script.

edit: We need a producer's cut of 2 now that Kirshner's dead. He didn't like Nancy Allen so he cut her out of the movie as much as possible even though she was in her physical prime. Was he gay? That sounds like something a gay man would do.

Bad Sector · Jul 9, 2021

JDR13 said:
I didn't think there was a big drop in quality with the second movie. It was Robocop 3 that made me go "wtf?" It's hard to believe Frank Miller wrote that.

I just finished the third movie and yeah it is a big drop in quality there to the point where in many places the plot doesn't make logical sense. Compared to the drop between the first and the second, the one between the second and the third is *way* bigger and i think the third movie just makes the second seem better in retrospect :-P

Anyway, i think i'll watch the 1994 series next. I vaguely remember it having some neat ideas, which isn't something i can say for the third movie.

Unkillable Cat · Jul 9, 2021

Pound Meat said:
Frank Miller pretends like his script for RoboCop 2 was completely mangled so I'm sure he refuses to even acknowledge the third one, which used ideas from said script.

IIRC he wrote a comic book series that shows his 'version' of the script and plot. The biggest change is that Nuke-drug (and everything related to it) is not in there. Instead there's a 'Special Ops'-division of the police (fully funded, armed and controlled by OCP) who are being used to drive citizens out of their homes by whatever means necessary, because Delta City must rise. Only Robocop can (and does) stand against them. One of the biggest psychopaths from that squad gets blown up and eventually turned into Robocop 2 (by a bombshell scientist at OCP), who is then unleashed upon the city.

Subplots regarding Alex Murphy's humanity or making Robocop more 'agreeable' are either non-existant or kept to a minimum. Also, there are no pistol-packin' 12-year olds around.

As for the Robocop-game... I don't know. Neither the Rambo or Terminator-games were that good, and while there's potential in a Robocop-game, it's very easy to screw it up.

Luka-boy · Jul 9, 2021

The roboflops alone already made Robocop 2 worth a watch :lol:

Justicar · Jul 9, 2021

Luka-boy said:
Silentstorm said:

also, what's next?

Lethal Weapon or a Jackie Chan game?

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CthuluIsSpy · Jul 11, 2021

I really hope this is not shit. Apparently Terminator Resistance was alright.

A horse of course · Jul 11, 2021

Unkillable Cat said:
Pound Meat said:

Frank Miller pretends like his script for RoboCop 2 was completely mangled so I'm sure he refuses to even acknowledge the third one, which used ideas from said script.

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IIRC he wrote a comic book series that shows his 'version' of the script and plot. The biggest change is that Nuke-drug (and everything related to it) is not in there. Instead there's a 'Special Ops'-division of the police (fully funded, armed and controlled by OCP) who are being used to drive citizens out of their homes by whatever means necessary, because Delta City must rise. Only Robocop can (and does) stand against them. One of the biggest psychopaths from that squad gets blown up and eventually turned into Robocop 2 (by a bombshell scientist at OCP), who is then unleashed upon the city.

Subplots regarding Alex Murphy's humanity or making Robocop more 'agreeable' are either non-existant or kept to a minimum. Also, there are no pistol-packin' 12-year olds around.

As for the Robocop-game... I don't know. Neither the Rambo or Terminator-games were that good, and while there's potential in a Robocop-game, it's very easy to screw it up.

I enjoyed the comic book, it hit those ridiculous ott notes with scenes like the sleazy TV host getting shot and continuing broadcasts from the hospital with big-titted nurses. I also liked the femdom undertones with the female executive.