this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
187 points (97.9% liked)

PC Gaming

8877 readers
1492 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
187
Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain [for the US, other nations may have different rules], so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Different laws may apply world wide. Ie: in Europe is not about the publication date, but author life-span (author's works get in public domain 70 years it's death: TinTin gets in PD in EU in the 2054)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'd be interested in a Tintin game more than Popeye, personally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what that would look like, frankly. I guess you could go for a narrative Telltale-style thing? Making an Uncharted game with a Tintin skin would be missing the point. And you´d have to come up with almost entirely new story ideas anyway, the only story in the public domain in the US is the original version of In the Land of the Soviets.

But hey, I would have said the same thing about Indiana Jones and there it is, so... maybe somebody has a clearer picture in their heads than I do. I genuinely doubt the license was what kept something like this from happening, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe more of a mystery story? Just take the "investigative reporter" angle and run with it.

[–] toynbee 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No idea whether they're any good or not, but there are already at least two Tintin games.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, based on the film

and

Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh, based on a book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are more. The most famous are a duology of side scrolling action adventure things in the 16 bit era. They adapted Tintin in Tibet and Prisoner of the Sun.

They look great for the time, but frankly, they're both a chore to play.

Worth taking a look if you haven't heard of them, though.

[–] toynbee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gasp. How dare you, my good sir/madam?

No, seriously, I get it, but no. PoP, Flashback or Another World are way more playable. They look worse, though.

[–] toynbee 1 points 6 days ago

I can't comment on the comparison, as I didn't play most of those, but I will comment on Sands of Time:

The premise of the game is that the protagonist is recalling a story. He narrates your actions as you play, but you can fail. If you fail, you can die. If you die, the narrator says things like "and then I died. No, wait, that's not right" and you can rewind time.

I always thought that was pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Popeye might lend itself nicely to a cuphead like game.