Post by Donald Duck on Sept 3, 2012 12:19:09 GMT -8
Even back in 2010 before Epic Mickey's release, Warren Spector often made his desire to make a new Scrooge McDuck game known. You can read it in various interviews with the man, but it seems time has not subdued his dream; if anything, it only fed it.
Warren Spector has always said in a few interviews that Scrooge McDuck is his favorite Disney character. The man loves Carl Barks to bits, he loves DuckTales (though it seems not as much as the original Duck comics), and he just really wants to make this game happen. Below is an interview with him, conducted by 1Up.
1UP: I want to know what your ideal DuckTales or Uncle Scrooge game would be; what history would it follow? Would it be the newer Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck? Would it be the older Carl Barks stuff? Would it be the adaptations that were seen in the cartoon? What would your ideal version of that game be?
WS: I don't want to get too specific here because I really do want to do it. But I'm a huge fan of Carl Barks and I particularly like his longer-form adventures. He was a master at one and two-page little vignettes, but he was also pretty masterful at the 24-page — or even longer — epic adventure. And I think that's the quality of Barks that I would want to maintain; that sense of epic adventure, that sense that anything is possible in this world, that magic exists, that dinosaurs still exist somewhere... That a duck can be Indiana Jones, basically. That's what I'd want to keep. I think the DuckTales TV show did a pretty good job of that; I think they lost some of the adult sensibility — there were things going on in Carl Barks' stories that clearly appeal to kids, but went right over their heads. And that sort of Looney Tunes/Carl Barks — there's stuff for adults and kids — I'd want to go back to that. But a lot of what Barks did I don't think would play with kids today because I think the pacing would be a little too slow. I don't think you need to update the characters; the Disney characters are timeless and classic. I think what you have to do is put them in relevant settings, things that people care about today. And so I would probably be looking for some slightly different contexts, some slightly different types of stories; faster pacing, but still going for that sense of epic adventure.
It's worth noting that Warren Spector co-wrote a few stories for the recent BOOM! Studios Disney comics; I believe he was involved with the Darkwing Duck/DuckTales crossover.
My only suggestion? Write the script as soon as possible, finalize it, get it approved, etc., and then get Alan Young to voice the dialog right away. I don't mean to be a pessimist, but Mr. Young is 92. I'd love a new DuckTales game, and endorse this... but only if it has Alan Young as Scrooge one more time.
Until then, I'll continue to listen to the 8-bit theme from the awesome DuckTales NES game.
What do you guys think?
Sauce: www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/09/warren_spector_wants_to_make_a_ducktales_game
Warren Spector has always said in a few interviews that Scrooge McDuck is his favorite Disney character. The man loves Carl Barks to bits, he loves DuckTales (though it seems not as much as the original Duck comics), and he just really wants to make this game happen. Below is an interview with him, conducted by 1Up.
1UP: I want to know what your ideal DuckTales or Uncle Scrooge game would be; what history would it follow? Would it be the newer Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck? Would it be the older Carl Barks stuff? Would it be the adaptations that were seen in the cartoon? What would your ideal version of that game be?
WS: I don't want to get too specific here because I really do want to do it. But I'm a huge fan of Carl Barks and I particularly like his longer-form adventures. He was a master at one and two-page little vignettes, but he was also pretty masterful at the 24-page — or even longer — epic adventure. And I think that's the quality of Barks that I would want to maintain; that sense of epic adventure, that sense that anything is possible in this world, that magic exists, that dinosaurs still exist somewhere... That a duck can be Indiana Jones, basically. That's what I'd want to keep. I think the DuckTales TV show did a pretty good job of that; I think they lost some of the adult sensibility — there were things going on in Carl Barks' stories that clearly appeal to kids, but went right over their heads. And that sort of Looney Tunes/Carl Barks — there's stuff for adults and kids — I'd want to go back to that. But a lot of what Barks did I don't think would play with kids today because I think the pacing would be a little too slow. I don't think you need to update the characters; the Disney characters are timeless and classic. I think what you have to do is put them in relevant settings, things that people care about today. And so I would probably be looking for some slightly different contexts, some slightly different types of stories; faster pacing, but still going for that sense of epic adventure.
It's worth noting that Warren Spector co-wrote a few stories for the recent BOOM! Studios Disney comics; I believe he was involved with the Darkwing Duck/DuckTales crossover.
My only suggestion? Write the script as soon as possible, finalize it, get it approved, etc., and then get Alan Young to voice the dialog right away. I don't mean to be a pessimist, but Mr. Young is 92. I'd love a new DuckTales game, and endorse this... but only if it has Alan Young as Scrooge one more time.
Until then, I'll continue to listen to the 8-bit theme from the awesome DuckTales NES game.
What do you guys think?
Sauce: www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/09/warren_spector_wants_to_make_a_ducktales_game
