Saw: The Videogame

"Tired of watching a crappy SAW movie every year?"

"YEAH!"

"Now you can play as someone stuck in a crappy SAW movie! All for the low, low price of 60 dollars!"

*BLAM*


*thud*

While not excited, i cant help but not be interested in this. I really love the fact that this is getting a game. Its officially become the Friday the 13th/Nightmare On Elm Street of this generation.

What split said. At least those were fun to watch. SAW can rot in hell.

This whole game needs to be nothing but Jigsaw stating the fact he has cancer and everyone else needs to suffer too. And alot of QTE. GOLD!

Haha. Awesome.

Let it be known, i own the first 3 but necessarily don't like them. But really though, how is this not like Friday and Nightmare? I wasn't really old enough during the original releases but it seems to follow the same pattern. I'm sure in 10 years a new era of nerds will gush all over Saw.

Press A not to die...

Just how often do you sink money into things you "necessarily don't like"? You don't have to pretend to not like them to gain credibility with us.

But seriously though, if you like them I hate you and I hope you die of cancer on Christmas morning.

Just sayin.

This game better have a fuck you button.

Let's get some synergy up in this bitch



Fuck this game in the contrived, overly complicated neckwound. Alex, great minds think alike.

I'm glad you linked that article, just so I could have the pleasure of reading this post (in reference to Saw vs Friday the 13th, a Nightmare on Elm St, etc):

Fantastic.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play

Alot actually. For awhile i had more money then taste. Now i have neither.

Huh?

Imagine a game that uses indept physics and knowledge of engineering to create toys in an open world type revenge game....


....and then there will be this.

There could have even been a Wii version, where you did motion based mini games where you build and arm the traps.

A board game version has most potential.

Have you guys seen the roller coaster at Thorpe Park?

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Beyond the shelving of Trick Or Treat and slightly more limited Halloween theatrical offerings, I doen't understand why any Horror fans would actively hate Saw. Not because they're at all good, but because the genre is swamped with awful. The only thing seperating Jason and Freddy from Jigsaw is personal taste and fifteen years.

But this is of course the same song and dance that occurs in every Saw thread.

Someone mentioned a Deception game...this is why I love these boards.

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Personally, I actively hate Saw because the movies are actively horrible. To make matters worse, I (as well as many other people) had extremely high hopes for the first movie based on marketing and what we knew of the premise. Then the movie comes out, it's quite literally laughably bad, and each consecutive sequel has been a more and more obvious cash grab. The difference between the Saw franchise and the horror franchises that we hold dear is the the franchises from our past began strongly enough and got worse as they went along. Saw on the other hand went from bad to worse, completely squandering one of the first original concepts for a slasher franchise in many years. ON TOP OF THAT, the fact Saw is likely to blame for the lack of other good horror (because no studio has the balls to release anything against it) should be reason enough for anyone who likes horror to spit on the franchise.< /rant>

Also, I enjoy poking sharp sticks at people who like things I don't like.

If they unabashedly ripped off Deception then this would have been an interesting game. It's not like many people are going to say "holy crap they only ripped off the Deception series! Boycott!"

"If this game looks like a cheap knockoff of SILENT HILL/RESIDENT EVIL but without all the cool atmosphere or interesting characters BUT has lots of pointless torture scenes that are supposed to be "scary". Then it must be SAW!"

Jigsaw, in the end, is a whiny little bitch who will never be a horror icon.

Except, for a generation, he already is. People are seeing these films, they're popular movies and Jigsaw is a big part of that.

But they're not popular because they're good, they're popular because in october they're the only game in town.

But they're still popular, you overstimulated ball of primal rage and that popularity makes Jigsaw an iconic character.

Popular doesn't equal iconic.

You're wrong, Spike. Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy, Pinhead and the Tall Man are modern horror icons. Jigsaw is a cancer patient with way too much time on his hands.

Exactly. I could say the name Freddy or Jason and my mom (who has never watched any of these movies) would instantly know who they are. If I asked her about Jigsaw, she'd probably say "puzzles?"

I'd love a Freddy game where you basically manipulate everything and get points for creative kills.

The SE of the game comes with a sweater.

The Tall Man? Really? Really? Out of those guys you mentioned I reckon a modern horror audience would view Jigsaw to be their equals. He hit some sort of cultural zeitgeist and despite you all thinking the films are the second rapening the films have been immensely popular, have tapped into something in the teen horror audience and will probably endure just as long as other horror icons.

The game has my attention, and I own all 5 of the movies. Not so much that I think that they're masterpieces, but mostly because I get entertainment out of them. Sure it's people getting tortured, but they're not exactly saints are they?

That said, I will not be spending $60 on this. I'll wait till it's $30 or less. Besides, it's probably going to end up like every one of the movies with a game over, and your character losing anyway.


Also, the only Jigsaw to me is the villain from The Punisher. This one can't hold a candle to that one.

Good man.

If most people, even teenagers, were watching the Saw movies because they really liked them as movies and found them representative of the best of the genre, then why do they all have such low scores on Rotten Tomatoes (the HIGHEST score being the 1st movie's 47%, then degrading movie by movie into the TEENS).

But the doll is part of the character, the doll and Tobin Bell are Jigsaw. It's like saying Freddy's glove gets more attention than Kruger.

Also Angus Scrimm and the Phantasm films are hardly in the same fucking echelon of iconography as Jason and Freddy.

Of course the Saw films got bad reviews. The Friday the 13th Films (aside from the first) got terrible reviews too.

If we're going for AUDIENCE reactions its probably better to go with IMDB ratings, which tend to favour the Saw films...because they connected with an audience.

I feel kinda dumb not knowing who Angus Scrimm was until this thread. I'd heard of Phantasm though. Not really my genre I guess.

All of this is pointless - lesser properties have spawned games and they were far more easily ignored. The fact the SAW license is successful despite being terrible isn't anything new either, it just earns more contempt.

In my view new horror franchises are supposed to do this. They're supposed to piss of the old fogeys and appeal to a younger generation.

They don't have to be horrible though.

Saw would maybe be an ok franchise if it weren't for horrible directing, horrible plots. And most of all their inclusion of a "summary" review ending.

Dude, I own the Phantasm sphere of doom. But he's one of the nichest characters in an already niche genre.

This fogey was only born 3 years before you.

Phantasm and Scrimm set precedence.

However, the Phantasm mythology imploded on itself.

Probably still too old, the only reason I'm defending the films is because going to University has shown me that 18-19 years are, almost across the boards, pumped for these films.

The Phantasm movies will always be the "arty" horror movies of the major franchises. I mean come on, Coscarelli puts so much thought into these, while all the scripts (save for the Nightmare franchise) are generally one note and formulaic.

The Saw franchise is the epitome of fromulaic.

1. Throw people together and make them do horrible things to themselves/each other.

2. They discover they all have a connection.

3. Cop on the trail finds out, gets incapacitated or dead.

4. Final twist for survivor, and game over.

And I actually like the series. It's just so predictable.

I genuinely respect the fact that Rene likes the movies, but is honest & realistic about them and doesn't try to make excuses for them. Liking bad things is fine, it's trying to deny that they are what they are that irks me.