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spooks = nocturne rip-off?

post #1 of 5
6/3/04 at 11:06pm
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I'm not sure if anyone has played the game nocturne before. (Awesome game, very suprised it's not talked about in here.) Here's how it breaks down if you haven't: President Roosevelt accidentally shot and killed a lycan on an hunting trip. It scared him so much that he started a secret government funded agency to investigate and control the supernatural. Your character goes around putting the vampires, zombies, and lycans in their places. It's like men in black meets the x-files set in the 1930's. VERY awesome game. But now this info for spooks comes out and it is like the EXACT same thing. They talked about a movie adaptation for the longest time, but then the company that bought the movie rights also bought the rights to max payne and then nocturne was never heard of again. Does anyone know if these two projects are related at all? They sound a little too similar to me to be a coincidence.
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post #2 of 5
6/4/04 at 6:09pm
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front page yesterday, heres the link


http://www.creature-corner.com/news4/jun03spooks.php3
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post #3 of 5
6/5/04 at 12:21am
Exactly, Cosmoline. Why is it that anything that resembles another is automatically labelled a 'rip-off'?

BTW, the fact that you are versed in 'Delta Green' makes you OK in my book, Cosmo!
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post #4 of 5
6/5/04 at 1:52am
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I wasn't saying it was a rip off, I was asking if it was or if it was possibly the same project with a different name. I dunno, if it was vaguely familiar I can understand that it is a separate idea, but these two are a little too similar in my book. Does anyone know what happened to the film rights for nocturne? They were owned by Dimension films and Collision entertainment (which makes me wonder if I really want to see it or not). They also bought max payne and alice, but havent moved with those either.
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post #5 of 5
6/6/04 at 4:53am
Yep, I definitely noticed that. Nocturne was good, the Nocturne/Blair Witch crossover, Rustin Parr, was even better. (Furthered the Nocturne universe while answering all the questions left by the first Blair Witch movie.)

Really, there's a whole subgenre here, I think. X-Files, the BPRD of Hellboy, Nocturne's shadow agency, the Bureau 13 of the pen & paper RPG and terrible early PC game, Bloodrayne's government spy masters from the PC/XBox games, the League of Extraordinary Gentleman...the list goes on with the addition of the Spooks agency and the new Darkwatch agency in the upcoming vampire western of the same name.

They all feature secret agencies with varying levels of government sponsorship, all out to either hide the paranormal from the public or exploit it for it's own purposes.

Lovecraft may be the source of it all, but you have to toss in Kolchak: The Night Stalker somewhere.

Personally, I do think the premise has been stretched a little thin. I'd like to see some original concepts for awhile. If you have to have paranormal investigators, why not tap the real world's plethora of colorful ghost hunting types? (Oh, and I'm more than a little annoyed...'Spooks' was the working title of a story I hoped to turn into a film or TV pitch...dammit.)
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