I've always felt like video games are the only realistic avenue where the Indiana Jones series can expand. In live action form, the character is just too tied to Harrison Ford, but with video games they can just keep making new Indy adventures set in his prime.
The franchise also just naturally lends itself well to video game action
It makes sense when you realize that both Tomb Raider and Uncharted have always just been off brand Indiana Jones
There were some good clones of Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones point-and-click games. I really wish they had stopped making prequels and sequels after Last Crusade.
prequels
You mean that TV show with the young Indiana Jones, right?
I forgot this series existed, I think there's an episode where Indy meets Lenin and Ho Chi Mihn lol. But I was more talking about how Temple of Doom and Last Crusade were prequels to Raiders of the Lost Ark (I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure they take place some years earlier than Raiders). I wouldn't mind a new TV series like Young Indiana Jones, but they really need to let Harrison Ford rest unless they have a really good script and director.
Just get another actor to play the guy. The idea came from Spielberg wishing he could make a Bind film in the first place. The character is more of an archetype and costume than a real character. The Mummy from 1999 is also the second best Indiana Jones movie.
The Mummy was a very fun movie. The sequels were okish, I never saw the standalone Scorpion King movie because I didn't know it existed. The Tomb Raider Lara Croft movie was also a lot of fun for the time.
Scorpion King is hilarious. The Mummy sequels were pretty dissapointing, they weren't too bad but the first movie was just so damn FUN. Haven't seen the Tomv Raider movie. Mask of Zorro from 1998 is also severely underrated. It's an amazing action movie even though the biggest stunt is a dude standing on two moving horses at once. Also like The Mummy it's a pretty horn movie in a fun way, except way more cause Zorro. Like swordfight where zorro and lady cut each others clothes off with skillfully swordwork fun horny
Mask of Zorro is awesome too, and I think the villain in that one is some Spanish/Mexican Guasano and an American General that wants to conquer California, and they use slave labor to mine gold. The first Tomb Raider movie is really weird, because it sort had the effect of the Mortal Kombat movie, it's good, it does change a lot of the lore and plot. But the thing is, the Movie actually influenced the games to change a lot of stuff (just like the Mortal Kombat movie), Tomb Raider Legends literally has a 1:1 reaction of the mansion that was used in the movie. And Angelina Jolie was good as Lara Croft, too bad the movie becomes silly as it goes on, but tbh the games were never that serious.
I've always been confused about the dates of these movies, probably because I have numerical dyslexia, and Crusader starts in 1912 and jumps to the 1930s. I think Raiders is from 1936 and Crusade is from 1938/39?
Looked it up, last crusade prologue is 1912, Temple is '35, Raiders is '36, and the not prologue of last crusade is '38.
You're absolutely right. This is really the only way to get more Indiana Jones content, which is something I didn't even realize how much I wanted more of until I started this game. It's such a great character.
more Indiana Jones content
What, you mean Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny didn't scratch that itch???
But yeah, the character just doesn't work as an old man and really doesn't work as a really old man. Kingdom also tried subbing in the Soviets as a 1:1 replacement for the Nazis which was very classy
The Soviet thing didn't work for Indiana Jones either. He's a very worldly guy and I don't really see it in his character to be fully anti communist, he'd be a guy that understands the ins and outs of the Soviet union but his primary concern is doing archeology wrong and punching people so it's not a big part of his life. Hating nazis, sure, they're nazis, hating Russians is weird.
In Kingdom it's revealed Indy served in WW2 and is now a war hero and stalwart American patriot. I guess he wouldn't pass up an opportunity to kill more Nazis but Indy as a soldier still felt off to me
Oh man I completely forgot about the Soviets in Crystal skull. What an absolutely trash movie. Now I really wish they had just skipped those and went straight to video games lol
I have to look up dial of destiny later. I think Crystal skull damaged my psyche in a way that prevented me from being aware of that movie when it released. I'm sure it's probably better this way but I'm kind of curious to see how bad it is.
Infernal Machine (1999) was the first to substitute the USSR for the nazis
Yoooo I had a ton of fun with that game as a kid, but remember it being pretty difficult for 11 year old me. I think I have it on steam, definitely have it on an n64 emulator but iirc it doesn't emulate super well
This might be a way to emulate it well, it's what the speed runners use
https://www.speedrun.com/indy3d/guides/nn0e3
The game is good, but goddamn is Indiana Jones a boring franchise and I wish it would just die. You cannot tell me this lib ass "this belongs in a museum" chauvinist loser grave robber is the best we can do when it comes to WW2 stories eighty years on
I think there should be an Indiana Jones where he unknowingly accepts a mercenary mission in the Congo in the 70s
or indiana jones and the elgin marbles, where he cuts a bloody swath through england to steal the elgin marbles back for greece. or something.
no, in the final chase scene he kidnaps elizabeth (also she's dead lol, why is she in this, but okay, the movie is set when she was alive), then looks into the camera and says "IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM"
and he puts the elizabeth on the pressure sensor for the elgin marbles
I agree on the liberalism and chauvinism bits, it's DNA definitely has that in it for sure and when they show through on screen it's kinda gross. I think there are ways to handle it appropriately without just glossing over colonialism and theft. Or maybe I'm just coping with some cognitive dissonance right now.
I do disagree that it's boring though. Those first movies were great action movies that were aimed at an audience that films don't really care about anymore. It sucks that everything is either for infants or for adults with almost nothing in between now. I wish they would make more high quality movies, that do not have disdain for its audience, and are still appropriate for 10 year olds. Unlimited genocide on the YA fiction world.
I also think the world benefits from having some more autistic hero characters in it.
Nice, is it good? I saw some gameplay and it seemed really fun and it had good graphics. It also has Tony Todd, so it got to be good.
I'm having a ton of fun with it. I'm about 10-12 hours in and I'm looking forward to playing more right now.
It's different than the Wolfenstein games, but if you enjoyed any of the more recent ones, there is some similarity in the writing and gameplay. The level design reminds me of how they did the levels in youngblood: semi open but with an extremely high level of detail.
Probably more importantly, if you enjoyed the Indiana Jones movies, you will probably dig this. It's better than any of the movies from the last two decades by a wide margin. It honestly feels like the first real sequel to The Last Crusade. This game does a remarkable job of capturing the spirit of those movies. Bravo to the voice actors in this, especially Troy Baker who absolutely knocks it out of the park.
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