Varia31 wrote on 07/06/16 at 20:20:49:
If it's a downloadable, smaller title, yes. Especially if it keeps the core mechanics and feel that the classic Twisted Metals did. If story elements show up, then I would hope that a team that "gets" the universe would be the ones working on it. The fact that 989 turned Twisted Metal into something sillier is part of what threw it off. I actually draw parallels between those games and the older Batman movies because of how much the tone and feel changed.
Batman ('89) = TM1
Batman Returns = TM2
Batman Forever = TM3
Batman & Robin = TM4
I still enjoy Jaffe's work, personally. Even if he isn't involved with a new Twisted Metal, then maybe, at the least, he could be a creative consultant. If not, then said new developers would do well to study the classic games more while also making good use of the ideas from the newer games, too. Especially TM Black.
I like Batman Forever more than Batman Returns tbh. Returns is an inferior sequel to '89 (no real continuation, what happened to Vicki Vale & Harvey Dent?), and Forever isn't all silly like B&R, and it's probably more serious than Returns actually once you get past the bat-nipples, Tommy Lee Jones' acting, and the neon style of Gotham's nightlife.
If Twisted Metal 3 were the Batman Forever of Twisted Metal it'd be a good game, to me anyway.
I'd consider the Twisted Metal quadrilogy closer to the X-Men & Terminator quadrilogies.
X-Men/Terminator/Twisted Metal - Each showed great franchise potential
X2/Terminator2/Twisted Metal2 - Each delivered the full potential of the series.
X-Men3 The Last Stand/Terminator 3/Twisted Metal 3 - Each fucked up the series.
X-Men Origins/Terminator Salvation/Twisted Metal 4 - Each in a way admit they are shadows of their former selves.
I don't think silliness killed Batman & Twisted Metal though. That's too subjective, considering they were both partly silly concepts to begin with.
I think Jaffe likes to make that argument, doesn't he (about how 989's silly designs ruined TM)? When interviewed about TM3 & 4 he'd only ever really show disgust for how SweetTooth was portrayed, which was a personal thing for him. He never goes deep with the real flaws of the 989 Studio games, which I thought worrisome. For all we know he thinks the gameplay of those games was just fine.
I really don't understand why you think he'd be necessary as a Creative Consultant, Varia31.
Would you want George Lucas as a creative consultant for future Star Wars movies?
Have you seen all the rejected concept art Jaffe has made for Twisted Metal - his attempts at re-imagining Sweet Tooth? D. Jaffe is the George Lucas of Twisted Metal bro. Putting him as a creative consultant for the next TM is a good way to piss off the next team who'll be making the game.