Revolution idea: IRON CHEF

Qingu · 03-17-2006, 04:09 PM

On that crazy Revolution video, we saw a chef using the remote to chop virtual vegetables. And apparently Miyamoto, in a recent interview, made some sly allusion to the possibility of a cooking game.

The only logical conclusion is that Nintendo is working on some sort of Iron Chef game.

Use the remote to:
• chop vegetables!
• filet fish!
• hold handle of skillets to sauté and flambé!
• roll out dough!
• drizzle sauces on plates for presentation!
• point at sous-chefs and shout orders at them with microphone!

While the game would have no way to measure how good you are at making things "taste good," there are plenty of skills it could measure. The Rev's graphics could show you exactly how much you're browning the beef and carmelizing the onion—the skill would be both handling the ingredients and recognizing the visual (and audio) cues. In a certain way the game might resemble strategy games like Warcraft, in that you have to select from a limited amount of resources (the controller would work very well for that, as a 3-D mouse).

Does anyone else think this is a totally awesome concept? What do you think the likelihood is of Nintendo making such a thing as we speak? Remember, this is the company that made DS games about being a lawyer and being a surgeon.

***Art*** · 03-17-2006, 04:27 PM

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Remember, this is the company that made DS games about being a lawyer and being a surgeon.

And raising dogs.

Great idea.

bobthecockroach · 03-17-2006, 04:32 PM

Wouldn't it be more fun to actually cook?

Qingu · 03-17-2006, 04:51 PM

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Wouldn't it be more fun to actually cook?

More expensive. And far less theatrical. I'm picturing announcers running a play-by-play as you play the game like in Iron Chef (and giving you clues on how to best prepare ingredients). Not to mention cheering crowds and stuff.

I'd actually like it if they made this hypothetical game even more over the top than Iron Chef. Like Cooking Master Boy.

SqshdPanda · 03-17-2006, 04:52 PM

could they also make it so that you could cut your hand in the game and bleed all over the kitchen?

well, it's an interesting concept at least... not sure how'd they really impliment such a thing so that it's fun after 20mins.

Mrstickball · 03-17-2006, 10:45 PM

An iron chef game would be by far too gimmicky.

Now, the game I would buy the revolution for would be a Guitar Hero clone that'd use the revolution's design more powerfully than what GH did, with add-on modules for drummer hero, bass hero, and keyboard hero. Now THATs a game I'd buy.

bobthecockroach · 03-17-2006, 10:51 PM

..... why in the world would you want to play music on a video game system when you could play it for real?

MJ_Avalanche · 03-17-2006, 10:55 PM

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..... why in the world would you want to play music on a video game system when you could play it for real?

I take it you haven't played Guitar Hero?

bobthecockroach · 03-17-2006, 10:57 PM

No, but I imagine it involves music and video games together... which is like trying to mix a poodle and a pit bull. The results simply cannot be good.

MJ_Avalanche · 03-17-2006, 10:59 PM

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No, but I imagine it involves music and video games together... which is like trying to mix a poodle and a pit bull. The results simply cannot be good.

Please go play Guitar Hero and rethink that statement.

GH was probably one of the best purchases I've made in a couple years.

bobthecockroach · 03-17-2006, 11:01 PM

Where would you have me play it?

MJ_Avalanche · 03-17-2006, 11:05 PM

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Where would you have me play it?

Best Buy has had it out on the floor for a while. I would check there first. Otherwise, go find someone that has the game. It proves that video games and music definately can function quite well together. Heck, even Gamespot said it's great.

MJ_Avalanche · 03-17-2006, 11:09 PM

Oh, yeah, back on the original topic. I personally would like to see an over the top cooking kind of game. I really would enjoy that, seeing as how I rarely get to cook for real. Plus the vibe of Iron Chef at your fingertips at any time. How cool would that be?

I personally think that nearly all, if not all of the "demos" from the unveiling are likely to be turned into games. Fishing, cooking, music, a "real" horror game, hardcore FPS, and of course swordfighting/Zelda.

Dice · 03-18-2006, 06:24 AM

That would be really hard to program. Think of all the different consistencies of the foods and the dynamics of how they change with cooking and whatnot. Textures would also have to change and all that as they cook, it would really be difficult.

SageMenno · 03-18-2006, 02:32 PM

That's an excellent idea.. some further ideas, though.

Perhaps taste could come into the game somehow, say after you prepare a dish, you serve it to someone (perhaps an audience member or food critic) and based on the degree to which the meat is browned or how much seasoning you put in, etc., the person makes a call on how the taste is. That could get a little weird, but AI has become very sophisticated since 1985. Either way, this game would make it possible to practice cooking skills without wasting money on supplies.