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Post by megatronbison on Aug 13, 2011 13:19:14 GMT -5
Mega Man as a Metroid-like exploration game: The usual Eight Robot Masters formula is present here, but rather than choosing stages, you're just stuck outside Dr. Wily's Fortress and a map that's blank aside from the locations of the eight masters. Capcom had this idea too, they called it Megaman ZX. They really dropped the ball on the idea of a map though- the in game map was hilariously bad. |
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Post by Weasel on Aug 13, 2011 13:30:15 GMT -5
Highly agreed. Geez, that game was painful for me. I guess that's why I left the idea in "god-awful ideas." =P
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Post by dire51 on Aug 14, 2011 19:12:06 GMT -5
I have to admit, I was amused and disturbed the fact that "watch out for those campus cops" appeared in a description for a Contra. My job is done, then.  |
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Post by derboo on Aug 14, 2011 19:16:06 GMT -5
I really don't know why, but today the idea of a porn game with the Shenmue engine was formed inside my head, with sex scenes as QTEs, using the exact same bleeps and blinking button symbols as the original. Now wouldn't that be sexy? Gotta have the original English voice actor for Ryu, though. (Come to think of it, wasn't there even an audio only porn spoof with the Shenmue voiceovers?) I just noticed a fact that makes this even better/worse: The genre for this game would be FREE porn. |
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Post by NamelessFragger on Aug 15, 2011 9:36:46 GMT -5
I can't believe I forgot to mention this idea the first time!
It's a game similar to...I forget what it was called, but it was a browser-based game. In order to play it, you had to install some plugins, uninstall other plugins, use a specific browser, and even change your screen resolution and bit depth...and after you're done with all that shit, you've finished the "game". It's clearly a pisstake on how some games require you to jump through so many arbitrary hoops to play them.
This "game" is less of that and more...DRM. Everything you can think of, from code wheels to manual lookups to Lenslok to CD checks to CD keys to online activation (and always-online authentication afterward) to drivers (think early Starforce) to hardware USB DRM keys and everything between. Simultaneously.
I suppose it would be more of an actual game to cracking groups more than anything, just trying to bypass all that shit to get to what may be underneath. I haven't yet decided if there even should be an actual game under all that DRM.
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Post by nintendolegend on Aug 16, 2011 11:46:46 GMT -5
How about a video game where you control a character who must program a video game? You could be one of the staffers at a major development house or something. Maybe you could choose to be the graphics guy, or script, or... and the "ending" is to then play the game you just created virtually.
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Post by wyrdwad on Aug 16, 2011 12:13:47 GMT -5
Actually, there already exist several games like that. Off-hand, I can think of this one, at the very least: www.gamefaqs.com/ps/572927-the-game-maker/dataGranted, it's not quite as deep as you were probably thinking... but it does still do pretty much everything you just described. (: Then there are always games like SeGaGaGa... -Tom |
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Post by nintendolegend on Aug 16, 2011 15:06:57 GMT -5
Actually, there already exist several games like that. Off-hand, I can think of this one, at the very least: www.gamefaqs.com/ps/572927-the-game-maker/dataGranted, it's not quite as deep as you were probably thinking... but it does still do pretty much everything you just described. (: Then there are always games like SeGaGaGa... -Tom Oh. Well, sweet. Haha. |
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Post by Ike on Aug 16, 2011 15:44:31 GMT -5
This is something that's been rolling around in my head for the last 14 years or so.
I'm thinking it would probably fit best as an RPG, as I tend to prefer the emphasis to be on storytelling, but the long and short of it is that a young fellow has just returned from a long military dispatch as part of a special ops unit. He's now left the service and gotten in touch with a childhood friend of his who happens to have fallen in with a radical environmentalist group and, having nothing better to do, joins up with the group himself. Their first major mission will be to engage in a tactical strike against one of the world's leading energy providers, whose pollutants are destroying the atmosphere, by attacking one of their refineries with a planted explosive. Naturally, they're caught by the facility's security system and are forced to flee. The despotic corporation retaliates, killing several members of the resistance group along with a swath of innocent civilians and proceeds to cover up the attack by labelling the resistance group as terrorists. Risky, maybe?
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Post by Snarboo on Aug 16, 2011 16:29:17 GMT -5
I see what you did there.
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Post by Ike on Aug 16, 2011 16:38:06 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a little bit "out there" for an RPG plot, that's why I'd be concerned about actually turning it into anything.. y'know, serious.
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Post by llj on Aug 16, 2011 19:01:35 GMT -5
Well, Naoki Urasawa does something like that in 20th Century Boys.
Honestly, all I want to play is an RPG about a bunch of homeless people who get rich by randomly beating up other rich guys on their way to the top.
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Post by Weasel on Aug 16, 2011 21:47:28 GMT -5
Well, Naoki Urasawa does something like that in 20th Century Boys. Honestly, all I want to play is an RPG about a bunch of homeless people who get rich by randomly beating up other rich guys on their way to the top. And it'd end up being the best bum-fight simulator since Condemned 2. |
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Post by ldorado on Aug 16, 2011 23:37:32 GMT -5
How about a zombie game where you're a zombie yourself, but not a mindless monster like the others and you power up by dismembering the bad zombies and absorbing their parts into your body and as the game progresses, turn yourself into a huge, combined undead monster with the soul of a human.
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Post by TheGunheart on Aug 16, 2011 23:39:06 GMT -5
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