If you play games for any length of time you kinda want to make your own, untill you find out how much trouble that is. No seriously coding is a bitch, and for me its one of my holy grails to actually learn how to do this. Of course I won't, its horrible, tedious stuff, unintuitive and illogical (plus our lateral thinking is massively massively fucked) instead we'll just post our ideas for games here. You'll get three increasingly monged ideas.
1. Superhuman Riderborgs vs Spectre Rangers SRPG. (tokusatsu vs kaiju edition)
This is going to take an awful lot of explaining so here goes. I would love to see a tribute to Super Robot Wars, but instead of anime robots imagine that it involves more super sentai shows instead. Think Power Rangers, Masked Rider, and any number of rubber suited monsters and beasts from saturday morning shows and cheesy 60's b movies. It would be licencing hell of course to bring this to the west, I'm not sure that Japan would fully co operate but damn, controlling the big G with Mothra as his wingman and getting support from Spectreman and some of the Beetleborgs as well.
In fact the only way to do this is probably to create homages Think Disgaeas Prism Rangers as prime example of this and you can't go far wrong. To add to the idea, there are a few Super robot wars games that have official translations, these are based off of original IP and thus avoid the whole licencing trap.
2. The Final Fantasy parody.
Our last two ideas are probably the worst of the lot. Parodies of games seen through mass hallucinogens and far, far too much sugar, and as a consequence will never be made.
They already have a loving retread of some of the original FF games, whether its FF4: After Years recapping what Rydia did when she grew up or FF9's homage to the original games with its fan service and excellent card game. (Hey Squenix why not release the card games from FF8 and 9 for IPhone, whack on a RPG mode and you'll have mucho profit, they were good.)
What we are proposing is a run through of all the games in the series told via the memories of a bullshitting old man. Inaccurate memories told via Kamishibai, recapping famous scenes with a healthy dose of ad lib parody and sight gags. These bits of the games would be the cutscenes as he gathers the audience around and eventually it fades into a playable scene from one of the games. Think of the quests from Crisis Core but played for laughs and with the narrator chiming in at set times to provide commentary which is often at odds of what really happened.
3. COD of War Comradeship is Manic.
I really hate modern FPS shooters, with 15 colours for brown, ultra grim and sweary storylines and its online world. We recently had a go at Gears of War and it understated all that is wrong with gaming. (of course I sucked at it, but man, I would love a top down viewpoint in those games, just so it looks like I'm playing a SNES game on drugs).
Which is where our new game idea comes in. Its 2015 and the Russian goverment lead by Sergei Orlov and his trophy wife Vivian Leigh have devoted the last quarter century to ressurecting the Soviet empire via the medium of counter terrorism and cybernetic bear droids. The EU and America of course do not want the Soviets to rule the world again and decide to parachute in Billy the Fish from Viz. Armed with nothing but twin laser rifles which are upgradeable via tech support from Rasputin and Nikola Tesla, the Goalkeeper cum mercenary must single handedly bring down the evil empire and thwart the meerkat army and its undead leader Zombie Octopus Leon Trotsky.
The graphics are of course presented via the medium of Cel shading and should look something like Jet Set Radio for the Dreamcast complete with low poly modelling and variable ragdoll physics (set from none to hilariously over the top) if it resembles a late era PSOne game, that would be cool. Oh and all cut scenes must, must be presented with Engrish and all voice acting intentionally over the top. We are aiming for House of The Dead levels of acting here.
On line modes would mute voice chat by default and have variable physics as well with things that explode randomly or summon massive things. Something along the lines of this would be cool. But much expanded, possibly some of the bosses from single player mode but vs teams of folk.
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