Sci-fi Parody class ideas

In my webcomic, there will be a Game, Which will be a Sci-Fi 20 Minutes into the Future game. However, it will be a bizarre, logicless, random mess of parodies, jokes and pop culture references to other sci-fi games, with A Good Idea For A Show in full effect. The Smart Guy and the Cloud Cookoo Lander are the best 2-person team in the game, with the others in the [[Nakama]] often [[lampshading]] how odd it is.

After the game's story arc is over, it will be a bit of a running gag.

Anyway, let's start at the basics: What will the 5(doesn't have to be 5, could be something else under 10.) character classes be?

edited 17th Aug '11 12:04:02 PM by M4dH4tter

Cool story.

The actual story arc has already been decided, it's basically Running Man X Meets Y Ratchet Deadlocked, but with more violence. That's not really the whole thing, it's just all I can reveal for now.

Anyway, it's the game itself I'm unsure about.

edited 17th Aug '11 12:15:39 PM by M4dH4tter

Wait, are we talking a sci-fi Calvinball series here?

And what are the character classes for if you don't know how your game works? Surely you must have at least one or two ideas about it.

Well, actually, it's gonna be a bit like... you know that game, Kingdom Of Loathing? well, the humor and randomness is gonna be a little like that.

bump.

Err... okay? Anything else?

Pop culture, for one. a Cosmos Gone Mad is another.

Also, try mocking Teleporters and Transporters. Like how they always malfunction, or a dark comedy take on the Twinmaker teleporter.

Also, I always thought it would be interesting to have a Star Trek like crew meet an Cosmic Horror like Azathoth or Gygais, as opposed to the regular Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.

Not to mention the regular mocking of video games, if it’s a parody of those. have crates EVERYWHERE.

And also, have the smart guy not know how anything works.

Great idea, The Cosmos going mad could be very fun!

Also, why crates? why not SPACE CRATES? IN SPACE!

-Yeah, I'll be lampshading that too.

Long-overdue bump, because this question was never answered properly.

It's hard to create character classes when the game itself is unknown...

Divided into sub-cliches for your enjoyment:

Spacefarer

• Starship captain - typically a manly-man, and war-hawk in the romantic sense of the term which always sees conflict as the way to greater peace

• Space pirate - either an infinitely quirky Large Ham who would do no one harm besides robbing them blind, or an embodiment of evil itself who seemingly came out of the darkness on a starship made of blood, and thirsts for annihilation (with no robbery, for some reason)

• Lonesome worker - a spaceman who was signed on, possibly against his will, to do mundane, tedious and lonely work. Tends to go crazy from cabin fever and have odd pseudo-spiritual encounters

Futurecop

• Skeptical detective - someone who, despite being born in the middle of it, trusts nothing to do with all the icky, scary technology, and who tends to find evil hidden in every facet of modern life.

• Laser-league officer - a spandex and visor-wearing shoot-to-kill troop of lawful do-gooders, more often than not dealing with chaotic-evil threats.

• Cyborg enforcer - genetically-enhanced, cybernetically-enhanced, psychopathic drones patrolling the streets in order to exterminate minor threats with mechanical stoicism, and exterminate major threats with focused bloodlust. May graduate to space marine, where they get to fire their formidable weapons inside airtight ships.

Bystander

• Angsting loner - like a combination of the skeptical detective and lonesome worker. This guy is made to live in a tiny cubic apartment, eating nutri-paste under the thumb of an all-controlling government. His duty is nothing in specific, mainly day to day labor and finding self-actualization in a cold, mechanical world.

• Uncontrollable test subject - those who volunteer for unethical experiments to escape the crushing day to day poverty/tedium (one or the other). Almost invariably, these experiments turn the subjects from everyman into superpowered dangers to themselves and others. If they escape, they are either to cause or prevent as much chaos as possible (based on alignment). If they don't, their lot in life becomes a world of deadly obstacle courses.

• Quirky hacker/tinker folk - the guys who are able to thrive in such a place defiantly, almost always wearing a smug smile at all times. These guys have found a way to hide from all surveillance and dodge all law-enforcement.

Part of the problem

• Corrupt corporate executive - person in charge of everything, whose main lot in life equates to assassinating meddlesome civilians and detectives. Older execs with their constant drooping faces will tend to do this by proxy, whilst younger ones with their perfectly-trimmed and slicked hair will more often take matters into their own hands.

• Mad scientist - those who constantly wish to violate peoples' rights in this new society, often seemingly just for the hell of it (considering how few practical applications their experiments would yield, even at their most successful)

• Random supervillain - take the former two baddies and dilute their power and brains into a mixture. This is the result. A science-exploiting maniac who craves power, despite not being a genius or having standing allies in power.

Inhuman entities

• Sentient AI - a man-made consciousness, almost Always Chaotic Evil. Begins stationary and must gain the trust of humans in order to gain mobility and power.

• Eldritch Abomination - one of an extended pantheon of beings, all of which can make you go insane in a limitless number of ways (unless the PC is too mentally tough, which 99% of the time they tend to be)

• Space Elf - a perfect being in-sync with the stars who has come to teach humans the error of their ways, or be killed by their savage natures in the process

edited 25th Feb '12 10:12:55 PM by DoctorDiabolical