Ideas for games too awesome for this universe

I often come up with ideas for games and find myself thinking "damn, if only I had enough money to buy myself a small developers studio". Since that will probably never be, figured I'd share some of these ideas for games too awesome for this universe, just for kicks. If you have something to add, feel free - this is a thread about what you'd love to play if only you had some influence in the gaming industry!

1. Roosevelt Has a Time Machine: The Nazi superweapon, the Time Machine, was supposed to be the final solution to the America problem, but Adolf Hitler has made one mistake - trying to conquer America when Teddy was in charge! You star as Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. After beating Hitler to a pulp with your boxing and judo, you discover that the Nazis are staging invasions throughout the time-stream, so you steal Hitler's time machine and go on a Presidential rampage throughout time.

2. Skinwalker: You star as a Magical Native American who can shapeshift into dozens of different animals - which you will have to use to rescue your daughter from the evil trickster god Coyote. Along the way you will have to solve hundreds of puzzles, heal the lands, drive out evil spirits, and deal with some Spanish conquistadors searching the American southwest for gold and/or the fountain of youth. It's sort of like Okami, but for native american folklore.

3. To Rule in Hell: Mephisto the Demon King has gone missing, and all Hell has broken loose in, well, Hell. Take control of an army of demons and attempt to take over Pandemonium for yourself! Factions include the Succubi (led by Lilith), the Arch-fiends (led by Azmodious), the Damned (led by Adolf Hitler) and the Fey (led by Oberon). I also envision part of the campaign featuring an invasion of Earth.

More on the factions: The Succubi led by Lilith are an all-female faction, including monsters like Harpies and Lamia. The Damned are composed of damned human souls and ghosts, and includes dead villains from throughout history. The Arch-fiends are your "from the depths of the pit" faction, featuring stuff like Balrogs and golgothans. And the fey are made up of elves, fairies, and other malicious spirits like ifrits that aren't quite demons but aren't angels either.

edited 2nd Dec '11 4:10:49 PM by MyGodItsFullofStars

I had a dream once where, long story short, I was a Bare-Fisted Monk and I put a unicorn in a headlock and forced it to stab the boss repeatedly with its horn.

I would instantly buy any game that allowed me to do this. But I don't think it will ever happen.

edited 2nd Dec '11 4:16:51 PM by Blissey1

That sounds too awesome for this universe.

All right. You're an ordinary school boy who, one day, is cornered by a pack of people who want to kill you. In the ensuing struggle, you punch the leader of the group so hard, he turns into a poorly-made shed door.

Later, you discover that you have the power to turn people into doors by simply punching them hard. Naturally, there's an entire guild of door-punchers called the Door Lords, who have differing door-based powers; the the token gay guy who can punch people into hand-crafted Venetian doors, the big Russian who can punch people into iron gulag-like doors, the catgirl who punches her foes into pet doors, etc. You are accepted into this guild so that you could train your door-punching powers.

Gameplay is an altered version of a beat-em-up, where you frequently fight groups of enemies and turn them into doors. These doors may have some special purpose in the game (Portals to other parts of the stage? Swinging them at enemies?), but I'll be damned if I can think of one that can gel together at this time of writing. You also have fights with your rival factions, the Window Corps and the Chimney Sweepers.

Eventually, the Door Lords and their rivals must team up to face a door-puncher who became mad with power; he is corrupted to the point of becoming three stories tall and having doors littered on the surface of his skin. After a long boss battle, you uppercut the rouge, turning him into a magnificently-decorated set of double doors, which promptly get installed to the Door Lords' home base. Roll credits to the tune of "Light My Fire".

Yes, I got this from 4chan. It's still ten times better then your inferior, doorless ideas.

edited 2nd Dec '11 7:16:55 PM by Torquey

Muh-maybe I could, uhm, make the time machine a time portal instead...??

What am I saying, I cannot possibly compete with that much door.

How about a game that's exactly like real life, with perfect realism, except that you can save and reload? :D

Sounds like escapism.

How about a military first-person shooter set in World War 2?

And there would be a special button that placed a random crazy thing somewhere in the world, like a dragon or a dinosaur. Watch the Earth react accordingly.

edited 2nd Dec '11 5:10:58 PM by Firebert

To the realism with monsters idea, wasn't that Sim City?

How about this: An alien ship approaches the Solar System in the 1980s and uses asteroids to trick the different nations into wasting all their nukes, a la Armageddon, and then comes in close and turns all of the animals on us. The main character is a CEO of a company, who retired early and lives in Florida. Which gender you chose determines whether the character lead a weapons company or a medical one.

Of course, you have to survive, and join up with a crazy Viet Nam vet named Charlie and a pack of rabid anti-communist American militia people to fight off the waves of animals. And all the levels have clever names, like the first level being "When it Rains it Pours." You only face a retirement community swarming with cats and dogs out for blood. . . Muahahahaha! Sleep tight children, Fluffy's out to get you.

I have one which can work as both a game setting and an anime-only adaptation

North Star Gundam: As its name implies, it's what happens should Fist of North Star meets G Gundam meets Madhouse. The story goes as Earth underwent a catastrophic holocaust called The Purge and sent humans clinging to outer space as their last habitat. Limited by resources, authorities in the outer space and on Earth's soil are torn by tensions and policies, and a war between the two threatened to spark once more

In this premise, Kenshiro's role is replaced by the protagonist who is as tranquil as he is hot blooded. The name's Hokuhoshi Kenji, and he is the pilot of Hokuto Gundam 04. Being one of the very thousands who survived Earth and avoided Purge Irradiation (a very lethal form of radiation) , is not a Newtype, and is an easily enraged individual should one mention his abducted love and dead family, he takes the centre stage of Walking the Earth and makes a stand against the extreme right-centric Spacenoid government

Along the way Kenji will encounter various conspiracies and buildings worth rummaging right before they collapse, and as well as Deserters (rogue militants with Mobile Suits) who raid standing cities for anything of monetary and practical value. An important series of selection is key to make the best out of Kenji's time table, for he doesn't have long to improve his skills until he encounters the Nanto Units

Gameplay

Hokuto Gundam is best described as a mix of Kenshiro's outfit, meeting with God Gundam, Wing Zero, and a bit of OO Riser. Not only wireless attack drones, not only laser blades, not only laser rifles, not only vulcans, but also the most Hot-Blooded arsenal of hand-to-hand combat moves stored in CPU to break the heck out of enemies should ammunition be emptied in the heat of battle. Much of the combat focuses on direct input instead of QTE , giving players the responsibility and freedom of control

This will also become a plot importance : you get to decide how to let your opponents meet their ends. It is furious Mecha North Star Fisting mixed with intense Another Century's Episode style mech action piloting, AT ITS BLOODY BEST. You think you beat (Raoh's counterpart) Hokuto Gundam 01 and everything's gonna be normal? Oh no. His death will be only the beginning of Earth's survival

Currently conceived ideas for opponents:
Spadeaku
Heart Zam
Nanto Shinkenanju (piloted by Aruteira Shin, Shin's counterpart)
Riposterone
Akatsufalco
Hokuto HP-02 "Lapisalis (piloted by Hairou Jukai, Kaioh's counterpart)

How exactly can the enemies in this game die: Hokuto Gundam 04's hand units are made out of the best metal available, with cavities filled with flexible alloys that distribute and cushion the counterimpacts back to the arms, so that the suspensions therein can absorb the force. With that said, the feet are armed with the same rigidity as well. This enables HG04 to temporary disarm itself, and resort to a mecha fist fight, something unimaginable in theather of operations for both sides, Earth or Space

Done in vanilla, enemies in this game will have their cockpits and chassis punctured by lasers, sliced by laser blades leaving large and small debris, crushed by large objects such as crater or industrial pipes as large as a football field. The real filling of the cake, is how you can execute Hokuto Hyakuretsuken, USING RIFLES. ATATATATATATA *shoot shoot shoot....* and watch as a Zaku is consequently turned into molten red swiss cheese before exploding. FOR EMPHASIS

Larger than normal enemies in the game fear such attacks. Lock on to a big cheese, and use similar moves which target mechanical choke points, and bring them down from sheer mechanical faults. Enjoy as HG04 can use a repeated flurry of punches and kicks to make dents on enemy armor. Not impressed? Wait about 10 seconds later. The big enemy is now exploding from wiring short circuit

Dealing with a fleet of warships? No problem. Punch hard into specified points, and later you can see the warship suddenly discharging serious explosions

That's about the idea for now

edited 3rd Dec '11 8:28:41 AM by Cassie

Sold. Especially if it looks anything like this.

Close, though not as 'lengthy'. Whatever you can do, your enemies at some point can too. Like Ninja Gaiden perhaps. Also, imagine serious dodging of Newtype laser attacks while preparing for a bona-fide counterattack smack down

TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY!

A freeform RTS where you control a political party. The extent to which you can control members depends on their Faithfulness to your party - the higher the Faithfulness, the greater the chance your directions will be followed (not that every member of your party is individually simulated; you can do this to individual politicians, though). Likewise, there's an okay chance that you can give orders to unfaithful members of the opposing party. There would be two main things the player would have to consider. Campaigning for elections, and passing/enforcing laws. There would be no particular focus. You can set your goals for yourself - you can be an ideological player who focuses on getting the laws that you want on the issues that you want, or you can be a populist player, changing your views to match the public's to maximize your party's power.

@OP: That second idea sounds pretty cool. I'd buy it.

P Down, I want that game to exist. I would play the shit out of that game.

A sequel to Super Mario RPG

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