Video game ideas you're sure that only you think are a good idea

What about that Attack-Of-Opportunity guy? A smart large character would be nice.

Are you talking about the character who appeared one time in a gag strip? He doesn't get to be in it.

Oh, and I agree with Buckly himself appearing. Specifically, he should have no attacks and take 5X damage and appear as either an early "boss" or the penultimate or possibly final "boss", solely for laughs.

What? Buckly's not the Goldfish Poop Gang?... even though it's a fighting game we're talking about here. :P

edited 17th Mar '09 4:09:31 AM by Sabbo

Grace from El Goonish Shive just screams Lethal Joke Character.

Grace? As long as we are including fetish webcomics in the list, Anne Onymous goes in. After reading the trope page, I figured she would make a decent fighting game character, who would constantly shapeshift in battle -either a Ditto Fighter, or would turn into dragons, snakes, etc. for attacks. If it's the latter type, her specials would be... painful for her opponent.

Also, Tim Buckley gets to be a serious character, although there won't be any Game-Breaker in his moveset either. Do you want to get sued!?

And Dominic Deegan? He's a Perfect Run Final Boss. After defeating the final boss with no continues, he shows up and claims to have secretly orchestrated your victory. When you refuse to back down, he fights you to the death, and uses his powers of premonition to avoid your attacks perfectly.

edited 17th Mar '09 6:39:36 PM by mrsaturn

Ethan, you meant Ethan McManus.

edited 17th Mar '09 7:49:27 PM by Worlder

Grace from El Goonish Shive just screams Lethal Joke Character.

Depends how many different forms she's given.

Kid Radd should be the Lethal Joke Character, with stats that work exactly like he does in the comic.

Grace? As long as we are including fetish webcomics in the list[...]

El Goonish Shive sneers at fetish webcomics.

We have a trope for that.

edited 18th Mar '09 11:22:35 AM by TheAdversary

I want to see a Final Fantasy Tactics-style game taking place in an alternate year 1900 with magic and steampunk and crap. And Teddy Roosevelt would join your party. And so would a younger Gandhi (of course, he'd have to be a healer, what with the pacifism and all). That would be awesome.

I would like a Tie-in game between FFTA 2 and FFT, explaining how the world became so crappy and what the hell happened to all the races.

I remember I once had a idea of a game that would be a mix of Jagged Alliance 2 and X-Com (specially Apocalypse, but with good turn-based combat) where you command a "elite" police departament charged with the objective of fighting crime in Rio de Janeiro, Twenty Minutes in the Future. (not too far away, say, 2015)

There would be multiple factions of criminals in Rio, Militias composed of disgruntled ex-policemen and possibly some foreign criminals, like Colombians. You can interact with all of them in various ways, not just shooting, but spying, persuasion, trickery, bribery and so it goes.

There are some resources you have to keep in mind when managing your departament:

Money: Pretty clear. You are funded by the governament and many corporations who want you to CLEAN Rio of excessive crime. You can also obtain money by selling sucky guns to the black market, blackmailing rich criminals or "looking the other way" in relation to a certain group of criminals. If you start going down towards too much vigilantism or deals with criminals, your funding may be cut and they may even kick you out. But fear not! You can join a militia (or even MAKE your own if you have a lot of money stored in your own bank account) and then fight crime YOUR WAY while giving the finger to official authority. Obviously inspired by the "Renegade" path in X-Com. Also, as the game happens, criminals may corrupt politicians, corporations or infiltrate into the army, which can cause sabotage towards you, and even fund-cutting.

Trust: This indicates how much trust the people have on you. A good, honorable chief will be usually trusted by civilians, while a ruthless man who goes vigilante on people is feared. Both can be good or bad. Being "too good" may led to trickery, but it may also lead you into knowing many things. Being feared as the scourge of crime may help with interrogations and scare criminals from attacking you, but the people will be afraid of you and bigger fish may attack your bases.

Honestity: This indicates how honest or disonest you are. If you are uncorruptible and deals with crime in a most lawful fashion, you get honestity points, may net you some interesting help. Being corrupt, however, means you get to interact more with criminals, with things as blackmail, infiltration, undercover operations or straight deals. However, just as you can infiltrate them, so can they infiltrate you. (that sounded bad)

Your departament hands a lot of things. Serial killings, snatching of criminals for interrogation, breaking up gang wars, busting crack houses, suspicious events, attacks against army bases to acquire ammo and weapons, stealth missions, terrorist attacks and many other things.

The objective is to take down all big criminal groups with whatever methods you need to employ. You can't simply go on full-on heroic psychopathy here, you just need to kill when necessary, although being bloodthisty and merciless might build ya a reputation. On the other side, using non-lethal methods might be a good idea...

Wait, did someone mention a Homestar Runner fighter? Dunno why, but That series seems to me like it needs some sort of Mario Party-eque Minigame/board game thing. Think about it; Homestar and Strong Bad have another contest, and the entire town decides to join in. It could work!

Bloody Roar Tekken It would have the characters from the Tekken series turning into animals like in the Bloody Roar series; there would be no Bloody Roar characters. Weird I know

OK... I had this idea for a game where you live a life...but not just any life, any life. Ya any life you want be it a thief or a doctor or a fry cook, what ever you want but in reality.=D

Something like Dynasty Warriors (which I have ever only played over someone's shoulders) based on Western history wars. In the same style, so, say, Gustavus Adolphus or Robert E. Lee or Erwin Rommel would run around and kill people with kung fu and if you play well enough you can unlock special costumes for them and stuff (Rommel in a maid outfit!).

Erik

A Naruto MMORPG fighting game.

Yeah, seriously.

I mean, the setting already feels like a MMORPG :p

An anime trope RTS with damn near every trope, good or evil, at your disposal.

villain infantry have the ability to randomly burn a peasant village reducing goody two-shoes garrison areas and cripples thier morale whereas with enough resources one goody infantry can dramatically increase his power level at the expense of those around.

Then we get the mechas involved...So yeah

Recently, I've found an entertaining budget game named Prison Tycoon 4: SuperMax. It's actually quite thorough in it's depiction of prison life, but I'd like to have seen some additional features. I'd like a "women's prison" mode where all your staff, guards and prisoners are women, and the people in the visitors room have models like those of the male prisoners.

They ought to show how things work beyond gangs. You should be able to pay off prisoners and have them alert you of escape attempts and those planning to do so. There should be rivalries between prisoners of different races, with White Power and Black Power gangs attacking each other, while everyone is trying to shiv the white collar criminals or perverts.

Hungry guards would be more susceptible to being bribed with food, even from stuff like dog biscuits stolen from your kennels. Tired prisoners could be bribed with money or simply persuaded to turn a blind eye. You'd have prisoners exchanging goods like cigarettes as currency and in barter, some of which would be contraband you'd have to hunt down.

The tear gas is also crap. Make it stronger, and make it actually come from somewhere, like a helicopter from a pad you could build at high security, not from the sky (and through building roofs, though you could make that a Justified Trope by having controllable tear gas and anti-fire systems in your buildings which would up the cost and need for maintenance).

That, and there needs to be someone named Bubba. And where the hell are the toilets and showers?

Also, I'd like to see an expansion pack set in Singapore or Thailand.

The game itself reminds me greatly of a concept I had for an Oddworld resource management game, where you played as one of the three Glukkons from Abe's Exoddus, each with their own perks, ala Command And Conquer: Generals or Tropico. I still have it around, though it's table-laden.

edited 6th Apr '09 6:37:34 PM by Praetyre

There could be one in the Philippines with a Pam Grier charachter.

Warning: Black Mama White Mama is not only not a great movie, but it's not even the best one that any of the crew worked on.

Psst... you're supposed to entry pimp on the main site, not the forums.

It's not conscious, I just have Pam Grier on the mind.

I just had a really horrible idea: a Nazi death camp simulation which asks the player to act as its commandant, and reports his performance — including how long he spent playing it. The game should not sugarcoat any aspect of the player's actions, but present them as realistically as the technology allows in order to thoroughly disgust the player. The idea is to rub people's faces in the consequences of giving power to those capable of dehumanizing others and ignoring their suffering.

edited 6th Apr '09 8:28:11 PM by Eddie Van Helsing

I'm pretty sure such a thing has been made (as a load of crappy shovelwere by a neo-nazi group, but made none the less).