Your game ideas that will never get made.
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I have a number of ideas that'll never get made. Mostly because the ideas are too weird, or too niche, to ever be considered by any developer.
In the 'too weird' category, there's, for instance, a vehicular battle royale.
Take Carmageddon 2 as the base premise, and make a single expansive map filled with roads, ramps, overpasses, all kinds of interesting features to drive around and smash cars together on. Gratuitously sprinkle pedestrians and squishy NPC vehicles all over it to act as easy credit sources. Add all the usual various powerups, with a strict limit of how many of what kind of powerup a vehicle can carry.
Most of Carmageddon's mechanics carry over with some alterations. Immediate-effect powerups that normally affect the whole map are instead active in an area centered on the powerup location. Upgrades are directly purchased with accumulated credits or found on the map, like in C2 proper. Autorepair is present, but cannot be used for some time after taking damage, or while driving. Recovery can't be used while near or in direct view of an enemy.
Buying and changing vehicles is possible (everyone starts with generic or mechanically similar vehicles otherwise), but requisite vehicles must first be found on the map hidden in nooks and crannies of the map, or gotten to as they're paradropped in. These new vehicles would be tougher, faster, more capable than the generic ones, but accumulating enough credits to purchase them can be an issue, and they would cost more to autorepair and recover.
Finishing off another driver awards credits and a kill as usual, but also all the credits and powerups that driver carried explode out of the wreck and are scattered around the nearby area as regular powerups.
The shrinking arena mechanic is handled a little differently than usual. The map is broken up into discrete chunks - sectors, districts, however you want to call it. Instead of a ring closing in on a single district, then, gradually the districts on the outer edges furthest away from the eventual last area, have the classic Carmageddon timers enabled. Anyone still in the district at that point, is literally running on borrowed time - they have only a short time to get out of the district or their car will shut down when the timer runs out. But, importantly, they can still extend that time by usual Carmageddon means - fighting, stunt driving, and running over pedestrians. This would allow short jaunts into the "dead areas" if need be. This feature will remain in effect in the last district as well, so that whoever stays there cannot just stay waiting to ambush their opponent with a slaughter mortar or something similar.
Overall, a fairly weird idea that isn't likely to ever be attempted.
In the "too niche" category, I still want to see someone make a proper, large-scale speculative sim game. Preferably combat-oriented, and would likely be at least in part an arcade sim at best, but a proper attempt at a speculative sim would be nice.
What I mean is. Take a game like, for instance, War Thunder. It's not really a sim in any proper way, but it's kind of aspiring to be - it's driven by verisimilitude, having things being a product of interacting systems and aiming to create a believable representation of those things as they could be or could have been, in a videogame. There's armor that tries to act as armor, there's some manner of simulation of projectile impacts, damage to subsystems resulting in believable consequences (even if dampened for gameplay purposes), there's all manner of physics systems and performance modeling, etc. I want to see something like that, but for things that don't, or maybe even can't, really exist. A military force composed of futurustic conventional vehicles like tanks and aircraft, mixed with combat mecha acting as IFVs and 'upscaled infantry', and VTOL strikecraft/"battlefield fighters" like in the "Echelon:Wind Warriors" game. Whether it'd be a multiplayer "team arena" like War Thunder, or a game in the dying genre of campaign-driven vehicular action (like the Enemy Engaged series, or the aforementioned Echelon), I'd really like to see someone tackle the issue of futuristic improbable/impossible vehicles never really getting the attention to detail in games, that they often get in movies or written fiction.
In the 'too weird' category, there's, for instance, a vehicular battle royale.
Take Carmageddon 2 as the base premise, and make a single expansive map filled with roads, ramps, overpasses, all kinds of interesting features to drive around and smash cars together on. Gratuitously sprinkle pedestrians and squishy NPC vehicles all over it to act as easy credit sources. Add all the usual various powerups, with a strict limit of how many of what kind of powerup a vehicle can carry.
Most of Carmageddon's mechanics carry over with some alterations. Immediate-effect powerups that normally affect the whole map are instead active in an area centered on the powerup location. Upgrades are directly purchased with accumulated credits or found on the map, like in C2 proper. Autorepair is present, but cannot be used for some time after taking damage, or while driving. Recovery can't be used while near or in direct view of an enemy.
Buying and changing vehicles is possible (everyone starts with generic or mechanically similar vehicles otherwise), but requisite vehicles must first be found on the map hidden in nooks and crannies of the map, or gotten to as they're paradropped in. These new vehicles would be tougher, faster, more capable than the generic ones, but accumulating enough credits to purchase them can be an issue, and they would cost more to autorepair and recover.
Finishing off another driver awards credits and a kill as usual, but also all the credits and powerups that driver carried explode out of the wreck and are scattered around the nearby area as regular powerups.
The shrinking arena mechanic is handled a little differently than usual. The map is broken up into discrete chunks - sectors, districts, however you want to call it. Instead of a ring closing in on a single district, then, gradually the districts on the outer edges furthest away from the eventual last area, have the classic Carmageddon timers enabled. Anyone still in the district at that point, is literally running on borrowed time - they have only a short time to get out of the district or their car will shut down when the timer runs out. But, importantly, they can still extend that time by usual Carmageddon means - fighting, stunt driving, and running over pedestrians. This would allow short jaunts into the "dead areas" if need be. This feature will remain in effect in the last district as well, so that whoever stays there cannot just stay waiting to ambush their opponent with a slaughter mortar or something similar.
Overall, a fairly weird idea that isn't likely to ever be attempted.
In the "too niche" category, I still want to see someone make a proper, large-scale speculative sim game. Preferably combat-oriented, and would likely be at least in part an arcade sim at best, but a proper attempt at a speculative sim would be nice.
What I mean is. Take a game like, for instance, War Thunder. It's not really a sim in any proper way, but it's kind of aspiring to be - it's driven by verisimilitude, having things being a product of interacting systems and aiming to create a believable representation of those things as they could be or could have been, in a videogame. There's armor that tries to act as armor, there's some manner of simulation of projectile impacts, damage to subsystems resulting in believable consequences (even if dampened for gameplay purposes), there's all manner of physics systems and performance modeling, etc. I want to see something like that, but for things that don't, or maybe even can't, really exist. A military force composed of futurustic conventional vehicles like tanks and aircraft, mixed with combat mecha acting as IFVs and 'upscaled infantry', and VTOL strikecraft/"battlefield fighters" like in the "Echelon:Wind Warriors" game. Whether it'd be a multiplayer "team arena" like War Thunder, or a game in the dying genre of campaign-driven vehicular action (like the Enemy Engaged series, or the aforementioned Echelon), I'd really like to see someone tackle the issue of futuristic improbable/impossible vehicles never really getting the attention to detail in games, that they often get in movies or written fiction.
Open world Gundam RPG where you can go between Earth and space seamlessly. You can exit your Gundam at will, walk around towns and space colonies, do missions and side activities. You can procure new Gundams, upgrade your existing Gundam.
Imagine the best of Yakuza, Assassins Creed and GTA while in Pilot mode and the best of Elite Dangerous and Zone of Enders in Gundam mode.
Imagine the best of Yakuza, Assassins Creed and GTA while in Pilot mode and the best of Elite Dangerous and Zone of Enders in Gundam mode.
Kind of a mix between Battlefield, the Daybreakers movie, and Deus Ex Mankind Divided. :D
Resident Evil (First Movie) x Dead Rising x Dungeon Crawler
- Random generated Hive (Underground Laboratory) you have to escape
- physics based systems
- almost everything is destructable (smash doors in, blow walls open with explosives, etc.)
- optional pvp/co-op (players start in different regions of the hive and can work together or against each other when they meet
- classic resident evil style riddles, etc.
- Hive has different simulated regions (desert, snow, big city, rural city, etc.)
- you meet survivors (NPCs) and can help/rob/kill them (some will be nromal and others will be mad (a tad less crazy than Dead Rising)
- Umbrella clean up crew tries to kill you
- Umbrella scientists try to capture you (scientists can fight agsainst clean up crew)
- Random events alter the levels (fire, water, cave in, etc.)
- Random generated Hive (Underground Laboratory) you have to escape
- physics based systems
- almost everything is destructable (smash doors in, blow walls open with explosives, etc.)
- optional pvp/co-op (players start in different regions of the hive and can work together or against each other when they meet
- classic resident evil style riddles, etc.
- Hive has different simulated regions (desert, snow, big city, rural city, etc.)
- you meet survivors (NPCs) and can help/rob/kill them (some will be nromal and others will be mad (a tad less crazy than Dead Rising)
- Umbrella clean up crew tries to kill you
- Umbrella scientists try to capture you (scientists can fight agsainst clean up crew)
- Random events alter the levels (fire, water, cave in, etc.)
Would love a more systemic, less scripted game set in the Half-Life world.
Think Deus Ex 1 emergent problem solving with STALKER's reactive ecosystems.
Half-Life's mechanics already has lots of logical systems in place: Fences are usually connected with wires to a outlet. use grenade blast to disable a outlet, or stack up stuff to jump over fence, or use combine body to temporarily disable fence, ect.
Same goes for it's fiction and ecosystem: Combine use mortar shells to launch headcrabs in rebel camps. What if this happens dynamically based on your notoriety. When you come back, the camp is turned into a ravenholm style zombie place.
To incentivise the systemic nature of it's design, you'll have only one goal: Reach [insert destination] which would be really difficult to reach. Use the semi-openworld to research how you'll get to your destination: Get back entrance into the combine network systems to disable security, or you could help strengthen the rebel to create a distraction. Think Zelda BOTW: you can reach the castle at anytime, the world is there to strengthen you for the upcoming battle.
All this based around valve typical style of colorful character writing.
Jordan Thomas was working on a Deus Ex 3 sequel, and his design was based around some of the same systemic principles:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-16-ion-storms-lost-deus-ex-sequels under: Three's Company
To bad this never happend :(
Think Deus Ex 1 emergent problem solving with STALKER's reactive ecosystems.
Half-Life's mechanics already has lots of logical systems in place: Fences are usually connected with wires to a outlet. use grenade blast to disable a outlet, or stack up stuff to jump over fence, or use combine body to temporarily disable fence, ect.
Same goes for it's fiction and ecosystem: Combine use mortar shells to launch headcrabs in rebel camps. What if this happens dynamically based on your notoriety. When you come back, the camp is turned into a ravenholm style zombie place.
To incentivise the systemic nature of it's design, you'll have only one goal: Reach [insert destination] which would be really difficult to reach. Use the semi-openworld to research how you'll get to your destination: Get back entrance into the combine network systems to disable security, or you could help strengthen the rebel to create a distraction. Think Zelda BOTW: you can reach the castle at anytime, the world is there to strengthen you for the upcoming battle.
All this based around valve typical style of colorful character writing.
Jordan Thomas was working on a Deus Ex 3 sequel, and his design was based around some of the same systemic principles:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-16-ion-storms-lost-deus-ex-sequels under: Three's Company
To bad this never happend :(
proper open world Final Fantasy game that revolve around travesal using airship
Kind of like AC Black Flag, but this time player ride and command airship,upgrading airship, able to participate in airship fight like naval fight in black flag, flying across world full of flying continent instead of sea island, explore each part of area like how in xenoblade chronicles x from bottom to upper area of world
a mechanic where moggle being use like pods in nier automata, use it as glider, can change its job,and can throw it around to get item like in ff13-2
the way square is now, probably we never see this kind scale of game
Kind of like AC Black Flag, but this time player ride and command airship,upgrading airship, able to participate in airship fight like naval fight in black flag, flying across world full of flying continent instead of sea island, explore each part of area like how in xenoblade chronicles x from bottom to upper area of world
a mechanic where moggle being use like pods in nier automata, use it as glider, can change its job,and can throw it around to get item like in ff13-2
the way square is now, probably we never see this kind scale of game
A fully randomized game titled 'RNG'. From the story, enemies, to the NPCs, environment, objects, etc all the way to your character, backstory, stats, appearance, etc. Dialogue and relationships would also be RNG but it would be structured in a way so that when the game loads up, nothing is broken, not even sentences.
If voice acted and AAA, this game would need 20 times the budget of Skyrim to exist. If not voice acted and indie, maybe 20 times the budget of No Man's Sky or something.
I knew this and that's why I didn't care because mine is nearly impossible to achieve.
If voice acted and AAA, this game would need 20 times the budget of Skyrim to exist. If not voice acted and indie, maybe 20 times the budget of No Man's Sky or something.
I knew this and that's why I didn't care because mine is nearly impossible to achieve.
I'm not sure exactly, but I'm sure it involves VR and an AO rating. ;)
Or a 3D Turrican sequel. Yeah, let's go with that.
Or a 3D Turrican sequel. Yeah, let's go with that.
One of my ideas can be made by me in Dreams, so I wont mention any Details for now. The other one is a Personaesquegame in the Buffyversum.
Funny seeing this thread pop up lately as I had a dream a few days ago that I was working on a new SSX game in the style of Forza Horizon. I've spent the last few days coming up with ideas, drawing up some sketches, and even thinking of a hypothetical soundtrack for it. What better way to bring that series back than to turn it into a festival type game? Hey, EA. I'm available.
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Dark souls-style battle royale where the circle summons stronger npc enemies as you get close to the center. Loot for weapons, spells etc. And get pushed into close quarters with tougher enemies and fellow players.
Final circle is a free for all like the forest covenant.
Final circle is a free for all like the forest covenant.
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That's pretty much the same idea in the OP. Make it happen, Nintendo.
FROM game that takes place out in space. A mix of Aliens, Prometheus, Mass Effect and HP Lovecraft.
Disney's Mickeys adventure by studio mdhr
All cuphead type levels but every world is themed by Disney villians and Mickey is traveling to beat each main boss of the world.
Could do some amazing levels based on fantasmic and Ursula/maleficent
All cuphead type levels but every world is themed by Disney villians and Mickey is traveling to beat each main boss of the world.
Could do some amazing levels based on fantasmic and Ursula/maleficent
I'm just looking for a awesome cyberpunk game , something that I can fly around a city with 1000s of cars everywhere and land in certain districts.
Ultimately I want a g-police remake where you occasional go onfoot
- aircar flying in a detailed city
- bounty hunter ground sections like the original prey 2
Ultimately I want a g-police remake where you occasional go onfoot
- aircar flying in a detailed city
- bounty hunter ground sections like the original prey 2
Hire Square Enix.
Reimagine Captain N as a comatose kid who's soul is recruited by a higher power to stop the omniversal threat. Have Geno from SMRPG as a co-protagonist.
I'd be fine with a traditional RPG, but I think making it a an action rpg with multiple controllable characters would let it have the highest impact.
A Berserk fighting game made by Arcsys with Susumu Hirasawa doing the OST.
Roster:
Guts
Casca
Griffith
Zodd
Grunbeld
Skull Knight
Wyald
Serpico
Schierke
Isidro
Farnese
Slan
Berserker Armor Guts
Griffith (Femto)
Roster:
Guts
Casca
Griffith
Zodd
Grunbeld
Skull Knight
Wyald
Serpico
Schierke
Isidro
Farnese
Slan
Berserker Armor Guts
Griffith (Femto)
And this, my dears, is why modern controllers aren't the perfection you guys pretend they are. Next-gen consoles should have paddles by default.
I guess I could map it to both triggers and then have block be something else? Moving back like in a fighting game? I can't imagine that not being awkward.
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A game about trading and pirating in space along the lines of Freelancer. Heck just give me a sequel.
I'd really like a singleplayer simulation-RPG that simulates raid battles in MMO. Managing a crew of 30 tanks/dps/healers during a long (10-30 minute) boss fight. Learning / wiping on encounters to finally beat it after many tries. I love raiding but can't afford the 4-5 nights a week schedule due to personal life. Would love something that scratches the same itch.
Nuh-uh im not falling for this one again, ive got a mate who worked at Travellers Tales & is contracting now but whenever id tell him an idea that git would run home and prototype it.
You aint gonna get me again!
You aint gonna get me again!
2D HD pixel art run and gun game inspired by metal slug about a cartoon detective fox investigating grizzly murders in a cartoon animal world.
Made about 3 prototypes but lets be honest, this is never coming out so take it
Made about 3 prototypes but lets be honest, this is never coming out so take it
Serious bump here. I guess it's time to dump more of my ideas here. Let me know when these are made or if they already exist, so I can thank you and play them.
A. Battle Royale Rumble.100 60 men/women wrestling in a massive ring. 4 wrestlers enter the ring every 30 seconds, one from all four sides. Last man standing wins.
B. Mr. Robot: The Video Game in the style of Watch Dogs, but heavily focused on hacking.
C. 18 Years To Life. A game in the style of "Life Is Strange". 18 Chapters, each takes place one year apart. Your character grows after each chapter and every decision they made in their life reflects on the next and defines who they become.
D. PROJECT TERMINATOR. You're a hired hit in a massive open world city set in 1985. Every NPC has a role. Not just fake roles but real roles. They live and breathe. They have day jobs, problems, addictions, family, schedules. You can carry your hit however you like, but it'll be more successful if you scout your hit's weekly routine. Upto 4 player online hit squads. Each man assigned with tasks like following the target, getting access to surveillance, tapping phones, Hacking, arranging weapons and getaway vehicles, kidnapping (if required), and clean work. You sometimes have no info but a name. You go through phone directory and find your target.
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VR Games:
E. VR AIRLINE SIMULATOR. It's like Surgeon Simulator but for airliners. You can fly the plane, be an airhostess, and grow the airline from small time to international.
F. Adar.io-style Planet Eater VR game. Self-explanatory. You are like Galactus, you eat planets and grow. Other players can eat you if they're bigger than you.
G. Exercise Bike VR Game.
H. "The Really Real Driving Simulator". Surgeon simulator style VR game with procedurally generated cities and road where you drive around like you're commuting to work, complete with traffic jams and accidents and fire fighters and cops.
A. Battle Royale Rumble.
B. Mr. Robot: The Video Game in the style of Watch Dogs, but heavily focused on hacking.
C. 18 Years To Life. A game in the style of "Life Is Strange". 18 Chapters, each takes place one year apart. Your character grows after each chapter and every decision they made in their life reflects on the next and defines who they become.
D. PROJECT TERMINATOR. You're a hired hit in a massive open world city set in 1985. Every NPC has a role. Not just fake roles but real roles. They live and breathe. They have day jobs, problems, addictions, family, schedules. You can carry your hit however you like, but it'll be more successful if you scout your hit's weekly routine. Upto 4 player online hit squads. Each man assigned with tasks like following the target, getting access to surveillance, tapping phones, Hacking, arranging weapons and getaway vehicles, kidnapping (if required), and clean work. You sometimes have no info but a name. You go through phone directory and find your target.
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VR Games:
E. VR AIRLINE SIMULATOR. It's like Surgeon Simulator but for airliners. You can fly the plane, be an airhostess, and grow the airline from small time to international.
F. Adar.io-style Planet Eater VR game. Self-explanatory. You are like Galactus, you eat planets and grow. Other players can eat you if they're bigger than you.
G. Exercise Bike VR Game.
H. "The Really Real Driving Simulator". Surgeon simulator style VR game with procedurally generated cities and road where you drive around like you're commuting to work, complete with traffic jams and accidents and fire fighters and cops.
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I've always wanted a more fantasy like battlefield game. I've imagined one which is essentially a battle in Hell with a sort of ww1/ ww2 hellish landscape from games like Clive barkers jericho and necrovision, using some real messed up looking weapons that are a mixture of wood, metal flesh and bone... ya it's pretty metal, but I'm just getting slightly bored of the more "authentic" military settings in mp shooters, whether they be past, modern or near future.
Something like that (but with smaller number, I imagine) would make for a good online multi mode in a good wrestling game. Smaller number because in a hundred man scenario the first few players are way too disadvantaged.
Good wrestling game.
"Your game ideas that will never get made"
Wow this sounds amazing.
What period of life would those 18 years cover?
Thanks! I'm thinking from birth to adulthood. You "create" a baby, name him, and then you learn to walk, talk, laugh, cry, and how to love and hate. When they grow, adolescence/puberty kicks in, life happens. Ideally it takes place during his/her birthday.
Yeah it has to be online based, you create your own wrestler. Progression could be attires, entrance themes, moves, finishers, taunts, etc. I'm thinking 16-bit Genesis style game.
Some would argue that the opportunity for more impactful decisions would occur later in life, but this sounds great.
I'd love a game where you can end up as either a content person or a deadbeat depending on your choices.
Very true. I personally thought about it because of my own life. Most of who I am was between 0-18. Every mistake or abuse or strength from 0-18 defined me. I could've been a deadbeat criminal or a decent person if my early choices ere different. I see teenagers going to prison and having their lives ruined because of mistakes.