Ideas For Big-Budget Video Games

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There’s lots of rage in the video game community as to how graphics are improving, but gameplay and such isn’t. I think we should give them a few good ideas as to how we can improve games. Here’s my ideas for license games:

To Nintendo: You’ve got one wickedly innovative game called “Pokemon,” but you’ve got to do something really good to get people to buy it next time. Simply changing the colors won’t work. Here’s an idea. You meet trainers like “Hiker,” “Lass,” “Youngster,” and even your rival. But no matter what, you’re always the same person: Good old Ash, total good-guy. Change that. Let us become a hiker, a bug catcher, whatever. Over the course of gameplay or at the beginning–whatever. Heck, let’s see more customization of our characters and maybe a bit of story changing. That would be even cooler.

To Atari (from my brother): Your anime licenses are cool, but die-hard anime fans absolutely MUST have Japanese language audio with English subtitles. And quit it with the kiddie thing; give us the hard stuff, with cuss words. “Yu Yu Hakusho” and “Dragon Ball Z” weren’t made for kids, they were made for teenagers, and if you’re going to get a “Teen” rating, then why not just go all the way? Oh, and why not a “Blue Gender” game? Here’s his list:
YYH: RPG (Dark Tournament could have fighter, but the beginning of the show would make a good RPG)
DBZ: RPG (NO CEL-SHADING! Oh, and dialogue from the manga version)
BG: Shoot-Em-Up (It seems more suitable for the show to be put up as a shooting game)

To Bandai (from both of us): As long as you’re getting the license, then why not make “Cowboy Bebop” games? There’s a “Cowboy Bebop” game in Japan, so why not translate it… no, don’t, but give it subtitles and give it to us on the PlayStation as a budget title? It seems so suitable for a video game (flying, bounty-hunting, and small dialogue text mini-games on the Bebop).

To Fox Interactive: In short: You absolutely MUST make a flipping “24” game! It would rock, and you gave “Dark Angel” fans a video game, so why not? You could switch between characters: Kim would escape from the kidnappers, Jack would pursue the terrorists and protect David Palmer, and David would deal with Presidential problems! (And if you do make it, make it so that you can’t press pause until you’ve gone through an hour, or maybe get to a commercial break!)

Oh, and a few ideas as to what they should try out as new video games:

Karma: Play as an amnesiac and do whatever you want. Find out what caused the amnesia, pursue criminals, and pretty much anything the game allows you to do.
InfiniGame: Make a game where you can play a billion times and experience plenty of different things. Create a character, then play through a lot of stories, help people with missions, or do anything in freestyle mode.

I’m sure they can make plenty of really, really, really, really imaginative games. They just need to think.

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Yawn Instead of complaining, why don’t you make your own game? See how hard it is? Plus, there’s some perfectly fun games out there – like ‘Asteroids’ :smiley:

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LOL! Asteroids should be made 3d! They’ld make a fortune!

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If we talk about the same Asteriods, they already did it (Activison 1998)
but it is less fun then the original one has been.

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They stole my idea before I even had it!

:o

Oh.

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Guys, the point isn’t to tell them what games they should do. All right, it kind of was, but I was also telling them that they should improve upon their games if they want it to be good. Come on, how many times can we play “Pokemon” before it gets boring to look for them all?

Another “game” a big-budget company should make: Blender: The Console Game, for all the platforms available. (N-Gage, GBA, PSP, XBox, PS2, GameCube, and such and such).

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I agree with the pokémon idea… Take the classic Pokémon Red, add GBA graphics, add the new pokémon from ruby and things like berries from silver, take all that and add the idea going around rumor sites about more freeform gameplay with opponents that are also walking around so you can challenge them, the ability to become a gym leader, the ability to create things like houses and shops, and basically make it more like a graphical MUSH or MUD… Call it “Pokémon Chrome” and “Pokémon Platnium”

I really dislike some of the things they’ve done with pokémon with the most recent verson… Although the option of mixing things make it more RPG like, it’s used as a replacement for the old options, and not as an addition.

Nick

BTW… Gameboy color assembly code isn’t that hard to learn… I don’t know about GBA assembly… it’s probably harder.

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I heard (although im sure it was false, or way behind in developement) that there would be a fully 3D version of PokeMon, but unlike the more recent 3D additions, (PokeMon Stadium 1-2, PokeMon Snap, Hey You Pikachu!), this one would be an RPG much like the GB(the only version at the time of me hearing this) version, except it would have a more action oriented battle system, with realtime battles, and actually aiming at the pokemon to catch…it seemed like the best thing to happen to the PokeMon franchise…it was going to be called PokeMon world…but I have heard more recent news that a game much like this may infact be in development, I would love that, the last PKMN game i got was the Gold/Silver, Crystal and Saphire or whatever just didnt have enough new elements to make me want to revisit the series…

Just my thoughts…

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I always thought they should do some sort of 3d pokemon game with realtime battles. I don’t like those turn-based crap games, though pokemon was a pretty good game. I have blue, yellow, silver, cystal, and saphire, and saphire is pretty fun, but some of the new pokemon kinda get old and stupid. THe realtime battles sound great, where’d you hear about this?

Pooba

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Umm…this was in a Nintendo Magazine, i think, or somewhere on Nintendo.com…it was something official…but i think they just scrapped the idea and made PokeMon stadium instead…boo!