You play as a member of an order of warrior monks. The monks belong to a religion that is in the ascendency. Your character, something of a truth seeker, refuses to readily accept the self justifying theology of a religion which has the unreserved backing of the state and society. His extreme skill in martial arts means that the elders found it convenient to tolerate his dissenting, often heretical views. Finally, however he is informally exiled from the monastery. He then makes a life chiefly of sifting through ancient and forgotten ruins that litter the desert, stopping only when he has to in oasis settlements for basic supplies and to occasionally work as a mercenary to pay for archeaologixal digging tools etc.
There are lovingly rendered ruins, statues, inscriptions and friezes, pottery shards for the player to discover and explore. The player is encouraged to explore these by the sparsity of other quests ( they spawn every 30 mins or so of playing time ). Compelled into the ruins by the lack of anything else to do, the player is left to make what sense they can of the game world’s ancient past. Archeological areas contain no enemies and are purely based on exploration. Mercenary quests are played in a diablo style action rpg style.
I might post my own lame ideas or comments later, but for now, I gotta ask, have you been following the development of [URL=http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/info/]Ultima Ratio Regum[/URL]?
Never heard of it. The guys online persona reminds me of a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson character. Looks interesting but slightly disconcerting the degree of detail and thought going into a niche ascii game about mysterious artifacts.
founding fathers vs post-reagan america musou, best mode is the disgaea 2 item world adaptation
deadbeat dad belt scroll, the babies will fight for you in due time
exes become default npcs like how bosses become common enemies
hip hop brutal legend starring the wu tang clan. 972 playable characters. kill martin shkreli and suge knight. kinda like suikoden kinda like dynasty warriors?
wwe dynasty warriors
look for “wwe smackdown ps2 extreme moments” on youtube. think of what you just saw in a gothic fantasy setting
poke a man, a metroid 2-like finite collectable platformer where you have to poke every man in your city, softly, with your index finger , collecting each poke without them knowing it
although “wwe in a sci-fi/fantasy setting” is actually a videogame concept they’ve planned a couple of times but never really followed through with. there’s lots of concept art floating around the internet for various failed projects.
Drive a taxi around picking up customers and getting them to their destinations on time without breaking any traffic rules. Better tips for really safe driving. Soundtrack by The Offspring
Actual not lame game idea: Shadow of the Colossus style horse riding game. Online mode with horse rearing and breeding. Can choose to do one or the other or both. If you just breed you can sell to or team up with riders.
jrpg with tactical fps combat system. the maps the player fights in are procedurally generated every encounter through importable autoCAD files. or maybe reverse engineering of source engine maps?
sokoban as an fps
shin megami tensei: freaks and geeks
shin megami tensei: the office (us)
this came to me in a dream:
batman game on the sega cd.
half of the game is a long vertically-based beatemup where you have to get up a skyscraper overrun by rnemies. other half is top-down rpg starring an evil version of big van vader. he turns gotham police department into a butcher shop. first playable part of his story consists of him putting dry rubs on dead pigs and slathering meats in cop blood. song in the bg: garage rock track with “i’ll be yo loyyyuhhh” in the chorus
I would play this. Can it be set in occupied Iraq? The green zone is the starting town, and the priest class character is an army chaplain called phil.
an incredibly dramatic sotc-style dog-climbing segment with a crashing orchestral soundtrack, but instead of attacking weak points you help get rid of fleas