Create a new game plot using the name of an existing one.

[Substitute Troll]

Space Siege: You command a space station that is constantly under siege by pirates, enemy factions and other riff raff. What's worse, you're orbiting a planet far from your homeworld. You're cut off, and reinforces will take a long time to arrive. You are in charge of keeping everyone alive on the station. Your goal is to upgrade your defenses to combat the threats. Between every battle you can give orders to your crew and soldiers. You can research new defenses, send scouting shuttles to the planet below or quarantine damaged areas of the station. At the same time, you need to keep your people happy, however, this does not always coincide with keeping them alive. There will be feuds, hunger and other issues you must deal with. If you can't keep order with the limited supplies you have, the people might turn on you. There are also events from time to time, like people seeking refuge in your station. You have to decide if it's worth taking the risk of infiltration from the enemy. The game would be a rogue-like with two ways of losing the game, the station blowing up/captured by the enemy, or the people staging a coup to get rid of your tyrannical ass. I imagine this game would be like a "defense oriented" version of FTL, with some more crew management and base building strategy-elements thrown in. For accurate feeling, watch Stargate Universe.

OP, this is a legit good thread, you have given me a valuable lesson for the future. When ideas run dry, steal titles.

 

[Bazaalmon]

Little Inferno: You play as a tiny flame. It's your job to collect and burn everything to grow bigger and eventually set fire to the whole world! (I'm thinking it'll be like Katamari Damacy).
Fez: You are a guy in a Fez. The objective is to be awesome.
Shadowrun: You are a shadow creature who needs to run from shadow to shadow before the sun rises and burns you up!

 

[In Search of Username]

Mein Kraft (My Force)

A German FPS with squad-building/management elements in which you build up a unit of men, choosing each one personally and assigning them skills and equipment, before leading them into a variety of battles personally, issuing orders to them while also fighting the enemy yourself.

Changing the title to different words that sound exactly the same may be cheating, on reflection.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Perfect Dark: During a power outage in the big city, the player must find a way into the light before the horrors living within the shadows can find you...and feed again. Perfect Dark has been called the most intense psychological horror game of all time and has won multiple accolades and awards since it was shown off earlier this year.

Fable - The Lost Chapters: This side-scrolling beat-em-up puts players in the roll of one out of 6 available heroes of folklore. The game is broken into 25 levels based around myths, fables and, legends not only from fairy-tales but there are also levels based around contemporary stories and even creepy pastas (rumor has it there is a Ben Drowned level and Slenderman has been seen in several screenshots). Don't be fooled though since this is meant to be a really light action adventure game in the same vein as Castle Crashers or, Scott Pilgrim.

Nintendoland: Nintendoland is set up in a very similar style as Warioware if it somehow crossbred with Mario Party. Players choose from one of 2 dozen classic characters from the Nintendo stable and embark on a massive series of micro-mini games and, even classic levels from Nintendo games stretching back to Donkey Kong.

Injustice: Gods Among Us: Play as a man who believes himself to be God in this open-world sandbox title. Only YOU have the power to save the masses...or condemn them. Over the course of the game you take on missions that involve evoking the unclean, saving souls and, purging the land of any who stand before you (including other Gods).

 

[Tactical Pause]

Darksiders - A game in which you play one or as more sith (real sith, ones who don't turn into jedi).

Nation Red - An anti-communist propaganda game where you try to stave off the communist threat overtaking your town of Mccarthyville.

Hard Reset - Turning it off and back on again has never been as difficult as it is in this mind-bending puzzle game.

 

[Substitute Troll]

Papers, please: A game about some really immature papers, who get into fights all the time. It's your job as the Paperman (harr) to break the fights up.

 

[DarkB]

The Witcher: you are the devil, and you go around convincing young women to make deals with you.

Marvel Versus Capcom: Marval Comics gets pissed off at Capcom over copyright issues and sends a team of assassins to kill everyone who works for them.

Devil May Cry: you are the devil and you are very lonely, you must try to find friends in a world where everyone hates you for a crime you never even committed. (That actually sound a lot better than it did in my head.)

Saints Row: you are a member of the church and have set up a orphanage for all the children who lost their parents to gang violence.

 

[Requia]

Bastion: A game about using proper engineering skills to build a fort.
Starcraft: You craft stars out of galactic material.
Warhammer 40,000: There are 40,000 war hammers. Each one is different, and you get to smash stuff with 'em. (10/10 IGN "Endless Replayability")

These all sound awesome as hell.

 

[viking97]

Spec Ops: The Line.

You must stay sane for as long as possible in an unnaturally long queue in the opticians.

Oh my god, is it okay if I marry you for making that post?

I was going to do Ratchet and Clank, but it has been used already, soo. . .

Wet; A game in which you- no wait that's too easy.

Left 4 Dead; You wake up to find four dead bodies left on your kitchen floor with a note saying "For you". Your task is to discover the cadavers' purpose and origin.

 

[Eomega123]

Psychonauts - 48 hours after the future USSR successfully begins habitation of the world's largest space station, all communication stops. You, a lowly engineer in orbit for an unrelated mission, are instructed to board the station and find out what happened. Once docked, you find that all the cosmonauts have been driven homicidally mad from some sort of space plague. Avoid the psychotic-cosmonauts and get back to your ship in this survival horror experience!

Surgeon Simulator 2013 - You are a surgeon in the year 2013. You operate on people. At no point do you smash their ribs with a hammer, stick a scalpel in an electrical outlet, inject yourself, throw their lungs out of a moving ambulance, or fill their open chest cavity with q-tips.

Duke Nukem Forever - A visual novel in which the protagonist Duke Nukem discovers that he is immortal and must wrestle with all the psychological issues that come with it.

FTL: Faster than Light - The newest action game out of Japan, you play as the colorful cast of Force Team Lazer, a light-themed super hero team who defend Japan from monsters, giant robots, and space aliens. In their darkest hour they may join forces for their combination attack, Light Speed Rainbow Go!, in which they band together and strike their foe as a glorious rainbow of justice traveling faster than light.

 

[DRTJR]

Tales of the Abyss: You are the head of a deep sea diving team that discovers what you think to be Atlantis, but when you encounter that the city in a giant bubble and encounter creature with thousands of eyes and you expedition force dwindles in number, you discover the city's true name R'lyeh, you then fight to keep great Cthulhu asleep.

 

[Gemore]

Warcraft 3

You have to craft models for a board game.

OH SNAP

Star Wars

Turns out stars have intelligence and fight a war among themselves.

Star Trek

A Prequel to Star Wars

 

[asap]

The Witcher: you are the devil, and you go around convincing young women to make deals with you.

Marvel Versus Capcom: Marval Comics gets pissed off at Capcom over copyright issues and sends a team of assassins to kill everyone who works for them.

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lol these are good.


Watch Dogs: A game where you...watch dogs

Sleeping Dogs: A game where you... watch dogs sleep

World of Goo: Role play as Ashlynn Brooke, famous actor and movie director.

Guild Wars: An exciting economic simulator based in medieval times, where your group of artisans try to gain a monopoly

Alan Wake: Try to wake a man called Alan

Twisted Metal: Role play as a performing Strongman

Limbo: Jamaican themed bendy dance game

 

[babinro]

Mass Effect: A physics based puzzle game akin to World of Goo

 

[V8 Ninja]

Tomb Raider
Your name is Lara Croft and you explore tombs, uncover their mysteries and discover artifacts and information about ancient civilizations.

(In fairness, past Tomb Raider games never exclusively focused on those elements, at least to my knowledge.)

A Bit More OT:

Torchlight: Because of a rainy storm, some guy must relight all of the torches in his village. There are a lot of torches...

Serious Sam: Sam is the typical businessman who decides to act very serious for a day. This includes not laughing at his acquaintances's jokes, refusing to shirk his duties, and going straight home so that he may cook dinner before going straight to sleep.

E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy: ...I got nothing.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - You are an elite member of the Special Tactics and Advanced Logistics Key point Execution and Reconnaissance team.

Mark of the Ninja - It's a reimagining of Zorro as a ninja instead of a swashbuckling bambino.

 

[MrTwo]

Haha some of these have been great. "Unnaturally long queue in the opticians", "You are TWO torches" are my favourites. For a guy with only two posts OP, this is a cool thread.

My submissions:
Sleeping Dogs: You are a thief trying to steal a diamond held in a dog kennel, for some unknown reason that will later be revealed in a plot twist. You have to get through each level without waking up the dogs, and if they wake up their barking will send you on a psychedelic PTSD journey back to that time you worked as a dog handler. Will you survive? Will your sanity survive?

Splinter Cell: Conviction: You are a small time criminal who is convicted with stabbing your jail cellmate with a wooden splinter while on a 6 month stint for Breaking and Entering. Try and fight off the charge, removing evidence and committing perjury is so much fun!

Max Payne: You must try to survive your experience at school as being a nerdy kid with a slightly stupid name. Endings include running from home, and hitting your parents for giving you such a stupid name considering you are a weedy kid.

Deus Ex
i.e. Das Ex - You live in a German city, and must try and avoid your murderous ex who is trying to at first ruin your new relationship, and then kill you.

 

[Ebonrul]

Custer's Revenge
or
Altered Beast 2: Montana Boogaloo

His slain regiment awakened by the destruction of an ancient tribal totem, General George Armstrong Custer and the spirits of the 7th Cavalry are bidden to rise to defend the land. However, their undead taint becomes a plague that desecrates little big horn and the surrounding lands. Saddened by his curse, the spirit of sitting bull resurrects union officer Cornelius Bradshaw and Lakota War-chief Weeping Crow so that they may reconstruct the totem and seal the doorway between worlds.

Along the way, each warrior will awaken their own spirit totems, allowing them to unlock their skinwalker powers or, as the white man says "become the altered beast".

 

[TheHomelessHero]

Dishonored-
You play as a Chinese school-boy who had a "C" on his report-card, where his strict father then disowns him...(not racist)

 

[Seriin]

Mega Man X: You've repaired the TV, delivered a pizza and fixed the plumbing but find that your employers are a little low on money and want to "work something out".