Dumbest game idea ever?
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and yet it worked out immensely...
how about a supersoldier far away from earth fighting brightly colour coded aliens more or less on his own on the surface of a [HEADING=1]Giant Space Ring[/HEADING]?
yet that also worked out. Just goes to show that even a bad premise can pull through with good design.
how about a supersoldier far away from earth fighting brightly colour coded aliens more or less on his own on the surface of a [HEADING=1]Giant Space Ring[/HEADING]?
yet that also worked out. Just goes to show that even a bad premise can pull through with good design.
"Alright guys, Legend of Zelda was a great success, what do you have for me now?"
"Well boss, some of the guys in marketing have bet some of our guys that we can release the same game with slightly upgraded graphics. They've given us great odds too Sooo ..."
"Hmm ... alright, make the next one more of a side scroller then. Tell the guys in marketing we accept they're bet."
-decade later-
"Hey boss, the guys in marketing are wondering if ..."
"Yeah yeah, I know. We're on, same bet."
"Well boss, some of the guys in marketing have bet some of our guys that we can release the same game with slightly upgraded graphics. They've given us great odds too Sooo ..."
"Hmm ... alright, make the next one more of a side scroller then. Tell the guys in marketing we accept they're bet."
-decade later-
"Hey boss, the guys in marketing are wondering if ..."
"Yeah yeah, I know. We're on, same bet."
"Alright gang, so you're the King of the Cosmo's son and you gotta get huge balls of stuff"
"Why?"
"I Dunno, just do it! It'll be awesome!"
"Why?"
"I Dunno, just do it! It'll be awesome!"
How about this:
See, there's this underwater city, right? And it's run by this capitalist nutcase and his drug lord buddy. Then the drug lord guy decides to create a super drug that can only be created by making little girls eat slugs and subsequently eating them-- and you can use this drug to do things like shoot lightning or light stuff on fire with your mind, right?
But because everyone wants these little girls, you have giant guys in scuba suits protect them, see?
Then the drug lord decides to turn against the nutcase, and a civil war breaks out, and the whole city goes to shit. Then this random guy falls out of an airplane and ends up in the city, right? And he beats the nutcase to death with a golf club and then shoots the drug lord to death, see?
Wait...that sounds pretty cool, actually.
In that case, I nominate Desert Bus.
You know why.
See, there's this underwater city, right? And it's run by this capitalist nutcase and his drug lord buddy. Then the drug lord guy decides to create a super drug that can only be created by making little girls eat slugs and subsequently eating them-- and you can use this drug to do things like shoot lightning or light stuff on fire with your mind, right?
But because everyone wants these little girls, you have giant guys in scuba suits protect them, see?
Then the drug lord decides to turn against the nutcase, and a civil war breaks out, and the whole city goes to shit. Then this random guy falls out of an airplane and ends up in the city, right? And he beats the nutcase to death with a golf club and then shoots the drug lord to death, see?
Wait...that sounds pretty cool, actually.
In that case, I nominate Desert Bus.
You know why.
Hey boss, I got this CRAZY idea! Let's make a rpg where you play as this androgenous teenager who...
Bill, is this already sound like a generic jrpg...
Wait, let me finish, so this kid gets warped away from his homeworld... and who does he meet? The cast of final fantasy and a whole slew of disney characters! Then they go on an epic adventure to disney themed planets where he has to save his love interest from certain doom, and we will though in a bizarre and abstract view of morality into the mix! What do you think?
.... get out of my office... now
(seriously I love the game, but who in their right mind thought that it was a good idea?!?!)
Bill, is this already sound like a generic jrpg...
Wait, let me finish, so this kid gets warped away from his homeworld... and who does he meet? The cast of final fantasy and a whole slew of disney characters! Then they go on an epic adventure to disney themed planets where he has to save his love interest from certain doom, and we will though in a bizarre and abstract view of morality into the mix! What do you think?
.... get out of my office... now
(seriously I love the game, but who in their right mind thought that it was a good idea?!?!)
Saw the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbB3szZUZc&feature=related
Jiggle your analog to loosen the head trap!
Swish your hand around the toilet before your pain meter goes up too high!
Someone needs to get fired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbB3szZUZc&feature=related
Jiggle your analog to loosen the head trap!
Swish your hand around the toilet before your pain meter goes up too high!
Someone needs to get fired.
I'm sure the dumbest game idea ever must have already been made...
... and it shattered sales records.
It was somewhere around that point that the casual gamer market was identified and sought after.
That said, some ideas were so bad that even the casual market wouldn't touch it...
Lets not forget sex games, which more often than not have next to no redeeming value whatsoever [http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/sports/bmxxxx/review.html].
... and it shattered sales records.
It was somewhere around that point that the casual gamer market was identified and sought after.
That said, some ideas were so bad that even the casual market wouldn't touch it...
Lets not forget sex games, which more often than not have next to no redeeming value whatsoever [http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/sports/bmxxxx/review.html].
"Allright boss, here's our pitch.
We're gonna take all the female characters from our famous fighting-series and put them in bikini's so painstakingly small and tight, the girls all have to be given blood-thinners in order to maintain their circulation. You know, just like we did last time.
But you remember how last time our gameplay (which, same as now, consists entirely out of minigames) was actually well-done? Not interesting but at least functional?
Well, we tossed that idea. Waste of money, you know.
Anyway, most the "game" revolves around the girls' chests, (with each knocker being larger than the ladies' own heads) as well as their own private, gravity-defying, laws of physics, causing them to move around more than a sugar-high Selphie from FFVIII in the middle of a train-station. We also decided to add a pole-dancing scene, which when combined with some of the outfits, is actually more sexually offensive than some of the porn we were watching as part of the development-process.
Oh, and the hair still looks like it could have come from Nintendo-64 game.
So, when's the budget ready?"
We're gonna take all the female characters from our famous fighting-series and put them in bikini's so painstakingly small and tight, the girls all have to be given blood-thinners in order to maintain their circulation. You know, just like we did last time.
But you remember how last time our gameplay (which, same as now, consists entirely out of minigames) was actually well-done? Not interesting but at least functional?
Well, we tossed that idea. Waste of money, you know.
Anyway, most the "game" revolves around the girls' chests, (with each knocker being larger than the ladies' own heads) as well as their own private, gravity-defying, laws of physics, causing them to move around more than a sugar-high Selphie from FFVIII in the middle of a train-station. We also decided to add a pole-dancing scene, which when combined with some of the outfits, is actually more sexually offensive than some of the porn we were watching as part of the development-process.
Oh, and the hair still looks like it could have come from Nintendo-64 game.
So, when's the budget ready?"
Putting the shoving idiots in Assassin's Creed where you have to do a stealth section. It's not throw-your-controller-into-the-TV-annoying, so much as demolish-a-small-town annoying.
"How about Spongebob Squarepants going on an adventure with a random bunch of Cartoon network characters across settings from more cartoon network shows to beat up evil people with giant foam gloves? Oh, and lets reverse the traditional jump and attack buttons."
Guess why I don't let my nephew buy games without consulting me first anymore?
Guess why I don't let my nephew buy games without consulting me first anymore?
"Alright, so there is this group of interstellar mercenaries that fight for money using their high-tech ships."
"That sounds cool."
"Yeah, they are all anthropomorphic animals. One's a Fox, one's a Rabbit, one's a Toa-"
"Wait, wait. Animals?"
"Yeah, and they fight this omnipitent, disembodied monkey head called Andro-"
"Wait, what!?"
"And there's this rival team right, one's a Wolf, one's a Pi-"
"Get out of here." (Star Fox)
"That sounds cool."
"Yeah, they are all anthropomorphic animals. One's a Fox, one's a Rabbit, one's a Toa-"
"Wait, wait. Animals?"
"Yeah, and they fight this omnipitent, disembodied monkey head called Andro-"
"Wait, what!?"
"And there's this rival team right, one's a Wolf, one's a Pi-"
"Get out of here." (Star Fox)