How I would create a game to troll 90% of FPS players
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Well then, I know the greatest game ever to troll those COD players:MammothBlade said:
Get them to play... Call of Duty 2, or Medal of Honor Allied Assault!
They both fulfil numbers 3, 5,6,7,8,9, and 10, and are exactly the style you were looking for.
I'm curious how this would look expanded to other genres. My guess?
How to troll RTS players:
1. Create a unit-cap that changes every other minute. If you exceed the cap, all your units blow up.
2. You can create units beyond the resource cost you have. However, once the first units you built over your resources are finished, all of your units stop where they are and begin to die a slow, horrible death while the computer keeps yelling, "FOOD SHORTAGE!"
3. A building on fire sends all of your worker units into a panic until several of them put on red hats and form a bucket brigade to put out the fire.
4. In the case of sci-fi or fantasy RTS, armies that are made up of a hive-mind like group will scatter every time a light is shined on them, and will dedicate most of its units solely to feeding the young, taking care of the eggs, and carrying the queen/king's fat ass around, whether the player wants them to or not.
5. Alien armies, on the other hand, will not attack human armies, choosing to have sex with them instead. And the humans will worship them as gods, because aliens.
6. No matter what unit the player/players build, it will easily be destroyed in one shot from each army's weakest units. Zerg Rushes for everyone!
How to troll "Hardcore" RPG players:
1. The player can change their skills around at any time, for little or no cost
2. Any attempts at stealing or pickpocketing results in the player being arrested and having their hands cut off.
3. Guards are infinitely more powerful than the player, regardless of their abilities or level.
4. The player's stuff can and probably will be stolen due to their constant absences from home, and the armor they're currently wearing will likely be stolen off of them from clever pickpockets. Also they'll probably get a mine or poison planted on them.
5. All dragons or similarly epic random monsters will die in one hit, from anyone or anything. And if someone else kills it, you can't loot it.
6. If the game is an open world, create only three possible endings.
7. If the game is more linear, create an infinite loop where the player never gets an ending. After all, they're only there for the grind anyways.
How to troll "Casual" RPG players:
1. Make a game a hardcore RPG player would like
How to troll RTS players:
1. Create a unit-cap that changes every other minute. If you exceed the cap, all your units blow up.
2. You can create units beyond the resource cost you have. However, once the first units you built over your resources are finished, all of your units stop where they are and begin to die a slow, horrible death while the computer keeps yelling, "FOOD SHORTAGE!"
3. A building on fire sends all of your worker units into a panic until several of them put on red hats and form a bucket brigade to put out the fire.
4. In the case of sci-fi or fantasy RTS, armies that are made up of a hive-mind like group will scatter every time a light is shined on them, and will dedicate most of its units solely to feeding the young, taking care of the eggs, and carrying the queen/king's fat ass around, whether the player wants them to or not.
5. Alien armies, on the other hand, will not attack human armies, choosing to have sex with them instead. And the humans will worship them as gods, because aliens.
6. No matter what unit the player/players build, it will easily be destroyed in one shot from each army's weakest units. Zerg Rushes for everyone!
How to troll "Hardcore" RPG players:
1. The player can change their skills around at any time, for little or no cost
2. Any attempts at stealing or pickpocketing results in the player being arrested and having their hands cut off.
3. Guards are infinitely more powerful than the player, regardless of their abilities or level.
4. The player's stuff can and probably will be stolen due to their constant absences from home, and the armor they're currently wearing will likely be stolen off of them from clever pickpockets. Also they'll probably get a mine or poison planted on them.
5. All dragons or similarly epic random monsters will die in one hit, from anyone or anything. And if someone else kills it, you can't loot it.
6. If the game is an open world, create only three possible endings.
7. If the game is more linear, create an infinite loop where the player never gets an ending. After all, they're only there for the grind anyways.
How to troll "Casual" RPG players:
1. Make a game a hardcore RPG player would like
I had an idea for an FPS that would totally do this. It was to begin where the main character goes off to war in a brown environment with two weapons, and there are slabs of wall everywhere for cover. It totally seems like another cookie-cutter shooter, until it suddenly pulls something on you, making it like Serious Sam mixed with Monster Party with a bit of Conker's Bad Fur Day off to the side.
Along with over-the-top weapons, like the aforementioned Three-Headed Chaingun, there'd be double-barreled pistols and a seven-headed shotgun, along with crazy weapons, like the aforementioned wet cats as mines, along with a mortar that shoots radioactive chickens, and a large gun that fires giant popcorn kernels that go "Pop!" When it gets to a vehicle section, you can see a tank and a helicopter. But, they explode, and get replaced with an ice cream truck and a unicorn.Lugbzurg said:
If you wanna troll have those things you hate but have them be bad like:
Regenerating health working only 25% of the time and even then not well.
Iron Sights being shaky and lowering accuracy.
Deathstreaks which count how many times you die in a row.
Killstreak Kill-switches when you get a streak higher than 5 you die .
Knives are not one hit kills.
Auto Miss like auto aim but it misses.
Any sniper rifle used at close range will have ghost bullets.
Any shotgun used at long range will do the same.
Mics will mute automatically after 30 seconds of use.
(Btw nice idea for a legitimately good shooter in your post OP)
Regenerating health working only 25% of the time and even then not well.
Iron Sights being shaky and lowering accuracy.
Deathstreaks which count how many times you die in a row.
Killstreak Kill-switches when you get a streak higher than 5 you die .
Knives are not one hit kills.
Auto Miss like auto aim but it misses.
Any sniper rifle used at close range will have ghost bullets.
Any shotgun used at long range will do the same.
Mics will mute automatically after 30 seconds of use.
(Btw nice idea for a legitimately good shooter in your post OP)
In terms of trolling people I can't find a flaw, but I think some of your ideas would be good for a real game.
So here goes. I Disagree with your first point as long as, they remove auto aim like you say in your second point. As long there is no auto aim, iron sights add a fun mechanic to the game, as it is a more accurate way to fire, without the work being done for you.
I also think that points 3 and 4 contradict each other. I agree with point 3 in that assault rifles are able to do everything and kind of ruin any sort of strategy due to players using them are able to cope with any situation, but then in point 4 you say we should be allowed more than 2 primary weapons. This means that any player can cope with any situation, so why not just allow automatic assault rifles then?
So here goes. I Disagree with your first point as long as, they remove auto aim like you say in your second point. As long there is no auto aim, iron sights add a fun mechanic to the game, as it is a more accurate way to fire, without the work being done for you.
I also think that points 3 and 4 contradict each other. I agree with point 3 in that assault rifles are able to do everything and kind of ruin any sort of strategy due to players using them are able to cope with any situation, but then in point 4 you say we should be allowed more than 2 primary weapons. This means that any player can cope with any situation, so why not just allow automatic assault rifles then?
Also, depending on which game it is, there's #10 as well....sort of.Dirty Hipsters said:
Also #9, but only through a quote from Red vs Blue
They have modes tacked on because they want to steal the CoD's spotlight. Heck, what happened to the MMORPGs that tried to steal from WoW's userbase? I'm not comparing full games to MP modes duct taped to half games, but the logic is the same.TestECull said:
The problem is... nobody plays those games online because everyone is too busy playing CoD. If you want to kill CoD that's one thing, but making FPS without multiplayer has been on the table for most players I have ever come across on the internet. The "I won't buy unless it has MP" crowd isn't that big.
Of course, it's not on the table for most publishers.
Yeah, but some games had that as default. They were all on console, though.TestECull said:
And that there is a game I'll never buy. I hated TF2. I don't play a FPS if it doesn't have iron sights.
I currently play mostly CoD4, but sometimes I switch over to Red Orchestra 2. If only they made RO2 less...chunky. Things don't feel smooth while playing it.
Also, maybe I'm weird, but I love multiplayer more than singleplayer. If I wanted a story, I'd read a book. I play Multiplayer because I like forming teams with friends and being in an environment where I get to test my wits against other human beings.
I currently play mostly CoD4, but sometimes I switch over to Red Orchestra 2. If only they made RO2 less...chunky. Things don't feel smooth while playing it.
Also, maybe I'm weird, but I love multiplayer more than singleplayer. If I wanted a story, I'd read a book. I play Multiplayer because I like forming teams with friends and being in an environment where I get to test my wits against other human beings.
Apparently you don't know what objectively means. The multiplayer being dull is totally subjective and apparently millions of gamers disagree with you. The lag is your problem, upgrade from dial-up, and the single player writing being awful is also subjective.TestECull said:
and also, it is not objectively awful looking, the graphics are high quality and the aesthetic is consistent. Just because you don't like the grey-brown "realistic" aesthetics of CoD, doesn't mean they are objectively bad. That is subjective.
Put a bunch of super-human anime characters in the game that can take a shitload of bullets, have a ton of health, move faster than you can aim your gun, and can take a hit from a freaking claymore and come out with just a few scratch marks. And they all speak in grating Japanese cutesy voices. And make it so you have to take turns shooting and being savagely beaten with a giant sword. Oh, and the power of melodrama gives anime characters with depleted hp that are riddled with bullets the ability to stand up and gain super extra powers to pwn you. I'm sure they would just love that and they definitely wouldn't break their console or tv in half out of anger.(or throw it out the window like the dude from the Gamefly commercial if their too weak to break the tv with their hands.)
I agree with this man.shrekfan246 said:
Although I might add that by trolling, I guess you mean a game which looks exactly like a realistic war shooter which CoD fans have come to love, but plays differently to what they would expect... which could still just be a re skinned tf2 with a deathmatch mode on a large map. I'm not quite sure why you are objecting to the notion that all your 10 points encompass the gameplay of tf2.