SavingPrincess' Game Pitch Thread: The Game

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[HEADING=3]Let's go back in time to the offices of the big publishing companies to hear the boardroom pitches of some of the greatest games of all time.[/HEADING][br][hr]
[HEADING=2]The Concept[/HEADING]
You are a fledgling game developer who has traveled back in time to steal a current game idea so that you can be the one to create the next big game. You are sitting in front of the executives of one of the biggest publishing company and it's your job to convince them of an idea that you know works. We, the Escapist forum goers, have to guess the game you're talking about from the description, so be accurate, descriptive, but try not to give everything away.
[HEADING=2]The Rules[/HEADING]
  • - Describe everything through mechanics and story concept
    - No Proper Nouns (i.e. character names, city names, titles, etc.)
    - No Company/Developer/Artist Names (i.e. "We'll have Uematsu do the music/Toriyama do the art," etc.)
    - No Console Names (i.e. "for the 360/NES/PS2 etc.")
    - Describe in detail but don't give everything away, it's a challenge afterall
- Try to keep a "conversational tone" in your pitches, make them sound verbal and not proposal-esque

Be sure to snip-quote the original pitch post with the guess so that the guess gets back to the poster. Once the poster says the guess is correct, the first person to guess (and properly quote) the game is then charged with making the next pitch.

Example of Proper Answer Quote:
SavingPrincess said:
Game = The Legend of Zelda
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If you have a question, PM me and I'll clarify! That being said, let's get things started.[hr]
Okay, so my idea is you have this game that takes place in the afterlife, in which the afterlife is a place you actually have to make your way to after you die... like you're not just put there, but it's like a journey. The better you are in life, the more help you receive on this journey. You play a sort of afterlife travel agent who's in a lot of debt and is in danger of getting fired because he keeps getting all the bad clients who must make the afterlife journey all on their own and decides to steal one of the good "easy" clients from a coworker who has a ticket for the afterlife-train that the really good people get to take.

After lots of discovery you learn of a conspiratorial plot from the heads of the afterlife travel company he works for with a crime boss from the underworld that is stealing and selling the tickets for the "good people train" to all the bad people for a ridiculous price rather than giving them to those who are deserving. You journey to stop this sinister plot and restore the justice to the afterlife travel system...

... oh, and everyone's Mexican.
 
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OK......so there's this guy right? And he's gotta go back in time, to fight dinosaurs! And he's got all these guns and stuff, and he uses them to shoot all the dinosaurs! Oh did I mention he's an Indian? Oh wait sorry, Native American? OK, well he is, and he's shooting up all these dinosaurs! It's so awesome! Pass me that 8 ball.
 
King Kupofried

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Alrighty, there's this captain you see, this spaceship captain. His ship gets hit by a rock while making a delivery and it busts up his engine pretty badly. He ends up crash landing on this planet with air poisonous to him, with little supply to continue breathing for more than about a month, as well there are hostile creatures all over the place and needs get past them to put his ship back together.
He finds these little things that remind him of multicolor vegetables that follow him around when when he yanks them out of the ground, so he does what comes naturally and amasses a big army of them. Each different color does different special things from being able to Not get set on fire, Not drowning, and even blowing stuff up. You gotta be smart about which ones you bring along so you can get through all the obstacles and predators that wanna snack on your army. Hopefully with enough coordination and leadership the captain can fix up his ship and leave this world, and teach these tiny inhabitants to be more than just fodder for the big nasties.
 
revolverwolf

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King Kupofried said:
You win sir :D And you spelled it right too!
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I wouldn't be much of a spelling Nazi if I didn't. =)

[HEADING=2]Okay! My amazing idea now![/HEADING]

So you start as this soldier, right. But get this. He's a super advanced soldier in space with this awesome armour, and the bad guys are these evil aliens that come after him while he's on a spaceship!

Did I mention it's set in space?

So he escapes from the spaceship with an AI and a dozen other soldiers to a big floaty ring in the middle of nowhere and they have to find the rest of their team, including their leader who was captured in the initial attack. I'm sure we can bullshit a bit of story along the way about some evil guys at the head of these aliens so that the player feels a little bad about killing all of these aliens. It doesn't matter, the multiplayer mode will be selling this game anyway.

But as the game progresses you fight tons of these aliens until you get to the final lot of aliens which are all taken over by this crazy parasite that you've freed while on the ring. And then you'll be able to fight those as well!

And we can make it a trilogy as well! Well, maybe not a trilogy. We'll say it's a trilogy but we'll end up making, like, twelve games about it.

But doesn't that sound awesome!?
 
LeonLethality

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avouleance2nd said:
Hazzar have a basket of freshly baked cookies.
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Alright now for my own.

Remember what they did for Zelda 2? Let's do that with our game but let's make it obnoxiously hard and add a ring mechanic.

(I hope that was enough of a description I'll add more if it wasn't enough)
I think that proper noun is okay as it is not the game or in the game I am talking about.
[sub]Perhaps I should have used a newer/more popular game...[/sub]
 
LeonLethality

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SavingPrincess said:
LeonLethality said:
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LOL, I think you're doing it wrong! Describe the whole game :) You're pitching an idea! Now do it right and obey my evilness for I am a meanie!
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I did describe the whole game!
Fine I'll add more to it.

Remember what they did for Zelda 2? Let's do that with our game but let's make it obnoxiously hard and add a ring mechanic, a girl who never listens when you tell her to go home, a mean castle trying to take over the village and set it three years after the previous game.

Happy?
 
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...Apparently not. No-one can guess what it is you're talking about.

A ring mechanic and the castle make me think it's a Mario game, but I can't think of anything that he's done that's mimicked LoZ 2.
 
LeonLethality

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revolverwolf said:
...Apparently not. No-one can guess what it is you're talking about.

A ring mechanic and the castle make me think it's a Mario game, but I can't think of anything that he's done that's mimicked LoZ 2.
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fine since I don't want this thread to die because of me I will reveal it was Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

You can take the next one <.<"
 
revolverwolf

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LeonLethality said:
fine since I don't want this thread to die because of me I will reveal it was Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

You can take the next one <.<"
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...See, I was just about to say that...

[HEADING=2]Whatever! I have an idea that will blow you away![/HEADING]

I've got an idea for a new sequel and this will be the first of the series in 3D! We'll have our typical angsty hero character with a mysterious past that we'll reveal over the course of the game, plus an obvious love interest and a big black guy for good measure. We want to appease those stereotypes after all.

They can have magic as well! And huge cutscenes! And stupidly styles hair, of course. No good game of this genre is done without over the top magic and cinematics. And no game in this genre has people with normal hair.

And we'll have them as terrorists! But good terrorists! They'll be fighting against the evil corporation that is destroying the planet with their greed. So you'll fight them constantly, getting more and more members of this group of world-saving freedom fighters.

And we can just see where that idea takes us later.
 
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