'This should be a Thing' Thread

[Queen Michael]

Fetch. Fetch should definitely be a thing.

 

[HardkorSB]

You can't do that? When I used to work for Home Hardware (Canadian hardware store chain) we were able to do that for customers.

Maybe in some places it's possible but it should be a standard by now and it's not.

 

[BeerTent]

The Ice-Wave...

Fires fucking radiation at your food to make it colder than ice. Sad your ice cream is now water-cream? Bam. Icewave it. Recognize that most chocolate candies is better frozen, but you want it now? Bam. Icewave it. Need to flash-freeze your victim's leg so you can preserve it for future meals, and don't have room in the freezer? Bam. Icewave it.

 

[Cycloptomese]

The Ice-Wave...

Fires fucking radiation at your food to make it colder than ice. Sad your ice cream is now water-cream? Bam. Icewave it. Recognize that most chocolate candies is better frozen, but you want it now? Bam. Icewave it. Need to flash-freeze your victim's leg so you can preserve it for future meals, and don't have room in the freezer? Bam. Icewave it.

Forget to put that beer in the fridge? Ten seconds in the ice wave and it'll be just a few degrees above freezing!

Edit: I think it would be better if it took maybe twenty seconds to fully freeze something, that way you could choose to just make something cold but not frozen. Oooh!! Perhaps just set a temp.

 

[RaikuFA]

Fallout 1 and 2 remade playing like 3, NV and 4.

 

[maninahat]

Bus drivers having some fucking change. It's ridiculous how the bus service is the only industry in which the staff are allowed to look at you like dirt if you try to pay with a note, having the audacity to need a bus whilst not happening to be carry £4 in loose coins. Notes weren't invented yesterday bus drivers, you've have plenty of time to figure out how basic cash handling works.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

An X-Com version of "Pacific Rim". When you really get down to it, Pacific Rim's plot was essentially just X-Com with giant monsters instead of smaller aliens. Research the Kaiju (who get bigger and stronger), build newer and better Jaegers (and weapons), recruit pilots, build bases and research facilities, etc.

A Gears of War RTS using the "Company of Heroes" engine.

There should be a TV show based on the 90's horror/action game "Nocturne'. The game was basically The X-Files meets the Untouchables. Game wasn't the best, but the atmosphere and the characters were awesome.

Basically ANY game that takes place in the "Legend of the Five Rings" universe. One I thought could work really well would be a "Shadow of Mordor" type game that took place in the Shadowlands.

 

[TakerFoxx]

Some sort of Puella Magi Madoka Magica continuation. Movie, new season, I don't care. It's stuck on a cliffhanger and this needs to be fixed.

Knights of the Old Republic 3.

A Runaways movie.

Triple H taking control of the WWE.

Motherfrickin' Gakkou Gurashi chapter 39. WHERE?!?!?!

I'd say a new season of Firefly, but honestly I feel that the time for that has already come and gone.

 

[kris40k]

A pokemon MMO. But then "Go!" was announced and I was like oh...okay close enough.

Moonrise [https://moonrisegame.com/] was in the works, then Undead Labs put a pillow over its face [https://undeadlabs.com/2015/08/news/the-sun-sets-on-moonrise/] a few weeks ago. Kinda bummed about that, but luckily I didn't buy into the Early Access.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I'd say a new season of Firefly, but honestly I feel that the time for that has already come and gone.

Would you take Mal giving the ship to a new crew? That universe needs more exploring.

Someone taking over the ship because Mal gave himself over to the alliance to protect a some refuges, and the refuges are split on using the Serenity to go save him or to use the ship for their own purposes. Even typing that, I was overcome with the need to watch the shit out of that.

But Silent Hill is supposed to be all in your mind. Its basically PTSD with literal monsters instead of figurative ones.
It'd make more sense if after every ball is lost the machine shoots you in the face with LSD mist and plays 2mins of Schindler's List.
That way at about the hour mark, you're sweating balls, paranoid as fuck, and desperate to save just one more life by not failing at the game.
So even if you win, you spend a shit-load of money.

To be fair, that's a common misconception. The true canon stories were actually about a town that has given birth to a stable God-like Power that feeds off the misery of people. But Harry Mason never did anything wrong. He was vacationing with his daughter when the town reclaimed them. Heather never did anything wrong, and lived a good life until the inhabitants of the town learned how to leave and reach out to her.

Likewise did Henry Townshend just happen to rent the wrong room. But that was more of the Antagonist learning how to use the Town's power for personal benefits.

James Sunderland was the only one summoned by the Town. And since it was such a big hit (freaking rightfully so), Non-Japanese developers decided to ape the most popular one and say that's what the story is all about. Silent Hill is just one big moral purgatory. Homecoming was a clumsy mess, and Downpour had some promise... but had no real idea what it was doing and failed.

But besides that, that always made me wonder; What if one time that Silent Hill tried to bring someone into their world by having a ghost girl dart in front of their car... the driver wasn't looking. Or he was a crazed psycho and decided to run through the ghost. Almost all media depicts something like that making a car accident. So what happens there was none? Does the Eldritch, Cult-warped God like Forces snap it's fingers in disappointment and shrug its shoulders, upset that another one got away?

To the thing I think needs to happen?

A Nextwave Movie.

Spoiler

Why do I even need to say this should have been a thing? why aren't we on movie 20 by now?

But I want more than anything?

More than anything in the world?

A Shadowrun game, Skyrim style. 10 times the size of Skyrim, of course. All the classes and races at your disposal. Modability. Magic, guns, multiple ways of doing things.

You would have to hook an IV up to me because I would never leave the computer.

If you found a way to make it multiplayer without deluding the experience, I would create a God of your choosing so She/He/It will eternally bless you.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Environmentally friendly Dams: Instead of large cement walls that water slowly passes through to power generators (that causes water to seep into the ground and eventually destroys lakes), it could be two cement columns that hug the walls of the river. Water still passes through to power generators, but the water never stops, allowing for lakes and rivers to survive while cities still get electricity.

Also, Rochestras. Large groups of musicians that play Guitars, Basses and Drums (and potentially Keyboards), playing Rock Songs and Classical pieces for large audiences. The perfect blend of High and Pop Culture.

 

[sanamia]

Being able to pay part cash and part by card in stores.

I usually do groceries once every 4-5 days so I end up spending £25+ at a time in a supermarket.
Today, I bought stuff for over £30 and I only had £30 on my main account, as well as an extra £20 in my pocket.
When I was at the register, I had to split my groceries and buy part of it with my card and part with cash.
That's stupid.
It's the 21st century, we should be able to do mixed payments.

I can do that around here, also we have this nifty round up to or give me XYZ amount of cash and put it on my card.

Always get my cash when grocery shopping it's easier then going to the bank that's next door from the store.

 

[Christian Neihart]

I seem to remember Linkara talking about a follow up to John Carpenter's The Thing that had the monster stuck in a New Mexico town and had found a way to get around the blood test.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

You can't do that? When I used to work for Home Hardware (Canadian hardware store chain) we were able to do that for customers.

Maybe in some places it's possible but it should be a standard by now and it's not.

I'm honestly surprised to hear that it isn't.

 

[Halla Burrica]

There is this single Calvin and Hobbes-panel I saw where Calvin says "I don't believe in ethics anymore". I want that to be the official logo for 4chan and possibly EA.

Someone should try to have an actual terrible movie made. Not like they start production by saying "Hey lets make a terrible movie so people can laugh at it". More like it begins like a normal production, but then you cut the budget in half, have the production rushed so the studio barely has the time to properly film everything and put it together. Also replace the outfits with weird fetish-gear during the last few weeks of shooting, have Nazi imagery painted on the sets (if it uses CGI and green screen just add a poorly rendered rotating elephant saluting Hitler on the bottom left corner of the screen during emotional moments) and smear vaseline and other suspicious fluids on three of the camera lenses to get the final touch. The hard part will be managing to keep the production going like this, but just say it's an expression of artistic integrity and that it's all been focus-tested months ago. And when this potentially impressively bad movie rolls onto cinema and confuses both critics and average movie-goers, you can step up and tell the world you made it terrible on purpose, and die a goddamn legend. Now THAT should be a thing.

 

[renegade7]

A mechanical pencil where the eraser is also at the bottom so you don't need to turn the pencil all the way around to use the eraser.

Crap, I was just joking but I think that might actually be a good idea...

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

There is this single Calvin and Hobbes-panel I saw where Calvin says "I don't believe in ethics anymore". I want that to be the official logo for 4chan and possibly EA.

Someone should try to have an actual terrible movie made. Not like they start production by saying "Hey lets make a terrible movie so people can laugh at it". More like it begins like a normal production, but then you cut the budget in half, have the production rushed so the studio barely has the time to properly film everything and put it together. Also replace the outfits with weird fetish-gear during the last few weeks of shooting, have Nazi imagery painted on the sets (if it uses CGI and green screen just add a poorly rendered rotating elephant saluting Hitler on the bottom left corner of the screen during emotional moments) and smear vaseline and other suspicious fluids on three of the camera lenses to get the final touch. The hard part will be managing to keep the production going like this, but just say it's an expression of artistic integrity and that it's all been focus-tested months ago. And when this potentially impressively bad movie rolls onto cinema and confuses both critics and average movie-goers, you can step up and tell the world you made it terrible on purpose, and die a goddamn legend. Now THAT should be a thing.

1. Wait, did 4chan EVER have ethics?!

2. Ed Wood directed Porn in his later career. Sounds like it'd be right up your alley!

 

[Burgers2013]

A movie/TV show adaptation of the Mistborn trilogy. I always thought the fighting style would look really cool visually, the the story/characters were really interesting. Live action or animated would work. It'd have to have a pretty big budget for live action to look right though.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

A Silent Hill game set at the Western Front of World War 1. You play as a junior officer in the British Army who did a bad thing(it was WW1 after all) Imagine the images and enemies you could get from that!
This should be a thing.

I see that as a pachinko machine.

PULL THE LEVER!

Next-gen VR tech (Occulus 2.0 I suppose) + Drones = 3rd Person Life. I've never operated a drone but I have the image in my head of wearing glasses (or goggles) that block out your original 1st person view of life and replace that with a camera feed from a drone which can be set to fly behind-and-above you GTA style. The addition of public cameras could be used for a Classic Resident Evil mode.

Spoiler: Marvel/DC comic crossovers. This was a thing that happened in the past and we're long overdue for another crossover. It looks like the most likely Marvel/DC crossover is going to be in one of the upcoming Lego games (like Dimensions) but I would love to see an animated film, a TV mini-series, a new comic run...anything really. This was a really cool concept and Convergence opened up the possibility for that happening but...no. Another great outcome of Marvel vs DC Comics was the Age of Amalgam which is another thing that I would love to see come back in some way, shape or, form.

 

[Mikeybb]

An X-Com version of "Pacific Rim". When you really get down to it, Pacific Rim's plot was essentially just X-Com with giant monsters instead of smaller aliens. Research the Kaiju (who get bigger and stronger), build newer and better Jaegers (and weapons), recruit pilots, build bases and research facilities, etc.

Oh my goodness.
Yes please.

To the thing I think needs to happen?

A Nextwave Movie.

Oh.
Oh yes that too please.

What do I think should be a thing?
An aliens/colonial marines game done in the same format as Left for Dead.
Four to Six characters making up the squad including a company guy, a synthetic, a civilian advisor and a handful of marines, AI director, Special Xenomorph types (playable by opposition in vs. Spitter, Burster, leaper, Charger, Praetorian, etc), Missions that string together in a loose campaign as your team try to survive a mission gone wrong.
L4D with aliens.
What gearbox should have done instead of that...
that...
Thing they did.