Unexplored Machinima Concepts

[Anarchemitis]

What great ideas do you have for Machinima?
Personally, I'm suprised at how much there is and the only orignial things there are are simply catchphrases or reinterating an old gag, seen elsewhere. (Eg, Team Fortress 2, A dispenser comes out of nowhere amongst Red players, and a Blue engineer talks through the dispenser like a TV, reciting All Your Base Are Belong To Us)
What I would like to see is something fresh and original of the absoloute.
I have yet to see a line of Combine riverdance, or A bunch of Soldier corpses in CoD4 stacked up to see how high the can make a pile.

Do you think Machinima is original?
Do you have really good ideas?

 

[000Ronald]

Why doesn't someone do something about the Sangheili from Halo? Not something primaraly amusing, but something that shows that war is hell for everyone. In fact, it would be even better if it showed the Marine side,too, just to reinforce that notion.

If this has already been done, I apologize. I'm kinda new to this.

 

[RedSigma]

Machinima is all over the place so you may just not be seeing most of the original ideas. I for one have seen plenty, couldn't list them all right now but what I've seen some people do with video games, fraps and a little imagination has been outstanding!

 

[Katana314]

Machinima is almost never original. Obviously, TAKING PLACE in its game engine is forgivable, but I think far too often people use the existing "world" to tell their story, or just make up a completely random story with almost no context. Also a bit too much of it is about war.

 

[John Galt]

I think a Simcity machinima would be very nice, sort of like a traffic news update. You could hover around the city, make witty comments about the ghetto, and then top the cast off with some horrible disaster. It'd get boring after the first few times but I've yet to see it done.

 

[Hey Joe]

*Please don't steal this idea, I may be actually making this in the future*

I'm thinking of exploring the possibility of making a machinima that takes place during the Gulf War using the COD4 maps. It would all be in first person, from the perspective of an embedded journalist.

I see it as a great way to talk about violence in society and how we've been desensitized to it (hence making this in a video game engine)