What Would Happen If Your Two Favorite Games Merged?
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Only two favourite games? Shit, that's too hard to pin down. But let's say the Persona and Deus Ex series.
Well, they both have a division between "social" and "combat" modes. Let's take Human Revolution's dialogue system and mash it up with Persona's social links. Wow, that's a real game changer. So, you have to pay close attention to the way the conversation is going. Perfect. And the dialogue would have a noticeable impact upon the direction of the story. SOOOOOOOO AMAZING.
Other than that, well, the combat elements of the game would be totally crazy. How do we mix the two? They're about as antithetical as you can get. Turn-based combat vs. real-time stealth action. I'd take the latter.
Like Deus Ex, the main character would be a cyborg/robot, but with more fantastical powers. Think Aigis and the other Anti-Shadow weapons. Now imagine her as a Deus Ex protagonist with all kinds of augmentations. Orgia mode? Of course! Pandora missiles? HELL YEAH. And it only gets crazier from there, pandora missiles wouldn't even compare to the almighty flare. The available upgrades would make for a perfect fusion of science and magic, invoking Clarke's third law that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Well, they both have a division between "social" and "combat" modes. Let's take Human Revolution's dialogue system and mash it up with Persona's social links. Wow, that's a real game changer. So, you have to pay close attention to the way the conversation is going. Perfect. And the dialogue would have a noticeable impact upon the direction of the story. SOOOOOOOO AMAZING.
Other than that, well, the combat elements of the game would be totally crazy. How do we mix the two? They're about as antithetical as you can get. Turn-based combat vs. real-time stealth action. I'd take the latter.
Like Deus Ex, the main character would be a cyborg/robot, but with more fantastical powers. Think Aigis and the other Anti-Shadow weapons. Now imagine her as a Deus Ex protagonist with all kinds of augmentations. Orgia mode? Of course! Pandora missiles? HELL YEAH. And it only gets crazier from there, pandora missiles wouldn't even compare to the almighty flare. The available upgrades would make for a perfect fusion of science and magic, invoking Clarke's third law that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Hmm...
Sonic & Knuckles and The Lion King, both for the Sega Genesis?
This can only lead to one thing...
Sonic, Simba, & Knuckles: Kings of the Pride Lands
A platformer in which Dr. Robotnick has captured the various animals of the Pride Lands and turned them into robots while also allowing various Outsider animals to slowly take over the Pride Lands. It's up to Sonic, Simba, & Knuckles to use their unique skills to rescue their animal friends and take back the Pride Lands.
Sonic & Knuckles and The Lion King, both for the Sega Genesis?
This can only lead to one thing...
Sonic, Simba, & Knuckles: Kings of the Pride Lands
A platformer in which Dr. Robotnick has captured the various animals of the Pride Lands and turned them into robots while also allowing various Outsider animals to slowly take over the Pride Lands. It's up to Sonic, Simba, & Knuckles to use their unique skills to rescue their animal friends and take back the Pride Lands.
Hmm... Lets see.
On one hand, we have minecraft, an open world sandbox where you build stuff.
On the other, we have Steambot Chronicles, an open world game where you pilot a mech around a country in the middle of the industrial revolution and have amnesia.
So we have an open world sandbox where you can mine for resources in order to build up your country using a mech. Either that or Minecraft with mechs and bandits.
You know what? If I ever get enough time to learn how to mod Minecraft, I'ma make a mod to do that. I'll even put in the customization part of Steambot.
On one hand, we have minecraft, an open world sandbox where you build stuff.
On the other, we have Steambot Chronicles, an open world game where you pilot a mech around a country in the middle of the industrial revolution and have amnesia.
So we have an open world sandbox where you can mine for resources in order to build up your country using a mech. Either that or Minecraft with mechs and bandits.
You know what? If I ever get enough time to learn how to mod Minecraft, I'ma make a mod to do that. I'll even put in the customization part of Steambot.
Banjo-Kazooie: Majora's Mask
A twisted, surreal experience where you go through four dungeons, collecting Jigsaw Pieces to keep a moon with googly eyes from crashing into the earth.
A twisted, surreal experience where you go through four dungeons, collecting Jigsaw Pieces to keep a moon with googly eyes from crashing into the earth.
I just got this vision of Garrus accidentally getting dropped off in Silent Hill. Sheppard comes back, only to find Garrus sitting on top of a pile of ruined buildings, holding his trusty rifle, smoking a cigar.
"It wasn't easy. I had to REALLY work at it."
"It wasn't easy. I had to REALLY work at it."
Link would equip himself with a portal gun. Which doesn't sound like a bad idea...
Are you listening, Nintendo? Think of the possibilities for the design of truly amazing dungeons.
Are you listening, Valve? You might get some sort of awesome deal here if you play your cards right.
Are you listening, Nintendo? Think of the possibilities for the design of truly amazing dungeons.
Are you listening, Valve? You might get some sort of awesome deal here if you play your cards right.
Disgaea + Pokémon.
Basically, it would be the darker, more mature Pokémon everyone's been asking for, with a healthy dose of immature humor thrown into the mix because, y'know, Disgaea.
"A Rapidash wiener?! Now THAT'S dangerous!"
Basically, it would be the darker, more mature Pokémon everyone's been asking for, with a healthy dose of immature humor thrown into the mix because, y'know, Disgaea.
"A Rapidash wiener?! Now THAT'S dangerous!"
A Minecraft style world sandbox from which you could build and launch rockets into orbit and beyond with a somewhat realistic orbital physics engine as in Kerbal Space Program? That sounds awesome. Send Steve up to go digging on the Mun for a change, or explore ancient abandoned mineshafts deep under the surface of Duna. That would be so cool. I wonder if Jeb would remain as cool and calm when faced with a creeper?
That was going to be my other choice of games to merge, second only to my previous post.T8B95 said:
Actually, That sounds really fun. But how about we add Blazblue's cast of over-the-top wacky charcters and, while we are at it, we add concepts from Toaru Majutsu no Index (which has a fairly bad fighter but is still a fun series in and off itself) combining ultra science with espers and mech along with magic of the highest order: personas, angels, gods and kami,TehCookie said:
Either the game would become a complete mess of concepts and styles or it will be a seamless masterpiece but it would be fun nonethless.
Let's go a step further, Shadow operatives and the Investigation team have to use Kirijo tech to augment their bodies with the "Plumes of Dawn" that give Aigis and Labrys their human emotions and souls. These plumes allow each of the characters to create a shroud around them that replicates their persona abilities without the need of an envoker: Narukami's sword becomes Izanagi's, Kanji gets a giant sword along with his giant shield, and Mitsuo gets a whip to use. Make it a combination of Deus Ex style conversation monitoring and social links like you suggest and add a bit of over-the-top Blazblue/DMC combat and the two spheres of story and gameplay would finally come together in a satisfying but convoluted form.MammothBlade said:
You know that actually looks really good, Great drawingdeserteagleeye said:Persona 4 and Virtue's Last Reward?
:O
And a high frequency blade, don't forget the high frequency bladethe hidden eagle said:
captcha: that's enough
IT'S NEVER ENOUGH, MORE PIECES
Allow me to briefly take this opportunity to say that this is my favorite thread topic in quite awhile.
Anyway, this combination-game puts you in the (first-person) shoes of an intergalactic bounty hunter hunting down a contingent of Space Pirates on an alien world. However, a mishap near the game's beginning sees you losing almost all of your power armor-enabled abilities and trapped in a blank, sterile Space Pirate testing laboratory, from which you soon appropriate an experimental device that opens pairs of interdimensional portals. As you travel through the sprawling, obstacle course-like facility, you are overseen and taunted by the Space Pirate commander: a passive-aggressive, mentally unstable, cybernetic female space dragon responsible for orphaning you during a Pirate raid on your homeworld as a child (a fact she always loves bringing up).
The gameplay equally taxes your wits (via your efforts to use this device and your power armor's various weapon and locomotion systems to navigate through the laboratory) and your mettle (by forcing you to put these same tools to use in doing battle with the Space Pirates and their sinister machinations, along with what local alien wildlife manages to find its way into the facility). The background story is enriched by a mechanic wherein the player can scan enemies, terminals, and other features of the environment, which doubles as a hint system and puzzle-solving tool. As you progress, you regain your lost abilities (plus quite a few new ones), gradually unlocking previously-unreachable areas to explore until maybe two-thirds of the way through the game, when the player finally escapes the facility and, free to explore the exotic alien planet with their portal device and power armor, takes hold of the situation and directly pursues the Space Pirate commander (to her obvious panic).
Increasingly frantic, the robotic space dragon devotes her resources not only to sending more Pirate forces after you (including several that have reverse-engineered your weapons systems and even wield prototype portal guns of their own), but also putting as much of the vicious, gigantic local fauna between you and herself as possible. But no matter how menacing your adversaries become, your proficiency with the tools you've assembled ultimately see you through, and after infiltrating the Space Pirate base of operations, you at last come face-to-face with your target, who activates the base's self-destruct sequence in her desperation. Damaging the armed, ferocious, and vocally resentful Space Pirate leader by aiming for her vulnerable chest plating, you knock off a series of crucial components and dump them in a nearby furnace with the aid of your portal device until she is at last rendered non-operational. With only a few minutes left on the self-destruct timer, the player escapes the facility and flies to safety in a stolen Space Pirate ship.
Mission accomplished, the bounty hunter begins to head home. But during the ending credits, a transmitted message reveals that a stored backup of her mind and personality ensure that the Space Pirate commander is very much still alive... and that she has a surprisingly lovely singing voice.
Anyway, this combination-game puts you in the (first-person) shoes of an intergalactic bounty hunter hunting down a contingent of Space Pirates on an alien world. However, a mishap near the game's beginning sees you losing almost all of your power armor-enabled abilities and trapped in a blank, sterile Space Pirate testing laboratory, from which you soon appropriate an experimental device that opens pairs of interdimensional portals. As you travel through the sprawling, obstacle course-like facility, you are overseen and taunted by the Space Pirate commander: a passive-aggressive, mentally unstable, cybernetic female space dragon responsible for orphaning you during a Pirate raid on your homeworld as a child (a fact she always loves bringing up).
The gameplay equally taxes your wits (via your efforts to use this device and your power armor's various weapon and locomotion systems to navigate through the laboratory) and your mettle (by forcing you to put these same tools to use in doing battle with the Space Pirates and their sinister machinations, along with what local alien wildlife manages to find its way into the facility). The background story is enriched by a mechanic wherein the player can scan enemies, terminals, and other features of the environment, which doubles as a hint system and puzzle-solving tool. As you progress, you regain your lost abilities (plus quite a few new ones), gradually unlocking previously-unreachable areas to explore until maybe two-thirds of the way through the game, when the player finally escapes the facility and, free to explore the exotic alien planet with their portal device and power armor, takes hold of the situation and directly pursues the Space Pirate commander (to her obvious panic).
Increasingly frantic, the robotic space dragon devotes her resources not only to sending more Pirate forces after you (including several that have reverse-engineered your weapons systems and even wield prototype portal guns of their own), but also putting as much of the vicious, gigantic local fauna between you and herself as possible. But no matter how menacing your adversaries become, your proficiency with the tools you've assembled ultimately see you through, and after infiltrating the Space Pirate base of operations, you at last come face-to-face with your target, who activates the base's self-destruct sequence in her desperation. Damaging the armed, ferocious, and vocally resentful Space Pirate leader by aiming for her vulnerable chest plating, you knock off a series of crucial components and dump them in a nearby furnace with the aid of your portal device until she is at last rendered non-operational. With only a few minutes left on the self-destruct timer, the player escapes the facility and flies to safety in a stolen Space Pirate ship.
Mission accomplished, the bounty hunter begins to head home. But during the ending credits, a transmitted message reveals that a stored backup of her mind and personality ensure that the Space Pirate commander is very much still alive... and that she has a surprisingly lovely singing voice.
Portal and Metroid Prime.