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[Mech#4]

@HugoLuman: Yah, that's Sleeping Dogs. You have police/triad influence that you gain through actions in the game (Things like property damage, knocking over streetlights and ramming cars, during missions gains you triad influence while losing it with the police).

Sleeping Dogs is a True Crime game yes? Or rather, it was going to be before the developer switched publishers or something.

@scrdest: I would say so, it's like how there's Madden football games while John Madden has little to no input into their creation.


@Graknorke: I don't play squad based FPS so that's really the only one I remember. Oh, besides Swat 4 but that's not Tom Clancy and I've never played it.

[scrdest]

@HugoLuman: Yah, that's Sleeping Dogs. You have police/triad influence that you gain through actions in the game (Things like property damage, knocking over streetlights and ramming cars, during missions gains you triad influence while losing it with the police).

Sleeping Dogs is a True Crime game yes? Or rather, it was going to be before the developer switched publishers or something.

@scrdest: I would say so, it's like how there's Madden football games while John Madden has little to no input into their creation.


@Graknorke: I don't play squad based FPS so that's really the only one I remember. Oh, besides Swat 4 but that's not Tom Clancy and I've never played it.

SD was initially a True Crime sequel, yes.

It's not about input, I doubt Clancy had any input in most of the Tom Clancy games. But now he's kinda not really alive, so to sign the game with his name would require some advanced necromancy.

[foil]

Id like a game like DF but set in a modern or Sci fi time.

Same idea of building and management but with people and tech instead of dwarves and dirt.  You would also be able to build ships and travel to other locations/planets kind of like Prospector RL as long as the engines had power and the hull was airtight.

[Neonivek]

Ok, here is one I thought of a while. Heck if I had any talent to make it I would on the spot.

It takes place on an alternate earth where martial arts is king and through training and hard work anyone can become a super kung-fu person.

You do not play as that martial artist, however, you play as a trainer of martial artists.

You scour the land and try to find promising talent.

The martial arts featured in the game are either real life martial arts or mythological ones (weaponless).

Then you train your student(s) in their martial art, raising them to get the most out of their skillsets and personality. You have a few years to do so and you can even enter them in tournaments.

But once their time is up they are considered ready to set out on their own. It isn't over for them quite yet because the game keeps track of them and their accomplishments. Perhaps they will visit you and give you a gift (or unlock further features).

As well even you aren't stagnant. New techniques allow you to increase your possible student pool. Those pathetic Peasants not very good martial artists? Well you happen to have the skills for it, why don't you try now?

[Mesa]

Id like a game like DF but set in a modern or Sci fi time.

Same idea of building and management but with people and tech instead of dwarves and dirt.  You would also be able to build ships and travel to other locations/planets kind of like Prospector RL as long as the engines had power and the hull was airtight.

Humans in sci-fi is so mainstream.
Dwarves, elves, kobolds and goblins in space, yo!

You can't say "No." to that.
You just can't.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Neonivek:

This would be an awesome opportunity to explore things like roving bandits attacking your town (Did you train the militia? Are your students able to turn the tide? Do you cooperate with the bandits?), other "rabid dog" martial artists trying to fight you and steal your students, etc. The tax man comes and demands way too much. Is he corrupt? Or is that just what the imperial taxes are like now? In either case, do you reason with him using some kind of philosophy stat, or beat the crap out of his guards and hope he doesn't complain to other authorities?

[itisnotlogical]

Not wishing for a new game, but a separately available re-release/port of the original MSX Metal Gear games would be nice. As far as I can tell, they've most recently been distributed as bonus content in a collection of MGS games for PC and PS3.

[Putnam]

And Xbox 360.

[Neonivek]

Neonivek:

This would be an awesome opportunity to explore things like roving bandits attacking your town (Did you train the militia? Are your students able to turn the tide? Do you cooperate with the bandits?), other "rabid dog" martial artists trying to fight you and steal your students, etc. The tax man comes and demands way too much. Is he corrupt? Or is that just what the imperial taxes are like now? In either case, do you reason with him using some kind of philosophy stat, or beat the crap out of his guards and hope he doesn't complain to other authorities?

There is so much you could do. For example your students could have children that you could raise as well.

[Guardian G.I.]

A GTA-esque game set in Russia during the troubled times of the 1990s.

[BFEL]

A GTA game where you play as a beat cop, and try to eradicate crime or go corrupt, stuff like that.

There was a PS2 game called NARC that was basically this. It was quite fun.

[Neonivek]

Ok so I have the training aspect done...

But how would combat work?

It wouldn't be a straight up fighting or action game. So how would you create a strategic game based around martial arts without outright copying other games.

And these are POSSIBLY 1 on 1 fights (Though I will outright admit... A Turn based strategy game where you train your pupils who fight on a grid would be interesting).

I think it would be about positioning, "Pro-Wrestling" style is the easiest to do an example for, it's big moves are all done if you manage to knock an enemy down close to the sides of the arena. While Boxing's finishing moves is when you knock an enemy back into the wall.

At the same time each martial art comes in two styles (though some have obvious leanings). Boxing is in the big punch strong style and the lightning jab quick style.

[BFEL]

Ok so I have the training aspect done...

But how would combat work?

It wouldn't be a straight up fighting or action game. So how would you create a strategic game based around martial arts without outright copying other games.

And these are POSSIBLY 1 on 1 fights (Though I will outright admit... A Turn based strategy game where you train your pupils who fight on a grid would be interesting).

I think it would be about positioning, "Pro-Wrestling" style is the easiest to do an example for, it's big moves are all done if you manage to knock an enemy down close to the sides of the arena. While Boxing's finishing moves is when you knock an enemy back into the wall.

At the same time each martial art comes in two styles (though some have obvious leanings). Boxing is in the big punch strong style and the lightning jab quick style.

Well at the risk of the "outright copying other games" thing, there is something pretty similar to this in flash form, called "My Pet Protector"
You can find that on Kongregate and possibly get some ideas from it.

Although I must ask if you think the combat should be done by the player or if your students should be "programmable" I.E. are you taking control or are they just doing what you taught them to in certain situations?

Also you could have it so that at the start of the game your "master" is only really teaching one style, and as the game progresses you can integrate other styles that you have seen others use in tournaments and such, while giving them your own flavor.

The actual "running of the dojo" thing is another point of possible interest, where you can have your apprentices do chores and such to keep it tidy/upgrade it while getting them stats karate kid style.
Also it can bring up things like "will you focus on training the supa-prodigy or will you give everyone a balanced education" and also have events pop up like "rich guy wants to pay you to accept/focus on his totally inept son, do you sell out or keep true to code (and poverty)?"

[Cinskiy]

I really wish there was a game where you play as nature, and you wipe out the humans from the planet inch by inch after years of abuse.
Kind of like a RTS where instead of people collecting the resources such as stone/tree/iron, resources collect people (in soviet russia).

[BFEL]

I just remembered something else I had thought up before.

It was basically a multiplayer type game, where 5 or so people would create characters and origins and compete in a persistent fantasy world. The thing is, everyone starts on different continents or so, to the point where when they finally meet, they all have ridiculous amounts of power.

Different types of character would do this differently.
You could play a Necromancer raising an enormous undead army, or as a lone wizard who spent the whole time researching spells and gaining the power to wipe said armies off the map.
Starting as a thief, you could become the head of a vast underground criminal empire and steal the resources of your opponents, or go all Robin Hood and start your own little band of guerrilla warfare specialists.