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[Sinistar]

I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?

...whoa.

For a second there, I had a vision of gruesome world, inhabited by bio-mechanical engines of destruction. And a game, possibly a MMO, where you'd be one of those things, but you will in fact have to start out of The Great Ooze and evolve from there on.
A world, where victory is assured only to the most cunning of players, who, limited only by their own imagination, use given game engine to evolve themselves into superior form, being challenged by the ever changing game meta, which is fluid as the ooze they started it.

A brutal, never ending battle for survival.
An actual bio-mechanical evolution, right there before you, on your very computer.


Then this image was replaced by talking, Disney-like cars and horrible, HORRIBLE homo-erotic RPing that only the hive-mind of every popular MMO is capable of.

Gorramit.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?

...whoa.

For a second there, I had a vision of gruesome world, inhabited by bio-mechanical engines of destruction. And a game, possibly a MMO, where you'd be one of those things, but you will in fact have to start out of The Great Ooze and evolve from there on.
A world, where victory is assured only to the most cunning of players, who, limited only by their own imagination, use given game engine to evolve themselves into superior form, being challenged by the ever changing game meta, which is fluid as the ooze they started it.

A brutal, never ending battle for survival.
An actual bio-mechanical evolution, right there before you, on your very computer.


Then this image was replaced by talking, Disney-like cars and horrible, HORRIBLE homo-erotic RPing that only the hive-mind of every popular MMO is capable of.

Gorramit.

...
Dude.
That first bit sounded fucking awesome.

[EnigmaticHat]

I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?

...whoa.

For a second there, I had a vision of gruesome world, inhabited by bio-mechanical engines of destruction. And a game, possibly a MMO, where you'd be one of those things, but you will in fact have to start out of The Great Ooze and evolve from there on.
A world, where victory is assured only to the most cunning of players, who, limited only by their own imagination, use given game engine to evolve themselves into superior form, being challenged by the ever changing game meta, which is fluid as the ooze they started it.

A brutal, never ending battle for survival.
An actual bio-mechanical evolution, right there before you, on your very computer.


Then this image was replaced by talking, Disney-like cars and horrible, HORRIBLE homo-erotic RPing that only the hive-mind of every popular MMO is capable of.

Gorramit.

Not the same thing, but relevant to the conversation: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MortalEngines?from=Main.MortalEngines

[Graknorke]

I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?

...whoa.

For a second there, I had a vision of gruesome world, inhabited by bio-mechanical engines of destruction. And a game, possibly a MMO, where you'd be one of those things, but you will in fact have to start out of The Great Ooze and evolve from there on.
A world, where victory is assured only to the most cunning of players, who, limited only by their own imagination, use given game engine to evolve themselves into superior form, being challenged by the ever changing game meta, which is fluid as the ooze they started it.

A brutal, never ending battle for survival.
An actual bio-mechanical evolution, right there before you, on your very computer.


Then this image was replaced by talking, Disney-like cars and horrible, HORRIBLE homo-erotic RPing that only the hive-mind of every popular MMO is capable of.

Gorramit.

Not the same thing, but relevant to the conversation: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MortalEngines?from=Main.MortalEngines

I love you. First person I've seen who recognises that series. Amazing concept is amazing concept.

[scrdest]

I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?

...whoa.

For a second there, I had a vision of gruesome world, inhabited by bio-mechanical engines of destruction. And a game, possibly a MMO, where you'd be one of those things, but you will in fact have to start out of The Great Ooze and evolve from there on.
A world, where victory is assured only to the most cunning of players, who, limited only by their own imagination, use given game engine to evolve themselves into superior form, being challenged by the ever changing game meta, which is fluid as the ooze they started it.

A brutal, never ending battle for survival.
An actual bio-mechanical evolution, right there before you, on your very computer.


Then this image was replaced by talking, Disney-like cars and horrible, HORRIBLE homo-erotic RPing that only the hive-mind of every popular MMO is capable of.

Gorramit.

Not the same thing, but relevant to the conversation: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MortalEngines?from=Main.MortalEngines

Also relevant, also fucking awesome music. It's pretty much a rock suite about such a world.

[Sinistar]

Not the same thing, but relevant to the conversation: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MortalEngines?from=Main.MortalEngines

Never heard of it, but sounds quite interesting. Thank you very much for letting me know about this.
I also had an idea for a game, where gigantic city like things on massive threads battle each other in a classic broadside batle while going full-speed over desolate landscape...but they were more like big-ass robotic factories and weapons were more "classic" - mass drivers, cruise missiles, flying drone-bombs etc.
Those books on the other hand...yeah, I'll really have to read them once.

Also relevant, also fucking awesome music. It's pretty much a rock suite about such a world.

 
Oh, what's this?

* 2 min in *

My, that's quite awesome indeed!

[itisnotlogical]

A game in which players have to perform kind acts for NPCs. Whoever performs the most kind deeds wins the match. However, brutally murdering the other players to steal a opportunity is entirely possible, as long as the police don't catch you.

[blazing glory]

A game in which players have to perform kind acts for NPCs. Whoever performs the most kind deeds wins the match. However, brutally murdering the other players to steal a opportunity is entirely possible, as long as the police don't catch you.

Suppose getting caught would either mean a penalty to your score or you get jail time which mean's everyone is getting ahead of you

[EnigmaticHat]

A game in which players have to perform kind acts for NPCs. Whoever performs the most kind deeds wins the match. However, brutally murdering the other players to steal a opportunity is entirely possible, as long as the police don't catch you.

I imagine this as rival "superheroes" competing for good PR.

[itisnotlogical]

A game in which players have to perform kind acts for NPCs. Whoever performs the most kind deeds wins the match. However, brutally murdering the other players to steal a opportunity is entirely possible, as long as the police don't catch you.

I imagine this as rival "superheroes" competing for good PR.

I just thought it'd be about regular guys who are really enthusiastic about being good citizens.

[Kadzar]

A game in which players have to perform kind acts for NPCs. Whoever performs the most kind deeds wins the match. However, brutally murdering the other players to steal a opportunity is entirely possible, as long as the police don't catch you.

I imagine this as rival "superheroes" competing for good PR.

I just thought it'd be about regular guys who are really enthusiastic about being good citizens.

Well I like it. I imagine fetch quests would quickly devolve into impromptu capture the flag matches, and in escort missions you have to not only protect the NPC but prevent the other plays from protecting them more than you do (I'm thinking in this game you can position yourself between the NPC and the enemy to take the damage yourself, and if they get too close you can shove them away).

The shoving mechanic would be a useful part of the game in general. I'm thinking it might be multi-directional in that you can push the shove button and then a movement key in the direction you want them to go, and you'll move along with them if you hold it down long enough. And other players can counteract this shove with their own shoves, which might be supplemented by shoves behind them, so that the designers might want to put in chokepoints where a bunch of players could just get stuck in a giant game of tug-of-war.

And though I don't like the idea of them being superheroes either, what would you think if they were various fantasy hero dudes instead of regular guys? There'd be enough customization that no one would have to look like somebody; you'd have your own unique hero guy who's the chosen hero of the realm who's comes across all these other posers who seem to think they're the chosen one. So you gotta out-hero them all to prove you're the most pure of heart, and if that means you gotta shank some bitches, so be it.

[WillowLuman]

I want a game where you play a diplomat in a very formal embassy party. If you make the slightest faux pas, all the other diplomats and dignitarie sfreak out and rush to their suites to press the red "LAUNCH NUKES" buttons.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I want a game where you play a diplomat in a very formal embassy party. If you make the slightest faux pas, all the other diplomats and dignitarie sfreak out and rush to their suites to press the red "LAUNCH NUKES" buttons.

DONE! I'M IN! It'd be like surgeon simulator.
HOOOOOLY SHIT IT COULD HAVE THE SURGEON SIMULATOR CONTROL SCHEME! Or something similar. Holy shit, that'd be funny. I feel like it could have a multiplayer mode, in which someone (Who doesn't have surgeonsim controls) Is actually an assassin who has to murder one of them.

...This would legit be one of my favorite games. Perhaps if we had a coder, we could kickstarter that shit.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

you'd have to eat dinner without messing up. Alternatively, silverware become projectiles and can be used to skewer the embassy guests.

[WillowLuman]

If one of them presses the red buttons, you get a long animation of the nukes flying, the counterattack, the detonations, and the end of all humanity. As the camera pulls back from the smoking ruins of earth, it says what you did wrong, like "You put the wine in the port glass."