Best Game Premises Ever

[spiderzeter]

Dude, call of futy 12 cause it jas never been done b4 guys. Like, you shoot foreigners.
Mind blowing concept really. Such inovation.

Seriously though, the concept of throwing your arm that is holding a gun and still using that gun to shoot people is a cool idea. Execution wasnt gud but oh well.

 

[Mikejames]

Dreamfall's premise still resonates with me. A multiple point-of-view story that crosses paths with a burnt out college student stumbling onto a corporate conspiracy, an assassin driven by blind faith, and a rebel leader trying to find her place in an alternate reality.

I've always loved Psychonauts' premise: A summer camp for psychics.

Lots of good scenery and situations can come from a summer camp: woods, beaches, lakes, caves, campfires, etc. And of course lots of other good mechanics come from the idea of psychic powers being real: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, levitation, psybeams. Combine the two and you've got psychic scavenger hunts that require you to fly halfway across the map to retrieve the item, mutated lake monsters you can hear the thoughts of, and the ability to set squirrels and bears on fire WHENEVER YOU WANT. A perfect storm of nostalgic, fun settings with awesome powers and mechanics.

The campground atmosphere, the characters, the diverse mindscapes; everything in Psychonauts had so much personality. It's hard to not appreciate the bizarro setting.

 

[McMarbles]

You know what, I'm gonna change my answer to "Abraham Lincoln leads a brigade of steampunk heroes against Lovecraftian space aliens."

I never even thought it could exist, but now I NEED IT IN MY LIFE.

 

[RiseUp]

You play as a Soviet propaganda superhero who once fought to overthrow the Czar in the name of equality, now enslaved and put to work by Stalin, fighting both Nazis and political dissenters by beating the everloving crap out of them with a sledgehammer and throwing your fellow comrades at them like Pikmin. Can you overthrow your master in the name of the same values you fought for so long ago, and save the world from nuclear annihilation at the hands of a nation you created?

Red Menace. It's coming, one of these days...


Shameless plug aside, this sounds fantastic.

So basically you play as a bunch of hippie terrorists in a random American city, and you have to use any means at your disposal to turn the evil Arch Conservative tide and prevent the country from becoming a BACKWOODS YET CORPORATE NIGHTMARE! Or more likely, you go around dressed as a police officer stealing peoples' mobile phones and macaroni art, set up a huge prostitution ring, crash a van full of naked immigrants in a police chase, and then get executed on the spot by the Death Squad after being caught selling "magic" brownies.