Create a hostile faction in a modern fps

[Trivun]

Texan nationalists attempting to seperate from the Union, using violence. The protagonist is a US Army officer or a Marine or something taking part in a new US Civil War against what effectively amounts to an ultra-nationalist terrorist force. For added points the game could explore both sides of the conflict and maybe have another protagonist on the Seperatist side, and give both positive and negeative viewpoints from both characters.

Otherwise, a game set during the Troubles in Ireland - the protagonist could maybe be an IRA member fighting for what he/she percieves to be freedom for his/her homeland, or perhaps the character could be a British soldier (or even better, an MI5 operative) fighting or infiltrating locations in places like Belfast and Londonderry, and possibly even being present for the Omagh bombing. Key incidents such as the Birmingham bombing in the English Midlands could also be explored.

Not enough people know about the second one and how it still affects British politics in such a major way today, and the first one is always a possibility if enough people were to get on board such an ideal. That being said, I can't see any developer making a game about the Irish Troubles, since British developers would say it's too soon and too raw, and the USA wouldn't care because it's not another 'AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!' game praising the US troops. Apparently anything that isn't related to the USA in some way isn't worth bothering about or is completely incidental to American minds.

 

[Xanex]

How about those people who like to protest at funerals? I would love a fps featuring them as primary villians.

 

[Zepherus14]

Two words

PANDAS!

No one will see it coming!

 

[wabbbit]

Maybe play as the Russians, defending the motherland from pesky Americans?

Or an army of Kim Jong Il clones attacking the team america headquarters!

How about those people who like to protest at funerals? I would love a fps featuring them as primary villians.

I play those missions in Saint Row like that. "Want to protest at a graveyard? How about an apache attack?!"

 

[Lovely Mixture]

A terrorist organization united by one non-religious ideology filled with members of every ethnicity.

Warning: Harder than Dark Souls.

Challenge accepte-wait you said flora also? Fuck that shit.

 

[sXeth]

Yeah, the general debate is not just that the antagonist is , its the protagonist is generally US/British/Australian on top, and caucasian on top of it. If you played a South Korean fighting North Koreans, no one'd probably bat an eye at it.

Beyond that, you could take any terrorist/dictator/warlord/militia/pirate to go send a spec ops team after even so, just keep race and religion out of the game of it. Its actually a bleed-over from the media in general referring to just use "extremist", "terrorist", "gang" etc, and always attaching religions or nationality on them. I'm generally surprised that the religious bodies in question don't outright pursue slander/libel suits, considering how incompatible most of these "extremist" actions are with the religious doctrines the media labels them under.

 

[Zepherus14]

Two words

PANDAS!

No one will see it coming!

thats one word. or are you suggesting Dyscalculia would be your main villian.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
that sonofabitch claimed many good men and women...

Not the way I use it, it isn't.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Drop Bears..

I can beat that.
Reginald Noble vs. The Weird
Here's some context...

One day, the craziest videogame idea I had ever thought of popped into my head during one of those "Don't do Drugs" presentations in high school. That should give you some context. It's called "Noble". And it makes no sense at all.

Reginald Noble awakes from his chambers and strolls around the military base. He is the only one dressed casually, and the only one in the entire complex speaking informally.

When war breaks out, Reggie breaks out his three-headed chaingun and charges out against the enemy forces in a brown/gray environment, with plenty of cover, and some extra second gun (like a shotgun, or something). It all seems like your average cookie-cutter shooter for a few minutes, until the freaky monsters start showing up.

Before you know it, you're fighting elephants with machine guns, pixelated things inside a 16-Bit dimension and battling flying textbooks that breathe fire and horrible flesh-hungry food in Mr. Noble's old high school.

It plays in a very oldschool style, reminiscent of Serious Sam, Duke Nukem or Quake. You've got weapons that shoot things like chickens and fireworks. Mines come in the form of wet cats, Reginald's melee attack is a headbutt and you gain health by chasing down anthropomorphic food that screams and runs away when it sees you (mostly doughnuts with eyeballs), all like the cheese or the key in Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Did I mention this game makes absolutely no sense and solely exists to be as ridiculous as possible?

That doesn't even go into detail about all of the skinny, half-naked dudes from Merica wearing patriotic underwear who try to poop on you and fire fireworks out of their mouths, while hanging from the legs of bald eagles. Yeah, it's gonna be one heck of a weird game!

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Bananas in pajamas. There is nothing more deadly.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Neo IRA! Those tattie eatin' bastids!
We'll show 'em!

On a more serious and less anti-Irish note, possibly have some grey moral shit, where there's just two companies/factions that are as bad as each other and have them duke it out.
As a plot twist, the protagonist's side could lose horribly.

 

[Edl01]

Just a bunch of average Joe's getitng on with their lives, but then news gets out of "He a tururist". This sends your character into beserker mode, gunning through NYC to reach this suspected "tururist".

 

[Yopaz]

Intelligent dinosaurs. I would love to see a good dinosaur game. I guess it wont happen though... especially not if they use intelligent dinosaurs.

 

[ron1n]

District 9 the game.

Only you play as the prawn aliens in what starts out as a revolt within South Africa and quickly turns into an all out global conquest after reinforcements arrive via returning mother ships.

So the enemy would effectively be all of humanity.

You get to use a combination of awesome alien weapons and mech suits as well as pilfered human weapons. Game story could raise the same moral questions and social commentary as the film.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Why does it have to be a single race/faction? Why can't some of my enemies be white, some black, some Asian and the rest can be handicapped people (hey they don't get enough video game representation).

This is why I can't stand 99% of modern shooters, especially CoD. The entire premise seems to be "shoot anyone who isn't white, unless that white guy is trying to betray you". I deserve a multicoloured rainbow of slaughter dammit.

 

[Naeras]

Let's just say that the following would be on the box:

"Rednecks take over Washington to prove that guns aren't dangerous.
Your job is to prove them otherwise."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Can the USA be the bad guys, just for once? Or at least have a few shades of grey? Maybe do what Bulletstorm did, having the bad guy be the swearing, racist, EMERICUH FOK YEH type person that spunkgargleweewee tends to pander to.

 

[Uriain]

The problem here is that Americans (the largest market of the FPS genre) want to kill "the bad guy", but don't like it when they ARE the "bad guy". So Germans, anywhere in middle east, Russians, Asians, Brazil are all "acceptable bad guys" to kill.

If I could create a FPS it would be as follows.

It is a "squad" based single player shooter where you control a squad of men/women (via D pad or context menu)

The year is 2030, The damage done to the planet has caused the temperatures to fluctuate in odd places. Canada is frigid cold 10 months of the year and America has expanded down into Mexico and the northern parts of South America by way of military might so its population from the northern states cannot avoid the cold. Canada, being caught in the frozen north, bunker down to a life of hardships while battling the elements. America, now named "The Unified West" begins to send its military might East to the African nations, looking for continued expansion to "warmer climates". With Sights aimed on all of South America, and the nations of Africa the rest of the world takes action, by mobilizing their own forces to stop these invasions.

You play through 3 campaigns

1) The Canadians - Defending their mountain ranges and dense forested area's from "The Unified West" as they look to steal/strip mine the natural resources. (Game play based around success/failure of each mission with campaign, effects the following two campaigns difficulty)

2) The English - On the ground SAS (or other high end military unit) sent in to assassinate high ranking members of the military, destroy instillation's, weapons cache's etc (More stealth based, focus set on the "alertness level" garnered with each mission - think Hitman's assassin rating - Can run and gun or stealth, stealth gives next mission higher chance of guards/resistance - run and gun has more guards, but enemy hears of your presence which causes unrest (think batman and scaring the crap out of goons, how they get less accurate/good at their job)

3) The Africans - You play as a squad leader in one of the African Military units in direct contact with "The Unified West's" military might. Battles are fought out like traditional shooter (CoD style from WW2 games) moving from objective to objective. Loss isn't necessarily a game over, but gives enemy bonus's, additional resources to throw at you in the next level etc.

Narrative would be told from the point of an High Ranking African general (to give weight to the African people who are being hammered by the Military might of their enemies and reading how each mission from other campaigns has effected the on-going campaign there.


Sorry a bit long winded, but I think this would be fun to play