if you were to reinvent any genre...

[Circusfreak]

...what genre would it be and how would you change it?

i would probably reinvent RTS by making a game where you control the selected hero and his unit with the W-A-S-D keys and shoot/use ability depending on the hero and kind of minion that hero has selected(so having a certain minion in your troop is like having a certain weapon in your arsenal in a shooter) by pointing the mouse in that direction and clicking(select a minion type with the mouse wheel. you have a walking bar and an ammo bar that slowly fills up overtime while you use your other heroes. when a hero is not selected he will sort of turn into a defense tower if no other task is given. so its sort of like a mix between Heroes 3 of might and magic, Threadspace: Hyperbol (witch none of you have played but all of you should at least check out the demo at steam),DotA and the 3D worms games. The artstyle should be stylized almost like cell-shaded doodles. throw in some interesting and fun objectives and some multiplayer and there is a game i would really wanna play.(nevertheless an RTS which i usually don't find that much fun)

now i would also really like to reinvent the MMORPG but i think that would be a bit to much of a challenge and none of you would probably have any fun reading about it.

now please let me hear your ideas

 

[Mr Scott]

I'd change the FPS to make it not exist. I know we'd lose some truly lovely games, then again we'd also lose a lot of shite and Jack Thomson would still be a competent DA!

 

[Circusfreak]

I'd change the FPS to make it not exist. I know we'd lose some truly lovely games, then again we'd also lose a lot of shite and Jack Thomson would still be a competent DA!

i really don't think that would be a good idea even if it was possible. i would absolutely not sacrifice Half-Life 2 to get rid of a bunch of crap that ive never played and probably never will.

 

[Mr Scott]

I'd change the FPS to make it not exist. I know we'd lose some truly lovely games, then again we'd also lose a lot of shite and Jack Thomson would still be a competent DA!

i really don't think that would be a good idea even if it was possible. i would absolutely not sacrifice Half-Life 2 to get rid of a bunch of crap that ive never played and probably never will.

Hey, I'm thinking about everyone, not just myself. For great justice...

 

[Atmos Duality]

I'd reinvent RPGs. And it would be awesome.
On the other hand...There goes half the industry.
Oh wells. At least the Final Fantasy series (past 10) might be worth more than a cup of cat diarrhea.

Either that, or reinvent the 3rd person brawler (or whatever you would prefer to call it) in such a way that God of War either never became popular, or did so without the usage of Quick-Time-Events.

 

[Circusfreak]

when i said "reinvent the genre" i pretty much meant to design a game that sticks out from a (to you) broken genre in a good way to try to make a game of that genre not suck. sort of like how i don't enjoy many RTS games but i would really like to enjoy them.

 

[Circusfreak]

I'd make strategy games require strategy.

best thing i have heard anyone say in a while

 

[Circusfreak]

I'd change the FPS to make it not exist. I know we'd lose some truly lovely games, then again we'd also lose a lot of shite and Jack Thomson would still be a competent DA!

i really don't think that would be a good idea even if it was possible. i would absolutely not sacrifice Half-Life 2 to get rid of a bunch of crap that ive never played and probably never will.

Hey, I'm thinking about everyone, not just myself. For great justice...

im just saying that destroying the entire FPS genre would be a great loss for the industry.

 

[CAPTCHA]

I'd revive turn based strategy from the dead.

 

[Circusfreak]

I'd revive turn based strategy from the dead.

didnt we just get Civ V?

 

[Kristoffer Mattila]

I'd take RTS and make it not suck.

 

[Froggy64]

I would make RPG-FPS' have more RPG than an inventory and status screen. >.>

 

[komissar_kurwy]

I'd revive turn based strategy from the dead.

didnt we just get Civ V?

Indeed, just Civ V is all we got.

 

[Circusfreak]

I'd revive turn based strategy from the dead.

didnt we just get Civ V?

Indeed, just Civ V is all we got.

true, true...it would be nice to have Heroes III-2 (hell, finalfantasy did it)

 

[komissar_kurwy]

I'd revive turn based strategy from the dead.

didnt we just get Civ V?

Indeed, just Civ V is all we got.

true, true...it would be nice to have Heroes III-2 (hell, finalfantasy did it)

Heroes V may be what you're looking for. Its graphics are a matter of taste, but gameplay-wise it improved on Heroes 3 in many ways and dropped a lot of the nonsense that Heroes IV introduced. Even so, it's been 5 years since V got released, which makes me feel really old...

They've announced Heroes VI, which will be incredibly dumbed down. Look it up if you have the time. Sorry for derailing.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I would reinvent the stealth genre and make it so you would actually have to be stealthy in Splinter Cell games.

 

[rokkolpo]

I'd take RPG's and make a Kingdom Hearts 3.

there's a lot more of Disney to be explored.
just imagin beating hannah montana's face in with

Spoiler

Aw yeah! You know you want that! (with keyblade of your choice)

 

[jowo96]

The Survival genre actually being about survival. At the moment (as far as I know) it either about killing everything in your way or levelling up by killing everything in your way.

At the moment survival seems to be merely a punk aesthetic in games