Stupidest game ideas ever...

[Dr._Undegarde]

As we all know, video games are an awesome medium, able to make the strangest concepts and ideas become awesome, but let's face it, some concepts are so stupid and inane that they'd confuse Suda 51. For example, Afrika. A game about photographing wildlife in Africa. Sound fun? Well, IMO it does! Or rather, it did...back when it was called Pokemon Snap.
So, what's the stupidest concept for a game you've ever heard from a developer?

 

[Zombie_King]

Foxy boxing. It's fun to watch (for guys, as far as I know), but you just can't successfully incorporate it into a video game.

 

[Tanthalos]

Any game where you are watching your character watching television is pretty stupid in my opinion. It is like watching television in real life but even less productive.

 

[ShyWinter]

JFK Reloaded.
Maybe it's because I'm American. I mean, I had no problem playing as the Chinese in Battlefield 2 or sniping people in Hitman, but this game made say "the fuck?" out loud when I heard about it.

The Sims.
A game about average life. I just don't get it. What's so exciting about watching someone watch TV, eat, sleep? Though it was a bit fun watching them pass out on the floor.

 

[Quaidis]

Any game about kids playing a card game. This could be done successfully if it was, say, a PC game... Like Solitaire. But to watch a game taken after a cartoon about kids sitting around playing cards is really anti-social and wrong in my opinion. Why on earth do that when you could, for far less money, buy actual cards of the same game from your local store and meet actual people to play against. The point of battle cards is to meet and have fun with friends, playing a single-player game where you battle imaginary people completely rips that point away.

I feel the same way about most games about kids playing a game. Tops is another example.

edit - I'm discluding poker and other gambling games from this. That does make sense, considering that you win or loose money in playing with other people, where as on the game you don't.

 

[Larmo]

Custer's Revenge ,a game where as a reward you are given a Native American woman to rape !?!? How that made it past the idea board ill never know

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

A crossover game between Disney and Final Fantasy. Wait... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts]


A fighting game with several Nintendo characters. Oh... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros]

 

[Ghostbody]

Trailer Park Tycoon. Honestly, who would want to control the lives of trash?

 

[Ghostbody]

I agree throughly. They even changed the stories of some of the characters. Dumb!

 

[kungfujoe]

Well, I've found that the dumbest idea for a game would have to be one about being a plumber where you jump on turtles and other various creatures, and take shrooms to get you through the day.

Also, the point of JFK reloaded (which I have played) is that it's way hard. Also, Lee Harvey Oswald was an excellent shot. Moving target at 100 yards. Scored a headshot as I recall. A sad event, but an excellent shot. At least that's better than mario.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Also, the point of JFK reloaded (which I have played) is that it's way hard. Also, Lee Harvey Oswald was an excellent shot. Moving target at 100 yards. Scored a headshot as I recall. A sad event, but an excellent shot. At least that's better than mario.

Actually, he hit the back of JFK's neck. Which is even more impressive.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Well I once heard this concept of a game where you played an Italian plumber and you actually had to, you know, go down pipes into sewers and stuff. And you had to fight walking mushrooms and turtles with wings. How dumb is that?

EDIT: Sorry, Joe, I must've had this on screen at least thirty minutes before I hit "post"! Weird that we both came up with exactly the same thing at the same time though!

 

[ccjav]

any possible way to expand on the awesomeness that was roller coaster tycoon

 

[ccjav]

also, a female character who uses "dance" moves to kill enemies

 

[Hey Joe]

8 Miles of Pain

Eminem 'battles' his foes by using words instead of bullets. The game ends when you reach the white house and take out the illest MC, Abe Lincoln.

Okay, so that may not be a real concept, but the 50 cent games just sound like a really, really dumb idea.

 

[Thediscoducky]

I have to think about this one....hmm....
Well off the top of my head: Grand Theft Auto, leading a life of crime to make tonnes of money and kill hookers....
Well look how that turned out anyway

 

[Anarchemitis]

Sim Auschwitz.

 

[ShyWinter]

Also, the point of JFK reloaded (which I have played) is that it's way hard. Also, Lee Harvey Oswald was an excellent shot. Moving target at 100 yards. Scored a headshot as I recall. A sad event, but an excellent shot. At least that's better than mario.

Actually, he hit the back of JFK's neck. Which is even more impressive.

Actually, didn't he do both? 1st shot missed, 2nd hit the neck, third hit the head. Oswald was a good shot, as his USMC records show.

Anyway, back on topic, I once played a horse racing game for the Sega Saturn. Get this, you don't actually race the horse or supervise the training, just rubber stamp everything as "owner". I can't remember the name though.

 

[ccjav]

Sim auschwitz...

way to go

 

[kungfujoe]

I can't be sure, but Sim Cocktail waitress might suck, or it could turn out to be really really fun.