What is THE most random idea you've ever had for a video game?

[Iori Branford]

Some 2D platformer concepts.

- Girl gondolier saves Venice from poltergeists and Satan.

- Rival schools go airsoft shooting for control of the city, with a shadowy arms corporation pulling the strings for profit.

- Aspiring actress gets to star in a TV show about a "Time Cleaner" who travels through time shooting down great villains of recent history and collecting their weapons. When the whole series has been shot, a rival studio attacks and she has to get really into character and stop the invasion.

 

[vede]

<a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.76187.895769>The Console War.

 

[meatloaf231]

Crabs.

That is all.

Except that's not random for you. It's very normal.

"The Escapist: The Video game"

You aren't as separated from reality as you might think.

 

[meatloaf231]

EDIT: Oh poo, double post.

 

[alwaysrockon]

heres one
you are a sniper in the middle of a crowded city.
you have to use mirrors edgeesque to get from rooftop to rooftop to find you next mission.
at any point in the game you can look down to the streets and watch the people just living. i think that would be very sweet

 

[Sewblon]

A rogue gentic scientist Discovers that he is the last descendent of the Knights Templar and must purge corruption from the earth by specializing in either Fire arms, Stealth, Biological Warfare or summoning divine Retribution. The player would have the ability to choose between first and third person camera the same way as in The elderscrolls games.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Crabs.

That is all.

Except that's not random for you. It's very normal.

Oh yeah...

Well then, I'll have to think of something else.

Young up and coming concert pianist Alfred Von Himstracht wakes up from a ten year coma to find that he is not actually a concert pianist, but a Faith Healer for electronic appliances. He struggles to deal with the sudden change and promptly ends his own life, which is when he discovers that he has actually been the ghost of a horse all along, and has been using a very powerful ghost horse halucogen in an attempt to forget his troubles. As a ghost horse, he learns of a mystical race track far to the weast (It's a new direction) that can end his ghost horsyness and bring him to a final and peaceful rest.

 

[SteveDave]

A game were you are cancer and it is up to you to kill Hitler by infecting his balls.

 

[gigastrike]

Crabs.

That is all.

Except that's not random for you. It's very normal.

Oh yeah...

Well then, I'll have to think of something else.

Young up and coming concert pianist Alfred Von Himstracht wakes up from a ten year coma to find that he is not actually a concert pianist, but a Faith Healer for electronic appliances. He struggles to deal with the sudden change and promptly ends his own life, which is when he discovers that he has actually been the ghost of a horse all along, and has been using a very powerful ghost horse halucogen in an attempt to forget his troubles. As a ghost horse, he learns of a mystical race track far to the weast (It's a new direction) that can end his ghost horsyness and bring him to a final and peaceful rest.

What a twist! /tarantino voice

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

You are the famous purple-stuffed worm of flap-jaw space.

Your mission: Do a raw blink over Hara-kiri rock.

Your supplies: A pair of scissors, and the number 61.

 

[xitel]

You are the famous purple-stuffed worm of flap-jaw space.

Your mission: Do a raw blink over Hara-kiri rock.

Your supplies: A pair of scissors, and the number 61.

This is painfully awesome. Make it. Personally, my most random was one where you play a lungfish that shot missles, and you had to try to blow up an entire city from by traveling from puddle to puddle launching missles and dodging enemies lik alligators, cars, and other giant missle-launching lungfish.

 

[Raven28256]

A stealth action game where you play as the Chupacabra. You stalk around and kill livestock for health, while avoiding people. If you are spotted, the villagers gather up a search party and start looking for you, during which time you must hide until things calm down.

 

[Canadianwookie]

A game where you: Joe Mackinley; demolitions expert, are given a task, the most difficult task of all. You are going to blow up the entire world.

Game on my friend.

You blow up EVERYTHING.
You get paid to do it.
There'll be boobs.

 

[vede]

A game where you: Joe Mackinley; demolitions expert, are given a task, the most difficult task of all. You are going to blow up the entire world.

Game on my friend.

You blow up EVERYTHING.
You get paid to do it.
There'll be boobs.

*gasp*

You could totally succeed with that! You're insane (because of the anal probing) and you have an infinite supply of explosives given to you by aliens!

10 points for trash cans! 20 for small animals! 40 for titties (multiplied by their size, of course)! 100 for cars and double for government vehicles! 600 for grannies walking on the sidewalk, and if you get far enough in, 10,000,000 for the planet, Earth! HAHAHAHA!

(Sorry, I ruined your story, but you don't care too much, right?)

 

[meatloaf231]

An RPG in which you enter the fever-dreams of Frederick Chopin, filled with musically themed kingdoms and vibrant colors, where magic is a disease.

Oh wait, they made that. It was terrible, too.

 

[Canadianwookie]

A game where you: Joe Mackinley; demolitions expert, are given a task, the most difficult task of all. You are going to blow up the entire world.

Game on my friend.

You blow up EVERYTHING.
You get paid to do it.
There'll be boobs.

*gasp*

You could totally succeed with that! You're insane (because of the anal probing) and you have an infinite supply of explosives given to you by aliens!

10 points for trash cans! 20 for small animals! 40 for titties (multiplied by their size, of course)! 100 for cars and double for government vehicles! 600 for grannies walking on the sidewalk, and if you get far enough in, 10,000,000 for the planet, Earth! HAHAHAHA!

(Sorry, I ruined your story, but you don't care too much, right?)

I LOVE IT!!!!

We can have alien boobs! Gamers like that sort of thing...

I'll have EA on the phone by tomarra, you mark my words.

Tomarra see? I said tomarra.

Tomato tomahto, tomarra, tomorrow.
Chips, crisps, fries and flies.

We had 2 bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we would be getting into that rotten stuff sooner or later.

Make it a game. Crazy visuals. You blow up the world whilst on the biggest trip of all time. Aliens get mixed in there at some point. Plus we could get Johnny Depp. Just cause.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

heres one
you are a sniper in the middle of a crowded city.
you have to use mirrors edgeesque to get from rooftop to rooftop to find you next mission.
at any point in the game you can look down to the streets and watch the people just living. i think that would be very sweet

I like that idea but I think there should be a bit more challenge in the game, but i certainly like the idea.

 

[darrinwright]

A buddy of mine thought "why not have the American Kennel Club endorse a Kart-Racing game? And depending on the breed of dog you chose, they'd have specific weapons and power-ups, like a labrador retriever would have a hunter shoot another dog, then the lab would retrieve it, or a toy poodle's attack would be to hump your leg?"

Strangely, I found myself wanting to purchase this game after hearing about his idea for 15 minutes straight.

 

[scnj]

Crabs.

That is all.

Except that's not random for you. It's very normal.

Oh yeah...

Well then, I'll have to think of something else.

Young up and coming concert pianist Alfred Von Himstracht wakes up from a ten year coma to find that he is not actually a concert pianist, but a Faith Healer for electronic appliances. He struggles to deal with the sudden change and promptly ends his own life, which is when he discovers that he has actually been the ghost of a horse all along, and has been using a very powerful ghost horse halucogen in an attempt to forget his troubles. As a ghost horse, he learns of a mystical race track far to the weast (It's a new direction) that can end his ghost horsyness and bring him to a final and peaceful rest.

What a twist! /tarantino voice

I think you mean Shyamalan.

 

[Siuss]

Global warming is in full effect, the oceans are rising, and it is up to you Joel Bucktooth Alabamas finest Crawfisher! The mission remove all fish from the ocean to keep the united states from sinking!