Worst Game Idea or Concept You Can Think of!!!

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MarsProbe

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Fightgarr said:
You're Dakota Fanning, playing through the Holocaust.
I think its just stupid and offensive enough to work.
I like it. And in a shocking twist, at the end of game you come across a POW camp filled with some of the most popular missing children in recent history. Who of course turn out to be driving the world towards one of the most dreadful recessions in living memory through the use of their newly discovered psychic abilities. You are then given the choice to either join them in ruling the world for all time, or slaying them all with a large flamethrower and building a huge foreboding citadel out of their charred remains.

Either way, you get to use the retarded ones as slaves of your new empire.
 

dukethepcdr

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You have all these JRPG's that are set around or at least start out at a school right? Only in the ones I've played or read about, you spend very little time actually doing any school work. It's mostly a jumping off point for some other adventure.

What if you started in the school and never got to leave? A whole game of nothing but taking notes (with the DS stylus ala Picto Chat of course) during lectures in which the professor drones on and on in a monotone voice (I can see a part for Ben Stein here). For a little variety, you might also get to look things up in reference "books" to answer open book quiz questions with later levels where you have to answer without any in-game helps (and a short time clock to keep you from searching wikipedia or something). To stay with the current fad of putting mini-games in everything (even shooters now, Heaven help us), you would have Phys Ed. in which you would have to complete different rhythm and timed games where you have to tap and move stuff with your stylus to make your avatar do all the exercizes right.

There would be no socializing or "dating" and no running off on some adventure to fight monsters or compete in mech combat games like other JRPG's have. No, you'd go to your little dorm room and go to sleep (this is in one of those schools where you live away from home like in Harry Potter only minus the witchcraft and childish hijinks). You just grind through the same schedule of periods over and over until the end of the year when, unless you totally beat all of the mini-games and challenges, you fail and have to repeat the grade.

Sounds fun huh?
 

Vortex Traveller

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Quick Time Event(QTE)
Comes with a special controller, like a computer keyboard but with with 1000 buttons marked 1-1000 (button layout on the keyboard doesnt run from 1-1000 its in a completely jumbled up order)and the whole game is a man running in a invisible maze (the running is automatic not in your control to speed up or slow down)and approximatly every 2 seconds a Quick Time Event occurs where you have to push one of the 1000 buttons, which one you have to press selected at random and changes each time, and you have 0.5 of a second to press it or you lose.
 

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Dkozza said:
I like thinking about games. I spent part of my life trying to make them for money. I am also aware of the legions and legions of horrible games out on Best Buy shelves right now. Right this very moment. But what makes them bad?

In this creative exercise, let's all post what we think would be the worst idea for a plausible video game. Something that you might possibly see on store shelves. It can be a combination of genres, but please flesh it out a little more than just saying "Mario + HALO". I'll start.

A new Kirby game. In the town of Dreamville, the central hub town for Dreamland, the Princess Sleepyton has been kidnapped! (Note: The princess is a human because, let's face it, no one wants to see a female Kirby. That would ruin the mythos.) So Kirby, with few leads to go off of, has to talk to people in the town and accept quests in exchange for Dream Dollars. The quests take his to one of six magical parts of Dreamland, but to access all of any part he'll have to spend his Dream Dollars on items. These items may be in the form of abilities that Kirby can inhale over and over again, and let him do stuff like pass through grates or resist heat.

Better yet, Kirby no longer gains abilities from eating enemies, but each enemy eaten adds to a gauge specific for that enemy. When that gauge fills, the enemy's ability becomes available for purchase. Also, there's an EXP bar and a health meter. Maybe an ability meter, too.


And...go!
That sounds a lot like Sonic the Hedgehog (came out about a year ago) for the 360.

Eldritch Warlord said:
I know, the controls are so unresponsive.
 

kaiZie

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here's the worst game idea ever.

My little pony meets barbie.

What you have to do is get barbie to the toy shop to buy a my little pony. Along the way to the toy store you have mini games whenever you go past a shop window...mostly concisting of button mashing so she doesn't buy clothes......

meh....all i could think of that would suck
 

Incompl te

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berethond said:
Dkozza said:
berethond said:
Dkozza said:
a twilight game!

its definitely th worst idea ever!
It's agreed, seizure man!
lol everyone i know hates twilight...and your the 2nd person to notice that my avatar is seizure man :p
Some of my friends like Twilight.
But Cyanide & Happiness rocks.
i agree cyanide and happiness does rule.


orannis62 said:
Dkozza said:
I like thinking about games. I spent part of my life trying to make them for money. I am also aware of the legions and legions of horrible games out on Best Buy shelves right now. Right this very moment. But what makes them bad?

In this creative exercise, let's all post what we think would be the worst idea for a plausible video game. Something that you might possibly see on store shelves. It can be a combination of genres, but please flesh it out a little more than just saying "Mario + HALO". I'll start.

A new Kirby game. In the town of Dreamville, the central hub town for Dreamland, the Princess Sleepyton has been kidnapped! (Note: The princess is a human because, let's face it, no one wants to see a female Kirby. That would ruin the mythos.) So Kirby, with few leads to go off of, has to talk to people in the town and accept quests in exchange for Dream Dollars. The quests take his to one of six magical parts of Dreamland, but to access all of any part he'll have to spend his Dream Dollars on items. These items may be in the form of abilities that Kirby can inhale over and over again, and let him do stuff like pass through grates or resist heat.

Better yet, Kirby no longer gains abilities from eating enemies, but each enemy eaten adds to a gauge specific for that enemy. When that gauge fills, the enemy's ability becomes available for purchase. Also, there's an EXP bar and a health meter. Maybe an ability meter, too.


And...go!
That sounds a lot like Sonic the Hedgehog (came out about a year ago) for the 360.

Eldritch Warlord said:
I know, the controls are so unresponsive.
how is it like sonic the hedgehog?
 

Ismix

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heheh. i have a good one. You are a guy in a wheelchair, who looks like a fat version of Link. every time you press a button you jump about a foot into the air using a spring.
 

Incompl te

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orannis62 said:
Dkozza said:
how is it like sonic the hedgehog?
Maybe I was over-generalizing, but did you play the new one (not unleashed)?
briefly played at a friends house

didnt seem like it though...but correct me if im wrong, ill all for criticism

might as well know what i did wrong
 

Sewblon

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Life simulater that takes place in Darfur. It is simletaniously boring and disrespectfull of sensitive subject matter.
 

kyouger

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A game where you play as a midevil fantasy hero who weilds the power of rock, who gets around by driving a monster truck and is voiced by a washed-up "musician"/actor. Oh wait...

Alright, how about a game where you play as a rap star with one song capping caps in haters with a soundtrack consisting of 1 song. Oh wait...

A game where you play as a cybernetic norse god who bashes advanced machines with axes and incredibly weak guns. Oh wait...

Since though I can't think of any more obscure allusions to bad games, so I'll lay out my senario for the best game evar:

You play as a yahtzee sprite in an open-world RPG/FPS/MMO, who gets missions from the Valve logo to assassinate terrible games, while fighting against imps who pop out of the ground to gnaw at your ghoulies.