I do feel lousy for posting so little lately, so maybe this opportunity that I was offered will make up for it to "all" my "loyal" readers. As a promotional thing, LocalPages.com has offered a $50 gift card to a video game store of your choice for one lucky commenter. All you have to do is give an idea for a video game that you would like to play, either based on an existing property such as a comic, movie, TV show, novel, or whatever, or something completely original (and maybe which would match the interests of this blog, although that's not required). Leave the description and name of the game in a comment, along with a link to a gaming store (or any retail location found on LocalPages that sells video games) where you would like to win your gift card, and the one I like best will be the winner (if I can't decide, I'll just choose one at random). There's no need to get too detailed, but I'm hoping for something funny or original. Have at it, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. The deadline is midnight, Central time, one week from today, which is Wednesday, May 11.
Legalese:
In order to be eligible to win, commenters must be at least 18 years
old, reside in the U.S. and must not have won any Local Pages
giveaways within the past 30 days. There is a one prize per household
limit per 30 day period.
I totally want a video game based on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. You would sail the Belafonte around the oceans, fight sharks, rescue the company stooge, discover your hitherto-unknown son, and make documentary films about life under the sea.
ReplyDeleteAlso, an entire level where you just pull swamp leeches off yourself.
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ReplyDeleteI could see myself really getting into a There Will Be Blood resource management sim. Lots of oil drilling, land grabs, and a "fake brother burying in the desert" minigame.
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Herbie Popnecker. Like A Boy And His Blob, but with lollipops instead of jellybeans, and you're the boy AND the blob.
ReplyDeleteFinal boss is Ugly Cavegirl.
Oh hey, I guess I need that link: http://www.localpages.com/sc/columbia/1492693100-gamestop.html
ReplyDelete"Drifting Classroom" the video game. Enough said.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see a mobile adventure game that augments real world locations with your device's camera. Mission progression is dependent on you physically visiting a location and snapping a picture with a phone or scanning a QR code and seeing overlayed over your image of the real world a hidden door embedded in the sidewalk or a giant beanstalk winding upwards between skyscrappers and a bit of text and interaction presenting you with clues, puzzles, or people directing you to where you need to go next on your quest. Comic stores and related geeky businesses could be roped into displaying QR codes, which would be mutually beneficial for all parties. The game designer gives an incentive to play the game by sending its players to places they'd like to visit and comic stores get more foot traffic.
ReplyDeleteOne theme I'm considering is a steam punk detective game. "Through the Looking Glass" would be the name.
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Proposed this on twitter the other day. I'd like to see Oregon Trail updated to be about a trip to IKEA. I don't know if you've been to that place, but the parallels are uncanny. Saw three in my party die of dysentery before we made it to check out. Next time bring more bullets.
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I would like to see Cabella's Twitter Edition in which you simply slay spambots with rifle's, crossbow's or shotguns. Upon winning the game, you win lifetime followers from the entire staff of Cabella's Twitter Edition. It would be a Wii party game.
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My game would be that you have remember the patterns of the banging noises above your "apartment" and then use google translate to form a professional complaint letter in which you have a timer to write down EXACTLY what they did, in what order, and you have to complain in their foreign language. After every 3 complaints to the apartment managers, you have to duel the tenant and throw fines at them until their broke meter maxes out and they move out.
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I forgot to say what my game would be called. My google account isn't working so I have to post anonymously. It's called "Neighbor Complaint: Condoacolypse
ReplyDeleteI had an idea for a First Person Shooter. Since the genre is based so often on running around shooting bland nameless soldiers, and security guards, I wanted to see a game that explored the ramifications of what you're actually doing in these games a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteSo my idea was basically a frame story, where you are a Black Ops lone wolf infiltrator, shooting security guards in the face for some reason. It plays like normal, but at certain points throughout, when you shoot someone - the camera slo mo's on the bullet and stops right before the bullet hits that guard in the face. Then it stops, and you play as that guard in a self contained stage, in the past, before you kill them. Each stage reveals some small part about that guard: some of them turn out to be assholes, some turn out average, some are wonderful people. I had, as a specific example of this, an idea where one of the guards stages is him telling his daughter a story about a knight rescuing a princess. You play as the knight in a fantasy world, but while you're playing you can hear the father and the daughter talking in the background, making up the story as they go along, which causes the world around you to shift and alter as if it's being made up on the spot (which it is). It ends when the story is done, and then cuts back, and the bullet hits the guy - and you move on.
If I had to name it, I'd like to name it something innocuous like "Stealth Ops" so that people looking for the next Call Of Duty might stumble on it.
Sorry this is a bit long, I've been wanting to get that idea out for awhile. Also it is clearly based on the Invisibles, but I thought that issue was great and would work really well in a video game - when you take over a character you empathize with them so much more then when you're reading about them (IMO)
Oh and also, link to the store
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I have been wanting to play Wii Party forever! It is at the top of my wishlist.
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