My Game Idea

[Bariman]

I've got this game idea, and I want to pitch it to you. Here goes:

Your character has volunteered for an experiment involving nanotechnology and cryonics. You will be injected with nanorobots, which will preserve your tissues (particularly your brain tissue) while you are frozen. Unfortunately, something really bad happens while you are frozen, and several decades after you were supposed to be awakened, the emergency system kicks in (due to power loss, or other problem) and you are unfrozen.

You can customize your character's looks at the begining. The game can be played from either a first or third person view. It will have combonations of RPG elements, shooters, action, and mystery, and will have a deep and branching story.

Your character will begin the game very weak, a side-effect of decades spent frozen. You can also use the nanorobots for a variety of abilities (a la Deus Ex). After a short tutorial section (involving what happened to the research facility, and learning how to use some of your new abilities), you will be brought to a city, where you can interact with almost everyone. You will spend the game trying to survive your new setting, meeting new people, investigating, almost anything you can think of. There will be an overarcing story involving the research facility and the other things going on there.

[Jim H. Moreno]

My first thoughts are that it sounds too much like System Shock II.

However, if the gameplay and storyline are still great, go for it.

[Bariman]

My first thoughts are that it sounds too much like System Shock II.

However, if the gameplay and storyline are still great, go for it.


Never played SS2, unfortunately. Would you know where I can pick up a copy? Or, maybe a developer?

[Ivan Rapkinov]

My first thoughts are that it sounds too much like System Shock II.

twas my first impression too.

[Aries]

Well aside from it sounding like the script from the movie Genesis II (old film, you under 30 types might not know it), the notion sounds a bit bland really.

Try this one on instead.

In the distant future, criminals receive mind wipes, poof your sentence is to have your mind cleared, you are no more, but someone in need of a new body is downloaded into that ex persons body.

The snag could be, the mind wipe wasn't fully complete.

This is not a unique to me idea, 10 points to anyone that can identify the literature I took this idea from.

[Doctor Sinister]

Well aside from it sounding like the script from the movie Genesis II (old film, you under 30 types might not know it), the notion sounds a bit bland really.

Try this one on instead.

In the distant future, criminals receive mind wipes, poof your sentence is to have your mind cleared, you are no more, but someone in need of a new body is downloaded into that ex persons body.

The snag could be, the mind wipe wasn't fully complete.

This is not a unique to me idea, 10 points to anyone that can identify the literature I took this idea from.
Literature - not sure (not Philip K Dick is it?) - but it does sound a little like an episode of Babylon 5.

Dr. S.

[Bariman]

Well aside from it sounding like the script from the movie Genesis II (old film, you under 30 types might not know it), the notion sounds a bit bland really.

Try this one on instead.

In the distant future, criminals receive mind wipes, poof your sentence is to have your mind cleared, you are no more, but someone in need of a new body is downloaded into that ex persons body.

The snag could be, the mind wipe wasn't fully complete.

This is not a unique to me idea, 10 points to anyone that can identify the literature I took this idea from.


Sounds like the movie Freejack. And was Genesis II a Gene Roddenberry film?

[MomoJak00]

I've always wanted to play a game that started out with a drop-pod mission.

Hurtling through the atmosphere with the rest of your squad before having to dash into cover once you land and the doors are opened. Then you'd have to find the rest of your unit due to an error in trajectories that sent your drop pod far away from the rest of them.

That's what I've always wanted.

[Bariman]

I've always wanted to play a game that started out with a drop-pod mission.

Hurtling through the atmosphere with the rest of your squad before having to dash into cover once you land and the doors are opened. Then you'd have to find the rest of your unit due to an error in trajectories that sent your drop pod far away from the rest of them.

That's what I've always wanted.


Sounds like the beginning of Quake IV.

[Jim H. Moreno]

Sounds similar to Total Recall, also.

[Juno]

Let us know when it's available retail.

[BarcelonaBlom]

I've always wanted to play a game that started out with a drop-pod mission.

A FPS of the *real* Starship Troopers?

[MomoJak00]

Sounds like the beginning of Quake IV.

Nice!

A FPS of the *real* Starship Troopers?

Exactly.

[BarcelonaBlom]

If they create a realistic version of Starship Troopers in Heinlein's oringinal imaginings I'm there....

[Juno]

If they create a realistic version of Starship Troopers in Heinlein's oringinal imaginings I'm there....As long as it's not a realistic version of his other novels. Because then you'd have to make your best friend into a stew, have sex with your mother, or some other social oddity.

[MomoJak00]

As long as it's not a realistic version of his other novels. Because then you'd have to make your best friend into a stew, have sex with your mother, or some other social oddity.

Imagine the mini-games that would come out of that. :laugh:

[Jon@lbc]

I've always wanted to play a game that started out with a drop-pod mission.

Hurtling through the atmosphere with the rest of your squad before having to dash into cover once you land and the doors are opened. Then you'd have to find the rest of your unit due to an error in trajectories that sent your drop pod far away from the rest of them.

That's what I've always wanted.
uh, second level of halo.

[MomoJak00]

uh, second level of halo.

That was technically the SIXTH level and It wasn't nearly as intense as it should've been.
I'm talkin' bout Call of Duty intensity!

[Jon@lbc]

That was technically the SIXTH level and It wasn't nearly as intense as it should've been.
I'm talkin' bout Call of Duty intensity!
oh then uh...Go play call of Duty (I just got it yesterday I am friggin addicted)

[MomoJak00]

oh then uh...Go play call of Duty (I just got it yesterday I am friggin addicted)

But they don't have drop pods!
And I've beaten it twice!!!