You're given total freedom to make the next game

[Red Impact]

in a major video game franchise.

You get to choose the franchise, you have no funding restrictions, but have to make a game that could feasibly be released in this generation of consoles/computer software.

What do you do with it?

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Resident Evil.

I take it back to survival horror.

But not entirely the way it use to be. Basically I make the famous RE3.5 gameplay demo a reality, but with this gen's graphics and without the supernatural elements to it.

So in other words the game will have cinematic(ie fixed) camera angles when you don't have your weapon readied, but readying a weapon will take you to the camera angle from RE4/RE5.

And you'll have limited supplies. You will not be required to kill every enemy put before you to advance and there will be a lot more exploration and at least an attempt at puzzles(RE4 barely had any and RE5 had none of any real note).

[Zombie Mod]

pokemon from red all the way through (with the option to either keep your starter/champion team ) to black/white (or get new starters per region while storing your team until you get to the elite four in each region.)

or a zombie game from the point of the zombie where you start off on your own and slowly add to your horde with each kill untill you end up taking over a city, either using stealth to begin with, trap humans in their own bases, just just pure luck or burte force until your numbers out match the remaining humans.

[Deleted]

3 DISC SET -- JET SET RADIO 3.

On each disc is 1 free roaming island about twice the size of Saints Row 2s main island..with with 10 or so smaller sub areas.

70 characters in total -- you start with 10 and each disc has 20 to unlock.

Ability to customize your entire crew of skaters -- Customization ranges from clothing , hair , skates , body modifications piercings , tattoos , voice of your character etc , and also ability to customize and upgrade your various headquaters so to speak.

Custom grafiti of course would remain in but just as in depth as much as the character cusomization.

All music from the first 2 games are in.

Mutiplayer which would have up to 500 skaters in any given island , of course only in multiplayer can you freely jump from one island to the next without switching out discs.

Basically take everything the first 2 games were..and rip open the preverbial can of worms and unleash insanity.

[Dub H]

I must pick a major video game franchise?No small ones or solo ideas?

[hypnoticgenes]

Steam punk Legend of Zelda

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Sept 16, 2012 17:15:35 GMT -5 Zombie Mod said:

or a zombie game from the point of the zombie where you start off on your own and slowly add to your horde with each kill untill you end up taking over a city, either using stealth to begin with, trap humans in their own bases, just just pure luck or burte force until your numbers out match the remaining humans.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbs_the_Zombie_in_Rebel_Without_a_Pulse

It's been done (sort of), Done well, with a kickass doo-wop soundtrack

[Red Impact]

Sept 16, 2012 17:25:40 GMT -5 Dub H said:

I must pick a major video game franchise?No small ones or solo ideas?

It has to be a major franchise, but you're given complete and total freedom with it. So it could even be something like Final Fantasy, where none of the games are related and gameplay can differ wildly. Or you could make the next game a complete departure in gameplay, but still have the major characters, like an FPS Mario game.

[Reflecto]

Pokemon, 3DS.

Normal game, but with the catch- I put a pedometer program inside the game itself, and have it work alongside the 3D camera. You get the option for the upper screen to have the system camera playing while you play in the lower screen, which spawns Pokemon in the "real world" as you play for your next battles.

[xCompackx]

I'd make a Sonic game with a completely open world with side quests, intelligently voiced NPCs, short loading times, and huge action stages with multiple paths and speed-oriented. Also, nobody else aside from Sonic and MAYBE Tails as playable characters.

[Goldenbane]

Rock Band: We kinda talked about this in another thread, but I really love the idea of adding more RPG elements to it. New music would always be available, and instruments pretty much always play the same, but the actual band element itself would be radically altered. You design a character (or characters...or even choose from the various generic characters the game has) and go through the ups and downs of being in a rock band...from it's humble beginnings to it's huge rise, to even some of the ups and downs...and maybe even eventual fall of the band.

All the storylines would be randomly generated, similarly to Smackdown: Here comes the pain. If you don't have a band of four (maybe five?) friends playing and have the CPU playing say...drummer or something...what happens when the CPU character wants to go solo? Or if a manager wants more money from the band? Additional storylines could even develop from those storylines, like the CPU character actually being successful and becoming serious competition for the bad, to the manager maybe either getting his/her raise and really doing great for the band or getting his/her raise and proving to not be worthy of it and making things harder on the band.

Crowds play a bigger role. The more successful the band, the less important stuff like messing up a note is. However costume, hair, or even body type changes might alter the crowd's attitude (Londoners might love your Charles the Bloody spiked jacket, and start off with very high fan approval (and missed notes make less difference) while wearing your Dr. Acula cape in Seattle might start you off with lower fan approval (and stuff like missing notes having a huge negative impact)

I just like the idea of adding a small RPG element to the game, giving greater custom items to players and even adding some sort of DLC for new items later on.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Kingdom Hearts 3: The story gets a bit more streamlined, and Riku, Mickey and Kairi are now full time party members, giving you a seven-person team when a character from another world joins you. The learning curve is a bit tougher- the hack-and-slash is still there, but you'll have to think more. The level system is changed slightly, allowing for different characters to assume various roles (think FFV), meaning that Sora might not always be the class of your party.

New world themes include Phineas and Ferb, Robin Hood, Toy Story, Princess and the Frog, Atlantis, WALL-E and Captain America's WW2.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

God of War 4. Kratos wanders north from Greece, discovers the Norse pantheon. Violence ensues.

[Mike Strike]

Hm, Kingdom Hearts or Star Fox. I can't decide.

Ugh, even if I pick KH I got like 3 or 4 different game concepts in my head for it.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

A Paper Mario game where Mario fights along side paper cut out versions of other popular Nintendo characters such as Link, Samus, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Fox McCloud, with each using the own special abilities in battle or on the field.

[Sir Woodrow]

Sept 16, 2012 20:06:09 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

A Paper Mario game where Mario fights along side paper cut out versions of other popular Nintendo characters such as Link, Samus, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Fox McCloud, with each using the own special abilities in battle or on the field.

Or Paper Smash Brothers

[General Adam]

Sept 16, 2012 20:06:09 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

A Paper Mario game where Mario fights along side paper cut out versions of other popular Nintendo characters such as Link, Samus, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Fox McCloud, with each using the own special abilities in battle or on the field.

I would seriously buy that in a heartbeat.

[Deleted]

Sept 16, 2012 18:07:23 GMT -5 Goldenbane said:

Rock Band: We kinda talked about this in another thread, but I really love the idea of adding more RPG elements to it. New music would always be available, and instruments pretty much always play the same, but the actual band element itself would be radically altered. You design a character (or characters...or even choose from the various generic characters the game has) and go through the ups and downs of being in a rock band...from it's humble beginnings to it's huge rise, to even some of the ups and downs...and maybe even eventual fall of the band.

All the storylines would be randomly generated, similarly to Smackdown: Here comes the pain. If you don't have a band of four (maybe five?) friends playing and have the CPU playing say...drummer or something...what happens when the CPU character wants to go solo? Or if a manager wants more money from the band? Additional storylines could even develop from those storylines, like the CPU character actually being successful and becoming serious competition for the bad, to the manager maybe either getting his/her raise and really doing great for the band or getting his/her raise and proving to not be worthy of it and making things harder on the band.

Crowds play a bigger role. The more successful the band, the less important stuff like messing up a note is. However costume, hair, or even body type changes might alter the crowd's attitude (Londoners might love your Charles the Bloody spiked jacket, and start off with very high fan approval (and missed notes make less difference) while wearing your Dr. Acula cape in Seattle might start you off with lower fan approval (and stuff like missing notes having a huge negative impact)

I just like the idea of adding a small RPG element to the game, giving greater custom items to players and even adding some sort of DLC for new items later on.

I Love You.

That is All.

[Sir Woodrow]

Halo VS Cooking Mama

[KStrick]

Mass Effect 3: The REAL version.