From the “Infendo steals Doughboy’s ideas” file…
@ the boy who likes to (and everyone else on infendo)… I am also sick of the same “…running, shooting and driving [games]…â€. Let’s get creative. We keep stating that Nintendo and the game companies need to just come up with more original/new genres of games. Like what? I have an idea for a post/contest: What is your idea for a Nintendo game (Wii, DS or possibly combo of both together)? Let’s help out the companies, come up with some ideas for some genres we would like to see.
So how about it, Infendo? Shall we put our money where our mouth is? In the past, I’ve said I yearn for a return to adventure games with a Wii twist of some kind. This isn’t an entirely “new” idea though, so I’ll open the floor to the readers to start brainstorming ideas. Any contest ideas are up to master Blake, so for now this is just a comment free for all. Winner gets pride and the admiration of his/her peers. What say you all?
I’d love to see an ARG implemented on a console. I really liked the ideas behind “Missing: Since January”
The game could be a hybrid DS/Wii game. The package would come with a disc for the Wii that would serve as your sleuthing interface, and also a DS cart and a GPS locator for the GBA slot.
Obviously, this is a high investment kind of game as all ARGs are. It may even have a subscription service, I don’t know. I’m aware that exactly this kind of game has failed in the past – but if you put it out on a system with the userbase Wii will have in 2-3 years, who knows.
Anyways, you’re teamed up with other real-world users (based on a personality quiz) and you can send mail to each other through an in-game messaging system, and you’ll also get messages from NPCs and other players across the world. The game will come with a web browser that pulls both from real websites and imaginary ones that are in-game. For instance, if you tell your browser to go to google, the game will check to see if google is an in-game site. Since it’s not, it’ll just go to the real google.com. But if you tell it to go to wiidsaventuregame.com it will see that this is an in-game fake website, and take you to the fake website, regardless of any real-world version.
The DS part comes in where you are asked to take clues on the go. There will be clues in just about every major city, and this will lend to the MMO part of the game. You will take your DS on the go to the spot where the clues are at (public, safe places like a park or a grocery store) and your DS will “find” the clue, and then you can upload it via wireless to the Wii and share it with those who are helping you investigate the mystery.
Just a thought.
ARG + MMO + Internet + Nintendo = awesome
For a trully original and new game? well, it’s really hard to describe something that doesn’t exist yet, not even in the imagination of anyone. My process would be to try some crazy, random gameplay mechanics, choose the funniest ones and then put some artistically nice graphics around it, and maybe even some story/especific topic behind it. Of course, I don’t have a wii dev-kit, but maybe one day …
Pikmin 3!!
With Wii-mote controls!!
I’ve been waiting for a game based on Bowser for a long time. It’d be somewhat of a puzzle game where you’re Bowser and you want to kidnap Peachy again, but you know Mario keeps getting through and foiling your plans. Basically, it’d be a resource management game where each level Bowser would have money to purchase pieces to place in the side-scroller world. Then either the AI or another human (via the web?) would play through the level and and Bowser would be rewarded for how well he guarded Mario from his lair.
Done right, this could be another franchise in its own right.
(By the way, what does Bowser plan on doing with Peach if Mario doesn’t rescue her? I mean, he never leaves a ransom note.)
I was thinking of a prison game. Like creating a shank, politics, killing your own inmate because he snitch on you, etc. I think it will be interesting. I was watching all those National Geographic shows on prison life and I thought it was be brilliant for a game idea. What do you guys think? Much of some running and killing but nonetheless, intriguing…..
Jersey
All i want to see is more co-op adventure games! it’s so much fun when you and your friends are on a team throughout an entire game!
On a more sinister side, it’d be fun to play a first person or above the shoulder game where you’re racing on foot through crowded themeparks and malls. You’d get bonus points for jumping over things and stealing purses, along with other acts of petty theft and vandalism. I guess it’d be a hybrid between GTA and Tony Hawk. I got the idea at 14 years old (20 years ago!). My friend and I would go to Knott’s Berry Farm and race each other from ride to ride. It was a blast running through the crowd at breakneck speeds. It’d be fun to get that same thrill sitting on my couch. I’m too old to be running through a theme park now that people call me Sir.
egag21, i love this idea.
This isn’t a new idea either, but I would love to see a “tower defense” style game on the DS. Google “Flash Element TD” or “Desktop Tower Defense” to see the style of game I’m referring to, if you’re unfamiliar.
btw – i meant the bowser game, specifically.
Long before Everquest or MMO’s really came into popularity, I had always dreamed of an ‘amnesia’ game. You started out with some clues, but your choices would drastically alter the outcome. My grand idea would be that every character in the game was actually a person in real life, also playing the game online. And no, it wouldn’t be called “Second Life” either.
Pretty good idea David, but that idea has been done before. But today it’s extremely difficult completely original. But my idea would be a game that allows you to build mechs from scratch, well I mean you character would go out into the world and buy,steal,find, parts needed. And with the wiimote sorta put them together and piece them accordingly, until he’s got his mech. Then well…got to war…Do whatever, be an adventurer, thief, pirate, engineer, use the mech for work, build buildings, anything. Ahh, I’m sure this is too open-ended, but it can be very deep gameplay.
David – that game’s called Deja Vu. One of three similar games made for the NES (Shadowgate and The Uninvited were the others).
they types of games the industry needs to expand would be extremely difficult to conceptualize. If you want to expand the market you have to look at one fact the person who want to attack things with a weapon be it sword or gun is looked after. Those genres exist and are becoming very refined. So what are peoples other interests, well there are sit-coms there are dramas etc. How do you create a game that gets the interest of someone who is mostly into sarcastic humor.
Take for example lets make a game for the fan of my name is Earl the game would involve you taking a quest from someone you wronged and trying to execute a task probably through some kind of puzzle based mechanic. I think Trauma Center is hitting on the right idea, but maybe tone down the anime source material. I am also looking forward to Zak and Wiki (despite the new horrible name).
Jack – Sort of. I’m talking about something far more sophisticated and open ended.
Think “the Sims” + “MMO” – “Second Life” + “GTA” + “a good storyline” = what I’m thinking of.
Of course, a game based off of a sandwich would be pretty sweet. I suggest the Peanut Butter 3D Clubhouse. (That’s an actual sandwich found at the Sunset Grill & Tap in Allston, Mass. It’s a cream cheese, jelly, fluff, and peanut butter sandwich.)
…and 1,000 beers. We mustn’t forget those.
As far as genres, I think alot of the ideas have been taken, so maybe revolutionizing an existing genre. What I woudl think is a great idea would be to have an action/adventure game, but in addition, supply a “utility belt” that would house different attachments to the WiiMote, such as a grappling hook, real “nunchuck” (where you would obviously use the Wiimote as the handle, and the other side woudl be a “stick on a chain”, etc… Not just “pretend this is a hammer and make the movement with yoru Wiimote” you can actually have a hammer attachment that the Wii would only recognize as one if the connection was actually made to the Wiimote. Just a thought while Im here at work
I’m with anthony. Free online co-op would rock. More of that please.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/2010.html
Any of those games, specifically Whipping Boy. It’s a hypothetical Wii game where you create realistic depictions of people you know in real life, then beat the hell out of them with different objects or your hands.
Antony and Cisco are not the only ones .
Now that we all know online multiplayer games are down the pipeline, all I ask is some co-op action adventure games .
@BlockSS if I remember correctly the Batallion Wars Wii game will be the first game produced by Nintendo to offer the multiplayer online co-op you ask for.
However, this will be pretty much just the testing ground for all the technological side of it, the real multiplayer co-op for me begins with the next Pikmin game.
Just give me some new adventure games, like the Sierra and LucasArts games of yore. The Wii and DS are perfect platforms for these games, and if someone put in the effort we could see a new golden era.
I would love to have a puzzle/action/adventure game in the first person where you actually can effect everything around you. I liked the Myst games and really hated the fact that you couldn’t interact with anything you wanted to. It wouldnt matter what era it took place in as long as it is well done and really pulls you in.
Oh, how about a game where your soul gets transplanted into a lego figure or some type of action figure and you have to maneuver you way through various environments on your journey as you try figure out how it happened and how to get back into your body. You could build with legos, tinker toys, toothpicks and marshmallows, etc to make the things you need to solve puzzles and help with your progression. Whatever you could get your plastic hands on you could use. Just think, you could rip off Barbies head, fill it with dirt and use it as a counterbalance.
As a kid I always thought it would be cool to be able to shrink and play with my GI Joe or Star Wars toys.
I’m with Anthony and Used Cisco e-co-ops would be cool
I had a bird game idea. You get turned into a bird and can fly around. Think of the cities in the recent Spider-Man games plus Chibi-Robo style exploration adventures. As you play the game, you learn about the mysterious way you were transformed and then gain the ability to change into different birds.
AOE thats all i have to say
I would also love to see more games based on the board game concept. Risk, monopoly etc could translate well onto Wii through point and click interfaces as well as shaking the remote as your dice. I am aware that much of this is going on on 360, but I think in terms of market the Wii would be a better platform as the controller is not as intimidating to new players.
I’d love to see a Morrowind-type game for the Wii. Set me loose in a small town and let me go on to explore a huge continent. There doesn’t even have to be a major main quest.. just give me so many side stories that I’d be busy with those for months, or even years. Political intrigue. Romantic soap opera-style stories. Business competition. Ideological struggle. Elaborate comical pranks. Religious scandal.
Let me use the Wiimote as a lockpick. Or an assassin’s blade, or spear, or sabre. Or let me nock an arrow in my bow and sent it flying into the abdomen of an enemy 400 yards away. Or I could wield a shovel and dig-up buried treasure. So many possibilities..
I’ve had two separate ideas for games in the past.
1) The first one would take place inside a highly detailed human body (see Innerspace movie) that would let you explore, learn and repair if needed. This would be unbelievably fun in co-op. Maybe you are inserted and have to explore to find the disease based on symtoms.
2) DS/Wii play centered around a Battleship type of play. It would be simultaneous, turn-based play where you’d choose where your tanks/troops/etc. would attack next, your buddy would choose his, and you’d watch the battle ensue on the Wii.
I want more games with an old-school flair, like Viewtiful Joe, Godhand or New Super Mario Bros.
Things like platformers and beat-’em-ups have been pretty much abandoned these days…and it’s a shame. Consoles have so much more power, thus- potential, to do more things these days.
They could really breathe life back into these ‘stale’ genres, the way the above mentioned games did.
Ever since I played Tanks! in Wii Play, for example, I’ve thought of how great it would be to have a new 2D Mega Man game where you aim at the enemies with the Wiimote.
Old-school Mega Man game play feeling fairly new again.
I’d love a game that combines Wii Sports’ Boxing with a 3D Beat-’Em-Up. Give the ability to put pre-set combos to the left and right fists/controls to vary the game play some.
Would it be exhausting? Hell yes. In my dream world, CC controller support is included.
Although really, I wouldn’t even care if it implemented Wii (or DS) based controls or not. Viewtiful Joe is a great example of what you can do with better technology for old genres.
What would also be cool is an online-only Zelda co-op game. It’d be great running around temples with a friend of two and communicating by a headset. Imagine if in order to open a door, you needed two people to stand on a switches, each of which is located in a separate room. Or a boss who, in order to defeat, needed to be hit in two spots at the same time.
The tricky part in something like that would be finding a way to handle the story. Perhaps it would be set up so if you’re just looking for a random person to play with, it tracks your progress and teams you up with people who have similar progress to yours.
For example, if you’ve beaten the Forrest and Fire temples, but not the Water temple, the game gives you or randomly pairs you with a list of players who have also beaten the Forrest and Fire temples, but not the Water temple.
That would be neat.
I played a hl2 mod called the battlegrounds that was based off the american revolution (it was a fps) that could be fun with the Wiimote, like after you shoot you can literally do the reloading animation with your hands to reload it.
I would like to imagine a game that has DS/Wii connectivity (sorry, no Pokemon). Something built around the action/adventure/anime Dragon’s Lair architecture. Somewhat of an interactive ‘book’ although not like Wish Room on the DS (too much reading/talking). More of a choose-your-own adventure series with hundreds/thousands of endings. It could even be along the lines of the Sega CD title, Road Avenger (although without the horrible story). An anime movie with Dragon’s Lair input to skip to the next cutscene. The DS/Wii connectivity could come into play during certain cutscenes or even use the DS as a controller. You could download new portions of the series via WiiConnect24 for a small fee.
Other than that, I am all for going back to the beginning of NES, games that didn’t have a definite ending. (eg. Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., etc…) High Scores are the real deal.
Hey look at that. I got a little mention. Sweet sweet fame.
If I had great ideas for a game then Im in the wrong job. But here are a few.
Im sure insects/animals can give alot of ideas for plenty of games. Sucking blood as mosquito (althoguh it has laready been done). trying to create some army of ants to take over a back garden.
Or anything at all about escaping an asylum. Dont ask how it would work, but Im currently reading a very funny book about crazy people. Think Catch-22 or One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. A bit like Manhunt, but without all the torture.
Althoguh I do like Chris B’s InnerSpace idea. Great movie. Could make a good game. As long as it didnt turn in to some sort of Descent clone. Instead of killing germs, perhaps having to use some germs to protect you from others. A whole sort of rock paper scissors kind of battle idea with germs.
Starcraft click interface game is where it is at. Or warcraft.