If I had the chance to develop my perfect idea of a game, it would be this: (hope you have the patience to read it all! Id like to know what you think..
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An open ended free to explore FPRPG (much like System Shock 2 or Deus Ex 2 actually done well!), with no cutscenes and complete immersion, and not necessarily with any guns! It'd be set in a huge busy realtime world like GTA but less cartoony with more gritty realism. The story would be intricate and complete from start to finish, no trilogies or different episodes, just one volume on the level of some of the best novels.
The story would be along these lines: (Im no novelist btw and forgive the complete cliche that it is!
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The game begins. You gradually wake up in your bed as what was a vivid nightmare turns to a crazy blur of ideas, and then is completely forgotten. You're in a luxurious bedroom, silk sheets..?..theres soft light pouring in through a large window. You get up, get washed, get dressed, and head down the large wooden spiral staircase. More soft light washes the tall open hallway. The house is obviously huge and expensive! As you enter the kitchen you can smell something delicious, and you meet your beautiful wife for the first time that you can remember, cooking breakfast. She greets you and kisses you on the cheek, notices that you look a little confused and asks you why, but you cant give a definite answer to how you feel yet. She tells you you're gonna be late for work if you dont get ready soon, you have an important meeting that you are chairing in an hours time! You're bemused at the whole predicament your in, it all seems too good to be real but you'll quite happily go with it for the time being! You want to know more!
You get ready, say your farewells to your wife, pick up some pretty snazzy car keys with a 'Z' emblem on it and head outside. The day is hot, and the sun shines brightly (with HDR!) over the stretch of driveway in front of your stately home, and on the driveway sits parked a glimmering, beautiful Pagani Zonda (S!) You laugh loudly in disbelief, but you know you're gonna start her up and hear the roar of that 7.3 litre V12, and tear up the countryside roads on the way into the big city.
Anyway, thats the beginning. Of course the driving experience will be more like GTR than Half-life2! And predictably the start of this story is all too good to be true. You end up finding out that this is all a part of the nature of your work in developing the worlds most advanced life sim, designed around the individual, which you decide to pilot the first proper test. Things obviously go wrong, your mind starts to reject the sim world, which adapts around all the paranoia and dark emotions of greed, jealousy and lust within you, representing you instead of the perfect world it was meant to be. The world slowly decays into looking very much like 'Bladerunner' (the most realistic vision of the future in any film Ive seen!) with the kind of dark, wet and overcrowded neon city (which could have been Deus Ex 2 if they did it right!)
So in the end you have the goal of defeating your dark self who traps you within the simulation, in order to escape and return to your real imperfect life.
I know its not original, but it doesnt exist as an immersive next-gen FPRPG yet! This would be my perfect game, and if any large developer wants to steal it and make it happen.....take it! I wanna play it!
Oh and of course it has to have ultra-realistic death sequences somwhere in there!
Some concept art! These are definitely
not original, HAHA!
cars could be completely mouse driven, LFS style but easier! With a switch between free look and look to apex steering, left button accelerate, right button brake etc.
imagine tearing down there in the Zonda!
actually Tokyo..today, not Bladerunner!
EDIT: Oh and as far as game dynamic is concerned...it'd be an open ended completely free to explore from the beginning type of world, but you'd be prompted by the voice of the character as to what to do to advance the story along. He'd only say it once unless you want him to repeat himself and the voice could be customisable to one more like your own, by altering the pitch, frequency of the recorded voice actor. Oh and you can see your body too, which you can also customise. :thumbup:
So if you read this far, whadyu reckon?? Would you buy it for 30 quid??