If you could make your own game...

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What would it be? Now you can talk about multiple game ideas. Here are mine:

*A Blade Runner game that is similar to LA Noire. Investigating, action, hovercraft chases, etc. The game doesn’t have to center around Harrison Ford, but would be cool if it was. 3D scan his face and make him look younger and have him voice all of his character’s lines. Have it be a prequel to the movie.

*Turok 2 (sequel to Propaganda Games’ reboot.) I’m working on a comic book version of my idea for the game since I doubt I could ever make a sequel happen.

*A Batman Beyond free-roaming game (Like Arkham City but the size of a GTA island.)

*Halo Wars 2 with a Sim City 4ish terrain editor for Forge mode. Various other elements but I don’t want to go into too much detail.

*Gears of War RTS. Gears has enough vehicles, enemies, weapons, etc for an RTS to work based off of these. A Brumak would be some super unit.

*A Matrix: Path of Neo remake/reboot kinda game. A bit of free-roaming. It would kinda be like Assassin’s Creed in which you would switch back and forth between “worlds.”

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I have taken this into real consideration but making a game were its basically life so you start at birth and you choose where you are born and the are where you want to be born it will completely look like it in real life. basically you set your courses for life and see where it takes you.

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a multiplayer game based around space battles where everyone in the game had a job to do on or off the ship (think battlefront 2’s space battles but people have to stay on the ship to do stuff)

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To the OP:

I know you were just throwing ideas out there for the sake of it, but just for a minute I’m going to pretend those were real game pitches. This isn’t addressed to you so much as it is to all the people I see on forums who post ideas like this and seem to think they can actually get someone to make them one day.

What I really noticed is that a lot of your ideas were basically just “take the blueprint of an existing game, but set it in the universe of a different existing IP”. You’re not alone in coming up with ideas like that, there are a couple that come up in Halo forums all the time. Whenever I see a thread title like “Hey, I have a great idea for a Halo game”, I can say with about 90% certainty that if I open the thread the idea will end up being either “Battlefield/Star Wars Battlefront, but Halo”, or “Mass Effect, but Halo”.

Seems like a cool enough idea, right? The game is cool, the IP is cool. Combining them is a can’t-miss idea, right?

It’s not quite that simple. I’ve likely already paid my money for the game you’re using as the blueprint for your game idea. If you want me to go to the store and hand over more money for your game, you need to explain to me why I should buy it even though I’ve already paid for a game just like it. In other words, how is your idea better than the existing game? In the case of the Halo examples I mentioned above, “Because it’s Halo” is a probably good enough reason for some people, but probably not for enough people. What can you sell me that I can’t already buy from someone else?

Take Halo Wars, for example. That game wasn’t really marketed as “Existing RTS, but Halo, so you should be excited”. The real message behind the marketing for that game was “We’re redefining the RTS genre to make it really work on a console. We’re making the game that will get that right in a way you’ve never seen before. And by the way it’s Halo. So you should be excited”. Whether or not they succeeded or not is up to you to decide, but that’s what they offered. And people were excited.

What I’m really saying is, you need develop your ideas so they become something people haven’t already played. It doesn’t have to be radically different. In fact, radically different game ideas can scare people away, since they’re not sure what to expect compared to a “safer” but less original option. You can still draw huge inspiration from other games. But it should be different enough to have its own identity as a game.

Why should I hand over my money? Why should I be excited?

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already have

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If I were to make a game… Well… It’d be titled ‘Last Haven’ and that’s all I’m saying, though I do have about 15 pages of it typed up (general story, people, names, weapons, equipment, etc…)

There is another game I’m thinking up, though I’ve simply titled it ‘The Infinity Program’. Which, after thinking about it, seems to be a smash-up of Terminator, Tron, The Matrix and a few others

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I’m thinking about making a Halo 7 when I grow up where you (Master Chief, don’t even ask) suddenly remember your Atlantean past, the hub is the UNSC infinity, Spartan Blue Team and Spartan Delta Team (Your the leader of both) are the main allies while Spartan Omega Team (Atlanteans) only appear in the level “ONI Uprising” where the Spartan Corps rise up to take ONI for making them fight their fellow spartans in the previous level “Rouges”, but find out the Covenant sent the false messages, and that level is supposed to be brutal even on easy, it’s very easy to get killed despite all the other Spartans around. Your allies are Atlantean Marines, Atlantean Aqua Troopers of the Navy, the Atlantean Air Force, and the Atlantean Army, and they all look similar to Clone Troopers where the enemy is the Covenant (Except for Thel Vadam and a number of allied Elites, but you still fight most of the Elites, and the Atlantean Separatists who look like Stormtroopers.

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Halo: Sangheili-San 'Shyuum War.
Halo: MMO.
:confused: I just want to play as the Elites. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Gears of Halo Theft Auto.

Oh, and a Halo game focusing on the Forerunners, with Precursors and the Flood as the enemy.

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A game similar to the mechanics of Halo and Fall out. Use a city similar to New Mombasa and have an open server on which anyone at any time can log onto and play. No ranks, no medals, no time, just full out war. It would be a strictly online play due to not having a campaign but nonetheless I do believe that it will be a gigantic hit with people who just want to have a good time and not for competitive. In the city during game play you can either go rouge or party up with friends and try to take either a part of the city or just an advantage point. The city will be huge so there will be many places to hide and use as an advantage point.