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My current PS2 games collection consists of driving games, platform games, first person shooters and extreme sports games. Ok, so some of the games I own I think are amazing, Jak and Daxtar, Tony Hawk's 3 etc but none have taken me too the elusive 3rd place that those strange PS2 adverts suggested to me. When have I ever sprouted fur, grown huge jaws and drooled all over whilst flying through planets on my carbon rocket? Never. Ok, so not even a moron would be taken in by those adverts but forgive me for thinking I could expect something very different and amazing from the next generations of consoles, God knows they cost enough when released.
Where are the new games, really new games not just sequels or copies of an already existent game with a bigger gun, 12 more cars or a new footballers face plastered on the front. I expect more. I deserve more. Why aren't there different games out there, fun games that do something different. Super Monkey Ball sounded good but turned out to be a strange game where you stop monkeys in balls from falling down holes and of the edge of something by tilting a board, so much like a pinball-esque machine then. Am I the only one who wanted a multi-player game where little fluffy monkeys played a game like volleyball to compete for the glorious golden cheese? Perhaps.
I don't want to see 12 different football games all pretty much the same and focusing on photorealistic graphics or something. How about "Luke Chadwick's Footballing game" where the aim of the game is to earn enough money by showing of your football skills to Old Age Pensioners in rest homes to be able to afford a new face before all your spots burst and drown the civilised world. Ok, perhaps that would be a bit too inventive and slightly sickening but somebody who makes games much have some sort of an imagination.
I also see no games on the shelfs which involve seeing the world through the eyes of a dog. You would never look at the world the same again after experiencing this game. You are Rex, a 3 month old puppy in search of adventure. From the start of the game your movement is restricted due to your size and the fact that you are really young and consequently don't have much of a brain to speak of. You can choose whether to use your houndish skills for good or evil, see that radiator over in the corner half covered by that long curtain? It is either a great place to lay a suprise for your owner so that the smells moves round the whole house without them knowing where it comes from or you can choose to be really good and do tricks for the little girl in order to get your bed moved closer to the warmth.
Ok, so the people who make games are pretty good at there job, mainly, and my ideas are a little too weird to make it into a game but there must be someone out there who has a happy medium. C'mon, I don't want to wake up from this dream in 10 years to find myself playing Metal Gear Solid 4, exactly the same only this time with a new character and on a boat, oh no, thats been done already. I would probably much rather buy a fresh new game than spend money on GT5 with 14 more tracks and 100000000000 different cars. Plus I'm still hoping that someone makes Army Men 27 so I can buy 4 copies and use them as coasters.
Where are the new games, really new games not just sequels or copies of an already existent game with a bigger gun, 12 more cars or a new footballers face plastered on the front. I expect more. I deserve more. Why aren't there different games out there, fun games that do something different. Super Monkey Ball sounded good but turned out to be a strange game where you stop monkeys in balls from falling down holes and of the edge of something by tilting a board, so much like a pinball-esque machine then. Am I the only one who wanted a multi-player game where little fluffy monkeys played a game like volleyball to compete for the glorious golden cheese? Perhaps.
I don't want to see 12 different football games all pretty much the same and focusing on photorealistic graphics or something. How about "Luke Chadwick's Footballing game" where the aim of the game is to earn enough money by showing of your football skills to Old Age Pensioners in rest homes to be able to afford a new face before all your spots burst and drown the civilised world. Ok, perhaps that would be a bit too inventive and slightly sickening but somebody who makes games much have some sort of an imagination.
I also see no games on the shelfs which involve seeing the world through the eyes of a dog. You would never look at the world the same again after experiencing this game. You are Rex, a 3 month old puppy in search of adventure. From the start of the game your movement is restricted due to your size and the fact that you are really young and consequently don't have much of a brain to speak of. You can choose whether to use your houndish skills for good or evil, see that radiator over in the corner half covered by that long curtain? It is either a great place to lay a suprise for your owner so that the smells moves round the whole house without them knowing where it comes from or you can choose to be really good and do tricks for the little girl in order to get your bed moved closer to the warmth.
Ok, so the people who make games are pretty good at there job, mainly, and my ideas are a little too weird to make it into a game but there must be someone out there who has a happy medium. C'mon, I don't want to wake up from this dream in 10 years to find myself playing Metal Gear Solid 4, exactly the same only this time with a new character and on a boat, oh no, thats been done already. I would probably much rather buy a fresh new game than spend money on GT5 with 14 more tracks and 100000000000 different cars. Plus I'm still hoping that someone makes Army Men 27 so I can buy 4 copies and use them as coasters.
Imagine if it was a year ago. January 23rd 2001.
What would you have said if you were told the following:
"I've come up with a good idea for a game! You're this man looking for bits of his ship, but there are all of these obstacles in your way. To help you you can manipulate these little plant like creatures, that will come in 3 different varieties, with different skills."
You probably would have said something like
"No one will go for something like that!" and laugh it off, even though it's a good idea.
Nintendo didn't laugh it off, and they're not laughing off any other 'crazy' ideas either.
Animal Forest, Animal Leader, Doshin the Giant.
Strange, original games, that might never get a US or UK release, because we're 'happy' with our FPS clones and sports sims.
What would you have said if you were told the following:
"I've come up with a good idea for a game! You're this man looking for bits of his ship, but there are all of these obstacles in your way. To help you you can manipulate these little plant like creatures, that will come in 3 different varieties, with different skills."
You probably would have said something like
"No one will go for something like that!" and laugh it off, even though it's a good idea.
Nintendo didn't laugh it off, and they're not laughing off any other 'crazy' ideas either.
Animal Forest, Animal Leader, Doshin the Giant.
Strange, original games, that might never get a US or UK release, because we're 'happy' with our FPS clones and sports sims.
One of the funniest things I've read in a long while, and some of your ideas seem really interesting - taking gaming to the extreme does not simply mean creating a skateboarding simulation, I think a game from a different perspective entirely would be an excellent idea.
I think we should have more games based in Africa - maybe where you are a Lion cub, and have to fight through the ranks to become the mane brute in your pride - it would be such a great game & there'd be the perfect excuse to have some Ladysmith & Black Mombazo music with it. Surely with the new next generation consoles arriving, we finally have the power to create decent enough visuals - Gladiator Tiger style, but with Lions instead...
I've also often wondered what it would be like to be a fly - short life and wing span, but it 'must' be fun crashing into all those windows, surely it's some kind of game they play "Bzzzz No Brain Bzzzz". Imagine the final level; you've already contaminated an entire banquet, but obviously didn't realise the punch was 'spiked', causing you to fly straight into a spiders web. You can imagine the rest...oh ok then - after a stunning cut scene you then have to somehow outsmart your eight legged foe as the game suddenly turns into the final round of the Weakest Link. Ahem...
I think wacky ideas should not be disposed of - new genres can easily be created, such as your 'Rex' genre, and they should be.
Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!
"Not Yet, Not Yet"
:-)
I think we should have more games based in Africa - maybe where you are a Lion cub, and have to fight through the ranks to become the mane brute in your pride - it would be such a great game & there'd be the perfect excuse to have some Ladysmith & Black Mombazo music with it. Surely with the new next generation consoles arriving, we finally have the power to create decent enough visuals - Gladiator Tiger style, but with Lions instead...
I've also often wondered what it would be like to be a fly - short life and wing span, but it 'must' be fun crashing into all those windows, surely it's some kind of game they play "Bzzzz No Brain Bzzzz". Imagine the final level; you've already contaminated an entire banquet, but obviously didn't realise the punch was 'spiked', causing you to fly straight into a spiders web. You can imagine the rest...oh ok then - after a stunning cut scene you then have to somehow outsmart your eight legged foe as the game suddenly turns into the final round of the Weakest Link. Ahem...
I think wacky ideas should not be disposed of - new genres can easily be created, such as your 'Rex' genre, and they should be.
Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!
"Not Yet, Not Yet"
:-)
My current PS2 games collection consists of driving games, platform games, first person shooters and extreme sports games. Ok, so some of the games I own I think are amazing, Jak and Daxtar, Tony Hawk's 3 etc but none have taken me too the elusive 3rd place that those strange PS2 adverts suggested to me. When have I ever sprouted fur, grown huge jaws and drooled all over whilst flying through planets on my carbon rocket? Never. Ok, so not even a moron would be taken in by those adverts but forgive me for thinking I could expect something very different and amazing from the next generations of consoles, God knows they cost enough when released.
Where are the new games, really new games not just sequels or copies of an already existent game with a bigger gun, 12 more cars or a new footballers face plastered on the front. I expect more. I deserve more. Why aren't there different games out there, fun games that do something different. Super Monkey Ball sounded good but turned out to be a strange game where you stop monkeys in balls from falling down holes and of the edge of something by tilting a board, so much like a pinball-esque machine then. Am I the only one who wanted a multi-player game where little fluffy monkeys played a game like volleyball to compete for the glorious golden cheese? Perhaps.
I don't want to see 12 different football games all pretty much the same and focusing on photorealistic graphics or something. How about "Luke Chadwick's Footballing game" where the aim of the game is to earn enough money by showing of your football skills to Old Age Pensioners in rest homes to be able to afford a new face before all your spots burst and drown the civilised world. Ok, perhaps that would be a bit too inventive and slightly sickening but somebody who makes games much have some sort of an imagination.
I also see no games on the shelfs which involve seeing the world through the eyes of a dog. You would never look at the world the same again after experiencing this game. You are Rex, a 3 month old puppy in search of adventure. From the start of the game your movement is restricted due to your size and the fact that you are really young and consequently don't have much of a brain to speak of. You can choose whether to use your houndish skills for good or evil, see that radiator over in the corner half covered by that long curtain? It is either a great place to lay a suprise for your owner so that the smells moves round the whole house without them knowing where it comes from or you can choose to be really good and do tricks for the little girl in order to get your bed moved closer to the warmth.
Ok, so the people who make games are pretty good at there job, mainly, and my ideas are a little too weird to make it into a game but there must be someone out there who has a happy medium. C'mon, I don't want to wake up from this dream in 10 years to find myself playing Metal Gear Solid 4, exactly the same only this time with a new character and on a boat, oh no, thats been done already. I would probably much rather buy a fresh new game than spend money on GT5 with 14 more tracks and 100000000000 different cars. Plus I'm still hoping that someone makes Army Men 27 so I can buy 4 copies and use them as coasters.
Where are the new games, really new games not just sequels or copies of an already existent game with a bigger gun, 12 more cars or a new footballers face plastered on the front. I expect more. I deserve more. Why aren't there different games out there, fun games that do something different. Super Monkey Ball sounded good but turned out to be a strange game where you stop monkeys in balls from falling down holes and of the edge of something by tilting a board, so much like a pinball-esque machine then. Am I the only one who wanted a multi-player game where little fluffy monkeys played a game like volleyball to compete for the glorious golden cheese? Perhaps.
I don't want to see 12 different football games all pretty much the same and focusing on photorealistic graphics or something. How about "Luke Chadwick's Footballing game" where the aim of the game is to earn enough money by showing of your football skills to Old Age Pensioners in rest homes to be able to afford a new face before all your spots burst and drown the civilised world. Ok, perhaps that would be a bit too inventive and slightly sickening but somebody who makes games much have some sort of an imagination.
I also see no games on the shelfs which involve seeing the world through the eyes of a dog. You would never look at the world the same again after experiencing this game. You are Rex, a 3 month old puppy in search of adventure. From the start of the game your movement is restricted due to your size and the fact that you are really young and consequently don't have much of a brain to speak of. You can choose whether to use your houndish skills for good or evil, see that radiator over in the corner half covered by that long curtain? It is either a great place to lay a suprise for your owner so that the smells moves round the whole house without them knowing where it comes from or you can choose to be really good and do tricks for the little girl in order to get your bed moved closer to the warmth.
Ok, so the people who make games are pretty good at there job, mainly, and my ideas are a little too weird to make it into a game but there must be someone out there who has a happy medium. C'mon, I don't want to wake up from this dream in 10 years to find myself playing Metal Gear Solid 4, exactly the same only this time with a new character and on a boat, oh no, thats been done already. I would probably much rather buy a fresh new game than spend money on GT5 with 14 more tracks and 100000000000 different cars. Plus I'm still hoping that someone makes Army Men 27 so I can buy 4 copies and use them as coasters.