The Ideas Scumbag

Full of ideas, each one worse than the last.

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but Predators, part two, and Aliens too

A Predator hunting in cooler climates for a challenge gets curious about a particular hot spot and goes to investigate, soon discovering spas and hot springs and so on. Thermae Romae but Predators.

Riddick but Predators. And Aliens too, for that matter.

Primitive/Survival social media video channel but starring a Predator.

Alien from Jones’ POV. Then it turns out Jones is one of those utterly ungraceful cats, the alien recognizes a fellow vicious predator, and being caught just means a lot of face squeezing and paw squishing and general cat bothering.

“Replace the Alien with a Predator. Call it Predator: Isolation. Give Ripley a machine gun[...] “ -Bloodcider

Better yet, don't. Leave them lying around all over the place with the option to pick one up always present, but never shove one into her hands or require their use.

Predator MMOs consist entirely of "fetch 10 bear asses" quests don't they

“I think a film focusing on xenomorphs on earth would be fun. Sort of an Area 51/Half Life approach where they have several specimens in a secure remote underground facility and need to stop them from breaking out and getting to the surface once all hell inevitably breaks loose.“ -BiggerBoat

The precipitating incident is an WY exec having a meltdown in the facility and doing something like repeatedly headbutting one of the aliens while screaming about safety.

“You couldn’t have xenos all the time either, otherwise it would weaken them as an enemy.” -The_Doctor

Actually, have xenos all the time by making it a nature show with a lot of various expedition and observation footage and xenodroid telemetry and interviews with xenobiologists and xenoecologists and marines and roboticists and the xenodroids themselves.

“Personally, I'd be down for the David show. Starring David.“ -MonsieurChoc

A surreal anticomedy talk show hosted by David, where he is the band sometimes and fucks up his citations all the time and anyone who calls him out gets stabbed in the neck.

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internet of shit but wizards

your candles are part of a botnet, your spellbook keeps showing you dick ads, your familiar's figured out how to order stuff with your crystal ball, and one of your magic doorways is sealed shut because the enchanter who made it got pissed at you and remotely locked it down

at least you got this free cauldron when your neighbor threw it out the window of their wizard tower to "own the witches"

also you're looking for a new wand since your current one's turned into an inert stick and you can't even remember what you were going to use its 500 or whatever PSI of pressure feature on.

i feel that the current oglaf ties into this pretty well too

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Sethur’s Ultimate Horror Game Concept

You play as a man.

A bad man.

You have a gun.

A big gun.

You’re in a city.

The city...

...is Gotham.

When Sethur told us about this way back, we already knew - from the terrifying asymmetrical multiplayer modes of AvP and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - that the horror game player character did not have to be slow, helpless, or even weak. Not even relatively weak. Look at the kind of firepower that Colonial Marines and Mercenaries are carrying around. You point that at the monster, you can end it on the spot. But you have to know where the monster is to point your gun at it. Maybe you know where it is but it’s put your buddy in the way as it drags him off into the dark. Or maybe you’re the one being dragged off into the dark.

It was Arkham Asylum that precipitated the concept for Sethur, when you’re picking off the goons one by one and the remaining are getting increasingly freaked out and you can just terrify the last guy into submission. You simply switch those roles. Make the player that last guy.

And somewhere out there... Batman.

And yes, just as in the earlier examples, you have firepower, if you can get Batman in your sights, you can end the whole ordeal on the spot. You can do it. In theory.

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Travel/Local Rider

Not too long back, saw some Twitter posts about the Local/Indie Suit Hero scene with some very cool characters such as Naraiger and Ibagirl. And I thought:

A tokusatsu show where the main character rides around Japan (on a barely-disguised touring bike like a Honda Gold Wing or such) meeting such characters and helping out with their problems (not completely solving them, I think, but just lending a hand while around and able to do so). Like some weird but chill combination of monster-of-the-week tokusatsu with Dirty Jobs with a travel show.

Perhaps some interpersonal conflict could arise from occasional weird idiosyncrasies. Imagine if: Naraiger, like the Nara deer he’s based on, has a poor sense of boundaries when it comes to food. “I got some chips for the deer.” “They’re mine now.” crunch “Wait, what, no- HOW DID YOU DO THAT SO FAST”

Perhaps this could be expanded to include local/indie mascots too: imagine a KR MC who is incredibly intimidated by Chiitan.

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High-FOV Horror

Been watching this year’s Super Best Friends Shitstorm and got to thinking: I want to see someone make a horror game using a high-FOV low-distortion projection such as panini, without going full 360 degrees to maintain some blind spots.

In what ways would high player awareness and the loss of low FOV’s inherent closeness/intimacy force a horror game to expand its bag of tricks? Things that are actually fast when they move and approach Things that try to stay behind you Things that only appear in your peripheral vision Things that only act when in your field of view, or a particular part of your field of view Things that stay still when in your field of view ...combined with things that don’t Carried light sources with limited illumination zones that aren’t fixed straight forward and can be moved around within the FOV Changing environment geometry Numerous simultaneous enemies Things that cannot be seen

What else?

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Chiltepin Roulette

The ghost pepper comes in consistently at just a bit over a million scoville. That’s a guaranteed bad time for most people.

We don’t want that. The consistency, that is. We want instability.

The chiltepin is a cute little wild variety that’s all over the place, anywhere from 50k to 2.5 million scoville.

A few plants, different growing conditions, fruits at different growing stages. Throw em in a bag and give it a good shake.

Take one.

Maybe you’ll be fine.

Maybe you’ll die.

I don’t know.

I don’t know.

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but Predators

Gimme a miniseries about Wolf's previous cleanup jobs. Starts out believing in the mininuke and that everyone deathblasts responsibly and cleaners are only for when something goes catastrophically wrong. Immediately disabused of the notion on the first job and gets progressively dead inside as he realizes the scale of his culture's massive survivor bias and how he contributes to it.

A massive and bizarre series of mininuke attacks - not self-destructs - targeting strategic weapons and specific industries turns out to be the work of predator conservationists trying to maintain a long-term sustainable population of fighty humans.

Zardoz but Predators. Giant stone Predator head flying around spewing mininukes and plasma casters and so on to the hunters who worship it. THE GUN IS GOOD THE PENIS IS EVIL but it's all clicks and roars and some fancypants immortal hedonist Eternal Predator telling the hunters to go forth and kill the other species of the galaxy. Barely even need to change up the hunter outfits. Maybe add a bit more red, but that's it.

A Predator rampage around the Chicago area turns out to be a Cleaner team pursuing a Doctor Predator, but the real villains are another Doctor and a one-armed ex-Cleaner who want to deploy Upgrade technology that the first Doctor opposed. The Fugitive but with Predators, basically.

A Veteran Predator of the Upgrade war descends upon the Game Preserve Planet to find a hunting buddy who was lost and left behind after they escaped capture during the war. The Deer Hunter but Predators.

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Western Folklore Isekai

Isekai where the protagonist gets dumped into the wild world of western folklore. Giant lumberjacks and riding tornados. "damn, this house is drafty. time to wrestle a whole pack of wolves and make them stand around and be cold for us." Hoop snakes and jackalopes everywhere.

“paul bunyan and babe the blue ox showing up in an isekai would be pretty weird“ -Denzine

“Buddies with a guy who goes around planting [apple] seeds“ -Lallander

“General Sherman's eyes glowed with killing intent” -CM_Kruger

“sherman is probably not someone you want to meet in a violent fantasyland” -Denzine

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Production Rider

A tokusatsu show that casually walks in and out of the fourth wall constantly and is actually about the production process of such a show.

All the staff are have suit transformations whenever it is time to exercise their godlike powers over the show-within-the-show.

What would normally be the first couple of monsters-of-the-week wind up becoming main characters too alongside the show-within-the-show’s heroes, what with how they’re showing up in all parts of the process: writing, rehearsing, acting, CG, editing...

No real overt main villain though although the ominous shadow of time and budget constraints occasionally manifest as suited presences.

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Garbage Shipgirls

Mobile whatever-genre game about shipgirls with modern (mid cold war to current) designs, but none of the glamour, and all of the boondoggles and killing time. Subs drawing dicks in the ocean, a new model ship that disintegrates in seawater, a testbed stealth ship that can’t be sold, rusting hulks of ekranoplans sitting on the shore and subs with leaky reactors sitting in port waiting to be dismantled, design bloat, hot* aircraft carriers, joint exercises with increasingly restrictive and esoteric limitations and objectives, bored-ass museum ships, all sorts of misfires including a new-model too-independent anti-ship cruise missile that immediately locks onto an unfortunate fishing boat, a battleship that keeps getting dragged out of retirement, and so on.

* not like that**. I mean radioactive.

** but, also, exactly like that. It’s a genre thing, yes?

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A Grimdark Ramsay show

Kitchen Heresies or whatever

"You see that little line there?" "Yeah." "I'm not gonna ask you to taste it, that's its chaos sac. You don't eat that." "I'VE NEVER TAKEN THAT OUT! I'VE EATEN THAT!"

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FEED THE MOUNTAIN

Battle Royale, players are dropped onto a death zone mountain. Everyone is horribly underequipped and immediately, the cold meters start going up as the blood oxygen meters start going down. The red zone is a whiteout snowstorm closing in.

No proper ranged weapons. In fact, no proper weapons at all (sure, ice axes and knives are better suited but they’re tools first and foremost). Everything can be used as a melee weapon, everything can be thrown. Equipment can be randomly placed, found accumulated at lower flat places, scavenged off of dead climbers who had come before (with a mechanic for feigning death in different poses), or placed in caches of new gear in good condition, with occasional airdrops.

The all-important oxygen tanks come in various states. Older ones might not have meters and have to be guessed at by weight. Caches and airdrops may contain transfer equipment and sabotage tanks filled with helium or nitrous. Inventory is only vaguely labeled so a good mental record is necessary to avoid self-owning when trying to get someone else to laugh themselves to death. As blood oxygen plummets, the hallucinations begin. Was that a phantom climber out the corner of your eye, or is someone closing in on you? Did that dead landmark just move?

You bet your ass there should be ice physics. Better find some crampons.

Basically a multiplayer game of screaming, ice axes, frostbite, hallucinations, and lethal pratfalls.

In order to reflect the condition of Everest, there is also a Poop meter. Once in contact with the mountain, everything you do causes the Poop meter to rise. Walk around a bit, the Poop meter goes up a bit. Trip and fall at a rocky campsite, it jumps up. Take a drink from a glacier pond, WHY DID IT GO UP THAT MUCH?! The Poop meter does nothing in the game itself, but determines the severity of intestinal distress shown in the winning player’s victory animation.

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A fantasy isekai of the standard hit-by-a-truck style which only seems to be notable for not being gross and having a fast pace. Just as things seem to be about to wrap up conclusively, the protagonist hears a vroom and a honk.

It’s a truck.

It’s the same truck.

The real title is revealed: Hunted by an Interdimensional Reincarnation Truck

[fishnoisesa]

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A bad idea for a starting post: reblogging my own post of my own image quoting myself