MODEGONE'S PROFILE

Still not sure which stories to use or how to use them. I'm spoiled for choice.

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I think I might do a game based on a Russian fairy tale. They have some imaginative tales.

Only four I know of are the lich who did this super elaborate trick with his phylactery, one of them involving Baba Yaga, trolls invading some family's house and just wrecking the place with constant parties until the daughter brings in a freaking bear, and the one where a young girl encounters three riders representing dawn and day and night.

Top 10 summer movies:

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Toy Story 4
3. The LEGO Movie Sequel
4. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
5. Slender Man
6. Ocean's 8
7. Christopher Robin
8. The Incredibles 2
9. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
10. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

Can't fit on the list:
Deadpool 2
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ant-Man

There's this idea that won't leave me alone. Several, actually, but one would be spoiled if I talked about it. Another I think I've mentioned before.

Essentially its a conceptual hybrid of Shadowrun and Robocop (and a dash of FF7 mostly with Crisis Core since there might be comparisons to Shin-Ra) with a visual mix of the Borg Queen for the main character between missions. You are a security officer in a cyberpunk dystopia. Unlike most of the other guards due to an incident near the end of your training you were left paraplegic... but you still had a contract with the company to fulfill. To this end they used you as an experimental mechcore. Like the Borg Queen being installed into a new machine body, you are installed into different mecha frames based on the situation. An intruder has snuck into the building? Speed-frame with claws overlapping your arms. Terrorists attacking the company compound? Two-person wide minitank with either shoulder-mounted auto-feed turrets or plasma grenade launchers. In essence the different mechs would serve as SubClass packages with skills inherent to them. With enough use of certain ones you can 'record' the skills to your headware, this is the basically same thing seen with some Weapon Skills in various RPGs. At first the game plays out a few missions from the company but after what is effectively the prologue you have the option to either follow along and fulfill your contract or try to escape from the people who decided to experiment on you.

This could work as a tactical RPG or the combat mechanics could be more like Long Gone Days or Medabots GB. There ideally would be a Displayed Loyalty system. The more loyal you act, the more freedom you have. Less freedom could mean lowered pay, weaker weaponry in a bid to have an "combat damage" excuse to work on you some more, or even being shoved into a stasis pod between shifts. Higher loyalty could also mean better rewards for filling out jobs, lowered cost of living and for various goods and services, or to trigger some otherwise rare events. A low Loyalty character is treated with derision by the company but some characters would react with disgust at how you are being treated. There also would be a chance that some of the enemies you are sent to dispatch would offer you a way out. A high Loyalty character would be lauded as the company's golden boy, an ideal worker. Just as with the low Loyalty reactions there would be some characters who sneer down at you for being a "dumb thug". Some enemies during fights would also target you more than your allies and there could be a chance that someone on your side could turn on you (either to rise in the ranks and claim it was an accident, or just to get rid of a potential threat to their own safety because who knows how you may react to someone not following all the rules).

Ideally this would open up into more than just a hub-base with a bunch of missions but if you're not careful it could become nothing but missions.

I'm torn between Gourd_Clae, riderx40, and I am ashamed to admit my own. Gourd's looks like a brown flamed hedgehog. Rider's looks like a particularly nasty desert-based enemy. As for my own, I am proud about the stomach-mouth and all the fur.

I found rider's to be charming. While I didn't see the shape as a crown it was an interesting form that called to mind Hindu gods and medieval-fantasy warlocks. It also has the added boon of feeling the most polished.