Man-Frog's Game Ideas

[Manspeed]

I made a grand total of two threads here, but since then I died and came back with a new body. From here, I will start anew, and I finally have a better idea of how I want to structure this thread. Here, I will post a few ideas with some brief descriptions, then make a poll to see which one will be made into it's own thread, with in-depth detail.

I: Donkey Kong World
First up is an idea for a 3D adventure that's meant to propel the DK franchise back onto the platformer shelf. Now, Mario has running and jumping around, Metroid has shooting and exploring, Kirby had copying abilities and beating up on enemies, Yoshi had a mobile life meter and lots of precise target hitting, and Wario had brute force and wacky pain-activated transformations. What did DKC have? The buddy system. In this game, you can run, jump, swim, explore, fight enemies and do a bunch of other stuff, all with the help of a buddy. You can either team two Kongs together or enlist the help of a friendly animal. The idea is that the game has the usual platforming, adventuring and fighting mechanics, except here they're built for two characters to work in tandem with one another. Think, M&L, only not an RPG, and heavily based on the atmospheric theme of DKC.

II: Super Mario Party DX
Couldn't think of a better title, but I know you all hate the Party series, so as a bonus, I'll make another thread doing an analysis of what makes the Mario Parties suck, and what there is to like about them. As for this particular idea, it's supposed to be a bigass package that combines all the mini-games and boards from the first three Parties and adds some of the silly features added in the later entires. Sorta like what they did with Saturn Bomberman after Super Bombermans 1 through 5.

III: Super Mario Kart GP Legend
I couldn't think of a better title, but I feel this series needs something better. This would have a roster of 34 obscure Mario characters, 36 brand new courses, and a catalog of around 100 items for making races hectic. The courses have all the manner of hidden paths and shortcuts, and there's a wide challenge spectrum with ten whole levels of difficulty.


As of now I only have two. More will come later. I also have plans for other types of threads, such as analysises(sp) of various game series, and rants about really shoddy games a la the Angry Nerd.

[Manspeed]

NEW: I am bumping this thread to signify that I edited the first post. I ho[e this isn't too much of a problem, seeing is how nobody else posted here.

[Snuka7]

THESE ARE GREAT IDEAS! I really like the Super Mario Party one...Mart Kart also sounds good. The Dk one would be cool because Donkey Kong Country would kind of be back and if that comes back...WARIO LAND WILL! And so will Kid Iacurs hopefully. I hope tose become real. Nintendo takes ideas from the whole internet like Brawl took ideas from August kid's sketchs.

[Manspeed]

After reading Flip's recent post in his game idea thread, I got a spark of inspiration and decided to continue mine. This means that my Bomberman history thread will be on hold for a bit.

IS there anyway I can convert this thread into a poll to ask you guys which game idea I should elaborate on first?

IV: Super Mario World 3/ New Super Mario World
After everything about the new Wario Land 5 just came up, I really wanted Mario to get the same treatment. This game would be a massive adventure across the Mushroom World, featuring the return of all the enemies and power-ups you've come to know and love. It's like a ROM hacker's dream. The game even makes use of the Wii's more-than-a-SNES- graphical capabilities to make the game look like a suped-up SNES game with additional graphical effects, much like those present in Four Swords Adventures on the GCN.

V: Wario World II / Wario Quest
You might've heard this before, but this is a resurfacing of an idea I had way back in the GCN era for a 3D Wario game that borrows more from Super Mario 64 and the Wario Land series. From what I recall, my idea for a story involved Wario getting trapped in another world like in WL3, except this time it was via a massive magical mural, which gets shattered into 300 pieces. This would start Wario's great quest to gather as many coins, gems, and bits of treasure in addition to those mural pieces before escaping. Much of the game's puzzles would revolve around using those wacky transformations in a 3D environment.

[Manspeed]

Now that I think of it, there's ten million other ideas I wanted to post in here, but instead I'll just post my most recent ones.

Mario, Luigi, Wario & Waluigi
This was originally my idea for a Mario & Luigi 3 until AlphaDream announced something completely different. Furthermore, it was inspired by a fan-made sprite sheet showing what Wario and Waluigi would look like in an M&L game.

The gameplay itself would be everything that Partners in Time should've been. You have two sets of Bros. that can also form a group of four, resulting in a huge amount of combination and special move possibilites.

As for the plot, I think I nicked my friend Old Buzzard's idea of Wart and Tatanga getting revenge on Mario by building a giant combination Dream Machine/Pagosu robot. The comic relief parts ensue when Wario and Waluigi wind up having to work alongside Mario and Luigi in order to meet their own ends.

Platformer/Virtual Pet combo
This was based on someone else's idea I read once which I opted to develop into something more.

You're given a platformer character and have to become friends with it in the virtual pet part of the game. Once the character trusts you, it'll actually start to listen to your button commands in the platformer part. Then you can train it in tests of Speed (beat the clock), Power (beat the enemies) and Technique (navigate the obstacles) until it becomes a hero to rival Mario.

It's worth noting that this actually started out as a Mario game in the same vein as the Mario Golf or Tennis RPGs for GBC, except this time instead of playing sports, you're a student enrolled at an academy that teaches how to be a "super plumber" like Mario.

Mario & Luigi: The Brave and the Bold
Look at the tentative title and guess what the premise is...

..Didn't get the reference? It's about Mario and Luigi teaming up with other, lesser known Nintendo heroes. Started out as an idea for a fan comic, but then I figured it would be good as an entry in the Mario RPG series. Kinda like Mario & Luigi with the party member system from Paper Mario, except here I'm using Nintendo's two most well-known characters in order to introduce people to their lesser-known characters. Similar to Smash Bros. except more specific and precise.

[Koopaul]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold, kinda sucks. Not saying your game idea sucks, just the show. Yeah I would like to have a game that had Mario team up with forgotten heroes. I had an idea once similar to Justice League with Mario characters. Where Mario forms a team of heroes to fight all sorts of bad guys. A combination of those ideas would be awesome.

[Manspeed]

I like the Brave and the Bold, dammit! It's nice to have a Batman show that isn't "OmG sEriOuS" and still portrays Batman himself as fairly badass. I think it's very fun to watch and considerably better than most shows on CN right now.

To get back on topic, I'm pretty sure the whole point of a "Justice League" is to team up characters from different series, not just characters from one series.

Maybe we could do something when the time comes...