Gunslinger Girl (Hypothetical) Game

Starting up another thread.


Hypothetical scenario; CC Interactive is a big name video game developer, and has recently gained the rights to develop a game based on the popular manga franchise Gunslinger Girl as a tie in for some big movie adaptation. They have unlimited funds, processing power, enough programming talent to put SEGA, Bungie and Take Two combined to shame... basically everything except the game concept itself. Which is basically our job. So what do we make?

The pasta thing should be an RPG instead.

Nah, I'll let someone else post their RPG idea for a change.

And 2D fighting games need to be over the top. This isabout as over the top as you can get.

I'm thinking of a sandbox action game called 'Rico's Day Out' but will hold off presenting for now.

A FPS similar to Battlefield: Bad Company based off of Nactsider's Battlezone story.

I think it will be better a squad based tactical FPS like Rainbow Six. Suits the GSG atmosphere better as opposed to Triela mowing down everything with her unlimited ammo Winchester.

I also think it will needs a lot of quirky inter-squadmate interaction with good VAs

Eg; Player as Henrietta calls for help. Elsa says STFU over the radio because she is taking fire while Triela comes running swearing all the while. Rico who is somewhere else makes a random comment ofa cool paining she's just found.

Cooking With the Gunslinger Girls, ala cooking mama:

Cooking with Angie comprises of Italian dishes, extra points for pasta

Cooking with Henrietta relies heavily on sweets and deserts, extra points of Joze likes it

Cooking with Rico comprises of breakfast meals, extra points for pancakes (guess why, points at whatface)

Cooking with Triela means intercontinental dishes, extra points for perfection

boss level cooking with Claes means the whole damn course from appetizer too desert, extra points for baking


the catch, you fail you dont just get a "don't worry mama will fix this" you get... well it's GSG what do you think you'll get?

boomer_gonz wrote:A FPS similar to Battlefield: Bad Company based off of Nactsider's Battlezone story.

Y'know, if I could be bothered to learn to code properly right now, I would seriously give that a go. I even have a tutorial for making FPSs. Only trouble is, that will make a Linux client only, and I really can't be bothered to move beyond C right now

I miss the good old days of platforming shooters. I say GsG, Contra style.

WAIT!!

METAL SLUG:GSG!!

Only this time have the ammo display be for the girls respective weapons only and their respective handguns be their sidearms. It will go like so.

Triela's Shotgun would take the place of...oh hell the shotgun is STILL one of the OMG I KILLED EVERYTHING ON SCREEN gun in that game.

Henrietta's P90 would take the place of the 'heavy machine gun".

Rico's SVD would take the place of the 'Rocket Launcher' only it would be faster and harder hitting. It would have the range that Triela's shotgun doesn't yet not hit as hard.

That's all I got for now because I have to go back to work. So any thoughts?

Get the source code for Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid ('tis open-source) and change it to make it GSG!

Open source is so awesome, I think I'm gonna cry *sniff*

Man, a metal slug side scrolling shooter with the GSGs would be so insane. Still you can't have a metal slug game without giving the characters a big tank to drive... so... Bear Brigade Tank?

2D Side scrolling shooter: yes! That's a great idea. Of course, me being me, I feel an open-and-shut run-and-gun setup might be over simplifying the finer nuances that the source material offers. Design the stages to offer a little more tact (you could bust in the front door guns blazing, or you could take the back route and only kill, perhaps even abduct, the target).

If I were personally in the designer's chair, I'd play it out as an OC centric tale. "Gunslinger Girl: Rebirth". You'd get to name your player cyborg and choose a specialty and all that. In between main missions you would have a certain amount of time to distribute on side missions. You could complete training missions to gain additional skills OR take on additional story missions for additional resources in later scenarios (if you take the "clearing the communications relay" side mission, the main mission where you raid the compound won't have reinforcements coming at you on the way out, for example). This would offer a nice challenge and reward a basic, vanilla playstyle that is tactically employed, particularly if the plot is affected. Speaking of, the plot would branch to include Canon Character missions and add the other girls in as optional support characters for later missions.

Underneath the surface gameplay, the game would also keep track of how much damage you took out on missions and thus how much conditioning is needed to repair the cyborg afterwords. If your cyborg took too much conditioning it would affect the choices of the game, particularly the ending. A high conditioning dosage would mean fewer choices. Instead of starting the mission outside the building, for example, you'd be forced into the "back door" route. A low conditioning dosage would allow for broader choice as the plot progressed. Although it would be a ton of extra work, it would be nice if this broader range of choice allowed for alternate ending missions. For example, say you find documents mentioning the plan to bring Dante into the fray. The last mission would then be intercepting him at the docks. If you didn't get in fast enough to retrieve the documents before they were wiped, you'd get a different mission (St. Mark's tower perhaps?).

Anyway, yes: fast, pick up and go gameplay that can be adapted and refined, an original cyborg for better player-character bonding, and a branching plot dependent upon Player actions within the mission (e.g. damage taken, secrets found, time elapsed). That'd basically be the selling points. I'd buy a game like that.