It seems like a whole month or even more since I last wrote a few of my ideas for a theoretical MyIGN console which means it's only fair to write a few more of my ideas for a set of MyIGN exclusives right now for the MyIGN console... if that makes sense. Writing this now, I'm not sure how long this blog will be so I will only write a few ideas for now since there's too many to write out but could please you MyIGNers if it actually became a reality since I aim to explore all sorts of potential within several genres and I'm sure other video game developers. Wait! Scratch that other word. I'm not a video game designer yet! So if you're new or a fan of my blogs, you know the drill! Prepare your snacks, sit back and relax to enjoy the show!
Deathtination
This game is set around a couple named Elise who works for a secret military organization and Andrew who have arranged to go on to their honeymoon to a lodge in Norway which Andrew built himself so he wouldn't really have to pay for any mortgage or whatever. They seem happy and like everything will only become better for their lives... but this ultimately turns in to the polar opposite where they are abducted taken to a lab and fitted with cybernetic wings attached to their exoskeleton giving them both dreams of flight. Many vivid but many difficult to understand and extremely painful both physically and mentally. Elise is able to break out of her liquid container. It's a cold and darks place filled with uncertainty and right beside her is Andrew's tank. She tries to comprehend what she has on her back and attempts to break it off but is somehow able to activate the locking system for his tank. Andrew is flushed out and believed to be dead, she goes in to frightful rage where unconscious actions from herself and the wings help her to escape.
Over time, she is able adapt to what she calls a contraption over each non linear mission and instead is able to unlock some secrets as well as memories of those she doesn't even know AKA those focused on the wing project. A lot of this takes place in Scandinavia which is mostly the countries in Northern Europe such as Volcanic Iceland, Gamerland Finland and Awesome Norway. You get the idea. Anyways this however means that it can explore many locations not seen in many games such as violent coasts battered by the forces of nature, oil rigs in the stormy North Sea and beautiful landscapes of Fjords.
Taking place over a whole year, Elise adapts to the environment and becomes like a Hawk figure, able to hunt in non-linear areas both vertical and to the horizon and as she gains more armour and technology, she can use abilities from using lasers to break apart castles secretly containing labs to a rock proof suit which means she can dive from hundreds of feet in the air to her target, usually ripping apart everything in a crater form when she hits the ground, breaking up rocks and flesh. No matter if it's Human or building. Things will get messy. Although this also tests her abilities when cybernetic Humans with several abilities of their own from jumping high distances giving them a good kick to the face and electric robots are ordered to take her down but then again, she can always defend herself with the wings.
After many times of travelling past cities, gathering data, fleeing from brutal enemies and being mistaken for Superman, she is able to control these abilities and can retract her wings at will in order to access ferry lines to place transmitters and hide away while listening to her enemies spill the beans of what she's searching for.
This leads to many boss fights where the commander of these cyborgs and robots becomes fed up personally engages in a fight with her leaving them both scarred yet Elise is able to use some sort of telepathic connection with her, obtaining her memories and gaining the truth that her husband is still alive but barely in another facility in Svalbard, an island north of Norway. The commander knocks her out yet when Elise wakes up, she's still alive hinting that they won't her to die and Andrew is important to them. Using a few assets, she is able to make arrangements for a boat ride and after sailing in to some rough storms, it comes under attack by some more flying robots she's never met before which turn out to be cyborgs close to herself. She knows she's getting close to the center of the twisted experiments. She finds a lab using her powers to locate it which is encased in snow underground and within mountains. Massive in scale, but she's able to find some ways around all the complex defences and booby traps (no pun intended).
There she finds the commander and engages in one final fight. Learning from the commander's moves, she's able to get the upper hand this time round. However through painful screaming from the commander as Elise's vengeance to take the commander's helmet off takes a hold which brings a revelation. The commander is a friend or was a friend at the military but is told that the members all signed a contract about doing anything necessary for experimental weapons. Elise thinks back and realises she did sign the contract but didn't know it would lead sickening experiments. She just thought she was gonna design high tech weapons. If she never broke out of her tank, she may have been forced to join and in a way, is still running away. She notices her friend's wings had been cut off from the intense fight which she realises is a death wish to even try removing the devices. In her final words, she explains, the technology provides cyborgs to communicate with each other but Elise's is not perfected so she still needs time to develop her powers but she's not sorry and triggers an emergency detonation within Andrew's tank.
She finds Andrew aware of her presence but there's a problem. Since she broke him out so easily, he has been attached to a mechanism behind his back so the only way to break him out would mean she would have to rip in to his chest and and break the mechanism which she does in indecision with only a few seconds to decide. Not knowing whether she can mentally break the connection. She breaks him out just in time but is already on the brink of death. Elise begins reflecting on the past times they had together via flashbacks. Both in a state of shock and shacking. Elise from the fear of losing her best friend and Andrew from the intense pain shrouding his mind. With this, she decides to have a thought and looks at the wing from the commander. The wing is still in perfect condition and understands how surgery works via her powers which hints that in a desperate attempt to save him, she may proceed with replacing his body with a set of wings therefore making a new life support system and have the receive the same fate she has but it's left unknown...
Rising Wolf
The war of World War 2 rages in this open world game and even though it seems like the Nazis are going to lose the war, a 32 year old British spy trained to hunt down the generals no matter what is tasked with eliminating a powerful general who is going to use secret technology to escape who is located in a remote region in Germany. After parachuting in to Germany and using stealth to get past enemies driving away from the area, he reaches a mansion to which he is told, houses a superweapon capable of winning the war and who knows what else. It's deserted with many scientists dead with only the trace of drawings for their blueprinted designs. He finally fins the general escaping in to a secret passage and after a gun shooting chase which was what the spy was trained for, they reach a secluded room where the general disappears and transforms in to a Wolf crawling in to a crack in the wall, to small for a Human to fit through. Only where another Wolf remains to sit, the only part of life existing within the entire building aside from the spy himself and thoughts that maybe the device nearby could do the same thing because it was the only way to stop the general by any means necessary. He grabs the device and ultimately he sees the world through the eyes of the Wolf where he sees his Human body fall right in front of him.
This however creates many questions Did the Wolf transfer in to his body? Will he ever be able to return back to his body? Where is the General's body? Either way, he found it difficult to move but in a way he felt supported by a force he didn't understand yet it helped and he began using his new found animal senses to sniff out the general. After finding a scent, his journey leads him though several countries and forests and in a way comprehending the reality around him with the beginning of the Cold War. In a way, it's a game where you can see the historical world through the eyes of an animal.
^There's a little snow on my nose... where's my handkerchief?
However unlike many Wolves which kill cattle and can wound and even kill Humans, he is able to communicate with both Wolves and Humans using several actions like rolling over which will be seen differently by different people. To some, it may bring happiness to viewers, others may try to hunt him and many could just walk by. He can affect the world around though such as when he a family is put at risk by a pack of Wolves, he is able to step in and stop that, ultimately creating alliances of 2 fronts which helps in the open world environment stretching from Germany and France, all the way to Great Britain and the USSR. With this, he can sniff out or answer to a call for help that only he can hear in order to create new friends and enemies and also create puzzles and crime scenes for the gamer to sit, wonder and wag their tail. Throughout the game, it makes the character wonder who is in control of the body but through dreams, the spy appears in his own body with the wolf he is in the body of. Both active and alive and in a way propels the character to find answers.
After losing what seemed to be an eternal scent of the enemy, a few years later, he discovers his luck has changed where he finds a scene full of gore but his senses tell them it's fresh and runs after in the direction to the enemy. This however turns in to difficult situation where he is shot by a bunch of hunters and finds the general in completely different clothing than when he last saw him in a Nazi uniform who tells him that he will destroy the United States as a beacon that World War 2 has not finished.This confuses the spy because why is he not a Wolf too? The general gives permission to skin the animal to the hunters just before they are ambushed by a few of the spy's friends and runs after the general. He leaps on to the boat making it's way to the next world but suddenly he hits his head while sliding down the boats ramp but ultimately undetected.
By the time he makes his way out of his sleep and yet another meeting with Mr. Wolf in his dream, he wakes up, looking around the vessel and finds that they have reached New York. An entire sea away from his home but he couldn't give up. This was the last time to stop his enemy so after a chase through an alleyway. The General shows off his true power. He is a shapeshifter and tells the spy, the transference for him was a one way trip in which he laughs at the spy and they both make a growling (get it?) fight as Wolves. Stopping the Nazi threat but left in an entirely new world but realises that the Wolf never left it's body. They both reside within the body where the Wolf has been guiding him and giving him strength in order to empower his enemies but if the Wolf does take over is a mystery. In the ending, the wolf opens his mouth and says "Adventure" as a Human would meaning that it could be more than just a body transference but affecting the voice box.
Centauri
Taking place in 2180 as a linear game, Earth has changed vastly in terms of technology where Humans have been able to cross past many planets, create colonies and have already begun the terraforming (making a planet, Earth like) process of Mars. However Humans attitudes and desires haven't changed one bit. If anything, it's become darker and companies pretty much run the whole Solar System where mining for minerals is essential for many which could also promote the country they stand for and it doesn't seem like they're having second thoughts about wasting it. In this case, the Japanese company has even developed faster than light travel. The use of singularities and mini black holes which can propel the spacecraft much faster but in this world, it's a dangerous method in a dangerous world so they keep it to themselves and begin to create a team to become the first Humans to reach the closest Star system to our very own. Yet another amazing achievement for mankind and also the fact that Proxima Centauri holds a potential habitable planet (not in real life but it's always possible) The leader of this team is a 42 year old woman named Akiko which is the Japanese word for sparkle. This makes her professional in her work but in this world, the oldest person to live was about 206 so anti-ageing cream does seem have a literal meaning. They blast off in to the stars on a journey which would usually take a few dozen years with the Human tech currently but only a few months with the upper hand they have. If they put more research in to this faster than light method, they could reach the system in just a few days but this seemed just to good to be true. Plus testing on Earth would be very risky.
However before I go any further, I'll just explain a few things about the Centauri system if you get confused about the science mumble jumble.
Alpha Centauri is a triple star system with 2 stars known as G2 stars. Stars which are very much close to our own where Alpha Centauri A is the largest and 10% larger than our own Sun whereas Alpha Centauri B is slightly smaller than the Sun yet they both orbit a center mass. They have similar but unequal mass so their orbits can vary from the orbit equivalent to the distance of the Sun to Pluto to the Sun to Saturn. I hope that makes sense.
In Space news, there is even a planet orbiting Apha Centauri B and possibly the closest extrasolar planet (planets outside of the Solar System) to our own but don't get your hopes up. It orbits the star in 3 days, 5 hours... you get the idea. So not an ideal place to visit unless you want to flame up some burgers. Proxima Centauri on the other hand orbits the whole array of the orbit means. It is much smaller since it is a Red Dwarf and so it produces less heat but it can live on for many millions of years, perhaps billions of years more than our own Sun.
Anyways... when the team reaches Proxima Centauri, they land on it's only orbiting planet which is pretty barren but it contains something vital for life... well most life. Clean liquid water. There doesn't seem to be any virus or bacteria that could threaten them if they drank it. They have found a new Earth. Suddenly, they realise they were followed. A rival organisation who is in no means friendly. I mean, this far in Space, no one will hear you scream! So they are forced to travel past the star, thinking that their forcefields can hold out against the heat and turbulence but it seems that the rival ship is tougher than they fought. They make the unthinkable thing and decide to delve further in the star which rips apart their engine and then there is darkness.
They wake up escaping from the star, unknowing what just happened but it seems like the enemy ship has disappeared. Yay! However it seems like the planet is different. It has water covered all over it! They don't understand what happened and so they make their way to the planet's surface finding that the scenery is stunning. Amazing coastlines, clear, pure landscapes of the snow and finally the beautiful display of the 2 Alpha Centauri stars. I lived always liked fiction exploring all kinds of planets which have unique environments and creatures so in this game, it truly feels alien. After drinking and gathering several litres of water, Akiko leads the team across many terrains in search for answers. One of the scientists come up with the idea that the engine exploded causing them to go back in time via a wormhole. They were using high gravity devices afterall. Many disbelieve this thinking that they've travelled to another location but in this universe, disbelieving could lead to (IGN)orance.
After crossing many unique environments such as seas full of sea monsters, metallic quicksand pits and crystalline ice caps. With this game, you can use the feature of a camera to use the visual scenery or a badass stance of the characters so people can use them as wallpapers and add cool affects. Truly a game for the artistic and what better way than to show them off to your friends.
Over the course of the game, one of the characters seems to becoming more violent to which they believe he is suffering from a type of paranoia but what's strange is that he's exhibiting signs of extreme high intelligence by writing down random calculations that no one can understand... and he doesn't even like maths! To their surprise they find an abandoned city with highly advanced technology. However they are able to work some of the technology no matter how alien they were and find a Human holographic programme talking about a warning to leave the planet due to a virus within the water they gathered. This confuses the team but then the programme informs them, the virus was too small to see and thus infected the whole population it seems where people became more violent yet unusually smart in areas which they didn't even know about with a final depiction of a Human with red eyes known as the Centauri virus which takes a few years to manifest with Earth's timeline dated, 2406. The scientist was right, well partly. They had gone to the future. Way too much to the future to do a thing about it and using the gravitational technology to travel back would be risky and may even travel further to the future. They don't even have the resources.
They know the symptoms is happening to one of the characters but they discover a database station orbiting the star which could even contain a cure as well as plenty of ships to take. So they travel quickly to the base which appears to be a simple dome with a landing bay. They find huge amounts of megalithic chambers full of data and it looks like a place full of marvel yet mystery. Who knows what they could find. Afterall, they all drank the water.They all have the Centauri virus. However it seemed like the one infected may of had a different immune system or the virus could even be more powerful. There was no time to wait but... it was too late. The victim's eyes turned pure red and began ripping out wires and setting a collision course with the star. The team is able to hold him back where Akiko tells them all to evacuate while she finds the data. She frantically searches through the data where the victim tells her the virus was never cured and begins to show signs he is trying to fight off the virus's effects. She believes him and tells her to evacuate. She refuses but he pushes her away telling her to go. She is forced to leave him making a sacrifice while looking through her spaceship's window but gives them a chance to find the answers and maybe inform Earth of what has happened. unless they have already been infected. The new found spaceships can travel incredibly fast now than their old tin bucket. It's so 22nd century! So they travel the great distances in to the unknown.
Rainfall
This is the only FPS of the games I've mentioned on this list although it won't fell so much like a shooter... well it will. You'll find out soon.
Taking place when a group of soldiers in armoured suits start a war against Humanity just out of the blue, recruiting random people being referred as the "chosen ones" and killing others, Detective Simpson (yes it is a reference to the TV show) is caught in the middle of this violence in New York and only just surviving out of this brutal faction's uprising and becomes one of the many refugees yet the faction just keeps on expanding and when Simpson arrives to many areas in the world, he finds very bizarre things happening in the world.
So what are these places? Well they include real life locations but added with their own unique twist and boss battles. These locations include...
Miami half engulfed by a Giant Squid
Los Angeles consumed by a snowstorm creating stories of snow with monsters that made of snow and can create themselves in to snow whirlpools in open areas
St. Lucia turned in to a crisp volcanic floor full of lava pits and giant flying Dinosaurs
London being ripped apart by continuous tornadoes that appear out of nowhere
Tokyo patrolled by Lions
Moscow ripped up from the ground and put in to an anti gravity state miles above the surface of what it should be and so the faction with gas masks can thrive
Many of you may have laughed but I think mixing up some random things would actually turn out really cool, especially for a shooter since in the different environments you will need to use different techniques to survive in these massive environments such as in Los Angeles, you will need to keep within range of buildings or at least shelter in this ever changing environment and in Moscow, ziplines is the best way to travel and you can find advantages of cutting of air supplies in order to defeat large amounts of enemies without lifting a gun.
However that's not necessarily the gameplay. The focus of the gameplay is about making your own unique weapon and combinations. From shooting out your tornadoes with lasers shooting out to creating liquid nitrogen all across the family. With this, you will get your very own virtual warehouse which allows you to test out your creations such as what methods to shoot your guns. For example, when using lava, would you like to make your elements and weapons of destruction of fire in a catapult form shoot fireballs every second, a spray, breaking the ground to rip out lava? You decide! Want fill up your gun? Just go right ahead to the volcanic pit and fill up your ultimate weapon. Want to make multiple lasers and elements to your gun such as mixed water and electricity for some extra damage to certain enemies.? Well why not even make more with the MyIGN console capabilities and MyIGN controller which can flip open a light attachment on either side which features some extra buttons.
Of course though, this will depend on what location you are. You can return to back to these open world environments but Simpson will need to adapt in order to survive in each zone and throughout the game can even gain the support of enemies by turning in to them such as becoming a Lion in Tokyo to see a new aspect to the world. That's right! You can make your own suits as well to add some more melee with added spikes and even surrounding the suit with an element so it might frighten off enemies or damage them if they get too close.
So back to the story, throughout travelling to these locations, the story also shifts on to 3 siblings 20 years ago. A sister and 2 younger brothers who are on the run in linear missions but adding more to the story. The older brother begins arguing splitting up him and his sister but over time he begins developing ideas that the world will always be in conflict unless it becomes an inter connected society that lives on forever. These pass down to the faction terrorising the globe meaning that he could possibly be the one who begun or is even controlling the faction right now since the faction uses extreme anti-natalist policies which prevent the existence of fertility rates in order to prevent generations of Humans from rebelling against them. After the older brother abandons the sister, he takes his younger brother with him and try to get within a military base. It begins to rain where he calls the rainfall amazing. Hence the game's name. After much shooting and blood, the older brother is badly injured but tells his younger brother to carry on his work. His younger brother is able to escape death but it makes the gamer realise that over the course of the game, the younger brother was caught in the middle of his older brother's rants about the world, thus making him the leader of the faction in which he names, Rainfall.
In the modern day, the sister begins working with Simpson which helps him to progress further within missions but when they reach what appears a teleportation device, she is transported to which she's in a room over looking the galaxy and sees her youngest brother as he would look now but there's something different. He's inter grated within some sort of system. He tells her that to find the truth about everything and how to alter time, he became one with it, ultimately fulfilling time's promises. She has no idea what he's talking about but she becomes upset at the fact that he's become a murderer. Further more, he used highly advanced technology to create portals to alternate universes of the Earth thus the explanation for all the creatures but is allowed to cut them off. Everything then fades in to darkness. and she's brought back to the world and realises, it was a communication device but this raises many questions. What is the Time her younger brother is communicating with? Now that the portals are cut of, what creatures and secrets still live within the world? Why did her brother even allow her to cut of the portals?
Thrill Riders
The first full on racing game I have announced. This game tests the player in many situations. Well most commonly in some of the most dangerous weather and places in the world. From raging tornadoes to fiery volcanoes and many things to stop your way to the finish line from alien spacecraft to dragons. However with this danger comes a lot of comedy. Why? Many rival racing groups decide to pit themselves against each other who all act differently. As an example of what they're like and where the comedy is, well it's a crazy game like Saints Row and Just Cause where you can jump up in the air with the high speed cars you have. Talk about off the seat action and the group and rivals are always communicating to each other via headsets and when going past a character, they'll say funny remarks. This means that you can see the characters more than most racing games so customisation of characters is yours for the taking.So who wouldn't want to pit themselves against some wacky racers from professionals to talking Crocodiles.
Burning Stones
After reading one of my books which has a whole bunch of dust since I last read it, I decided to try out my good old Horrible Histories and with that, I couldn't help but make an open world game set around the old Incan Empire. After a British traveller, Charles ends up in South America, he falls in love with a woman within the Incan empire who find each other strange at first but ultimately, he decides to stay in the new world. This leads to many children being born. Not the 50 children to get the highest medal but instead 4 children. One of which is named as Amaru referring to a large type of Snake which is different from many family names since many refer to the microlocation they originate from yet he lives up to his name by being stealthy yet cunning in finding easy routes for killing prey. Anyways, before he reaches his teenage years, he is ordered to be sacrificed and the fact that Charles doesn't believe in the Incan traditions means that someone from the empire watches over him during the ceremony. As they walk up the mountain, he tries to think of ways out of the problem but on this long journey, he fins an odd looking stone. In a way, a blue sapphire that seems fascinate him but shows no one and keeps it for himself. He places his son on the floor and and thinks of an idea to throw the knife to the watcher but pauses and hesitates from killing his own son but for some reason the watcher believes he has been killed and walks away when his son is fine. Something happened and he believes it has something to do with the stone he collected.
Over the course of the game, it becomes something different from games such as Assassin's Creed since it is mostly based on real life events since in side missions you can take the journey of the early expansion of the Incan Empire as soldiers in war as well growing Amaru up with Incan traditions where there are many places to go. Many side missions which contain their own stories and search for adventure such as if Amaru takes up a messaging job, he may cross some perilous shortcuts and sleep in the freezing snow without much to support for heat yet surviving mountain climbing during earthquakes and if he is to become more devoted to his religion, he would have to pass many tombs and complete puzzles to represent his intelligence and strength to the Incas. His father tells him of many stories from Great Britain and of the continent across the vast ocean which allows Amaru to view more to the world at the time more than many others and frequently is able to speak with his father in 1500s English.
The player is also able to control Charles in an open world setting of Tudor England before leaving for his voyage in early 1500 in finding a route which would help the Tudors to attack the Spanish and expand Great Britain's power as well as a Spanish character named Maria intent on assassinating Francisco Pizarro. A man that would find and lead to the destruction of the Incan Empire. This allows more promotion and inform people of the past.
However Charles begins to suffer from many hallucinations from the stone, seeing a path of burning stones all around him but remembers he still has a duty towards his country and will need to report back after the 30 years of bringing up children and becoming an Inca. When Pizarro arrives in 1532, this is like a blessing for Charles to steal the ship which forces a battle between father and son. Amaru accidently kills his father out of rage, letting his angry get away with him while trying only to prevent him from leaving home. Charles gives Amaru the Burning Stone but warns him that the Spanish will take over. After he dies, his death is not in vain. When the Spanish arrive, the disease spreads but not as much when Amaru begins creating tactics to kill all outsiders. Maria comes close to killing Pizarro but is thwarted by someone else. The actual person who kills him in real life which leaves her stranded but sees the Incan Empire expand. In the end, Amaru is made the new emperor since he was able to prevent the destruction of the Incan Empire. Gaining an immunity to the plague as well as many survivors, he throws the Burning Stone in to the sea wishing his father well in the afterlife and saying that he belonged to the Incas, not the British. With that, the player realises what's happening. Amaru begins creating an army to destroy those that would destroy them, the Spanish and bring the truth of their religion to Great Britain. An alternate timeline has taken place. War has begun in 1541.
Okay so that's yet another long blog for me. I hope you enjoyed! The reason why this blog is pretty long is because it will be my last long written blog until I go offline for a week since I'll be on holiday. I'll explain more in my next blog soon and of course I'll make a comeback sometime soon! So if you have any blogs you would like me to read, please feel free to write whatever on my wall.
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed.