ever thought you could do better?

[nightsavior]

i have played many games in my time. one question that always came up was could i actually come up with better ideas than those in games already on the shelves. when i was about 12 i came up with an idea called wonder kids. pretty much you could choose from eight playable characters(all based on my friends) that all had different weapons,animal forms,and special abilities. each level had multiple paths and each hero or heroine solved the challenges at hand in different ways based on their skills. of course wonder kids is a dorky name....and many of the innovative ideas i came up with back then are common place now. still i thought wonder kids could "own" sonic and mario without breaking a sweat at the time. lol. just out of curiousity i wonder if any of you think that the games you play could be better with a little creative tweaking. to this day i still write up game ideas (it's a fun hobby) to improve on concepts that are already out there. so do any of you think you have ideas that surpass the most popular games out today?

[Chaos Theory]

yeah all the time

I do it alot to RPGs

When I was playing FFTA the whole time I was all this sucks would of been much better if they did this and that

[nightsavior]

yeah i hear ya cyrus! the original ff tactics for the playstation was by far superior to tactics advance in both story line and play mechanics. there used to be a site i submitted game ideas to to let others read them and it was great but it's down now unfortunately. i would actually post some of my ideas but they're to long for this forum.

[Zelphiel]

originaly it was supposed to be a port of FFT.

[Chaos Theory]

lol I would post my idea for an RPG but I dont think I have the patince to write it all out

[nightsavior]

well damn lath they shoulda just carried ff tactics over instead of trying to put their own new "spin" on it. and yeah cyrus it does take alot patience to write up a whole idea,trust me i know. lol. is it just me or have ff games in general gone down hill since square merged with enix? i'm all for creative innovation and fresh new changes(that's what this topic is about afterall) but some things should just stay constant!

[Chaos Theory]

big time

Squaresoft was far better than Square Enix

Enix was better by themselves as well

the are two pretty good companies so you would think merging would create a great hybrid but nope

[nightsavior]

yeah, makes you wonder how many of the ppl that first worked for square and enix are still around? sometimes change is good but in this case it's not.

[Laggy]

well, yeah i mean..who hasnt?..when playing FF7 i thought of lots of things that could have been better lol...and playing many other games aswell...

i even have my own ideas for a game that should have been made for part of FF many years ago lol...one i thought of when playing FF6 for the first time

a game that shows why moogles, and summons help people...that should have been done

i even wrote a book, FF war of lords...but it never got done, and i lost it when my PC was hacked and i lost everything else..PC was fuked in all that too, and now im stuck on this one lol...but anyways

[nightsavior]

well if you ever get your ff ideas done share it with the rest of us laggy!

[Chaos Theory]

I dont think I would want to hear Laggy's ideas

:P

[Leknaat]

Yeah I do it all the time. I have so many stories and have actually drawn up my own characters but the ideas are so grand in my head I couldn't possibly put them on paper.

[nightsavior]

i bet you could leknaat you have alot of creativity...you just need to cultivate it and have it grow. as for laggy....i have confidence his ff ideas would be great simply because very few ppl know more about ff then he does. lol.

[Chicken Little]

yes and no.

Some peopel fail to consider what the game is trying to get across and thus immediatly think 'this is a crock of ****, a monkey who flings its **** at people coukld come up with stuff 10x better blah blah blah' and in some cases they are right. But in some they are wrong. So yeah sure you can come up with an idea that is better, but is it feasable? is it available and is it fitting with what is trying to be brought across. Because if it isnt then all you have a piece of **** that you cant compare it to what you originally want to replace.

[nightsavior]

well also nabeshin just because you come up with a great idea on paper does not mean it can be translated perfectly into the programming aspect. for example if you want to come up with a game with graphics better than ff x's, lots more options,lots more characters,and a larger world that is gonna be quite taxing for the developers to pull off. lol. it helps to come up with ideas that maybe better in some aspects but which are also feasible and reasonable.

[Wallie Wildo]

ive had too many ideas to list i have the pationce to type it out but i cant remember any lol i could think of one really easy but im lazy lol

mmm...:cheese

[Chicken Little]

well also nabeshin just because you come up with a great idea on paper does not mean it can be translated perfectly into the programming aspect. for example if you want to come up with a game with graphics better than ff x's, lots more options,lots more characters,and a larger world that is gonna be quite taxing for the developers to pull off. lol. it helps to come up with ideas that maybe better in some aspects but which are also feasible and reasonable.

well yeah thats my point, most ppl say i have a kickass idea but theres no way to implement it. Like persay taking a chimp, adding a lions head, opposable thumbs, cheetahs speed and the size of a whale. Great idea for a freaky creature but cant happen lol

[nightsavior]

good for you yankee! well if you ever get the chance post parts of your ideas here...it'll be interesting to see which direction you are going. i might post j generalized topic on my ideas and tell alittle about each game idea i came up with.

[Silly Girl]

Funny you should mention this. Not only is there a flahs video on Newgrounds you should all watch, but I'm making a little comic in it's honor where this narrator is coming up with **** out of his ass and it bows up in his face... hehe, I also made another comic based on a true story with Taryn and I (Done). I scan so you see!
Anyway, I could rwally come up with better ****. Or at least take their ideas and improve on them. It'd be fun to be an editor for Squenix and I'd review and edit the story after they were all finished. Not just that, but also the gameplay. I'd test it all out and improve! Then it'd go back to the god old days of SNES, but with better graphics (But not spectacular since most of the game will hold everything important on it)