Potental interesting spins on existing franchises?

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Zeta Dragoon

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Super Smash Brothers: Warriors.

Warhammer Fantasy CRPG on a Dragon Age Orgins/Baldurs Gate 3/Pathfinder Wrath of the Rightous Scale.

Ditto full fledged CRPGs for Warcraft and Diablo.
 
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At this point in time, I think a number of existing franchises just getting a new game without any uncalled-for changes and additions 'for the modern audience' would qualify as "an interesting spin".

For my tastes, I'd like someone to make a character-less grand RTS with an epic-scale storyline again. Make it Total Annihilation a-la Homeworld, or vice versa. No personal drama, no designated heroes, perhaps not even a name for anyone involved (besides maybe a villain) just an epic fight for survival on a galactic scale.
 
I kind of psyched myself out before the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom because for a brief week or two, I was imagining that the overworld would be explorable with others co-op as in four players adventuring together. Sort of like the Four Swords concept except in this case, it would be more complex and we all knew that Hyrule was going to be expanded beyond what BOTW had given us. It would be difficult to pull off, because fans just expect so much these days in terms of sheer volume when it comes to gameplay. Content creators zoom through games so I can only expect that Nintendo would be overly cautious and create some kind of legendary world map if Nintendo EPD did set out for four player co-op for the main game. They have Monolith Soft on the roster now so Nintendo might as well try to pull something off like that next game and see how fans like it. It would be a huge hit I'd imagine. Who would say no to an epic adventure shared with your friends and others

Extremely optimistic about seeing one of these franchises take the risk and go forward with a full on rpg. Star Fox, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot. Not sure when, but eventually one of them will have its day. Personally, I think they're all great candidates for franchises that would excel in the rpg genre, but especially so for Kirby and Sonic

Not sure what, but Wario should have some kind of new game series. We have the oldschool platformers with Wario Land and Wario World, the zany minigame madness and campaigns with WarioWare, but honestly I think Wario should bring back the classic Road Rash series in his own way. He already rides a hog. Put him and some of his more rugged pals on the road and have them race and battle against rival biker crews. I don't think anything can compare to Road Rash, but Wario has a ton of potential to put a hilarious spin on the arcade classic racer / thrasher that Road Rash basically perfected imo. Wario is the perfect character to do all this, but it will ever happen. My guess is that it will not happen at least, because you can't really sugar coat those kind of themes and sell it to kids. Road Rash is hardcore. You have bikers speeding way past the limit, getting girls, drinking bars dry, racing for big money, thrashing each other down on the road and getting territorial. Wish we could see Wario's take on those games but it'll never happen due to the nature of the violence and the fact that Wario would be rolling with a biker gang going up against other gangs

There's also this side of Pikmin I'd like to see. Kind of a combo game. On one hand you have the traditional Pikmin side of the game with all the traditional Pikmin elements. But I'd also kind of like to see the gameplay mesh with Animal Crossing and SimCity in the way of beautifying and changing your environments. Like you can go through a level and whatnot and complete it, but as you go, there's also an option to kind grow certain plants, colonies, or homes for Pikmin and other wildlife where you can reap resources based on what you were able to build. And you could go back to levels and see all the fruit of your work, which would be fun to see, but also that building helps you grow your resources and maybe even your base of allies for future battles and excursions. Not sure how exactly it would all work, but I feel like Pikmin adding some elements from Animal Crossing and SimCity could take the environments and replayability to the next level and then some
 
Grinchy said:
A Helghast city builder, where you build the city in such a way that you are planning its defensive strategic positions along the way, and then you defend it from an ISA attack.

You guys have a winner!
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Yeah! I'm a sucker for base-building + tower defense blended into one game. I sunk way too many hours into They Are Billions.
 
Call of Duty: Eternal Warfare

Opening
You're a Cadian Shock Lieutenant who rolls up on some heretical forces during the final hours of the fall of Cadia. In the opening cutscenes you look up as the Eye of Terror is actually starting to quiver, and shrink.

After you wipe the heretics you suddenly feel a massive earthquake as you're ordered to evacuate the planet back to space. As you pull out of atmosphere you see the planet start to break apart, though in the shadows you see millions of little pinpricks of light from firing lasguns (this is important Activision, don't fuck up this detail). The Planet Broke Before the Guard, Motherfuckers!

Middle
Some 40k bullshit

End
You, and your platoon need to hold against a chaos hoard attempting to storm the Astropathic Choir on Macragge for long enough that they can transmit news of the resurrection of Robute Guilliman to the rest of the Imperium. Epic battle, Noble 6-style ending, even have a Blueberry avenge your character's death to satisfy the Matt Ward sycophants.


Now of course this will never happen given the recent leaks of the COD budgets. Nobody is going to spend half a billion dollars on a 40k game, but a boy can dream.
 
Tony Hawk's Battle Boards. Take Tony Hawk and add the ability to hit other players and knock them off their board. Then add in a few (basic) power ups (Boost, Hop, Projectile, AOE). Think Mario Kart multiplayer...at a skate park. Could also pair it with the competitive modes already in TH, like S-K-A-T-E or overall highscore. But you could also just to a simple Death Match with N number of hits allowed before you expire.
 
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Arkam said:
Tony Hawk's Battle Boards. Take Tony Hawk and add the ability to hit other players and knock them off their board. Then add in a few (basic) power ups (Boost, Hop, Projectile, AOE). Think Mario Kart multiplayer...at a skate park. Could also pair it with the competitive modes already in TH, like S-K-A-T-E or overall highscore. But you could also just to a simple Death Match with N number of hits allowed before you expire.
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If you don't start making this game today, the mods will ban you
 
Arkam said:
Tony Hawk's Battle Boards. Take Tony Hawk and add the ability to hit other players and knock them off their board. Then add in a few (basic) power ups (Boost, Hop, Projectile, AOE). Think Mario Kart multiplayer...at a skate park. Could also pair it with the competitive modes already in TH, like S-K-A-T-E or overall highscore. But you could also just to a simple Death Match with N number of hits allowed before you expire.
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Combine it with a fighting game - start making a combo before hitting the other guy, which determines what 'attack' you're landing, then either finish to land the attack or try to keep the combo up to drive up the damage until you chuck them out of the play area a-la Smash.
 
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