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Incline Survey - Most Compelling RPG Concept & Setting Not Yet Attempted

Which RPG concept and setting is most compelling, assuming a competent studio

  • Isometric political RPG in which you play a Cardinal in the Vatican seeking election to the Papacy

  • First-person hybrid RPG in which you play a member of a terror cell planning and executing attacks

  • First-person horror RPG in which you must climb the ranks from corner boy to inner city ganglord

  • First-person horror RPG in which you must survive a maximum security Federal penitentiary

  • Third-person stealth RPG in which you must merely survive the Punic Wars

  • First-person shooter RPG in which you fight for Ukraine or Russia

  • Isometric tactical RPG in which you are senior member of CCP seeking to seize the Chairmanship

  • First-person psychological RPG in which you play Hitler

  • First-person terror RPG in which you are an off book KNR specialist fighting FARC in Darien Gap

  • Isometric political RPG in which you are Trump’s Chief of State

  • Third-person political RPG in which you are Biden’s Chief of Staff

  • First-person Dashiell Hammett-style mystery RPG in which you investigate the murder of Thelma Todd

  • 3rd-person street brawl RPG in which you play a member of Antifa or Oathkeepers

  • First-person financial RPG in which you run Blackrock

  • Kingcomrade


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MLMarkland

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You can probably torrent it
the only movie tracker that has it is PTP, and that's the most prestigious one for hardcore movie fans. a whopping 5 seeders
Tubi is easier than torrenting.

Tubi is the fastest growing and most profitable streaming platform because it doesn’t require registration to watch - just tolerating some ad breaks.

About 10% - 16% of our rev comes from Tubi so far — depends on the month. Amazon beat Tubi in December, but Tubi beat Amazon in all other months so far — which makes sense to me from a distro POV since, as mentioned above, you can just watch it with a URL on Tubi, and don’t need an account or any form of active payment or even active behavior.

Or put another way, if you don’t mind the minutes of ads, it’s easier to watch it on Tubi than to pirate it or watch it on YouTube (because it’s rated R you would have to log into YouTube).
 

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if I was a movie buff I'd watch it, but I don't think I would appreciate a "cult classic" like that
 

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train-wreck-crash (1).gif

That was a nice thread we had once
 

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if I was a movie buff I'd watch it, but I don't think I would appreciate a "cult classic" like that
I’m not here to market the movie. That’s someone else’s job.
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That was a nice thread we had once
the thread is still about the question — I didn’t bring up the off topic stuff about me — though I will respond to it since it’s about me

Game on

Cardinal machinations to become Pope during conclave is still winning
 

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I didn’t bring up the off topic stuff about me
Critics hate me.

But I’ve sold some games.

And I know dialog.

But I don’t reject the concept of an absurdist gonzo take on any subject matter in any genre — Malibu Road embraces the Hunter S. Thompson gonzo aesthetic, and for an audience that likes that it is very compelling. The movie has over a million unique audience and is one of the highest rated movies about the CIA in history (and the highest rated independent movie about the CIA).

CIA’s media affairs department loves it — they watched it a couple years before anyone else and had no requests or notes.
 

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This is a great idea and we talked about it but other things did supplant the idea of engaging the IP, specifically The Thing, Taxi Driver, Chinatown. Apocalypse Now, JFK, and Halloween.
John Carpenter being an obvious commonality.

We would do anything you made is not a pitch.

We would do these things and here is our specific take on it as a game is a pitch. You have to choose.

I would have engaged with De Palma but he was massively disinterested in video games, regardless of money.

There are some Tom Cruise / PAR things I thought might work — but Scientology was always a thing that PAR preferred to avoid.
 

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I have a idea of a pretty dark transistor punk setting. The world is shit with constant violence, people are obligated to give a huge portion of its income, far more than any empire ever asked for its subjects and all that they get in return is ridiculous regulations and stupid laws. There are no freedom of expression, merely quoting the dictionary definition of woman can be a "hate crime" and the government don't care about real crimes, only about victmless crimes, crimes of opinion and people who defend themselves. There are also a caste system. Certain groups get preferential treatment and can openly discriminate but not be discriminated, "wasp" are in the bottom of the caste system. Other groups can burn entire cities to the ground consequence free.

The most popular religion in this setting is equality cultism. A religion which preaches that everyone is the same and at the same time paradoxically oppressed and oppressor based in arbitrary characteristics which changes a lot with the time. That religion killed hundreds of millions of people and mutated into new forms to keep the endless killing. Due this religion, people are obligated to be subject to mass human experiments with drugs which the drug makers lie about its proprieties. Also are being forced to eat insects and live in extremely small crowded apartments with lot of pollution. People can't own anything, almost everyone is debt enslaved by big corporations and live on drugs to not kill themselves.
 

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Looping RPG!


Bagitman rpg


Q-Bert RPG
DIG DUG RPG! (Wait… that might be minecraft)

And in case you are wondering…
Bach Two-Part invention F major

 
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I'd love to see a generations-spanning political intrigue RPG centered around the Romanov dynasty, but I'll take anything that doesn't involve saving the goddamn world for the thousandth time.
 

Vic

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but I'll take anything that doesn't involve saving the goddamn world for the thousandth time.
how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
 

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but I'll take anything that doesn't involve saving the goddamn world for the thousandth time.
how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
Alderaan by Chuck Palahniuk
 

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but I'll take anything that doesn't involve saving the goddamn world for the thousandth time.
how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
Alderaan by Chuck Palahniuk
idk what alderaan is but yeah I was thinking of Fight Club
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
fightclubanim.gif
 

Vic

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how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
fightclubanim.gif
where is that from? (the gif not the scene which I know is Fight Club)
 

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but I'll take anything that doesn't involve saving the goddamn world for the thousandth time.
how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
Alderaan by Chuck Palahniuk
idk what alderaan is but yeah I was thinking of Fight Club



Grand Moff Tarkin discovers he is Tyler Durden! Princess Leia just met him at a very strange time in his life.
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
I have a idea of a pretty dark transistor punk setting. The world is shit with constant violence, people are obligated to give a huge portion of its income, far more than any empire ever asked for its subjects and all that they get in return is ridiculous regulations and stupid laws. There are no freedom of expression, merely quoting the dictionary definition of woman can be a "hate crime" and the government don't care about real crimes, only about victmless crimes, crimes of opinion and people who defend themselves. There are also a caste system. Certain groups get preferential treatment and can openly discriminate but not be discriminated, "wasp" are in the bottom of the caste system. Other groups can burn entire cities to the ground consequence free.

The most popular religion in this setting is equality cultism. A religion which preaches that everyone is the same and at the same time paradoxically oppressed and oppressor based in arbitrary characteristics which changes a lot with the time. That religion killed hundreds of millions of people and mutated into new forms to keep the endless killing. Due this religion, people are obligated to be subject to mass human experiments with drugs which the drug makers lie about its proprieties. Also are being forced to eat insects and live in extremely small crowded apartments with lot of pollution. People can't own anything, almost everyone is debt enslaved by big corporations and live on drugs to not kill themselves.
Fuckload of words to just say SanFrancisco 2077
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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how about an RPG where you destroy the world, but the game gives you such good motives to do it that it really becomes a good choice, and then in the end it turns out you are a shizo and the person you trusted and who ultimately convinced you to destroy the world was just in your head.
fightclubanim.gif
where is that from? (the gif not the scene which I know is Fight Club)
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/148705.htm though the artist only has another three works on Pixel Joint. He's more active on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/alanmealor/albums/all
 

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From a certain point of view I would say this have been explored already "First-person hybrid RPG in which you play a member of a terror cell planning and executing attacks"
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
From a certain point of view I would say this have been explored already "First-person hybrid RPG in which you play a member of a terror cell planning and executing attacks"
How will UNATCO ever recover from this insult?
 

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