Another crazy idea... Thread

Here goes:
These aliens are preparing for an invasion, but, are not going to attack, instead, they are sending these small parasites the size cockroaches that dig there way through animal skin. These animals, like cows, deer ect, will be eaten by humans soon then they will infect their hosts. But, these parasites are easy to detect on other humans because they don't know how to control the human bodies muscles well resulting in odd limps and muscles spasms in the person and also they the person tends to have a big grin on their face because the parasites does not know how to control human facial muscles. But as time passes the individual parasites learns more and more how to control the body resulting in a more powerful enemy and starts to mutate into a strong entity. Now the mod takes place after a few months. So the parasite is more evolved and some are still barely infecting others. The parasites are being controlled to attack at a certain day starting at 7:00.
Now you play 3 separate characters during the same time period at around 8:30, a prison inmate, a flight passenger who has landed at his destination and a doctor. After you escape from that characters starting place, and are now traveling through the torn city a military helicopter will fly by and say "The united states government is preparing to bomb this city at 12:00. Any survivors must travel to a military base ASAP so you cant be transported to a safe location!" so you pick your character and make your way through a torn city crawling with creatures and infected humans with a grin and an axe ready to rip you apart. Each 'episode' will last about 3 to 4 hours of traveling through abandoned schools, amusement parks, mental hospitals, and apartment complexes until you reach the base. Each character will have a different path but the part where they hear the copter they will all share.

The weapons: all the weapons will be realistic and very possible to find in a given location. Since HL2 has a physics engine, there will be a kicking move where you can kick objects in front of the monsters to block their path or to barricade yourself in a room or to break through a locked door.
you can find a..
=berretta on a dead officer in a prison or a security guard at a airport and hospital.
=baton at the police station.
=and fire escape axe at a hospital.
And much others that could realistically be obtained in locations.

that’s it! if you need some things clarified plz ask thanks!

WHOA! I thought of a cool idea! what if you could play all three at once like in rainbow six games! then when you pick some one, the others just follow and shoot! that would be cool. Instead of beating each of their own 'episode' their could be one big episode.

Sounds like a really good idea, but I like the idea of separate episodes instead of just one...more replayability and I think it would be a better experience over all if you're alone.
[And one question aobut the parasites...how do they "infect" people again? You said they burrow into animals, then people eaat the animals...but you also said they are the size of a cockroach; so wouldn't people notice them? Or wouldnt they be chopped up in a food processing plant?]

or wouldn't they be cooked or steamed or boiled to death when prepaired? I mean, I know there is a lot of unhealthy, unclean food out there, but I'm sure stuff like that wouldn't survive. Unless the roach-like aliens laid tiny eggs which then hatched in those that ait the meat (these eggs could have some special tough shell that can resist the normal efforts to sanatize food).

rofl, li like the idea
can be very fun

hahah whoa! dont get so technical on meh! after the parasite gets inside the animal, "laid tiny eggs which then hatched in those that ait the meat (these eggs could have some special tough shell that can resist the normal efforts to sanatize food)." uh...yeah...like that!!!

- Edited By operativex On Tue 10th, Feb 2004 @ 3:35:30pm

just out of curioustiy, are you planning on making this? or are you just throwing ideas out?

mainly just seeing if people like the idea than i'll attempt it but we will have to see. I would like to do it myself but thats probably impossible, but, i can do most of the work instead of textures and skinning and coding. Those are my weaknesses but basically everything else is easy to me.

sounds cool but single player mods are harder to make... which you probably already know but either way sounds good and GOOD LUCK!!

one of the best ideas yet.

make it MP

Though I do like MP better in this case the whole storyline/theme would have to change... you would have to have teams or a team.... it would be hard to make this multiplayer and keep the general idea intact.

If it were a mp style game it would have to be like a co-op game where all three characters can play at once and make their way to the base.

well youd have to do more than that you would have to have like 3 3 player teams... not worth risking that much of the gameplay for :/

well, it could be fun...

make it mp where you can be humans or aliens,when aliens you start as cockroach like thing then animals roam around stage while humans are all paranoid and dont know when an animals infected, so they jsut spray all animals with ammo., aliens would be cool . me being a smart one

- Edited By SkitZaY On Thu 12th, Feb 2004 @ 5:04:58am