Game for gamers Thread

I love not-so team based, not so uberealistic multiplayer games like Quake 3, or UT2k4. I also love gaming as a whole, and love to embrace different gamer’s personalities. Being in an online game with different kinds of people is just so much fun for me. So, the question came to me: what makes a gamer l33t? (Or elite for those of you who hate 1337speak so much.) So it came to me! A mod for ut2004!

There are a few ideas I had for this mod (which is just an idea, I’m not looking for a team, and I don't really expect it to be done, game ideas just come to me somtimes.)

THIS IS THE SEMI-UNORIGIONAL STUFF. IF YOU WANT TO READ THE COOL STUFF, SCROLL DOWN TO THE OTHER CAPITAL LETTERS.

One of the features of this mod would be the FPS training tutorial.

You start out with the bare-bones FPS layout. Wads, mouse, and a gun. Help n00bs learn how to play FPS's (little sister, sports-fan friend, whoever.) You would have somebody telling you what to do; a gamer who translates everything into |337 (why? Because this would be a game for hardcore gamers, not mainstream gamers, but they can learn how to play here anyway.) So, you do some target practice. Then you start doing different jumps and such. These would be:

Crouch jump (everybody should learn how to do this eventually): jump then crouch, simple
Side jump: Jump to the side by rapidly pressing the strafe button (A or D) twice

Of course, the ability to do these jumps would depend on your character (we'll get to that later.) Also in the training, you would get familiar with a different style of shooting system, which I have dubbed: "shooting to the right or left of you." We will get to this later too, for now I'm just covering the basics, all the unoriginal stuff.

WEAPONS (definatley open to suggestions here_

Common weapons
Pistol (dual wieldable)
Regular machine gun (dualies!)
Shotgun (you’d have to be terminator to dual wield this)
Rocket launcher

Energy Weapons
Ray gun- shoots rays of energy, think stormtrooper blaster
Plasma gun- shoots plasma-based… plasma things like in doom 3
Orb of energy- a red glowing ball that can be used to make a steady, thick energy beam (taken from a concept from EXT)

Strange weapons
Alien gaseous weapon- If you’ve seen the concept art for my mod, there is one gun where you put your hand into a miniature alien’s mouth, and by squeezing something in it, it releases a gas discharge. This gas would be… deadly.
Goo launcher- Launch acidic goo from a goo-launching weapon. If excess goo is on a player, the player will slow down, making him an easier target.
Melee weapons
Sword-type weapon
Rare chainsaw (they’re just so cool…)
Mechanical nuisance- this could grab other players and shock them, or squeeze them the wrong way to cause damage. Robotic arm perhaps

If any of these weapons seemed unoriginal to you, that’s because most of them are. This is a gamer’s game, for people who love fragging. Now for some more interesting stuff.

HOW WOULD IT BE UNIQUE!?
Just a few things. I don’t want to stray TOO far from all the fragging.

First thing, the shooting to the left and right of you thing. Depending on what weapons you have, and if they’re two-handed or not, you would be able to shoot with certain weapons to the side of you. This is how it would go: You pick up two pistols, or maybe even just one. You start running a certain way, and you see an enemy to the side of you. Depending on key or mouse-button you slaved it to, (q for this instance) you would press that button to initiate the side-shooting option. A small, rectangular screen with a weapon’s eye view of what is happening to the side of you would appear near that weapon arm. You would then be able to shoot that enemy with the weapon, and still be looking ahead. But perhaps this option would be more useful in my next idea.

My next idea is somewhat based on the mod “brainbread” for half-life, arguably the best zombie mod yet. I have not seen a really good zombie mod out yet besides brainbread. This would not be the focus of the game, however. This would just be a survivor-like gametype, as in UT2004. Just kill wave after wave of zombies. The unique thing about it would be the incorporation of all three zombie types. If you don’t know what they are, just ask if you’re interested. The first zombies would be based on the zombies in Max brooks’ book: The zombie survival guide (an excellent book, go pick it up). These zombies are V-type, one of the three types. As you kill wave after wave (lost players would NOT be turned into zombies, they would just respawn after a while), the other two types are introduced. After V-type, a weaker P-Type, more like the headcrab zombies. After those zombies, a stronger P-Type, like the zombies in resident evil four, would come and attack. After those, S-type zombies, like in doom 3. And finally after that wave, the strongest P-type, zombies like the flood in Halo. The “shoot to the side” feature would come in handy here. Imagine being surrounded by zombies, and having a pistol and machine gun in your hands. You cap the first V-type in the head with your pistol; shoot the zombie coming to the right of you with your machine gun, then headshot the zombie coming to the left of you with the pistol.

And now the most unique part of the mod- You. Every hardcore gamer has a personality. And some have a distinct image of themselves in their minds which are different than their regular selves. I’m sure there are anime fans out there who like to sketch up cool characters. How would you like to have one of these characters available to you in-game? Here is what would be done:
Gamers would submit concept art (drawn by whoever) of their in-game character to the mod team. The mod team would then model that, and put it in game, with a gamer password if the gamer in question wanted it, so that nobody would have it. Free modelers would be free to submit their own models too, of course. So enough with downloading models for your in-game character that nobody else can see!
It’s a kind of simple idea, and most of you probably won’t like it. I, myself, am not willing to do it, but it is a mod idea, and it sounded cool to me… Constructive criticism or new ideas are welcomed, stupid comments are not.

Edited by: VegasTheWZAd

to be bruatlly honest: i dont like it.

Can you say why? And will you?

i think you have somethings that could be cool features of a mod, but this as it is now doesnt really seem unique or different enough to really make it. but some ideas could be useful

i like games

i agree with mantis, the whole 'game for gamers' thing means its just more of the same, all bunched into one package