Innovative Possession Mod Idea Thread

You start out as an Evil Spirit in woodland America. You come across a farm, where you are tutorialised on the controls and gameplay mechanisms. Basically, what happens is as a spirit, you can posses people, but only one person at a time. They turn into your very own ragdolls. You can make them do all sorts of things in order to kill the other NPCs, including levitating and clawing. If you want to stop possessing a person, you can leave the body and the body drops to the floor dead. Later, if you want, you can return to a body and take control of it. As a possessed person, you cannot fire guns, but can however use and throw objects including the guns, and any other objects you find. The NPCs will run from you when you're trying to possess them, and work together in order to protect themselves from the Spirit or other possessed people. The NPCs will do all in their power in order to destroy a possessed person, including shooting, igniting, exploding, combusting, desecrating, hacking and/or crushing the host. As an Evil Spirit, the NPCs can phyiscally harm you, but not very well. Basically, they are defenceless to you as a Spirit, leaving them easy to be possessed. Different levels can include a forest, small country town, cabin, farm, ranger station, and other locales. Also, a sort of mini-game could be worked in where the host tries to regain control of their body. Sort of like how in games like Thief, when you pick the locks it involves a sort of mini-game of skill rather than doing it automatically.

The engine it could use is perhaps HL2, because it seems that it is easy to script and map for -- most of the models and textures used could be the default ones, making the mod mainly code and maps. That would make it easier to create than most, with the focus on gameplay. Multi-player would follow similar mechanisms to the Single-player, with one player being the spirit, while the others are the humans trying to stop it.

For a name... hmm, how about "The Possessed", "Consume".

Edited by: frosty-theaussie

I like it Seems original and it woulod be pretty darn fun

Another idea:

You have two modes you can be in, "travel" mode, which allows you to explore places and manipulate objects. When you're in "travel mode", you are essentially a ghost. The NPCs cannot see you, and you can explore the locations and manipulate some objects to an extent, ie. moving chairs, opening/closing doors. When you change to "possession" mode, you charge up a meter as you move. When the meter reaches it's highest after a period of time, you can possess an individual. Doing it with this time delay prevents the player from creeping up on a human in ghost and switching mode to instantly possessing them. When you aren't fully charge for possession, you are pretty vulnerable to attack. While in possession mode, you move quite a bit faster, and any objects like doors that you come in contact with are instantly thrown out of the way.

Go frawst go! You saw my ideas on IRC

Heavily reminds me of messiah... the only difference is that you were a physical character in there

As a possessed person, you cannot fire guns, but can however use and throw objects including the guns, and any other objects you find.

I think that it would be better to leave it like messiah has done it before - that is that youre harmless as a spirit and dangerous (with the ability to use the weapons) only as a possessed person. Also it would be good to make a possesed person more powerful, give it some unnatural abilities or something like that

SkitZaY wrote: Go frawst go! You saw my ideas on IRC

Certainly did. And yes, I am aware that the idea of possession was done in Messiah - but the fact that FPS had been done in Doom doesn't stop people from making Half-Life 2 or Halo 2. The implementation is different. SkitZaY and my idea collaborated like this:

You as the evil spirit could perhaps drag objects around maybe. Power could be attained from a fear meter of human, get power by scaring. The more powerful you are as you are charging, the easier it is for the humans to see you. Power gives you a greater presence. You could also do other things, maybe, such as possessing objects. Like possess a mirror, and if one of the NPCs look in it, then they're reflection could attack them. This increases fear, thus giving you more power to possesss the NPCs. Or possess the trees and make them attack people.

BartNowciu wrote:
I think that it would be better to leave it like messiah has done it before - that is that youre harmless as a spirit and dangerous (with the ability to use the weapons) only as a possessed person. Also it would be good to make a possesed person more powerful, give it some unnatural abilities or something like that

The possessed person can do things like levitate, and transform into more powerful and disfigured beings as the player attains more power. I don't particularly like the idea of allowing the person to give possessed people the option to use weapon. Since they have been possessed by evil, I'd think of them like zombies. Creepy, nearly-unkillable beings doing the will of the evil spirit. They strangle, claw, hit, beat up, bludgeon and even try to eat the NPCs.

Edited by (in order): frosty-theaussie, frosty-theaussie

Err, I have a story for this mod but I dunno if you'll like it though... also forgive me if I make grammatical mistakes, this is just something I'm writing from the top of my head.

"Heed those who sayeth that those woods are evil... for they truly are..." -- Old Folklegend saying

What was to be a harmless game of truth or dare has instead summoned the most powerful Evil that has manifested itself in the face of the Earth.

A group of teenagers was dared to travel on an isolated cabin hidden in the darkest reaches of the woods. The cabin, folk legend foretells, supposedly held a seal, barring a powerful spirit that once wrought destruction upon the citizens of the town and took control of their bodies. It is believed that whomsoever walks into the proximity of the cabin is never heard of again...

The teenagers, taking no heed of the legend, hence travelled to the cabin and performed a "Seance", to summon the dark spirit. Once the last of the incantations was spoken however, YOU, the evil spirit, awakened and immidiately devoured the souls of those who has foolishly summoned you. Now, free from the seal that has once imprisoned you, are now able to take control and wreak death to whomever you desire...

I know its crap but hey I tried ... Hope it helps you though...

wouldnt this be a better idea to have as a mulitplayer game, seems alot more fun that way ?

also if you do that, you could give the player all kinds of ghost hunting equipment that people use in real life, ther is that show on sci-fi channel, where a bunch of plummers go around exploring supposedly hunted places in order to check out if there are any ghosts about and to do so they use radiation meeters, digital voice recordings, energy measuring devices and what not, i think it sure opens up alot of interesting possiblities.

Edited by: teh_fonx

Everyone thinks mods should be multiplayer these days

But do these people realise that about 70% of all multi-player mods released are never played, due to a lack of dedicated servers? Unless you've got an incredibley competetive, team vs. team mod, chances are that a month after release no one will be on the servers.

With single-player, you don't have to worry about this. You're always guarranteed a full, wholesome game.

This sounds vaguely familiar to an old, old, old Sega Genesis game called...well I can't exactly remember.However, instead of possessing the people you possessed objects in their house and used them to scare the people out of the house.It was rather entertaining.

I think possessing people would be a fun twist on that subject, somewhat like the menial possess function in "Second Sight".

Edited by: CyanideCotdPnuts

CyanideCotdPnuts wrote: This sounds vaguely familiar to an old, old, old Sega Genesis game called...well I can't exactly remember.However, instead of possessing the people you possessed objects in their house and used them to scare the people out of the house.It was rather entertaining.

Would it be "Haunting"?

I remember that game. Got old after a while, but yes, it was entertaining.

Broken image, but it could be.As I recall, it was also two player?

Great Idea Thiswould be very entertaing to play even though as of now it has no real plot except to kill as many people as you can.

good point frosty, btw are you actually planing on doing this or is it just an idea.

Who needs plot when you can kill everyone in your way?You're a ghost, and they don't have alot of excitement going on in their lives so...yah.