Opinions of Mod Title and Concept Thread

Hello all. I am new to the modding world but am a pretty good programmer that wants to move into the gaming industry. I also have some experience as team/project leading.

I plan on starting up a HL2 mod and came up with a design that I think would be fun and pretty innovating (in terms of some game dynamics and mechanisms in FPS games). I won't reveal much of that (I don't want them to be stolen) but I would appreciate if you could read the short background story and give me feed back and then help me decide on a title. I REALLY hate picking names for things :/

Background story:
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Soon after the X Prize competition was claimed in February of 2007, space travel becomes economically and technically feasible for private corporations. By the year 2029 two major corporations emerge as the largest powers in the world, rivaling every government in the world, the Nexus Synthetics Corporation and Celestial Inspirations Corporation, the winner of the X Prize competition. These corporations accumulate vast amounts of wealth from harvesting titanium and other rare resources from the moon. Not only do these corporations control the majority of the money in the world, they also have their own government structures and militaries. These two corporations compete against each other for power, both with visions of world domination. This competition quickly becomes bloody.

The war these two powerhouse corporations wage against each other for power spans the whole world. There are even conflicts and skirmishes that break out in the mining facilities on the moon, in orbiting space stations, and even on the newly created colonies on Mars. Both are desperate to see the other one fall. No government is able to pose enough of a threat to either corporation, so they are powerless to stop the war. In fact, many world governments even encourage the war in hopes that both corporations would obliterate each other.
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The story will be improved, of course, as more details are fleshed out, but the basic idea is there.

Proposed titles:
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"Corporate Tyranny" - The two corporations are tyrants hell bent on destroying each other.

"Hostile Takeover" - Self explanitory, they are trying to take eachother over with hostility.

"Absolute Corruption" - From the old saying that money and power corrupt absolutely.

"Clashing Titans" - The two powerhouses of the world clashing for power.
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Please pick a title or propose your own with a brief description of why you like it.

Thank you for your time,
Bojingo - Lead Developer of TBA HL2 Modification

- Edited By bojingo On Wed 7th, Jul 2004 @ 2:50:49pm

Absolute Corruption i'd say

Hostile Takeover, story sounds cool for a single player campign. I would hope you get to be more than a soldier however (IE a piliot), which should be possible with hl2 as you probably know.

I like Absolute Corruption. Is the mod multiplayer or single player. I would personaly prefer a single player mod since there are enogh multiplayer mods.

It sounds a lot like multiplayer, when he says "skirmishes that break out" on planets and whatever. Either that or Red Faction on singleplayer

Lol Red Faction!! Those were the days....sniff.

well it could be your a freelancer. and work for both sides or be a top secret goverment agent trying to bring down both corperations.

Thats along the lines of deus x. Sorry but this is not too inovative. But good luck.

Wasnt the X Prize just won?

Thanks for the replies. Looks like "Absolute Corruption" is winning so far. Anyone else have opinions on the title of such a game?

Pengus, I know the story can be paralleled to Deus X, but they are hardly the same. And, in any case, what I meant was innovative in the gameplay (don't want to reveal anything as stated above).

As for multiplayer or singleplayer, I'm hoping to be able to pull off both. Although multiplayer would be easier to do so it'll probably start that way.

arghvark, no it wasn't won. There was a flight that actually went into orbit, but the competition rules say that the craft has to carry 3 people and make a repeated flight in the same exact spaceship within 2 weeks (the idea is making cheap multi seated spaceships that can be flown frequently enough to be commercially viable. What happened recently was a test of the design; the team now has to make it bigger.

Thanks for the interest in this.
Bojingo - Lead Developer of TBA HL2 Modification

Not yet. the space ship one while it did fly ino space once it only had one person in it. To win the X prize you need a minamum of 3 people and beable to lanch a repeat the lanch within two weeks.

I think it's scary enough that a homemade spacecraft went into orbit without anyone dying. lol

Hmmmmmm

The Corporate System
Red Planets
Monetary Impact

Red Planets? All you did was add an s to a popular Hollywood motion picture...

and The Corporate System sends the wrong message. It just sounds like people working their way through their business without getting fired. lol