Unreal Engine Game mechanics ideas

[Dr_Kek]

Hey there, clearly not the only one that come with this kind of topic.

but lately, i've been wanting to make an adult game, but i always run into the problem of the vision:

i have some ok ideas for stuff, but it feels always a little shallow, or not really knowing how i will implement it in an adult game.

things like: you go in a undercity with two factions at war, autonomaus tanks roaming the street and you scavenge stuff etc, sounds cool but eh, its missing some stuff i think xd.

a rpg-lifesim in some 1984 esque neo-noire comedic underground society, inspired by brazil.

a game where you drop in a colony and complete objective stealthily or gun blazing before a timer run out

and quite some more, i feel all my ideas are missing some pieces and i cant settle down with anything. so if you like those stuff and have something that pop in your mind on how to improve those ideas, or totally new one.

i think i would make all these games in 3D, not realistic graphism cause i just dont have the skill to pull that off, nor those PS1 graphism xd, maybe more akin to star wars the old republic graphism, in a different style for sure depending on what game i decide to do. (dont really know how tolabel these graphism, its not detailed but not too little)


anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk

 

[CaptainBipto]

The ideas that you pitched sound like you are looking for make some type of stealth/survival/shooter style game.
The first things that come to my mind, based on that assumption, are that you want to implement some type of base building AND a crafting system.

A way to recruit companions wouldn't be a bad idea either. You can have an armory/weapon smith, a sensor system/stealth tech, a medical bay/doctor, and an intelligence broker/analyst (street contacts vs spy equipment). That way people could invest 'points' into armor, weapons, detection,avoidance, healing, toughness, and a way to determine enemy strengths/weaknesses or enemy analysis (base layout,enemy types).

The crafting system would be used to build equipment/technologies that your companions (or specialized research buildings) create for the player. Harder hitting weapons vs faster firing weapons, heavy armor vs camouflage/detection, better healing mechanism or an innate toughness.

I think that as long as your graphics are not on par with graphics from 2005, you probably won't hear a lot of complaints. There will always be some 'genius' that will whine about graphics not being AAA quality, but for the most part I think (and therefore could be wrong) that most people will be fine with decent quality graphics.

 

[Dr_Kek]

The ideas that you pitched sound like you are looking for make some type of stealth/survival/shooter style game.
The first things that come to my mind, based on that assumption, are that you want to implement some type of base building AND a crafting system.

A way to recruit companions wouldn't be a bad idea either. You can have an armory/weapon smith, a sensor system/stealth tech, a medical bay/doctor, and an intelligence broker/analyst (street contacts vs spy equipment). That way people could invest 'points' into armor, weapons, detection,avoidance, healing, toughness, and a way to determine enemy strengths/weaknesses or enemy analysis (base layout,enemy types).

The crafting system would be used to build equipment/technologies that your companions (or specialized research buildings) create for the player. Harder hitting weapons vs faster firing weapons, heavy armor vs camouflage/detection, better healing mechanism or an innate toughness.

I think that as long as your graphics are not on par with graphics from 2005, you probably won't hear a lot of complaints. There will always be some 'genius' that will whine about graphics not being AAA quality, but for the most part I think (and therefore could be wrong) that most people will be fine with decent quality graphics.

thanks for sharing your thought, for base building, if i ever add this mechanic to my future game, i think it would be more of a upgrade, lets say i go with some kind of rpg-lifesim whatever. a house where you can purchase upgrade would be more like it.

im not all convinced by the idea, but its something to keep in mind, thanks