If you had unlimited money, what would you do with it? Develop your favourite game perhaps?
Chronicly depressed writer, lover and thinking gamer.
The Weekly Nuke: Money Is No Object
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Posted 2 months ago #
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@Mikular Damn Notch for beating you to the punch with his actual infinite moneys.
I'd buy Double Fine, Rocksteady and Twisted Pixel and then just poop cash onto them, require at least game a year and say "FUCKING GET TO IT". The money is for expanding their teams. I like their stuff so I don't really have any particular project I want them to work on, although I do have a "perfect game" I want developed, (maybe I have to make a fourth team for that stuff) but I'll go into that later. That said, Twisted Pixel have to make an FMV game within three years. Double fine have to make one boxed product in the next five years and Rocksteady have to add an infinite mode to Batman Arkham City or whatever Batman thing they release next.
For the longer term, I'd start marketing their custom engines for cheap and try to undercut Unreal when the hardware changes. I know Schafer's engine is incredibly versatile right now; it powers EVERYTHING they do.
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Sticking just to the game related stuff I'd do: I'd leave my current job, and use the money to enable me, Kieran and people like artists and stuff to make the games we really want to make. Since the money is unlimited, I'd also put money into funding projects I approve of, financing ports of games onto more systems, supporting my favourite indies and of course giving to my favourite game-related charities.
I'd also buy all of the games. I mean, all of them.
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1. I'd give 50p to John so he can stop whining about Nukezilla not making any money
2. I'd hire the Gamewank guys to do a daily podcast, or even better a radio show
3. I'd tell China that India said their mother makes funny shaped dumplings, and tell India that China said their mother's chicken vindaloo tastes like chicken korma, just to finally see who'd win the war
4. When they both decimate each other I'd give Taiwan its independence and Japan can recolonise China for strategic anime purposes
5. I'd hire all the history writers, critics, scriptwriters and others of similar ilk to create the most beautiful poetry even penned. Then I'd get a talented sculptor to make a gigantic statue of me holding said poetry
6. I'd buy all the game companies and get them to do exactly the same thing they're doing because, like it or not, they know what they're doing
7. I'd also recreate Starcontrol...and XCom, and Transport Tycoon, and Mechwarrior: Mercenaries, Tyrian and countless other games I wanna recreate.Posted 2 months ago # -
5 words: beyond good and evil 2
You're tired, edgy, and miserable. You're in the perfect mood for Journalism.Posted 2 months ago # -
Rock Band: Pop-Punk
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Oh shit. Rock Band J-pop. Rock band Simon and Garfunkel. Rockband Miley Cyrus!!!
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Segway. Jet.
Actually, if I did have enough money, I'd like to somehow fund/force Square into finally making the Final Fantasy 7 remake that so many people have been begging for for years. It would make a gigantic profit, but far more importantly, all the fanboys could finally shut up about it.
And I'd get a Vagrant Story sequel off the ground.
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HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT THE JET.Jet.
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- I'd buy Bioware back from EA and tell them to stop trying to appeal to the masses and go back to the good ol' turn based combat storytelling days. There'd also probably be a clause for a proper KotOR 3 somewhere in there, too.
- I'd buy Obsidian a top notch QA team and tell them to take their time to finish games and make them run smoothly on release.
- I'd also bring Pandemic back from the dead and ask them to make a this-gen Battlefront game without the lag issues of the first two.
- I'd throw money around until I started a trend towards more expansive, epic scale DLC that actually adds to games (Think Shivering Isles for Oblivion) instead of just maps, costumes, and other cosmetic changes.Aaaaand I'd open up a diner.
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So I posted an update to the weekly nuke because the theme fits in, what's your perfect game? When I feel a bit better, I'll chime in, probably Wednesday, but until then, go wild, please.
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I want different games for different times and places. But... I suppose then my perfect game would be one that is deep when I want it to be deep and shallow when I want it to be shallow, and just as fun at every step in between. Funny, but serious when it needs to be, with an excellent soundtrack and voice acting, a distinctive visual style and bold design choices.
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@Pete - So, World of warcraft? I think the only reason people shouldn't play it is if they have a level 80 character, or are addicted to another game. It's got the right balance IMHO. And I guess what I'm saying is if I could fund a game, it would be World of Warcraft 2. But more like Skyrim. Which is setting the bar extremely high.
Have I said Titan Quest? That or any isometric gothic style RPG.
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No, not world of warcraft. I don't think it makes many bold design choices. It went popular because it was basically the best executed thing of its kind, because it was smartly designed, but even at the start I don't remember it as a game that ever did anything particularly bold. Also I don't think it's much fun to play. I get bored of the combat well before I get bored of everything else, which is bad news, since the game is mostly combat. Also, I don't think it's very funny. Sure, it has lighthearted stuff and in jokes, but it doesn't really have the sort of great dialogue I'd associate with a funny game. And I don't care enough about the world to take it seriously. The soundtrack is fine but it has almost no voice acting, and while the visual style is good, I don't think the characters that inhabit it have a whole lot of personality. Also, it's shallow enough when I want it to be shallow, and while it has elements that are deep, I'd want it to be even deeper when I want it to be.
So not that. Also, I don't want to have to share a world with other people, most of the time.
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This is branching off topic but it's extremely difficult to name genuinely funny games. I find the 'casual' and indie games are more humorous than triple-A games, excluding GTA. The audio, gameplay, and radio are absolutely hilarious.
So yeah, thumbs up to casuals.
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Peter, it sounds to me like what you want is Fable, if Fable did everything Molyneux said it would.
That'd be a good use of unlimited money. Fund/produce a Fable game with Peter Molyneux still directing but with you in the producer's chair with creative control. Those games would be utterly fantatsic if only there was someone editing Molyneux, stop him from talking bollocks and pushing him in the right direction.
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I realise I'm rather late to the party but I do have a plan for what to do with all of the monies.
Firstly I don't think any amount of money is going to stop the big world problems on it's own, sure we can fund research into diseases and alternative energy (btw I'd completely fund fusion power but alas that's a scientific bottleneck not cash flow).
- Fund lots of projects through things like kick starter (Creative Commons media and Open Source stuff).
- Create my own Open Access scientific journal, seeing as I have all the monies it would be free for anyone to access.
- Get SSX Tricky remade in HD glory, the new SSX looks good but it's not Tricky.
- Build an Iron Man-esque suit which would be purely non-combat like Pepper's Rescue suit from the comics (I mean with no weapons, if I punched someone they'd still die because of the added strength). I'd fly around being all badass and such.Posted 2 months ago #
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