STEALTHY GODZILLA Round #1

Back when we first started our radio show, we came up with a nameless game, both as fun and as a means of filling up our time slot. The rules of the game were fairly straightforward: each of us would be handed pieces of paper indicating a video game genre (such as horror), a setting (e.g. Mordor) and a character (anyone for Ewoks?). We would then have to come up with a video game based on those elements and whoever’s sounded the best/most entertaining would win. Each person was also given a ‘Cards Against Humanity’ card that could be used if they thought their original elements weren’t interesting enough.

We eventually ditched the game due to time constraints, but now that we have a two-hour slot, we’ve brought it back! It has also been given a name, which as you can tell from the title, is STEALTHY GODZILLA – so named after a previous round where we came up with a stealth-action game starring Godzilla (instead of hiding under boxes, like Snake in MGS, Godzilla would have to hide under warehouses). Each week I’ll post the results here on the blog as a record of all the weird ideas we come up with, along with which game got which honour.

Without further ado…

Junice’s game:

ANGSTY ANAKINS: RESURGENCE

Genre: MMO

Setting: A Middle Earth Rip-off

Character: Angsty Anakin Skywalker

Cards Against Humanity card: Lumberjack fantasies

Angsty Anakin had always dreamed of escaping his duldrum existence and taking his lumberjacking lightsaber skills to a fantastical land. Now, in ANGSTY ANAKINS: RESURGENCE, you can share his dream too. Taking place inside the dreams of Anakin, RESURGENCE allows you to play as an Anakin and travel to the make believe land of [Middle Earth rip-off], where you will meet other Anakin-players that are connected across dimensions through the power of the dreamscape. By picking a tribe you determine what substance your Anakin hates most (be it sand, water or even grass) and then you’re on your way! Maximum player count: who knows? Likely player count: three, maybe? More than Battleborn, we reckon.

AWARD: Most likely to be watched on Youtube, but that’s really it.

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Adam’s game:

McAlien McIsolation

Genre: Horror

Setting: Outer Space

Character: Ronald McDonald

Cards Against Humanity card: (NOT USED) Retiring to France with family and kids etc.

Trapped on a space station with Ronald McDonald on the loose, this one kind of writes itself to be honest. It’s definitely the game you can most imagine existing and working. It would probably amount to little more than a mod for Alien Isolation, but with a couple of twists. It was suggested that, at the end of the game, one possible ending could have the player killing Ronald McDonald (possibly via ejecting him into space), donning his costume and assuming the mantle of Ronald for the next person to arrive on the space station, thereby creating an endless loop a la Bloodborne. Junice also suggested that the horror in the game should be more abstract and stem from an obesity crisis caused by over-consumption of McDonalds burgers. This idea was noted, but not necessarily pursued by Adam and Rob.

AWARD: The game that is the easiest to imagine actually working.

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Rob’s game:

HUNGER GAMES: THE MUSICAL! (STARRING EDNA MODE)

Genre: Film tie-in

Setting: Morally Corruptopolis

Character: Edna Mode

Cards Against Humanity card: Funky Fresh Rhymes

In the capital of Panem (from the Hunger Games), one fashion designer will seek to restore morality and human decency to a corrupt city, through the power of fashion and funky fresh rhymes. Gameplay would be similar to Parappa the Rappa.

I feel like the thought process behind this needs explaining a bit. In order to tie the game to a film, we selected the setting of the Hunger Games to be our Morally Corruptopolis, largely because we could imagine Edna Mode’s job as a fashion designer fitting in fairly easily to the city of Panem. From there it was up to he Cards Against Humanity card to help fill in the rest. (It’s always good to see ‘Funky Fresh Rhymes’ pop up in STEALTHY GODZILLA.)

AWARD: Least likely to be touched by a video game developer. Which is saying something given the competition.

Overall verdict:

McAlien McIsolation was the game we all believed could actually work which seemed to nudge it ahead in our on-air discussion. Writing this up now, it’s pretty clear that it’s mostly a mod for Alien Isolation, but oh well. The criteria for victory on STEALTHY GODZILLA is fairly malleable and ultimately irrelevant. If your weird Radio Show segment gives you a game in which millions (or three) Angsty Anakins travel across dimensions to lumberjack in a knock-off of Middle Earth, then it doesn’t really matter who ‘wins’. Everyone’s a winner with Angsty Anakins: Resurgence, Hunger Games: The Musical! and McAlien McIsolation.

Anyhow, we plan to do this on the radio show weekly so come back next week for another (perhaps just as slightly disturbing) round of STEALTHY GODZILLA!

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