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Ok, to start this off (assuming it goes anywhere from this post) my own idea. It may not be popular, but I think this would be cool.
My idea is for a sandbox type game, somewhat like the GTA series, or how they did Spider-man 2. The entire game world as we know it from the rest of the Compilation would appear, every city, every materia cave, all the geographical locations like Mount Corel and such, all of it.
The games general theme would be "this is what life is like for the party when Sephiroth stays dead". All the living party members would be playable rather than just one or two, despite my distaste for Cait Sith. Each character would have a slightly different playstyle. Playing as Cloud would give you access to the Fenrir and First Tsurugi/Ken, with the other five fusion swords added in as optional add-ons as you level up, also allowing dual-wielding once you have at least one unlocked. Playing as Cid would provide access to the Tiny Bronco or Shera, or perhaps some new small-scale aircraft that replaces Tiny Bronco the way Shera replaced Highwind. Tifa would give the player access to Cooking Mama style mini-games to prepare drinks when playing at the bar, and martial arts beat-em-up style play when in the field.
The game would be non-linear, doing a job for one person would unlock more jobs from them, but you could easily ignore them to work for someone else as in most sandbox type games. So, Cloud might do a delivery job for Reeve and the WRO, or he might do accept a request from Rufus to track down and defeat a monster that is threatening... whatever Shinra is up to after ACC. Not clear on that yet. The cellphones everyone, including Nanaki for some reason, now have would play an important role, you could use them to call up any character you are not playing as and switch to them at any time outside of a mission, for instance you are playing as Tifa, and Reeve asks her to accept a job that requires a long range fighter. She is given the option to accept at once, decline until later, or use her cell to call Barret, Vincent, or Yuffie and turn the job over to them.
Jobs would range from innocent and seemingly unimportant stuff like delivering a shipment of liqour to Seventh Heaven to testing new combat moogles for Cait Sith to serious stuff like assisting local law enforcement and tracking down new energy sources.
An overarching story would occur as time goes on, intoducing a new villain which would be the games final storyline boss, though I honestly haven't a clue who this would be or what makes them dangerous, though I am sure Nomura would design an outfit for them with 40 belts and at least one oversized zipper.
So, anyone else got a crazy idea like this, or care to critique mine? I hope so, or this thread is gonna be fairly pointless
In other words: Go.
Edit: A thought that just occurred to me, I would make absolutely certain that, at some point in the game (possibly multiple times) Cloud and Tifa would exchange the words "I love you" and be shown kissing, holding hands, and disappearing into their bedroom at Seventh Heaven in the most risque manner I could possibly get away with. Then at release go to a CxA forum to watch the mass hysteria.
My idea is for a sandbox type game, somewhat like the GTA series, or how they did Spider-man 2. The entire game world as we know it from the rest of the Compilation would appear, every city, every materia cave, all the geographical locations like Mount Corel and such, all of it.
The games general theme would be "this is what life is like for the party when Sephiroth stays dead". All the living party members would be playable rather than just one or two, despite my distaste for Cait Sith. Each character would have a slightly different playstyle. Playing as Cloud would give you access to the Fenrir and First Tsurugi/Ken, with the other five fusion swords added in as optional add-ons as you level up, also allowing dual-wielding once you have at least one unlocked. Playing as Cid would provide access to the Tiny Bronco or Shera, or perhaps some new small-scale aircraft that replaces Tiny Bronco the way Shera replaced Highwind. Tifa would give the player access to Cooking Mama style mini-games to prepare drinks when playing at the bar, and martial arts beat-em-up style play when in the field.
The game would be non-linear, doing a job for one person would unlock more jobs from them, but you could easily ignore them to work for someone else as in most sandbox type games. So, Cloud might do a delivery job for Reeve and the WRO, or he might do accept a request from Rufus to track down and defeat a monster that is threatening... whatever Shinra is up to after ACC. Not clear on that yet. The cellphones everyone, including Nanaki for some reason, now have would play an important role, you could use them to call up any character you are not playing as and switch to them at any time outside of a mission, for instance you are playing as Tifa, and Reeve asks her to accept a job that requires a long range fighter. She is given the option to accept at once, decline until later, or use her cell to call Barret, Vincent, or Yuffie and turn the job over to them.
Jobs would range from innocent and seemingly unimportant stuff like delivering a shipment of liqour to Seventh Heaven to testing new combat moogles for Cait Sith to serious stuff like assisting local law enforcement and tracking down new energy sources.
An overarching story would occur as time goes on, intoducing a new villain which would be the games final storyline boss, though I honestly haven't a clue who this would be or what makes them dangerous, though I am sure Nomura would design an outfit for them with 40 belts and at least one oversized zipper.
So, anyone else got a crazy idea like this, or care to critique mine? I hope so, or this thread is gonna be fairly pointless
In other words: Go.
Edit: A thought that just occurred to me, I would make absolutely certain that, at some point in the game (possibly multiple times) Cloud and Tifa would exchange the words "I love you" and be shown kissing, holding hands, and disappearing into their bedroom at Seventh Heaven in the most risque manner I could possibly get away with. Then at release go to a CxA forum to watch the mass hysteria.
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