Next year's top videogame ...

… is contained within a seven-page pitch document sitting on my desk right now! I just finished dropping in the last piece of concept art. In a few minutes I’ll email it off to my producer.

It’s got compelling characters and completely original gameplay! It’s so simple you can learn to play in five minutes. It’s so deep it can take months to master! It’s funny and innovative and designed to be totally addictive! It will spawn many sequels and imitators! It will eat up millions of hours of free time and destroy marriages!

And you heard about it here first! :smiley:

(I’m not usually such an egomaniac … but I’m really chuffed about this game idea. Realistically it faces a huge number of hurdles. Even though I think it’s a great idea it probably only has about a 30% chance of actually getting made. But if it does … well, I thought it would be funny to be able to point back at this thread and say “You see! You see! I told you it would be great!”)

So, can I hear more about it?

No. It’s proprietary and confidential. :frowning:

If it actually does get made I can probably start talking about details sometime next year. I’m just so pleased with myself right now I had to crow … .

Is it call Spore II by chance?

Don’t jinx it! Now Spore won’t come out for another two years!

Pochacco, it will be for Wii, right? Please :smiley:

Good thing i didn’t ask if it was Duke Nukem Forever & A Day, huh?

AH DAMN!! :smack:

Game companies are starting up the hype machine even earlier, huh?

Can I be a beta tester?

Ooh! I wanna beta test, too!

Bah.

You’re game’s gonna suck because it’s not gonna be exactly the game I want.

I can’t describe exactly what it is I DO want, and I have no idea what your game even LOOKS like, but your game sucks.

It’s an insult to games everywhere that your game even exists.

[sub]Wait, this ISN’T the beta test of the next Fallout 3 complaint thread? Oh. Right. Carry on, then.[/sub]

Two years is a reasonably optimistic scenario.

Sorry … I work for Sony.

Part of my job is to make that $600 price tag for the PS3 seem palatable. :stuck_out_tongue:

Hey, at least I waited until I finished the pitch! I could have posted when I first had the idea two months ago!

If the game actually gets made … and if we have an open beta … I’ll post info here.

Can we ride mammoths in it? I want to ride a mammoth.

If the main character’s name doesn’t contain “Master” or “Chief” in it then it’s going to suck. :wink:

I thought you said it would be simple to play.

And “compelling.” :wink:

Well, it’s Sony. That rules that out.

But, Duke or Nukem will come in a nice second place.