I've been thinking of an incredibly vast and intricate action/adventure/rpg/platformer/third-person shooter for the Wii (only with impossibly beautiful graphics), featuring, among other things...
- clever, wide open platform-like level designs.
- the ability for your character to easily take flight, indefinitely and at any time, with a simple control scheme involving 8-directions on an even plane with the analog stick and up/down with the Nunchuck's C and Z buttons, respectively. A huge part of the gameplay mechanics would be staying in the air, as some stronger enemy attacks will leave you stunned and temporarily at the mercy of gravity.
- a real-time, action-oriented combat system that has has you performing different moves and spells by pointing, clicking and dragging the cursor at different points on the screen, rather than using the Wii-mote's motion control, and the ability to quickly enter a sort of third person shooter mode for accurate projectile fire and camera control (all while moving unhindered with the above-mentioned flight controls, of course).
- absolutely no mindless shooting or button mashing/hack 'n' slash. fighting enemies should be far more strategic and require you to use all or most of your abilities wisely, but also very quickly.
- enemies that each have their own face and name, rather than endless hordes of generic and easily offed baddies, and would require multiple encounters to finally kill, since most confrontation would end in either you or them retreating. These battles would occur, perhaps randomly, at different locations within in the gigantic world, rather than the old confining, event-based boss battles.
- a life system based more on cumulative damage in a certain period of time from any one opponent, rather than universal hit-points that can be drained by anything. In other words, each character would have to hit you with a certain amount of their own "poison" in order for you to die. No recovery items either, it just wears off after time, often providing inventive to retreat.
- rather than learning or upgrading abilities with experience points or by finding items, you get them from killing specific enemies, providing more of an incentive to destroy them than simply progressing through the story. Also, some if not most abilities and kills would be entirely optional, but which ones would be for the player to figure out.
...I think I've got some pretty good ideas there. And no, I don't care if anyone steals them. If any developer actually made my dream game a reality, I'd be beyond delighted. I'll surely never be able to develop it myself.
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