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NipplesAndToes23 · Oct 20, 2014

MuddyDonut said:
Makes enough hip hop references to cement his eligibility

But you'd actually need someone who has experience designing games and managing a project like that.

NipplesAndToes23 · Oct 20, 2014

Antiwhippy said:
They already made a game called wu tang shaolin style.

As for other stuff...

Hip hop is honestly wide enough to get a whole bunch of weird art-style influences.

Whose album is this? I dig the cover art.

Accoun · Oct 20, 2014

Blasian Persuasion said:
Whose album is this? I dig the cover art.

DJ Okawari. And it's not one album, just covers combined to a one image.

He's pretty damn great, too.

soul creator · Oct 20, 2014

Have Nas be a boss in the game and when you beat him it says...

chud · Oct 20, 2014

Why would I ever want to do that

Rimon-hanit · Oct 20, 2014

Brutal Legend is so awesome would love another one, also think I would enjoy the suggested hip hop version.

RP912 · Oct 20, 2014

FeenixRising said:
Does it necessarily just have to be hip hop? I would incorporate modern R&B too since it's not too far away from being hip hop. I would want to be immersed in a ethereal like world with Jhene Aiko's or Tinashe's music playing in the background.

I would like a Journey or Flower type of game for that genre. No need of battling anything or fighting for a cause...just travel into bliss with soulful tunes.

That would be awesome.

Danomeon · Oct 20, 2014

Oh hell yeah.

Imagine if they went into the weird subcultures of hip-hop and started playing around with landscapes themed after Noise Hop or Cloud Rap. I would murder to see whatever heavy-metal world they could create out of rap like Death Grips.

I would imagine massive, oppressive cityscapes with scrap metal littered everywhere and massive amplifiers blasting ear-shattering bass from every corner, with an illuminati-like organization ruling over it all and a group of young MCs having to revolt against the power structures from the underground.

But I don't think that's what the publisher had in mind.

RP912 · Oct 20, 2014

Danomeon said:
Oh hell yeah.

Imagine if they went into the weird subcultures of hip-hop and started playing around with landscapes themed after Noise Hop or Cloud Rap. I would murder to see whatever heavy-metal world they could create out of rap like Death Grips.

I would imagine massive, oppressive cityscapes with scrap metal littered everywhere and massive amplifiers blasting ear-shattering bass from every corner, with an illuminati-like organization ruling over it all and a group of young MCs having to revolt against the power structures from the underground.

But I don't think that's what the publisher had in mind.

Dude you blowing my mind and making me throw money at the screen. This should be kickstarted o_o.

JZA · Oct 20, 2014

I think the right person to write and direct this game would have to be Aaron McGruder. The Boondocks already has a lot of references to things like Star Wars, HK action flicks, and Wu-Tang, so I could see the game deriving its action sequences from things like that. He also knows how to similarly promote and poke fun at hip hop culture within the same body of work. Since Boondocks' future is finite, making a videogame might be a logical next step for him.

Loomer · Oct 20, 2014

I totally would, and I don't even like Hip Hop.

gabbo · Oct 21, 2014

I'd be down, but it would need a really wide variety of artists (music) and thematic variety (eras, subgenres) to really do the idea justice.
Somehow, an RPG where you join the Wu Tang Clan on some kind of kung fu adventure sounds more fun.

Bubbavelli · Oct 21, 2014

Young Thug would be the obligatory final boss and look almost like Kefka

mikeBlack · Oct 21, 2014

Feel like this would work better in another 10 years time when hip-hop feels even more dated. Like 80s metal does now.

EmptySpace · Oct 21, 2014

why would you replace music with something else?

poorlonelycomputer · Oct 21, 2014

adin75 said:
Honestly, no, I wouldn't play it. It wouldn't matter to me how great the game was I couldn't do it because of Hip Hop/Rap. I can't stand that noise.

I have no doubt there would be a market for it though.

Dad? Is that you?

Massive Duck. C.M. · Oct 21, 2014

EmptySpace said:
why would you replace music with something else?

Ho ho, witty

Bergerac · Oct 21, 2014

Only if it was Kool Keith. A Dr Dooom game would be funny as fuck.

Otherwise there's not a lot of Hip Hop I care about anymore.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr9tEqlqbtE

The horrorcore would make sense plus I want to kick someone's 'intestines out like Ric Flair'.

Can even have a SciFi version with his Black Elvis persona.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCA-WahQIo

Seriously. I don't have time for gangster or endless race related shit. Some self awareness and a sense of humour instead please.

Dion Blaster · Oct 21, 2014

I've thought about this for like a day now and I think this would work even if they only used Wu-Tang Shaolin imagery. Might be more manageable if they narrow it down. Final boss is Voltron.

NipplesAndToes23 · Oct 22, 2014

Nah, they can use multiple scenery and styles. A ton of games do it and are fine. I like variety.

Daingurse · Oct 22, 2014

I'd play that game. I don't listen to Metal or Rock, but I do listen to rap, so that increases my interest immediately.

Falk · Oct 22, 2014

Just have rap rock as an area/faction/whatever and everyone's happy.

Heck, include this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYJgYEtrL_Y

Unbound By Death · Oct 22, 2014

EmptySpace said:
why would you replace music with something else?

No idea, i wonder the same thing.

cantona222 · Oct 22, 2014

I'll buy the game day 1

Fevaweva · Oct 22, 2014

I would buy that game day -1

djtiesto · Oct 22, 2014

Host Samurai said:
I wouldn't mind an EDM themed action/platformer with big bright aesthetics and a colorful character

This would be awesome, I think Rez and Child of Light are the only EDM themed games out there to my knowledge, we certainly need more!

Falk · Oct 22, 2014

djtiesto said:
This would be awesome, I think Rez and Child of Light are the only EDM themed games out there to my knowledge, we certainly need more!

Child of Light is EDM?

edit: Oh, Child of Eden?

FeenixRising · Oct 22, 2014

RP912 said:
I would like a Journey or Flower type of game for that genre. No need of battling anything or fighting for a cause...just travel into bliss with soulful tunes.

That would be awesome.

This guy gets it.

http://youtu.be/zWkhv2PguDI

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