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[Azure J]

I have had an idea for a game in a similar vein for upwards of 10 years now. Think The World Ends With You/Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents touch screen usage meets Earthbound's "motley crew of kids" meets 80s - 90s New York City/the Wild Style movie.

rap=crap xDDD POST IN YOUR SIG IF YOU LUV REAL MUSIC

I know this is satire, but damn if the post content to username dissonance going on here isn't strong as fuck.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

For everyone who is quoting my first post in the thread, I meant that I would not want a developer to be guilty of stereotyping in their depiction of hip-hop culture.

Editing this clarification into the original post.

This game would never come out of a Capcom. It would only be made by an indie dev with enough love and knowledge for the genre to spend the time, money, and effort.

 

[swazzyswess]

Eh. Metal has huge fictional/fantasy/mystical elements that made Brutal Legend what it is. They've already made the game OP is talking about, it's called San Andreas.

 

[Infinite]

I have had an idea for a game in a similar vein for upwards of 10 years now. Think The World Ends With You/Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents touch screen usage meets Earthbound's "motley crew of kids" meets 80s - 90s New York City/the Wild Style movie.

Would buy. and play. and finish.

 

[Silky]

This game would never come out of a Capcom. It would only be made by an indie dev with enough love and knowledge for the genre to spend the time, money, and effort.

Are you implying Capcom is AAA? Because they really aren't.

Any developer can have love/respect of the genre. Just have to find them.


If anything I would love to see Harmonix do something on this scale.

 

[NormalFish]

I have had an idea for a game in a similar vein for upwards of 10 years now. Think The World Ends With You/Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents touch screen usage meets Earthbound's "motley crew of kids" meets 80s - 90s New York City/the Wild Style movie.



I know this is satire, but damn if the post content to username dissonance going on here isn't strong as fuck.

Would buy. and play. and finish.

Ditto. That sounds freaking amazing. Day 1.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

Starring Mark Wahlberg

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Are you implying Capcom is AAA? Because they really aren't.

Any developer can have love/respect of the genre. Just have to find them.


If anything I would love to see Harmonix do something on this scale.

Read the post I replied to mang

and no big name dev is going to make or facilitate a game like this, just look back at the last three pages for reasons why.

However, there are already indie devs working on similar concepts.

 

[Dion Blaster]

Eh. Metal has huge fictional/fantasy/mystical elements that made Brutal Legend what it is. They've already made the game OP is talking about, it's called San Andreas.

Please tell me you're joking

 

[overcast]

Eh. Metal has huge fictional/fantasy/mystical elements that made Brutal Legend what it is. They've already made the game OP is talking about, it's called San Andreas.

No they didn't. San Andreas focuses on a slice of hip-hop culture.

 

[Kenpachiiithesable]

I've waited for something something hip hop/ related in gaming, i would hope a game be to be as passionate as Brutal Legend was. Rappers are always affiliated a lot with games, Danny Brown is a fan of Persona 4

 

[DeadlyVirus]

No they didn't. San Andreas focuses on a slice of hip-hop culture.

San Andreas focuses on time period of a certain region, not just a music genre. It takes as much from music as it does from movies and TV shows

 

[enzo_gt]

Jimmy Iovine is the end boss.

You have to fight Iovine, Birdman and MechaSugeKnight at once.

Could potentially be the hardest boss fight in a game ever TBH.

I've waited for something something hip hop/ related in gaming, i would hope a game be to be as passionate as Brutal Legend was. Rappers are always affiliated a lot with games, Danny Brown is a fan of Persona 4

He's also a massive fan of FFXIII tho

 

[The Dear Leader]

Def Jam Icon but good, I can feel it.

 

[Infinite]

Eh. Metal has huge fictional/fantasy/mystical elements that made Brutal Legend what it is. They've already made the game OP is talking about, it's called San Andreas.

San Andreas isn't to hip-hop like what brutal is to metal. San Andreas is inspired by movies like boys in the hood and gang wars in the 80s not a genre of music.

 

[Anth0ny]

I want a Kanye JRPG. Final boss is Walt Disney.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Read the post I replied to mang

and no big name dev is going to make or facilitate a game like this, just look back at the last three pages for reasons why.

However, there are already indie devs working on similar concepts.

Yeah I don't have faith that any big studio that's run by white or Japanese men would do this either. Just look at comments here disapproving it without any real merit or critique. The industry like a lot of others need more diversity in their games. Most games out here are using the same settings, and from the same cultural perspectives. It looks like people don't want diversity, but I can't put up with that. I do. I didn't know much about metal before I played Brutal Legend, but I did enjoy the gameplay and what I was able to expand my knowledge on something I was relatively unfamiliar with. Disapproval of something based on its cultural roots seems counterproductive and culturally intolerant to me. The big thing about a game first and foremost is the gameplay. If a big game like this isn't made in the next seven years then I'll add to my list of games to create before I die because lord knows we need some variety in our media.

 

[Azure J]

Would buy. and play. and finish.

Ditto. That sounds freaking amazing. Day 1.

Damn I still wish if my hard drive didn't go kaput recently. I had a huge document full of ideas I wanted to share in the future. There were so many little nods and touches I wanted to include like the main party was going to be molded after the crew in Lupe's Kick Push II:

"One's father was filthy rich
Two was middle class, and one was homeless
Add in the paralyzed girl in the wheelchair
Who just liked to watch, and that was the whole clique"

Or the fact that each of their "job classes" were going to be related to spinning/scratching/sampling music (the "Scratch"), dance (the "Moves"), "vocals" (Voice) or just being "The Hype".

 

[……forgetit]

Buy it in a heart beat if it had a wushu area where the main NPCs were voiced by the Wu tag clan.

 

[Buckethead]

How about Brutal Legend with a little bit more streamlined metal and more focused gameplay?

I call it "Brutal Legend 2".

Won't ever happen. =(

 

[overcast]

San Andreas focuses on time period of a certain region, not just a music genre. It takes as much from music as it does from movies and TV shows

Yeah, I know that, I was just talking relative to saying it him saying it's equivalent to brutal legend.

 

[NormalFish]

Damn I still wish if my hard drive didn't go kaput recently. I had a huge document full of ideas I wanted to share in the future. There were so many little nods and touches I wanted to include like the main party was going to be molded after the crew in Lupe's Kick Push II:

"One's father was filthy rich
Two was middle class, and one was homeless
Add in the paralyzed girl in the wheelchair
Who just liked to watch, and that was the whole clique"

Or the fact that each of their "job classes" were going to be related to spinning/scratching/sampling music (the "Scratch"), dance (the "Moves"), "vocals" (Voice) or just being "The Hype".

Yup, definitely interested in anything resembling that. Sucks about the hard drive, I've taken to writing all my ideas like that in a notebook for just that reason.

For those talking about hiphop/rap as a genre and trying to seperate it from culture, good luck. Both of those genres exist because of the culture. To a degree that almost any other genre (except the blues/jazz/etc.) does. Metal doesn't have the racially charged background that this music does, which is why it's way easier to use it as a muse, and still find a producer.

 

[Plywood]

why don't we just have Def Jam fight for NY HD/2

Don't play with my heart man.

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

the lack of hip hop/rap related games out there bothers me alot.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Follow the same archetype of Brutal Legend's world design and replace it with key components of hip hop/rap and the culture its spawned. Different, unique regions and multiple styles segregated into factions much like BL. Style and shape the story into something akin to say, Getting Up. Then have that creative liberty of adding a somewhat mystic flair to the music, like with what BL did.

And replace the combat of BL and make it an action platformer.

Would you play it?

Fuck yes I would. That's such a cool concept. BL itself would've been great if they just stuck to strictly making it character action/platformer and developed based off that like that super misleading demo made you think it was gonna be.

 

[Kurt Angle]

better game than brutal legend too

 

[Eknots]

I want a samurai champloo/bebop game, something with that feel and music. Idk if it exists already but it should if it doesn't

 

[skLaFarebear]

I've waited for something something hip hop/ related in gaming, i would hope a game be to be as passionate as Brutal Legend was. Rappers are always affiliated a lot with games, Danny Brown is a fan of Persona 4

Not surprising. Lots of rappers are into the video game scene and some really even like anime (though even less would actually admit that because of how damaging that is to their popularity).

 

[Regiruler]

Only if you replace the hip-hop/rap with metal.

Spoiler

I don't like the music genre, so no I would not play it.

 

[Wiktor]

Wouldn't it just be cartoonish San Andreas though? Hip hop stylistically isn't linked to one specific non-real setting, the way Metal is to fantasy

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Hip hop stylistically isn't linked to one specific non-real setting, the way Metal is to fantasy

That's one thing that could give it more meat

I want a samurai champloo/bebop game, something with that feel and music. Idk if it exists already but it should if it doesn't

One of each was released in Japan only, but they were kind of cheeks

 

[Azure J]

Wouldn't it just be cartoonish San Andreas though? Hip hop stylistically isn't linked to one specific non-real setting, the way Metal is to fantasy

You could pretty much run the gamut of styles for the setting of a game like this. It could be set in a sprawling east coast style city (categorized by large housing complexes and the hustle and bustle of city folk, think Nas' Illmatic/It Was Written/I Am album covers), west (a more laidback palm tree and Impala affair), a hyper surrealist dream scape a la Lupe's Food and Liquor album cover/Cudi's album art, themed angles like Wu Tang's "Kung Fu Flick" or mafioso affair like the Notorious BIG's "Life After Death"/Diddy's "No Way Out" and many other situations and art directions with just a little bit of thought.

 

[Village]

I want a Kanye JRPG. Final boss is Walt Disney.

My man looking like sparda

 

[Danneee]

No, I'm fucking sick of "indie" plattformers.

 

[NormalFish]

No, I'm fucking sick of "indie" plattformers.

I cannot begin to understand why you thought this was 1) relevant or 2) reasonable. This is a thread about a game based on hip-hop/rap in the same way that brutal legend was based on metal...

 

[MasterOfPastures]

You gotta first find the people who can do this. Tim was a metalhead and drove the game through two publishers just to get it out. Is there such a passionate, prominent figure in the industry willing to risk everything on such a project, while being deeply understanding of it's roots and themes, while also navigating skillfully through the culture's more reprehensible aspects? Is there a rising dev of sorts that might pull-it-off later?

 

[MuddyDonut]

Jeff Gerstmann can do it.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Jeff Gerstmann can do it.

That dude's just a journalist isn't he?

 

[FeenixRising]

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.

 

[Cheddahz]

I would be down for this and just an idea, but there should be groups of enemies that represent a sub genre of hip hop and there's a major figure for each group that is real or shares features of multiple artists in that sub genre

I'm a huge hip hop nut, so this would just be a dope game

 

[NegativeCero]

I love hip-hop and I want to say yes, but I'm not sure that hip-hop has the same visual elements that metal has developed over the years. I feel like metal is able to draw from the covers of decades of metal albums for example, which give it a distinct look (i.e. skulls, chrome, demons, etc). I might be wrong, but I don't think hip hop has that.

 

[Micerider]

Hmm, I'm not sure where they could go with that. There is less "fantasy" to build on with Rap. But it would fit a more "grounded" game.

 

[brokenbeans]

Tribe called quest mission line is already the best one.

You must find the wallet left in El Segundo.

 

[dyergram]

It would be I imagine handled embarrassingly and end up very saints row esq imo. Not to shit on your idea op I love hip hop and would probably enjoy it all the same best case scenario would be if it didn't take its self seriously.

 

[masud]

Only if you get to drive a rap car

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

You really don't even have to go that far to find rap/hip hop beyond the stereotypical view some of you seem to have. Del, Outkast, NERD, Tribe, De La, etc.

 

[Majestad]

If this game was made by Cliffy B, Macklemore would be the star with a message to tell.

 

[davepoobond]

Didn't the Activision producers want Tim to do that when he was developing the game?

EDIT: Yup. They did.

can anyone blame them? its not like the game that did come out sold very much...

 

[Parallax]

Yes. Please. Starring No Limit Soldiers. The game is calling No Limit. I want this.

FPS starring Mystikal? Count me in.

EDIT: One of the missions is to ride a tank into a basketball court while Make Em Say UGH is playing and shooting demons

only if i can mod the controls so i can say ugh to shoot the tank

 

[Arc Christelle]

Anarchy Reigns.