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think Brutal Legend, but replace metal with hip hop/rap.
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Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Edit: woops
Do you get some kind of thrill making jokes like these , Cause they hurt . These are the ones that cut deep into souls
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
If it had the same basic tone, premise, and imaginative scenarios as Hip Hop RPG, I'd be all over that shit.
bequietdrive
Member
San Andreas is the only game to get anything about hip hop right.
Licensed music related games have been awful, I'm looking at your games - Fiddy.
Licensed music related games have been awful, I'm looking at your games - Fiddy.
Watching the Cryme Tyme videos from Superbestfriends reminded me how many shitty attempts there already were at this.
Basically this:
Sure, not all hip-hop/rap is like that, but the mainstream stuff nowadays kinda is.
I'm just saying you'd be more likely to get another 187 Ride or Die than you are to get another Jet Set Radio.
HipHop RPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFB5UJsvPNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVmMzvd6Cw
Ya boy d. glovers game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSRanZqKzY
but for real though, would love a game like JSRF, open world (well city), hip hop soundtrack & featuring the nemesis system from Mordor. Turfwars through grafitti and whatnot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFB5UJsvPNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVmMzvd6Cw
Ya boy d. glovers game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSRanZqKzY
but for real though, would love a game like JSRF, open world (well city), hip hop soundtrack & featuring the nemesis system from Mordor. Turfwars through grafitti and whatnot.
The main character is obviously going to be white, duh
brokenbeans
Banned
Collectables in game could be flava flavs clocks.
If good why not?
Hip Hop and Rap are not exactly my favorite genres so forgive my ignorance, but what are those genres' imaginary to base the game on?
Metal has strong fantasy and dark imaginary, what hip hop and rap have? I can only think of "gangsta", girls and money.
Hip Hop and Rap are not exactly my favorite genres so forgive my ignorance, but what are those genres' imaginary to base the game on?
Metal has strong fantasy and dark imaginary, what hip hop and rap have? I can only think of "gangsta", girls and money.
Sentenza
Member
Nightmare fuel.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
San Andreas reveal thread take two
lol
lol
Fun fact: During development of Bayonetta, the placeholder soundtrack consisted of Madonna's songs.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Genies.
Shaolin.
Aliens.
Jazz, with nujabes as the patron saint.
Some guy who wears a doctor doom mask.
Whatever the fuck de la soul is on.
And most importantly - love.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
There can be a rap metal faction helmed by limp bizkit.
They're the faction everybody laughs at.
They're the faction everybody laughs at.
Thanks
Sorry if i take advantage of you but could you post some images of them so i can get an idea? I guess that rap shaolins are different from common shaolins for example, right?
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
akachan ningen
Member
Don't forget to replace the nonsense with good gameplay.
King Gilga
Member
Yeah I'd love it, as long as it takes itself as seriously as brutal legend (as in, not at all).
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Thanks
Sorry if i take advantage of you but could you post some images of them so i can get an idea? I guess that rap shaolins are different from common shaolins for example, right?
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.
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.
Awesome!
Thanks for your kindness and patience.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Outwordly what I remember Brutal Legend getting flack for was the RTS elements that didnt come together with the rest of the game, but did the story and characters actually work?
I love metal but it looked like a It's-decent-enough-if-your-into-Jack-Black-type-of-thing. Isn't it more his style of humor than Tim Schafers? I loved Broken Age and I actually thought about trying Brutal Legend.. I just never got around to it. People don't talk about it as fondly as say, Psychonauts.
TL;DR - Should I play Brutal Legend?
I love metal but it looked like a It's-decent-enough-if-your-into-Jack-Black-type-of-thing. Isn't it more his style of humor than Tim Schafers? I loved Broken Age and I actually thought about trying Brutal Legend.. I just never got around to it. People don't talk about it as fondly as say, Psychonauts.
TL;DR - Should I play Brutal Legend?
What?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Definitely, but I'm one of those weird people who doesn't mind the RTS aspect.
As a former metalhead (used to be waaaaay into black and death metal just to give you some idea) and the whole game just felt like a massive love letter to metal. Loved it.
Yeah, you can probably pick up the PC version for pretty cheap and that runs better as well.
The RTS stuff actually isn't that bad, but it's more that it's not really what people were expecting. The best part of the game is cruising around the metal album cover looking world to an awesome soundtrack The writing is more Tim Shafer than Jack Black and Jack Black is pretty solid in this anyway.
realcool
Member
"Kick! Push! It's all in the mind. If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find..."
Fuz
Banned
If you like metal you shouldn't miss it.
Otherwise... dunno, maybe? It's still a more than decent game.
Too soon?
MuddyDonut
Member
Makes enough hip hop references to cement his eligibility
Pinko Marx
Banned
Your character would be a break dancer / stage hand for various hiphop acts. One day he takes a sip of some super lean then gets transported to the world of hiphop physically manifested. DJ Kool Herc/Pete Rock/Grandmaster Flash/Afrika Bambaataa as your spirit guide. First area is a twisted version of New York, think Alice in Wonderland with some Moonside from earthbound mixed in.
Enemies would be exaggerated versions of 80s break dancers (think breakin'), dudes in costumes like the ones the furious five were wearing in the video for "the message" and pig cops. Your character attacks via capoeria (cuz he's a break dancer).
Then you just move thru the different eras with similarly fantasized interpretations; early 90s afrocentricism, the mafioso rap era, shaolin, the rise of the underground in the later 90s and early 00s, the rise of the west, the dirty south, Texas chopped and screwed.
Enemies would be exaggerated versions of 80s break dancers (think breakin'), dudes in costumes like the ones the furious five were wearing in the video for "the message" and pig cops. Your character attacks via capoeria (cuz he's a break dancer).
Then you just move thru the different eras with similarly fantasized interpretations; early 90s afrocentricism, the mafioso rap era, shaolin, the rise of the underground in the later 90s and early 00s, the rise of the west, the dirty south, Texas chopped and screwed.
PaulBizkit
Member
What we need is a game that has the world-exploration of the Yakuza series, mixed with DEF JAM fight 4 NY combat.
Like in the Yakuza series, you go around the neighbourhoods walking and discovering things. And when you get to fight, nearby people gather round and form a ring to fight Def Jam Style.
Plot: fight crooks, they are hired by the mafia. Setting: NY.
Fight the mafia, they are hired by an asian organization like... idk, the yakuza. Setting: Asian city.
Fight the asian organization, they are controlled by some ancient forces of evil. Setting: hell or the underworld.
Six big missions in each city a-la-Diablo.
Like in the Yakuza series, you go around the neighbourhoods walking and discovering things. And when you get to fight, nearby people gather round and form a ring to fight Def Jam Style.
Plot: fight crooks, they are hired by the mafia. Setting: NY.
Fight the mafia, they are hired by an asian organization like... idk, the yakuza. Setting: Asian city.
Fight the asian organization, they are controlled by some ancient forces of evil. Setting: hell or the underworld.
Six big missions in each city a-la-Diablo.
When I was a kid reading the Illiad or the Odyssey, the epic speeches given by the heroes of those stories sounded to me like modern day free styling. Clever word play delivering boastful declarations and emasculating challenges. I had the idea of a post apocalyptic world with culture based on the remnants of 20th century civilization. People living in the ruined husks of of NYC and Philly and Baltimore, having their own epic battles and adventures. Instead of speaking in the rhythm and meter of classical Greek poetry, hip hop would be their language. Bit of a goofy high concept (heh heh, very high indeed,) but still pretty cool IMO.
Anyway a game based on the narrative concepts of hip hop could be very cool, and of course anything would be better than that piece of garbage Brutal Legend.
Anyway a game based on the narrative concepts of hip hop could be very cool, and of course anything would be better than that piece of garbage Brutal Legend.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
That actually was a really good third person shooter though. Regardless of the insane "setting". Dude got his diamond skull or whatever stolen lol.
Altered_Beast
Neo Member
Make Snoop some sort of omniscient narrator. Adding him to Ghosts changed my life.
SillyEskimo
Member
If you made a game that took hip hop culture to parody levels of extreme like Brutal Legend, the game would end up being inadvertently racist as fuuuuuck. No one would ever make that game. Ever.
Galactic Barret
Member
Thinking about it, the best way to go about Rap/Hip-Hop in a videogame is to integrate it into the presentation, not the gameplay. The Def Jam series was great in that respect, as it really represented the scene at the time: underground, merciless, and flashy. The mechanics really had little to do with actual rap, but the presentation was good enough that it didn't actually matter.
In that sense, the right producer could make it possible to enter a number of genres never before thought applicable, with the right selection of instrumentals/songs.
In that sense, the right producer could make it possible to enter a number of genres never before thought applicable, with the right selection of instrumentals/songs.
MuddyDonut
Member
I mean Def Jam Fight for New York had you
and there was nothing racist about it. Did Brutal Legend touch on some white supremacism in the game? If not then why can't the racially charged parts be ignored and simply focus on the love for the genre, as did Brutal Legend? I mean we already have genies, space cadillacs, dirty south, aliens, karate masters, cosmic/metaphysical imagery in lyrics, the Egyptian aesthetic, ridiculous characters and hip hop alter egos, and post apocalyptic versions of the modern day etc.
throw Snoop Dogg out of a skyscraper
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
I guess if you only know a little about hip hop maybe