New kaiju game from Matt Frank + Simon Strange [Archive]

[matrix]

Cool! One last question, will there be a versus mode??? (I LOVE VS MODE!)

[W2daERN]

I like Simon's idea: Kaiju Battle Network.

[Living Corpse]

The Great Monster War: Damnation

[Legionmaster]

Long Destruction Word And Adjective Monsters: Subtitle!

Boom. Generic, yet strangely to the point.

[Mr. Strange]

Cool! One last question, will there be a versus mode??? (I LOVE VS MODE!)

Absolutely. Vs mode will continue to be the centerpiece of the game experience.

Thanks! By the way are you really Simon Strange?

I am. But then again, so is this guy:

http://www.stemstrange.dk/

[Mr. Strange]

Matt, Chris and I just had a brainstorming session, and Matt came up with a pretty sweet title for the project:

"Kaiju Combat"

Short, fun to say, and lends itself well to getting out of the way so that each game can have its own title, while still keeping the Kaiju Combat name.

Think about the Star Wars movies - everyone calls them "Star Wars" - even though each film has its own title & episode number. I think Kaiju Combat could be that name for us.

Also, it's fine to brainstorm names that use the word "Godzilla" - but those would be names for the Godzilla game released under this project, not the overall project.

[Legionmaster]

I dunno. I'm not a fan of the alliteration. Plus, if it's there, it should be Kaiju Kombat for visual symmetry. If Mortal Kombat can do it, why can't we?

[Mr. Strange]

I dunno. I'm not a fan of the alliteration. Plus, if it's there, it should be Kaiju Kombat for visual symmetry. If Mortal Kombat can do it, why can't we?

Because "Kombat" is the context of a video game is part of the Trademark of Mortal Kombat.

[Legionmaster]

I dunno. I'm not a fan of the alliteration. Plus, if it's there, it should be Kaiju Kombat for visual symmetry. If Mortal Kombat can do it, why can't we?

Because "Kombat" is the context of a video game is part of the Trademark of Mortal Kombat.

That is a good answer as to why we cannot.

[Living Corpse]

The Great Kaiju War?

[W2daERN]

A good idea would be to have any areas that didn't make it as levels or areas that were only used for testing make it into the game as secret areas. Imagine a "minus world" type area (or even a multiplayer map) that's just a floating area of land with various objects from other stages mixed and matched into a level. It'd be a good place to put anything made for the game that didn't end up anywhere else, such as a building model that was created but not used in any levels.

[Godzilla 2000]

We've had-

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
Godzilla: Save The Earth
Godzilla: Unleashed

Perhaps we can go back to the naming pattern of the first two and dub the new one-

Godzilla: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

[hammysammy59]

PopInPicsPresents Wrote:
I'd be cool to have kaiju who were maybe cut from the final release battle in the far background of certain environments.

Godzilla Battle Legends did it with Jet Jaguar so that would be sweet.

Monsters battling in the background would be even cooler...

[PopInPicsPresents]

We've had-

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
Godzilla: Save The Earth
Godzilla: Unleashed

Perhaps we can go back to the naming pattern of the first two and dub the new one-

Godzilla: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Personally, I'd love it to be called Giant Monsters All-Out Attack or maybe just Monsters All Out Attack.

[Space Hunter M]

How does the Self-Defense Force advancing in the background of some maps sound?

[hammysammy59]

Personally, I'd love it to be called Giant Monsters All-Out Attack or maybe just Monsters All Out Attack.

Agreed. Giant Monsters All-Out Attack has an awesome ring to it and sums up the game nicely.

[SpanishBulldog63]

What about Giant Monster Assault?

[Godzilla 2000]

I'm personally not a fan of taking big, fancy sounding words and randomly slapping them together.

I mean, come on. "Universal Collision?" Besides making little sense in the context of a giant monster brawler, it sounds incredibly un-catchy.

[JVM]

I'd definitely pitch at least $15, probably closer to $30. A bit cheap but I'd try to pitch in best I could.

I hope it is like Godzilla Unleashed, but good. The concept behind the Pipeworks games is just fine...however, you need to:

- Fix the *HORRIBLE* control from GU
- improve the graphics
- improve the buidling destruction system (Look at the destruction system from the Sega Dreamcast Godzilla Generations for reference)
- more monsters (removed Krystass and Obsidiot for new kaiju, such as Hedorah, Gorosaurus, Ebirah, Battra, Monster X, Keizer Ghidorah, Manda, Gabara, etc.)
- add some TOHO kaiju that weren't in a G film (i.e. Gaira, Sanda, Gezora, Kameba, Ganimes, Dogora, Magma, etc.)
- give each kaiju their own unique ending, not just the same general ending.
- Release it for the PS3 and Xbox 360, *NOT* just the Wii or Wii 2.
- For God sakes, drop Fire Rodan for the classic Showa Rodan.
- Once again, please use showa or Heisei incarnations for King Ghidorah, *NOT* the pathetic GMK KG (which is *not* popular among fans).

Just my two cents...

Clearly didn't read the first post.

[Legionmaster]

The trick is not to make it sound like bad fan fiction.