Inspired by this Cracked article. What are some of your best ideas for revolutionary video game concepts? Be thorough about it.

Posted by GreyMaria

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Jokes aside, I want to see popular turn-based RPGs remade in action platformer format.

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Could you elaborate on that? Because action platformers are nothing new, and it's a bit vague as to where and how the RPGs get involved.

What would that even add? lolninja

I for one had this idea of a reversed Pokémon game back during OpenPoké's development. Instead of a beginning trainer, you play as a gym leader. You start out with an empty, completely bare gym, which you can buy thematic elements for.

You can go out and basically play a regular game of Pokémon, but with the added twist that trainers you encounter may join your gym, sort of like the posse system in GBA River City Ransom.

If you stay in the gym and wait for challengers, the larger your posse and the more intricate your gym design, the easier the challengers get to defeat -- the design makes it harder for the challenger to avoid your posse, and they only have so many healing items.... until word gets out and the challengers prepare better.

Posted by Nicole

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One thing I'd like to see is Zelda 2, but done in a modern style with the flaws of the original removed...

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Not what this thread's about. But...

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A "level design game" might be interesting- you create a level and then some AI plays it- the idea is to figure out how to stop the AI, which gets progressively more difficult. The problem is it would all come down to being able to write the AI... (it could also be an asymmetric multiplayer game, though)

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I have such an AI right here, actually. It was meant as a player-hunter in a platform game.

It's a very simple AI, ofcourse, but the basic premise is a thing.

Here's the original text on the gym leader game, unedited from way back then.

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You start as a Trainer. Selecting your profile in the pause menu shows a regular Trainer Card to reflect this.
Having left your single Pokémon at home, you get an escort out of town who you control during battle.
Walking around the grass reveals several different Pokémon at around level 16 or so.
You carry one or two Great Balls that you can use to catch Pokémon your escort (who has a Normal-type Pokémon of around level 18 to 20) weakens in battle.
Your escort will leave you when you catch two Pokémon of your own or enter a town with one.
The first town does not have a gym, but the second does. This one you can challenge for a takeover.
The gym should be very generic to make room for later customization.
Defeat the gym leader and he'll leave town to try and become a member of the Elite Four.
In a cutscene, you'll handle the paperwork to register your new gym.
From this point on, you don't have a Trainer Card any more. Instead, you have a Leader Card showing your title.

The sign outside lists your name, a customizable title and the last N challengers who earned your badge.
The customizable title does NOT use the game's dictionary -- it's letter-by-letter.
The overall style of your gym can be chosen from a list of presets, the bigger the better.
The style does not determine the gym's type specialty -- that's up to the player's common sense and the NPCs don't care.

Every "day", you get the choice to "explore", "wait for a challenger" or "train your posse", the third only available if you have one.
Waiting for a challenger causes a randomly generated trainer to visit your gym.
If the trainer defeats you, you lose some money as determined by the trainer's class and level and he leaves.
If you defeat the trainer instead, you win money.
Depending on several factors, the defeated trainer may decide to join your posse.
Any trainer who comes in for a badge can get pre-chewed by your posse.

"Protagonist" classes such as "PkMn Trainer", "Ace Trainer" and "Cooltrainer" will tend to push on and are not likely to join your posse. They're too busy climbing the ranks for that.
If your posse is large, trainers' Pokémon can be weakened before they reach you, making wins easier. This reduces the chance of joining.
If you have a lot of money and/or decorations to show this with, they'll be easier to impress and more likely to join.
Your posse can only be so large, so trainers may leave your posse at any time if their Pokémon have grown enough or you lose too much impression.

Exploration means closing down the gym for a while and going out.
Taking too long may cause trainers to leave your posse.
In exploration mode, you can buy and use items, and find/buy decorations.
Basically, the usual gameplay applies, but you don't encounter any trainers on the road.
You will, however, encounter wild Pokémon that you can catch for use in your gym.
The map will not be very big. Multiple sets of Pokémon can be fit into the map using trees, water and the day/night scheme.
There should at least be a kind of mall to buy gym decorations from.

In posse training mode, members of your posse will fight amongst themselves to level their Pokémon, and they will fight you as well.
Defeat at most five of them in a row to end the mode. Lose too much training battles and you may lose members.

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How would a Pokémon MMORPG be revolutionary?