A new martial arts game?

Question

I design game ideas for companies my next project is goign to be a martial arts game to combat games like VF, Tekken, DOA, Mortal Kombat. I want it to have an immense story, great and memorable characters and good character balance and intense gameplay. what i would like to know from you guys is.; Character Ideas

Different Martial Arts characters can train in ( i want to make around 20+ so a wider variety of martial arts can be shown

Names! for the characters and the game

Answer 1

Wow! that's awesome! That is my dream job. I think you should study other fighting game characters and personalize them to your liking or study other great fighters. Also you should have a hot girl with a nice fighting style and a anti-hero, and for the name maybe something in Japanese

Answer 2

Forget all the other ideas. I was just thinking aof a Karate Master game based on Kyokushin Karate called bull killer afetr the late great Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (loo him up) he fougth 52 bulls ,BULLS!!! and kiled three with one hit. He also took al comers in bare knuckel figths in his time , all comers and one evry one. I was thinking you could make it an intensive trainign game soewhat like Ninja reflex and popular boxing games where you have training session and have to slowly build up attributes like stamine, speed, etc. Also add mortal Kombat style test your might breaking and Kata forms.  You learn differant Kyokushin moves. I originally was thinking you design your character top to bottom like in WWF wrestling games or other games where you choose face type can strecth differant part of face, pick differant body types, build differant muscles up or down and choose color rACE WHATEVER, EVEN EYE COLOR AND VERY HIGHLY PERSONALISED. Ooops , sorry caps locked. Anywyas you said you wnat differnat characters from differant styles, I don't like this as much and would wnat a Kyokushin game but if you wnated yopu could have an assortment of characters that come form differant styles and than they work their way to the rank of bull kiler when they face the final challenge of fighting a bull to the death. I like the personalised character better.  You start out in a olddojo with a  wiry old master and you eat sleep and breath Kyokushin. Evenutally you fightyour first figth and than you start Kumite fighting mulitple opponents in a row. If it is for the Wii than oyu can get crazuy and when i was thinking It was after playing Ninja Reflex and I thought of it for the Wii. You should  incorporate speed and endurance drills like ninja reflex and ttest your migth style drills, also for kata drills you can do like dance dane revoution ith buttons and stuff. it you aren't from a high budget company than don't even bother becasue that game the way of the samurai was lame. If however you make a game likethe old game Bushido Blade that would be bad a**. You could change the whole format and have characters with weapon from differant styles. Still incorporate the training type stuff. Bushido blade was freakin awesome. I believe if you blend aspects of the new mortal kombat games with ninja reflex and the personalisation that comes in the wrestling games it would be awesoem.  I think they have personalisation in the very new MK's but I don't playso much video games. Alsoit needs a good legend and what better than Masutatsu Oyama? If you can't secure the rigths to his name than make a character based on him , you may have trouble with the "Bull Killer" handle too. So basically , please use my idea cause the others suck. I don't care who you are nno one and I mean NO ONE has ever come close to Sosai Oyama in this century or maybe even this Millenia. Oh and forget the whole big balck pimp cripe, make a little balck loud mouth named K-Dog who always talks about how he can kick everyones butt and he is the first challenge that you whoop up on protecting a girl in a strip mall parking lot. Aslo a big balck buff guy who's weakness is his slow speed and crappy from, he just throws hay makers and you take hime out with leg kicks and combos. But in reality I think you should customise your character but have villains and challenges that you defeat, some are street riff raffa nd street fighting scum.but some are Kumite tournaments. so You can lose if you use the wrong move in a tournament figth but in random strett figths you cna use whatever. ALso you could take some story mode type ideas like that one game of the Japanese guy for Dreamcast. I forget what it is called but story type games are awesome.

Answer 3

Make like 4 asian like names like Ching Pow a Yu Dun Wong.

Then put 3 black dudes cuz theres only like 1 in every single game and a couple of white guys. Call it Real Fighter. Gets the point across and it simple.

Answer 4

Character ideas:

Hot female police officer:

Special move:  puts opponenent in handcuffs or Charlie's Angels style Aikido throw (tv show, not the movie)

Special weapon:  Night stick or revolver

Spunky little blond chick that looks like Uma Thurman

Special move:  Death within five paces.

Special weapon:  Samurai sword

Big, Black pimp named Iceberg Slim (get permission from the author before you use his name, though)

Special move:  ***** slap!

Special weapon:  wire coat hanger whip

White scientologist dressed as a samurai-wannabe

Special move:  getting his butt kicked with intense passion

Special weapon:  bottle of saki

Cowboy bar-fighter

Special move:  powerful roundhouse kick

Special weapon: heel kick with spurs or straight stomp with boot heels.  Or whip or lasoe.  Or pistols.

Canadian hockey-fighter:

Special move:  Pulls opponents jersey over opponents head, and while opponent is thus blinded, striking to opponents face many times.

Special weapon:  Hockey stick

Rhythmic gymnast:

watch these moves.  They're awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viu7U8_Ih...

Baywatch lifeguard with obvious boob-job:

Special move:  When she runs, opponent stops to watch and cannot attack.

More unusual and unique martial art styles (though becoming less so):

Indonesian pencak silat

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4G8BlAtr...

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=AgmWaE_Y8o...

Philipino escrima/kali

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjtykr1v9v...

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=GFI04AAose...

Liuhebafa (water style)

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cFnTi8bxAG...

Bagua

Parkour fighter (not really a fighting style, but he could take a running start and bounce off of the wall and ceiling before kicking opponent)

Other, more well-known styles:

Wing Chun

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5B4NN_yu...

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=qaP1X-lEtg...

Mixed Martial arts fighter (no gi)http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNroQ1-dW...

Brazilian Ju-jitsu fighter (gi, ground moves)

Judo fighter (gi, cool standing throws and flips)

Tae kwon do fighter (flashy leaps, spins and kicks)

Answer 5

You should have a giant fat black guy, ooo and some arab guy that looks like osama, and chuck liddell the ultimate badass. Call the game Flying Knees. It will be awsome. When you create this I would like to be in the credits please

Answer 6

Hmm.

You've gotta have a Shaolin fighter and you've gotta have a ninjitsu fighter for sure. If it's an immense story game, I think it would be AWESOME for them to cross-train in different martial arts; you would be able to customize your character more. If you let them cross-train, you could make them have a main fighting style (martial art), and they could wear that martial arts kind of dress, gi, fight shorts, whatever. Also, for a multiplayer option, you could do it Mortal Combat or Street Fighter style, except you can use your own character rather than the default characters, that would be very fun.

I've can brainstorm a lot of ideas, if you need anymore you can email me, if not this would go on and on.

-Sean