AH
OH SHIT OKAY
i'm just writing up my essay about lollipop chainsaw and i got to a bit where i'm talking about the gratuitous and unavoidable glorification of violence!! and!!
AND SUDDENLY THIS THOUGHT CROPS INTO MY HEAD: HANNIBAL VIDEO GAME
BELOW ARE THE IDEAS AND LOTS OF CUSSING FROM EXCITEMENT
bilvy:
holds hands up
takes two steps back
lowers self into a chair
places hands on the arm rests
whispers hannibal as a video game
high poly mystery drama
complete anti-glorification of violence
max:
chinhands
bilvy:
not sure which game it is but there are a few that really break the fourth wall and are like "if you want to stop the madness, turn off the fucking console"
when will kills someone the player gets punished
even if you have to kill them for the plot to progress
depending on your choices he goes madder
the HUD would fuck up as he hallucinates
possible quicktime fight events in hannibal's office
max:
oooh
fuck that reminds me of arkham asylum
there's this
sequence
where you're just walkin down a hallway, happy as larry, and then suddenly the screen freezes and melts
and it honest 2 god is so out of nowhere that it looks like the system breaking
and then it cuts to batman strapped into a chair thing and he's being pushed down a hallway
and basically after that he has an extended hallucination/nightmare
bilvy:
ho my godddddd
i want
a really fucked up game with just. it gets progressively darker i mean visually it's harder to see and everything just fucks up and if you're at a point in the game when will's brain is just completely broken and he's disassociating, you'd walk out of hannibal's office and the doorway would lead to woodland
max:
god this idea for a hannibal vidya game is GREAT THO god
also reminds me of the most recent silent hill a bit
bilvy:
it would be partly puzzle though? and your choices would effect the storyline permanently. and so there'd be the cases you have to solve and you can choose to go and empath in the scene or you can go to hannibal to get his opinion
max:
ooohhh!!! thatd be AWESOME
bilvy:
and he'd like give cryptic answers the player might not understand but you'd store them in a diary that would piece together a puzzle toward the end of the game??
but it would also send will's sanity meter down a notch [ugly laughter]
max:
it could be a little bit like heavy rain where it's like one long playable movie
bilvy:
yes!!
and you go to the empath scenes and they might work as quick time events oh my god i know people hate them but can you imagine
or perhaps more puzzly - you have to pick which button to press
and if you do it wrong you end up contaminating the crime scene
max:
fuck those people i love quick time events
bilvy:
i kn WO ME TOO
max:
i can't honestly fathom why people prefer button mashing to quick time
bilvy:
it's so cool to watch and the flow is so wonderful
but holy fuck now im like vibrating in my chair from excitment and iDEAS
max:
hmmmmm the culmination of the game could be a huge two-part showdown like
the first being will finding his way back from or to the center of his mind and making his way to reality
which would have room for some seriously trippy shit
the second being finding/defeating hannibal or s/t
but ofc will's sanity won't have recovered like magic so during a final confrontation with hannibal the screen could flicker for hannibal to momentarily burn/have antlers/etc
bilvy:
ggooodddd
i just thought
you go to your bed to sleep at night to save + rejuvinate
and you can choose to try and progress in the sanity section of the game by playing through the dream
or skipping it and saving it for later and just waking up in the fucking woods or something as punishment for bein lazy
max:
aaaah
bilvy:
ugly heavy sobs mini games where u get to catch a fucking dog
you could be driving to a crime scene and f there's a dog on the side of the road you can stop and try to tame it like red dead redemption horses
max:
oh my ogd
bilvy:
get ur treats out, fuck the murder
max:
theres a portion in mass effect 3 where the mc has nightmares where he/she is stuck in the woods and they start off empty but as the game goes on and more people die the woods start to fill up with shapes of dead people and echoes of things they've said
bilvy:
o my goddd
i wanna be able to explore hannibal's office sobs
i wonder how interactions with hannibal would go
oh frick LA Noire style interrogation
but not shitty
max:
!!!!! yEA
FUCK LOL THE LA NOIRE INTERROGATION PISSED ME OFF SO MUCH
i ended up using a guide for it bc i'd be like "> be suspicious" and he'd scream at some poor girl
bilvy:
oh my god u know how i said there was a notebook where you get to note down what hannibal tells you and all the crimes would be recorded there and stuff
chokes what if you make a wrong decision somewhere and the book starts to melt
like the clocks
final quarter of the game with a slightly jumbled book
to recover it you have to do more dream sequences??? catch the stag in the woods
oh my god final battle is chasing the stag and when you finally reach out to touch it it runs into a door that leads to hannibal's office and will has lost time to appear there
max:
!!!!! yellS YES
bilvy:
tries to fit in garrett jacob hobbs hallucinations
maybe he keeps cropping up throughout the game
if you shoot him will's mentality goes up a little bit (like his sanity gets stronger because he's defeating his demons) BUT BUT
YOU FIND OUT LATER IN THE GAME THAT HE WAs he was hallucinating him in place of real people
so he was hurting real people when he shot him without realising
max:
YOU KNOW the game could even punish you by killing will if you fuck up too much
heavy rain did it - if you take too long solving a puzzle late in the game, then the investigator dies
bilvy:
yes fucking fuck
punishment game like "do you think this is a fucking joke"
the show is so harsh on its viewers the game would be harsh too
it would not reward you for killing
it would make you think you did a good job then you'd just be fucked
SOMEBODY HELP
i'm just writing up my essay about lollipop chainsaw and i got to a bit where i'm talking about the gratuitous and unavoidable glorification of violence!! and!!
AND SUDDENLY THIS THOUGHT CROPS INTO MY HEAD: HANNIBAL VIDEO GAME
BELOW ARE THE IDEAS AND LOTS OF CUSSING FROM EXCITEMENT
bilvy:
holds hands up
takes two steps back
lowers self into a chair
places hands on the arm rests
whispers hannibal as a video game
high poly mystery drama
complete anti-glorification of violence
max:
chinhands
bilvy:
not sure which game it is but there are a few that really break the fourth wall and are like "if you want to stop the madness, turn off the fucking console"
when will kills someone the player gets punished
even if you have to kill them for the plot to progress
depending on your choices he goes madder
the HUD would fuck up as he hallucinates
possible quicktime fight events in hannibal's office
max:
oooh
fuck that reminds me of arkham asylum
there's this
sequence
where you're just walkin down a hallway, happy as larry, and then suddenly the screen freezes and melts
and it honest 2 god is so out of nowhere that it looks like the system breaking
and then it cuts to batman strapped into a chair thing and he's being pushed down a hallway
and basically after that he has an extended hallucination/nightmare
bilvy:
ho my godddddd
i want
a really fucked up game with just. it gets progressively darker i mean visually it's harder to see and everything just fucks up and if you're at a point in the game when will's brain is just completely broken and he's disassociating, you'd walk out of hannibal's office and the doorway would lead to woodland
max:
god this idea for a hannibal vidya game is GREAT THO god
also reminds me of the most recent silent hill a bit
bilvy:
it would be partly puzzle though? and your choices would effect the storyline permanently. and so there'd be the cases you have to solve and you can choose to go and empath in the scene or you can go to hannibal to get his opinion
max:
ooohhh!!! thatd be AWESOME
bilvy:
and he'd like give cryptic answers the player might not understand but you'd store them in a diary that would piece together a puzzle toward the end of the game??
but it would also send will's sanity meter down a notch [ugly laughter]
max:
it could be a little bit like heavy rain where it's like one long playable movie
bilvy:
yes!!
and you go to the empath scenes and they might work as quick time events oh my god i know people hate them but can you imagine
or perhaps more puzzly - you have to pick which button to press
and if you do it wrong you end up contaminating the crime scene
max:
fuck those people i love quick time events
bilvy:
i kn WO ME TOO
max:
i can't honestly fathom why people prefer button mashing to quick time
bilvy:
it's so cool to watch and the flow is so wonderful
but holy fuck now im like vibrating in my chair from excitment and iDEAS
max:
hmmmmm the culmination of the game could be a huge two-part showdown like
the first being will finding his way back from or to the center of his mind and making his way to reality
which would have room for some seriously trippy shit
the second being finding/defeating hannibal or s/t
but ofc will's sanity won't have recovered like magic so during a final confrontation with hannibal the screen could flicker for hannibal to momentarily burn/have antlers/etc
bilvy:
ggooodddd
i just thought
you go to your bed to sleep at night to save + rejuvinate
and you can choose to try and progress in the sanity section of the game by playing through the dream
or skipping it and saving it for later and just waking up in the fucking woods or something as punishment for bein lazy
max:
aaaah
bilvy:
ugly heavy sobs mini games where u get to catch a fucking dog
you could be driving to a crime scene and f there's a dog on the side of the road you can stop and try to tame it like red dead redemption horses
max:
oh my ogd
bilvy:
get ur treats out, fuck the murder
max:
theres a portion in mass effect 3 where the mc has nightmares where he/she is stuck in the woods and they start off empty but as the game goes on and more people die the woods start to fill up with shapes of dead people and echoes of things they've said
bilvy:
o my goddd
i wanna be able to explore hannibal's office sobs
i wonder how interactions with hannibal would go
oh frick LA Noire style interrogation
but not shitty
max:
!!!!! yEA
FUCK LOL THE LA NOIRE INTERROGATION PISSED ME OFF SO MUCH
i ended up using a guide for it bc i'd be like "> be suspicious" and he'd scream at some poor girl
bilvy:
oh my god u know how i said there was a notebook where you get to note down what hannibal tells you and all the crimes would be recorded there and stuff
chokes what if you make a wrong decision somewhere and the book starts to melt
like the clocks
final quarter of the game with a slightly jumbled book
to recover it you have to do more dream sequences??? catch the stag in the woods
oh my god final battle is chasing the stag and when you finally reach out to touch it it runs into a door that leads to hannibal's office and will has lost time to appear there
max:
!!!!! yellS YES
bilvy:
tries to fit in garrett jacob hobbs hallucinations
maybe he keeps cropping up throughout the game
if you shoot him will's mentality goes up a little bit (like his sanity gets stronger because he's defeating his demons) BUT BUT
YOU FIND OUT LATER IN THE GAME THAT HE WAs he was hallucinating him in place of real people
so he was hurting real people when he shot him without realising
max:
YOU KNOW the game could even punish you by killing will if you fuck up too much
heavy rain did it - if you take too long solving a puzzle late in the game, then the investigator dies
bilvy:
yes fucking fuck
punishment game like "do you think this is a fucking joke"
the show is so harsh on its viewers the game would be harsh too
it would not reward you for killing
it would make you think you did a good job then you'd just be fucked
SOMEBODY HELP