I think it's a severely short-sighted mistake to say that just because it's FPS, RTS, futuristic, or medieval fantasy, it's automatically an unoriginal regurgitation. There's plenty to be explored in these areas!!! You sell yourself short by thinking so narrowly!
For example:
Science Fiction - Empire Role Playing Game A strategy game plays itself in the background of your SF RPG. Empires rise and fall, territory is conquered, technology advances, and wars engulf the galaxy. By discovering ancient artifacts, joining sides, and taking missions you can influence it all. Story is made by the empire interactions, the universe is randomly generated each game, and it's open ended. (Working on this one right now
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Medieval Fantasy - Court Intrigue Fighting with words. Lies, conspiracies, and plots abound in the court. No leveling up, no quests, no monster bashing. Instead, you've got to be in the right place at the right time, decide who to trust, what to say, and how to say it. You can expose plots, frame enemies, lend your honor to support allies, and ultimately defend or overthrow the crown.
Competitive RTS, Noncombat War not with weapons, but with infrastructure!!!! Rival research companies race to master the secrets of an ancient alien city by outbuilding, blocking and sabotaging one another. Several resources, useful and toxic, must be stored and channeled. The most efficient and devious infrastructure that grabs the most resources and poisons its enemies will win the game!
FPS - Tetris Meets Unreal, No Weapons Bloosport in a high tech construction yard! Using the awesome TractorGun, pickup, rotate, and manuever huge blocks and beams to build the level in real-time and trap or crush your enemies! Build bridges, forts, traps, ramps, and any other structures out of lego-like blocks with different weights and properties. Plenty of jumping, ducking, dodging, and grappling hook use with the TGun. In CTF mode Red and Blue team build their base in real time while trying to capture the enemy flag.
See what I mean?
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Just waiting for the mothership...
Edited by - Wavinator on December 4, 2000 3:36:55 PM
oh well..
and i thought about a virtual lego system.. where you could build with legos on the computer.. of course lego came out with this one years later as well..
I haven''t spent much time lately thinking of NEW gaming concepts, as i''ve been busy working on Dominion, which is of course a combination of a few pre-existing games, but the original concepts are over 10 years old, before those games existed..
I''d just like to know what''s bouncing around in your heads...
OH.. you should also pick up the latest Game Developer Magazine.. it has an interesting article about the 4 myths of game development.. I think the points made could help everyone who reads it 
) and from there the galaxy... next THE UNIVERSE. Make everything work in harmony so that there may be destruction, but there is growth. Almost like a Sim, but an RPG at the same time. No specified time period, but there are also FPS battle sequences between the planets.
