/v/ - Video Games

>So how do you make a serial killer game without it turning into extreme edgelord trash

Give the player character as little presence as possible. No lines, no backstory, no motive, if possible make it an FPS so you don't even have to look at him. A perfect blank slate for the player to sculpt through their actions.

>and what does it say about you for wanting to play it to begin with?

It means going on a destructive power trip that has no real consequences is fun. Nothing wrong with that.

>>15924280

Just make it a stealth game, you're given a HITlist of people to kill, you get paid in killing these people like a hard working MAN, as simple as that.

>>15924317

Like some sort of …Hit man.

>>15924323

Hmm, so what about a game about a Hitman? Has that ever been done before?

>>15924390

But also dubs

>>15924396

Shit

>>15924397

You tried.

>>15924399

I did

>>15924401

And failed again.

>>15924433

>destroy all the stairs

>destroy all the elevator doors

>all the ai bugs out and tries to go down by going to the elevator only to break their legs

>>15924456

Yes

I like the idea of some kind of PvP mechanic where one player can be the killer or even a team of killers and other players are the detectives, police and vigilantes trying to hunt the killer down.

I think the main thing hurting a serial killer game, besides the controversy of course, is the balance of killing. Serial killers don't go on a spree every night, which is what players will end up doing. In video game land, it would easy to kill a lot of people and remain unknown and stay free.

>>15924527

So like an open city where a killer can run free and its up to people playing as cops to find them or do you mean turn based like a map is opened to a killer who gets to commit his crimes and leave then its the detectives turn to come in and try to solve it?

>>15924527

So similar to that school shooter game that anons have been clamoring for a leak of?

I think soft target would be a way better name than something like active shooter or hatred

>>15924537

I mean it'd be a hard way to balance the game so you can't just kill a whole bunch of people because the mechanics and AI are easily beaten. You'd have to make the AI very smart, very perceptive and reactive. Wear some gloves, a mask and steal an NPCs gun or something and you can clean up fast and get away and avoid the police.

>>15924614

To add, people generally want some kind of GTA like game where you can explore and free roam and kill how you see fit and who and when. If we do that type of game, you'd need permadeath/game over for being captured. No being caught and running away and then being free after a minute of flashing stars at the top of your screen. Once you're suspected to police, you stay suspected. Once they know who you are, you can't undo that. You would need a living world and to almost make it like the Sims, you manage your daily life, go to work, pay bills, socialize etc. All to maintain a cover, an alibi if need be. Suspicion levels, profiles that experts would create of you.

In short, it would need to go all out or not be made at all. A half assed GTA clone with some kind of consequence and permanency to your wanted level isn't enough. No spree killing, hide in an alleyway for a few minutes and you're good to go again. You leave a fingerprint, you're fucked until you're caught, killed or somehow escape to another country. CCTV in a lot of places in combination with strong AI makes it a hard game. Then perhaps an RNG mechanic of your killer calling card, your modus operandi etc. so you can't just outsmart the game.

>finish rdr2

>i want to play more games in the west

>how about call of juarez

>start game

>can't shoot everybody because the game don't encourage violence

Into the trash it goes.

>>15924657

Hitman 2 is pretty decent

>>15924648

These are good ideas

>>15924679

>>15924657

Sweet lord, it's RDR3 and Hitman 7

>>15924309

>>15924280

Party Hard? I dunno if it's made by pozzed devs though

Personally I’d like a game with all of the horrific shit, murder, rape, realistic gore, torture… in a small, but relatively high population area, like a school and a few of the surrounding streets. Ideally it would have a social system, and the option to play as either the killer or a ‘hero’ student detective. The killer would be able to shift suspicion by faking evidence, or recruit npc characters through intimidation or rewards, like kidnapping a crush, while a detective would be playing an ace attorney styled investigation while also trying to avoid the killer’s notice.

I feel like Yandere Simulator would be pretty close to a good serial killer game, except that it's on a crap engine and is being made by a self-destructing sperg that keeps trying to add things instead of finishing his retarded spaghetti coded mess of a game.

At least we get to watch it crash and burn in a fun way, but I still would have liked seeing a game like that from competent people.

Embrace the edge, who cares.

>>15924894

Yes its a shame. Yandere Sim ticks a lot of boxes but the game is in the wrong hands.

>red dead 2

>serial killer fantasy

…Guide?

Just make a game inspired by a slasher movie. Voyeur mechanics where you get points for being close to the victim but don't get caught until the climax where you kill them in a brutal way.

>>15924280

A game where you play as part of a Neo-nazi crack dealing serial killer gang that specializes in Ninjutsu.

>>15924323

>>15924330

>>15924317

Dumb niggers, hitman is nothing like a "serial killer game"

The MOST IMPORTANT part of the serial killing experience is being able to choose your own targets from anyone without being constrained by some contract or objective

I feel like a serial killer simulator would end up being one of the best RPG games ever made if it was executed correctly. You could come up with how your character looks, their backstory, their ticks, who they kill, the reasons they kill, their weapon of choice, their "tells" that they leave behind whether by choice or accidentally and how their story ends would be decided ultimately by their skill on avoiding the "roll of the dice" or authorities in this case.

>>15924280

>and what does it say about you for wanting to play it to begin with?

It means most anons have the talent to be FBI profilers.

>>15927620

Nothing stops you being a giga autist and deciding an npc is your target, my brother did that in silent assassin and he made ghost town levels and liked to make the target the last living person on the map.

>>15924516

>>15924456

You ruined it. This is exactly why no one caters to /v/.

>>15924280

Just like we'll never get Concentration Camp Tycoon, we'll never get a serial killer simulator. The gaming industry simply doesn't understand the concept of good fun.

Why be a serial killer when you can be a serial rapist?

>>15931384

Because rape isn't love anon. Find the introverted shy girl with the unreasonably erotic body hidden under baggy clothes you need and deserve.

realistic or cartoony?

grim or comedy?

gore or cute?

wouldn't hurt to take the supposed standard core qualities of a genre and flip them inside out

TTT used to be fun

>>15930734

How is any of that autistic? it's called having fun, moralfag.

>Anon plays pvp permadeath mmo, becomes serial killer with MO that the player ran police are on the hunt for to this day.

Do such games exist? I would like to play one.

>>15935895

Maybe something like Second Life. It would be really fun game, if you could go off the server for days at a time and let the players try and solve your murders.

Dead by Daylight is fucking satisfying.

>>15935995

Especially when you down someone and then they try to crawl away from you

>>15924433

I can just imagine NPCs suddenly exploding into gibs when you load in due to wonky physics. Something about their internals vibrating and colliding, ending with splatters of gore everywhere and physics-activated gibs flying around at lethal speeds.

>>15935995

As long as you don't run into one of the myriad premade groups blatantly communicating outside the game and abusing the meta and bugs in the most fun-draining display possible

>>15935917

You can't kill people on Second Life. And it's also full of degenerate scum.

>>15936899

At this point i imagine the entire second life world is the interior of a giant mpreg diaperfurs anal vore dyson womb.