I just had the weirdest idea for a video game

[teh Schala]

I just had the weirdest idea for a video game...  And not an RPG either.  A sports game, but a totally new sport.

Any of you work in a warehouse with motorized pallet jacks?  I'd never seen any jacks other than the little hand-operated variety until last November.  So if like me, you haven't seen a motorized pallet jack before, it looks like this.


You ride on the end with the lever and use it to steer...  The forks drag behind you, and you can do some fairly interesting, tight maneuvers with these things if you're good enough.

Anyway, I guess I just found myself wondering how it might look to control one of those things in a game...  I can just see some setting in an abandoned warehouse and you're doing like "bumper jacks" or something and supposed to knock other guys off their jacks, etc...  Would be pretty original for a sport, and would make for interesting control.

LOL...anyway, am I nuts?  Hehe...

[V_Translanka]

I remember there were races w/similar things...those loader ones that actually have like wheels or w/e? In...uh...wtf was that damn game...Well, they're in GTA:SA too...Uh...what game am I thinking of? It was on DC...

*rifles around stupid messy room*

Shenmu 2! That it...yeah, there were races in that w/those things...

edit: oh yeah, I guess I was talking about fork-lifts.

[Hadriel]

You can't get much weirder than Katamari Damacy.

But anyway, my weird idea consists of a game about Dave Chappelle thrust into Mushroom Land.  Use your imagination, folks.

[teh Schala]

If you ever ride on one of these things and feel how they move and all, you'll DEFINITELY be able to see how it could be cool for a videogame, LOL  The faster ones where I work go about 20 mph (which is pretty fast for the inner aisles of a warehouse), and in case you haven't seen one of these before, you hold the lever with one hand and twist it to go forward or backward, and then you lean to one side, pointing it in the direction you want to go to turn...  Depending on how sharp the turn, that can take some serious full-body movement, but it feels cool. =P

And yeah, these are meant more for speed than forklifts.  Forklifts are just for lifting things up and down, while motorized jacks are meant to quickly load pallets onto a trailer.

Anyway, can you imagine a few pissed-off guys in a warehouse, flying around and punching at each other when they get a chance?  I think it'd be fun