Manhunt

[Kakihara]

This is just an idea I had that i thought'd be cool, if possibly complex.

Anyone ever played Manhunt on the ps2? I thought a mod on Half Life 2 which basically made it a Manhunt type game would be really cool, kinda of an escape via brutality rather than stealth. I'd be interesting to see how people would tackle a game like this when you consider the physics and many ways you can use objects as weapons in HL2.

Wasn't considering it to seriously, but if enough people with brainpower and enthusiasm were willing to get together and try to take sucha project further I'd be well up for it.

 

[Kakihara]

The game is pretty sweet although i've never been much of a playstation fan. I think i must've worded myself wrong i didn't actual mean like a direct copy of manhunt, just along similar lines. In manhunt particularly at the beginning your weapons are... wel shit, so you have to dot he best with what you're given, very few others games exploit that kinda of thing because they're all army based so you've got a nice healthy arsenal, but by the same token i dont think any engine other than the Source, could add such depth to that kind of gameplay. Manhunt is very stealthy yeh, but i dont think that's a key issue of the game as much as it is in similar stuff like, Splinter Cell.

Just thought it might be interesting

 

[qckbeam]

Nothing quite like strangling a guy with a baseball bat, dropping him to his knees, and then shattering his skull with one swift stroke, like a kid playing tee-ball, sending chunks of flesh and gobs of blood flying through the air and splattering against the wall. It would make a fun mod I think.

 

[Pressure]

^ I agree

 

[synth]

meh. I never really liked manhunt. It was all stealth, and if you messed up, then one or two guys could kill you easily.

 

[Kakihara]

Wouldn't say it was all stealth, but i liked how easy it was to get killed. Most games like that you could just shoot your enemies and if lucky carry on as normal, so stealth wasn't something you need to care bout too much. Plus I enjoy my only means of escape being to brutaly beat someone to pieces

 

[simmo]

I loved manhunt , but dont name yer mod "Manhunt" :|, or include the same char names etc cause you'll get in trouble m8ty.

But yeah, I would enjoy it if it was done well :thumbs:

 

[qckbeam]

meh. I never really liked manhunt. It was all stealth, and if you messed up, then one or two guys could kill you easily.

That was the fun. The fun was in the tension

 

[Kakihara]

Nah man I never intended to like, do a conversion directly of manhunt, exactly same name, story, characters n shit. But the closest thing that came to my idea which is out is Manhunt. Just made explaining the idea alot easier if there's something I could link it to

 

[ComradeBadger]

If you've already thought about this idea of yours, can you show us a design document perhaps? Or anything that you've done. I'm interested to see how you work this, and I'd love to give my two cents.

Me too.... but don't show ALL of the designdoc

 

[Kakihara]

To be honest it was literally just an idea. I don't get too serous when i have ideas for cool mod's n shit though because usually they amout to nothing, but if there's enough people who wanna get into this then I'm definately up for getting something solid underway, only problem is I'm pretty new to modding n everything, Concept Art, Modelling and Map design are the only places I home any shred of talent.

If people are really up for this though send me an email, and I'll reply with a very basic outline of how i thought it could work, and then we can share/mix improve on eachothers ideas. Like i say though i am pretty new to all this, so please bare this in mind if i miss anything vital or haven't considered anything properly.

Mah email is : [email protected] and if you're interested my bands web site (which i made despite it's shiteness) is http://www.skincheese.cjb.net n ya cud leave ur email addys there