Monday, October 29, 2012

Tron: Uprising, Motorcity, and what I want out of a collection of mechanics

Since I last addressed the tron game -- or rather the tron skin that I had made for Lady Blackbird -- Things have happened. Tron: Uprising happened. Motorcity Happened. Voltron Force Happened. Thundercats! Happened! (Thundercats for another day). But I know what I want from RPGs, and its not what I expected at all.

Fucking Cars Man. Cars. I want to go Fast, Cars. I want to Burn Rubber, Cars. I want to peel off the main road and surf through terrain being chased by color coordinated and themed baddies with Guns, Cars. I want "The Warriors" (kids, look it up) with Fucking Cars, Man.

I think snow crash said it best.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters... You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

I want speed, I want heat, I want chase. Snapfire Decision Making. I want a mechanic that doesn't fuck around, that does its driving in Big Obnoxious Permanent Marker. You make a mistake? Live with the consequences. You know why? The mild don't survive, The allright don't survive, The good don't survive, only The Best survive, and I'm still pumping, That's why I'm around because I'm The Best.

I want a mechanic that does its driving on meth, pumped to the limit on every steroid you can crank out of a can. Where the difference between man and machine is a bury line if you can even find it, and the only things that 'are' are the road on your 12, and the knuckleheads on your 6 who want you to Pay Up. I want my driving on a time clock. I want to hit the pavement hard.

You want to do lightcycles? Yeah, Lets do Lightcycles. Lets do Cities, find shortcuts, leap of neon structures like glass. Lets cut and run. This turn? Those idiots won't see it coming. Shipping docks? No problem. Corner like a champ, put on a lightshow and they're cubed to bits, like deRezed, powered down, Disipated, Delete, Format, Alt-F4 and I'm off to End-of-line. Better luck next time player.

But that's just an idea.