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Roadie
Jun 30, 2013

Darth Walrus posted:

An army of Mocks would be funny as hell. Annoyingly inappropriate to Halliday’s Eighties wonderland, too.

That would require someone at IOI to have a sense of humour, though, so they probably use a generic grab-bag of basic mooks from Gundam, Macross, BattleTech, whatever, plus some heavy hitter line-breakers like Psyco Gundams (or worse, Queen Mansas) and Evangelions.

Personally, I liked the units from the movie with the ridiculous branding on the front. There's also another factor: IOI has basically unlimited manpower and money compared to individual gunters, so they can easily afford the cost and training for rigs that take a half-dozen people at a time to pilot properly.

Combine those two factors and you get weird stuff like corporate-branded War of the Worlds walkers with a dozen raygun ball turrets, with air support from two-man Macross fighter knockoffs with missiles that also scatter recruitment flyers everywhere when they detonate. Everything takes multiple people acting in concert to use, and everything spews ridiculous corporate branding and propaganda everywhere.

Section 9 posted:

For the Tomb of Horrors segment, make it so that there was no walk-through FAQ for it. It wasn't on Planet Gygax so it had sort of fallen into obscurity.

Nah, man. Just have a walkthrough, which then gets proven immediately wrong when some ridiculous trap triggers in the "wrong" place and everybody realizes "oh gently caress, this is some remix bullshit Halliday put together".

Actually, no, run with that even further, and have it start as Tomb of Horrors but mutate through absurdly lethal recombinations of 80s stuff. Fight a hundred Heathers with lightsabers in Castle Greyskull while F-14s rain out of the sky and the Fratellis chase anyone they see with an open Ark of the Covenant!

Edit: One puzzle involves having to get into a Delorean with Ferris Bueller, then floor it in reverse and go 88 mph backwards off a cliff, at which point it goes flying through the air in front of a huge backdrop of a moon and then lands in the courtyard of a shopping mall filled with zombies. One of the zombies bites Bueller, and then you have to escape from him while he makes fourth-wall-breaking quips about eating your brains.

Edit edit: If you complain that Dawn of the Dead isn't even technically from the 80s, zombie-Bueller tells you to lighten up, because overthinking it makes your brains all gristly.

Roadie fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Apr 16, 2018

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