New game idea

In most MMORPGs, you play as the human, humanoid or demi-human "heroes" that go into monsters' lairs and overcome them to gather treasure and experience. Occasionally they attach a tiny bit of justification, such as "the monster threatens the land," but even then the heroes don't really make sense as heroes on the level of, say, console RPGs or D&D campaigns. So... what happens if in this case, the monsters themselves are the victims and the "heroes" are the bad guys? That's my theme: the monsters are the heroes.

Interesting... so in a MS-style implementation of this theme I'd be killing Batman some 10,000 times to level while my horde of penguins keeps mobs of Robins at bay? And what motivation is there for killing the heroes besides they are trying to stop you?

In my game idea, instead of humans, demihumans or humanoids, you get to play as the monsters. Depending on your choice, you live in a lair, colony, sometimes even a township of similar monsters, and there would also be neutral townships, as well as villainous towns of humans and other beings. You'd get to choose to be various types of monster, such as a dragon (good mob-fighting and HP but always has an elemental weakness), a lycanthrope (combines a human class during the daytime with massive one-on-one DPS and speed as a werewolf/bear/tiger/etc. at night), a giant (highest HP and defense but low speed and accuracy), and undead (various sorts that have diverse skills and many immunities, but low HP and holy defense). As you move through the game there would be a class-change system similar to that of games like MS and Seiken Densetsu 3 (the game would probably also use SD3's top-down perspective, or maybe 3-D but I don't really like those much)... game dynamics

I actually think this idea would apply best to D&D style hack and slash games. Usually, monsters are more diverse/numerous than heroes, so would you still end up fighting a lot of monsters. That isn't necessarily good, if you left it to the player if they wanted to help the heroes or monsters, it would be interesting (might kill the story though). If heroes would end up replacing the big bosses I'd imagine players end up being a boss monsters (ie the Joker)? Another monster idea: Rats, for example, would be able to respawn/replace relatively quickly (great training monster for larger predators), perhaps even double do damage in sewers, but I cannot think of any special attacks besides urination... The art style of SD3 is beautiful, if that is the style you had in mind: good choice. Unrelated: I think the theme could even be extended to a reverse tower defense game, you play as the attackers (with different attackers, power-ups, skills et cetera).

Basically, playing as the monsters, you would train by fighting other wild monsters and human/demi-human "heroes," and the jobs would all have diverse combat systems such as fighting combos, spellcasting or breath weapons. However, levels themselves would play a relatively small role in the game, so it wouldn't exactly take a no-lifer to master it. Occasionally, your lair could probably also be invaded, and there would also be incentives for some "monster nations" to invade others. This would be a fully separate, PvP, mass battle system in which tactics rather than pure power would play a great role, as you would be commanding an army of followers in addition to the characters in the colony. Therefore, this would be a very event-heavy game, and highly competitive. I would also probably build a strong story around the villainous bosses, who would mostly be very powerful human-type characters, some based on my D&D villains like an ultimate Mage named Amathar.

I'd like to see a mixed party form the big boss fights, that would make for entertaining boss encounters... Something to the effect of "this boss is weak to ice, but his partner is strong to ice" is what I envisioned. But it could be a lot more in depth.

I personally think it's a sure win. But I have no idea how to contact a company that produces games or who in the company to contact, or even which company I should contact. If anyone knows, or wants to give feedback on this idea, please respond. Thanks in advance for anything helpful.

My post is not really helpful, but if you wanted to start any game development I'd recommend modding an existing RPG. Usually companies that develop games do not take suggestions. Key word: usually. It is 5AM so if this doesn't make sense, I apologize. Just thought you might want some feedback of some sort.