This time around some of the themes were great. I mostly Disliked Construction though. If there is a worms 5 (or another 3d worms game) what theme would you think of? By the way. I would like you to try and think hard and not be silly. Any idea is great. But try to be very descriptive.

My theme would be Tiki Village Based. Like Puba Worms With spears and land like spiked gates and tree house/ hut typed houses. Face paintings and primitave writing on walls. Which would work nicely to me because there could be a type of mission with A Gaint Statue of an alive Tiki Worm God or something. It be cool if each theme had its own 5 or more special weapons. For this one it would be like Throwable spears that could make them bleed like every turn (posion I guess). Or a god power that makes the worm do something random (turns into AI and will attack any worm, which wont effect if the worm is on the same team.) I'll think of more of ideas later. You think of some!

I think it would be good to have themes such as garden equipment, fruit, or crockery and cutlery. As I understand it, poxel lattices can be rotated and moved freely, so you could make random stacks of pre-defined objects relatively easily. It would allow a far greater variety of things to happen above the height map than the current system.

Of course, if all the themes were made that way it would seriously restrict the game style, so it would be good to have the old themes in as well.

what kinda themes were talking about ? worm themes/weapon themes/game look themes/gamestyle theme??

I think it would be good to have themes such as garden equipment, fruit, or crockery and cutlery. As I understand it, poxel lattices can be rotated and moved freely, so you could make random stacks of pre-defined objects relatively easily.
yes and the fact that the maps are actually trees of poxel lattices makes it easy to move an entire groop of lattices by simply moving the parent lattice.

Aztec
Similar to W4M arabian, but instead of a central tower you have a huge Aztec 'Temple of the sun'. Instead of Houses you have little aztec stone buildings(similar to arabian ones) and wooden huts. Ground Objects include idols, sacraficial altars, etc. Terrain is mountainous (quite high, with ground varying in height greatly). Lots of palm trees all over the ground. Chinapas (fenced of farms built in water) appear as objects just of the land now and then.

War
How bout a new war theme? Normally makes one big, flat island, flat ground with trenches (like in WW1), artillery guns, bunkers and the odd smoking tree or building. Some extra objects could occur, like grenades, miniguns, rocket launches, tanks etc. Another idea would be to have little 'bunkers' and doorways coming out of the trench walls to offer more cover. And as a super rare object, how about a giant ballistic missile (V2 rocket, maybe?) standing straight up, attached to its tower(like the ones they used for launching rockets to the moon and stuff0.

if you want v2 rockets you want something closer to ww2. the rocket would of course have to be just a noninteractive piece of scenery unless something about w5 engine will be very different from w4's.

Yes, a rocket would be a noninteractive piece of scenery (much like the concrete donkey/buffalo of lies found in W3d). Maybe War could just be war in general? Its not like the W3d one was any war in particular.

Here is another theme:

Alpine
Terrain made almost entirely out of very high and varying height ground and 'mountains'(similar to volcanoes on W4M, actually objects). Mountains often have caves in them (good for darksiders:) ),Conifers and knarled trees growing on slopes and the occaisonal temple or mountain sanctury.

He have seen worms wearing helmets, hard hats and spacesuits and construction sites and volcano sites and loads of interesting and wacky themes. However, have we forgotten what these things really are? They are worms! There should be a realistic theme, like a garden or farm or something, with worms in it. Perhaps involving pesticides and spades and gardeners, and of course, carrots. After all, you are much more likely to find a worm in a garden than in a...spaceship or volcano or construction site or something crazt like that.
Not to say the wacky maps are bad. They are great. But have a realistic theme as well.

I would like to see some kind of a winter theme. It wasn't in W4.

Lets see now, A war theme with "Interactive" tanks and choppers and stuff, (Like firing the cannons from a warship) Now THAT would be cool.

A "House" Theme, with places like the kitchen, the Computer room (AKA study), The bedroom(s), games room etc.

Inside levels (AKA, Cavern theme), OK, i know you all want this.

Inside the body theme: Well, it takes place in the stomach and stuff, just an idea i thought up (imagines the possibilities).

A Drunkworm theme, Ok, now im just being silly, its a theme where its a giant statue dedicated to me... :p

Naval
Similar to War. All the actual land is is a bunch of small islands or small clusters of islands(often far apart), which are made of the beach style terrain from war/pirate in W3d. Tyhe only other land is huge rocky crags coming out of the sea (a cross between the big pillars on W3d and the volcanoes on W4M). The only objects on these sandbars and islands are the odd minigun, rocket or small lighthouse. However, most of the 'land' is on the water-in the form of boats, destroyers, aircraft carriers, subs and sea mines (boats similar to those in some of the missions from W3d). Normally there will be an aircraft (aircraft should be either jets or those WW2 planes from W3d) or two above the boats or on aircraft carriers.

He have seen worms wearing helmets, hard hats and spacesuits and construction sites and volcano sites and loads of interesting and wacky themes. However, have we forgotten what these things really are? They are worms! There should be a realistic theme, like a garden or farm or something, with worms in it. Perhaps involving pesticides and spades and gardeners, and of course, carrots. After all, you are much more likely to find a worm in a garden than in a...spaceship or volcano or construction site or something crazt like that.
Not to say the wacky maps are bad. They are great. But have a realistic theme as well.
and also they shouldnt use any weapons. just slowly crawl arround in the dirt. realism is so much fun...

How about hell/heaven theme?
Or city theme.

How about hell/heaven theme?
give this man a cookie. great idea. espetially if they make clouds with smoke effect that you can stand on for the heaven and something like flowing molten lava on the hell portion. would require animated textures for lava though.

How about

Forest

Island with lot of big trees and rivers & lakes. You would hide under tree because of air strikes and homing missiles. You would jump from tree and hurt your worm like 30+ damage. May have some little huts and so. And landmines would be hard to see.

Here is City theme:

Metropolitan
Similar in layout to Arabian. Ground is grass, but between the buildings is grey and flat (road). The buildings all are modern, have several floors and balconies outside (like the ones on Coasta Del Danger in W3d). The towers are instead of houses, and instead of a central tower there is a large skyscraper. The skyscraper varies a bit but normally has a few floors you can get into, a rooftop lookout, a spire (like Empire State building in NY or Centrepoint Tower in Sydney) and a few desks, computers and maybe even an elevator shaft inside.Between the lower buildings, houses and towers are washing lines (stretched between one building and another). The smaller buildings include large houses, apartments, offices and train stations. Objects include trees, cars, buses, trains, computers and trash cans.

Fish Tank

Yes I did say fish tank. There will be a little toy desert island for land and the aquarium water is the sea.

Computer

Worms will fight ona PC desk, keyboard mouse etc. Or this next is better...

Cyberspace

There will be firewalls to burn, spam is like a sticky mode thing. Then sea will be... you decide.

Forest theme:
Trees and bushes with "caves" to hide in.
Lakes too.
Water falls
(Correct me if someone alredy did this theme)

Space Ships!

In space ships, to replace the water is space. The could be multiple space ships, meteors, aliens, more UFOs and flying cows and other random stuff.

Zen Garden
Several Medium sized islands, covered in grass. Islands are connected by stone and wooden bridges (with small worm/dragon statues at the ends of the stone ones and chinese lanturns on poles at the ends of the others) Sandy paths go across the islands from bridge to bridge. A few shrines or even a small castle appear as buildings, and stands of bamboo grow on the edges of the islands. Sometimes shrines appear on stone platforms offshore. On the islands there are simplified cherry blossum trees, and lanturns on poles appear both on land and in shallow water.

How about fire and Ice, separated? Inspired by heaven/hell, yes...

Fire

In the fire one replace the water with lava, and if a worm touches the lava, it sets on fire, bounces from it in a random direction, like if it was a dead body, and explodes when touching anything (landscape, lava). There could be torchs, volcanos, and the earth could be that volcanic black. The sky, red, of course... (or sunset...)

Ice

Well, the winter one should do... Well, and include snowing.

Maybe you could base them off the various Worlds in Superfrog? :p

Computer

Great idea! I loved the computer theme in Worms 2.

there could be a sketch mode where you step on paper an the game goes 2d until you step off of the paper.:p
then there could be a lego/mega blocks theme.
then comes the civil war.
then a medieval theme with dragons,fat trolls,and swords were the weapons.
then there would be a worms v.s. alien worms theme.
the list is endless.....

Mega blokz stink! LEGO rulez!
PS: Chesthair theme. Stinky and hairy :p

I did think it very odd that there were so many space suits in the game and no space levels.

Also, it would have made much more sense to have military style levels than arabic levels. Trenches, tanks, bunkers and such.

Why do these have to be Worms 5 ideas when they could be downloadable updates or an expansion pack?

I also miss the underground levels. It wouldn't have been too hard, just disable air strikes and blimp view to play the level. It would have also been a pretty good incentive to take something other than a strike weapon for the team weapon.

I'd like to see about a quarter or more of the game being a Star Wars parody. That has so much potential in the Worms world. I can just see it now. Stormtrooper worms and a worm with a Darth Vader helmet and a flowing cape all battling the Rebel worms inside of the large, white ship like on Episode IV.

in worms 2, there were various types of landscapes. here are a few that would probably fit into w5.

time (a bunch of clocks, springs, hands, etc.)
sports (footballs, basketball hoops, olympic medals, etc.)
hell (devil, red tentacles, pitchforks, toturistic devices, etc.)
cheese (missiles, ufos, cheese, etc.)
art (paintbrushes, paint pallets, paint cans, etc.)

In somekind of golf level there could be big golf-balls falling down on you... okey. That would just be boring. But what about this:

A pirate thingy where every team has one boat each, and then you can bomb eachothers ships with canons that you can enter with some button. And then there are small life-boats at the sides of the ships, whitch you can jump into and drive away with. In this way you could also attack the enemy with theese boats and take the boats to the rear of the enemys boat, where you could put a dinamite so the enemy boat explodes and sinks. And offcourse you could move the big capital boats too. It would be very hard to drive theese, cause you always have to look at the wind.

And it also would be cool with some stealth mode, where you didn't have any radar and you couldn't see the name signs over the worms heads. This would be great fun to play on big and stealthy maps, if you had very low health.:)

Atoll (Pirate?)
Maps made of medium sized or cluster of small sandy islands. Islands have lots of palm trees, and a round shape, mostly land and often with a 'lagoon' in the center. Jutting out into the water are large coral platforms, which are completely surrounded by water in some cases. Other objects include beached dinghy's, telescopes, campfires, coconuts, cutlasses, skulls and the odd pirate shipwreck.

Indoors! No water deaths unless you blow up the ground or walls, maybe stuff like multiple rooms so you could be upstairs in a bedroom and jump into the kitchen then crawl to the den, maybe a creepy basement, and perhaps you can go into the refridgerator and theres lettuce and stuff on the shelfs, maybe you could go outside and then theres water and other buildings to go in, yeah, it would be cool if you had the game and you could download like 50 meg maps that are HUGE. Sure it would be really hard for team17 but its an idea.:D

dunno if it is already said but I'dd liek some kind of a rain-forest background, with high trees, lots of bushes and some wooden houses of ppl living in the forest.

I'dd like to advertise for Willtam's idea, above here, cause I really enjoyed the 2 indoor maps in 3d, and there could be a real cool way to make yer own backgroung indoor type, like in 4 there is camelot and arabian etc. all kinds of furni and other cool stuff. great idea Will!!!

oh and onother idea for a worms 5 is to have beards for worms too, and perhaps some (face)tattoo's/paintings

you could have a theme where it is in a pub or bar something like that

How about a theme that creates also random floating islands above the lower terrain, at different heights? Maybe a heaven\hell theme, with lava\hell terrain down there, and clouds, birds, wathever as floating parts?

I'dd like to have the landsape choosing settings from 3D back. it was much more sophisticated then in 4

war, city, circus (scary clown worms!), and medicine (from W:A)

and plumbing, craters, and a flat area where we can go back to our nostalgic roots...

hey, how bout if we can select when we are making game styles if the map is gonna be 2D or 3D? that'll be fun...

How about a house theme! You could have a room in each level and loads of objects and sink tunnels and thinks like that, just like the "A Quick Fix" and "Beefcake Breakfast Brawl" W3D missions!

City With Sewers!

*Hell
water like lava,orange soil,sky like a giant vortex,etc.
*Heaven
soil like clouds,water like shining sky,angels,god,etc.
*ICE(the clasic theme)
*egyptian
Pyramids with mazes and traps,soil like yellow sand,normal water,etc.
*urban
flats,cars,bus,houses,towers,monuments(For example:white house),factorys,poliuted sky and water,etc.
*jungle
a lot of animals and plants
*pirat
boats and small islands

How about a house theme! You could have a room in each level and loads of objects and sink tunnels and thinks like that, just like the "A Quick Fix" and "Beefcake Breakfast Brawl" W3D missions!

I loved Beefcake breakfast brawl that was the best level. I agree with indoor Theme how about others like:
Future
An area full of weird si-fi stuff and big cities were the sky is filled with hovering cars and robots walk around. A mission could be retrieve a special disk from aliens.

Sky
Battles in the sky on things like airplanes and helicopters and huge blimps or even sky scrappers so high you were surrounded by clouds.

Mall
A place that has multi stores like a battle upon shlves and you could be hiding behind pruducts or the cashregister

Prehistoric
just like W4 except with more caves and dinos actually move(and can kill you)

Dragon
I love dragons so much and I would play worms 24hours a day if they had a theme surrounded by dragons and caves and maybe other mythology stuff. missions could include stealing a dragon egg, escape being food for young dragons, and getting back to a village before AI dressed as dragons get you.

those are just some ideas please tell me what you think:)
and keep wishing for another 3D game

Ice
Cold snowy mountain with snowmans and little village that looks like some christmas card village.

Olympus
High mountain with clouds and a white greek temple on the top.

Halloween
Dark mansion on the graveyard hill and jack o'lanterns everywhere

Egyptian
Golden pyramid and worm-faced sphinx on the glowing, hot sand.

Urban Dump
Level full of carbage, rusty cars and old tires

Chinese
The Great Wall, wiew to the village with bamboos and chinese lanterns.

Pirate
Many islands (biggest with the skull rock) and pirate ships.

Aztec
Aztec pyramid with deep jungle around it

Harbour
Harbour with big luxorious ship with sundeck

Destruct & Serve level from Worms 4 build ready, not just construction yard;
A ready luxury hotel based on that level

And Worm parts:
Wool hat for winter level worms
Egyptic faraoh hat and beard
Aztec helmet with feathers
Cook hat
Different-coloured contact lenses
Mexican sombrero

I really hope Team 17 is making next 3D game for Ps2

I really hope Team 17 is making next 3D game for Ps2
I think you got stuck in last year again Xeroop...

Well, yeah. I just don't see idea on Ps3 and 360 and stuff like that. Ps2 is enough for me.

Well, yeah. I just don't see idea on Ps3 and 360 and stuff like that. Ps2 is enough for me.
Perhaps. But it does mean you'll get very few new games.

I would like in the new worms:
-No Minimap
Players should look for crates and enemy worms,not look on the minimap and find them so easy.
-Buying weapons
Players should choose if they should use team chosen weapons or game style weapons(you know,like in the old wwp,each team had 100 coins to spend on weapons)
-No Oponent Camera
In Online play,the camera should not show your oponent doing his moves,it should show your last worm that moved.
-Themes:
Pirate
Water,a treasure island and some ships.
Space
Some Planets.
Alpine
Battle on the mountains
Medieval
The land should be in form of a sword or a mace,even a bow.
Alien
Worms should fight on a alien that has hes mouth open,so that worms can fight inside it.
The Castle
A big castle,worms should stand in or on it,on towers,it should have mess halls,kitchens,bedrooms,two floors etc.
Urban
A few buildings,like in our time,a skycraper,some houses,a mall,where worms can hide and shoot.
The Graveyard
A big,flat platform with lot of graves,it should be so big,like a room(in real life)
Arctic
A flat land,in one place should be a igloo village with some Mobs.And Penguins!I love penguins.
-Mobs
Mobs should be worms randomly dressed and placed,that cant be controlled by any player.They should just stand on the map as targets.Mobs should be dressed according to the theme.They should not be on special lvls.
-Side
Side should be chosen by the acts of the team.If the team kills a lot of mobs,it should become evil.If the team ignores mobs and tries to avoid them(maybe even save them)it should become good,side should be changed by the weapons the team uses,too.The evil side should have whiter skin,red eyes and two small horns,the good team should have normal eyes and normal skin.Each deed should raise or lover the team's side points,that choose the team's side(max 100,min -100)
-Day/Night
After playing around 5 min the sky should become black(for only 3 min,in alpine and arctic day should be 3 min) and the evil side should gain power.The day,the evil side should be weaker(beeing damaged more,doing less damage in meele etc.)
-Weapons:
Dagger(evil)
The dagger should be a 3 hit meele each hit does 15 damage.
Holy Water(good)
Holy water should be a grenade that heals everyone it hits(even mobs,and you should get more side points.
Dancing Dead(evil)
This should be the evil version of Holy Hand grenade,if thrown on a gravestone,it should make a ghost that moves each time after users worm(controlled by user)that last three turns.It should have only one weapon:soul strike.
Soul Strike
The weapon used by ghost worms,should be kinda grenade,looking like a flame that should hurt any worm,except the user's worms.Should do around 30 damage.
Soul Steal(evil)
Soul steal should do 100 damage,but if the worm survives,it should restore the hp.Should be kinda final strike.
-Clothes:
Pirate
Pirate hats,hooks,eye patches,sailor paper hats,headbands of different colors.Should be worn by mobs in the pirate theme.
Space
Space Helms,Gloves,Night Vision Glasses,Camera Glasses,Alien Mask of different colours.Worn by mobs in space theme.
Alien
Alien Mask,Alien Glowes,Alien Eyes,Alien tentacles as Mustace and as hairs of different colors.Worn by mobs in alien theme.
Castle
Helms,Castle hats,Haircuts (long,bold)Mustache ,Iron glowes,thief masks and gloves of different colors.Worn by mobs on castle theme.
Urban
Caps,Punker hairs and gloves,afro,mustache,Nerd glasses of different colors.Worn by mobs in urban theme.
Horror
Frankenstein hats,Zombie hats and hands,skeleton hands,werewolf hats and hair on hands,brain,Ghost and skull hats.Worn by mobs in horror theme.
Arctic
Hoods,Scarves,Glowes,Santa hats,Hats,Penguin Outfit of different colors.Worn by mobs in arctic theme.
Other
Octopus hat,Dragon Hat and Gloves,Military Outfits,Pengguin Outfit.

-Levels
The Octopus
A giant octopus,worms sit from it's Tentacles.
Dragon's breath
Giant Dragon,Worms fight in or on it.
Military Base
A Worm Boot camp(maybe training lvl)
The Penguin
A giant Penguin,Worms Fight in or on it.

Also ability to customize each worm differentely from your team.
Being able to swim if its your turn,if its over,or youre hit into the water by someone and something not during your turn you would drown.
The ability like in 2D worms to cast your own soundbank with a microphone.
Weapons from 2D worms.
And for themes I would like :Heaven,Hell,WW1,WW2,Antarctic,Jungle,Space...

Also ability to customize each worm differentely from your team.
Being able to swim if its your turn,if its over,or youre hit into the water by someone and something not during your turn you would drown.
The ability like in 2D worms to cast your own soundbank with a microphone.
Weapons from 2D worms.
And for themes I would like :Heaven,Hell,WW1,WW2,Antarctic,Jungle,Space...

Swimming worms: I disagree but I think in worm pot they should have an option where worms are invincible to water

Seprate worm custimise: I agree but you should also choose size and weight

Recordable sounbanks: Great idea and I didn't know you can do that on 2D games. can I do that without the CD because I have that download version.

Themes: I'm okay with them all but one... I think it's a waste to have two war themes

Well, yeah. I just don't see idea on Ps3 and 360 and stuff like that. Ps2 is enough for me.

anyway i think the PC versions are better than consoles version..the best of worms is playing it online

what about space? with all 9 planets in? all the weapons which are affected by the wind won't be in this scheme.

what about space? with all 9 planets in? all the weapons which are
affected by the wind won't be in this scheme.
All 9 planets? There's only 8 friggin' planets in our solar system!

I think 2 themes Underwater and Cyberspace

Very nice choice space is very good idea!

I think boot camp idea is very good and i think its in multiplayer levels too

I think boot camp idea is very good and i think its in multiplayer levels too.

i think that a non- turnbased option would be great for the diversity of the game so that is more quicker.