[General Discussion] Do you like Crossdressing?

Its so RARELY done, but for crossovers I like it when they do it subtly. Instead of making it the Center principal attraction of the new game, make it something not even really marketed, like it just sort of shows up part-way through the game. An example of this done in a game would be Cloud from Final Fantasy Tactics. He appears along with the Flower girl. Where does he come from? In FFVII he fell into the lifestream. Lifestream contained a wormhole and he ended up temporarily in Ivalice. He eventually made his way back, but the process his memories of the new world he visited were wiped and at the same time, his mind-fucked-up-quotient tripled to the point where he was sitting in a wheelchair making random remarks of no sense, or of marketing points "zeno... gias...."

So, if we do have a cross-over between the different realities, instead of it being all "Oh hey, its X meets Y!", lets have them have conflict with one another: Gordon Freeman gets teleported to the Liandri Corporation's tournament. Others assume that his shotgun, gravity gun and crowbar along with his HEV suit are just personal choices and that he gets pushed into competition in the Unreal Tournament. Well, he's not here to play games, he's trying to stop an alien invasion on earth. So he breaks all the rules, goes to the head of the Tournament Organizers and makes them teleport him back to his home dimension.

The problem with crossovers and I made a point when writing the above example is that cross-overs rarely work well and more often the not they either have to not count in the continuity of either series (Such as Marvel Vs. [Insert Company here] ) or they turn into bad fanfiction.

Subtlety is the one logical way we can have both in-universe cross-overs while avoiding the more obvious and painful examples of mary-sueisms and general fanwankery in the meeting of important characters and making it enjoyable for the player. Of course, I could be wrong, someone out there might just have a good idea for a cross-over, but so far I haven't seen a good example of one. No the Final Fantasy example I listed above isn't that good of one either because there are too many fucking plot holes for one to consider.

I'll like Crossovers when they at least TRY to make sense, and serve some purpose higher to the story then "Let's have these guys meet those people! Hilarity will ensue!".

Jam it back in, in the dark.