for me its dragon ball z. i’ve always wanted a good 3d open world dbz action rpg kind of game, but it’s just never been done to its full potential. the closest we’ve gotten in my opinion is dragon ball z kakarot, which has great DBZ fighting game style fighting, and tries to incorporate it with an open world with rpg-light type features, but the world and rpg elements are just so uninspired and poorly done. they don’t really blend well with the fighting segments either, it feels like all of the ‘open world’ is more of just a 3d overworld with minigames
Give me another Elder Scrolls as magical as Morrowind.
You can’t do it, Todd. Move on. Found an indie studio to make little games.
I mean, an Indy studio could do a spiritual successor. I’d be happy with that.
There’s a mobile port for it now
Feel like shit, just want Sid Meier’s Pirates! back. Nobody has made something that scratched the same itch and everyone who tries to make a pirate game makes something else. Or a Bully 2. Or a good vampire game.
Avatar deserves a game that isn’t absolute drivel. It’s the kind of series that would be well severed by having distinct control layouts for different fighting styles. Like earth bending using the triggers, fire using the buttons, water using the control sticks, and air using motion controls. Then, in the end game, you control the avatar and you’re juggling your controller and using it like a bop it
I am yearning for a new rts and Dune has been a great well for that genre before. So that, but I need Tim Curry to do an fmv as baron harkonnen.
I dunno otherwise. Maybe Avatar: the last airbender? Could have some neat rts potential too.
Karl Marx Kapital and we turn it into a 4x that isn’t made by paradox.
30 years war and it’s a total war style game.
I love the SCP universe so something with that. I don’t have a lot of gamer buddies, so I could never get into that multiplayer one. I’ve tried lobotomy corporation, but it’s completely incomprehensible.
I remember reading some absolute sci-fi slop at my dad’s place, that could be good for some fun games. The first was one where the moon was a spaceship and the protagonist was the only one that was allowed past it’s defenses for some reason. Cloak-and-dagger type thing and then it evolves into big picture galactic warfare.
The other series was about a dumbfuck royal Scion, 3rd in line to the throne who miraculously survives an attempt on his life - His brothers weren’t so lucky. He is then stranded on a jungle planet alongside his personal army, they befriend the natives, teach them poker, have sex with the nativesweird aside
(who in this species are sort of an inverse version of our sexual propagation. What the humans consider to be “the women” (because they have wombs) don’t ovulate, because they have sperm cells. “The men” ovulate and can then inject an egg with an ovipositor.The author had some fetishes I assume.)
When they finally get off planet they discover the royal house has been couped. They have to do some spycraft to save the empress. When that is done it turns into a big diplomatic game of winning over all the rebels and so on.
Not fiction but a piece of history I wish was used for something: After WWII a european resistance cell consisting of a schoolteacher and her recent (adult) graduates went to Argentina and disappeared. This cell was responsible for the liquidation of several high-ranking Nazis. They were fueled in part due to the extra-judicial killing of 12 of their schoolmates, who, while being transported to a courthouse, were unceremoniously shot and dumped over a bridge by the SS. Imagine playing a game where you’re an elderly schoolteacher going HAM in Argentina hunting Nazis. Wolfenstein could never. It’d be like Turok but no conflicting emotions about killing cool dinos. You could become like The Predator.
Monsters Inc and it’s a cooking mama style thing, but for making children cry.
30 years war and it’s a total war style game
1648 is a weird mod for m2tw, they created star forts to play on but they don’t really work properly. more fundamentally the thirty years war, 17th century warfare worked differently than how total war has been conceived, a colunela1 was such a tightly-knit combined arms unit it cannot be micromanaged by weapon-type like total war units are conventionally. 1648 for m2tw and Pike and Shot for NTW therefore play like bootleg 18th century line battles which is simply not how the thirty years war should look, one would have to design autonomous unit ais that will manage missile-pike formations for the player, as well as complicated cavalry maneuvers like caracole—it would end up very unlike how total wars feel if it was done right.
not that i don’t think it would be worthy/cool to do a 3d real time strategy pike-and-shot simulation, it just can’t be “total war” as it is currently thought of. also i’d be right pissed if someone went to the trouble and limited it to the thirty years war if you didn’t get to do the league of cognac, french wars of religion, 80 years war, english civil war… what would even be the point
(E) 1: colunela was the basic missile-pike combination used in the early italian wars, lending its name to modern ‘colonel’, the tercio is a specific permutation regarding the apportionment of arms in the formation—and a particularly unhelpful term because many of what got called ‘tercio’ were not actually thirds!
Yeah total war would have to be revamped to fit it. It might be more suited for a mount-and-blade type thing and the more I think about it the more I realise that would be so much radder. Imagine playing as a mercenary and working your way up like Götz of the iron hand.
dang bannerlord tactics do be looking pretty sophisticated these days. maybe it could be tooled appropriately
I think it could be doable, though the diplomacy system would need major retooling
There was a Fire and Sword spin off for Mount and Blade based on the book of the same name. Not the 30s years war but just after in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Dune Spice Wars exists. I guess it’s more a RT4X then RTS but it’s not bad.
Yeah I know, there’s been a bunch of dune rts’s. Maybe I just want a revival of the genre.
Gimme some good plastic army men toy soldiers 3do games
Forgot about those, yes.
Plastic green army me tag urself!
I’m the gesturing with one arm, radio in the other guy
i want something like this too. i know there’s a mod for Squad like this but idk how active it is
i just want an xcom style turn based strategy game but with transformers. there technically was one, but it was really short and for kids, and i just want a really difficult one like xcom sometimes can be lol
Me too now but Beast Wars.
Star Trek. ST online started promising, but it turned into loot box gambling.
There is an old mod for FTL that made it the same game but star trek that was cool. The NES and SNES top down games are charming when you get the hang of em, maybe just play a rom with a guide. They’re charming. I think an mmo where you’re aboard a ship and the bridge crew are NPCs would be neat
That’s what STO is, and to be fair you can do a lot solo last I checked. But it went f2p and suddenly it turned into a casino.
A Venture Bros fighter like Smash Bros.
I’d main Molotov Cocktease. I mean look at this grab attack.
But I’d also play The Monarch and Dr Orpheus too. And Shoreleave.
Great, now I want this, too.
The boys send out an army of charging clones as an ultimate attack.
Brock special victory screen where he pisses on the enemy.
Special Brock costumes leading to just him naked, covered in blood.
Tijuana Paintjob HELPeR.
Murderous Moppets Infinite Wit A Knife combo.
unique idea, i like it
CRPG set in China Mieville’s Bas-Lag.
Oh that’d be so good.
Not what you meant, but imagine The City and The City Disco Elysium style.
I would absolutely settle for that.
I’d love to see another Twisted Metal game though I’m not sure if that’s what you meant. I think it still has a lot of potential as a genre in general.
A twisted metal game that ties into the show would work within the framework of the open world Mad Max game. I’d prefer a traditional twisted metal game, but I just want a revival that doesn’t flop.
Right?! The potential is there, I’m surprised no one has grabbed at it. The show was pretty fun (in my humble opinion, I know it was divisive) and everyone loves their reboots, legacy sequels, and nostalgia baiting right now.
So much potential. I’ve long held the opinion that creativity is a result of passion, and that the reason the industry is stagnating is that the passionate are no longer the drivers. Name any IP andget a couple fans together they’ll have awesome ideas.
I also liked the show, it was nothing like the games and made good use of the core ideas nonetheless. The theories I’ve read make it seem like an awesome introduction to season 2 adding Calypso.
Amphibia should have a big game
I wonder what that could look like? I’m imagining some king of collectathon but I doubt a big company would want to make something like that these days (and you need a big company on board to get amphibia licence)
original zelda style adventure in the amphibia world
and it will never happen because disney never does anything cool
A Malazan crpg in the style of the expeditions series would be amazing.
oh god yes
Gimme the Mott Wood campaign or Black Dog Forrest.
As someone who adores the wonky late 90’s FPS adaptation, Wheel of Time could have been such a cool RPG, tactics game, or even Crusader Kings style strategy
I never got to try it, but the multiplayer seemed really cool in a video I saw about it. It kinda shat all over the lore though.
I think I saw a wheel of time mod for CK3, but I didn’t give it a try
dragon ball z kakarot
I love this game so much, but i totally understand what you mean. Once you get over the initial joy of flying around in the Toriyamaverse you realize that it’s a really small and shallow RPG world with not a lot going on besides fighting an endless stream of samey robots and saibamen.
I think for this idea to work you need to break away from the DBZ canon. Do a game set 100 years in the future, Master Roshi is still alive cuz he’s been immortal the whole time, but everyone else is gone for good.
Ancient Piccolo as a mentor, or Super Kami Dende or smth would be fun.
Dragon Ball Online did a lot of this stuff - Toryiama actually wrote the plot outline for it, it was set several hundred years in the future, featuring ancient Piccolo and Master Roshi still being around and stuff like that, and Dende, but otherwise all new people besides occasional exceptions for the time-travel heavy main plot - but gameplay wise it was very much the typical MMO.
Judge Dredd. I don’t think there’s ever been a truly good game based on it.
Oooh, yeah Judge Dredd would be such an easy world to translate into the gaming medium too. That last RoboCop game was a lot of fun. My highlight was giving someone a ticket for illegal parking. I wish they had more of that stuff in it.
