Which of these fake games sound most entertaining?

[germanos]

Tax reform III

[Japher]

Best real fake game: Quest for the Crown

[Cort Haus]

Good stuff, Riesstiu

[Vesayen]

Er.....

I think the battle of the somme could actually make a good FPS.

Strategy game with FPS elements. You control a certain stretch of trench, start off as a grunt, work your way up the ranks till you can control say, 2 miles of trench at the top.

FPS sequences are attempts to scale the trench and cross the badland, or to stop the enemy, espionage, artilery etc.

The entire game is from a FPS perspective but most of it is actually strategy.

You could have a soccer minigame on christmas day.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by germanos
Tax reform III

No way - they ruined the series with that one. Especially when the lead developer left half way through to form his own software company (Big Huge Debts).

[Heraclitus]

I agree FPS is cliché these days. A battle of the Somme FPS-strategy would be a great refreshment.

[Vesayen]

I am really thinking about it now. Could be an awesome game. It could not be strictly historically accurate of course but it could be a great FPS strategy hybrid.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Vesayen
You could have a soccer minigame on christmas day.

Except that the Christmas Truce was back in 1914 and subsequently banned by the higher echelons. Besides, the battle was over by November of 1916.

Sorry to be a bore. The story of the truce is a deeply moving one, I find.

[Vesayen]

See my statement above about it not being historically accurate

The soccer thing was a joke.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Elok
It's hard to imagine what the gameplay would entail. Maybe hundreds of Endangered Owl-class players running around criticizing one another for exhaling too much CO2? That doesn't sound like any fun compared to picking a custom mullet for your avatar and holding a virtual hootenanny.

You and CrONoS are on the right track. The game would only have one class called "Former Democratic Presidential Candidate." ManBearPig would be the ultimate boss and when defeated it would leave behind two of greatest items in the game, An Inconvenient Scythe (+3 climate change awareness) and the Nobel Peace Prize (ego +5). Enemies would include hanging chads, a likeable personality, and greenhouses gases.

[Vesayen]

An Inconvenient Scythe LOL!

[lord of the mark]

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137789&perpage=30&pagenumber=1

"Battlefield Civil war: A first person shooter based on the Civil War. You spend hours marching. You play cards, tell stories, and drink bad coffee. You are sent marching up a hill, and told to fire at the amorphous crowd of enemy soldiers. All you can see is smoke. If you dont get hit, you march back to camp, play cards, tell stories, and drink bad coffee. Then you die of an infectious disease"

[Sandman]

I was going to vote for Somme, but then I saw Banjo Hero.

[Lord Avalon]

I can just see all the b**ching about all the camping going on in Battle of the Somme.

[Straybow]

SIMS: Wild Al Gore's Florida Ballot Recount Party (found in the cutout bin)
Martha Stewart's Wilderness Survival Online
Lara Croft Refrigerator Raider

Union Game Pack:
Jimmy Hoffa Jr's Labor Strike Simulator
Jimmy Hoffa Sr's Cadillac Trunk Simulator