Design your dream game

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by GeoModder


You want hellish and personal space war? Go out looking for this here!

Granted it's only RTT, but it's a start and you might be able to mod your own races and ships in it.

Are we talking about the same Uplift War? Space combat (IMO) was never a big part of the series. What seemed interesting from a game perspective was navigating the millenniums old galactic bureaucracy. A bit like Emperor of the Fading suns, only the government would not be as feudal. Also having the option of researching from the Galactic Library vs. researching on your own would be fun choice. And of course the fight to find new client species for your race to uplift...

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Sandman
Another fantasy game where you don't play a person, but a sentient magical sword. Instead of the warrior changing his sword, you change the warrior! And of course, you're stuck in stone or at the bottom of a lake as hundreds of years pass, and the world changes around you. This could work as either light or heavy fantasy; my personal preference is for light, I just find such worlds more interesting. Eternal Darkness achieved something like this.

This reminds me of JH Brennan's Demonsword series in whihc there's a sentient magical sword.

This is a good idea and definitely merit some looking into.

[Odin]

Dream game 1: A kind of uber-Sim Earth, using the much more powerful computers we have now to have more realistic geologic, atmospheric, and biological models, incorporating new discoveries about climates past and present, geology, geochemistry, ecology and paleoecology, plus a richer interface with a 3-d globe instead of a flat map.

Dream game 2: a futuristic, MoO-like game with sim-like features.

Dream game 3: Put the ENTIRE D&D and AD&D universe in a single computer game.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Not really just reload.

Asmodean

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Odin

Dream game 2: a futuristic, MoO-like game with sim-like features.

Explain this further if you can, that's a pretty vague description

(Toilet training darloks? )

Dream game 3: Put the ENTIRE D&D and AD&D universe in a single computer game.

As a MMORPG, NWNesque server based game, or as a single player campaign?

As I see, if you made a MMORPG out of it you could represent it to it's best potential, but the players aren't going to live up to it, and there will be next to no roleplaying within a year (if there's even any to start with).

If you make it a single player game, it would be hard to make use of the entire universe, even across multiple campaigns.

If you make it a server-based multiplayer game, there would presumably be a large modding community that they could take advantage of the entire universe provided to them - but in only small pieces at a time, and it still would not live up to the potential of a MMORPG.

[Jamski]

Its a dream game. It would have dream players

-Jam

[Dis]

a dream d&d game for me would be single player. but the NPC's would have an AI that could act real, but wouldn't be obnoxious like real people in a MMORPG.

and it is a dream game. So we are allowed to believe that a game could be released with all the D&D content, including alternate planes and such.

[snoopy369]

RPG wise, my dream game would be Morrowind crossed with ... something with a better combat system (not more complex, necessarily), and cooperative multiplayer.

Action/rpg wise, would be something like a Discworld game - wouldn't have to be set in it, but it's convenient. Like someone said up above, with the city under siege, but not (necessarily) under siege; just most of the action takes place in the city, with criminals, shopkeepers, political intrigue, etc., and some action outside - sporadic quests to do something important, or just explore outside (possibly go to other cities). There would be discrete portions that are RPG and that are Action; most of the action happens outside. A lot of non-combat based RPG elements inside the city, however; perhaps you are one of various jobs, like shopkeeper, where you have to do things inside the city; or you can be a member of a guild (thieves' guild, wizards' guild/UU, etc.) ...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by GeoModder
You want hellish and personal space war? Go out looking for this here!

How's the game? I saw it in a store, but I had no idea how good (or bad) it is.

[Grumbold]

Re: Design your dream game

You pretty much nailed one of my perfect games, Asmodean. I've loved kingdom sims ever since they created the very simplest ones where all you could do was plant crops, build houses and keep the dy_ke from flooding. (stupid swear filter, really.)

My second 'must have' game is near future space activities. I would like to play a game where you explore how humanity could set up space stations, asteroid mining operations, terraform mars and so on, based on genuine science and practical economics. The culmination could be successfully launching a viable colony ship to a habitable planet around another star. It would be fun if there were unusual events too, so games could play out a bit more like Alien Legacy if you chose.

My third (ok, I'm greedy) is similar to the 'everything DnD' RPG concept. I would like Fallout 3 to be open ended, so that at the end of whatever great plots they put you through, you remain active. The wasteland settlements are always going to need messengers, fixers, medical assistance, warriors and more, and you could supply that. Some might choose to work tirelessly for one settlement, watching it blossom into a thriving civilisation, others might just travel the wastes as a hired gun.

[duke o' york]

Live action Ape Escape would be really funny! Except when you died.

[Barinthus]

My dream game would be the one in which you get to play Barney the Purple Dinosaur and the world is being threatened by evil Teletubbies. Due to your immense powers, you are prohibited by some divine being to intervene directly so all you can do is go all over the place spreading your love in order to brainwash children and inspire them to take up the fight.

[Dis]

Re: Re: Design your dream game

Originally posted by Grumbold
You pretty much nailed one of my perfect games, Asmodean. I've loved kingdom sims ever since they created the very simplest ones where all you could do was plant crops, build houses and keep the dy_ke from flooding. (stupid swear filter, really.)

My second 'must have' game is near future space activities. I would like to play a game where you explore how humanity could set up space stations, asteroid mining operations, terraform mars and so on, based on genuine science and practical economics. The culmination could be successfully launching a viable colony ship to a habitable planet around another star. It would be fun if there were unusual events too, so games could play out a bit more like Alien Legacy if you chose.

My third (ok, I'm greedy) is similar to the 'everything DnD' RPG concept. I would like Fallout 3 to be open ended, so that at the end of whatever great plots they put you through, you remain active. The wasteland settlements are always going to need messengers, fixers, medical assistance, warriors and more, and you could supply that. Some might choose to work tirelessly for one settlement, watching it blossom into a thriving civilisation, others might just travel the wastes as a hired gun.

be careful what you wish for . I'm sure you will end up with an open ended game. Very much like Morrowind in fact. That is, if Bethesda is still making fallout 3. In Morrowind, you can continue doing anything you want after finishing the main quest.

[Adagio]

Why do you say "be careful what you wish for"?

Open ended

[Sava]

My ideal game would be based on the Grand Theft Auto series. I would build off of the success of GTA: San Andreas. At minimum, I'd like to see 5 major cities, plus countryside areas, maybe a desert setting, and a mountain/forest setting. This game would be on PC since consoles suck. And I'd like to see, in addition to the normal single player campaigns of the GTA series, a massive online multiplayer game mode. In this mode, you can play either as a criminal, or a law enforcement agent, stopping other players from committing crimes. You could be a cop patrolling the streets in a cop car, or maybe an FBI agent busting big time crooks. Or, as a criminal, you commit crimes (random) or work for a criminal organization, working your way up to the top.

I'd like to see the ability to recruit other players into an organization, or create your own. Part of the missions would be major crimes, or even getting into wars with other organizations.