Are there any computer or console (PS, PSII, N64, etc.) games that you would love to play, but haven’t been developed yet?
I would love to play:
[ul][li]A horseracing game that focuses on the gambling aspect. Gallop Racer 2001® focuses on training and jockeying and not gambling. Its gambling feature, according to an on-line review, just seems to be tacked on. It doesn’t offer charts of past performances (essential to good handicapping) and it only offers a handful of exotic bets (for example, it offers exacta but not quinella; it offers Daily Double but not trifecta or superfecta). Maybe some company will develop one that focuses on wagering.[/li][li]An English game that simulates pachinko.[/li][li]A game that simulates modern, computerized multi-game slots; preferably ones that actually exist in real casinos (games such as Gone Fishin’ or Austin Powers’ Shagadellic Slots).[/li][li]An RPG mystery game that takes place in Victorian London or modern New Orleans .[/ul][/li]
Any others?
Gabriel Knight I came out in 1993. It’s an adventure (ala King’s Quest or Quest for Glory, but daaaaaark) rather than an RPG, but it’s Fine Gaming Goodness. The GK deluxe pack (two games, graphic novel, soundtrack cd), which was released before GK3, might still be floating around in some bargain bins; keep an eye open for it.
I’d like to see more adventure games on the market, period, but I don’t think the spastic triggermen (band name!) towards whom the industry is directed would allow such a thing to happen. If there were a game that combined the puzzle quality of The 7th Guest with the adventure sensibility of GK1 (but make it longer this time), I’d buy it in a second and, upon completion, die a happy woman.
Someone brainwash me to love first-person shooters and RPGs before I turn on the computer game market all together. Sometimes I think I’m only here for the nostalgia.
I want to see a game like Starcraft, (aka a Real Time Strategy), but with the option to ‘zoom-in’ on your troops and actually become that troop, in a 1st person shooter sort of mode. That would be the best game in history, provided the desigers didnt screw it up or something…
All I want is something simple. A good mahjong game. Not that tile matching stuff, mind you, but the honest-to-goodness card game.
I have one that I got from a friend, but the graphics are very grainy, almost EGAish, and the interface and some minor elements of gameplay kind of suck.
And then I have another mahjong game, except it’s one of those two player, weird modified ruleset, get your opponent naked, versions of the game.
Ideally, there will be an adaptation of mahjong that that captures the best aspects of the two that I already have.
I keep having fantasies about a combination of Nethack and Civilization II. It would start out as Nethack (or some other Rogue-like game which has a “surface world”…maybe ADOM), but as your character advanced in levels he or she would start to gather followers. Then once you have enough followers, you found a city on the surface. Then you can either continue exploring dungeons with your original character/party, or else you can install them as rulers and recruit new adventurers from your citizenry (that is, your create and play a new party for dungeon-exploring purposes). At the same time, you build up your civilization on the surface, similar to Civ II or Master of Magic.
The game would have to operate on multiple time-scales to work, depending on your “zoom level”: when you’re focused on individual adventurers, the game time moves slowly, but when you’re focused on city-level events time moves more quickly. (Kind of like “War in Middle Earth”…anyone else remember that?)
It would never happen, because it would probably take years to finish one game. Plus, your original characters probably wouldn’t live the 2000+ years that a game of Civ II spans. But I still think it’d be cool.
I want to see the Star Trek vs. Star Wars video game, where the eternal question is finally put to rest… who would win, the Enterprise-D or a Star Destroyer?
Seriously, I like the game Chochobo suggests… a large-scale strategy game like Starcraft in scope, but with a zoom-in feature allowing you to micro-manage your battles, to track individual unit accomplishments, along with a multiplayer function to really mix it up.
As far as subject goes, how about a game of Starfury and Capital ship combat from Babylon 5?
I want to see the Star Trek vs. Star Wars video game, where the eternal question is finally put to rest… who would win, the Enterprise-D or a Star Destroyer?
Seriously, I like the game Chocobo suggests… a large-scale strategy game like Starcraft in scope, but with a zoom-in feature allowing you to micro-manage your battles, to track individual unit accomplishments, along with a multiplayer function to really mix it up.
As far as subject goes, how about a game of Starfury and Capital ship combat from Babylon 5?
I want to see the Star Trek vs. Star Wars video game, where the eternal question is finally put to rest… who would win, the Enterprise-D or a Star Destroyer?
Seriously, I like the game Chocobo suggests… a large-scale strategy game like Starcraft in scope, but with a zoom-in feature allowing you to micro-manage your battles, to track individual unit accomplishments, along with a multiplayer function to really mix it up.
As far as subject goes, how about a game of Starfury and Capital ship combat from Babylon 5?
I’d like to see a prequel to Arcanum. It’s an RPG which works a lot like the Fallout RPGs, set in a fantasy world that has recently experienced an industrial revolution - the tech level is like late 19th century Earth, and magic is becoming less powerful (magic and natural law counteract each other, elves have to sit in the back of trains because their presence makes the engines stop working properly, and mages have trouble making spells work near factories). Anyway, it’s a cool game, but there is a ton of background material about the world when it was a more typical fantasy setting, and I think a game set back when dragons and giants were still around with the same open-ended gameplay and character creation system would be awesome.
I’d like to see a prequel to Arcanum. It’s an RPG which works a lot like the Fallout RPGs, set in a fantasy world that has recently experienced an industrial revolution - the tech level is like late 19th century Earth, and magic is becoming less powerful (magic and natural law counteract each other, elves have to sit in the back of trains because their presence makes the engines stop working properly, and mages have trouble making spells work near factories). Anyway, it’s a cool game, but there is a ton of background material about the world when it was a more typical fantasy setting, and I think a game set back when dragons and giants were still around with the same open-ended gameplay and character creation system would be awesome.
All I want to see is a Fallout3. But I only wanna see it if it is as good or pretty close to awesomness that is Fallout1. That would keep me happy for a while. Also Id like to see Team Fortress 2 but Ill probely be dead before its released.
You know, after reading this thread, I keep visualizing the Hell version of Chocobo’s game.
Imagine a zergling rush against your typical Terran defense line of a bunch of siege tanks (siege mode, of course) a bunker or two, and a bunch of marines as well.
Without warning, you’re thrust into the head of the lead zergling. Then:
Siege tank: THWUMP! (Um, you know, sound of cannon firing.)
Zergling: SPLAT!
Player: Fuck!
Ad infinitum. Alternately, I can see this as the “fertilize the egg” game, where you take the place of innocent little spermatazoa on a mission…
Get yourself a copy of Activision’s Starship Troopers. It’s still third person, but you get to zoom in really close. Any more than that, and I risk blowing part of the plot. Suffice to say, there’s a lot more powered armour in the game than there was in the movie.
The game I would like to see is Avalon Hill’s old Starship Troopers bookcase game. It’s pretty complex by the time you add in all the extra rules for burrowing H-rockets, Special Talents, Arachnid Brains and Arachnid Queens; I just thought it would be a fun game for two humans to play as long as they could let the computers handle all the rules questions.
I’d also like to see an RTS game based on the third edition of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 miniatures game. There were two games that came close (the turn-based Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate and Epic 40,000: Final Liberation), but so far, they’ve really missed the mark.
That, and an update to Steve Jackson’s O.G.R.E. would be nice.
Chocobo, check out an old title called Battlezone. It’s very much like what you describe (and a damn good game to boot).
I’m working my way through Fallout right now, and I would love to see a Fallout3. Just as soon as I finish Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics (playing as the Brotherhood of Steel is quite neat).
journeyman- dont expect much of fallout tactics. Its got a poor storyline and little RPG elements beyond the SPECIAL (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck) system. Only fun part is multiplay which gets boring, fast.
or modern New Orleans 