Fat Bear Week: The Game. I’d set it in all the different National Parks, though, each one requiring a different strategy to become the fattest bear. No salmon? Too bad. Better find another food source.
I feel like your two line description bear-ly scratches the surface of possibilities here.
Seriously. We want to enjoy our right to Bear Arms.
OMG. Yes please!!!
Such an actual great idea!
Extreme level— Death Valley
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Half Life 3
Correct
It. Still. Hurts. 😢
NPC Hospital, where you’re a doctor and have to deal with the massive body counts from other games.
Or a foraging game, open world style, where you have to travel to the right places during the right time of day to pick certain foods. There are lookalikes and also tons of risks like landowners with guns, pesticides, snakes, and tough terrain. I imagine it would be very much like The Hunter COTW but with plants.
I like the NPC hospital game. Reminds me a bit of Viscera Cleanup Detail, where you are janitors cleaning up after the heroes from other games or after the sci-fi thriller monsters have killed everyone.
Open world mystery-solving rpg that’s set in early colonial New England.
All the different townships are religiously secular and xenophobic. So you have to travel from place to place earning people’s trust, while simultaneously working on different parts of different crimes/mysteries.
It sounds… Complicated. But this is all hypothetical.
I wouldn’t be interested in some stance on religion. Just the point of that’s how it was in some places.
The game could have an occult/magic type vibe. Or not.
Gotta put the Battle of the Frogs in there.
Deal. Now you get a production credit.
Larian Studios presents Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 3
Because 2 will still be in development hell by the time mine comes out
A proper magic-focused action RPG. Can’t find anything that scratches the itch like Skyrim/Oblivion and Wizard of Legend did (in terms of battlemage gaming™). And when it comes to using magic as a tool, many games just pretend that’s not a thing!
Forspoken’s writers probably going to be a reason we won’t get one any time soon though.
I know not in the same realm of game you mean but you made me think; I feel like Zelda BotW used magic as a tool. That little slate device thingy he has can move objects from a distance, manipulate gears/levers, freeze time, create bombs from thin air, freeze water and manipulate it, etc.
A Build Engine(Duke3D, Ion Furry) or Build Engine style(Cultic) game made around Petey Wheatstraw/Blaxploitation film genre. The “Holly Trinity” of Build Engine games were based on action films, each with their own specific flavor. Duke3D was 80’s action, Shadow Warrior was badly dubbed HongKong Action and Blood was westerns and horror.
Blood and Cultic both have robbed cultist that light up real good with a molotov cocktail. I think it would be incredibly satisfying to light up KKK members the same way.
A Blaxploitation game would be rude, crude, and upset a lot of people. It could also be really fun and something that hasn’t been done before. Most games that try to tackle racism do it was an attempt at nuanced or preachy writing. I just want to beat a neo-nazi with my pimp cane.
I’d play the hell out of that.
I forgot to mention the One Liners that are in Build Engine style games. I think Cultic is the only one with a silent protagonist, but that was Film Noir/Lovecraft Horror, so it’s excusable. One liners like this would fit so well with that style.
Black and White.
Does anybody have a good way to play the games nowadays? Best I have found is spinning up an XP VM in VMware (iirc correctly it was only hypervisor still shipping new releases with full 3D support for XP) and even that would crash after some play time.
Sadly no. Like you I’ve seen VMs suggested and also there was a patched version kicking about 6-7-ish years ago last time I looked that worked on Win 7.
I keep hoping that something like Proton will bridge the gap or we’ll get a new one but hope flies in the face of reality I think.
VR Black & White
HOW HAS THIS NOT HAPPENED ITS SO OBVIOUS
I don’t really play VR games. I had the PS4 version of VR. But this is the one game I keep waiting for. It’s the only VR game I’d be excited for.
Portal 3, no question.
What would your angle be? I feel like even with Portal 2, they were starting to exhaust the really cool possibilities
My angle? I would 100% use it to get some poor normie man/woman to come back to my place and have some good old fashioned bisexual fun. Trap door spider style hoe-ery hahaha
I’d probably do something like ARK: Survival Ascended; but rely less on ‘realistic’ dinosaurs, and do something closer to Horizon: Zero Dawn - where the creatures were still able to be somewhat freeform/modified from real species.
From there, I would toy around with a couple of ideas - such as semi-procedural maps (where say, The Island is the same up top, but each of the caves can be generated in different places, and the caves that generate are themselves procedural in nature). I want to be able to tell a story where necessary, but make 1:1 walkthroughs impossible - in order to force people who Google everything, to actually have to explore - while still getting some use out of the searched information.
I’d add a little bit of pal-world to the mix, requiring certain creatures to integrate/operate certain crafting tables, and also some RPG-ish elements where gear could be found that had special traits, such as run speed boots, etc.
Then I would rework boss battles and tames so that you didn’t just zerg them with the “strongest” creature, but would have to mix stuff up - you would need a creature that helped reduce damage, a creature that could hold aggro, maybe some creatures could stack debuffs, and others could remove debuffs from your team, etc. Balance it so only 1 of these things couldn’t defeat a boss, but some intelligent combination of them could do it pretty easy.
A Bureau 13 or SCP game. I like the sort of paranormal/horror aspects of both. I’d definitely want them to be story-rich though and real consequences for your choices (a la The Witcher or Baldurs Gate 3).
Sonic Adventure 3. Way more to the chao garden and if you don’t think Imma have Crush 40 up in that shit you can fuck right off.
As much as I really want another Chao Garden, I know the monkey’s paw would love to grant my wish. Imagine:
Chao garden. You get 2 chao to start out with. Want to access another garden? $2.99 each. Want more chao? $4.99 per egg. You could feed them the fruit that grows natively in your garden, which raises their stamina slowly, or buy more fruit at $0.99 each. Or buy a fruit tree seed for $9.99, what a steal! Need a pack of tiny animals? 20 for $8.99!
While I doubt SEGA would stoop this low… it’s not completely off the table.
Something similar to the Sims, but with online federation and an AI component that simulates your characters actions when you’re offline, with a mobile app that allows you to check in occasionally to set goals or make decisions without having to fully engage.
I’d set it up so that if you host the game on your own instance, you could share those resources with others that don’t have their own instance. They would be literally renting a home from you, and they would literally be paying rental fees that you could get a cut of.
As an instance owner, you would still pay housing taxes to fund the game development. Ideally costs would be low, under $20/year.
A biblically accurate psychological horror where you’re a night janitor in a large but rural and isolated church. It starts off with a floor cleaning simulator but weird shit keeps happening.
