Worlds You'd Like to See in Modern Games

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It's been many years since I last watched Akira but luckily it came on TV tonight. Thank god for the Syfy Channel.

I would love to see a game in this world. The dystopian future, the evolution of humans, the bad dubbing of Japanese to English, etc etc.

Are there any worlds from other media you'd like to see more prominent within gaming?

Even a single well done title in each of the following world's/universes/whatever would interest me.
-Blade runner
-Event Horizon
-Dark City

Always an interesting topic but actually, I came here to hope for the opposite theme in a game. Dystopian futures are rampant these days, but it's sort of rare to see a..not Utopian, but at least optimistic vision of the future. It's been discussed here before, but there are relatively few IP's that have a hopeful view of our destiny. Star Trek, Mass Effect...the Jetsons maybe?

This isn't meant to be a sarcastic answer, I really would like to see something like the Disney ride Tomorrowland in a game. Wouldn't that be cool?
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Crusader: No Remorse

Ultimas, esp. 4-7.

The world of the cancelled XBox game B.C..

Just in general, I'd live for more games to take place in the 1920's and 30's. I loved the first Mafia for this.

I'd also love to see exploration games and RPGs attempt to go to realistic historical versions of regions of central Asia (Afghanistan, India, Persia, Anatolia), eastern Europe and Africa, especially in regions where, historically, different cultures and religions intermingled. Places like these were far less homogenous prior to the 20th century.

Discworld. Not sure what the 'game' would be, but that's a world I want to inhabit.

AUs_TBirD wrote:

I'd also love to see exploration games and RPGs attempt to go to realistic historical versions of regions of central Asia (Afghanistan, India, Persia, Anatolia), eastern Europe and Africa, especially in regions where, historically, different cultures and religions intermingled. Places like these were far less homogenous prior to the 20th century.

Yeah, there's whole histories there that most people are unaware of. I'd love to see a Silk Road game, for example. It'd make for a great RPG setting.

I'd also like a Mesopotamian city builder. We've had Egypt, but no one has done Uruk, Babylon, Ur, or Akkad. Or a pre-columbian South American one.

Xanath

I just watched Moana, so this is kind of fresh in my mind, but I'd love a beefy game set in that kind of South Pacific mythological universe. Bits of Assassin's Creed Black Flag, but maybe a bit more meat on the sailing, and possibly something around exploration and navigation, and the ability to move your settlement around, or expand to settle other islands.

Inworld
Midworld
Endworld

Yeah, I'd like to see the world of an X-wing and/or TIE fighter pilot in a modern game. WHY AM I STILL WAITING?!

Chuffed This thread got a shout-out in the latest episode! Thanks to Amanda for bringing it to the forefront and to all the crew for their thoughts!

My favorite settings are the Max Headroom "20 minutes into the Future" type worlds. Not necessarily dystopian, but just slightly ahead of where we are now, with things pushed just a bit further towards their logical extremes.

It's probably why Deus Ex is one of my favorite games and series - it's just that right amount of familiar, yet alien.

I would love to play a modern-designed game set in the Back to the Future pt 2 version of 2015.

I was going to say modern China, but I just started playing Sleeping Dogs and they pretty much nailed it. Hong Kong is a unique place and although the game gives a watered down version of the region and city, they nailed the street and neighborhood view and life.

The Expanse springs immediately to mind. I know it started as a tabletop RPG, so it has a foot in gaming already.

World War Z as from the book, not the movie.

Some kind of grand strategy / paradox style. The essence of the various stories could be captured in various pop up events, etc.

Eclipse Phase.

The world for the game is just awesome but running a game is a nightmare. I think a traditional RPG style would be great but I do not know if it could give it justice. Instead I would opt for a 4X style RPG game where you control a party (and their forks) leading through a story.

As above I love The Expanse, I would love to have a 4X game in the setting of the first few books. I would love to have a "High Frontier" (boardgame) 4x game for my computer - "pre-warp" space colonization.

Blizzard revives some of their vaporware projects, in particular

oh! and a modernized Sacrifice

Grim Dawn is pretty close to a Malazan game but I would love a proper one. Bungie should also make another Myth game.

I'd like to see the world(s?) from Final Fantasy 6 get up-rezzed to Bethesda levels (or FROM, if I can get that instead).

Ditto for Earthbound.

If I had to pick a world that wasn't just an old game, but better, I'd go for The Labyrinth. Build the whole thing, and populate it with bizarre muppet monsters. I would lose weeks of my life to that.

NathanialG wrote:

Grim Dawn is pretty close to a Malazan game but I would love a proper one. Bungie should also make another Myth game.

Huh. I think Path Of Exile is much, much closer to the whole Malazan thing than Grim Dawn. GD is more rural Regency England meets Cthulu.

How about a post-steampunk game set in a fantastic version of the 1920s or 1930s? Sort of Raiders of the Lost Ark with more magic and monsters.

NathanialG wrote:

Bungie should also make another Myth game.

Keep an eye on the developing Deadhold , I suspect it's going to be in the Early Access oven for quite a while but it's probably the closest thing we're going to get to a myth followup.

Pern. Survival shelter from the thread, pet dragons, flying, bards/singing, nice mix of sci-fi and fantasy.

krev82 wrote:
NathanialG wrote:

Bungie should also make another Myth game.

Keep an eye on the developing Deadhold , I suspect it's going to be in the Early Access oven for quite a while but it's probably the closest thing we're going to get to a myth followup.

Thanks! That's going on the wishlist!

Honestly, I kind a like to see a game set in Disney World.

NathanialG wrote:
krev82 wrote:
NathanialG wrote:

Bungie should also make another Myth game.

Keep an eye on the developing Deadhold , I suspect it's going to be in the Early Access oven for quite a while but it's probably the closest thing we're going to get to a myth followup.

Thanks! That's going on the wishlist!

Yup, thanks for the heads up on that one Krev--I've also been jonesing for a new Myth. Actually hell, I'd just be happy with some updated/re-releases of the series.

In the light of a Matrix reboot, a decent game from the same Universe.

Highlander.

Firefly