What game do you really want right now that doesn't exist?

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I'm paying Recore and its OK but wouldn't it be amazing if it had Dragons Dogma style mele combat as well as lasers. You could scale giant robots with the help of the spiderbot and stab them in the head with laser swords.

Also more varied and interesting loot. Recore loot is very samy and I lost interest in exploring even though the world of Far Eden looks amazing. Imagine if the loot were new weapons and armor for Joule as well as her bots. And cosmetic items.

Oh and less platforming over death pits.

Actually I just realized what I really want is Sci Fi Dragons Dogma.

Star Citizen!

Yeah. I said it.

detroit20 wrote:

Star Citizen!

Yeah. I said it.

Maybe if people gave them more money...

A Star Trek game that is more exploration and diplomacy than combat. Given the current state of the franchise, I doubt that will happen.

I'd really like to see what Telltale could do with a PROPER Next Generation send-off series. Because Nemesis sucked.

I'm replaying TNG: A Final Unity for stream now, and just enjoy how much of the game is interacting with environments, the crew - it's a point and click and I recall some of the solutions get pretty obtuse (at least they were to 8th grade me), but it is so nice to just not pew pew pew PHASERS!

Zoso1701 wrote:

A Star Trek game that is more exploration and diplomacy than combat. Given the current state of the franchise, I doubt that will happen.

I'd really like to see what Telltale could do with a PROPER Next Generation send-off series. Because Nemesis sucked.

I'm replaying TNG: A Final Unity for stream now, and just enjoy how much of the game is interacting with environments, the crew - it's a point and click and I recall some of the solutions get pretty obtuse (at least they were to 8th grade me), but it is so nice to just not pew pew pew PHASERS!

This - or Secret of Vulcan Fury

SONIC WITH ROCKET LAUNCHERS AND DRONE STRIKES

detroit20 wrote:

Yeah. I said it.

Hmm, this would go well somewhere else ...

a) EU4 style grand strategy game set in The Expanse universe, maybe Stellaris UI style but EU4 politics
b) Current-gen X-Wing dogfighting game. With the Star Wars IP and not a arcadey console thing. Let me use my HOTAS.
c) Spy vs Spy (1v1 trap laying and avoidance game I remember from my Spectrum)

A Warhammer 40k themed battlefield game. Many factions, weapons, classes, and vehicles to choose from! WW2 battlefield as well but that is more realistic to happening.

Another would be a Warhammer Fantasy themed game with similar mechanics like For Honor but with the various factions and their classes. Skaven, Orc, Dwarf, Elves etc

I want to take the entire GTA V map and turn it into an all encompassing Mundane Vehicle Simulator.

A persistent world where you can instantly engage in any number of day to day activities.

Bus driver, Police (more benign like minor traffic violations, etc.), Fire & Rescue, etc. Heck, maybe even really mundane stuff like Garbage Truck drivers, etc.

Basically a full suite of city service occupations.

I know there's various GTA V mods that actually do some of this stuff, but I'd like to see an entire game dedicated to it with the glorious fidelity and painstaking detail of the latest GTA entry.

A Civ game based on the EU IV engine. Start with a settler, found a village. Maybe the villages group dynamically to form provinces later in the game. Move through the early to futuristic techs. Have the battles be EU IV style instead of individual units.

An open world strategic / RPG game - hex based, not a 1st / 3rd person game. Move around the map, have adventures. Maybe become ruler of a town / towns, build a castle, have wars of armies. Have events ala EU IV that fire when certain conditions are met. Maybe also have story-driven missions.

DudleySmith wrote:

a) EU4 style grand strategy game set in The Expanse universe, maybe Stellaris UI style but EU4 politics

Pfft, Crusader Kings in Space would be better.

A Total War game in the Mechwarrior Universe, followed by the clans invasion expansion pack.

Budo wrote:

A Total War game in the Mechwarrior Universe, followed by the clans invasion expansion pack.

Sign me up.

OK, I'll be the outlier.

I can't think of a single gaming want that isn't being met in some way, shape or form by modern gaming.

There are no genres unfilled, no itches that I can't scratch with my credit card. I'm Scrooge McDucking it up in an embarrassment of riches, backstroking through the golden coins of The Pile, and I'm sated.

ChipRMonk wrote:
Budo wrote:

A Total War game in the Mechwarrior Universe, followed by the clans invasion expansion pack.

Sign me up.

The board game version already exists. I had this and it was so much fun back in the day.

A new Rise of Nations style hybrid 4X/RTS

Jonman wrote:

OK, I'll be the outlier.

I can't think of a single gaming want that isn't being met in some way, shape or form by modern gaming.

There are no genres unfilled, no itches that I can't scratch with my credit card. I'm Scrooge McDucking it up in an embarrassment of riches, backstroking through golden coins of The Pile, and I'm sated.

For me it's not the the games I want don't exist, it's that they're old and I want an updated version.

Jonman wrote:

OK, I'll be the outlier.

I can't think of a single gaming want that isn't being met in some way, shape or form by modern gaming.

There are no genres unfilled, no itches that I can't scratch with my credit card. I'm Scrooge McDucking it up in an embarrassment of riches, backstroking through the golden coins of The Pile, and I'm sated.

I was going to say this. Then Mechwarrior and Tie Fighter came into my mind. I don't believe there is anything like these that is not tied to MMO mechanics, or even worse, to micro-transaction economics. More's the pity. A lot of people don't care about that, and I guess that's fine, too.

A game like Morrowind where you can get lost among lots of quests, guilds and towns but set in space.

ChipRMonk wrote:
Jonman wrote:

OK, I'll be the outlier.

I can't think of a single gaming want that isn't being met in some way, shape or form by modern gaming.

There are no genres unfilled, no itches that I can't scratch with my credit card. I'm Scrooge McDucking it up in an embarrassment of riches, backstroking through the golden coins of The Pile, and I'm sated.

I was going to say this. Then Mechwarrior and Tie Fighter came into my mind. I don't believe there is anything like these that is not tied to MMO mechanics, or even worse, to micro-transaction economics. More's the pity. A lot of people don't care about that, and I guess that's fine, too.

Yeah, I had a few things like that, but without fail, I could easily pinpoint a different game that scratches the same itch. Sure, Tie Fighter was superb, but there's plenty of solid space combat games around these days. I mean, I was jonesing for a remake of Elite for a couple of decades, and poof! There it is. I bought a screaming-powerful PC last year with it in mind, and guess what? I've hardly played it. I've played a bunch of Everspace though, and that's great.

Mechwarrior is a fair point, there isn't a direct analogue for it. Buuuut....then again, if I want mechs, I can get them in any number of formats, from competitive shooter (Titanfall) to turn-based strat (upcoming Battletech is notable, but there's a bajillion mech-themed strategy games clogging up steam), to freaking match-3 (Ironcast - actually a really great game in it's own rights). My point, I guess, is that even when there is an old game that doesn't have a spiritual successor out there, there's so many other fabulous games adjacent to a spiritual successor that it's largely irrelevant.

strangederby wrote:

A game like Morrowind where you can get lost among lots of quests, guilds and towns but set in space.

Yeah this seems to be extremely difficult genre to get right. I want an FTL style game that's many times bigger. FTL had the mechanics, Rebel Galaxy had the tone, Elite has the expansiveness, Star Control has the lore but none of them quite mash that stuff together in a satisfying way. Sunless Skies is coming... it's a touch too steampunk but maybe, just maybe it will work.

I'd also like a freaking NHL game that actually feels like hockey rather than the under-budgeted mess that is the EA NHL series.

Zoso1701 wrote:

I'd really like to see what Telltale could do with a PROPER Next Generation send-off series. Because Nemesis sucked.

Oh God, I just realized I want Telltale to get the Deep Space 9 license.

Also, I want a new NCAA Football game. Ideally by Sega Sports.

A version of Destiny 2 where I have a reason to keep playing?

Uh . . .

A fun, goofy co-op open world game. Had loads of fun doing co-op Saints Row the Third. I want stupid hilarity with friends.

whispa wrote:

A Warhammer 40k themed battlefield game. Many factions, weapons, classes, and vehicles to choose from!

I actually want a L4D-style WH40k game. Tyranids in place of zombies, of course.

AUs_TBirD wrote:

Oh God, I just realized I want Telltale to get the Deep Space 9 license.

Oooooooo...

A lore and story rich ARPG that focuses on managing a squad or platoon, rather than a single character - sort of like Dungeon Siege.

I say the same thing in all these kind of threads. I'd like to see a modern simulation game in which you play an X-wing and/or TIE fighter pilot.

Also would be interested in Bethesda's take on a Land that Time Forgot or King Kong Skull Island type setting... open world, single player game with dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts.

Far future science fiction isometric RPG by would be cool too.

Mantid wrote:
whispa wrote:

A Warhammer 40k themed battlefield game. Many factions, weapons, classes, and vehicles to choose from!

I actually want a L4D-style WH40k game. Tyranids in place of zombies, of course.

AUs_TBirD wrote:

Oh God, I just realized I want Telltale to get the Deep Space 9 license.

Oooooooo... :shock:

Kind of like a Vermintide but 40k and tyranids? Sounds good

Jonman wrote:

My point, I guess, is that even when there is an old game that doesn't have a spiritual successor out there, there's so many other fabulous games adjacent to a spiritual successor that it's largely irrelevant.

Oh, certainly. In general there's no shortage of games and experiences to try. In fact, I would say it's so far the other way that it actually creates a problem.

Some of these genres are a little lacking in non MMO/F2P action lately, though. Elite is an MMO, although I enjoyed it before I got so far behind the curve. [That other game] is a train wreck, but also an MMO. Maybe that Robotech thing will turn out, assuming the patent trolls don't kill it off. I can hope.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

A version of Destiny 2 where I have a reason to keep playing?

Same, my friend. Same

I'd like a huge RPG like The Witcher with Dark Souls or Bloodborne-like combat. I have trouble enjoying most fantasy RPGs (Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher) for long because all of them have terrible combat systems and a lot of combat.

2 weeks ago, I'd say a Golf RPG.

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