Game-U-would like to see

[mac5732]

Ok, all of us love various types of games. However, designers and companies can't put out all of them. Therefore, If you could, what type of game would you like to see designed and put on the market? Describe the game if you would please.

I would like to see a civil war game made similair to the Total War design with the strategic and tactical aspects in this series.

[Baron Munchausen]

I'd like to see a sort of 'merging' of simulation games and 4X. MOO III attempted to do this, but did it miserably wrong. The details you were allowed to control were all wrong, and the details you were NOT allowed to control were all wrong. Putting each bit of development into a 'build queue' that you can see but not influence is more than a bit stupid. Similarly, NOT being able to set force levels but having to rely on the AI to choose what ships and troops to build is incredibly stupid. Just give the player some 'zoning' commands and let the AI handle planet development like simcity handles city development -- with the occasional 'special' that players can explicitly install like power planets or military bases. BUT, let the player manage the armed forces. That's what the game is about.

[Hugh Manatee]

Online Strategy RPG that plays like Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, or Disgaea Hour of Darkness.

[deccan]

Good topic!

The Total War series is excellent for combining long-term strategic considerations with great tactical combat. Personally, I would like to see a World War 2 type game based on this system, with a vastly expanded battlefield to accomodate vehicles.

Recently, I downloaded Chaos Overlords, an old game that I played a long time ago, from the Underdogs site. I couldn't help but think that it would be really good if the basic premise and atmosphere of Chaos Overlords could be combined with Dominions, i.e. instead of nations vying for dominion, you would have criminal gangs running around a huge megalopolis trying to influence the population into paying you protection money and working for you. In Dominions, whenever two rival armies are in the same province (unless one is stealthed), they always fight. It would be cool if the game were done like in Chaos Overlords, so that rival gangs in one sector don't actually fight unless explicitly ordered to (they could be given orders to kill a particular enemy that they see in the same sector or be set to patrol and kill any enemies in the same sector), and could be doing other things like researching, intimidating a special site to work for you, collecting protection money, recruiting, buying equipment etc. But when combat does happen, it would be done in the way Dominions now works.

I'm also irritated by the lack of a sci-fi equivalent of Daggerfall / Morrowind. I had a bLast with old games like Planet's Edge and Megatraveller: Quest of the Ancients. I wish there were good sci-fi RPGs on the market, but there doesn't seem to be any.

Finally, I'm still waiting for the perfect Elite successor. So far, the best one seems to me to be Hardwar, but that's considered old now too. I'm talking something with a high-fidelity flight model, real-life physics and astronomy, a full blown economics engine with AI bots that move around the universe in an intelligent manner to further their goals, and interesting dynamically-generated missions to perform.

[Mayday]

deccan, Chaos Overlords was an awesome game, but it never seemed edgy enough for me. I'd have liked it if it had been combined with the Syndicate Wars mission interface. You get the hardcore violence in a gritty world, and the strategic element of taking over key areas in the city. Awesomeness.

[mac5732]

a lot of game companies put out games and most fail, I don't believe they ck with gamers to really see what type of games that the consumer would like to see designed and developed. Granted games take a lot of time etc to complete, but it would be nice if they polled the consumer and see what we the gamers would like to see. Why waste time and money on games that no one really cares about. Better to look into what the consumer would like to see out there. I'm sure that with all the gamers out there, there would be a nice variety of ideas and some really interesting games. IMHO

[tesco samoa]

i would be happy if someone would make another stars game...

[Rasorow]

<is sad Stars! SuperNova is dead>

Most 4X space games - SEIV included do an decent to AWESOME job of handling part of what would be involved in an empire. For example SEIV handles Space combat, resource Admin, and General Admin (Intel and Research) but ignores or only pays lip service to other aspects - (ground combat for example). I would like to see a game that comes in modules that allows you to play at each level. Each module would be a standalone game, but they would all intergate into one large game that you could play your self or over a LAN with friends and assign jobs.

So you would SEIV as the main module and empire running.. but you would have SE Ground Conquest for planetary invasions, You could then have SE Trader for logistics and trade routes (and control intel here). It would be a massive but incredibly fun game.....

Rasorow

PS - just used all the SE names as reference and examples.

[Emperor Fritsch the Dense]

YOUR CRAZY RASOROW!!!!.......actually id probably love to play that hehe.
Emperor Fritsch the Overgamed

[Hugh Manatee]

Anyone ever see Outlaw Star? You know that space race they had?

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Nuff said

Well not 'nuff said, although it would be cool I don't htink you could do it to scale, or you'd have to do something like Independance war 2 with the Linear Displacement System and Capsule Drive. It would have to be mainly about tweaking your ship because the race, unless it regularly went through stellar phenomenon would consist of going in a straight line for several minutes.... unless you are alowed to combat with your rivals.....

EDIT: Actually I guess you could do something like those "fly through the ring" races that are in every flight sim for training purposes, or a beacon checkpoint system...