for me its dragon ball z. i’ve always wanted a good 3d open world dbz action rpg kind of game, but it’s just never been done to its full potential. the closest we’ve gotten in my opinion is dragon ball z kakarot, which has great DBZ fighting game style fighting, and tries to incorporate it with an open world with rpg-light type features, but the world and rpg elements are just so uninspired and poorly done. they don’t really blend well with the fighting segments either, it feels like all of the ‘open world’ is more of just a 3d overworld with minigames
Multiple properties need an RPG that takes place before or after the main events. Keep the stakes relatively low. Meet characters that might show up in the future, but not any of the main cast. Also making sure that you can’t become too powerful, so there’s no reason the main characters wouldn’t hear of you. More escape vs power fantasy. This could work really well with a Dragonball or atlab, or even a marvel mutants type thing. I just want to exist in the universe.
I’d like to see a Wheel of Time adaptation done like The Elder Scrolls. You could be Aiel or Aes Sedai, Ashaman or Seanchan. Be from Camelyn or the Stone of Tear. But, based on the way they did the tv show, it would be a fucking MTX nightmare.
Probably the redditor answer but anything based in the Avatar The Last Airbender universe. Like a rogue-like to make it not immediately overpower-y to be the Avatar. Think Hades. Like imagine basically Speedrunning as the Avatar and trying to take down some powerful Anti-Avatar god. Make it really feel fulfilling to learn the methods so that you can use powers aside from your starting base tribe and end up a fuckin lava/flying after dozens of hours of playtime. Fuck that’d be cool. It’d give some good reasons for some cool “recurrence” themes too of enemies from different nations coming to power and needing overthrown and how the grunts would look.
I’m ranting but I’ve wanted something like this for a while, and after playing Hades, the formula just seems perfect
Star Trek. ST online started promising, but it turned into loot box gambling.
There is an old mod for FTL that made it the same game but star trek that was cool. The NES and SNES top down games are charming when you get the hang of em, maybe just play a rom with a guide. They’re charming. I think an mmo where you’re aboard a ship and the bridge crew are NPCs would be neat
That’s what STO is, and to be fair you can do a lot solo last I checked. But it went f2p and suddenly it turned into a casino.
Avatar deserves a game that isn’t absolute drivel. It’s the kind of series that would be well severed by having distinct control layouts for different fighting styles. Like earth bending using the triggers, fire using the buttons, water using the control sticks, and air using motion controls. Then, in the end game, you control the avatar and you’re juggling your controller and using it like a bop it
Give me another Elder Scrolls as magical as Morrowind.
You can’t do it, Todd. Move on. Found an indie studio to make little games.
I mean, an Indy studio could do a spiritual successor. I’d be happy with that.
There’s a mobile port for it now
I am yearning for a new rts and Dune has been a great well for that genre before. So that, but I need Tim Curry to do an fmv as baron harkonnen.
I dunno otherwise. Maybe Avatar: the last airbender? Could have some neat rts potential too.
Karl Marx Kapital and we turn it into a 4x that isn’t made by paradox.
30 years war and it’s a total war style game.
I love the SCP universe so something with that. I don’t have a lot of gamer buddies, so I could never get into that multiplayer one. I’ve tried lobotomy corporation, but it’s completely incomprehensible.
I remember reading some absolute sci-fi slop at my dad’s place, that could be good for some fun games. The first was one where the moon was a spaceship and the protagonist was the only one that was allowed past it’s defenses for some reason. Cloak-and-dagger type thing and then it evolves into big picture galactic warfare.
The other series was about a dumbfuck royal Scion, 3rd in line to the throne who miraculously survives an attempt on his life - His brothers weren’t so lucky. He is then stranded on a jungle planet alongside his personal army, they befriend the natives, teach them poker, have sex with the nativesweird aside
(who in this species are sort of an inverse version of our sexual propagation. What the humans consider to be “the women” (because they have wombs) don’t ovulate, because they have sperm cells. “The men” ovulate and can then inject an egg with an ovipositor.The author had some fetishes I assume.)
When they finally get off planet they discover the royal house has been couped. They have to do some spycraft to save the empress. When that is done it turns into a big diplomatic game of winning over all the rebels and so on.
Not fiction but a piece of history I wish was used for something: After WWII a european resistance cell consisting of a schoolteacher and her recent (adult) graduates went to Argentina and disappeared. This cell was responsible for the liquidation of several high-ranking Nazis. They were fueled in part due to the extra-judicial killing of 12 of their schoolmates, who, while being transported to a courthouse, were unceremoniously shot and dumped over a bridge by the SS. Imagine playing a game where you’re an elderly schoolteacher going HAM in Argentina hunting Nazis. Wolfenstein could never. It’d be like Turok but no conflicting emotions about killing cool dinos. You could become like The Predator.
Monsters Inc and it’s a cooking mama style thing, but for making children cry.
30 years war and it’s a total war style game
1648 is a weird mod for m2tw, they created star forts to play on but they don’t really work properly. more fundamentally the thirty years war, 17th century warfare worked differently than how total war has been conceived, a colunela1 was such a tightly-knit combined arms unit it cannot be micromanaged by weapon-type like total war units are conventionally. 1648 for m2tw and Pike and Shot for NTW therefore play like bootleg 18th century line battles which is simply not how the thirty years war should look, one would have to design autonomous unit ais that will manage missile-pike formations for the player, as well as complicated cavalry maneuvers like caracole—it would end up very unlike how total wars feel if it was done right.
not that i don’t think it would be worthy/cool to do a 3d real time strategy pike-and-shot simulation, it just can’t be “total war” as it is currently thought of. also i’d be right pissed if someone went to the trouble and limited it to the thirty years war if you didn’t get to do the league of cognac, french wars of religion, 80 years war, english civil war… what would even be the point
(E) 1: colunela was the basic missile-pike combination used in the early italian wars, lending its name to modern ‘colonel’, the tercio is a specific permutation regarding the apportionment of arms in the formation—and a particularly unhelpful term because many of what got called ‘tercio’ were not actually thirds!
Yeah total war would have to be revamped to fit it. It might be more suited for a mount-and-blade type thing and the more I think about it the more I realise that would be so much radder. Imagine playing as a mercenary and working your way up like Götz of the iron hand.
dang bannerlord tactics do be looking pretty sophisticated these days. maybe it could be tooled appropriately
I think it could be doable, though the diplomacy system would need major retooling
There was a Fire and Sword spin off for Mount and Blade based on the book of the same name. Not the 30s years war but just after in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Dune Spice Wars exists. I guess it’s more a RT4X then RTS but it’s not bad.
Yeah I know, there’s been a bunch of dune rts’s. Maybe I just want a revival of the genre.
Feel like shit, just want Sid Meier’s Pirates! back. Nobody has made something that scratched the same itch and everyone who tries to make a pirate game makes something else. Or a Bully 2. Or a good vampire game.
One Piece MMO
Yes. I’d like to see it before the times of Roger. Any fruits up for grabs, and they could flesh out some of the politics stuff without spoiling anything.
I don’t think it was done dirty though, at least the Dynasty Warriors clone was one of the best games of the genre and that include most of Dynasty Warriors games too.
A Venture Bros fighter like Smash Bros.
I’d main Molotov Cocktease. I mean look at this grab attack.
But I’d also play The Monarch and Dr Orpheus too. And Shoreleave.
Great, now I want this, too.
The boys send out an army of charging clones as an ultimate attack.
Brock special victory screen where he pisses on the enemy.
Special Brock costumes leading to just him naked, covered in blood.
Tijuana Paintjob HELPeR.
Murderous Moppets Infinite Wit A Knife combo.
unique idea, i like it
i just want an xcom style turn based strategy game but with transformers. there technically was one, but it was really short and for kids, and i just want a really difficult one like xcom sometimes can be lol
Me too now but Beast Wars.
Amphibia should have a big game
I wonder what that could look like? I’m imagining some king of collectathon but I doubt a big company would want to make something like that these days (and you need a big company on board to get amphibia licence)
original zelda style adventure in the amphibia world
and it will never happen because disney never does anything cool
Gimme some good plastic army men toy soldiers 3do games
Forgot about those, yes.
Plastic green army me tag urself!
I’m the gesturing with one arm, radio in the other guy
i want something like this too. i know there’s a mod for Squad like this but idk how active it is
Would be nice to see another good Total War game again even though I’ve almost completely lost hope for the series. It’s been 13 years since fall of the samurai and it’s all been downhill from there
Also another command and conquer game please
I haven’t played any of the total war games since fall of the samurai, but three kingdoms kind pretty good
3K is so fucking good and I cannot understand why they abandoned it and all the mechanics from it. The diplomacy system should be standard across all the games going forward but they just reverted it back after that game, it’s wild
3K had great potential. Sucks they abandoned it. whenever I play I always go for cao cao first, that guys mechanic fucking sucks
dragon ball z kakarot
I love this game so much, but i totally understand what you mean. Once you get over the initial joy of flying around in the Toriyamaverse you realize that it’s a really small and shallow RPG world with not a lot going on besides fighting an endless stream of samey robots and saibamen.
I think for this idea to work you need to break away from the DBZ canon. Do a game set 100 years in the future, Master Roshi is still alive cuz he’s been immortal the whole time, but everyone else is gone for good.
Ancient Piccolo as a mentor, or Super Kami Dende or smth would be fun.
Dragon Ball Online did a lot of this stuff - Toryiama actually wrote the plot outline for it, it was set several hundred years in the future, featuring ancient Piccolo and Master Roshi still being around and stuff like that, and Dende, but otherwise all new people besides occasional exceptions for the time-travel heavy main plot - but gameplay wise it was very much the typical MMO.
