UltimatenabWhat type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
I will start.
I want to see a game that mashes factory building with either FPS or RTS, where one or more players create a supply chain inside a zone/factory and the other one or more players utilise the ammo, weapons, vehicle etc.
ZeragambaI think I’ve seen Orbital Potato on YouTube cover a few games that might come close to that idea
Space engineers?
One team gathers resources and processes the resources, the other flys around in a ship blowing crap up.
Wasnt there a starship troopers game that was pretty close to this? Swear I saw a jackfrags video on a game like this.
FizzFactorio can be that if you play pvp with a mod that allows you to build and control units like an rts
This sort of sounds like Foxhole
all-knight-partyI was also thinking that. Long term battles simulated to the point of working on supply chain
Thank you for your suggestion. I’ve looked at this and it is really very close to what I was thinking.
I bought it and I will play it this weekend.
gregorumFallout 5
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Basically Dwarf Fortress, but sci-fi, with space travel and with really good 3D graphics.
An overly complicated simulation of an entire universe where I can do anything that the game’s laws of physics allow me to do. Particularly, I dream of a game where you can fulfil Star Trek fantasies of solving convoluted problems with equally convoluted solutions; but without it being a pre-programmed option. (“Reconfigure the deflector dish to output a neutrino wave to counter act the tachyon field!”)
Fake physics that allow for real fake science and engineering.
Rimworld with the starship mod?
Close, but RimWorld’s mechanics are nowhere near the complexity, even with mods. And I don’t just mean with how many different types of rocks and trees exist. I’ve gotten as close to a DF-like experience + the space travel part, but it’s still like 1/4 of the full experience.
Although it’s moddable, which boosts it’s playability a bit more. I’ve played more RimWorld than DF at this point.
Thavron“Reconfigure the deflector dish to output a neutrino wave to counter act the tachyon field!”
PULSAR: Lost Colony kinda has this.
violetravenKerbal Space Program crossed with a procedurally generated aerial dogfighting game
SnoopyHmmm, quite hard to choose. I would say an anticapitalist game. Most of game focus on growing, gaining power and i never saw an game that has horizontal power hard coded to its bone.
For example : city skyline unlock new building based on population threesold. The city development is geared toward growing, expanding and creating new job. That’s bad. We can’t live in this kind of world anymore and yet we fail to imagime something different.
Can’t we imagine a new economical system and set up new variable ? Or a game that go beyond the scope of heroes’s story ?
Plenty of games are anti-capitalist (cookie clicker is the first one that came to mind!) but they are usually critiques of capitalism by demonstrating the issues with it, rather than demonstrating alternatives.
There’s a minecraft mod where villages will give you free resources if you’ve been helpful to them in the past, but it’s quite limited. I agree it would be interesting to play a game where alternative systems are clearly depicted. Would fit well with a sci-fi game.
smoothbrain coldtakesTerra Nil is a great game. It’s really chill and relaxing.
True as Sim City where the end result it a big city without nature., nor landscape. :)
You start with an area that was destroyed by humans (and capitalism), and have to basically revive the ecosystem, and then remove all your buildings and leave.
Yeah, those game are great. Stranded, will look that. There is also Eco. And i would add getting over it :)
Another economical system ? Let’s say universal income, bank of time ? Libre currency ? An anarchy system with several democraty system and quadratic vote ? A shared decision along other mayors (players) ? I’m willing to explore those ideas where the idea of grow is simply erased along infinite ressource. Basnished is somewhat close to it as resources are limited.
Something that follow GIEC’s recommendation where building the biggest city will result a game over and economic collapse.
Horizontality skill system. Veloren try to do that but it’s not what i’m seeking. Maybe soul game are closer as you learn how to be better instead of using skill, weapon, armor ? It would erase the experience point in rpg system. There is no grow. You are just a human with the same set as everyone. No better armor, no new skills. So you can be killed by a new player.
Collaborative game instead competitive one . There are lot ideas to explore as relationship. :)
Something Burger 🍔Need for Speed: The Run, but good. Give me an uninterrupted race accoss the US (or any other continent), against 199 other drivers, with strategic decisions to make such as fuel stops, sleep breaks, multiple paths… Make it a rogue lite with unlockable vehicle classes, police chases, weather changes, racing through traffic… Bonus points for realistic physics and VR support.
Nfs the run was so disappointing. Even for a nfs game.
Some NFS game are straight up terrible (Undercover…), but at least the good ones with similar gameplay (NFSU2, Carbon) still exist. But The Run was worse than bad; it was disappointing. It could have been good, but wasn’t, and they never tried to make another one with a similar premise.
PrivateNoobWhat about the avalanche mission? Did you find that too Micheal Bay movie-like?
I don’t remember it. I don’t think I played it a lot.
Here you go if you’re interested: youtu.be/M0fpD8LP08Y?si=Mb_msbQ8FFDghfbG
Need For Speed: The Run - The Rockies Avalanche - HD
Honestly I loved The Run. It was a jam packed unique short game experience. It was definitely too short for it’s price, but you know at that time Blackbox was working on 3 separate games.
RealAccountNameHereA new Ori game. :/
ExecWoW but with the storytelling of FFXIV
I got 5k hours in WoW up to Cataclysm and 10k+ how in FFXIV (beta tester from 1.0). I think the story telling of WoW up to WoTLK, was told amazingly well and it had a strong point, but BC was even better. Things rapidly declined from Cataclysm and this is why I never got back, whereas I’ve stuck with FFXIV for 13 years.
BlueLineBaeI’ll tell you what I want… Katamari Damaci online multi player. Imagine the final level where you roll up the world but with the mechanics of the multiplayer mode that was already in place. It’ll be like agar.io where you get bigger and you absorb other people as you get bigger or you get absorbed because you weren’t quick enough at growing. They could update the levels to be themed and add new items and Easter eggs for you to discover and pick up. I want this soooooo bad! I want to play with my friends and strangers. I want different play modes where you get the biggest in the time, pick up the most of a specific thing, capture the flag, use your katamari to play golf but it gets harder if you pick up weird shaped stuff that throws off your balance, Easter egg hunt, racing, team games where you absorb the enemy!!! I want it alllllll!!!
Orm Oh my god, this would be so chaotic, I would play the absolute hell out of an online multiplayer Katamari! I love this idea.
s12When games can have AI that can be indistinguishable from humans, that might not be the best thing for society, but it would make some great games.
Imagine the dating sims!
AI Dungeon was interesting, but ChatGPT can do the same thing now.
noobdoomguy8658AI dungeon is the shit. I trained a few games to be very much identical to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, incorporating elements from both the games and the books. The best part about it is that you can always modge it in the desired direction, either by rewriting its prompts or doing something that essentially negates or ignores them.
Doubt we’ll see anything worthwhile like that in any 3D capacity, though, as there’s much more limitations there - primarily the corporate KPIs
Interesting and funny, but still just a language model.
It might not be as many great games as you’d think. youtu.be/1FBGR6vmNeU?si=rckpsplXwQhMBELE has some good explanation. Players often say they want smarter AI, but enjoy “dumber” ones more
Game AI - Funtelligence - Extra Credits
Yeah. I’m talking about the sort of AI that was mentioned briefly at the end of that video. Enemy AI doesn’t need to be complex. Only optimised for enjoyment.
Endless procedurally generated open-world omni-directional 2D shoot-em-up. Start with a weak spaceship and go on missions to find new weapons and ship improvements. Go to spaceports to buy and sell stuff, fight against aliens or Lovecraftian monsters, survive asteroid waves, find the treasure inside the hostile nebula.
There's pieces of that in Everspace, I could totally see your game working and being pretty fun in a similar manner, less arcadey than Everspace, but still accessible
Not exactly, but Cosmoteer might scratch that itch partially.
Subnautica in space. “Breathedge” came close, but it just didn’t quite get the sandbox element right.
“Subnautica in space” as in “outer space” or “on an alien planet”? Because outer space is kinda empty. Probably wouldn’t make for as lively a backdrop as under an ocean
The way Breathedge got around it initially is the starting area is a ship crash, so you collect broken bits of the ship(s) (which includes water and food).
But space is vast. Why couldn’t there be space fauna? Or a way to travel to nearby system planets? Its fiction, after all. We don’t need to be constrained by reality.
If you get a spaceship and can just go wherever, that sounds to me exactly like NMS. I think part of what makes Subnautica what it is is the constrained resources of the environment, and that feeling of being stranded. NMS lets you just bum around space forever, which is fun, but you don’t really feel that need for survival like you do in Subnautica.
NMS is survival in space, insomuch as planets are in space and you can fly around in a ship, but you start on a planet. I was thinking more like having to survive in space by building the ship in space, building a station in space, etc. Space would be your primary sandbox, rather than planets (at least initially).
The normal NMS experience isn’t quite what I’m envisioning. Maybe if you started on one of those abandoned freighters, though…
Here’s a weird one I had a half-baked idea for: Tower Defense Metroidvania. The idea is that your an acolyte of a temple (or a mechanic in a space station, whatever), and there’s an armed group trying to force their way past the temple’s traps and defenses to get to the heart of the temple and steal the macguffin; that’s going on in a little horizontal track at the top of the screen, and meanwhile the rest of the screen is Metroidvania gameplay as you navigate the interior of the temple (or space station) to activate defenses, acquire magical relics, and eventually awaken the temple’s guardian spirit. You lose if the bad guys get to the heart of the temple, you win when you successfully gather everything you need to awaken the guardian. In the meantime, you have to decide when and where to spend resources (including time) shoring up the “normal” defenses (that delay the attackers) and when you need to just push onward to awaken the guardian.
This is what I enjoyed about the first Tribes game. I remember wandering around my base, repairing the generators, placing turrets, fixing sensors, and murdering attackers. The rest of the team would be off grabbing the other teams flag or messing up their base.
IMO the sequels didn’t get the balance between base maintenance and flag running quite right.
Damn dude, now I'm actually remembering base maintenance in online competitive games where you play a single character at all. Back in the day I used to enjoy that in Command & Conquer Renegade. Id hang back and repair people's vehicles and the base when it came under attack.
I dig the role based games where deployables and vehicles are a thing. I’m sure there are still some around, but I can’t think of any.
The only thing that comes to mind would probably be the latest iteration of the Starsiege: Tribes series. Or I mean, the OG Tribes was great, and still one of my most fondly remembered shooters. Probably still some servers somewhere…
I want to see a sequel to enter the gungeon.
Do you mean something different from Exit the Gungeon?
Exit the Gungeon is basically a different genre using the same IP.
Yes, that game is pretty shallow in comparison.
Pokémon x Monster Hunter
Explore a world with cute graphics and build a team of creatures to be the very best or whatever story someone comes up with, but you actually have to fight the creatures to capture them.
Isn’t that kind of the premise of Monster Hunter Stories 2?
I was imagining a game with real time battles, like Monster Hunter. But yes, this is basically MH Stories, I didn’t know this existed!
Stories is real good. Much better than the recent pokémon.
A settlers-like game (resource/logistics oriented RTS) using a Minecraft-like (block-based) map.