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Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#191
Civilization, but where you start a company instead of a country. Here are some analogies:

Exploring and collecting goody huts, fighting off barbarians -> going around the idea maze trying to find product market fit

Catherine cozies up to you, then suddenly declares war and sends over a carpet of doom -> Amazon did a bunch of butt sniffing pretending to want to acquire, then decides to copy your product and launch a competitor

Chieftain level: you went to an Ivy league school, have a wealthy parent that is a partner at a Tier 1 VC, and get a free (no equity) 500k angel investment to start off

Immortal level: you are an immigrant who just arrived in US before college. You are working 2 jobs to support your parents and siblings. 1 of your parents is sick. Most of your friends are trying to get rich quick off crypto.

(don't even ask what deity level might be)

I would love to give folks the real startup experience without the risk so they can feel what it's like. I think the challenge here is figuring out what the movement and interpersonal mechanics would be: so much of building a company is about relationships. Perhaps some of it can be procedurally generated, using GPT-3 or similar models. Like when you are trying to negotiate multiple term sheets and the investors try various tactics on you.

Someone posted a vastly simplified version of this earlier: https://startuptrail.engine.is/

EDIT: if you're gonna downvote, at least explain why?

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#192
Command & Conquer (RA2 Yuri's Revenge or Generals style play) + FPS where I start the game in RTS mode and at any time I can click and "assume" a unit on the ground where I'm dropped into an FPS version of the map I was just viewing. If I die, I resume the commander role. Or if at any time I want to command again, AI takes the unit back over and it either stops or resumes doing whatever it was doing before.

I guess Renegade might be what FPS looks like, but I'm unaware of a game that combines both.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#193
- Prototype 3, or a good spiritual successor. I really liked the first two games, and would like to have more.

- Ground Control 3, or a good spiritual successor. I played this game a lot, especially when I was younger. I never really found something like it again. The gameplay was great, especially since I never really liked resource gathering in RTS. The completely free camera was great too, exploring the inside of buildings or being side by side with the units while they were fighting was a lot of fun. With a mission editor and a cooperative multiplayer (share unit control?), it would be perfect. The music was incredibly good too.

- Minecraft but actually made for modding. Having the updates of the game more like what Rimworld does (mostly backwards compatibly, opt in, actual gameplay content and not fluff). Right now it's always a bit of a pain, and it's easy to run into performance issues even on a small modded server.

- Better ways to find games. Right now I'm relying on searches (google & reddit, sometimes HN), word of mouth mostly from friends and the Steam queue (which itself is either terrible, or I'm too cynical about new games).

Edit: also, something new and unique by StreumOn. EYE: Divine Cybermancy is one of my favorite game ever, and I want more.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#194
I'm not sure about entire games, but I do wish for a few mods for some Elder Scrolls games.

Morrowind: Ability to join the 6th house with an alternate ending where you get to destroy the gods by piloting Akulakhan.

Oblivion: For the Shivering Isles DLC, the option to become Jyggalag (instead of Sheogorath 2.0) and take on all of the island's inhabitants.

Skyrim: Have the Forsaken as a joinable faction for the civil war, become a Briar-Heart, team up with a Hagraven companion NPC.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#197

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

natural selection 2 is still great to play, and alive on steam still recieving updates; highly recommend it. savage 2 is a bit older, but a true classic in this niche gente, it's still played on weekends

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#199

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

Reminds me a bit of the old Battlefront Galaxy Conquest modes, though the overview mode would need a lot more work.

I think the overview position would need complicating factors to make it hard - otherwise they would just be frustrated at the grunt soldiers not taking objectives.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

#200
[GTA 6 - Jersey Shore - GTL]

You get to play out storylines from Jersey Shore, with original voice actors. Mini-games include gymming, tanning, laundry, making food when you get back from the club. Missions at the club.

[GTA 6 - So Many Side Hustles]

You play as a struggling human, trying to scrape together a living by picking up jobs from various apps on your phone. Maybe you're doing some kind of Task Rabbit mission, or plain food delivery. Maybe you're delivering something else. Maybe on foot, maybe on a bike.

It should be an open world exploration in a dense urban environment and many, many different ways to be exploited.

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