Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by imdsm » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

Red Dead Redemption 2 — but where there is no overarching story but you create your own character, and can go off and do what you like, affecting the world. Start a trading business, buy a saloon, be a bandit, a sheriff, you name it. It's such a masterpiece of a world, but replayability is reduced by having to follow the same story lines and play the same person every time.

Imagine RDR2 but with the replayability of Skyrim. There is a reason why Skyrim is still such a popular game and why most of us have purchased it more than once (which is weird, right?): because it is the ultimate example of a replayable game.

The focus on RDO takes the game a little bit in this direction, but the multiplayer aspect takes away from the immersion, and the fact that you can't have character names like Old Bill and instead see people called xX_SUICIDE69_Xx running around really spoils it.

I want to go fishing, put my fish in a cart, take them to market, sell them, then go play some poker with a beer, before returning home to my small shack that I'm slowly decorating.

Is that so much to ask for?

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

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Post by vyrotek » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:40 PM UTC

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2 : Remastered

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

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Post by natly » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:40 PM UTC

Factorio but like age of empires (i.e. resource gathering with humans instead of machines and an infinite playing field and no RTS component - just infinite empire building).

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

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Post by iFred » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:41 PM UTC

A Sim Earth remake.

I want a sandbox where I can take a planet from its bombardment era all the way to a point where its start has started to encroach on the planet's orbit. I want to see live evolve from the soupy amino acid mixes that were brewed from shallow waters and watch it grow to a multitude of competing civilizations. I want my screen to feel alive in a "ants crawling over a petri dish" sort of way.

I want to do this with a very deep simulation, everything from geophysics, climate, and even solar insolation modeled. I want to see ice ages come and go with glaciers carving up the landscape and leaving behind lakes and fertile soil. I want to see oceans acidify and recover, cycling through colors. I want my screen to feel lush like a moss carpet.

I want my sandbox planet to have a moon.

I want to have a time scale that requires planning, where a few months of game play on the same planet feels rewarding. I want this planet to be persistent and to be shared where friends can just load up and watch or maybe even hop in. I want my friends space faring civilizations to come and visit.

I don't want a manual for anything more than interface. I want to be surprised by what happens on digital ball of dirt.

I want something that will have the fun spirit of Sim Earth, the seriousness of Universe Sandbox, open endedness of Powder Toy, and trigger that "into the unknown" feeling some of us got back in the early days of Minecraft.

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

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Post by xcambar » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

A game with faster horses.

;)

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

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Post by lykahb » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

A game that employs the surreal visual style of the early CGI between the 70s and the 80s. They had a certain style that is easy to recognize. Dark backgrounds, models of the world and characters that are meant to express a technical achievement, high contrast, etc. The animation series ReBoot came later but it heavily relied on that aesthetic.

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

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Post by imdsm » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

I grew up playing Runescape before World of Warcraft, and always loved the high fantasy theme. I'd love a single player game, fantasy style, with Runescape like aspects. The colours, the elements, the warrior/archer/ranger, the music. One thing you have to say is that the Runescape music really worked for us as kids back then.

Perhaps not the grind.

But the high fantasy atmosphere is something I wish I could experience again.

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

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Post by impune » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

tjansen wrote: post #104

Tribes 2 with modern graphics for modern platforms, and maybe an Apex Legends-like Battle Royale mode. I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS. When you're used to jetpacks and skiing, most other FPS feel slow. And there is nothing as elegant as killing with slow ballistic projectiles like the Spin Fusor. Apex Legends has got some of the aspects that made T2 so great, especially if you play Va…

Sounds like titanfall 2, other than the battle royale part.

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

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Post by tmaly » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:45 PM UTC

I would like to see a multiplayer version of the original final fantasy in the browser.

I think browser based games have some interesting potential.

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

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Post by pgruenbacher » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:45 PM UTC

mattlondon wrote: post #80

I want a sort of civilization-but-for-countries. E.g. you are the newly elected president of Afghanistan/North Korea/Iraq/Other etc - now go rebuild infrastructure etc, set policies, see how the country develops as a result. E.g. do you invest in universal healthcare, or transport infrastructure? Is transport infra required while your country is still largely subsistence farming?. What about education - save money th…

U want victoria 3 game by paradoxplaza