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A full-featured open-world RPG that can be casually played in 2-3 hour sessions once or twice a week. I love this game format (Skyrim, BotW, WoW) etc but they're all best played very consistently for many hours at a time. I simply don't have that time anymore. Something that will remind you where you left off (what you were doing, where you were going), controls/mechanisms that aren't overly complicated (nothing wors…

In the same logic, a RPG where no one can play more than X hours per week (e.g. 3). Or instead of a nominal amount of time, a chapter of the story per week. We all progress together at a slow pace. Something akin to a tv show.

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#332
Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced like game but with a procedurally generated infinite map and some sort of re-skilling mechanic so that you don't have to constantly swap jobs before leveling just to minmax the early game where you don't have access to all jobs yet. Also adding co-op multiplayer so one can play with friends.

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I have big lists of them. I've made a small subset, to date, to scratch a personal itch. But I quickly learned that time is the bottleneck, not simply having good ideas.

I'm currently making a game, in my free time, about what might be the most important topics facing humanity at present. (so... no pressure! lol)

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

#334
Everything sim. You start with, say, Sim City. You find that your rail network isn't working properly, so you switch contexts to a kind of Transport Tycoon style game, where you can optimise the train schedules and destinations. You realise that the factory you're delivering stuff to is struggling, so you switch context to a Factorio style optimisation game. You realise that the inputs to the factory aren't pure enough, so you switch context to an Opus Magnum/SpaceChem style atomic manipulation game. You zoom back out, and find that your hospitals are struggling too. Context switch to a Theme Hospital/Two Point Hospital style sim. You need medicines, so switch to a Big Pharma drug production sim. You can optimise the machines here with the same interface as you used for the factory. Zoom out a bit, and you can see a football stadium, with the option to switch to a football management game, or to jump into a game and start playing directly. You zoom out again, and are now looking at a country where your city/region is just one part. You can context switch to a country management game. Keep going out, and you realise you're on a planet, so start working on a space program. Keep going out, and you can build a Dyson swarm and get some interplanetary government vibes going, all while being able to zoom back in on any part.

Pretty sure my original concept was for this not to be a single game so much as a common interface for basically every other game, where unoptimised parts work, but aren't great, passing a kind of middle-of-the-range set of values whenever queried. By linking multiple games together, you'd be able to control everything.

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

#335
iPad game similar to Red Alert 2, anything from Command and Conquer series (except 4), Age of Empires 1-2, Rise of Nations, Company of Heroes, Battle for Middle Earth 2 etc. You get the idea. Real, Real Time Strategy games. Would pay 50$. No in game purchases though. Only DLCs. I'll do this when/if I exit my startup. Even basic tower games are rigged.

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#336
[VR Time Machine]

Teleport to historic and ancient cities and just walk around immersing yourself in architecture, languages, commerce and food. Imagine walking around in ancient Mayan, Egyptian cities hearing speech that is close enough to what people spoke at that time, witnessing day to day life thousands of years ago.

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A true "MMORPG". Back in the day when the genre was new, people were fascinated by the potential of virtual worlds and virtual societies. Social scientists did online studies on player behavior and the interactions people had online, on spontaneous self-governance coming into existence, on how communities formed and developed, and many other similar topics. That potential was never fulfilled. Today - some twenty year…

Most popular MMOs do have healthy economies and virtual cultures. You do need to participate though. If party play is enforced then party members certainly do affect game mechanics.

Maybe you want a pvp focused MMO? Maybe something like PlanetSide with more of an economy? Either that or maybe you want some big story points influenced by players?

Honestly I think you'd probably be disappointed unless you are personally part of the group that made the influential change. That takes a lot of investment as the mechanic would either be pvp or feel like its on rails.

Maybe you just want an RP wow server and a guild that is into grinding for Glam/RP loot according to their own stories?

I don't see how it's a technical problem at all. It sounds like your major issues are with story telling. Can you explain what technology you think is missing?

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#338

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…

Suzerain - does that, more from the political pov. You are elected president of a somewhat democratic country. Then you are presented with choices and the game starts.

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

#339
Combination FPS/RTS - Like Natural Selection 2

New good space shooter a la Freespace. The recent star wars one was alright.

More Descent - Played reloaded and it was awesome!

Jak and Daxter, Croc, all narrative adventure games i loved when i was younger. that genre doesn't seem to get much development anymore. indie games of them are somewhat unpolished.

Subnautica was the perfect survival game. really good at striking the balance between casual but fun with nice story. and gorgeous!

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