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Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
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#392I want a game based on the book Dawn of Everything, which re-examines “pre-historic” people by synthesizing a lot of new material.
A fictional open world game based on interacting with various cities and towns, where you perhaps build out your own city based on actions, could be really fun. Might chart a little too close to Sony’s Horizon series but I think you could build in enough drama without the dinosaur robots to make it compelling.
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#393Star Control II, but more so. Star Control II is a collection of different interrelated minigame mechanics. You have spacewar-style combat, planet exploration resource collection, interactive storytelling with the communications with other races, resource and time management, ship and fleet customization, and exploration of the universe. But some planets could require a side-scrolling platformer, instead of the top-d…
Or an update or sequel to the Electronic Arts Starflight series!
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#394A 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…
Red Dead Redemption 2 is perfect for this
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#395An evolution simulator that can simulate a 3+ layer food chain, both animals and plants. With enough degrees of evolutionary freedom for evolved organisms to surprise and delight.
I took a crack at it about a decade ago. It's hard. Was able to get 2 stable layers for hours (maybe a "season" in game time), but over a long enough period the population always became fairly homogenous.
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#396A 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…
The game you're looking for is final fantasy 14. The first like 100-200 hours of content is free as well so go take a look.
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#397Diablo 3. Not the abomination that exists today, but one made by the actual creators of the first 2 games; one that actually matches the look and feel of the franchise.
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#398Age of Empires but in the browser.
No install. Only web technology. Easy multi-player Possibility to do Massive Multiplayer (100s) or just 2 or 3 Either blitz game (couple of hours max) or persistent
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#399Tribes 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…
> I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS.
100%
Tribes 2 should have been "THE" early 00's FPS to play. Instead, it was Halo, a game that I insist did not introduce ANYTHING new to the FPS genre, yet people went crazy for.
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#400I'm planning on making the game I wish existed! Basically it would be an RPG with characters in every town that had their own AI -- every time you played a new game, the characters would start a different life. They could fall in love with different characters, live, die, have children, give you quests... but different every time. As you interact with them you would change their destinies, of course. Or even your non-action would do so.