something that is similar to some relaxing animations that turn up on instagram from time to time. super smooth animations and physics with a mixture of puzzle elements and just pleasing to watch rendering. the scenes should be either focussing on materials like soft metals, clay and mechanics like pendulums etc. or on hyperrealistic plants, water, mosses and maybe some fish. you would in turn either play a machine or nature level where the results of each would make up some sort of sculpture or world.
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#462RTS in which I can become a unit on the field and make it an FPS. 1000 soldiers (or tanks, or jets, or artillery) on the field, I select one, I "impersonate" him in battle.
I should be able to switch to every other alive unit on the field.
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#463Tribes 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…
Did you ever play Fallen Empire: Legions or Legions: Overdrive? It's a shame we don't have more in the FPS-Z genre. If there were one free software title in the genre, people could at least spin off a few games from it. I wonder if anyone's tried building such a thing on one of the Quake engines.
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#464[Borrowers: The Game] You live as tiny mouse-sized humans existing with regular humans who should never know your presence as you occupy the walls and spaces in their home. Every day you must hunt for food, which involves collecting gear to traverse spaces (paperclip + string = grappling hook and rope, matchstick = torch, plastic bag = parachute) to reach places where food is stored (i.e. the kitchen - defended by th…
Not that it's what you're looking for exactly. But if you like the idea of being as tiny being in a home with massive humans, check out Mister Mosquito on the PS2, or Chibi Robo on the GameCube.
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#465lots of these fake instagram game ads would be pretty cool if the gameplay was actually as in the ad videos and not completely different crap.
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#466Final Fantasy Tactics Switch
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#467I hope one day we are able to simply walk/drive/fly around the worlds created for movies like Monsters, Inc., Secret Life of Pets, Luca, Turning Red, etc. The artists and modellers have done such a fabulous job of creating these insanely detailed worlds, and I would love to be able to actually explore them at my own pace. For me, this would be a great use of VR, though I think we're probably at least several years away from having the hardware necessary to render that all in real-time at a quality that I'm hoping for.
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#468A game where you build and defend forts with other people.
Fortnite sort of started like this, but the single player mode was a microtransaction abomination that was more akin to a excel spreadsheet than a game.
The beta of battle-royale Fortnite had a lot of this organically at the end of the match -- teams would each build towers and attack each other. Was a blast, but quickly was micro-optimized into kids using their reaction time to instabuild crap and shoot each other while making windows. Really awful gameplay.
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#469A modern tactical game that rivals Final Fantasy Tactics. Heck, I'd be happy with a PC port of War of the Lions.
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#470Rock Band 3 was pretty close to that game for me. It convinced me to get real drum training and to learn the keyboard.
I want to play a game where all the NPCs are AI trained with Seq2Seq neural networks. I have been trying to write the game off and on for a while, but it's not easy to write. There are some things that come pretty close, but are not quite there.