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

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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…

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I want to play a real-time strategy game with a limit to the number of actions per minute. Look, I'm an old man now. I can't compete on reaction speed against 13-year-olds micro-managing each unit to perfection. But I can macro. I can plan. I can strategize. I can do that better than those damn kids. I want everyone to have a pool of 5 orders, refilling itself by 1 order per (1 second? 3 seconds?). Orders can be to a…

I would recommend the Total War series. Rome II and Medieval II are my favorites. Both are slower RTS games that rely more on strategy than on APS.

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

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- A low-brow, open world space sim. (Yes, I'm aware of Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, Elite and all the others, but hear me out): I would love to fly my cheap, derelict Lada Riva equivalent of a spaceship into a space station. No landing sequence or wrestling away of controls, I want to land on my own and I want to land shittily. As I touch down, garbage is stirred up and space rats scurry away from the landing site. I…

In this same vein, I want a modern remake of Escape Velocity with the high quality choose-your-own story arcs, but multiplayer. The graphics could be absolute garbage and I'd still play it daily.

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

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Surprised no AAA studio has had a shot making a really polished high production multiplayer survival game. Whenever a new one comes out they usually sell a couple million copies within a month with next 0 marketing, from a small company with probably less than like 2 dozen employees.

Both Valheim and V Rising have sold millions off nothing but word of mouth and a hunger for the genre.

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

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I want a perfect simulation of our world - that then gets a zombie infection.

I want my street, my house, and general geography to matter in the game. Where is the hardware store? Army bases? Water?

The game starts with a limited infection, making police response to your murdering an infected neighbor problematic. The simulation models how agents would respond.

You win by killing all the zombies, whether that's year 1 or 10. If needed, that's 7 billion.

The exhaust could be a good city simulator, zombies off, which you sell to local governments.

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

#629
Factorio style component logicstics mixed with Kerbal Space Program style micromanagement of functional designs would be a blast.

Make me design an assembler for assembling my own robot arms, then strap them to a cart (that I assembled in a different factory), put an AI into it, and use it as a logistics robot for building more things...

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

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A first person medieval merchanting game, where you are a trader that would travel between cities to buy and sell goods at local bazaars and other marketplaces. You would travel with a convoy and during the traveling process you can interact with npcs. There are many types of goods to trade, some more profitable, some not, some belong to a specific area and culture. There is a currency system and you can hire people to expand your business.

Mount&Blade Warband has some kind of trader system but very basic and you are not a merchant and the whole experience is not fulfilling.

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