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

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Post by glial »

mabbo wrote: post #504

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…

To extend this a bit, I'd love an RTS where I can create macros or programs and assign them to units. I'd love to watch them play out, then tweak or reassign macros to units in real time. I keep wishing Planetary Annihilation had an API.

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Post by EarthLaunch »

hooby wrote: post #21

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…

I have been trying to make one like this for a decade, kind of a next-gen UO. Right now it's big ideas and the beginnings of a world. I'm not promoting it but feel free to take a look! I have a discord for discussing these games as well, though it's not active.

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Post by TimTheTinker »

Something like the old Risk game for Macintosh. It has no animations, no flashy graphics, just a simple, fast interface. I can finish a whole game in less than 5 minutes. But the AI players are way too easy to beat.

I'd love a simple, animation-free Risk game like that, but with much better AI players to play against, and with different maps one can play.

Modern Risk games are way too flashy, and worse, they take so much time between turns to display multiple screens and animations.

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Post by flateric »

A 'survival horror' war game from the perspective of a refugee and/or genocide survivor. I feel the mechanic of death can be explored in new ways it has not yet been in games over all. Also as powerful of an emotional tool as only a game could use, compare to other medium.

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Post by tekchip »

I envision an infinite game. Procedural, but only to an extent. I want it based on the internet and how it changes. Sure, you could just use the entropy of change on the internet, but it would be neat/interesting if names were also to derived from news headlines story lines. Perhaps creative image searches could compile new textures for characters and the environment. I suppose something akin to Little Big Planet, but with the ever-changing internet informing the play and world. I know that's a little vague. Hadn't locked the idea down to a particular genre of game. Perhaps a rogue-lite, given the procedural nature?

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Post by einpoklum »

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…

Special bonus action subgame for Afghanistan: Exfiltrate stolen central bank funds from the US :-)

https://therealnews.com/afghan-central-bank-calls-us-theft-o...

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Post by CMay »

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…

Tribes 1 was where it was at. So much fun at LAN parties. The Tribes sequels only got worse, in my opinion. They were just clinging on to what made Tribes great, but kept losing something every iteration.

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Post by throwaway4aday »

wolframhempel wrote: post #486

- 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…

I'm imagining the 1970s but in space, like a Heavy Metal[0] video game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(magazine)

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Post by neoncontrails »

tetris11 wrote: post #141

[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 only is it a solid premise, but there is an ultrashort story by Franz Kafka that lends itself perfectly to a cinematic promo video:

TINY MOUSE-SIZED HUMAN:

"Alas! The whole world is growing smaller every day. [Close on the tiny person, panning out ever-so-slowly to reveal, bit by bit, the cavernous enormity of the room.] At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

[Corner trap now visible, the camera holds steady and dwells for a moment on this sad, bleak fate. Suddenly, there is another voice from behind -- this is not a monologue after all.]

CAT, SLINKING INTO VIEW:

"You only need to change your direction." [CAT pounces, and promptly gobbles him up.]

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