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

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Post by nomand »

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…

You're describing Arietty by Ghibli, even "Borrower" is the English translation for the little beings :)

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

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Post by jvanderbot »

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…

I want an RTS where you script / pre-plan unit response trees, and have limited intervention once executing. This would favor the clever and tricky over the fast.

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

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Post by bsder »

Something like "Ar Tonelico" (or any musical lore game) but where you actually have to sing to get attack/defense bonuses, etc.

As you progress, the system goes from really simple songs and rhythms and gets increasingly complicated until you are sight-reading a semi-random song at the final boss.

Bonus points if you feed this into an MMO so that people have to genuinely cooperate to take down the big bad.

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

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Post by genocidicbunny »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #632

I want a persistent 2D space game. It has two modes of play. Mode 1: You create an account and are given a small ship. You and your dinky ship fly around the universe making trades and doing missions. There are pirates and you tend to get exploded a lot and flying around is tricky because the planets have gravity. You trade and get rich and buy bigger ships. Then you become even more rich and start buying automated s…

Have you seen ΔV: Rings of Saturn? I think it has at least the first part of Mode 1 that you're talking about.

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

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Post by ddoubleU »

dkersten wrote: post #58

Something I've always wanted to play is a game multiplayer game (ideally firt or third person) where you and a small number of friends crew a space ship. Each person has their own role (navigator, weapons, pilot, etc) and you would fly through space and engage in combat. Star Trek: Bridge Crew comes closest to what I'm talking about. Imagine that but not VR (well, VR is cool for this, but I don't have a VR headset, s…

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055610/Deep_Space_Battle...

Still beta and lacks players but I think that is exactly what you want

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

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Post by evanescent »

I want a game that combines both RTS and FPS elements. In every multiplayer FPS I know of, you are grouped with teammates and are working towards common objective(s) (counter strike games). But I want a hierarchy with one person who can't see the battlefield and only a minimap of team and sighted enemy locations. And all the normal teammates can only communicate with nearby players. The closest thing I have come across is the Natural Selection[1] games which has this distinction of a leader and then the soldiers, but it seems to be a dead game. I know some other games have similar ideas of classes, but I don't think anybody executes the partial information of a lead strategist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Selection_(video_game)

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

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Post by evnc »

A turn based 4X / survival / rpg hybrid.

Set in the Neolithic- Bronze Age, roughly (but historical accuracy is not a top priority). Like Civ, you have units which can explore the map, fight, build. But the scale is smaller: there are seasons, weather, turns last I’m working on making such a game, but it’s not my full time job and I have other projects catching my interest too, so the going is slow.

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