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

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Red Dead Redemption 2 — but where there is no overarching story but you create your own character, and can go off and do what you like, affecting the world. Start a trading business, buy a saloon, be a bandit, a sheriff, you name it. It's such a masterpiece of a world, but replayability is reduced by having to follow the same story lines and play the same person every time. Imagine RDR2 but with the replayability of…

Yes, love this.

I tried to explain to someone why I disliked the missions on RDR2 and they didn’t get it. The missions reminded me that I was playing a game, I just wanted to explore and hunt.

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

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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…

You may enjoy Grand Strategy games over RTS then. EU4, CK2/3, HOI4, are the Paradox titles; Total War games have that aspect as well.

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

#833

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…

Check out the Clarus Victoria games, especially Predynastic Egypt. It's not quite a city builder, but closer to Civ. You start from building a settlement - some basic fields, huts, cemeteries, temples, barracks, and so on. It's nice, the map changes based on progress, and you end up growing from a city to taking territories up and down the nile.

Marble Age is notable too and has some mechanics unique to the game. Story is mostly the same, but there's three city states with slightly different tech trees. E.g. you'd need to fight the Persians at some point. Athens would be the classic path of farming, making alliances, building a wall and armies. Spartans need to raid for slaves for growth, but hold off on killing neighbors before facing Persians. Corinth would be more trade based and consider buying mercenaries and buying out the other city states.

I've bought all of them because they're an excellent ratio of time for fun as far as games go.

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

#834
Not so much a new game, as a new aspect to current games — I want to have access to NPCs of all sorts under my control (think zerglings in StarCraft, or linebackers in Madden), able to have their behaviors rewritten through a (hopefully) simple script or even some sort of setting of hierarchies of behavior. In addition, having accessible MOO elements undergirding RPG worlds would be a really neat addition. I don't want better graphics — I want more control, the ability to change how aspects of the world (or at least my stuff in the world) functions, and the chance to modify/replace AIs (think about doing this once you've beaten a game you thought was too easy) with plug-in alternates.

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

#835
A game with a good, complex and deep magic-system. Magic normally is just limited to cast predefined spells, bought at the shop or learned along the way. At best they have some elements interacts, but barely more.

What I want is something where you can literally research magic, discover new effects, combine them to create new magic in form of spells, artifacts, rituals and so on. It should be easily accessible, after all it's a game, and not work. And have a bit of liberty in world interactions and movements. So maybe a easy metrovanian like Ori or Hollow knight, where you get new movements and open new paths through magic discoveries, but can decide your own difficult-level by either using some slow and safe magic in form of a ritual, or fast and dangerous by fighting directly with battle-orientated spells.

There are a bunch of games which go a bit in the direction, but are not complex and deep enough, like "Mages of Mystralia", or the Magicka-Games. Thinking about, a sandbox-environment might be the best for this, so Minecraft with some mods, or Noita would also go in the direction from a different angle.

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

#836
A lawn mower game. It's like those games where you use the money you earn to keep buying better gear to cut lawns. The lawns and landscapes get more challenging, from steep inclines, to squirrels that get in the way, and people leaving garbage and old cars in the lawn (but not to the point of absurdity). You earn more when you decorate the lawn more, and start landscaping.

A snowball fight game. A multiplayer game that plays like japanese dodgeball games, like dodge danpei. However, you wouldn't use the super throws willy-nilly, because if other players catch your super throw, N number of times, they'll end up learning it, and can use it on you. You can also build snow walls, forts, etc. during the course of the match.

A time-traveling superhero. A simulated city, where a bunch of crime will take place, and it's up to you to try to save as many people as you can. You can rewind time and redo things, but the things that you do will have other side effects and outcomes that affect your ability to save someone else. In the end, it's clear that no matter how powerful you get, you won't be able to save everyone and some citizen is going to be mad at you. Pick from other time power heroes, that can replay time with another body, or another one that can slow down time.

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

#839
A real time strategy game like Wargame or WARNO[1] but using REAL 3D map data from Apple/Google maps. So you could have a massive scale ground and air war using real map data in say, the south bay area. You could garrison an infantry unit in you house or call in an air strike on your office building. This is something I have wanted for like 10 years lol

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1611600/WARNO/

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

#840
> Long ago one my bullets in the list was a procedurally generated planet-sized planet with a full diaspora to explore. No Man's Sky fulfilled that for me.

Elite Dangerous fulfilled that for me. Nicest community of players I've ever seen but the company in charge of the game is doing a terrible job managing it. They dropped console support for the game and I just lost all interest.

I've heard good things about No Man's Sky and the company developing it... I'm thinking I should try it.

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