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

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Post by haunter »

slightwinder wrote: post #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…

Path of Exile. It has the most complex and detailed magic system from any game right now. Insane amount of unique spells that you can combine several ways with all the different weapons and armors and on top of that you have a gigantic skill tree

Just the passive tree alone makes my head hurt all the time and that's just one single aspect of adjustment of your character https://poeplanner.com/

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Post by augusto-moura »

Arwill wrote: post #805

A serious time travel game. Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, and simulated actors that react to events and react to the players. Take the current knowledge and physical/archaeological remains of the past, and digitise them, digitally renovate…

Wouldn't that be like really boring? I mean most of the real events (real in the sense of the more realistic possible, ignoring paintings, poems, tales, etc) are nowhere near as fun as is portraid in the media.

People die all the time in the most boring way (illnesses, accidents), battles are not that epic, no monsters or great heros, overall knowledge of the people are very shallow, etc.

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Post by brokencode »

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 think it’d be cool if all the players in a server are part of a country in a constantly changing state of warfare and alliance with other countries in a huge world. Where your goal is not to level up, but to participate in actions that expand your homeland or fend off invaders or expand your economy.

The larger and wealthier your country becomes, the more you become a threat to other powerful nations who will want to stamp you out. Or maybe there would be revolutions, alien invaders, etc. if you become too powerful.

Alternatively, if the players of the realm fail to defend their lands or make peace with their enemies, they might be conquered and forced to live under another empire, fighting their wars and paying high taxes, until one day they can scheme to win their independence again.

Of course, this does essentially mean your world can become irreparably messed up, but that’s life. Maybe people would give up on a server and move on to a new world with new ambitions about how they can do better next time.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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…

> trading

How can that be enjoyable though? You're just hauling cargo from point A where it's cheap to point B where it's expensive. Even in Eve's player driven economy it's a grind.

> exploration, space and land combat and great characters and stories and I'd never stop playing it

Completely agree. I really enjoyed exploring planets in Elite Dangerous.

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Post by mastax »

Arwill wrote: post #805

A serious time travel game. Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, and simulated actors that react to events and react to the players. Take the current knowledge and physical/archaeological remains of the past, and digitise them, digitally renovate…

The recent Assassin's Creed games had a limited approximation of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4Iy-p943M

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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…

> Old games (pre-WoW) like UO and SWG had some of that magic as well - but were marred by limitations of the technology of the day.

Tibia too. It used to be an extremely social game. Everything was hard so people had to play together. It's been modernized and made much easier, nowadays it feels like the magic is gone. The changes began with restrictions on player killing and spiralled from there.

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Post by matthewfcarlson »

Arwill wrote: post #805

A serious time travel game. Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, and simulated actors that react to events and react to the players. Take the current knowledge and physical/archaeological remains of the past, and digitise them, digitally renovate…

I love the historical aspects of the assassins creed games but often grumble that you don’t really get to see much of what day to day life was like for certain groups of people. There was a game pitch I really liked where it followed an immortal person who was winding their way through history. Made it easy to make it into a series.

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Post by balaji1 »

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…

a similar but smaller policy based simulation game:

You are the government leader of a nation and a new pandemic is starting.

The science is not clear yet. How do you manage as the leader? What policies do you set up? What research do you pursue? Along with variables of budgets, economy, population morale, upcoming elections, travel, etc.

If there was a good model of how the policies affect economy especially, it would reveal to the players how hard lock-downs are on the economy.

If the dynamic between the federal state and city governments are modeled, it would show us how actual policy implementation happens. Just even how hard it is to test and track the spread of a pandemic.

This could indicate to people how hard it is to lead in such a situation. At the same time help the player evaluate how things were handled recently.

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