Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by harry8 » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:26 AM UTC

Multiplayer couch games you can play with your kids. More quantity. More variety. More background exposure to great ideas. eg Play in a van Gogh painting word or a Dali or Pollock. Play in the great buildings of history. With a Beethoven soundtrack. Or Louis Armstrong.

What do we have?

A few FPSs that end up all being very similar with slightly different skins.

    OG xbox
    crimson skies
    Fuzion Frenzy
    Mechassult

    ps3
    Rayman origins & legends
    Ratchet & Clank All4One. 
    Little Big Planet. 
    Street Fighter IV (and the multitude of similar games) 
    Lego games
    Portal 2
    WipEoutHD
    Stardust. 
    Modnation racers 
    Motor Storm. 
    Sports champions.

    ps4
    Overcooked. 
    RocketLeague (constantly gimped by auto update removing couch multiplayer!)

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

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Post by NateEag » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:29 AM UTC

I've wanted something that merges the 3D martial arts combat of Bungie's old game Oni with the freerunning environmental exploration of Mirror's Edg3.

Bonus points for multiplayer mode, hand-to-hand weapons, and just a little more granularity in the hand-to-hand combat engine (when Barrabas would hold you up in the air dangling for a full second before uppercutting you into the stratosphere, it always seemed like you should have been able to kick him in the face). Decent enemy AI would be important (Oni's was not especially good).

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

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Post by peignoir » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:30 AM UTC

would love a columbo game where you have to commit the perfect crime and an AI columbo tries to prove you guilty :)

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

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Post by rasz » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

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…

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1487800/Little_Hats/

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

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Post by dhosek » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:36 AM UTC

I’ve thought it would be interesting to try whole new means of gameplay interaction. For example, a game in which you interact with NPCs by speaking to them (I think that we may finally have the tech to accomplish this).

I was also thinking a game where the microphone must be on where you need to coordinate with other players as quietly as possible to achieve some objective (sort of a video game version of A Quiet Place).

But mostly, I scratch my gaming itch with boardgamearena

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

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Post by LMMojo » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

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 mean like this?

Household, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2lm/household

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

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Post by betocmn » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

Fantasy investing in private startups, following real world metrics. Long duration, play and forget, but come back with new virtual/fake credit to make new picks every x months.

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

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Post by KVFinn » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

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…

This is happening right now, but in small MMOs, usually with 128 or 256 maximum players online. Most common in heavily modded Minecraft servers, but also in many other games. There are also some roleplaying focused servers in games like GTA5 or Rust, which generally reset much more quickly.

Also see this game, ECO: https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/

listen to first 10 minutes of this podcast: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/brad-will-made-a-tech-pod/79-...

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

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:41 AM UTC

Im surprised no one thought of mixing up the strategy aspect of a masterpiece turnbased game like heroes 3 , with the character progression of Captain Tsubasa 3's rpg, thru event generators from actual battles.

The closest thing I've seen is "traits" developed by leaders in games from paradox.

1st example: Stellaris, or Xcom. However, traits are limited to being bonuses. They arent part of telling a story.

A more interesting use case was traits in crusader kings 2. There, traits, are somewhat part of the story. However, said traits are most often the result of player decisions, vs player strategy or actions.

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

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Post by CKMo » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:53 AM UTC

I want an asymmetrical game of 3rd-person top-down strategy vs FPS battle royale.

Basically one player is playing starcraft against 99 players trying to reach the middle of an island. The 99 players are playing first person survival battle royale - their goal is to beat the other players to the middle of the island where there's a throne to ascend and win the game.

The player playing as God gets to bring in environmental spells into the game and can direct a roving band of animals. The God player's goal is to prevent the 99 players from reaching the middle but can only do so in very specific ways that basically come down to herding players together and hoping they fight or dropping supply drops somewhere on the map where players are encouraged to fight over the drop.

There would be a limited amount of servers that players can fight over to become the next "God" of the island. Expanded features would allow players to design their island, yadda yadda.

I've basically been designing it slowly for if I can ever pitch it.