A Pokémon game made by Rockstar Games sounds pretty sweet.
Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
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#982[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…
There was a very old tv show based on this exact premise
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#983Empire Earth 4 would be nice. I always enjoyed empire earth 1 and 2 more than Age of Empires - not sure why exactly.. maybe the speed was a little slower, maybe AoE did not have religious takeovers and empire earth did?
Maybe it was getting super effecient with just a few keyboard shortcuts to select all X on the screen and things like that.
Maybe it's because I enjoyed populus on the Amiga..
but any way - it was fun to play single player vs computer and fun to play against other humans. Can't recall if we ever did LAN playing or not, but should.
I would buy copies if it was out today and try to get others to play it as well.
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#984Total War combined with Sim City
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#985I have a few ideas that I will almost certainly never develop. If someone wants to use them, please do. These are games I wish existed. Here they are: The first one is a game where you play as Mormons, and the goal of the game is to be nice to people no matter the cost. It would start out with fairly easy things, but then you come across increasingly hostile or dangerous circumstances where you have to choose between…
The Mormon game concept is a good one. As a former and still somewhat Friend (Quaker), I can relate to the concept of "no good deed going unpunished." One can see the humor, irony, playability and enjoyment of it in a video game done well. As Mormon themed it would have limited reach but it would have dedicated followers. The TTRPG "Dogs in the Vineyard" is outstanding for what it is, has limited reach in RPG circles, but it does have a dedicated player base.
The game concept is something I would play. It would fit well in any setting historical or fictional. A half-dozen elves trying to bring sensibility among Orcish chiefdoms guided by an avatar of Illuvar. A unmodified human among the transhuman houses of the galactic empire trying to re-cultivate aspects of humanity guided by an enigmatic Foundation, etc.
Regarding "Monkey Town," you might like Keith Laumer's book "The Other Side of Time." It starts off slowly, is all over the place, but has an alternate universe with several sapient primate species working together.
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#986system shock 2 and Braid for the mobile phone.
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#987Dwarf Fortress, but with the Minecraft engine.
That game would destroy my personal and professional life and I'd love every second of it.
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#988I 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…
1) Northgard isn't that, but it is a proper RTS with a way slower overall pace, so it might scratch the itch.
2) Anachron is a RTS with time travel, and issuing commands in the past depletes a resource, so it does something similar but for a very different purpose.
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#990A competitive game but for middle-aged men.
Games don't defend on reflexes.