The Perfect Game

[stray]

Would be jointly developed by Tomonobu Itagaki, Rockstar, Sid Meier, and Raph Koster. It'd take place in the Wild West. Itagaki would work on the babes jiggly and the combat, Rockstar on the writing/humor/environment, Meier on the virtual train set, and Koster making Itagaki's babe's jiggly (and associated businesses) come to life.

[Paelos]

Rockstar games does, The Oregon Trail.

That bitch jacked my wagon axles!

[Big Gulp]

Raph Koster

I thought you said you wanted the perfect game?  Koster doesn't make games, he makes his own little dynamic world navel gazing projects that fail spectacularly and have to be manhandled by other developers into something resembling a legitimate form of entertainment.

See:  Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies.

[stray]

Rockstar games does, The Oregon Trail.

That bitch jacked my wagon axles!

http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadrevolver/

Fun game actually. Not really like GTA though (the combat is, but the story is linear).

[stray]

Raph Koster

I thought you said you wanted the perfect game?  Koster doesn't make games, he makes his own little dynamic world navel gazing projects that fail spectacularly and have to be manhandled by other developers into something resembling a legitimate form of entertainment.

See:  Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies.

As long as there isn't a Dancer class, I wouldn't mind a Koster designed virtual brothel or saloon.

[edit] Wait a sec, I've got Rockstar here. They'll do the brothel. Koster can just serve up drinks (except the hot coffee, of course). 

[Aenovae]

Diablo III

or

A more action-packed Eve Online.

[Paelos]

My perfect game would be an MMOG where you would start off as a squad leader in a NPC unit. You'd battle in the war arenas for promotions. All of this would be twitch. When promoted, you'd move on to playing an RTS type match as a commander of many units of these human lead squads. As the commander you could also overrule any squad leader based on your influence rating versus his. Then, ultimately the best squad leaders would see a Civilization type turn based strat game, where you would control the mass movements of armies and their commanders. Guild would actually be fictional countries battling for the map. NPC armies and rebels would keep the game in check if one country really started dominating. And there would be safe zone countries where new armies could train before they set foot on the conquerable map.

[Shockeye]

My perfect game would pay me to play it.

[Velorath]

I'd take a Shadowrun game with Bioware doing the RPG elements.  Throw in a GTA-type environment, with the gameplay shifting to squad-based style combat whenever you're doing a run in a corp building.

[Signe]

My perfect game has racing stripes.

[Malderi]

My perfect game came out a little while ago under the name of Jade Empire.

[schild]

My perfect game is way too cool for this thread. Also, it's an honor roll student.

[stray]

My perfect game has racing stripes.

That'd be nice too. I mainly just like Baja/Offroad though -- Something with about as much decent representation in the world of gaming as the wild west. So, fat chance for me.

[Signe]

My perfect game is way too cool for this thread. Also, it's an honor roll student.

Hey, look!  It's Spider-Boy!  Hey Boy!

[Ironwood]

System Shock 3 pls.

Thx.

[Merusk]

Raph Koster

I thought you said you wanted the perfect game?  Koster doesn't make games, he makes his own little dynamic world navel gazing projects that fail spectacularly and have to be manhandled by other developers into something resembling a legitimate form of entertainment.

See:  Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies.

Gulp,  I love you, man.

[Evangolis]

Shadowbane done right.

If that is possible.

[HaemishM]

My perfect game? The design for Cyberpunk Online that Savant and crew floated around.

Or Shadowbane done right, with shiney and without ESSS-BEEEE-DOT-EEEE-ECCHHSSS-EEEEE.

[WayAbvPar]

I'd take a Shadowrun game with Bioware doing the RPG elements.  Throw in a GTA-type environment, with the gameplay shifting to squad-based style combat whenever you're doing a run in a corp building.

I want!

Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Wild West- 3 settings that are hideously underrepresented. A multiplayer White Wolf RPG would be fun too.

[MrHat]

Might I add the boobies.

[Signe]

Might I add the boobies.

So you took my advice and started the hormones?  Good for you!  You won't be sorry!  Hopefully, your girlfriend is a senstive sort.

[MrHat]

Might I add the boobies.

So you took my advice and started the hormones?  Good for you!  You won't be sorry!  Hopefully, your girlfriend is a senstive sort.

You're so clever.

[Signe]

Umm... you meant that in green, didn't you?   :-(

[MrHat]

Umm... you meant that in green, didn't you?   :-(

No really, what a world it could be if we could bottle up your wits and disperse it amongst the people.

[WayAbvPar]

A world that isn't fit to live with when they aren't smoking? 

[Signe]

I just watched Constantine.  It went a long way in helping me forget how nice a cigarette feels after dinner.  And with a drink.  And when my dad calls.  And on road trips longer than an hour.  And now.

Bugger you all dead.

[Rodent]

My perfect game would be designed by Origin, Looking Glass Studios and Black Isle. Either or the three would do, combined would make me a very happy camper indeed.

I would like to take this opportunity to say fuck you EA, Eidos and Interplay.

[stray]

Somehow I forgot to include Tim Schafer in my perfect game, so umm....Him too.

[Paelos]

I just watched Constantine.  It went a long way in helping me forget how nice a cigarette feels after dinner.  And with a drink.  And when my dad calls.  And on road trips longer than an hour.  And now.

Bugger you all dead.

I've seen this Signe before!

[Shockeye]

I just watched Constantine.  It went a long way in helping me forget how nice a cigarette feels after dinner.  And with a drink.  And when my dad calls.  And on road trips longer than an hour.  And now.

Bugger you all dead.

I've seen this Signe before!

A fan favorite to be sure.

[Triforcer]

My perfect game? The design for Cyberpunk Online that Savant and crew floated around.

Or Shadowbane done right, with shiney and without ESSS-BEEEE-DOT-EEEE-ECCHHSSS-EEEEE.

I seem to recall some sort of crazy Russian gaming site Engrish quote floating around that includes the phrase "Shadowbane 2" but I can't lay my hands on it right now.  As to funding, I'm sure they can find some former pets.com venture capitalist with a fetish for being kicked in the balls.

[Katukov Strikes Back]

I'd like an online Hex and Counter style turn based war game (I.E. Operational Art of War, Korson Pocket…but with maps not so big) set during a hypothetical 1960's Outbreak of WWIII in Europe, Oh battles will be resolved on a hex shaped battlefield (to facilitate which direction the attacker should enter the map) in FPS style Gameplay modeled after Operation Flashpoint, but with better air and armor unit modeling.

The orders phase would move the counters about via voting by each side's players, as they are locked into one side for each campaign.

The execution phase has two counters go to battle and they determine what equipment each side has in the battle and what the terrain is like on the battle map. I.E. out of supply Soviet Motorized Infantry Company vs. US Rifle Company in heavy woods would feature nothing but infantry units for the US side, but the Soviet IVFs and troops would be low and gas and ammo. Battle is resolved when one side either retreats or is annihilated. The battle results are then re-integrated back into the hex game world.

Once all battles are resolved for that turn the process begins again till one side accomplishes some set goal like "Kill X number of enemy units or capture Y% of the strategic map."

Campaigns could be varied by location and season to keep the battle ground fresh. And you'd have to have true NATO vs Warsaw Pact by modeling other nations like Poland, West Germany, France, England, Hungary, ect.

Developer: Microprose, BattleFront, BIS, and SSI
Publisher: Anybody but EA and CDV

P.S. All twitch, no skills or RPG leveling what-so-ever. 

"Relax, Bob. That's a conscript in that T-64. It'll take him 5 or 6 125mm shell hits to blow our level 26 jeep up."

(I know there was an online RTS that added a small strategic map to fight over. Problem was the RTS part was loaded with classic treadmill traits and you controlled very few units.)

Or just give me Operation Flashpoint 2 right now. That works too.

[MrHat]

I'd like an online Hex and Counter style turn based war game (I.E. Operational Art of War, Korson Pocket…but with maps not so big) set during a hypothetical 1960's Outbreak of WWIII in Europe, Oh battles will be resolved on a hex shaped battlefield (to facilitate which direction the attacker should enter the map) in FPS style Gameplay modeled after Operation Flashpoint, but with better air and armor unit modeling.

The orders phase would move the counters about via voting by each side's players, as they are locked into one side for each campaign.

The execution phase has two counters go to battle and they determine what equipment each side has in the battle and what the terrain is like on the battle map. I.E. out of supply Soviet Motorized Infantry Company vs. US Rifle Company in heavy woods would feature nothing but infantry units for the US side, but the Soviet IVFs and troops would be low and gas and ammo. Battle is resolved when one side either retreats or is annihilated. The battle results are then re-integrated back into the hex game world.

Once all battles are resolved for that turn the process begins again till one side accomplishes some set goal like "Kill X number of enemy units or capture Y% of the strategic map."

Campaigns could be varied by location and season to keep the battle ground fresh. And you'd have to have true NATO vs Warsaw Pact by modeling other nations like Poland, West Germany, France, England, Hungary, ect.

Developer: Microprose, BattleFront, BIS, and SSI
Publisher: Anybody but EA and CDV

P.S. All twitch, no skills or RPG leveling what-so-ever. 

"Relax, Bob. That's a conscript in that T-64. It'll take him 5 or 6 125mm shell hits to blow our level 26 jeep up."

(I know there was an online RTS that added a small strategic map to fight over. Problem was the RTS part was loaded with classic treadmill traits and you controlled very few units.)

Or just give me Operation Flashpoint 2 right now. That works too.

You made me forget this was a wishful thinking thread.

[Katukov Strikes Back]

You made me forget this was a wishful thinking thread.

Okay so that last post of mine should have gone in the game development thread, but I'd still play it in a heartbeat. However, let me simplify and scale down my other visions.

Dream Game(s) #1 Microprose could come back to life and make M1 Tank Platoon 3 and another worthy X-Com sequal with battlefront as the publisher.

Dream Games #2 Alone in the Dark 1 remade with the Doom3 engine produced under the direction of Clive Barker and stays true to the 1930s lovecraft settings.

Dream Game #3 Someone having the Balls to do a WWII FPS shooter single player campaign from the Axis perspective that covers the entire war from the invasion of Poland to the last days in Berlin. Failing that, a WWI shooter from the German perspective of 1917-1918 complete with Tanks, poison gas, and the first submachinegun. Just keep EA the hell away from it.

Dream Game #4 Someone finally creates a worthy successor to the Close Combat series so it can join the ranks of the Total War series in the genre of RTSs that don't suck.

[Murgos]

I want a skill based Sci-Fi MMOG with a 4x style meta-game, the game not only has lasers and power armor but also giant mechs, whole armies and space fleets that you can own, outfit and command and a strategic map for control of the galaxy that I can dominate..  It also has to have PC group/party based exploration and 'missions' such as raiding an opponents homeworld deep in his territory to steal the plans for his new heavy assault armor, these missions can be stealth based or just straight up snap raids.  The game must have elements of defensive planning that are detailed and effective enough (if well planned) to hold off determined assault while still allowing the creative player the chance to win a war of fire and  maneuver, where logistics are important and yet creativity on the battlefield can also be effective.  The game should have detailed management features for the growth of your conquered worlds economies and production.  Also, it should come with a pony, this last part is not optional.