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Title: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 10, 2020, 07:32:06 AM
I was looking at the screens for Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) and found myself getting excited about it. Not because I'm interested in the Civil War - actually, I'm not interested in it at all - but I like the way they are combining the strategic (army building, sourcing, sustaining) with the operational (maneuvering forces) and the tactical (fighting the battles). Recognizing that is what I was most interested in, it dawned on me that no other games I can think of allow that.

I'd love to play a Rule The Waves-type game for the Army. Or joint services. A game where you set your military's doctrine (air, sea, land, joint?), maybe design and order/produce your equipment, organize and manage your forces, and respond to contingencies and crises and possibly war. Maybe decisions could help you foster your culture - like your star battalion commander got drunk and killed someone - you're offered a choice to prosecute, cover it up, or crack down on alcohol consumption in your army. Each decision would have an effect on morale, readiness, cohesion, etc. Maybe also manage the careers of officers once they become company commanders. Captain X got high marks as a rifle company commander - do you next assign him to be a general's aide-de-camp, where he might gain prestige and political connections, or assign him to be a foreign observer in Europe to gain experience or maybe assign him to an independent command in the boonies to develop his leadership skills?

You can set the game in the past or present, in a fictional world or the real world. Maybe some armies will have a primary mission of regime protection, some others are little more than militias, and some might be world-class military powers. Each would have unique considerations - do you develop your military to suppress rebels in the mountains of Oman or have them be shiny toy soldiers for the sultan's palace guard? Do you develop a corps of marines for expeditionary operations  - and the ships and doctrine for them - or prepare fixed coastal defenses? Adopt the tank or keep the horse? Independent air force or subordinate it to the Army and/or Navy? Will the well-educated officer corps you've fostered crack in combat because you've coddled them too much?

What are the games you wish existed?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 07:51:04 AM
A would say a 4x that combines the breadth and complexity of Aurora, with AAA graphics and both tactical space fleet and planetary combat along the lines of the Emperor of the Fading Suns.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Con on June 10, 2020, 08:23:54 AM
An unholy child of scourge of war with total war and man of war set in the civil war.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: ArizonaTank on June 10, 2020, 08:42:26 AM
My ideal game almost exists....or more accurately was tried sort of and didn't quite make it.

My ideal is a campaign game with the detail and historical accuracy of Grigsby's War in the Pacific combined with a simulator. Something that allows you to run the campaign, but then jump into any ship or aircraft to fight tactical battles.

The two "Pacific Storm" games by Buka started down that road, but were ultimately badly marred by bugs and particularly as in the case of the first game...very stupid AI.



Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Rayfer on June 10, 2020, 09:05:47 AM
Like hellfish6 mentions in his initial post, I'm hopeful Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) is the game I've always wanted.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 10:16:50 AM
I've always wanted to play an RPG set in 19th century New York City.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Sir Slash on June 10, 2020, 10:52:01 AM
A Med Campaign 1940-43 with Strategic/Operational/Tactical level play Air/Sea/Land from both sides that doesn't require a PhD in anything to play. And NO Sea Monsters.  >:(
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Yskonyn on June 10, 2020, 11:40:07 AM
A truely combined arms high fidelity sim where the infantry of ArmA, the mechanized combat of Steel Beasts, the air warfare of DCS, the strategic layer of Command Modern Ops and the dynamic campaign of Falcon 4 was the inspiration to create one sim to rule them all.

Jarheads option comes close 2nd.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Father Ted on June 10, 2020, 12:33:49 PM
A battle royale in a movie Western setting
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: MengJiao on June 10, 2020, 12:45:25 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on June 10, 2020, 10:52:01 AM
A Med Campaign 1940-43 with Strategic/Operational/Tactical level play Air/Sea/Land from both sides that doesn't require a PhD in anything to play. And NO Sea Monsters.  >:(

  I'm for that.  I have however simulated some dragons in CMANO long ago.  They were unbelievably effective since they had to be based on Vulcan bombers with the Red Beard and Yellow Sun RAF nukes.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: MengJiao on June 10, 2020, 12:47:44 PM
Quote from: Father Ted on June 10, 2020, 12:33:49 PM
A battle royale in a movie Western setting

  Okay.  That sounds great too.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 02:57:55 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.

Never played Saboteur?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: SirAndrewD on June 10, 2020, 03:13:20 PM
Age of Rifles II.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 03:16:43 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 02:57:55 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.

Never played Saboteur?

I mean a game actually *by* Rockstar  :D

Also, Eastern Europe would be my ideal setting.  Saboteur is set in France, right?  Still does look like a cool game, maybe I should pick it up.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 10, 2020, 04:15:13 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.

I always thought a Cold War-style open world spy/espionage game in Europe ala Rockstar would have been awesome. We kinda got the TV show Archer instead, but still...
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 04:33:43 PM
Quote from: hellfish6 on June 10, 2020, 04:15:13 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.

I always thought a Cold War-style open world spy/espionage game in Europe ala Rockstar would have been awesome. We kinda got the TV show Archer instead, but still...

Speaking of Archer, I always liked the idea of a GTA style open-world Archer game where you have a hub area in New York to dick around and commit shenanigans, and missions would take you to open-world areas for famous cities and Cold War era setpieces like jungles, Soviet bases/rocket silos, etc.

It would be tough to pull off, but the shenanigans Archer gets into on the show would be the perfect theme for a lighthearted open-world dickaround-and-kill-people game that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 10, 2020, 04:47:17 PM
I want a game about the night bombing campaigns of RAF Bomber Command that offers the flight sim and crew management aspects similar to B-17 (but with updated graphics) and robust electronic warfare and navigation systems.  It should also have a detailed management system that lets you control the bigger picture by researching and implementing technology, tactics, and doctrine, target assignments, squadron management, etc.  Playable as the RAF or as ze Germans.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 10, 2020, 04:48:31 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 04:33:43 PM
Quote from: hellfish6 on June 10, 2020, 04:15:13 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on June 10, 2020, 02:34:11 PM
I've always wanted a Rockstar open-world game like RDR or GTA set in Nazi-occupied Europe, which places you in the shoes of a partisan fighter.

I always thought a Cold War-style open world spy/espionage game in Europe ala Rockstar would have been awesome. We kinda got the TV show Archer instead, but still...

Speaking of Archer, I always liked the idea of a GTA style open-world Archer game where you have a hub area in New York to dick around and commit shenanigans, and missions would take you to open-world areas for famous cities and Cold War era setpieces like jungles, Soviet bases/rocket silos, etc.

It would be tough to pull off, but the shenanigans Archer gets into on the show would be the perfect theme for a lighthearted open-world dickaround-and-kill-people game that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Hell yeah.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Father Ted on June 10, 2020, 05:50:10 PM
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 10, 2020, 04:47:17 PM
I want a game about the night bombing campaigns of RAF Bomber Command that offers the flight sim and crew management aspects similar to B-17 (but with updated graphics) and robust electronic warfare and navigation systems.  It should also have a detailed management system that lets you control the bigger picture by researching and implementing technology, tactics, and doctrine, target assignments, squadron management, etc.  Playable as the RAF or as ze Germans.

A pukka flightsim which is also a MMORPG where you crew a WW2 bomber?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Martok on June 10, 2020, 07:03:43 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 07:51:04 AM
A would say a 4x that combines the breadth and complexity of Aurora, with AAA graphics and both tactical space fleet and planetary combat along the lines of the Emperor of the Fading Suns.
Replace "Aurora" with "Distant Worlds" (Aurora is just a bit too much for me), and I'd say that's what I dream of as well. 

Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 07:16:09 PM
I never go at to play the original Manhunter from ~1990 so...a modern Manhunter.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: sandman2575 on June 10, 2020, 07:35:40 PM
I was really intrigued by what this game demo was presenting as a large-scale, real-time operational WW2 game (...because we can never have too many WW2 games...  ;) )

https://store.steampowered.com/app/821680/Military_Operations_Benchmark/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/821680/Military_Operations_Benchmark/)

But unfortunately it appears to be vaporware. It seemed almost impossibly ambitious to me, so I'm not really surprised it never panned out, but this was getting near an ideal WW2 strategy game for me --
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: MetalDog on June 10, 2020, 08:42:32 PM
An RPG that doesn't lead you by the nose, however gently, to the heroic conclusion and my adventures are so epic that they become a bestselling trilogy that gets picked up by Netflix or HBO and I can retire comfortably to play the next bestseller.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: SirAndrewD on June 10, 2020, 08:47:51 PM
Quote from: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 07:16:09 PM
I never go at to play the original Manhunter from ~1990 so...a modern Manhunter.

Ugh, I wasn't fond of Manhunter.  I finished the first game but I felt it was overly hard and not in a fun way.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 08:48:56 PM
^That's...what she said?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: SirAndrewD on June 10, 2020, 09:04:30 PM
Quote from: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 08:48:56 PM
^That's...what she said?

Oooh boy!   :2funny:
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Gusington on June 10, 2020, 09:06:25 PM
 :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 11, 2020, 05:41:16 AM
Quote from: sandman2575 on June 10, 2020, 07:35:40 PM
I was really intrigued by what this game demo was presenting as a large-scale, real-time operational WW2 game (...because we can never have too many WW2 games...  ;) )

https://store.steampowered.com/app/821680/Military_Operations_Benchmark/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/821680/Military_Operations_Benchmark/)

But unfortunately it appears to be vaporware. It seemed almost impossibly ambitious to me, so I'm not really surprised it never panned out, but this was getting near an ideal WW2 strategy game for me --

I talked with them a bit before their Steam tech demo came out and I got the impression that they were comfortably funded. I'm not sure what happened to them - they seemingly disappeared overnight.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: reapagan on June 12, 2020, 04:25:03 PM
Guardians Agents of Justice from Microprose, super hero version of XCom. Canceled 1 week before release. Completed but never released as far as I know. I am convinced that someone somewhere has and is still playing this game, my own personal conspiracy theory.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: planetbrain on June 12, 2020, 06:36:40 PM
A game that encompasses all the aspects that were the Guadalcanal campaign, probably 2d only. As far as I am concerned it would include everything that makes a good wargame and be balanced (variations should be allowed).
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Myrmidon on June 12, 2020, 07:27:35 PM
If Dwarf Fortress ever reaches it's full apex, that would be it, although I certainly love playing it in it's current state.

That or, a blend of a remake of the Merchant Prince 2, one of my all time favorite historical trading games, with a totally player driven online economy ala Eve online. 
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Apocalypse 31 on June 13, 2020, 10:10:16 AM
Game Idea #1

- 4-player Cooperative shooter (think Ghost Recon Wildlands meets Deep Rock Galactic)
- Each player fills a class (Assault, Engineer, Marksman, Medic)
- Teams conduct scouting missions to gather intelligence
-x number of intelligence "points" unlocks 'raids' to capture, kill, destroy, seize, etc
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Destraex on June 13, 2020, 10:44:01 AM
A realistic version of total war. One that has clear well made soldier graphics at sll ranges of zoom. One thst has a seemless zoom like steel division all the way out to the strategic map. This way larger operational level flanking and scouting could be involved. Re enforcements could arrive naturally and raiding forces properly intercepted. I would want a lot of scourge of war mechanics like courier orders and delay. Sieges and castles would work properly witthout any of the broken wall shenanigans work arounds in current total war games. In addition all the complexity of something like Victoria 2 or hearts of iron and war in the east would be included. You could of course play this coop or vs and have up to 20 players in real time. No cheesy half arsed mechanics would be allowed, except time compression of course. A complete unit painter would be included. A switch (allow player created non historical units) would also let you create your own units. The game would also not shy away from units such as germanic light cavalry with light infantry hanging off saddles or mixed weapon barbarian units.
I want every single man to interact and be realistically effected by the men around him ( thats right, no pc bs either 99% of fighters in antiquity were men so call a spade a spade) to grow and change with battles and for covilians to be on battlefields and act in a realistic way. What I would not care sbout was who was rooting who and the exagerration that any pc agenda causes in a game. Let history be history based on what we logically know. Not what people want it to be. Unfortunately their would have to be slavery.
It would be a game that would teach much of the ancient world and combat formation mechanics would be very detailed. Men would have weight and would not slide around or mis match animations as in the current total war gsmes.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Martok on June 13, 2020, 03:02:20 PM
Quote from: Martok on June 10, 2020, 07:03:43 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 07:51:04 AM
A would say a 4x that combines the breadth and complexity of Aurora, with AAA graphics and both tactical space fleet and planetary combat along the lines of the Emperor of the Fading Suns.
Replace "Aurora" with "Distant Worlds" (Aurora is just a bit too much for me), and I'd say that's what I dream of as well.
I may have to amend this... 


I forgot I also want a "good", modern 4x game set in the Star Trek universe.  I don't care if it's called Birth of the Federation 2, or something else, but I want it.  Bad. 

Not that I don't love the original BOTF still -- it will always be one of my favorite games of all time -- but it suffers from numerous issues, including bugs that were never fixed, poor AI, and a few questionable design choices (including being very difficult to mod).  And of course, the game is now over 20 years old, and it shows. 

Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 13, 2020, 05:10:38 PM
There's a Star Trek mod for Stellaris. I don't know if that's gonna scratch your itch, though
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Anguille on June 14, 2020, 01:28:09 AM
Quote from: Martok on June 13, 2020, 03:02:20 PM
Quote from: Martok on June 10, 2020, 07:03:43 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 10, 2020, 07:51:04 AM
A would say a 4x that combines the breadth and complexity of Aurora, with AAA graphics and both tactical space fleet and planetary combat along the lines of the Emperor of the Fading Suns.
Replace "Aurora" with "Distant Worlds" (Aurora is just a bit too much for me), and I'd say that's what I dream of as well.
I may have to amend this... 


I forgot I also want a "good", modern 4x game set in the Star Trek universe.  I don't care if it's called Birth of the Federation 2, or something else, but I want it.  Bad. 

Not that I don't love the original BOTF still -- it will always be one of my favorite games of all time -- but it suffers from numerous issues, including bugs that were never fixed, poor AI, and a few questionable design choices (including being very difficult to mod).  And of course, the game is now over 20 years old, and it shows.
Yeah....fully with you.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Martok on June 14, 2020, 03:14:26 AM
Quote from: hellfish6 on June 13, 2020, 05:10:38 PM
There's a Star Trek mod for Stellaris. I don't know if that's gonna scratch your itch, though
Stellaris...sigh.  That game is a textbook example of They Changed It, Now It Sucks (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks).  I could almost weep for what was/might have been.  :( 


For one glorious year, it was my favorite space-strategy game of all time.  But then the devs forced hyper-lanes/star-lanes on us; it sucked, but the game was still pretty fun.  Then they made colony management and the economy so byzantine as to be thoroughly unenjoyable -- and unlike in Distant Worlds, you cannot/dare not automate that stuff -- plus made sectors even worse than before. 

You say anything critical about it in the Paradox forums, and you get shouted down by the fanboys, who have all drunk the Kool-aid and have convinced themselves that the Emperor really is wearing new clothes, and so nothing changes...  I'm almost more sad than angry. 




Quote from: Anguille on June 14, 2020, 01:28:09 AM
Yeah....fully with you.
Cheers, Anguille.  O0  It's times like this I wish I understood computers well enough to have gone into programming when I was younger.  Then maybe I could just start making the damn game myself instead of simply wishing for it.  :P 

Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 14, 2020, 02:16:42 PM
Quote from: Martok on June 14, 2020, 03:14:26 AM

Stellaris...sigh.  That game is a textbook example of They Changed It, Now It Sucks (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks).  I could almost weep for what was/might have been.  :( 



Ha, to be honest, I never really liked Stellaris.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: FarAway Sooner on June 16, 2020, 02:36:58 PM
I'd love a game that was the Bastard Lovechild of Distant Worlds: Universe and every High Fantasy 4x title released since Master of Magic.  Fantasy 4x games have always been my cup of tea, but even the best ones are just Civ I clones stamped onto a fantasy setting.  I'd very much prefer something where I have A LOT LESS control over the universe around me, but am trying to chart my way through it with thoughtful and resource-consuming nudges to guide development in a particular direction.

DWU really did a better job of making me feel like I was in an immersive universe, rather than just pushing sprites around on a vastly complicated chessboard.  They also did a very interesting job of interjecting story arcs into the game, although I would have preferred some of the random events be a bit more episodic in nature (e.g., if a refugee fleet bearing colonists and one advanced tech battlecruiser arrives at my frontier on Turn 50, I'd love to have whoever they're fleeing show up sometime around Turn 150 or Turn 200, demanding that I surrender the fugitives to this new power).

I'd really love something that blended 4x games with a bit more story telling and RPG.  Amplitude did a good job of this, but most of their factions are just a bit too alien/original for me...
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: ArizonaTank on June 16, 2020, 02:47:38 PM
Quote from: FarAway Sooner on June 16, 2020, 02:36:58 PM
I'd love a game that was the Bastard Lovechild of Distant Worlds: Universe and every High Fantasy 4x title released since Master of Magic.  Fantasy 4x games have always been my cup of tea, but even the best ones are just Civ I clones stamped onto a fantasy setting.  I'd very much prefer something where I have A LOT LESS control over the universe around me, but am trying to chart my way through it with thoughtful and resource-consuming nudges to guide development in a particular direction.

DWU really did a better job of making me feel like I was in an immersive universe, rather than just pushing sprites around on a vastly complicated chessboard.  They also did a very interesting job of interjecting story arcs into the game, although I would have preferred some of the random events be a bit more episodic in nature (e.g., if a refugee fleet bearing colonists and one advanced tech battlecruiser arrives at my frontier on Turn 50, I'd love to have whoever they're fleeing show up sometime around Turn 150 or Turn 200, demanding that I surrender the fugitives to this new power).

I'd really love something that blended 4x games with a bit more story telling and RPG.  Amplitude did a good job of this, but most of their factions are just a bit too alien/original for me...

Assume you have seen this - DWU II in development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFCy5sIwPo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFCy5sIwPo)
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Martok on June 16, 2020, 07:07:22 PM
Quote from: FarAway Sooner on June 16, 2020, 02:36:58 PM
I'd love a game that was the Bastard Lovechild of Distant Worlds: Universe and every High Fantasy 4x title released since Master of Magic.  Fantasy 4x games have always been my cup of tea, but even the best ones are just Civ I clones stamped onto a fantasy setting.  I'd very much prefer something where I have A LOT LESS control over the universe around me, but am trying to chart my way through it with thoughtful and resource-consuming nudges to guide development in a particular direction.

DWU really did a better job of making me feel like I was in an immersive universe, rather than just pushing sprites around on a vastly complicated chessboard.  They also did a very interesting job of interjecting story arcs into the game, although I would have preferred some of the random events be a bit more episodic in nature (e.g., if a refugee fleet bearing colonists and one advanced tech battlecruiser arrives at my frontier on Turn 50, I'd love to have whoever they're fleeing show up sometime around Turn 150 or Turn 200, demanding that I surrender the fugitives to this new power).
I definitely wouldn't mind seeing a game like this either.  A fantasy 4x with DW-like mechanics would be amazing. 



Quote from: FarAway Sooner on June 16, 2020, 02:36:58 PMI'd really love something that blended 4x games with a bit more story telling and RPG.  Amplitude did a good job of this, but most of their factions are just a bit too alien/original for me...
Stellaris does an amazing job of story-telling in its campaigns, via events and event-chains.  A pity it's so bad in other ways. 

Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Sir Slash on June 16, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
How about a game where you manage a on-line forum with a bunch of crazy, overly opinionated, Nerds hang-out making bad puns and pseudo-sexual jokes about everything? Would anybody play that? "Dongleheads" maybe?  :bd:
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Gusington on June 17, 2020, 11:40:39 AM
I play that every day with a ton of DLCs and mods. It's a lot like Zork on quaaludes.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Skoop on June 17, 2020, 12:05:07 PM
If CIG and Roberts deliver at least 80% of what they promise in Star Citizen, it would be the game of all games.  It's fun now as a buggy alpha, but feels like it's just scratching the surface of what it could be.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: hellfish6 on June 17, 2020, 05:35:40 PM
Quote from: Skoop on June 17, 2020, 12:05:07 PM
If CIG and Roberts deliver at least 80% of what they promise in Star Citizen, it would be the game of all games.  It's fun now as a buggy alpha, but feels like it's just scratching the surface of what it could be.

Hasn't that been in development for, like, a decade now? And wasn't it excessively funded? WTF happened?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Skoop on June 18, 2020, 01:54:05 PM
It's still going, like DCS, a constant work in progress.  At buggy Alpha state, it's still better than all space sims.  So just imagine how it'll be when they get to 70% completion.  Like DCS, the reality is, it'll never be done, they'll just keep adding new stuff forever.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Father Ted on June 18, 2020, 04:24:20 PM
Quote from: hellfish6 on June 17, 2020, 05:35:40 PM
Quote from: Skoop on June 17, 2020, 12:05:07 PM
If CIG and Roberts deliver at least 80% of what they promise in Star Citizen, it would be the game of all games.  It's fun now as a buggy alpha, but feels like it's just scratching the surface of what it could be.

Hasn't that been in development for, like, a decade now? And wasn't it excessively funded? WTF happened?

It's a ridiculously ambitious project.  Punters loved the vision that the devs were pushing (and who wouldn't?) and so threw money at them.  Unfortunately masses of money does not necessarily equal ability to turn visions into playable games.  Yet they've said that given the dosh they will produce this behemoth, so I guess they've got to keep trying.

Obvs. that's just my opinion.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
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Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: FlickJax on February 23, 2022, 03:16:20 AM
An RPG with an intelligent AI that could make up responses as you play as a DM would :)
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Father Ted on February 23, 2022, 05:26:04 AM
Is it me or does the OP pretty much describe Shadow Empire?
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Thomm on February 23, 2022, 11:33:38 AM
I always wanted to play an AAA gunner on a  warship in the pacific in WW2.

To see if I could actually hit anything.

Best regards,
Thomm
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Pete Dero on February 23, 2022, 11:56:48 AM
Quote from: Thomm on February 23, 2022, 11:33:38 AM
I always wanted to play an AAA gunner on a  warship in the pacific in WW2.

To see if I could actually hit anything.

Best regards,
Thomm

You can actually do that in Pacific Storm Allies even it is not the main focus of the game.

(https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/10/11/pacific-storm-review)
There's an action mode that allows you to jump into and out of direct control of any friendly aircraft in the tactical battles. Once in the cockpit, you'll have full control of the craft and can dogfight with enemy fighters, intercept enemy bombers or launch your own bombs and torpedoes at enemy ships. The action mode also allows you to man the AA guns on any ship in your fleet.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/11260/Pacific_Storm_Allies/
ENGROSSING WORLD WAR II ACTION AND STRATEGY - Diplomats, strategists and fighter jocks will all have a place in the game; seize the day from behind a deck gun, in a plane's cockpit, or as an admiral in the fleet's strategic planning room.


This is an older game (2007 !) but if you decide to get it you should also get this mod https://www.pacificfury.net/   https://www.pacificfury.net/pacific-storm-allies-1-8
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Toonces on February 23, 2022, 12:03:23 PM
Somebody already mentioned it previously, but my dream game would be something like War in the Pacific, with the ability to drill down to the tactical level - think exporting a tactical battle to something like Carriers at War, and then drilling futher down to a sim like Silent Hunter or IL-2.

What's frustrating is that I don't think it would even be that hard to implement if the proper files could be assembled and exported from WitP into a scenario format compatible with the sim's single mission mode.

On a happier note, I think Task Force: Admiral and Seapower both have the opportunity to achieve a 90% solution of other dream games I want. 
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Pete Dero on February 23, 2022, 12:13:07 PM
Quote from: Toonces on February 23, 2022, 12:03:23 PM
Somebody already mentioned it previously, but my dream game would be something like War in the Pacific, with the ability to drill down to the tactical level - think exporting a tactical battle to something like Carriers at War, and then drilling futher down to a sim like Silent Hunter or IL-2.

And how long do you think such a campaign would take  :hide:.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: SirAndrewD on February 23, 2022, 12:38:31 PM
Full sensory body suit VR Kate Upton encounter.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: jamus34 on February 23, 2022, 01:12:57 PM
Quote from: SirAndrewD on February 23, 2022, 12:38:31 PM
Full sensory body suit VR Kate Upton encounter.

Immediately followed by a full bodysuit VR chestburster
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: Geezer on February 23, 2022, 02:05:03 PM
Total War Warhammer 40K.  The only game I would ever need.
Title: Re: The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist
Post by: SirAndrewD on February 23, 2022, 09:40:55 PM
Quote from: Geezer on February 23, 2022, 02:05:03 PM
Total War Warhammer 40K.  The only game I would ever need.

Give GW/CA enough time and that one will likely come to pass. 

BFG Armada II is pretty danged close.