The game you've always wanted to play that doesn't exist

[hellfish6]

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...

[al_infierno]

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.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

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.

[hellfish6]

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.

[Father Ted]

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?

[Martok]

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. 

[Gusington]

I never go at to play the original Manhunter from ~1990 so...a modern Manhunter.

[sandman2575]

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/

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 --

[MetalDog]

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.

[SirAndrewD]

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.

[Gusington]

^That's...what she said?

[SirAndrewD]

^That's...what she said?

Oooh boy!   

[Gusington]

 

[hellfish6]

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/

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.

[reapagan]

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.