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for me its dragon ball z. i've always wanted a good 3d open world dbz action rpg kind of game, but it's just never been done to its full potential. the closest we've gotten in my opinion is dragon ball z kakarot, which has great DBZ fighting game style fighting, and tries to incorporate it with an open world with rpg-light type features, but the world and rpg elements are just so uninspired and poorly done. they don't really blend well with the fighting segments either, it feels like all of the 'open world' is more of just a 3d overworld with minigames

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Give me another Elder Scrolls as magical as Morrowind.

You can't do it, Todd. Move on. Found an indie studio to make little games. todd

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I mean, an Indy studio could do a spiritual successor. I'd be happy with that.

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[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gimme some good plastic army men toy soldiers 3do games

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Forgot about those, yes.

Plastic green army me tag urself!

I'm the gesturing with one arm, radio in the other guy

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[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd love to see another Twisted Metal game though I'm not sure if that's what you meant. I think it still has a lot of potential as a genre in general.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A twisted metal game that ties into the show would work within the framework of the open world Mad Max game. I’d prefer a traditional twisted metal game, but I just want a revival that doesn’t flop.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right?! The potential is there, I'm surprised no one has grabbed at it. The show was pretty fun (in my humble opinion, I know it was divisive) and everyone loves their reboots, legacy sequels, and nostalgia baiting right now.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So much potential. I’ve long held the opinion that creativity is a result of passion, and that the reason the industry is stagnating is that the passionate are no longer the drivers. Name any IP andget a couple fans together they’ll have awesome ideas.

I also liked the show, it was nothing like the games and made good use of the core ideas nonetheless. The theories I’ve read make it seem like an awesome introduction to season 2 adding Calypso.

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i just want an xcom style turn based strategy game but with transformers. there technically was one, but it was really short and for kids, and i just want a really difficult one like xcom sometimes can be lol

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Me too now but Beast Wars.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CRPG set in China Mieville's Bas-Lag.

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Oh that'd be so good.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not what you meant, but imagine The City and The City Disco Elysium style.

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[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A Malazan crpg in the style of the expeditions series would be amazing.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago
[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Gimme the Mott Wood campaign or Black Dog Forrest.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Feel like shit, just want Sid Meier's Pirates! back. Nobody has made something that scratched the same itch and everyone who tries to make a pirate game makes something else. Or a Bully 2. Or a good vampire game.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who adores the wonky late 90's FPS adaptation, Wheel of Time could have been such a cool RPG, tactics game, or even Crusader Kings style strategy

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I never got to try it, but the multiplayer seemed really cool in a video I saw about it. It kinda shat all over the lore though.

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[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A Venture Bros fighter like Smash Bros.

I'd main Molotov Cocktease. I mean look at this grab attack.

But I'd also play The Monarch and Dr Orpheus too. And Shoreleave.

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[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Amphibia should have a big game boohoo

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder what that could look like? I'm imagining some king of collectathon but I doubt a big company would want to make something like that these days (and you need a big company on board to get amphibia licence)

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Red Rising series would make a killer wargame, or 4X, or first person shooter.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mount and blade style would work as well, assuming the first book. A paradox style prequel would also work. A frostpunk style leadership game/ hard space mining game for the reds. It has tons of potential for many types of game even within genres.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Judge Dredd. I don't think there's ever been a truly good game based on it.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Oooh, yeah Judge Dredd would be such an easy world to translate into the gaming medium too. That last RoboCop game was a lot of fun. My highlight was giving someone a ticket for illegal parking. I wish they had more of that stuff in it.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I am yearning for a new rts and Dune has been a great well for that genre before. So that, but I need Tim Curry to do an fmv as baron harkonnen.

I dunno otherwise. Maybe Avatar: the last airbender? Could have some neat rts potential too.

Karl Marx Kapital and we turn it into a 4x that isn't made by paradox.

30 years war and it's a total war style game.

I love the SCP universe so something with that. I don't have a lot of gamer buddies, so I could never get into that multiplayer one. I've tried lobotomy corporation, but it's completely incomprehensible.

I remember reading some absolute sci-fi slop at my dad's place, that could be good for some fun games. The first was one where the moon was a spaceship and the protagonist was the only one that was allowed past it's defenses for some reason. Cloak-and-dagger type thing and then it evolves into big picture galactic warfare.
The other series was about a dumbfuck royal Scion, 3rd in line to the throne who miraculously survives an attempt on his life - His brothers weren't so lucky. He is then stranded on a jungle planet alongside his personal army, they befriend the natives, teach them poker, have sex with the natives

weird aside
(who in this species are sort of an inverse version of our sexual propagation. What the humans consider to be "the women" (because they have wombs) don't ovulate, because they have sperm cells. "The men" ovulate and can then inject an egg with an ovipositor.The author had some fetishes I assume.)

When they finally get off planet they discover the royal house has been couped. They have to do some spycraft to save the empress. When that is done it turns into a big diplomatic game of winning over all the rebels and so on.

Not fiction but a piece of history I wish was used for something: After WWII a european resistance cell consisting of a schoolteacher and her recent (adult) graduates went to Argentina and disappeared. This cell was responsible for the liquidation of several high-ranking Nazis. They were fueled in part due to the extra-judicial killing of 12 of their schoolmates, who, while being transported to a courthouse, were unceremoniously shot and dumped over a bridge by the SS. Imagine playing a game where you're an elderly schoolteacher going HAM in Argentina hunting Nazis. Wolfenstein could never. It'd be like Turok but no conflicting emotions about killing cool dinos. You could become like The Predator.

Monsters Inc and it's a cooking mama style thing, but for making children cry.

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Avatar deserves a game that isn't absolute drivel. It's the kind of series that would be well severed by having distinct control layouts for different fighting styles. Like earth bending using the triggers, fire using the buttons, water using the control sticks, and air using motion controls. Then, in the end game, you control the avatar and you're juggling your controller and using it like a bop it

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Would be nice to see another good Total War game again even though I've almost completely lost hope for the series. It's been 13 years since fall of the samurai and it's all been downhill from there

Also another command and conquer game please

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven't played any of the total war games since fall of the samurai, but three kingdoms kind pretty good

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

3K is so fucking good and I cannot understand why they abandoned it and all the mechanics from it. The diplomacy system should be standard across all the games going forward but they just reverted it back after that game, it's wild

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[–] Khoryphos@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’d like to see a high-budget ARPG set in ASOIAF’s Westeros. I’m not sure what it would be about, but it would be cool if you, the player, start as a bastard from one of the Great Houses and work your way to becoming Hand of the King. Then you’d have enough political power to do all kinds of crazy shit. I’m a big fan of the juxtaposition of this gritty world of pointless, tragic human conflicts and talking tree-doors, time travel, dragons, and a thousand mile long, 500-ft high ice wall.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

There's a mod for Mount and Blade Warband for Game of Thrones that's pretty good. I don't know how much fantasy elements it has, though. Lord of the Rings and Warhammer have mods featuring monsters and magic.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Toy Commander on Dreamcast was really really fucking good for its time and something like it with 256 players doing all sorts of crazy shit in a sandbox household flying/driving/swimming vehicles around all over the place would be incredibly fun.

Nobody has made literally anything like it since and I have no idea why because the concept is obviously good and the technology to realise it to its fullest potential didn't exist back then but it was still such a good game.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dawn of War 1. Better yet just computerize table top. I'm antisocial :(

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Good news! Creative Assembly is working on a Total Warhammer: 40K

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[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The first Mistborn era seems like it would be perfect for a prequel game where you take part in the internecine house wars between the nobility. It would be an open world stealth/action super-power game. Great setting, the large sparling inspired city of Luthadel, a fusion of Victorian and gothic aesthetic. With blanketing ash from regular volcanic eruption and the ever-present mists at night. The crushing misery the nobles inflict on the Skaa (serfs) under the ever watchful eye of the immortal Lord Ruler and his inquisitors.

It would have unique gameplay mechanics. Burning iron and steel to push and pull off metal in structures to fly through the sky and over buildings. Pulling and pushing your enemies who are holding metal. Or deflecting/firing metal objects large and small at your enemies. Using pewter to make your character tougher, tin to enhance their senses. Use zinc and brass to sooth or riot enemies. So you can slip by them or you can make them panic and flee. Using copper to hide yourself from seekers and brass to detect other mistborns and mistings.

Likewise enemies would vary, from simple guards wearing metal armour and holding metal weapons (which they will abandon if you start pushing and pulling them for wooden clubs), to the more professional haze-killers with no metals on them and their wicker shields and dueling canes, to mistings who only have one of the 8 powers to use on you (coinshots who fire objects at your, lurchers who pull you, pewter arms who are extra tough, etc) to enemy mistborns who have all the same powers as you, then maybe at the end of the game you might even fight an inquisitor with their enhanced powers and gruesome metal spiked eyes.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are any of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventurers games good?

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

7th Stand User (a fan game) is great if you love old school grindy rpgs, plus making your own JoJo character and picking a stand is cool. All Star Battle is a fun arena fighter but is pretty basic, similar to some of the Naruto and DBZ arena fighters. Tons of characters and detail though. Heritage for the Future is an older style traditional fighting game and it's an all time classic if you're into that genre of game.

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Hard to decide. But, something simple like Fusion Frenzy could be cool. Online multiplayer would be hilarious and they could come up with so much more minigames.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Star Trek. ST online started promising, but it turned into loot box gambling.

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

National Geographic nature documentary about Lions

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Star Fox and F Zero. A sequel to Wild Guns would also slap. I'd be hyped for a good sidescrolling non metroid castlevania if they did it well, Battalion Wars had something going as well ad worms 3d thst sorts equally valkyria chronicles and I wouldn't mind thst minus fire emblem and better strategy stuff. I'd like fire emblem to go back in time to 2000 and make a better follow up to Thracia and no go full weeb mode. Ftl should get a sequel under the stsr trek license and also there should be good versions of most stsr trek games.

[–] AdmiralDoohickey@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A Symphogear rhythm character action game would be pretty fun

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The Evil Dead: Army of Darkness, set in the medieval zone Ash gets transported to with the undead skeleton army and the witches and stuff. It could look fairly true to the source material in the current Doom engine IMO. I dunno if I'd want to see it as a boomer shooter since so many use quotes from it already, maybe more like an adventure game or something, but with that plasticky looking 3d graphics.

The Evil Dead PSX game was not great.

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