Aight I got one I think is oddly specific, and another that’s just odd.
I’d like Starport: GE but as a fantasy RPG theme, instead of ships and colonies it’s classes and villages, work the reputation system into a good/evil alignment and change some gameplay.
Not sure about this one but I would like a hub system, only thing that comes to mind for me is realm of the mad god, allowing you to go from one server to another with limited items.
On that note I should probably try to play starport again, has been a number of years.
Other than that, maybe a 1v1 auto battler? A mix of part of a dream into hazy dozing in and out put an idea for an auto battler where you have four incubators and six chicken eggs and each incubator changes what type of chick hatches, where they then fall into the arena to start combat. The choice of incubators and which ones your remaining two reinforcement eggs go in to I think would make an interesting head to head game.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, unfortunately; doing shit is where the money comes from, and even a bad idea can make you rich if you follow through on it and get lucky.
As a kid who loved Kingdom Hearts and The Matrix, I wanted to make a game where you could choose from the standard Magic, swords, guns, OR you could whip out your keyboard and hack the game.
It’s not nearly as exciting in retrospect, as it’s basically just Skyrim with console commands, but the thread brought it back to me so I thought I’d share. It felt like a cool idea in 2002, though.
I’ve also been writing and designing a Pokemon game in my head for the last 25 years, but I’m keeping that one closer to my chest even though there’s no universe where that happens.
A civil war simulator, where you make your policies to appeal to as much of the population as you can so they would support you and fight for your side, and if you fail to secure significant militant support you get couped or defeated.
Bring Chromehounds back to console. AC6 was close, but not quite there. Dial the sweatiness back to 5 or 6 instead of 11 and gimme the factional MP w/ dynamic comms. I know MAV or whatever exists for PC but I want my comfy console experience dammit
I would love something like Hellgate London (I think that was its name?), doesn’t have to have the same premise, but needs to be a lot less buggy, no p2w, and more production value
A game where the main missions feel like the early Silent Hill games but there are parts between where you explore a densely populated urban area like Cyberpunk 2077
A business sim that models a country and you can run any business you want, and see if you can build a successful business. I’m talking a sim that models every other business, every city, every street even. The whole economy. Way beyond what’s realistic for sim games at present.
A demolition derby game like wreckfest but without the racing. Leveling, gear, competitions are all focused on destroying other cars and being last one standing.
Bonus if some shenanigans are allowed like you get out of your car and fight other drivers.
You are kind of inluck, there are a couple of PlayStation 1 games called Destruction Derby which is exactly this. The graphics are terrible compared to todays fare but they were fun
Don’t know how I missed this one when I had a PS1 but it would have definitely have been up my alley back in the day. Maybe I’ll get around to getting an emulator for my PC to pick it up again. Could be fun getting back into those old games again - I wouldn’t mind picking up the old Metal Gear 2 game again.
Either a proper sequel to Chu-Chu Rocket that isn’t that Duckmarines or the one exclusive to apple, or a modern Vib-Ribbon inspired game where I can pause without having to quit my session.
I especially want the Vib-Ribbon one so I can just have the game scan my music folder on my desktop and create custom tracks without me having to do anything.
I once had a dream where I played a game like warcraft 2, but with mythical animals. Basically age of mythology, with better controls, and a darker aesthetic. I still wish that existed, so I could play it.