ITT Vidya settings/concepts that haven't been tried but should

Dark fantasy in a setting full of animals, the shit that happens in nature is fucked up and it would be interesting if those risks were portrayed in gaming. Lifeweb itched that way for me, but it's not enough.

Everything else involving animals is either designed to be too cutesy or erotic, I want to see folks try something different.

Wuxia or eastern fantasy setting strategy game or an action rpg where you go on a long quest where you meet gods, mythical beasts, and have a comfy crafting and support system. tried jade empire, and though there was a few interesting concepts, it felt under ultilized.

This'd be pretty damn neat especially if it had a massive map that's mostly steppe&tundra and emphasis on the mounted combat&archery.

Even better if it were focused on similar gameplay than MB is as in you'd be the chieftain of your small tribe and were engaged in a steppe warfare against other tribes all with the ultimate goal of uniting them all and becoming the Khan. Basically Gengis Khan the game, perhaps some revenge-subplot shit in the mix for the sake of a main quest if needed to.

And comfy campfires with throat singing and morin khuur playing and drinking airag to celebrate beating a rival tribe. It'd need desert and mountains along with steppe and tundra to be a true steppe nomad experience as well. Someone fund this.

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There are a bunch of games like this and they are mostly shit.
How do you make it fun?

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You might like Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, a major downside is that it's obnoxiously grindy.

Next.

Toribash?

jesus christ, that takes me back, my nigger

Tiny inchling on a giant adventure.

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Tactics Ogre: LUCT solves this by having a morally ambiguous story with a plot tree. Every hero is bad, but you have to pick the least worse side or abandon all three.

Murder and Rapine

Let out your inner evil cretin in this action packed adventure game! You play as a pirate and your objective is to amass heaps of treasure while attracting (and paying) the best crew members, avoiding Her Majesty's navy, and avoiding mutiny. Ravish maidens, fight armies and pillage towns among other unsavory activities.

Upgrade your pirate ship from dozens of different models. Buy cannon, equip your crew, and upgrade your character with farseeing parrots, the peg leg of destiny, and the hook of slaying among many others. Practice navigation, strategy, and keep your ear open for the ticking croc.

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Gameplay may include:
World would include a metropolitan city area, suburbs, ghettos, rural outskirts of town, wilderness, and even an underground sewer/drainage channel system in which you can live

Every single game about being homeless is a cookie clicker clone on the apple store or nothing more than a preachy PSA about how we need mo welfare. Very sad, as there are so many possibilities for this concept, but nobody cares to apply it to an actual video game with imagination.

Wow. That sounds like a shitty real life simulator

I'm actually planning something similar to this to be the setting of the game I'm working on. Something in Ghibli's Arrietty struck a chord with me even if the plot was pretty poor. It's a bit different than just "tiny people in the real world" though, as I'm mixing in fantasy elements as well. I've designed some unique species such as the Ursa- bears that walk upright and live in Russian Aboriginese inspired communities/culture. Then the Corvids (ravens with usable hands on their wings) that live in tree-canopy towns, and a few others I haven't really hammered out yet like a pseudo-mermaid and a forest-sprite.

Of course I don't even have a 100% feature compete character controller so don't hold your breath.

>Tfw no open world rpg where you play as bugs

That sounds like a pretty neat setting though. Would play/read a book about.

So humans uplifted some of the mammals and then left earth?

Am I the only one who thinks playing as a doctor in a field hospital during the Civil War would be wicked? Think Amateur Surgeon meets Red Orchestra. You have to be a bit creative with fixing up some of the soldiers, quite similar to how injuries were handled back then. Depending on how serious you want the game to be, you can really have fun with the prosthesis and give 'em a bunch of wacky shit.
You would get discharged if you lose too many patients.

So like an advanced version of that edgy surgery flash game but without the supernatural shit?

Holy fucking shit
When i was little i daydreamed about exactly fucking that idea

you mean space best before?

fuck up natives and colonize their shit and enslave them

There's a game like that(without the enslavement I think) but I forgot the name. The devs released a similar game in the viking era.

an online multiplayer game exploring Tercio/Landschneckt mercenary combat in the 30 years' war, where each player can only control one shot and pike square or cav unit at a time

You would control your own character as commander while leading your AI, and various Prince electors/Imperial powers would hire you into battles

How about the Incan Empire?

in hegemony II: clash of the ancients you can take defeated enemy units as slaves and colonize their city. Granted this is on the Italian peninsula only because it is the battles between the etruscans, romans, sabelics, etc. but if you have hegemony rome: the rise of caesar then you can download a mod which expands the map from scotland and ireland to ethopia and india. the mod is called CW4

So, something like a vidya version of the later Asimov Foundation books?

There's LA shark.

Thanks. I just always see the same "human elf dwarf orc" fantasy setting and it bothers me how little creativity there is. So I tried thinking of the most "unused" ideas out there. I want to see how much I can push away from the stereotypes of fantasy without becoming unrecognizable to a viewer.

Nah, it's not supposed to be Earth- just its own universe with its own rules and physics. I've got some really autistic ideas about the physics, where the Sun is actually an "energy spout" into the space-time bubble holding the planet; the point where energy flows into the world space. And conversely inside the core of the planet is an "energy funnel" where energy drains back out.

If you're going to compare it to a flash game, compare it to Amateur Surgeon.

I can't think of anything else to which he would've been comparing it.

I just want a fast-paced 6DoF shooter in zero gravity, with a high focus on mobility and cuhrayzee sci-fi weapons.

I just want a game where John Marston dies at the end to save his family :/

That's not a game though, it's a waiting sim.

Heard of Tale of Wuxia?

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Is Descent not enough?

I played around with a setting in my mind where ayylmaos or something visited an overpopulated earth and give people shrinking technology/force most people to shrink down only leaving a handful of full sized humans as protectors. The story would take place long after the actual happening, with humanity being accustomed to their tiny lives living in small and larger towns within cities and towns. The main quest of the hero would be to find the lost magical giants that helped the small people long ago, because of some crisis or something. It would be a nice post-apocalyptic setting of humanity just vanishing and nature retaking the cities. I just really like the idea that an average sized room could hold an enormous town and that a small distance of a kilometer would be an epic journey into the unknown. I think that the ending could be that the MC eventually finds giant skeletons and a device that can turn him normal(giant) sized, but it only has one use. So he'd have to choose between leaving his whole life behind to become one of the giants and helping his people, or choosing to stay that size and possibly dooming his people. Basically the age old self sacrifice or selfishness question.

A first person action game set in Ancient Mesopotamia where you battle scorpion men, dragons, demons, bull men, and nomads while traveling in a mixture of jungle, swamp and desert environments.

*jungle, swamp, marsh and desert environments.

I think he was referring to the 'kids' games where you heal Disney Princesses' fucked up bodies or whatever

Sounds shitty, but what about RPG game with cinematic combat? With dodge and parry animations, of course!

First time I've heard it. Is it good?

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there's "WWI medic" made by the guys that made dwarf fortress, but it's not that amazing

Just copy the Mongolian campaign in AoE2 and you're pretty much there. Fuck now I want this bad.

Only if you can form your crew out of nothing but waifus who also ravish captured maidens

a game like VtM:B but with pirates, and a world hub that also encompasses the seas
with beat em up gameplay that is not press X to win but like God Hand and an open world like BotW.

There's this f2p space ship sim that does that, can't remember the name. One branch of humans decided that technology implants was the way to go and they pretty much became cyborgs, the other branch went with genetic enginering. They end up going to war and you get to pick which side you start on.

dark souls except good

I just want a fucking 3rd person shooter with anime waifus set in a cyberpunk world with gunporn cheese and explosions, why can't I have that?

You can play as various Mongol successor/splinter Hordes in Europa Universalis 4 but you'll find yourself handicapped with technology penalties and unstable form of government. You do get really powerful early game units and always have Casus Belli against your neighbors.

Crusader Kings has the Mongols Invading Europe during its time frame but I haven't played it enough to say anything about it.

Also both games are published by paradox and have ridiculously bloated with more-or-less mandatory DLC.

I like it.

Armada is pretty much like that. Aliens destroyed Earth, mankind escaped to space and diverged into six sub-species, and eons later they join forces to fight back.

This may be close to what you seek.

Pretty much anything that's got a decent budget to it with a specific mesoamerican setting.

We have plenty of vidya with a specific generic maya temple level or strategy games with Aztecs, Maya, etc as playable civs, but there's barely any games that are explictly themed around the region or the culture in the same way we have games based specifically on western european, japanese, greco-roman, etc culture.

It's got a fuck ton of potential

It'd work for almost any genre. City building games would work great, especially for the Aztecs, since they had hugeass ones built on lakes with artifical islands and stone roads, aquaducts, dams, and canals going between everything across them. Strategy would work good for the same reasons. You could do horror with all of their human sacrifice and insane mythological bullshit, or a third person action game in the vein of God of War would be cool.

What I think would work best though would be a Dark Souls style game, since pretty much any mesoamerican mythology, from Aztec to Maya to Purepechan, would go excellently with that sort of dark-fantasy-horror atmosphere.

Expeditions Conquistador is what that user was thinking of. It's a great game, but as a mesoameriaboo I wish more focus was actually put on the native environmental elements that I go into in the above.

This would also be cool but I don't think it would be quite as cool. Their architecture is a lot less interesting, and I don't think the mountain range//tundra/desert stuff they have is as neat as the tropics/deserts/jungles mesoamerica has.

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Any game like this?

Basically think of the start of Xenoblade Chonicles X except your managing and controlling multiple units of controllable people and multiple awesome vehicles after they crash landed on the planet Mira trying to explore and survive it instead of playing as a single JRPG character.

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Oddly, there was only one game that started to do this that I ever came across and it suffered the developmental hell partly because of it.

holy fucking shit, that was some of the best NG+ I ever put my hands on.

Sounds similar to pikmin, but the whole "taming local fauna" would be a nice touch to it.

ARK did it but with humans and prehistoric creatures and it really felt too clusterfucky.

A GTA-esque game set on a massive centrifugal space hab, with country-side and natural aread among huge cities.

tacticool cyberpunk and fantasy with little magic use, I'd like to see some of that

It wouldnt' work. an explosion is dangerous in a space ship.

Any decent ship would have enough materials between the layers for stopping radiation that an explosion shouldn't be an issue.

hey user, I downloaded it and I've been playing it for a while. the game IS pretty fun and does indeed come close to the description, however it lacks something, I don't know if it's the pacing or the kinda clunky controls but it doesn't quite scratch the itch. thanks for the heads up though I'll probably finish it

Certainly sounds like it could be an interesting setting.

Played Pikmin 2 and 3, wouldn't say that was what I was thinking of. Taming the frontier meaning as make it your own, take back the wild. If your already got combat vehicles, taming alien mounts might not be worth it.

Like Metroid Prime's scan visor?

Procedural generation, user. Other than the established features (like the planet maps in the two Great Oceans, the spill mountains, and the rim ramjets), everything could be done procedurally. IT WOULD BE WHAT NO MAN’S SKY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

You Are Not The Hero is already a game. Well, it'll be out "soon".

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I'll bite, sound like the type of realism that Rockstar would make these days.

Ever heard of Majesty 2 user?

Holy fuck I kind of want this.

Games never have destructible environments, so it doesn’t matter.

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stop this meme right now