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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    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.

    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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    The MMORPG of dragon ball had some of your ideas but had all the problems of a MMO of 2010. I genuinely think that the basis of the MMO: years after the end of Z the human + saiyajin became the norm on earth, is a good background for a RPG.

    In the same vein of open world RPG I think Naruto could be really good, Naruto has some good dumb rules of the universe(that the author ignore) that could be translated to RPG elements for a character creation. Like the element of the chakra(earth, fire, water, wind), fighting style(ninjustsu, taijustu, genjutsu), Kekkei Genkai, the contracts for summoning(different animals, weapons, mythical creatures), the ninja ranks, the level of the missions, the different villages for different backgrounds and differents clothing styles, etc

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      I loved Naruto in the beginning where it was about outsmarting their opponents and playing to your strengths. Then it just became “my power level is X” “I’m on transformation y” and so on. But that’s basically the issue with every shonen. It’s always an interesting premise that then gets derailed with asinine statcirclejerking.
      Maybe shaman king avoided it? Otherwise the only one I can think of would be full metal alchemist

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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    dragon ball z kakarot

    I love this game so much, but i totally understand what you mean. Once you get over the initial joy of flying around in the Toriyamaverse you realize that it’s a really small and shallow RPG world with not a lot going on besides fighting an endless stream of samey robots and saibamen.

    I think for this idea to work you need to break away from the DBZ canon. Do a game set 100 years in the future, Master Roshi is still alive cuz he’s been immortal the whole time, but everyone else is gone for good.

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        Dragon Ball Online did a lot of this stuff - Toryiama actually wrote the plot outline for it, it was set several hundred years in the future, featuring ancient Piccolo and Master Roshi still being around and stuff like that, and Dende, but otherwise all new people besides occasional exceptions for the time-travel heavy main plot - but gameplay wise it was very much the typical MMO.

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      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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    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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      Great, now I want this, too.

      The boys send out an army of charging clones as an ultimate attack.

      Brock special victory screen where he pisses on the enemy.

      Special Brock costumes leading to just him naked, covered in blood.

      Tijuana Paintjob HELPeR.

      Murderous Moppets Infinite Wit A Knife combo.

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    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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      I enjoyed the PS2 era Evil Dead games and I feel they got the vibes right despite being relatively low budget.

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        I might have to revisit and re-evaluate. Maybe I missed some sequels to the original that I only half remember. I know I replayed it a bit with the bad PC port which definitely further ruined my impression of the past efforts.

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          Yeah I think the PS1 era one way as a bad RE clone from what ive heard. The PS2 era ones aren’t perfect but they do a better job than that. 3rd person behind Ash chopping up the ghouls.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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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      You mean the mobile games and browser MMO didn’t do it for ya? What about the game from Telltale when it was in its trash era?

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    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