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
Zoids.
Star Trek. ST online started promising, but it turned into loot box gambling.
Terrordome. With all the horror characters fighting each other mortal kombat style. Now copyright on the other hand…
One Piece MMO
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
The GBA Dragonball RPG’s are solid
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 nativesweird 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.
30 years war and it’s a total war style game
1648 is a weird mod for m2tw, they created star forts to play on but they don’t really work properly. more fundamentally the thirty years war, 17th century warfare worked differently than how total war has been conceived, a colunela1 was such a tightly-knit combined arms unit it cannot be micromanaged by weapon-type like total war units are conventionally. 1648 for m2tw and Pike and Shot for NTW therefore play like bootleg 18th century line battles which is simply not how the thirty years war should look, one would have to design autonomous unit ais that will manage missile-pike formations for the player, as well as complicated cavalry maneuvers like caracole—it would end up very unlike how total wars feel if it was done right.
not that i don’t think it would be worthy/cool to do a 3d real time strategy pike-and-shot simulation, it just can’t be “total war” as it is currently thought of. also i’d be right pissed if someone went to the trouble and limited it to the thirty years war if you didn’t get to do the league of cognac, french wars of religion, 80 years war, english civil war… what would even be the point
(E) 1: colunela was the basic missile-pike combination used in the early italian wars, lending its name to modern ‘colonel’, the tercio is a specific permutation regarding the apportionment of arms in the formation—and a particularly unhelpful term because many of what got called ‘tercio’ were not actually thirds!
Yeah total war would have to be revamped to fit it. It might be more suited for a mount-and-blade type thing and the more I think about it the more I realise that would be so much radder. Imagine playing as a mercenary and working your way up like Götz of the iron hand.
There was a Fire and Sword spin off for Mount and Blade based on the book of the same name. Not the 30s years war but just after in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
dang bannerlord tactics do be looking pretty sophisticated these days. maybe it could be tooled appropriately
I think it could be doable, though the diplomacy system would need major retooling
Dune Spice Wars exists. I guess it’s more a RT4X then RTS but it’s not bad.
Yeah I know, there’s been a bunch of dune rts’s. Maybe I just want a revival of the genre.
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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
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.
That’s where one piece is at too these days :(
Maybe shaman king avoided it? Otherwise the only one I can think of would be full metal alchemistI’m an absolute sucker for tournament arcs so the entire Chuunin exam bit was fun as hell. You got to see all sorts of wacky side characters get time in the spotlight, got to see some well animated fights, some clever tricks
And then shit goes flying off the rails later on when it truly becomes the Naruto and Sasuke show
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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.
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
I haven’t played any of the total war games since fall of the samurai, but three kingdoms kind pretty good
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
3K had great potential. Sucks they abandoned it. whenever I play I always go for cao cao first, that guys mechanic fucking sucks
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.
Ancient Piccolo as a mentor, or Super Kami Dende or smth would be fun.
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.
Amphibia should have a big game
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)
original zelda style adventure in the amphibia world
and it will never happen because disney never does anything cool
Are any of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventurers games good?
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.
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.
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.
unique idea, i like it
