Video Games You Wish Existed

A Maniac Mansion reboot?

I’d love to see something similar to Baldurs Gate 3 but in the Tolkien universe. Let me play the fellowship from beginning to end with some turn based combat and deep interpersonal relationships.

Scribe said:

A true skilled based FPS. A modern Q3A, dare I say even CPMA, but with some major backing in terms of pushing it as a sport.

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There have been many attempts at this but they've all been flops, because either the audience isn't there, or they're not finding it somehow. Couple of examples that flopped less than others below:



There was also a decent new Unreal Tournament which was slowly gaining some popularity but bloody Epic killed it for no good reason.

(I think UT is inherently more accessible than Q3-style games were - a genuine problem with Q3 was that a even a moderate skill gap can lead to vast kill count differences, and total domination of a map. That was an issue in Q2 and Q1/QuakeWorld too. This is partly why games with low Time To Kill and a good chance of getting a "lucky kill" on even a good player - often due to being inherently more chaotic - tend to be more popular - you don't get the "lockout" effect to the same degree. I don't think e-sports audiences love that either.)

Scribe said:

Some kind of 40K. I'm long done with buying the plastic.

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You may be in luck, we shall see, but Creative Assembly have been rumoured to be working on a 40K Total War game for 3+ years now. Hiring ads and some general leaks have supported this, but what really fanned the flames massively re: speculation on this was a couple of years ago CA sent out a detailed survey to a lot of people (including me), and on that survey they listed tons of settings that they could do for a fantasy or sci-fi Total War, and separately for a historical Total War. 40K was among them, but there were a lot of less plausible ones too (like MCU) so by itself that didn't mean much. But one striking thing was that both a lot of the proposed historical settings and the proposed fantasy/SF settings would require an overhauled Total War engine that could properly cope with using cover and there being a lot of vehicles, artillery, etc. This tied in with some of the hiring ads which had hinted at a new engine which could handle new gameplay like that. Whatever CA are working on, they've pulled all the Total War teams on to it except CA Sofia (who are still on WH3). I'd personally say it's most likely to be 40K, given the huge amounts of money the Warhammer Fantasy games have made for them, but I can't rule out a major historical game - if it is historical I'd expect it to be Medieval 3 most likely, which a small chance of Three Kingdoms 2 (which they already cancelled once, but I could see them going back).

One thing I would really like to see from Total War games is for the campaign map to have curvature. Ideally so that one day we can get a proper Total War campaign that covers the entire Earth.

A good turn-based computer version of Twilight 2000 1e. Maybe something that felt like Fallout Tactics - there's something satisfying about driving a vehicle in a turn-based game while five squadmates unload light machine guns out the windows.

Ruin Explorer said:

There have been many attempts at this but they've all been flops, because either the audience isn't there, or they're not finding it somehow. Couple of examples that flopped less than others below:

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The audience for sure is not there, which I understand, but lament. I want a game that is noticeable in the skill difference, but understand that that obvious skill gap being realized will turn off the casual hardcore, and obviously the casual to the point it cannot catch on.

I just love watching high end FPS play.

A more-or-less faithful translation of Necromunda as a turn-based tactics game would be amazing.

Since Rogue Trader was a success I'd like to see a Black Crusade video game adaptation.

I would like to see a science fiction CRPG that wasn't grimdark, nihilistic or depressing (or Star Wars).

I'm still holding out hope that we'll get (a good) XCOM 3, but I know most of the people behind the previous two games are no longer at Firaxis, so that's a long shot. I know many of the people behind the XCOM reboot are working on a Star Wars game, but for some reason the idea of SW XCOM doesn't really excite me.

Also, sort of still hoping in a new Deus Ex reboot going from Human Revolution all the way to the original games.

Oh, and the full version of Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain.