Video Games You Wish Existed

[Bohandas]

Science fantasy cross between Master of Orion 2 and Master of Magic 1 with both a tech tree and magic

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A remastered Majesty.

A remastered Sid Meier's Pirates.

A mobile roguelike that wasn't boogered up with microtransactions -- even one as simple as the original Rogue, ASCII text and all, would be fine.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think it is naive to just assume they won't get better and cheaper like every other technology ever.

I remember, pre-pandemic, when 3D TVs were going to be the big thing and there were one or two E3 shows where they were pushed heavily as the future of TV.

Maybe everyone has one but my family, but I don't think every technology gets better and cheaper or even survives.

 

[Gradine]

I remember, pre-pandemic, when 3D TVs were going to be the big thing and there were one or two E3 shows where they were pushed heavily as the future of TV.

Maybe everyone has one but my family, but I don't think every technology gets better and cheaper or even survives.

You mean you didn't grow up with any laserdisc in your house??

 

[Reynard]

I remember, pre-pandemic, when 3D TVs were going to be the big thing and there were one or two E3 shows where they were pushed heavily as the future of TV.

Maybe everyone has one but my family, but I don't think every technology gets better and cheaper or even survives.

I don't think these are of a kind.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Today’s Facepalm Moment:

We took a whole bunch of (mostly) functional but seriously outdated tech to be recycled Friday, including a venerable Mac laptop. It had served in various capacities over its 10+ years of operation.

I just realized THIS MORNING that I possibly could have made it into a dedicated retro gaming platform. I know I had an old FPS on it from when I was helping someone take care of an older relative. It should have easily handled side scrollers & 2D space shooters from the 1990s-early 2000s. The puzzle games would have been a non-issue.

 

[Bohandas]

I remember, pre-pandemic, when 3D TVs were going to be the big thing and there were one or two E3 shows where they were pushed heavily as the future of TV.

Maybe everyone has one but my family, but I don't think every technology gets better and cheaper or even survives.

3d, in all of its incarnations, is more of a gimmick than a technology

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

3d, in all of its incarnations, is more of a gimmick than a technology

How about the metaverse, a technology so important that Facebook renamed itself after it? Anyone metaversing now, either in their home or workplace?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

How about the metaverse, a technology so important that Facebook renamed itself after it? Anyone metaversing now, either in their home or workplace?

If Meta had actively wanted to kill off that whole approach and to ensure it didn't become mainstream they honestly couldn't have done a much better job than by making it look like trash, making it look really hard to do (it isn't), blowing tens of billions (literally! $47 billion!!!) on it, and completely failing to achieve or advance anything, in fact ending up far behind, say Second Life circa 2008 or say, VRChat, both of which were cobbled together on on a budget more than 10000x (literally) lower.

 

[Reynard]

I want augmented reality, heads up display glasses more than any piece of technology I can think of and I absolutely do not want to get them from Meta.