Video Games You Wish Existed

[Horwath]

WoW without chat moderators.

 

[James Gasik]

WoW without chat moderators.

You would unleash the madness that is Barrens General Chat on the world?! You monster!

 

[DammitVictor]

Oh, no.

WeaponLord -- modern AA remake, preferably hand-drawn HD sprites, the same systems but with more rational inputs. Larger roster, more gameplay modes. Just generally try again for a time and an FGC that's ready to pick up what it was putting down.

Phantasy Star -- not a specific PS game, but a cluster of PS games in a kind of renaissance, as part of Sega's big back catalog push. A tactical RPG, a Western action RPG like Mass Effect or the Witcher, a true roguelike and an action roguelite. Hell, give me a side-scrolling beatemup and a proper 1-on-1 fighter. Or an anime tag fighter, even. Gimme some TV, too, live action and anime. Just more Phantasy Star. MOAR PL0X.

This is going to sound weirdly specific... but true roguelikes based on Nintendo IPs. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Fire Emblem. And/or Hades clone action roguelites, for which I would definitely add Donkey Kong.

A Paper Mario or Mario + Luigi game as a tactical RPG, with both playable/story companions and generic units. Long, epic main storyline, tons of sidequests and companion quests, impossible to 100% in one playthrough. Same aesthetic, same whimsy... everything that makes the (first two) Paper Mario games and the Mario + Luigi series great... with the mechanical depth of a Square-Enix RPG and the ball-breaking difficulty of a FromSoft game.

2 or 3 AA/AAA Masters of the Universe (He-Man or She-Ra) licensed games per year, in varying genres, starting from 2024 or 2025. Really looking forward to Dragon Pearl of Destruction, but why in the name of little purple monkeys are we not drowning in games from this franchise?

 

[James Gasik]

Phantasy Star -- not a specific PS game, but a cluster of PS games in a kind of renaissance, as part of Sega's big back catalog push. A tactical RPG, a Western action RPG like Mass Effect or the Witcher, a true roguelike and an action roguelite. Hell, give me a side-scrolling beatemup and a proper 1-on-1 fighter. Or an anime tag fighter, even. Gimme some TV, too, live action and anime. Just more Phantasy Star. MOAR PL0X.

Definitely more Phantasy Star. If I could find players, I'd have bought the new TTRPG, because I love the Swords & Lasguns setting.

 

[Gradine]

You would unleash the madness that is Barrens General Chat on the world?! You monster!

 

[Bohandas]

I want a boomer shooter set in the kind of surreal non-euclidean multiply-connected landscape usually more closely assiciated with puzzle games like Antichamber, Manifold Garden, Lingo, Superliminal, etc

 

[Ruin Explorer]

WoW without chat moderators.

I mean, 8Chan already exists.

But seriously WoW without moderators would rapidly degrade into just nazi trolls - because any totally unmoderated chat with enough people in it always does. Because nazi trolls have no self-awareness, no self-control, no sense of decency, no sense of decorum, no ability to self-edit, enjoy causing harm and distress to others, and are highly motivated to be the worst people they possibly can, that's why they're nazi trolls, their brains don't work well. So they'll be spewing the most vile stuff imaginable into chat, like, way, way worse than the worst Barrens Chat that ever existed, including graphic descriptions of pedophilia (I've seen this happen in WoW, so don't try and tell me it won't lol), actual criminal threats which would get various law enforcement agencies involved with your game (again, has actually happened in WoW), and because they're doing that, and no-one can stop them, people who are even moderately okay human beings will pretty quickly ditch your game.

So basically you'd just have set up an expensive to develop and maintain MMO solely for nazi trolls to talk to other nazi trolls. Maybe not the best plan.

 

[Reynard]

I mean, 8Chan already exists.

But seriously WoW without moderators would rapidly degrade into just nazi trolls - because any totally unmoderated chat with enough people in it always does. Because nazi trolls have no self-awareness, no self-control, no sense of decency, no sense of decorum, no ability to self-edit, enjoy causing harm and distress to others, and are highly motivated to be the worst people they possibly can, that's why they're nazi trolls, their brains don't work well. So they'll be spewing the most vile stuff imaginable into chat, like, way, way worse than the worst Barrens Chat that ever existed, including graphic descriptions of pedophilia (I've seen this happen in WoW, so don't try and tell me it won't lol), actual criminal threats which would get various law enforcement agencies involved with your game (again, has actually happened in WoW), and because they're doing that, and no-one can stop them, people who are even moderately okay human beings will pretty quickly ditch your game.

So basically you'd just have set up an expensive to develop and maintain MMO solely for nazi trolls to talk to other nazi trolls. Maybe not the best plan.

Also, if you want unmoderated chat, just make a Discord server.

 

[TheHand]

I would have said a true sequel to Star Control 2 made by Paul and Fred, but it looks like we may actually be getting that!

I’d love to see 3d remakes of Fallout 1 and 2. I own the originals, have replayed them many times, but remakes in the vein of Fallout 3-4 would be a ton of fun and might make the early entries of the series more accessible. Unfortunately, Bethesda seems to be a shell of its former self so I wouldn’t have much confidence in them being good if announced today.

 

[MarkB]

I’d love to see 3d remakes of Fallout 1 and 2. I own the originals, have replayed them many times, but remakes in the vein of Fallout 3-4 would be a ton of fun and might make the early entries of the series more accessible. Unfortunately, Bethesda seems to be a shell of its former self so I wouldn’t have much confidence in them being good if announced today.

Licence them out to Obsidian.