Video Games You Wish Existed

[Kaodi]

Oh people have tried!
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I do not know so much that it is combining genres so much as tacking on functionality from one game to another. Like, maybe I should not have said KC: Deliverance, because I was not really looking at the story so much as the setting and open-worldness. Mostly my thinking was thought sometimes when I was playing Warhammer 3 lately I was like, "What would it be like if the map just didn't have borders?" along with, "What if you just folded the TW campaign map into the battle map?"

Though it will also not be like what I am describing I am really looking forward to seeing what they do with Medieval 3.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

The only people who insist on intentionally confusing people by calling Pillars "PoE" in 2026 are the most performatively groggy grogs in my experience. The only CRPG-oriented place I've seen it be popular as a term is that weird old (but still busy) site the name of which escapes me (it's black with red writing I think - or it used to be)

Ha! Afraid of summoning them? I mostly like the groggy-grog attitudes, but found the blatant racism (and most of the other isms) a bit much. They also love blobbers, which is a genre I think best lost to the mists of time.

I’ve certainly seen PoE used for Pillars of Eternity in dedicated cRPG (apparently the c doesn’t stand for “computer” any more - who knew?) spaces numerous times, though as you say, I suspect to a general audience Path of Exile is more likely to come to mind.