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.

 

[Bohandas]

Ok, here's another thing I want:

Quake 1, but with procedurally generated levels so it never ends

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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.

I genuinely can't remember it's name and the name I thought was right seems not to be lol. But yeah also you don't keep saying "Candyman" unless you like hooks and bees a real lot!

I love blobbers too though, it's just they're usually really bad or even, more recently, weirdly for perverts (which kind of tracks given some of the people who like them I guess). What's up with that? Dungeon Master > most other RPGs until Ultima Underworld frankly, though. And I'd love to see more cool Dungeon Master-ish games. Thyiastery looks pretty interesting and the Shadowrun meets Wizardry-style Undernauts: The Labyrinth of Yomi was cool.

C still stands for computer in CRPG, it's just what "CRPG" indicates is a bit more specific than it used to be. Anyone telling you it stands for anything else is a revisionist teenager, in spirit if not in age! I one such insisting that not only did "CRPG" stand for "Classic RPG" but further, that it always had. I asked him why he though we'd have been calling them "Classic RPGs" back in the 1990s whilst linking some articles, but shockingly he had no response!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

People do it all the time on reddit.

Which subreddit? I guess it doesn't matter, because if you're looking for performative grogitude, Reddit is absolutely your #1 destination. Just find the right place.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Ok, here's another thing I want:

Quake 1, but with procedurally generated levels so it never ends

If that had existed when I was at university I might never have left my room. I might still be there to this day, the chonk of the grenade launcher and rattle of the nail gun echoing from my room.

(We could do with more single-player Quake-derived games in the Boomer shooter sphere rather than Doom, Blood and Duke Nukem 3D successors imho, not that those haven't been good, but Quake has not had the respect it deserves.)

 

[Reynard]

Which subreddit? I guess it doesn't matter, because if you're looking for performative grogitude, Reddit is absolutely your #1 destination. Just find the right place.

This is a very strange thing to fight about.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

This is a very strange thing to fight about.

I didn't start it man, but I'm happy to let it drop lol.

 

[Bohandas]

(We could do with more single-player Quake-derived games in the Boomer shooter sphere rather than Doom, Blood and Duke Nukem 3D successors imho, not that those haven't been good, but Quake has not had the respect it deserves.)

I find it particularly troublesome that even the other Quake games do not appear to have been based on Quake

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This is a very strange thing to fight about.

I can think of stranger.