Your own perfect computer game!

[Lazul]

Me and a mate was thinking about this. What if you had retardedly huge amount of money and could pay Blizzard or id-software or some other 'huge' company to design a game exactly as you want it.
What would you tell them to do?

[Cygnus X-1]

Another X-wing/Tie Fighter spaceflight sim, *********!

[TinCow]

Fallout 3 done perfectly with a story so long and intricate that it takes 6 months to complete it, not including side quests.

[Sjakihata]

I'd ask them to develop a MP campaign for stw, mtw and stw (with expansions)

[Kekvit Irae]

A realistic modern combat FPS that places emphasis on teamwork rather than scores. Something that allows you to fly, drive, or shoot anything. Something with maps so huge, you could easily get lost without a map. Something that actually requires knowledge of map reading to know where you are and where you are going. Something with actual missions, instead of just capture the flag. Something that will WOW me in single player, not just multiplayer.

Oh wait, they did make it...

[TinCow]

Close Combat 5 that doesn't crash and with an AI that can beat me.

[LeftEyeNine]

Online Football Player Simulation. That is the same RPG way that you are a football player not an Elf or Undead..

I even had a presentation about it at university for a course that dictated to find out a unique product for marketing.

24 hours of work and I had compiled a video clip for it. Soundtrackked with Dance eJay4 on my own, people were dancing while they were watching my video clip. Aaah, good ol' days..

Well it was named "World At Feet"

[master of the puppets]

a historical game where you can become a single man in a unit of about 80 and take part in large scale battles as a roman/spartan/scythian ect. and can build up strengh like an rpg but it dos'nt take 40 hits with a so called razor sharp sword to kill somrthing.... you know what, i just really want a time machine, i was not made for this age.

[Sjakihata]

A realistic modern combat FPS that places emphasis on teamwork rather than scores. Something that allows you to fly, drive, or shoot anything. Something with maps so huge, you could easily get lost without a map. Something that actually requires knowledge of map reading to know where you are and where you are going. Something with actual missions, instead of just capture the flag. Something that will WOW me in single player, not just multiplayer.

Oh wait, they did make it...

Flashpoint was good, but the graphic was bad, in the way that people, at long distances, were pixels (like delta force series).

This, however, is rectified in http://www.flashpoint2.com/ flashpoint 2

[Togakure]

A new Shogun: TW, of course. I'd like to see the graphics modernized, weather effects retained, and an expanded diplomatic system. I'd like to see the AI updated to be as challenging and realistic as humanly possible given today's technology. I'd want it to be as historically accurate as possible, but balanced with smooth, intuitive and engaging gameplay.

I think it would be cool to also expand the aspects of strategic agents, taisho, and daimyo--to add a "story" element to the game. Perhaps incorporate aspects of the game in "FPS" style, which are segued to when certain actions are taken, or circumstances are encountered. You become the ninja, kunouchi (female ninja--what geishas in the game really are, in my mind), or shinobi, and execute a mission, etc. If a daisho or daimyo flees the field, it segues to an "FPS"-like interface and you have to hunt down the fleeing general or defend yourself, etc.

This last isn't very likely, as it would require a completely different, additional engine, but since this is a "dream game" thread, I thought I'd put it out here. I might expand on this further when I have some more time.

[Lazul]

well persoanlly I would buy up Blizzard and scrap the "l33t haxxor" game WoW wich is so lame and "candyland" it can get.

Instead I would pay 'em to make a similar game, but instead set the Forgotten Realms (you know what I mean if you played D&D-PnP/BG/NWN).
I got so many ideas on how it would be done I wish I was filthy rich!
Just imagen the whole Forgotten Realm made in to one gameworld you can explore, grow powerfull and all around nice or naughty.

[Husar]

something like master of the puppets said, a mix of the Total War series and Mount&Blade. and they could expand this to include the whole world from ancient times up to today.and of course implement everything so it works like a sim of it´s own, I mean, I didn´t like the low visibility and the not-very-simlike flightmodels of planes in OFP, thought the rest of the game was quite good. after that I´d of course have to use the rest of my huge amount of money to get some appropriate hardware to have unlimited line of sight and enough RAM to put the whole world into it.
Well, I would certainly come up with more details and wishes while they were working on the game.

Oh, btw, I´d tell them to make a certain part of the game playable early on and add other content later on, cause i wouldn´t like to wait for them to finish it.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Another X-wing/Tie Fighter spaceflight sim, goddammit!

He speaks the truth. Modern graphics, gigantic fleet battles, and Planetary engagements included. A dynamic campaign would be good, too.

[Byzantine Prince]

A new and improved StarCraft with all the units redrawn in an animated fashion. More intricate gameplay.

Or a Counter strike type of Starcraft game, I know something like that exists, but it's not fun like CS.

[Kekvit Irae]

Flashpoint was good, but the graphic was bad, in the way that people, at long distances, were pixels (like delta force series).

This, however, is rectified in http://www.flashpoint2.com/ flashpoint 2

Waiting for OF2 is like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. It's starting to get to be a joke.

He speaks the truth. Modern graphics, gigantic fleet battles, and Planetary engagements included. A dynamic campaign would be good, too.

I want to see a combination of Star Wars Rebellion and Tie Fighter/X-Wing. Command the fleets on the strategy map, fight at the fliers in the battles.

[Beirut]

A flightsim with a trigger system, Mosquitos, Lancasters, close air support missions with troops popping smoke to mark targets, etc., an incredible mission editor, and insane graphics.

Mix IL2 + Lock On + Janes WWII Fighters + Janes USAF + Falcon 4 into a WWII prop sim.

Yeah baby!

[yesdachi]

A grand theft auto style game set in MTW. With options to be characters like the emissary, spy or assassin.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

A sequel to the Warriors. I'm not going to bother talking too much about the content but it should have but generally more mayhem and more gangs and alot more fun throwed in

[The_Mark]

Flashpoint was good, but the graphic was bad, in the way that people, at long distances, were pixels (like delta force series).

Well, they are, as it stands, pixels.

I haven't actually noticed that, but it might be that I play on 1600x1200.

Mix IL2 + Lock On + Janes WWII Fighters + Janes USAF + Falcon 4 into a WWII prop sim.

Those and Flanker 2.5 added on top of OFP with a real physics engine, or in other words, OFP2 ;)

[Kekvit Irae]

A grand theft auto style game set in MTW. With options to be characters like the emissary, spy or assassin.

I can see it now... Playing Willy D'Bastard and his Normie Posse, performing drive-by archery on Harold G's crib

[aw89]

The best game would be - without question - an all time war-simulation. You pick a date, an age of your character, place, and what status you would have. If you pick noble you might be a general, or a part of some elite squad. What about a knight? A member in a spartan army with sparta at it's hight? Working your way from simple peasant to bodyguard of the king, kill the king and try to take the throne for yourself? Sure, do it!

To bad im not dead yet (I mean, god can do anything right?(If he exist that is, what about a sign?))

[yesdachi]

I can see it now... Playing Willy D'Bastard and his Normie Posse, performing drive-by archery on Harold G's crib

E-yah!

I was thinking it would be sweet to trash an inn then steal a horse and ride to a church for some looting and then try to outrun the Urban Militia!

[Husar]

Waiting for OF2 is like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. It's starting to get to be a joke.

Wasn´t it clear from one of the first announcements that it would be 2006 or later?

[Ab Urbe Condita]

Me and a mate was thinking about this. What if you had retardedly huge amount of money and could pay Blizzard or id-software or some other 'huge' company to design a game exactly as you want it.
What would you tell them to do?

This.

I win!

[Kekvit Irae]

Wasn´t it clear from one of the first announcements that it would be 2006 or later?

For an OF fanatic, 2006 is one heck of a wait.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

a game where you get to play as the bad guys... for example instead of leading a crack team of SAS or Delta you have to try and stop them and make sure no hostages are taken or something and you have to try and take over the world and turn everyone to your point of view

[Sjakihata]

a game where you get to play as the bad guys... for example instead of leading a crack team of SAS or Delta you have to try and stop them and make sure no hostages are taken or something and you have to try and take over the world and turn everyone to your point of view

actually - I've always wanted to play as the terrorists in Rainbow Six series.

[Meneldil]

This question has already been asked in the Arena, but heh

A RPG where you get to play as a random people in a random place around 1204. You chose your birthplace, your look, all these kinds of things, and then you can play as a worker, a warrior, a mercenary, a priest, a nobleman or whatever else. Characters would have a load of different skills and stats, and the game would be played on a realistic map that would cover Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

[71-hour Ahmed]

A specialised version of Rome Total War, modified in the following ways and run on a network of Ninja PC's:

1) There would be no monitor. There would be a few giant screens instead, all around you and overhead (in a room about 5 x 5m). Probably rear projector type stuff to avoid heat build up. Access would be via the floor, with integrated quiet A/C with temperature control and built in chemical dosing that adds in appropriate aromas depending on the location of your general in the map (i.e. in a summer field with flowers, or the cool wind of a northern winter).
2) The viewpoint control interface would consist of a mechanical bull modified into a horse shape (and with the bucking behaviour removed... except for when the general is under attack, to punish you for putting yourself at risk). The viewpoint as shown on the screens would be from the generals position. Movement of the "horse" by certain actions (i.e. pressing feet onto certain point) would cause movement of your position on the battlefield.
3) All other controls would consist of voice commands given to your computer controlled staff officers (who would ride with you) or using your sword (which would be a laser pointer/ lightgun type thing allowing pointing and instructing of units.
4) Information would be provided by the method of both the displays and also messages brought by computer controlled runners and advisors (Who would only know what you could know, and would not be any more omniprescent).
5) Actual specifics of the units control would be left to advanced PC A.I. (in other words, completely replace that in RTW). Alternatively I'd employ a bunch of Chinese RPG fans to control them if the AIs weren't good enough - in exchange they get to use the networked PCs for their RPGs for free when I don't need them sub-generalling for me.

And there we have it, Rome:Total Immersion...

edit: 5 x 5m room size seems a bit more ego-massaging now I think of it, and more pratical to fit a mechanical horse in.

[Drisos]

a combination of Fifa and some soccer manager game. just like Fifa but then with also finances

but anyways it will never be nearly as good as stw