your perfect game

**GiantMonkeyMan** · 04-13-2006, 12:29

if you had... like £10000000000

to make a computer game of your choice what would it be?

mine would be an RPG of 'epic' preportions set in post-apocalyptic britain... you put in your post code (if you actually live in britain) or the game assigns you a made up house and you can travel any where in the whole of the uk trying to gather survivors and build up a stable government or just wreck the place... everything will be destructable and there will be few AI players... you have to find safe food to eat/drink, you have to find sources of fuel, your clothing gradually degrades so you have to find new stuff to wear or you get too cold, some cars work and some are death traps
sort of a mix between fallout and oblivion but with no magic/mutations

GMM

**Yawning Angel** · 04-13-2006, 13:00

Despot

You'll need to read Iain Banks' novel Complicity for details of this one, but basically it is Civilization on steroids. Pretty similar concept, but with varying degrees of power as you rise up the ranks. Start as the chieftan of a small tribe and you can't see/do/influence as much as you can as King of a large country etc. Also seems to have some real-time/turn-based cross over and a competent AI. If only . . .

**Rosacrux redux** · 04-13-2006, 13:12

Mine would be an RPG-TBS-RTS (a-la Rome the latter) hybrid, with some adventure elements. A game of grand strategy but also of petty politics, humble starts and stuff. Say, let's name it... Alea Jacta Est.

You start in a historical setting of choice (I would actually choose the ancient Mediteranean world to be represented in the game, very in-depth and accurately) and pick up a character. Not a historical one. You may pick a farmer in 50 AD Rome, or a peasant in 4th century BC Macedonia, or a citizen in 5th BC Athens, or an omoios in 6th BC Sparta or whatnot. Then you try to bring your character to a position of power. You can use military skill (at first, you'll be fighting in the lines with the other soldiers, than as you advance in rank you will be assigned various commands, until you manage to have your own army and be in a position to claim higher power) or political/diplomatical skills (endless sessions at the Agora, ostracising, backstabbing at the Senate, scheming in the court of some hellenistic king, panem et circensis, winner at the olympics... you know the stuff). Eventually you can come to a point to be absolute ruler or be the strong man of the republic/democracy... and here is when the real fun starts.

A great asset would be to actually build up power for your family. Say, in the first generation you gain military fame and some money and influence. In the second a seat in the senate. In the third, you become a famed politican and Dictator... that kind of stuff.

It's a game of uber-epic proportions, I might say... would be the absolute game. With a battle engine similar to RTW (or MTW 2, even better) but you can be able to guide your individual character... and lots of other bells and whistels... while the political/diplomatic model would be... well, don't think there's any game featuring such an engine...

**Craterus** · 04-13-2006, 13:48

Originally Posted by Rosacrux redux

Mine would be an RPG-TBS-RTS (a-la Rome the latter) hybrid, with some adventure elements. A game of grand strategy but also of petty politics, humble starts and stuff. Say, let's name it... Alea Jacta Est.

You start in a historical setting of choice (I would actually choose the ancient Mediteranean world to be represented in the game, very in-depth and accurately) and pick up a character. Not a historical one. You may pick a farmer in 50 AD Rome, or a peasant in 4th century BC Macedonia, or a citizen in 5th BC Athens, or an omoios in 6th BC Sparta or whatnot. Then you try to bring your character to a position of power. You can use military skill (at first, you'll be fighting in the lines with the other soldiers, than as you advance in rank you will be assigned various commands, until you manage to have your own army and be in a position to claim higher power) or political/diplomatical skills (endless sessions at the Agora, ostracising, backstabbing at the Senate, scheming in the court of some hellenistic king, panem et circensis, winner at the olympics... you know the stuff). Eventually you can come to a point to be absolute ruler or be the strong man of the republic/democracy... and here is when the real fun starts.

A great asset would be to actually build up power for your family. Say, in the first generation you gain military fame and some money and influence. In the second a seat in the senate. In the third, you become a famed politican and Dictator... that kind of stuff.

It's a game of uber-epic proportions, I might say... would be the absolute game. With a battle engine similar to RTW (or MTW 2, even better) but you can be able to guide your individual character... and lots of other bells and whistels... while the political/diplomatic model would be... well, don't think there's any game featuring such an engine...

Mine would be that, but with only the RPG elements. You take control of a random person from any time in the past 5000 years. You can do what you want with them, but your main aim should be to take them to a position of power.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 04-14-2006, 02:52

My perfect game:

Take MTW, make it flawlessly 3D, fix some minor things, expand diplomacy and economics, and be pretty much done.

**Keba** · 04-14-2006, 13:53

Civilization mixed with Total War and an ultra-realistic RPG.

With amazing modability (open-source even), and the option to play a single period of history.