Games we want, but will almost certainly never have

Tributary

@Aria I need my local library to get the 3rd or 4th book back in so that I can continue! But maybe after I have all of the books read…

SpaceKhomeini

@Tributary @Aria

One of the joys of running an Expanse game is when you invariably run across that one player who needs to get tossed out an airlock, you can just

(SEASON 5 FINALE SPOILERS)

do them like Alex. Oh shit, looks like your brain’s broken! Sorry friend.

SpaceKhomeini

In the back of my mind I had an idea for an anthology SF game that blatantly rips off elements of Assassin’s Creed, thankfully more or less jettisoning the modern secret society ancient immortals whatever conspiracy plot and more just this basic concept:

A series of researchers of wide, varied backgrounds gather in a secure facility, having identified formerly-living people of interest in various times and places.

Each long-term plot arc is centered around a specific time and place that the characters immerse themselves in and relive the lives and experiences of said people of interest via some handwavey mechanism.

Want to go to Istanbul or Constantinople in centuries past? Sure. Want to be pirates? Go be pirates. Do you prefer the Carribean or want to hang with Zheng Yi Sao? Do you want a big epic politlcal drama? Sure, Medieval Europe or the Italian city-states are there, but maybe it’d be cool to have an arc centered around the formation of the Iroquois League. Want to witness the seeds of Arthurian legend firsthand? That’d be awesome, but also, did you know that Vietnam has their own vaguely Excalibur-like legend?

The well of stories is vast, and it’s a shame there are likely too many logistical difficulties for most gamerunners to bother with.

Alveraxus

@Solstice said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

I’ll remove this (slightly) from the spirit of MU* to briefly say:

A new game in the EverQuest franchise, as it’s been seemingly shuffled off to pasture to die under the weight of soulless expansions. I miss ploddingly paced MMOs that felt like worlds, and I’ll probably never experience one again unless gamerunners get serious about encrypting data so it can’t be mined as soon as it’s pushed.

I miss Norrath as it existed in my teenage brain. (So basically anything prior to Gates of Discord)

Blah.

I don’t know if this solves for your itch in any meaningful way, but google up Project99. It’s a full on EQ emulator locked back at the second or third expansion. Pretty active player base, and it exists I think with tacit approval from the current operators.

I poked around there long enough to relive nostalgia and then remember why playing it consumed way too much of life, and then stopped.

L. B. Heuschkel

@SpaceKhomeini I don’t want to toot my own horn too much but, that paragraph was very close to Keys’ intro lines:

“Want to fight Nazis in occupied France? Ride with Cortez? Plunder Egyptian tombs, whether in 2000 BC or the 1920s? Visit an Earth where the Roman Empire never fell or European settlers never made it to the Americas? It’s all true — somewhere, somewhen.”

Anyhow, there is definitely a market for what-if and yes-but storylines. Go forth and make it happen!

Jennkryst

My latest obsession is Eldritch Automata, a cross between Evangalion, CthulhuTECH, and Pacific Rim where everyone fights beg monsters in fancy robutts where your mech’s health track is dictated by your sanity stat, and your attacks are fueled by STRESS and/or TRAUMA.

Get in the fucking ~~robot~~ Kickstarter, Shinji!