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[Bohandas]

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I want to play a game about killing dictators. Mind you, not some chickenshit game where you're an overly professional and battle-hardened soldier gunning for some generic fictional dictator who rules a country that doesn't seem to have any civilians. I want to play as an ax-wielding maniac who has somehow gotten into Kim-Jong Un's mansion, and in addition to mutilating him and his guards, I also want to mutilate his family and any particularly loyal members of his staff. Then I want to do the same to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Then the Castros. Then Troung Tan Sang. Then Yoweri Museveni. Then a massacre of the scions of House Saud. And so on and so on. Multiple scenarios for each dictator; at a minimum each has a scenario where the goal is to kill them in their home, one where the goal is to kill them in a public place during a speech or parade, one where you kill them in the capitol of their government, and one scenario specific to the dictator (for example since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's government is a theocracy you might kill him in a mosque). The building layouts and the dictators' faces should be as true to life as possible. If the dictators' real-world counterparts don't take extreme personal offense to the game then it hasn't been made correctly.
The first DLC shall give the same treatment to influential captains of industry such as the Koch brothers, Donald trump and Chris Dodd.
The second DLC shall give the treatment to historical dictators and would-be dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Tojo and Hirohito, Francisco Franco, the Three Pashas, Momar Gadaffi, Che Guevera, Kim Il-Sung, Idi Amin, Henry VIII, the prophet Abraham,  the peophet mohammed, Mao Tse Tung, ayatollah Khomeini, Joseph McCarthy, Benjamin Rush, the Duvaliers, Fulgencio Batista, King George III, Pol Pot, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, Kim Jong Il, J. Edgar Hoover, etc.
The next DLC would deal with the murder of historical captains of industry such as Steve Jobs, Jack Valenti, and so on.

The game shall be dedicated to the memory of either Nat Turner and/or to Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Max Robespierre

[blazing glory]

More story-based Star Wars shooters/Republic Commando 2.

[itisnotlogical]

Something like DF's Adventure Mode, but for story-focused RPGs. Say instead of generating every last tiny detail, it creates a "broad overview" version of history with some notable characters to use or mention later in the story, with a number of plot archetypes and interchangeable pieces to swap in and out for new combinations, along with sidequests and other extra areas.

Probably much easier said than done, but this is a thread for wishing after all

[JoshuaFH]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

[UXLZ]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

Have you heard of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 1/2?

[JoshuaFH]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

Have you heard of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 1/2?

I have, actually I think I own the first one but I never gave it a spin. Or did I buy Overclocked? I can't remember.

[Sirus]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

I remember an Ogre Tactics game for the N64 that was a bit like this. Not turn-based, but when groups of opposing units encountered each other it would zoom in and you'd get to watch each of the units fire off an attack/spell before one side or the other is declared the winner. Then it's back to the real-time strategic view.

...man, I want to play that again. Never got very far (rental).

[flabort]

Any game with an honest-to-goodness Chao Garden, like was present in the Gamecube versions of Sonic Adventure and it's sequel.

ESPECIALLY if it's a mod for Minecraft.

[itisnotlogical]

Any game with an honest-to-goodness Chao Garden, like was present in the Gamecube versions of Sonic Adventure and it's sequel.

ESPECIALLY if it's a mod for Minecraft.

To be honest, I never even found the Chao Gardens in Sonic Adventure until I was close to the very end of the game, and by then I was far too checked-out of the game to raise a Chao.

Speaking of, SONIC ADVENTURE 3. I don't care if I only like the original games because of nostalgia goggles, I don't care how poorly the latest 3D Sonic games have fared. I want a fast 3D platformer with awkward poorly-dubbed cutscenes, oddly shiny characters and a whole bunch of bullshit side characters that are no fun to play as. I would even be fine with an HD remake of the original Sonic Adventure with updated graphics and some gameplay tweaks.

[JoshuaFH]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

I remember an Ogre Tactics game for the N64 that was a bit like this. Not turn-based, but when groups of opposing units encountered each other it would zoom in and you'd get to watch each of the units fire off an attack/spell before one side or the other is declared the winner. Then it's back to the real-time strategic view.

...man, I want to play that again. Never got very far (rental).

I never played the N64 one, but on SNES there was Tactics Ogre: March of the Black Queen, which I did play and beat. I thought it was novel enough at the time, but you don't get to control, you're just setting up your unit and they do their thing automatically. Plus Tactics Ogre's character progression was extremely arcane, nonintuitive, and slow. It took the entire game to do any cool stuff with leveling or ranking up or changing classes, and I basically needed GameFAQs on tap at all times to clear up all the mysterious BS hidden in the game mechanics. It was really disappointing experience overall.

[Twinwolf]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

Have you heard of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 1/2?

I have, actually I think I own the first one but I never gave it a spin. Or did I buy Overclocked? I can't remember.

It's pretty much what you described. You have your characters which each act as a single unit on the strategic map. Each unit is the character, and multiple demons, who I believe each get their own move.

[JoshuaFH]

I'll have to re-download it to my 3DS and give it a whirl. thx.

[Graknorke]

Was going to say, that description sounds exactly like Sonic 06. It never stipulated that Sonic had to be fun to play as, after all.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah, I realized that after it was too late to edit and clarify that I wanted a good sequel to SA2.

[Uristides]

I've imagined for awhile now a game that is in the style of fire emblem with top-down, turn-based strategic unit warfare, but instead of individual units they'd be groups of 1-5 characters you'd select in that stage's setup phase, and whenever units fought the game would focus in and you'd control that group of characters in more traditional RPG-style (like outta Final Fantasy or something) that'd last for one round before zooming out and continuing the strategy portion.

I don't know if anything like that exists, all the most recent Fire Emblems have been disappointing so I always get caught up in what *I* would have done.

I knew I knew one game that did that! Bahamut Lagoon for the SNES(Japan only, but there's a fanlation)! Game is crazy, there's that individual in tactical/party in battle thing, dragons you control indirectly with orders and elemental magic affects the battlefield(ice freezes water, making bridges, thunder destroys trees I think and I forgot what fire does ). Well worth a try I'd say.

And then there's gemfire, where your individual units are really whole army units but you have no agency over combat, you just tell them what to attack in tactical mode and the game autoresolves how many on each side dies. Yggdra Union does something simmilar IIRC, but I wouldn't be surprised if another game in the "series" did exactly what you want though, they tend to have weird battle systems.