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[Frumple]

I mean... it is/was the prequel to Shadowrun, which has a good handful of video games, so... maybe something like those? With some exceptions they've been pretty well received over the years.

[Iduno]

I mean... it is/was the prequel to Shadowrun, which has a good handful of video games, so... maybe something like those? With some exceptions they've been pretty well received over the years.

Not really. The world, history, and gameplay are all wildly different. They just re-used some of the dragons and Shadowrun made references to Earthdawn characters while they were trying to promote it.

D&D and MtG have put more effort into being in the same game world.

[Robsoie]

A whole game based on the concept of the amazingly good " Kshatriya " bonus mission found in Metro Last Light, with of course the environment of a full city to slowly uncover and explore.

[ivanovic]

A game with a massive map with massive zoom in/out mechanics like Google Maps, where you build your cities and/or kingdoms directly on the map. Just one map, no instances, no different screens for "town view" and "world view", just seamless transition between the town/kingdom micromanagement and the global geostrategic view. The closest I know is the browser game Lands of Lords.

[Niveras]

Anno 2205 has that to a slight degree. There are several territories that you need to develop concurrently (and manage resource transfer between them), including colonies on the moon and a space station for research. But I guess the interface on your global view is different from that of managing a single territory (since you don't have much call for building buildings on the global view).

However, there are small load times when switching between regions ("small" depending on your system, but not longer than 5 or 10 seconds on mine), and the primary combat portions are in their own separate instances.

[Aoi]

There was something Civ-esque that did that (I want to say the name was similar to Tapestry or Talisman) as part of their measures to improve performance. When you zoomed in, you were on a "live" map, showing units, terrain, etc. As you zoomed further out, it became more abstract, until you were looking at a parchment map with pins indicating units/cities/etc.

Edit: Elemental: War of Magic. Well... it had a mostly one-word title.

(Not the same scene, but you get the idea.)

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[LordBaal]

There was something Civ-esque that did that (I want to say the name was similar to Tapestry or Talisman) as part of their measures to improve performance. When you zoomed in, you were on a "live" map, showing units, terrain, etc. As you zoomed further out, it became more abstract, until you were looking at a parchment map with pins indicating units/cities/etc.

I remember some dude back when I worked on an iceacream shop, both my first formal job and first and only time having an prostitute acquaintance. A dude that looked like the latino version of the comic books guy from the simpson, down to wearing the same clothes everyday and all, told me about this wonderful game he could not remember the name of, which was something like that.

He spoke about how the map went from "planetary" view (, to regional to city to people walking on the streets.

However I suspect it was more wishful bullshiting than anything, specially since this guy was really fishy. Once he gifted me a cd with some "games" and was mostly hentai and asian porn... so... make of that what you will.

Also this was 20 years ago or so, when computers struggled to have a 200 population age of empires game.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Huh, I actually don't think I've mentioned it here, but...

I'd like an indie MMO where you are an officer of a small band of infantry. Tutorial as a Lieutenant, start playing as Captain, and go all the way up to Colonel or Brigadier General. You can be really hand's on, dictate to your AI officers, or get friends/clan members to handle your battalions/companies/platoons for you. One giant shard, depicting a low-fantasy ~18XXs war between two Empires. Complete customization of uniform and selection of equipment based on the type of regiment you command. All sorts of historically similar missions, with sieges being massive community events--and instead of a war that can be won and then reset it's more of a "the closer you get to the other sides home base the hard it becomes" kind of thing--i.e. in the grim darkness of this fantasy setting there is only war.

In an ideal world, devs appoint moderators to make up lists of officers who are "mentioned in dispatches" and award medals for feats of martial prowess. IDK.

[Mkok]

Personally I would love to see a kind of minecraft strategy game. Basically minecraft, but you would control multiple characters and give out orders on what they would do, maybe even have the ability to control one of the characters and play like in minecraft.

There already were few attempts at something like this, from the ones I know of the closest one was probably timber and stone which has been discontinued. Stonehearth promised as well but failed to deliver. Dwarf fortress is also kind of similar, but it is more on the realistic side than sandox side of things, plus with these controls and graphics...

[NRDL]

I'd like to see some sort of Parkour, Mirror's Edge-esque Battle Royale game.

Very limited "combat", just punches, kicks and shoves, that don't actually do damage to other players. But they do stun and knockdown.

The real threat comes from the environment. The entire arena has to be collapsing, exploding, be filling up with dangerous objects, enemies and debris, that has to be run away from.

Trying to outrun and outwit everything, while tripping up your competitors at every opportunity, would be the bulk of the game.

[ivanovic]

I'd like to see some sort of Parkour, Mirror's Edge-esque Battle Royale game.

Very limited "combat", just punches, kicks and shoves, that don't actually do damage to other players. But they do stun and knockdown.

The real threat comes from the environment. The entire arena has to be collapsing, exploding, be filling up with dangerous objects, enemies and debris, that has to be run away from.

Trying to outrun and outwit everything, while tripping up your competitors at every opportunity, would be the bulk of the game.

Do you mean, something like this:

https://youtu.be/iZxNbAwY_rk?t=49

[Frumple]

So, uh. Fall guys, basically?

[NRDL]

First person, but yeah.

[AzyWng]

I’d like more games with a focus on first-person parkour. The only ones that come to mind are Mirror’s Edge and Dying Light. Games like Hot Lava and SEUM: Speedrunners From Hell don’t really count since they’re more about platforming.

[ArchimedesWojak]

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead made in the style of Fallout 3