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[Funk]

A good turn based strategy focused around squad combat, for some reason Jagged Alliance 2 with the 1.13 mod is still the best.
Thing like battle bothers have the problem that you have such limited points, you can basicly move or attack.

[Frumple]

Still missing a modern ogre battle.

Add on wanting to see something centered around spelljammers, or similar concepts. High fantasy sci-fi, plying the aether sea, the exact format doesn't really matter. Closest I can think to it is maybe the sunless sea/sky stuff, but that's more steampunk than high fantasy. I want my wizards to be throwing fireballs from the deck of a spacefaring whaling ship at asteroids to crack them open for delicious magic rocks.

Similarly, I'd goddamn love to see a high fantasy/magitech mech game, action, strategy, or rpg (or all of them) doesn't matter. Someone take the magitek armor from FF6 and go wild with it. Really crunchy magitech is something I don't see as an aesthetic or mechanics influence nearly enough.

[Iduno]

A good turn based strategy focused around squad combat, for some reason Jagged Alliance 2 with the 1.13 mod is still the best.
Thing like battle bothers have the problem that you have such limited points, you can basicly move or attack.

So like Fallout Tactics was supposed to be?

[LordBaal]

The ungodly combination of a city builder, a 4x game and a tactical battles simulator.

Think civilization IF we could layout the cities, instead of single units we had armies composed of units and battles could be fought in real time.

Or Total War, again, if city maps were able to be edited, and if some elements of the campaing map could change dinamically (changing borders, new towns, razing settlements...).

While having a turn based "city builder" component seems crazy it could work in some ways I think.

[Frumple]

So, uh. Modern Deadlock sequel?

[LordBaal]

I think an ancient or medieval (historic or fantasy) setting would be less complex to acomplish. And obvuisly it would need to be more modern, but yeah something along those lines.

[hops]

I wish there were more idle/realtime waiting-based games that actually has good gameplay and not just a skinner box.

[LordBaal]

Ymir is a good one.

[JoshuaFH]

I really appreciated The Longing.

[JWNoctis]

I think an ancient or medieval (historic or fantasy) setting would be less complex to acomplish. And obvuisly it would need to be more modern, but yeah something along those lines.

Endless Legends and Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes fit the first two, inasmuch as they are customizable-city-building medieval-high-fantasy 4X games with battles fought on mostly the same map.

The third condition practically limits you to Total War series short of some very niche and complicated combat sims, with no modern overlap with city builders I'm familiar with.

[chaotic skies]

I want a game that delivers on the promise of the Dragon language from Skyrim. I want to be able to chain together any of the words I know to make some wacky and wild spell.

I've actually been workshopping this in my free time - the hardest part so far has actually been deciding if I want constraints on the number of components to a spell, and then figuring out interesting things to do that are actually possible to be implemented.

[Mathel]

I think you should limit the nuber of spell word-components. Either that, or make more complex spells cost more of some resource (such as breath). In the second case, the player could upgrade their lung capacity to get access to longer shouts.

But in the end, the length of a shout should be limited by something.

I am also interested whether there would be any need to form actual sentences.

Btw, look at the game Magicka. It does something similar, though if you are going to use a language, it will nescessarily be more complex.

[Frumple]

There's occasionally other attempts at a word (or otherwise fairly freeform component) based magic system outside magicka. I'm, uh. Blanking on names at the moment. But they're out there. Iirc there's been at least two or three either stalled or still in (glacial) development roguelikes that was being built around it. Pretty sure there's some non-roguelike ones, too, somewhere lost in the desolate wastelands of the steam catalogue, heh.

[Egan_BW]

ahh, you mean perplexicon-likes? :p

[Sirus]

Magicmaker was a fairly good attempt at freeform magic crafting. You get loads of components that interact in various ways so you can create laser beams that bounce off walls and poison struck enemies, or whatever.

That said there were only so many components and they usually just combined their individual effects rather than creating entirely new effects, so perhaps it's not what you're looking for. It's something, anyway.