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"Survival game" Is it made?

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1)   6 Apr 2008 16:33
Leonhardt93
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Imagine a game where your on some Robinson Crusoe-esqe island and you realistically have to find food, make shelters and fend off predators. It should be über-realistic, with the seasons changing making everything different. And without clothes and shelter you die. The island should also be difficult to navigate, so you'd have to find, or make landmarks so you could find the freshwater-springs, or berry-bushes.

This game dosen't exist i know, but does anyone know if something like it does?

2)   6 Apr 2008 16:38
SwiftVengeance1224
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say...

V-V-V

VIVA PINATA!!!

3)   6 Apr 2008 16:50
Leonhardt93
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Are you kidding? I haven't exactly played Viva Piņata but isn't it a kiddie-game about gardening? and Piņatas?

4)   6 Apr 2008 17:00
MagnetoHydroDynamics
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Lost Island 1 & 2 or something for Nintendo Ds

5)   6 Apr 2008 17:10
Singing Gremlin
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Leonhardt93:
Are you kidding? I haven't exactly played Viva Piņata but isn't it a kiddie-game about gardening? and Piņatas?

That'll happen to swift sometimes. Just give him a swift jab with the cattle-prod and he'll be ok. Where do you think he got his name from?

As for the game, I reckon it'd be pretty damn good if something like that did exist, but the closest I know of was the 'real-life' mod for morrowind, where you needed to eat drink and sleep. But we're not quite talking your level of detail.

6)   6 Apr 2008 17:16
Saphatorael
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MagnetoHydroDynamics:
Lost Island 1 & 2 or something for Nintendo Ds

Yeh, had to think of those too.

7)   6 Apr 2008 17:17
broadband
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i think something like this can be made with the new engine that are using for farcry 2

8)   6 Apr 2008 18:00
Jolly Madness
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Uhm... what is the name of that Gameboy Advance game? japanese survival game, the only way to find out if weeds are poisonous or not is to eat them (paralysis weeds FTL). Then this monkey steals your backpack, and you get lost and you're always looking for you father who disappeared when the boat sank.

9)   7 Apr 2008 18:30
SwiftVengeance1224
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Singing Gremlin:

Leonhardt93:
Are you kidding? I haven't exactly played Viva Piņata but isn't it a kiddie-game about gardening? and Piņatas?

That'll happen to swift sometimes. Just give him a swift jab with the cattle-prod and he'll be ok. Where do you think he got his name from?

As for the game, I reckon it'd be pretty damn good if something like that did exist, but the closest I know of was the 'real-life' mod for morrowind, where you needed to eat drink and sleep. But we're not quite talking your level of detail.

*Poke

OWW! Damnit Gremlin that hurt...

I'm sorry, I won't post about Viva Pinata again.

*Poke

OWW! Oh, and I'll stop making retarded threads that nobody reads.

*Poke

WTF WAS THAT FOR!?!?!

10)   7 Apr 2008 18:35
Singing Gremlin
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SwiftVengeance1224:
*Poke

OWW! Damnit Gremlin that hurt...

I'm sorry, I won't post about Viva Pinata again.

*Poke

OWW! Oh, and I'll stop making retarded threads that nobody reads.

*Poke

WTF WAS THAT FOR!?!?!

For making off topic posts you bad man!

Wait... now I've done it too.

*Poke

Ahhh the pain!

11)   7 Apr 2008 18:44
Mach10
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Leonhardt93:
Imagine a game where your on some Robinson Crusoe-esqe island and you realistically have to find food, make shelters and fend off predators. It should be über-realistic, with the seasons changing making everything different. And without clothes and shelter you die. The island should also be difficult to navigate, so you'd have to find, or make landmarks so you could find the freshwater-springs, or berry-bushes.

This game dosen't exist i know, but does anyone know if something like it does?

You mean, like Robinson's Requiem?

Absolutely brilliant concept, crippled by total lack of technology available at the time to produce a playable game, brutal control setup, and a difficulty curve shaped like an oncoming bullet-train with a rusty cow-catcher.

I for one would like to see it re-done... Maybe some logical controls would help avoid my character having to amputate both legs at the knee within 3 minutes of starting the game because I couldn't get out of the way of a roaming wild animal fast enough.

12)   7 Apr 2008 18:47
tiredinnuendo
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You want Night Trap. It's almost exactly your concept.

- J

13)   7 Apr 2008 18:57
SwiftVengeance1224
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Singing Gremlin:

SwiftVengeance1224:
*Poke

OWW! Damnit Gremlin that hurt...

I'm sorry, I won't post about Viva Pinata again.

*Poke

OWW! Oh, and I'll stop making retarded threads that nobody reads.

*Poke

WTF WAS THAT FOR!?!?!

For making off topic posts you bad man!

Wait... now I've done it too.

*Poke

Ahhh the pain!

Haha! Do y'see? It hurts! So stop poking me or-

*Poke

OWW! Oh, right sorry I went off topic again.

Ummm...uhh...Give me a second, okay?

*Poke

OWOWOWOWOW! Okay! I think a game like that would be cool! Really cool! I totally agree with your idea!

There see? I didn't go off topic that time. I mean- Oh no wait! I didn't mean it! No!!!

*Poke

14)   7 Apr 2008 20:49
The Franco
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Would this mean that there will finally be a "piss meter" in a game? I remember the semi-imaginary "hunger meter" in San Andreas, and there's been other things like that that don't use a meter, but use a timer. But if you wanted to make a seriously real survival game, realistic, piecewise damage would be pretty cool. Things like: spraining an ankle from a bad jump makes the character walk slower and getting shot in the arm makes the character have to use the other hand to shoot would be pretty neat. Just make sure not to overload with micromanaging bodily functions, I don't want to be some wanker's Medula Oblongata.

15)   7 Apr 2008 21:14
stevesan
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Yeh, that sounds like a great idea. I'd love to prototype something like this to see how it'd work...

16)   7 Apr 2008 21:24
Russ Pitts
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Robinson's Requiem FTW. I agree with the Underdogs review though. Don't play this game. You'll think it must get better - but it doesn't. It just doesn't.

17)   7 Apr 2008 21:30
Monodi
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Sounds like Oregon Trail with the Sims...

18)   7 Apr 2008 22:16
Khell_Sennet
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Ok, maybe in Canada or Russia you would die for not wearing clothes, but not on a tropical island... At least, not unless you die of skin cancer fifty years down the road. Nudism or bust.

19)   8 Apr 2008 01:22
Bodb
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Already exists somewhere, but I forget the location. Either 1up or Destructoid.

20)   8 Apr 2008 03:18
Smiles
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that would be fun....

21)   8 Apr 2008 19:06
Reload92
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Man that would be a great game if done right. It would have to be UBER realistic but still fun. Now that question is... Which developer would be right to take on the challenge?

 
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