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Indigo_Dingo
Gone Gonzo
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Joined: 30 Jan 2008

The Iron Ninja:

Indigo_Dingo:

The Iron Ninja:
If I stated my Pure Molten Awesome list here it would be seen as derailing the thread. And I'm trying to break the habit.
But rest assured that John Lennon, The Ghost of Sin and Reaperman Wompa are on it somewhere
(and not just because I'll feel mean if I say you aren't)

Why don't you just make a forum Role play thread about it? And then exclude me from it despite giving you the idea for it.

Pfft. No one would read a thread I started.

Well, you're right there.

bkd69
Beat Writer
Posts: 168
Joined: 23 Nov 2007

Glorantha.

An Ancient Western Civilizations (MMO)RPG, set anywhere from 5000-0 BCE.

Car Wars/Autoduel MMORPG.

Blue Planet.

Chemicks
Copy Clerk
Posts: 68
Joined: 10 Feb 2008

Modern-day thieves. Think Ocean's Eleven but with less overused actors.

stompy
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2913
Joined: 21 Jan 2008

Indigo_Dingo:
A war between two non-humanoid aliens, with no humans in it at all. Just one alien civilisation being taken over by another, and you must repel the invaders.

I'm reminded of Beyond Good and Evil... hey, they had pig-men, so it's all good.

As for mine, I'd say get more large-scale war games. Doesn't necessarily have to be WW2, I like those games.

Decoy Doctorpus
King of the Yetis
Posts: 1901
Joined: 15 Jul 2008

The urethra.

Consider the posibilities!

Burnout Urethra

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Urethra Wars 2: The reckoning

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Urethra Crossing

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and my favourite

Meatl Gear Urethra

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DiamondJim
Copy Clerk
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Joined: 27 Sep 2008

Chemicks:
Modern-day thieves. Think Ocean's Eleven but with less overused actors.

I think Kane & Lynch tried too hard to do that. I agree though, done right that game setting could be badass.

N-Sef
Press Junketeer
Posts: 382
Joined: 21 Jun 2008

Agreed on the whole Heist thing, isn't there a game coming out called Hei$t where it deals with that subject matter? Even so, we need more of it.

A school setting as well, not just High School but Primary/Elementary and Universities.

Downside
Beat Writer
Posts: 170
Joined: 16 Sep 2008

a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

Reaperman Wompa
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Posts: 1954
Joined: 6 Aug 2008

Downside:
a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

The movie Shoot 'em up in heaven!!!!

If you haven't seen it do so, it's hilarious due to it's absolute absurdity. Just to give you a taste he kills someone with a carrot.

Trace2010
Press Junketeer
Posts: 424
Joined: 10 Aug 2008

Philippines. Indonesia. Taiwan. Austrailia/NZ (that would be an interesting game- any Aussies have any ideas for a plot line?) White Sands, NM (where they shot Transformers)....Montana.

Iron_will
Copy Clerk
Posts: 54
Joined: 8 Feb 2008

I have never seen a game that has Singapore as a setting. I'd like to see one.

Syphonz
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Joined: 22 Aug 2008

I'd like to see more developers try a hand at the Chernobyl Diaster. Like Stalker, however, get somebody to program it correctly so a 'meh' graphics engine doesn't demand for more than Crysis.

Seriously, compare Crysis system reqs to Clear Sky and you'll see what I mean.

Graustein
Pulitzer Laureate
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Joined: 15 Jun 2008

Downside:
a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

The closest I can think of is this romhack of Wolfenstein, in which you were Noah shooting the animals with fruit and vegetables to get them to go to the ark.

Digitalpotato
Copy Clerk
Posts: 125
Joined: 29 Aug 2008

-Modern urban settings that are NOT part of Tokyo.
-Suburbia
-Farmlands in Australia, America, Mongolia, etc. (Think Colorado or most of Australia - You guys at least get all the cool agriculture tech first)
-Middle East
-North Africa
-South Africa (And I'm referring to the country this time)
-Central Africa
-Australian Outback.
-modern australia
-Elves that do NOT live in a forest and are even more stuck-up than yahtzee.
-Siberia
-A futuristic technology game that's actually not all "look at us we're super rich and uber futuristic!", rather something like a new Industrial Revolution and the place where the game's centered around is still making the transition to "Modernization"
-Jeanne d'Arcing OTHER Historical wars. (Imagine if the English Civil War was sparked because they were practicing demon worship. XD)
-The 13 original colonies
-A war game based off of Assyria.
-Greek Mythology in the modern era...and featuring more modernized gods. (eg Zeus and Hera talk about Marriage Counseling, Ares gets frustrated because of all the anti-war protesters, and Hephaestus becomes a pyromaniac)
-Norse mythology in the modern era. Without featuring power-suits.
-Anthropomorphic animals not being featured as a secondary role...or even being the "Minority in Power".
-An urban middle-eastern city like maybe in the UAE or Dubai or Kuwait.
-Isolated cities in Wyoming.

Count_de_Monet
Muckraker
Posts: 237
Joined: 21 Nov 2007

Does there exist a decent game which involves sea battles? I played some korean WW2 sea battle game for a little while but they switched it to pay to play and it really wasn't worth it... I'd love to play a game with duelng battleships and planes flying off of carriers blowing the bejeesus out of stuff.

Also, underwater is very under-represented. I can't remember ever playing a submarine game or even something like Doom where you are killing aliens in an installation at the bottom of the ocean.

Marcosco
Beat Writer
Posts: 184
Joined: 20 Sep 2008

Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Greece, topographically correct, with no magic or interference with Gods.

The Amazon.

A seamless game of manhunt in the amazon. AWE SOME. I'd buy 6.

Troy.

TheGhostOfSin
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1100
Joined: 21 May 2008

The Iron Ninja:

Indigo_Dingo:

The Iron Ninja:
If I stated my Pure Molten Awesome list here it would be seen as derailing the thread. And I'm trying to break the habit.
But rest assured that John Lennon, The Ghost of Sin and Reaperman Wompa are on it somewhere
(and not just because I'll feel mean if I say you aren't)

Why don't you just make a forum Role play thread about it? And then exclude me from it despite giving you the idea for it.

Pfft. No one would read a thread I started.

I might, and not just because you said I was pure molten awesome.

SixAngryDwarves
Paperboy
Posts: 27
Joined: 10 Sep 2008

Hey, hey ,hey, guys, i don't remember any WWII games.
Oh Wait, i must have forgotten every game made in the last 20 years!
But, all sarcasm aside, I really think they should make a game based in my good `ol Candaian igloo village where I only have maple syrup to eat, and molson Canadian to drink.
But seriously though, Canada would be a sick place to shoot some baddies!

ace_of_something
Beat Writer
Posts: 145
Joined: 19 Sep 2008

the Vietnam war would be interesting... maybe it could revolve around moral choices that mess you up for life. Shoot this defenseless village or fail the mission and go down a different path of levels.
Or something.

The Korean War
World War One (or The Great War)
The Hundred Years War

I'm sure games have been made for these topics. I sure don't know them so they must've sucked.

Digitalpotato
Copy Clerk
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Joined: 29 Aug 2008

Jeanne D'Arc didn't suck and it was based (loosely) off the 100 years war. Of course they really werne't going for historical accuracy...you can tell since Jeanne lives.

pigeon_of_doom
Copy Clerk
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Joined: 9 Feb 2008

Nearly any civil war, not sure if the Korean War in mercenaries counts, but a dynasty warriors style treatment of the english civil war could be good I think. Also Spanish Civil War might be good.

Iron Mal
Press Junketeer
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Joined: 4 Jun 2008

Good ideas for game settings in my opinion would be:

1. Prehistoric times (also known as Pangea if my spelling is correct)
2. Gothic settings (quite a few games in the late 90's had this idea and I loved it).
3. Hades/Hell/Purgatory (by this I mean a game where you spend the entire game there, not just one level a'la Doom)
4. The planet of Krylung
5. A shipwreck/wrecked submarine at the bottom of the ocean (no escape then)

the protaginist
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Crosseyes:
Lemme help you narrow that list down Iron Ninja:

P.p.s. "A game above or below the sea, not zelda" wow, has everyone already forgotten Bioshock?
Crosseyes
X_X

what i meant by that is a zelda-esque game, just not the same setting or characters.

Like,if they made a pirate free-roam.

mark_n_b
Press Junketeer
Posts: 464
Joined: 24 Mar 2008

Vivaldi:
A WWII game that does not haveso much patriotism about it that one could cut through it with a batonet.

Any game that is NOT set in WWII or medieval Europe when dwarves and elves roamed freely on the plains or a distant intergalactic empire. If for five years all developers decided not to use these fall backs, this question would not be asked.

Anton P. Nym
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Joined: 18 Sep 2007

Iron Mal:
5. A shipwreck/wrecked submarine at the bottom of the ocean (no escape then)

That setting's been beaten up pretty hard in the movies, but yeah not so much in games.

I had an idea for a game, a first-person platformer, set aboard an abandoned container ship at risk of capsizing; your job was to save the ship and rescue any survivors trapped aboard. Real-world physics would come into play controlling the ship's attitude, how containers and wreckage shifted according to the ship's list, jumps, dangling from safety lines, and similar.

Wired had an article about real-life maritime salvage engineers who'd worked on such an incident, and the experience sounded absolutely harrowing even without adding dramatic elements.

-- Steve

Crosseyes
Anonymous Source
Posts: 5
Joined: 2 Sep 2008

[quote=The Iron Ninja post=9.72714.770566
-Terry Pratchett's discworld
[/quote]
you mean the one from those books with the wizard with the spell stuck in his head and the turist with the pearwood luggage that follows him around?

if(myanswer = true)
{
cout<< "cause that would be very confusing and difficult to orchestrate" <<endl;
cout<< "(I had alot of trouble getting all of the extradimensional crap that went on" <<endl;
}
else if(myanswer = false)
{
cout<< "well I'm dum" << endl;
}
else
{
cout<< "cupcakes" <<endl;
}

Crosseyes
Anonymous Source
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Joined: 2 Sep 2008

@ protagonist: they have. Alot actually.

Librarian Mike
Beat Writer
Posts: 137
Joined: 16 May 2008

Anything with colour. At some point, it became accepted wisdom that 'atmosphere' was a synonym for 'brown'.

PersianLlama
Press Junketeer
Posts: 429
Joined: 31 Aug 2008

Crimean War
Hell

Crosseyes:
[quote=The Iron Ninja post=9.72714.770566
-Terry Pratchett's discworld
[/quote]
you mean the one from those books with the wizard with the spell stuck in his head and the turist with the pearwood luggage that follows him around?

if(myanswer = true)
{
cout<< "cause that would be very confusing and difficult to orchestrate" <<endl;
cout<< "(I had alot of trouble getting all of the extradimensional crap that went on" <<endl;
}
else if(myanswer = false)
{
cout<< "well I'm dum" << endl;
}
else
{
cout<< "cupcakes" <<endl;
}

cupcakes!

toniworld
Anonymous Source
Posts: 2
Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Definitely the Discworld!

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Muhaha, first the Unseen University, then the whole Discworld!

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