I miss having a hero I can directly control in an RTS game. Rise and fall civilizations at war was the closest there was, but it won’t even run on windows anymore
I’m totally not the guy to give this advice, but I am frequently told you can get almost any old game running on windows with the right emulators and know how. I don’t have the know how, but I’m sure you could figure it out if you spent a couple days learning about it.
No your right %100. I actually already know how to do all of it. But I also do a lot of that stuff for my job, and while I really want to play the game. I really don’t want to spend half a day to the majority of a day setting up a VM. One day.
Yup, that’s my problem in a nut shell. People make it sound really easy, and I’m sure with enough time and reading it would be, but man is that not just something I can do right now
It was a LOT like that. Think of a regular RTS game. Rome, Egyptians, Greeks. 5000 population cap. But you can enter a dynasty warriors mode with your hero and level up and give your troops rudimentary commands. It was dope.
A business sim that models a country and you can run any business you want, and see if you can build a successful business. I’m talking a sim that models every other business, every city, every street even. The whole economy. Way beyond what’s realistic for sim games at present.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag (aka AC: The Pirate Simulator) meets Sid Meiers Pirates! Live The Life.
Basically I want a giant open world with dozens of cities and even more small villages, modernish graphics, and be a pirate. And be able to lead a fleet. And swap ships.
I’m gonna be honest, due to my niche game preferences, if they could add in ability to upgrade and customize every ship with tons of options, including crazy ass “I zip tied a rocket motor to a group of hot wheels cars to see if I could skate” type things. “I replaced one mast with a trebuchet, and because I like to tempt death it also launches flaming oil soaked things” energy.
Maybe toss in a ship editor like starfield had, but with sloops and galleons and shit. Things like fake guns could add to intimidation factor, and while fake guns don’t shoot, they need only good from afar. By the end of the game, hopefully your branding will allow you to win some fights before taking a shot.
And because I like games like Sim city/ cities skylines, building and management games and the like, I’d love if that could somehow be incorporated into things. Both on the ships themselves, and as your “pirate fortress” home base. And I’d want to be able to set up multiple bases, all working together.
All of the addons being an option but not required to finish since having to micromanage the happiness of Pegleg Dave because he ate in the dark without a table again would get old quick.
The downside is, because all these elements don’t really mesh all that smoothly in a game setting, I don’t even think it’s possible to make a good game like that.
Basically I want to be a pirate king in a modern game, and actually feel like a king. In both ability to command what is essentially a rogue nation, and the mild headache that comes with managing it.
Victims of pirates, I’d guess. But you don’t see many of those anymore.
Every time I bring up pirate games everyone falls over themselves trying to ask if I’ve tried sea of thieves.
Yes. I have. No. It’s nothing like what I want. I can’t even have fun playing it by myself. 0/10 (friends). Would not recommend.
It’s fine with a group, but it’s not what I want. I want single player with a crew of npcs, and for gits and shiggles you could have multi-player available where the crew of your ship can be replaced by other players, or a ship in your fleet can be controlled by other players.
Like… The ocean is a perfect place to hide loading screens too, because it’s relatively flat most of the time, nobody bats an eye if there’s fog obscuring the distance, this game could have so many possibilities but it would be SO expensive to make.
Which is why it will never be made.
Nobody is interested in making a good game, they just want to make money.
I enjoy fishing, and I even enjoy occasionally fishing in a game, but if it’s mandatory all the fun goes out of it. Needed for fancy upgrades is a good compromise though. It’s not necessary but if you want to max out…
And if you want to sit back and chill for 47 hours of just fishing? You get a nice haul to sell when you get back to the market.
We can’t play in person except twice a year, and games on a screen don’t do it.
Sitting in our respective homes and being able to “see” each other across a table while playing a couple hours a week would be great.
And my parents have friends they’d play with every day if they had this. Some of whom can’t even play in person because they’re confined to a single room in a care home, but they’d be able to wear a headset and move around in their bed. That’s enough.
If you’re anything like me and are impatient and don’t mind a bit of tinkering, you could look into trinusvr.com/psvr. I haven’t tried it myself, but it should let you play steamvr games on your PSVR.
a new vegas-y fallout that does right all the things bethesda fucks up, with co-op
a 3d fighter with legible and clean visual design so that there aren’t any horseshit knowledge checks like highs that look like mids, safe moves that look exactly like unsafe moves etc, basically a new one that can learn the lessons from eight tekkens, six doas, six soul caliburs, and 5 virtua fighters but without being beholden to legacy jank or 20-30 years of built up cruft.
You can do most of this in Cities Skylines - certainly pedestrian view. Not so much driving a car or a plane but there were mods that did some of that I think.
Cities 2 also has a pedestrian view and there is a photo mode which allows some flying but not a freeform driving/flying mode as you describe.
I would prefer a civilization builder with that kind of personality. Live civ 5 mixed with baulders gate 3, with loads of asthetic choices for my towns, other civilizations to go to war with. Etc. Maybe you could play from the perspective of God, play the majority of the time in a top down cilization style, but then also have the option to go down to your planet as an avatar or profit or whatever and lead in a more hands on fashion to solve different issues. Say your chosen people are losing a war, you could become a great warrior and come down to help for a couple years. Idk, I just really love the idea of a civilization builder that feels more personal and involved.
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