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I want to make a Portuguese joke, where is Takashi

Eschatos, more like chata de galocha, é muito chato, né

[Schwere Viper]

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man it's not my fault they named their game boring in Portuguese, this is like the Spanish Mitsubishi Pajero fiasco all over again

It's good we weren't talking about Piranha

[evnvnv]

new question: If you were a child today, what do you think you'd think video games would be like in 2055
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[shnozlak]

Sonic CD intro the game.

I assumed things would be bigger and faster and have snappy-er controls and more complex art.
I didnt really think things would change much.
I did not envision cut scenes being a thing. I knew they would be in games since I owned WORMS but I never thought they would be 'important'.
I didn't imagine there being any value in realism either. I always saw games as this weird dream space.

Thats pretty much it. I cant remember much else.
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I can't channel my inner Michael Jackson, so I really don't know

[spinach]

i thought for sure by now there would be an rpg scenario set in a dystopian future on a planet with floating cities resembling giant horseshoe crabs. one part animal farm, one part final fantasy 8, one part magic: the gathering: the videogame (a thing that didn't exist in any form i wanted it to until battlegrounds took a stab at it -- my roommate with terrible taste had a moment of prescience in which he described it as the best football game he'd ever played and i never figured the guy for an offensive lineman (he is tiny)) and colorful as all hell. dunno what the fuck happened to colors in dystopian sci-fi videogames.

i think my favorite "game i imagined would exist in the future as a kid" is caster, which, seriously, y'all should go play. your basic spell/gun brings dead trees back to life, the sound is quite satisfying.
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[JoeX111]

Once upon a time, these Half-Life modders were working on a free game called Nakatomi Plaza. It was going to be awesome. A Die Hard game that let you foil the terrorist plot in your own way. All the NPCs had schedules, Shenmue style, and you could interrupt them by creating traps and ambushing guys. Kill one dude and another terrorist would step in to complete his job. Cause enough trouble and they'd hunt you floor by floor. It sounded like the best open-world action game ever made and exactly what I wanted in a shooter.

Here's the officially licensed crap we got instead.

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I remember all of this. I even played through Nakatomi Plaza and I probably cried in places

(the only times I actually cry are because of manly heroics in movies, so if you know this fact about me: there were no manly heroics in Nakatomi Plaza)

[starblood]

[Loki Laufeyson]

is it even bad when you play as a dinosaur?
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[starblood]

I didn't play as a dinosaur, I should have tried it at least once. I was so pissed off at the game, I gave up after I miraculously ended in the second stage, with the electricity and crate variety puzzles. I played it muted while I blasted albums for Rei; I made her listen to Slint.

I can't make any comments on the music, if it does not suck, it is the only thing about that game. The visuals are not much to look at, I found it very unappealing. Mega Drive games usually look well done to me, but this looked like your average licensed mess with no flairs.

[Youpi]

When Google eats enough data I would like to see some 1:1 scale games.

In particular, a few times I've been thinking about an "escape the country" kind of survival game. You're dropped in a foreign country with no information, no money, no gizmos. You must get the fuck out of here. You're a wanted person, though most civvies won't know your face at the start of the game. Real scale, real time, perma-death (or arrest).
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[JoeX111]

Metal Gear Solid 4 made me wish for a survival-oriented occupied city game. Like, there are two military forces in this now-ruined city, battling for control. You are just a schmo trying to survive by staying out of firefights, maybe doing some stealth to grab cans of food, I don't know. And since the battle is ever-evolving, you're constantly moving around, trying to find new shelter away from the battlezones. So I guess what I'm saying, over and over again, is I want more open-world simulation in my video games.

[luvcraft]

I still intend to make this game one day; polished mahogany and brass joysticks and all.
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[Rokkan]

I'm still waiting for a game based around QTEs that aren't "press this button quick".

It's this idea that I had as a kid/teen that basically the battles would be in-game rendered cutscenes, but each button corresponds to an action of sorts? Like... A punches, B kicks, X guards and Y charges up energy or something like that. Buttons wouldn't appear on the screen, you'd do the actions when you see fit. Some actions work, some actions work even better, some doesn't work, some might work with the correct timing, etc. The game would need to have really good graphical design so players could have a better idea of what they should do, I suppose. I dunno, I don't know if this'd work or be a fun game.

Sonic Unleashed was something I've imagined I guess. I remember when I first saw footage of it and being like "woah, a really fast and pretty Sonic game, that's just how I've imagined it".

uhh... what else... Metal Gear Rising and Binary Domain I guess?? I've always imagined dealing damage to enemies the way those two games do it (how depending of the slightest difference where and how you shoot/slice things, they cause unique damage/the game generates unique feedback on it?)

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About the QTE thing: you have to play NFS: The Run. There is one QTE sequence there that blew my mind but the problem is that you won't get that experience from just watching a video of it. Matter of fact, if you get it right the first time by luck then you won't get the extent of it either. But I can tell you that it is definitely a step in the direction you describe, Rokkan.

The other QTE sequences in the game are shit and don't do anything. :(

[Youpi]

I'm still waiting for genuine crack cocaine.
A game that is not merely causing addiction as a side effect and semi-humorous joking point in its description, but that is engineered all the way to ruin lives. A pure compulsion loop instrumentalizing your social network in such a way you will only hang out with fellow junkies, with defensive incentives against attempts at rehab.
Zynga are small time, they're in it for the money.
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who was that Japanese game designer that actually wanted to do something like that? he was interviewed by Brandon Sheffield once I believe.

[spinach]

[spinach]

also there was that cossix thing

a castlevanialike and you've got a spear and you walljump by thrusting your spear into the wall, then jumping up and SLAMMING YOUR SPEAR IN AGAIN. i liked the idea so much i went to the bay to learn to animate so i could make this thing. then every aspect of my life imediately fell apart and kept falling apart and i ended up with a fairly popular band instead.
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[Gironika]

[Youpi]

[Moogs]

I thought games would still be all 2D and TOTALLY LOOK LIKE ANIME.

[boojiboy7]

[Gironika]

[Guillotine]

The first 3d games made me think of fully interactive environments. I guess fully destructible, considering I mostly thought about fighting games. i remember I envisioned a fight in a coliseum, and one of the fighters would get slammed anime style breaking columns and walls, with uhm "real" debris(as in, say bricks that were actually part of the wall).

[Courier Rice]

I remember playing FFT as a kid and wanting to see tactical RPGs incorporate more letting the player use the terrain to their advantage (units can carry ladders/grappling hooks in their inventory for climbing walls; build walls with limited sustainability; knock pillars/trees over onto enemy units). Unless I've missed something since then, it looks like the genre just went on to focus more on depth of customization for characters/classes and unit placement.

[CubaLibre]

A(n essentially J)RPG I started "designing" (writing in a notebook with a friend about) in high school had a hex-based fighting system that focused primarily on environmental interaction as a way to mediate between ranged (guns!) and melee characters. I was actually inspired by Fallout, I hated FFT.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

There are bits and pieces here and there since FFT (and Tactics Ogre), but most of them deal with concepts that aren't quite as immediately recognizable as matters of navigating or manipulating terrain. Nippon Ichi started doing some weird stuff with game mechanics with carrying, tossing and Geo Panels in Disgaea, and someone else can probably tell you how that developed in their later games. The full 3D Valkyria Chronicles games allow you to control the player like a third-person shooter during their turn, which means you need to evaluate your surroundings on a more careful level - this is probably the closest to what you were hoping for, and I think you might want to watch some gameplay footage of the original if you haven't already.

The upcoming "remake" of X-com (not the pushed-to-2013 FPS, the strategy game coming later this year) will allow your characters to use hookshot-esque grapples to get to higher ground for the advantages conveyed by such. Might want to keep an eye on that.

as with almost any game dreams along these lines, there's probably some obscure eastern European game that does all you want and more, but even if you were able to find it, and find it in a language you could understand, it would probably be a very fickle, buggy experience. Actually, I shouldn't be so dismissive - there's probably a fair number of B-to-D grade games from the past ten years which achieve what you imagined in some form, but they'll almost universally be 3D, western-made, only available for Windows and far less concerned with storytelling than their eastern counterparts.

[scratchmonkey]

[Courier Rice]

I actually played through several of the NIS SRPGs once upon a time, and their innovations were interesting, but not quite what I wanted. Valkyria Chronicles has been on my backlog for a while now, too.

[parker]

A game that's all about escaping some indestructible monster type thing that's tracking you down in real time, kind of like what they were going for in Resident Evil Nemesis crossed with the MGS crying wolf/the end boss fights. You'd think we could get a slasher genre in videogames.

The kind of game they bullshitted Far Cry 2 up to be. Open world, two sides fighting each other. Finite amount of people in the world. You kill somebody in one group the guy below him moves up to take his place. Join one side, play both against each other, ignore them etc., the only goal to find one specific guy and kill him.
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[parker]

Yeah I mean where you're in an open area being actively stalked and have all sorts of options at your disposal. Only in this The End is a werewolf or something and Snake is a girl scout with a pocket knife and it's more about trying to escape an overwhelming force than fighting back, though maybe you can try to build weapons or traps to injure it or whatnot, I don't know. Maybe like that one open world terminator game where you're Kyle Reese and have to protect Sara Conner from the Terminator. Yeah actually why doesn't somebody just remake that.
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[another god]

A first person shooter with melee and grappling systems. Melee would actually become fun, but multiplayer in melee would attract attention and DOUBLE KILLS. Guns bigger than pistols would either be rare or nonexistent. Somehow they'd figure out how to do akimbo aiming through use of cool split screens. Also, stylish cel shaded graphics.
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