A game setting that hasn't been done?

[Logic 0]

The war of 1812 I'd like to see a game about that.

 

[Ciran]

My stance has always been that everything has been done at least once. There is nothing original anymore, the only thing original is taking something and presenting it in an original fashion.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

An RPG in stone Age, if there is one, I would like to try it.

Perhaps Conan the Barbarian? I have no idea if that's true, I've never looked at the thing.

I vote for a utopian worlds where people and bizarre animals live side by side, working, playing, battl?

Oh. Right.

Conan the Barbarian is set in the Iron Age, I mean, they have swords.

 

[Lineoutt]

Shrunk down version of the surface of a compost pile

A game based on what goes on inside the persons head (for ex: oh snap I'm flying down the river of banana peels into the rainbow mines and there is a giant gorothigan serpent-fish-cat-horse monster chasing me. Quick grab the flaming sword constructed out of explosions and defend myself until the raft reaches the mango tubes!)

... I completely forgot where I was going with that

 

[rabidmidget]

Do satirical settings count? Because if you include them, the number of possible settings almost doubles.

 

[UmbralRaptor]

A polynesia-like setting, through some space games are vaguely similar.

In the rare, but done category: anything with a Diesel Punk [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DieselPunk] setting. Bronze age, early iron age, and neolithic settings are also rather rare. There are probably parts of 'colonizing' the Americas (say, 1500-1850) that are done rarely or not all. Central, South, and Southeast Asia are also largely ignored. Ditto subsaharan Africa.

As for wars, anything more recent than WW2 gets only light coverage. Alternatively, some older ones might work. What games are set during or around, say, the Thirty Years War, or Great Northern War? Or for that matter, the Sino-Japanese or Russo-Japanese Wars? (Well, the later has been dealt with once or twice in naval games...)

Well, as for colonizing the Americas, there's a little game you may remember with this little word; dysentery. As for any Age thing, don't forget that there are tons of games out there that occur during these times, without focusing on it.

And as far as wars not covered in games, I can assure you there are some modders out there who have pretty much simulated every war ever.

And If sub-Saharan Africa means what i think it means (below the map of the desert), then what about Far Cry 2 or Resident Evil 5? Those are in sub-Saharan Africa, right?

I would like to point out that for most of those, I said rare, not never. >_<

 

[skeliton112]

Set in Ya Mum.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Inside a cloud, the only setting of the world would be the cloud so mist (see most Silent Hill games) doesn't count. I have no bloody idea how one would pull something half-decent out of this, but that's the developer's job.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

For prehistoric times, I'd suggest both Chuck rock and there was an arcade side scroller too that I've forgotten the name of.

If you want dinosaurs not cavemen, there's Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, or Primal Rage, the 'Mortal Kombat with dinos' arcade game of the 90s with the ridiculously complex special moves.

The 60s and 70s haven't been touched much, tho I guess GTA London was 60s.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

A war game in Australia.

I'm doing an indie one... does that count?

 

[Natdaprat]

I'd like to see more alternative dimensions and universes. Possibly incorporating the 4th dimension; space and time.

 

[skeliton112]

Mythical China was done ONCE. Jade Empire.

Umm...My mind's twisted fetish fantasy world.

Bayonetta? How twisted are we talking, cause there is probably something japanese...

 

[conflictofinterests]

A gigantic bathroom. A gigantic closet. A gigantic laundry room. A home entertainment center. Some kid's diorama project (Arguably Paper Mario has done this, but only in art style, not in actual on-purpose setting). The bottom of a river. A waterfall. An enormous invisible platform thousands of feet above the ground.

Pretty much the settings that haven't been done are ones that are actually tiny parts of other settings. I totally want a game based entirely in a river system now.

 

[Gigano]

The Principality of Sealand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand]

Even games set in Europe/Britain haven't included/featured it, and it could probably make for decent "king of the hill" gameplay (or a next installment of lemmings).

With the length CoD singleplayer campaigns has these days, I expect Black Ops to solely take place here. And still include 10 elaborate setpieces, 5 of which will include nukes.

 

[Guffe]

So how about a combination game? I mean like The SuperSmash searies exept with anime or horror characters... Can't think of any and SS searies only takes in Nintendo chars, well for the most atleast. And SuperSmash is famous if something is.

 

[blalien]

Inside a cloud, the only setting of the world would be the cloud so mist (see most Silent Hill games) doesn't count. I have no bloody idea how one would pull something half-decent out of this, but that's the developer's job.

A lot of Kirby games have levels that take place inside clouds. And there are floating island settings like Skies of Arcadia. I don't think it's what you're looking for, though.

 

[Callate]

I don't think there have been a lot of games set in India, the South Pacific, or ancient Sumeria.

 

[Auric]

Stone age?