Period of History You'd Like to See in a Video Game

[Wintermoot]

a alternate history where the cold war happened (as in real fights) where you can play it from both sides with different endings for both sides (like RA1)

 

[ecjgy]

a game where you could go back in time and fight anyone you wanted and change history

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I'd like to see a game based around The Great Game between Britain and Russia over control of Central Asia.

And you should have the choice of ending up letting the Anglo-Russian Convention be signed, or busting it up and escallating the hostilities.

 

[Carlston]

Genghis Khan's slaughter of 21 million Asian peasantry...

Makes the holocaust look tame.

 

[lacktheknack]

Something in Ancient Egypt that isn't

1: Management/RTS.
2: Shit.

Thank you for clarifying that "Pharaoh" isn't shit.



OT: This. Beyond "Pharaoh", there aren't any really good Egyptian Era games. The closest thing we've got is Riddle of the Sphinx, which is modern day.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Timesplitters 4, nuff said

That series already has enough temporal paradoxes to make my brain melt. He goes back in time and with the help of several versions of himself (wait, what?) destroys the timesplitters before they were created. If the timesplitters were never created then he never went back in time which means that he never stopped them and so they were created? (*Brain melt*). Despite the fact the land changes to show it hasn't been wrecked by the timesplitter war they all still remember it happening even though it didn't and corporal heart is still dead even though she isn't.

The Irish War of Independance. Nothing would be more satisfying than shooting a Black and Tan and then cycling away on your bike.

I wouldn't mind one about the Irish Civil War or the War For Independence.

But that's mostly because I'm Irish.

Eh...I can't see it making it past the sensors. If Ireland has to change their national anthem for rugby and football to avoid offence then I don't think we are quite ready for this. How they got away with showing the IRA versus the Taliban on Deadliest Warrior (IRA creamed the taliban by the way) I'll never know. Especially as he starts off with neutral words but if you listen carefully he starts to take sides a bit. XD

It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, to be honest. I'm quite surprised the IRA won considering the Taliban took out all of them bar one guy with an RPG-7

 

[Jfswift]

Stone ages. It would be BADASS.

Don't you mean, "it would rock"

 

[HTID Raver]

victoria era england and 1920s? lol idk

 

[stygN]

Anyone ever played "Sapiens"? First game I played with nude boobs in it.. It was AWESOME!!! And you could craft your own weapons out of flint : )

So, they did make a game from the stone age!!

I downloaded a version of the game, 2.41 or something.. But it didn't quite work on my computer..

If anyone has a working version of this game, please let me know : ) It's so friggin awesome : )

 

[Dajjal]

The time of the mayan or aztec civilization. An RPG were you are Montezuma and you create your empire, interact with the conquistadors and maybe cut out a heart or two for the sacrifices.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I would like to see more set in the age surrounding the French revolution/ following Napoleonic wars.

Yeah, I agree. I think it'd be cool.

Also I'd love Third-Person Fighter Thing (but kind of like Enslaved) in Feudal Japan. It'd be pretty sweet. Also I'd love some more Ninja games....they'd be brilliant.

There's no particular point in time that comes to mind, but I'd like to see more historical games, especially ones that allow immersion.

I suppose I'd like to play as a Bahri Mameluke during the failed Ninth Crusade, or perhaps as a Celt or Germanian making a futile resistance against the expansion of the Roman Empire in a non-RTS managerial role.

I agree. Also pretty cool would be a game like Kingdom Under Fire (for the X-Box original) but set in the actual Crusades or really any Knight/Sword-Fighting Period (Crusades, 100 Years War, Feudal Japan...stuff like that).

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I'll say the same thing I did the last time this topic turned up:

An Assassin's Creed-style game set in Elizabethan England, roughly 1580-1603. You've got the Spanish Armada, Catholic spies, an aging queen with no clear successor and people plotting against her, William Shakespeare, the plague, Christopher Marlowe and his mysterious death...it's got it all.

 

[TheIr0nMike]

I don't know if this would count, but a game centered around an ancient American civilization (Aztecs, Incas, Native American tribes, etc.) and it's mythology. Possibly an Elder Scrolls-esque game that's focussed on exploration or interacting with neighboring groups (with how you interact with the dominant civilization [be it an American civilization or colonial] being the endgame).

 

[dancinginfernal]

The only good WWI setting I've ever seen done well was in The Darkness, that version was hellish.

So yeah, WWI.

 

[Vault101]

I'm not sure how it would work, but I would love to play an FPS using muskets and other early gunpowder weapons. I'm guessing that bayonets and other melee weapons would play a bigger part than they do in most modern games.

couldnt be too realistic because by FPS standards, hell even real life standards those weapons were quite crappy guns (depending on exactally that period/type of weopon) the amount of time it would take to reload between each shot...you'd be Meleeing alot

and the "hardcore" FPS players would hate it, but then again realism for thr sake of realism isnt often a good idea

Stone ages. It would be BADASS.

that could totally work as an RPG

Well, life was pretty much limited to hunting and gathering at that time so it would make a big difference...however I am not sure about gameplay because the only skills are bludgeoning and/or mixing hallucinogenic shrooms

not nessicarly

could move things forward a bit and/or take a bit of poetic license

plus there could be a range of weopons, different types of spears mabye a bow and awrrow a sling (you know thing that throws rocks at deadly speed)

also life is more interesting than "hunting and gathering" theres also trade and barter and internal and external tribal conflicts

in fact theres an entire book series (starts with clan of the cave bear) set in prehistoric times and alot of interestign stuff happens, granted it takes a little poetic lisence but its also know fro having ALOT of reasearch put into it

 

[Gibboniser]

Ancient Rome, gotta love it.

 

[Athol]

A WWII FPS from the Axis perspective. Like the German Blitzkrieg, the North Africa campaign, The 2nd Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific Campaign, The Winter war.

Problem is as soon as a game like that would be announced it would be bombarded with criticism.

Ive wanted a game like this for awhile. As for controversy, you make the german soldier just some 18 years old who dosent care about politics and joined the military because it was better than being unemployed and hungry.

 

[MisterM2402]

Cavemen RPG.

What's there to RP about? It's not like cavemen led very deep and interesting lives; kill animals, gather crap, move on, hunt animals, gather crap, move on, rinse and repeat.

I guess it'd be in a similar vein as Minecraft (though obviously not the same): "kill animals, gather crap, move on". You could have major events like creating tools, starting fires, primitive language - I guess in that respect, it'd be kinda like Spore as well, dinosaurs being the other tribes and Epic creatures.

May not be to everyone's taste, but neither are the majority of games.

 

[Tanis]

WW1 would be fun, I think, if done right.

The 'cradle of life' era.
Tossing spears, riding chariots, ect.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

I know this isn't a part of history, but personally think the future(not the alien and galaxies future, just the future on planet earth) hasen't been explored enough.