Settings that need more love <3

[Johnson McGee]

I think mouse sensitivity needs to be more standardized, have to spend so much time messing with that setting for every game.

Oh, not the kind of setting you meant?

OT: I would love to see a kind of frontier space pioneering setting in a game, not like a typical 4x where everyone expands outward from their own planet but something where everyone starts at the same point and goes outward competing for resources.

 

[MammothBlade]

Prehistoric times. Not nearly enough games set back then. I get all nostalgic for when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Few people will remember, we had games such as velociraptor baiting and mammoth hunting to keep us occupied. Those were the days!

Seriously though, the best I've seen is the 65 BC world in Chrono Trigger. And that setting deserves so much more attention.

It's the same with far future settings (other than Warhammer 40k). Maybe something much closer to the end of the universe or at least the Sun. A world so far into the future that very few recognisable traces of humanity remain.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Where's the fantasy games set in an urban setting?

YES! I had forgotten about that. I really want more of them. Why don't we have more? We need more.

This; Why can't we battle dragons in Miami using modern firearms?! Because Dragons are magical...but then this is easily remedied by enchanting the gun itself or, the bullet clips! "Because it's fucking magic, that's why" is still a valid excuse to put Dragons in modern day Baltimore.

Or failing that: Cyberpunk fantasty in a not-too-distant future. Cloned or, robotic dragons (or both) ravaging the megalopolis of Neo-Atlanta. I'd love to see more games setting say "prepare for high tech shit" like Deus Ex but then blindside you with "Have some magical murder-tools! They're not high-tech, they're MAGIC"

 

[Don Savik]

Steampunk and a good cyberpunk, not like the crap that crappy Syndicate remake thinks cyberpunk is.

AND BIOSHOCK IS NOT STEAMPUNK, its retro-futuristic, nothing is run on steam in the bioshock universe. Also, more retro-futuristic games, those are good too.

And more games where I play as a non-human. I hate it that nobody wants to take the chance to ATTEMPT to characterize a non-human protagonist because they think people will think its too weird and instead buy the latest Football Manager game.

 

[Johnnydillinger]

That WWI setting described in the first post has been done in 1916: Die Unbekannte Krieg. It's a free FPS horror title, and gave me quite the jumps, but it had some nauseating graphics (for me at least). Definitely worth checking out.

As for another setting I don't see too often in games, what about ancient aztec or mayan worlds. Not just cameos, like in some Tomb Raider games and Sanitarium, and not taking place in present day (sorta) like in The Ball and once again, Tomb Raider games, but taking place in an age when their civilizations were at their strongest. Heh, maybe a new Assassin's Creed spinoff without assassins... Wait, that doesn't sound too bad thinking about it.

I'd also love to see something like the movie Outlander; a spaceman crashing on Earth in the age of vikings... but this time give those vikings some futuristic weapons that they loot off the spacemen that came invading them. Then, as a small squad, you force one of them to take you to their homeworld and take the war to them. The possibilities from there are endless.

 

[Seraj]

Middle-Eastern Fantasy. Genies and flying carpets, all that good Arabian Nights stuff.

I second that, there are simply not enough genies and flying carpets in my gaming life right now.

Or, so the game industry doesn't seem too biased, an FPS middle eastern setting that *doesn't* revolve around "Arabs gone bad, kill Arabs".

Maybe something that revolves around one of the revolutions? The Libyan one certainly had enough guns and a mad frothing dictator who says "my beeble loff me". If that doesn't make for a great setting, I don't know what does

 

[BakaSmurf]

I would like more settings set in harsh winter climate, like the arctic. I know Skyrim just came out but the winter there is so mediocre and has no bearing on gameplay. That is why I liked the Penumbra games, reminded me of The Thing.
I would also like to see more games set in a Renaissance type setting, or even a mix of fantasy/steampunk like Arcanum.

I'm willing to bet that you'd like Cryostasis, keeping warm is an essential aspect to survival, and it's a horror that manages to stay pretty freaky even after you've gotten your hands on a firearm, since operating a WWII-era bolt-action rifle is kind of awkward when your hands are sheathed in thick arctic gloves.


It's only like $10 on Amazon.com too, I don't think there's much to lose by taking a stab at this very under-appreciated game.

What settings do you think should be used in games more?

I think We need more WW1 games, although not neccisarly a FPS , A silent hill kinda horror game could be good in the trenches and no mans land, I mean that place is freaky as shit!

Darkest of Days had a few levels that took place in WW1 when Germany was trying to invade Russia, no horror to speak of but it's better than nothing.


Lots of people give the game more flak than it deserves, but just try to remember that this game was developed by a crew of 8 guys, so there was only so much they could do with the resources they had.

 

[teebeeohh]

Napoleonic wars on dinosaurs
also WW2 games where we are not american. And maybe modern day civil war in Africa where we are not some white mercenary/special forces guy.

 

[Pat8u]

A game set in australia, I want to do something in a game and reconigse the place from real life

Come to think of it, Has anyone atemptted a ned kelly(Not that I like him I think he was a racist arsehole/Criminial) game yet?

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

I want more Dead Island style. Bright, happy resorts or average towns. Environments you could actually end up in.
Realistic areas like MW2s segments taking place in every day streets.
I am fucking tired of fighting in some shit brown fuckhole in the middle east or on the dark side of the moon.
Gimme something bright and cheerful, somewhere I can go.

 

[Charli]

MORE CANDY LANDS.

Seriously, I want games made out of food. And make them reeeeally bloody awesome. Proper physics on whipped bloody cream.

 

[VladG]

Anything to do with Norse, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and or Mesoamerican mythology and folklore. Seriously, who doesn't want Vikings fighting feathered dragons, giant world eating leopards, with a sphinx or two thrown in for good measure?

I think you're talking about Age of Mythology right there

Though I must say I'd like more games with Norse mythology. I can remember exactly one other game (except the aforementioned) before Skyrim, and that's Rune.

 

[VladG]

an actual properly fleshed out (think rome in assasins cree brotherhood) full on steam punk city. (infact i think a game with similar gameplay to ass creed would kick ass in this regard)

Ahhhh but its just a dream.

The closest you can get to that is probably Thief 2 and 3. Exploration is very limited, so it's not exactly full on, but the games are awesome (Thief 2 much more than Thief 3)

The Stone Age idea sounds interesting... maybe a Stalker-ish game with a high difficulty curve where survival is half the game

 

[ToMegaTherion]

I just want more Age of Mythology-kind of games. Using cyclops agains an army of spearmen was incredibly satisfying. I love mythology so that would be awesome

Oh, and I want more classical horror stuff. Picture Resident evil 4-esque but fighting in Transylvania against hordes of Draculas minions(Zombies, Werewolfs etc)

And more Lovecraftian games. Not enough old ones in my games

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Ancient Egypt definitely! With the Gods and Pharaohs

 

[Suncatcher]

There needs to be more Steampunk.

And more urban fantasy, like Dresden Files or WoD style.

I'd also like some prohibition-era gangster stuff, like GTA or Saints Row but with fewer whores, more style, and tommy guns and dynamite instead of assault rifles and grenades.

And something with giant mecha; the only ones I can think of these days are the Armored Core series and those tend to feel more like a superhero or something than a walking tank that you pilot. Or Iron Brigade, but that felt less like a mecha and more like a reskin of the standard boring FPS in power armor.

And while we're at it, why haven't there been any real space games lately? There are plenty with space as a backdrop for a bunch of stuff by individual characters on the ground or within a ship, but none where you can fly a starship around in 3D.

We need more cyberpunk, a good Shadowrun or Ghost in the Shell or something.

A space western done right would be great; something Firefly-ish, preferably with a Fallout/Elder Scrolls style open world (galaxy) to fly your rusty little ship through, scraping by on your wits...

Ooh, if anyone's heard of the Temeraire series, that'd make a great setting. For the most of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's an alternate history of the Napoleonic wars, but with the addition of dragons. As in, they outfit a dragon with a harness, put a dozen soldiers with rifles and bombs on their back, and send them into combat like a flying ship. Think Aubrey-Maturin, but airborne with an intelligent vessel.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Say want you want about JRPGs, at least they know something more then "hey, let's go rip off Tolkien again". Seriously, what is wrong with Western RPGs?

I didn't know that games like Mass Effect and Fallout were Tolkien ripoffs....

I didn't know shooters with a lot of dialogue were considered RPGs...

Seriously though, I would take hits on Fallout simply because it has used the same damn setting ever since it was still called Wasteland. And, honestly, if Tolkien is on the number one spot for being ripped off, the whole "post-apocalyptic wasteland" shtick (most notably the Mad Max variety) is definitely a close second.

And Mass Effect... Well, I really liked Mass Effect, but it isn't that impressive if you've played Star Ocean before, they already did the whole intergalactic racial & politics thing, like, four times already. (And it really sucked the last time they did it.)

That said, kudos to you attempt, but giving two examples is still not enough to make my point invalid.

 

[PPencil]

What about a game that includes aliens that are NOT humanoids, I mean come on devs (I'm lookin' at you Bethesda and Bioware..) there are infinitely uncountable ways some kind of life form made it to multi-cell complex organisms! Does the entire universe-full of aliens NEED 2 hands feet and a head?! Why do we have BOOBS on ALIENS that could have ANYTHING ELSE to feed their offspring?!

Also, colours please. In fact, a game without grey or brown would be quite nice. I didn't calibrate my screens colours so that i could see better greys! Maybe even a game where you actually FIGHT grey and brown with a spray? That'd be fun. (The blob doesn't count, you fight black with him/her/w/e)

PS.: Hi.

Edit: splleing.