Settings that need more love <3

[Chairman Miaow]

I agree with World War I. There's a wealth of battles and incidents to choose from. It doesn't have to be set in the static trenches on the Western Front, either. There were many secondary fronts that were far more mobile, such as Africa and the Middle East.

Some other settings to consider:
-A Warhammer 40,000 game from the perspective of an Imperial Guardsman.
-A decent Starship Troopers game.
-The Spanish Civil War
-The American Revolution
-The French Revolution

Those first two settings, you would probably only survive the first few seconds, even on the easiest difficulty! I would hate to see an imperial guardsman fighting off the forces of chaos with all the demons cranked up to nightmare mode.

 

[El Dwarfio]

This is massive nit-picking here but; the 'Hellenistic Period' is from the conquests of Alexander to the end of independent Hellenic states. The 'Classical Period' is from around 500BC-323BC.

I would love to see games set in either period, either the Classical period of Polis and the Peloponnesian War, or the (oft ignored) Hellenistic period and the continent spanning empires of the Diadochi, colonization and political intrigue.

Yeah massive points to you - I was in the library yesterday, picked up a book on Classical Greece and then was like shit! XDXD

 

[M0rp43vs]

-Someone mentioned an Arabian setting and I have to say I'm all for that.

-I have mentioned a modern fantasy masquerade in an earlier thread and Id like to restate that here. Why are there so many modern fantasy shows but not many games with the concept.

-Building on that, why not a Men In Black styled, alien agency on earth setting though I suppose with the new x-com coming out, that counts?

-Gensokyo or at least more settings like Gensokyo. For those not in the know of touhou, Gensokyo is the place where all eastern fairy tales are true and youkai and human (grudgingly) Coexist. Think Okami but less watercolour art. In fact more games based on differing mythologies besides western and greek(we got God of War for that)

-Not another Tolkein rip off. I dunno when fantasy became so mundane. Where people hate on skyrim because the elves don't look like the sparkling mary sues in regular western fantasy.

Or at least, if you're going to use that setting, subvert our expectations. Maybe instead of gold hungry miner dwarves, have them be tree hugging hippies who think being short means being closer to earth or technological elves who live in smog filled steam punk cities and act like cartoony capitalists.
And most of all, don't let the main heroes be(or at least don't give ALL focus to) humans. Maybe have us see through the perspective of an orc, an undead or a goblin adventuring group sick and tired of being adventure fodder(Cookie for the webcomic reference)

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

Modern military, post apocaliptic worlds and space warfare. lol

OT: I find more enjoyable settings that are built up from scratch, like Shadow of the Colossus

 

[M0rp43vs]

Wait! I forgot to add.

Why not a Magic school a la Hogwarts or what the college of Winterhold was promising but ultimately failed to deliver in(Really, passing of an arc that would've been a questline for one of the branches of the mage guild in Morrowind?)

You would get to learn several schools of magic and be free to train these practical skills in the real world(or on the resident bully).

Maybe add in a spell casting mechanic a la Magicka or use the controller in conjunction with voice commands to shout spells. Maybe allow clever use of kinect or move and make them something other than a waste of money to me

Captcha: Lord Iesterfo
What's this? Lord Inglip's Italian cousin?

 

[Mastercylinder]

I would really like to see more games with a cyberpunk-like city setting, especially sandboxes.

Imagine a game like "L.A. Noir" if it took place in a city that looked like the one from "Blade Runner"

 

[teh_gunslinger]

V-sync, Anti-Aliasing, Field of View, key mappings and mouse sinsitivity. Those settings are so often borked in ports these days that I'd like to see them get more love.

Also, I'd love to see more games set in the Planescape setting.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

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.

Could you name a few? I can't for the life of me create an imagine or an example :|.

Say Neverwinter Nights (can;t remember, but I think it was 2) where you start off in a city. (Only played for an hour or something )

the SNES Shadowrun was amazing, all orcs, elves, magic and steampunk tech, combined with hacking and corporate espionage, in a future slum of a city.

Then they turned it into a tedious FPS with no redeeming features or style for the 360.

Bah!

 

[SenseOfTumour]

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.

As for colour, I'd suggest Okami, or going way back, Wizball, Wizball actually had you claiming back a single colour of the rainbow each level, starting off entirely greyscale and slowly filling the world with colour

 

[floppylobster]

Modern day Japan. I can only think of two games set there.

The World Ends With You
Shen Mue
Yakuza 1 - 4
Shin Megami Tensei
Godzilla?

Not enough games set in the Star Wars universe. But really though... not enough set in the Panzer Dragoon universe. And none set in Miyazaka's Nausicaa universe.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

How about a game entirely set in an Excel spreadsheet, you could even input a fresh set of name fields each year and sell it as a new game!

Dammit, I just heard the football manager franchise has beaten me to it by about twelve years.

(Seriously, did my head in when I worked in a game store and saw 'Championship Manager '06/07/08/09' whatever outsell really great, creative original games by about 10 to 1.)

 

[Zydrate]

I'd like to explore Colonial England. Probably not what it was called, but something in the 1800's era.
Like Pirates of the Caribbean without Disney influence.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Ancient Greece. There are no good games set in Ancient Greece, but it has such possibility.

Titan Quest gets no love :<

I do, however, agree that the setting needs more games. It has huge potential.

 

[TephlonPrice]

The Old West!

It's one of the more interesting settings since you have a nation after war with advanced tech (for the time), the cowboys & cattle biz, Indians, gold mining, Indian wars, railroad industry, etc...

It's a setting that can accommodate many game types (sandbox, FPS, RTS, fighting, etc.) but no one ever seems to use it too much.

 

[wintercoat]

How about...modern urban environment with a Norse mythology theme? Like a "what if Ragnarok were to happen right now" and you have to prevent it somehow? Fuck, I'd just take a good game based on Norse mythology.

 

[Baralak]

I want Jade Empire's setting to be more explored. I loved the entire world, from flying planes, to visiting the realms of the spirits and deities on a semi-regular basis. It was Asian, but took far more influence from China and Korea than it ever did Japan. Heck, I want Jade Empire 2!

-Not another Tolkein rip off. I dunno when fantasy became so mundane. Where people hate on skyrim because the elves don't look like the sparkling mary sues in regular western fantasy.

Or at least, if you're going to use that setting, subvert our expectations. Maybe instead of gold hungry miner dwarves, have them be tree hugging hippies who think being short means being closer to earth or technological elves who live in smog filled steam punk cities and act like cartoony capitalists.
And most of all, don't let the main heroes be(or at least don't give ALL focus to) humans. Maybe have us see through the perspective of an orc, an undead or a goblin adventuring group sick and tired of being adventure fodder(Cookie for the webcomic reference)

Actually, I'd love to have a full game in a standard fantasy setting, But you're just an average goblin, rising up from the ranks of the evil overlord's army. You work hard and take the abuse from stronger orcs, and fulfill your duties to both the overlord and your deity by being a key component in taking down those humans with they stupid shiny city, and burning down those stinky forests, so you can live in a nice ditch, more suited to goblinkind

 

[Kahunaburger]

I want Jade Empire's setting to be more explored. I loved the entire world, from flying planes, to visiting the realms of the spirits and deities on a semi-regular basis. It was Asian, but took far more influence from China and Korea than it ever did Japan. Heck, I want Jade Empire 2!

Yeah, if they did another Jade Empire with more awesome airships and less arguable racism, I'd play the shit out of it.

 

[Baralak]

I want Jade Empire's setting to be more explored. I loved the entire world, from flying planes, to visiting the realms of the spirits and deities on a semi-regular basis. It was Asian, but took far more influence from China and Korea than it ever did Japan. Heck, I want Jade Empire 2!

Yeah, if they did another Jade Empire with more awesome airships and less arguable racism, I'd play the shit out of it.

I loved the setting and characters of the game. From the little dead girl possessed by 2 competing spirits, to the bound soul to a suit of armor who would fight for the Emperor, to personally helping a fox deity fight demons. There's no other game out there with situations and characters like that. The only thing I'd wish for in a JE2 would be some deeper combat... Maybe rip of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks or something.

I'd love to see more martial arts focused games, too. I don't mean fighting games, but a game about a character's personal journey through mastering his chosen martial art, and obtaining inner peace or something. Use twin analog sticks to help him through an exercise and master a new self defense technique, to fighting inside the character's mind, using said martial arts to battle mental demons who wish to stop your quest for serenity...

 

[Kahunaburger]

I don't mean fighting games, but a game about a character's personal journey through mastering his chosen martial art, and obtaining inner peace or something. Use twin analog sticks to help him through an exercise and master a new self defense technique, to fighting inside the character's mind, using said martial arts to battle mental demons who wish to stop your quest for serenity...

If they made this as a sequel to Jade Empire I would give Bioware all of the money. Especially if they actually fleshed out Closed Fist and Open Palm.