underused setting for games

[DiamondJim]

Modern-day thieves. Think Ocean's Eleven but with less overused actors.

I think Kane & Lynch tried too hard to do that. I agree though, done right that game setting could be badass.

 

[N-Sef]

Agreed on the whole Heist thing, isn't there a game coming out called Hei$t where it deals with that subject matter? Even so, we need more of it.

A school setting as well, not just High School but Primary/Elementary and Universities.

 

[Downside]

a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

The movie Shoot 'em up in heaven!!!!

If you haven't seen it do so, it's hilarious due to it's absolute absurdity. Just to give you a taste he kills someone with a carrot.

 

[Trace2010]

Philippines. Indonesia. Taiwan. Austrailia/NZ (that would be an interesting game- any Aussies have any ideas for a plot line?) White Sands, NM (where they shot Transformers)....Montana.

 

[Iron_will]

I have never seen a game that has Singapore as a setting. I'd like to see one.

 

[Syphonz]

I'd like to see more developers try a hand at the Chernobyl Diaster. Like Stalker, however, get somebody to program it correctly so a 'meh' graphics engine doesn't demand for more than Crysis.

Seriously, compare Crysis system reqs to Clear Sky and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Graustein]

a shoot em up set in heaven - never seen or heard of one yet. In fact i dont think there are many games set in a heaven like enviroment, plenty of games with a hellish theme but not a heavenly one.

The closest I can think of is this romhack of Wolfenstein, in which you were Noah shooting the animals with fruit and vegetables to get them to go to the ark.

 

[Digitalpotato]

-Modern urban settings that are NOT part of Tokyo.
-Suburbia
-Farmlands in Australia, America, Mongolia, etc. (Think Colorado or most of Australia - You guys at least get all the cool agriculture tech first)
-Middle East
-North Africa
-South Africa (And I'm referring to the country this time)
-Central Africa
-Australian Outback.
-modern australia
-Elves that do NOT live in a forest and are even more stuck-up than yahtzee.
-Siberia
-A futuristic technology game that's actually not all "look at us we're super rich and uber futuristic!", rather something like a new Industrial Revolution and the place where the game's centered around is still making the transition to "Modernization"
-Jeanne d'Arcing OTHER Historical wars. (Imagine if the English Civil War was sparked because they were practicing demon worship. XD)
-The 13 original colonies
-A war game based off of Assyria.
-Greek Mythology in the modern era...and featuring more modernized gods. (eg Zeus and Hera talk about Marriage Counseling, Ares gets frustrated because of all the anti-war protesters, and Hephaestus becomes a pyromaniac)
-Norse mythology in the modern era. Without featuring power-suits.
-Anthropomorphic animals not being featured as a secondary role...or even being the "Minority in Power".
-An urban middle-eastern city like maybe in the UAE or Dubai or Kuwait.
-Isolated cities in Wyoming.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

Does there exist a decent game which involves sea battles? I played some korean WW2 sea battle game for a little while but they switched it to pay to play and it really wasn't worth it... I'd love to play a game with duelng battleships and planes flying off of carriers blowing the bejeesus out of stuff.

Also, underwater is very under-represented. I can't remember ever playing a submarine game or even something like Doom where you are killing aliens in an installation at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[MarcusStrout]

Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Greece, topographically correct, with no magic or interference with Gods.

The Amazon.

A seamless game of manhunt in the amazon. AWE SOME. I'd buy 6.

Troy.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

If I stated my Pure Molten Awesome list here it would be seen as derailing the thread. And I'm trying to break the habit.
But rest assured that John Lennon, The Ghost of Sin and Reaperman Wompa are on it somewhere
(and not just because I'll feel mean if I say you aren't)

Why don't you just make a forum Role play thread about it? And then exclude me from it despite giving you the idea for it.

Pfft. No one would read a thread I started.

I might, and not just because you said I was pure molten awesome.

 

[SixAngryDwarves]

Hey, hey ,hey, guys, i don't remember any WWII games.
Oh Wait, i must have forgotten every game made in the last 20 years!
But, all sarcasm aside, I really think they should make a game based in my good `ol Candaian igloo village where I only have maple syrup to eat, and molson Canadian to drink.
But seriously though, Canada would be a sick place to shoot some baddies!

 

[ace_of_something]

the Vietnam war would be interesting... maybe it could revolve around moral choices that mess you up for life. Shoot this defenseless village or fail the mission and go down a different path of levels.
Or something.

The Korean War
World War One (or The Great War)
The Hundred Years War

I'm sure games have been made for these topics. I sure don't know them so they must've sucked.

 

[Digitalpotato]

Jeanne D'Arc didn't suck and it was based (loosely) off the 100 years war. Of course they really werne't going for historical accuracy...you can tell since Jeanne lives.

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

Nearly any civil war, not sure if the Korean War in mercenaries counts, but a dynasty warriors style treatment of the english civil war could be good I think. Also Spanish Civil War might be good.

 

[Iron Mal]

Good ideas for game settings in my opinion would be:

1. Prehistoric times (also known as Pangea if my spelling is correct)
2. Gothic settings (quite a few games in the late 90's had this idea and I loved it).
3. Hades/Hell/Purgatory (by this I mean a game where you spend the entire game there, not just one level a'la Doom)
4. The planet of Krylung
5. A shipwreck/wrecked submarine at the bottom of the ocean (no escape then)

 

[the protaginist]

Lemme help you narrow that list down Iron Ninja:


P.p.s. "A game above or below the sea, not zelda" wow, has everyone already forgotten Bioshock?
Crosseyes
X_X

what i meant by that is a zelda-esque game, just not the same setting or characters.

Like,if they made a pirate free-roam.

 

[mark_n_b]

A WWII game that does not haveso much patriotism about it that one could cut through it with a batonet.

Any game that is NOT set in WWII or medieval Europe when dwarves and elves roamed freely on the plains or a distant intergalactic empire. If for five years all developers decided not to use these fall backs, this question would not be asked.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

5. A shipwreck/wrecked submarine at the bottom of the ocean (no escape then)

That setting's been beaten up pretty hard in the movies, but yeah not so much in games.

I had an idea for a game, a first-person platformer, set aboard an abandoned container ship at risk of capsizing; your job was to save the ship and rescue any survivors trapped aboard. Real-world physics would come into play controlling the ship's attitude, how containers and wreckage shifted according to the ship's list, jumps, dangling from safety lines, and similar.

Wired had an article about real-life maritime salvage engineers who'd worked on such an incident, and the experience sounded absolutely harrowing even without adding dramatic elements.

-- Steve