Dragon Zero said:
Hell my friends thought of an MMO set in the old west were you didn't have to be a gunslinger, you could be a miner, saloon or shop keeper, rancher, Army, woman of ill repute, etc.
And yet, everyone would just roll a Shaman.
What I'd like to see is more single player Western style RPGs. Something which has an immersive storyline to keep you drawn in and gives you enough freedom to not feel constrained. "Baldur's Gate" was exactly like that. Plus, it had decent co-op capability, and if games HAVE to be multiplayer-oriented these days, I'd rather have co-op than PvP. The first chapters of the first two "Gothic" games would fit me perfectly, I guess.
I'm happy to sacrifice some freedom for an immersive storyline, as was seen in "Albion" and "Planescape: Torment". Or, come to think of it, "The Witcher" and "Mass Effect" to some extent, too. Although I am aware that if a single player game does not boast a "huge sandbox world to explore", it will sell worse than one which does have a sandbox world which looks like the same large meadow with a little hamlet copy-pasted a hundred times.
Also, although people are complaining a lot about the overabundance of WW2 games, I'd like to see an RTW set BEFORE D-Day. And before Stalingrad, too. Early WW2 in Europe was way more interesting than "The Americans and Soviets squashing the Germans between them". About the only game that did that recently was "Codename: Panzers".