Games we want, but will almost certainly never have
-
Back to games we want but won’t see…
Street Fighter / Mortal Kombat: I think both actually have themes you could build a MU around. Street Fighter is almost superheroics meets espionage while Mortal Kombat could be modern fantasy.
TMNT: One of my favorite things from my youth. I loved playing the old RPG and would love to play on a MU set in the TMNT universe.
Transformers: I know there are one or two out there but I find their themes confusing. I’d like a simple G1 Transformers game set on Earth and maybe Cybertron. Perhaps with a plot working up to the original 1986 movie(Unicron).
-
@Roz said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
Yeah, but those are all tabletop RPGs.
And even in those examples, in most cases any given character is still controlled by a single player. In Ars Magica for example, the main way it was done is described here:
In troupe style play, each player typically has one primary character who no one else can control. Since Ars Magica is focused on wizards and magic, very often this primary character is the player’s magus. Each player may also have exclusive control over one or more secondary characters, such as companions or grogs.
@Ominous said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
let’s not pretend that the idea is some left-field ramblings of a crazy man.
I didn’t say that such a system had never ever been tried before, I said it was a radical departure from the established norm of how RPGs are traditionally done. Which is true. It’s almost unheard of among TT groups with a handful of friends. Trying to do it at scale with an entire MU game seems like it’s setting yourself up for big issues.
That still doesn’t mean that one couldn’t/shouldn’t do it, as I said. Just be conscious of what you’re getting into.
-
@Raistlin said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
Back to games we want but won’t see…
Street Fighter / Mortal Kombat: I think both actually have themes you could build a MU around. Street Fighter is almost superheroics meets espionage while Mortal Kombat could be modern fantasy.
TMNT: One of my favorite things from my youth. I loved playing the old RPG and would love to play on a MU set in the TMNT universe.
Transformers: I know there are one or two out there but I find their themes confusing. I’d like a simple G1 Transformers game set on Earth and maybe Cybertron. Perhaps with a plot working up to the original 1986 movie(Unicron).
One exists. It’s called Match of the Millennium. It has SNK and other stuff too. Sadly, a chunk of us quit recently when staff decided to promote a foot fetishist, pedo nazi to a place of plot importance, and instead of going ‘oh, we’ll ban them’, instead doubled down.
-
@Popes said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
One exists. It’s called Match of the Millennium. It has SNK and other stuff too. Sadly, a chunk of us quit recently when staff decided to promote a foot fetishist, pedo nazi to a place of plot importance, and instead of going ‘oh, we’ll ban them’, instead doubled down.
lol why is foot fetishist included in this list of actual serious things
-
One game idea I’ve had battering around is a sort of Stargate/Isekai hybrid.
A portal is discovered which leads to a fantasy realm. Contact is made and is “friendly” (insofar as governments and corporations can be described as such), but there’s a lot of intrigue involving the Imperial Court and the supra-national secret organization that controls the portal on the Earth side.
Specific corporations are given latitude to open research and development on the other side of the portal and the wealth of new materials and phenomenon are a treasure trove (“This dragon hide is amazing! It uses carbon nanotubes weaved in microstructures that allow for incredible strength and resistance!”).
Meanwhile, the Imperials want the amazing technology that the Earthers have. Seeing a Vulcan cannon eviscerate a group of rampaging demons is highly impressive and the sheer quality and scale of material brought through the portal is staggering.
Players would be members of the Earth expedition – military, scientific, corporate – or higher-ranking nobles/commoners of the Imperium. So you’d also get some Lords and Ladies play in there.
While Earth-based scientific culture would be impressive on multiple levels, the Imperials would still have both home field and material advantage (the portal is only so big and the massive energy requirements means it can only be active for a short period per day). Plus, there’d be magic which, by its very nature, is resistant if not impervious to scientific inquiry.
I doubt this would appeal to too many people, though.
-
I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended
-
@STD it would appeal to me!!
-
A Terminator game of sorts.
-
@Floof said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended
So not exactly this, but I was half dabbling with a Monster Hunter or Horizon type game idea at one point. I never got far, but like… go hunt things and upgrade your SWAG and improve the village etc etc.
-
@Roz Mostly because we exiles call this person the footnazi. Because when they played Juri Han, the two things that were emphasized most were how young and scarily hot she is and lovingly detailed descriptions of her bare feet in every other pose. It’s the goddamn Wizzard comic in action. No, we do not want to be in your magical realm!
-
@Floof said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended
If you want dinosaurs, go play a WoD game.
