Games You Wish Existed - The vidya we'll probably only see in our dreams

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A mostly accurate evolution sim. You design the planet's composition, distance from the sun, natural satellites, ect, then hit fast forward and watch life grow like a garden. As life takes hold your only means of directing evolution are through natural disasters like meteors, plagues, or solar flares, or by playing in a separate "god mode" where you have total control to edit your creatures. Admittedly the most difficult aspect of this game would be making it fun and accessible.
 
Johnny Bravo said:
A mostly accurate evolution sim. You design the planet's composition, distance from the sun, natural satellites, ect, then hit fast forward and watch life grow like a garden. As life takes hold your only means of directing evolution are through natural disasters like meteors, plagues, or solar flares, or by playing in a separate "god mode" where you have total control to edit your creatures. Admittedly the most difficult aspect of this game would be making it fun and accessible.
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I'd play that in a second. It'd be fun to see how exotic the biochemistry you could produce would be. Sulphur and siloxane based lifeforms that live in a lethal lava world with molten salt as a solvent? Yes please. Or to see if it is true that life really finds a way when the seas are made of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid.

(That could never happen btw. Fluorine is too cosmically rare.)
 
I had the most bizarre dream once, before Alien Isolation even came out. It was like I was in a game, in first person. The short of it was it WAS Alien Isolation(before it even was a thing, at that), but it took place entirely in Innsmouth. I think I binged too much Call of Cthulhu back then. Either way, a cross between Innsmouth and Alien Isolation would be fucking dope.

Edit: A few details for the hell of it. The 'game' involved hiding in warehouses, offices, etc, much like AI, just hiding from it, and public phones were save locations. I still vividly remember one bit where I tried to run for the phone like a madman and the damn xenomorph lept out of the building I was in and got to me before I could.
 
A Legacy of Kain remake (or sequel?) done by From Software. Doesn't have to be Souls-like, I just feel they'd nail the atmosphere and storytelling harder than Crystal Dynamics ever did.
 
A pokemon game where you can play as a Team Rocket member and actually take over the world.

Also, an open world Harry Potter game where you play as your own character, complete with a choice system and multiple endings. Wanna become a Death Eater? You can be a Death Eater.

Not a shitty mobile game where you have to pony up money to save kid from being strangled to death.
 
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I'd love to see something akin to Final Destination meets the Incredible Machine, where you play as "death" or "fate" and have to kill a bunch of teens in the most over-the-top way possible (like some Rube Goldberg machine from hell) using what tools the game provides you. To make it challenging, there'd be certain ways your would-be prey could break the curse if you're not quick witted enough. The icing on the cake would be an online mode where other players take on the role of the aforementioned teenagers in attempt to survive your custom made scenarios.
 
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Massively multiplayer online Command & Conquer. As in, every player in the entire game is on a single, utterly enormous map building lines of bases and forces to try to break through the enemy lines. With limited fuel and ammo to manage as well and the ability to transfer resources between players on the same team.
 
Not so much a game, but I want some sort of mod that takes Fallout 3 and New Vegas and redoes them to be like the isometric original games. And yes, I know Wasteland 2 exists, I just think it would be cool to see how those two games could stack up to the originals and if it's possible to make them like the first two.
 
I'd love a fantasy RPG/hack and slash set in pre-contact North America. Playing as some badass Comanche or Cree motherfucker and hacking through wendigos, thunderbirds, sasquatches, evil skinwalkers, dog-men, etc. would be pretty rad.
 
Kinda lame but I want a game where you can play as a dragon. Not as a knight that fights a dragon, no dragon riding, no cartoony collectathon dragon, just a straight up fire breathing beast. I want a survival game where as a dragon your main goal is territory expansion: raid local farms or hunt in the local countryside for food, defend yourself from knights coming to slay you, fight other dragons for territory or form alliances, plunder kingdoms for treasure.

That shit would be so rad.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Kinda lame but I want a game where you can play as a dragon. Not as a knight that fights a dragon, no dragon riding, no cartoony collectathon dragon, just a straight up fire breathing beast. I want a survival game where as a dragon your main goal is territory expansion: raid local farms or hunt in the local countryside for food, defend yourself from knights coming to slay you, fight other dragons for territory or form alliances, plunder kingdoms for treasure.

That shit would be so rad.
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As a lifelong dragon sperg, I'd really like this. There was a dragon game on Steam that was still in early development last I checked (reviews weren't good; it was buggy and there was very little gameplay) I think it might be dead now.
 
When I was a kid and first started seeing footage of the Wii in action I thought it'd be a great idea to have a Doctor Who FPS where you play as Dalek. You could use the remote to move the sucker arm and the nunchuk to control the weapon and move the Dalek around. The only issue I never worked out was how to move the eye stalk (the player's POV in the game) without causing too much hassle but I still thought it was a decent idea. They did release a Doctor Who games for the Wii, but it wasn't like that and it was kind of shitty.

I still mourn the fact we never got Knights of the Old Republic III to this day. The early concept art and ideas look really interesting. I wish we could have a modern Star Wars RPG with control schemes and combat similar to The Witcher or the like, but considering how the new Battlefront games turned out maybe that's like wishing on a monkey's paw.
 
The Handmaid's Tale: The Game.

You are a handmaid. You can choose your face but that's it. It is procedurally generated in terms of your assignments and quests but the game is open world so you can go snooping about. Your objective is to survive as long as possible. You cannot overthrow the Republic of Gilead, though you can try and you can possibly bring to light its filthy little secrets if you are lucky and/or skilful, though you can also sell out the resistance as well. There is no way of winning, just prolonging the time you spend circling the drain before you're unpersoned, stoned to death, or hang yourself in desperation.

I was inspired by the game version of IHNMAIMS and how, in development, Harlan Ellison insisted that there must be no good ending whatever.
 
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