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What would you love to be able to do in a game that you can't now?
Sandbox games such as GTA and Saints Row let you wonder around, but still have constraints such as not going in every house, not being able to really interact with people properly etc.
Loads of other types of game could be made better now that the technology has sufficently increased and processing power can cope with a lot more. Perhaps we should even consider mixing genres.
GTA with proper driving sections and races? Sports games where you can walk around outside the playing area or interact with other teams and managers? What would you like to see?
Sandbox games such as GTA and Saints Row let you wonder around, but still have constraints such as not going in every house, not being able to really interact with people properly etc.
Loads of other types of game could be made better now that the technology has sufficently increased and processing power can cope with a lot more. Perhaps we should even consider mixing genres.
GTA with proper driving sections and races? Sports games where you can walk around outside the playing area or interact with other teams and managers? What would you like to see?
In Sim City 4 I'd love to be able to walk around my cities and go inside them a bit like you can do on Theme Park where you create a park and can have a wander around.
Getting to the gaming equivalent of Lego would be ideal.
I see this as a large, online game with a sandbox game engine that lets you use lots of vehicles or build your own from set parts. It will let you build up an arsenal that you can store in your house (which you also buy and design, perhaps after earning credits).
The main game would be a menu system in the form of the city everyone is in (similar to Test Drive on 360) and then choices would be either
a) free roaming without too many rules (a bit like the NFS games) until you find someone you want to challenge, then you could build rules such as fighting or racing each other over set playing fields
or
b) From the city in the main game you can run around destroying buildings and vehicles. This doesn't have an impact on the 'game menu' environment, but on a 'copy' of it, allowing you to set rules to blow up each other's houses/castles etc or capture the flag...
I see this as a large, online game with a sandbox game engine that lets you use lots of vehicles or build your own from set parts. It will let you build up an arsenal that you can store in your house (which you also buy and design, perhaps after earning credits).
The main game would be a menu system in the form of the city everyone is in (similar to Test Drive on 360) and then choices would be either
a) free roaming without too many rules (a bit like the NFS games) until you find someone you want to challenge, then you could build rules such as fighting or racing each other over set playing fields
or
b) From the city in the main game you can run around destroying buildings and vehicles. This doesn't have an impact on the 'game menu' environment, but on a 'copy' of it, allowing you to set rules to blow up each other's houses/castles etc or capture the flag...
The idea of a game where you can go into every house, open up every draw and interact with every object sounds pretty boring to me. If I wanted to do that I'd probably clean up my desk more often.
I like the idea of mixing genres or having multiple gameplay techniques. For example, mixing The Sims with several games. If you got a job as a police officer you could have a section where you are in a 3rd person adenture game or you could get a job as a taxi driver and have a section like crazy taxi.
Some games have done this kind of thing but it never works very well. One of the Tony Hawks games had a driving section that was terrible. It would only work if they did all sections properly rather than just a cheap sub mission.
If they made this sort of thing online (they probably already have) everyone could play the game completely differently. One player could be a cop, one a robber, one a shop owner etc. Some people would race cars, others would own car sales courts.
I like the idea of mixing genres or having multiple gameplay techniques. For example, mixing The Sims with several games. If you got a job as a police officer you could have a section where you are in a 3rd person adenture game or you could get a job as a taxi driver and have a section like crazy taxi.
Some games have done this kind of thing but it never works very well. One of the Tony Hawks games had a driving section that was terrible. It would only work if they did all sections properly rather than just a cheap sub mission.
If they made this sort of thing online (they probably already have) everyone could play the game completely differently. One player could be a cop, one a robber, one a shop owner etc. Some people would race cars, others would own car sales courts.
Borat wrote:
you can walk around
> like you can in Chronicles of Riddick etc.
Love that idea.
you can walk around
> like you can in Chronicles of Riddick etc.
Love that idea.
I'd like to hit XBox Marketplace during a levelling grind in any RPG and order not just a pizza (like you can do in EverQuest) but the rest of my groceries too. This would save me all that effort of moving 2ft to the left to order it all from Tesco.com on the PC.
I'd like to see a level playing field in any online game (no cheats/RMT/bug exploiting etc).
I'd like to be able to use my headset to tell one of my RPG characters to go level up on easy stuff for 10 minutes while I go put the kettle one and then have a conversation with them when I get back about how they got on.
I'd like a big enough storage so that I never have to buy game discs again, just download them and run them from optical drive.
I'd like my console to remember what games I played the most and why so it could suggest new games that I might like.
If I find a 15-rated game too bland I'd like to be able to switch to 18-rated mode to liven it up, then switch it back to PG for when the kids want a go.
I'd love to be able to hop onto a virtual Harley in a virtual world exactly the same as ours and travel anywhere I wanted to and see the sights, hear the sounds, experience the weather - all updated in real-time. (With the option that if I got bored of Route 66 after a couple of days I could instantly switch location to Slough or somewhere equally exotic).
I'd like XBox Live to expand its value for money a little and auto-generate contracts on anyone I add to my Ignore list.
I'd like to damage cars in Gran Turismo, but it's more likely I'll get to do all of the above before that happens.
I'd like to see a level playing field in any online game (no cheats/RMT/bug exploiting etc).
I'd like to be able to use my headset to tell one of my RPG characters to go level up on easy stuff for 10 minutes while I go put the kettle one and then have a conversation with them when I get back about how they got on.
I'd like a big enough storage so that I never have to buy game discs again, just download them and run them from optical drive.
I'd like my console to remember what games I played the most and why so it could suggest new games that I might like.
If I find a 15-rated game too bland I'd like to be able to switch to 18-rated mode to liven it up, then switch it back to PG for when the kids want a go.
I'd love to be able to hop onto a virtual Harley in a virtual world exactly the same as ours and travel anywhere I wanted to and see the sights, hear the sounds, experience the weather - all updated in real-time. (With the option that if I got bored of Route 66 after a couple of days I could instantly switch location to Slough or somewhere equally exotic).
I'd like XBox Live to expand its value for money a little and auto-generate contracts on anyone I add to my Ignore list.
I'd like to damage cars in Gran Turismo, but it's more likely I'll get to do all of the above before that happens.
Being a bit of a sci fi nerd, I thought the premise of the game 'Frontier Elite' on the PC all those years ago was amazing. Able to go anywhere in the galaxy, and it was pretty much open ended as to what you did ... whether you took up missions, worked for people or went it alone and started your own mining business etc.
Graphics were crap and it was chock full of glitches, but the idea was sound, and the scope of the game was amazing.
Surely with the current state of PC speed/GFX card processing power etc, we could have an update to this. Would be very impressive I think. Perhaps they could incorporate other game styles too ... i.e. you land on a planet, you can walk around like you can in Chronicles of Riddick etc. Perhaps asking a bit much?
Graphics were crap and it was chock full of glitches, but the idea was sound, and the scope of the game was amazing.
Surely with the current state of PC speed/GFX card processing power etc, we could have an update to this. Would be very impressive I think. Perhaps they could incorporate other game styles too ... i.e. you land on a planet, you can walk around like you can in Chronicles of Riddick etc. Perhaps asking a bit much?
GTA style Harry Potter.
Artemis Fowl- The game
Artemis Fowl- The game
What would you love to be able to do in a game that you can't now?
Sandbox games such as GTA and Saints Row let you wonder around, but still have constraints such as not going in every house, not being able to really interact with people properly etc.
Loads of other types of game could be made better now that the technology has sufficently increased and processing power can cope with a lot more. Perhaps we should even consider mixing genres.
GTA with proper driving sections and races? Sports games where you can walk around outside the playing area or interact with other teams and managers? What would you like to see?
Sandbox games such as GTA and Saints Row let you wonder around, but still have constraints such as not going in every house, not being able to really interact with people properly etc.
Loads of other types of game could be made better now that the technology has sufficently increased and processing power can cope with a lot more. Perhaps we should even consider mixing genres.
GTA with proper driving sections and races? Sports games where you can walk around outside the playing area or interact with other teams and managers? What would you like to see?