Your left-field gaming ideas

[AudioArtist]

My idea for a game isn't very weird or original to be honest, but anyway...

I've been waiting for a game in which you simply explore the universe at your own leisure, without any set goals (...I expect I'll be waiting for a long time.) You'd have beautiful planets with all sorts of animal life on them, and also remote, bleak areas and everything in between. I personally sometimes find blatant "gameplay" bits (including puzzles, bosses, etc.) in adventure games irritating; I'd love an uncompromising, vast game where you could get lost really, really easily, but it wouldn't matter because you'd be exploring. Obviously each planet would be fully interactive, but you wouldn't need to do x, y, or z to progress. There would be night and day cycles, and seasons, and creatures would evolve and change over time.

I've always believed Metroid Prime would have been much better with far less combat and a lot more freedom and exploration.

I know few people would like to play a game with no goals and a vast gameworld, but I'd love it. It'd be perfect escapism.

What do you think?

 

[Arcon]

sounds interesting, dont know how many times id like the game to run itself and just observe. maybe have the univers and be able to transplant things from world to world and terraforme, and just watch them grow and interact. probably take a very high end system if the worlds were able to grow to space capability and have wars or whatever between themselves.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

I'd buy it. I love exploring.

My left field gaming idea...


An MMORPG named Gang Land with a dev-managed economy that really figures into the gameplay but is affected by the players. You start out as a nobody and choose to join a mafia family or you can start your own organization or you can join the police or just become a merchant and try to make it that way. Incorporate the usual organized crime factors and let the player made gangs fight over territory.

Make the police force structured for player advancement so it can be a viable, rewarding alternative to the gang life. Someone messed you over? Approach the local Don and ask for help. Make an agreement with him for his help and it will show up like a quest that remains until he has you repay the favor. It would take a lot of work but it would be so much fun.

 

[micro]

Well there is a game out that is pretty much what your describing. It is called "oblivion". It was soo much like you described that after about two weeks of game play i quit playing it. But your univers idea does sound interesting

 

[Heartbreaker]

i know they tried this already, but i think it's time for an upgrade.

a "Left Behind" game that played like a family-friendly cross (no pun intended) between grand theft auto and knights of the old republic.

 

[The-Doctor]

Sounds a bit like the PC game "Freelancer" where you play a mercenary roaming the universe looking for jobs

 

[PolskiKrol]

People say Elder Scrolls series is like that, but its really not. You can't do certain things unless you have the quest for it, and you can't get those quests until you've done all the "rat-killing" quests. Really irritating.

I'd love an explorer game, I've always wanted a good one.