A game setting that hasn't been done?

[General BrEeZy]

WWI. I could see huge team battles doing trench warfare, dogfighting in planes...idk dodging mustard gas to shank the enemy in close quarters, using more "obsolete" guns (i.e. not the guns that came around in WWII like better machine guns and assault rifles and all that.) They could bring in the tanks that came around during the end of the war, you know, those hot, clunky metal contraptions, those would take tactics to take down especially with less effecient explosives and whatnot.
btw im not an expert on this war, so if i'm a little wrong in any assumptions, thanks for letting me know.

 

[Marmooset]

The Iraqi occupation.
I know, I know - but but BUT not just a stealth/shooter. You have to build infrastructure, and deal with corrupt contractors and local politicians. You have to put down insurgents, but every time you do, it lowers your standing with the locals. And you have to appease at least three religious factions, and whatever makes one group happy almost invariably pisses the others off. And a special cheat code allows you not to go in in the first place.


Or maybe an adventure game set in a silent movie milieu, where you are a Chaplin/Keatonesque character, dealing with with huge industrial contraptions, burly thugs, and cops. Lots and lots of cops.


Both have probably been done - but I live a pretty sheltered game life.

 

[mad825]

World War I. I've never seen a game that takes place in that time(except for flash games and flight simulators).

WW1?

Flight simulators exploited WW1 to hell and back. WWII is more about infantry, WWI is about "who's got biggest or fastest guns".

Necrovision and that comic horror game covered WW1

 

[Little Duck]

How about magic in space?

With dragons.

Spelljammer.
http://www.spelljammer.org/misc/por/
D&D, space, magic, and dragons.

Wow. Ok then, how about a fable game that lives up to it's promises?

 

[Mushroom 118i]

The trenches of World War 1, but that's for a good reason. There'd be more waiting around than actual gameplay.

 

[Joshroom]

An RPG in stone Age, if there is one, I would like to try it.

Well, in Chrono Trigger you visit a stone age period and meet Ayla. Seriously, as an RPG I'd definetly recomend that game.

My answer. Hmm, a game set during the whole biblical history period of Moses and his buddies.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

How about a world war 2 game where you're the nazi's or the japanese in the main campaign for once.

 

[Doc Incognito]

An RPG in stone Age, if there is one, I would like to try it.

Perhaps Conan the Barbarian? I have no idea if that's true, I've never looked at the thing.

I vote for a utopian worlds where people and bizarre animals live side by side, working, playing, battl?

Oh. Right.

Conan the Barbarian is set in the Iron Age, I mean, they have swords.

Yeah, I haven't played it, so I have no knowledge of the game. So I guess a Stone Age game hasn't been done yet.

 

[Commissar Sae]

The war of 1812 I'd like to see a game about that.

Which war of 1812? The British/American war or the Franco-Russian war? Either way they could make for some interesting gameplay.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Also, while it has been done a few times, some more games set in the Lovecraftian universe could be fun. I quite enjoyed Dark Corners of the Earth as it is the only game to have ever legitimately made me panic while playing.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

An RPG in stone Age, if there is one, I would like to try it.

Perhaps Conan the Barbarian? I have no idea if that's true, I've never looked at the thing.

I vote for a utopian worlds where people and bizarre animals live side by side, working, playing, battl?

Oh. Right.

Conan the Barbarian is set in the Iron Age, I mean, they have swords.

Yeah, I haven't played it, so I have no knowledge of the game. So I guess a Stone Age game hasn't been done yet.

I guess it's the curse of a huge thread; almost no one reads through the whole thing.

There have been tons of stone age/caveman games... including Caveman Games. And Joe & Mac and Bonk, among others.

 

[jamescorck]

I want to see a game made by Tim Schaffer that takes place inside the mind of David Fincher. So yeah, "Psychonauts 2" basically.

But no seriously, it is hard to come up with something that hasn't been invented yet. It would be easier to find what's been done the less and then start expanding from there.

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Now I'm no expert, but I've never heard of any games set in Canada (unless you count Strategy games that are set on Earth, and therefore have every country in them).

 

[capin Rob]

A Space station in the future, mabey the 2550's, run by a group called the UNSC, and they are developing a new group of super soliders, that sounds good let me go right that down.... O wait, HALO, I almost forgot, umm. I don't know, I think its all been done.

 

[black orchid1]

I GOT IT!!!!! ww2 during the trench warfare not the parts were men run at each other and die

 

[Mr. In-between]

The crusades, but not as a strategy game.

 

[asgardmothership]

Actual, proper, Steampunk....

Isn't Resonance of Fate Steampunk?

Edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Steampunk_video_games

nice list there, i do remember damnation and darkwatch were definitely in the steampunk tradition, advanced weapons using victorian technology.

 

[shaboinkin]

How about the inside of a body?

Like you travel through bloodstreams and battle in the Stomach.

That or Neptune.

I remember playing this Magic School Bus game where they went inside of Arnold and you did some things...lol good times in my life.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOStXl5F1SY

 

[squidbuddy99]

I would say WWI, but that war, with apologies to veterans, was uneventful and most deaths were from poisons or by running into enemy fire due to musket tactics that did not work for squat with machine guns.

OT: A game where you play as an evil organization conquering the world, Umbrella style.