HIstorical events you would like to see in Video games

[Rooster Cogburn]

The Pre-Louisiana Purchase French Fur Trade in North America. Think of it as an MMO. You play a hunter on the great land east of the Mississipi. You kill and sell animal furs. The factions are the French (Canadians), US, British, and possibly Indians. This game could actually be good.

Wow, cool idea.

I have an idea for an MMO in which all game mechanics rely on one single resource. Call it Power. You earn Power by killing enemies, completing quests, or whatever seems worthy of a reward. Then you spend your Power at your own leisure to gain levels, gain health and mana, purchase equipment, unlock new zones or whatever goal or resource you may need. One resource you expend to do everything. The amount of Power you receive as a reward and the Power costs of... everything could be adjusted on the fly. Hopefully, gameplay would be very free-form and unrestricted because the customizable universal resource would allow developers to decide appropriate Power rewards for different types of accomplishments while also allowing players absolute control over the rewards for their efforts. In theory, the system would encourage a variety of play-styles and variety within play-styles.

Doing whatever you want is rewarded with whatever you want.

Your 'health' and 'mana' for spells would come from a single bar, which you could continually fill with Power, possibly with diminishing returns to keep things challenging. Spells and abilities would be the most efficient way to defeat enemies. Unfortunately, using them would decrease your 'health bar' and cost Power which could otherwise be put toward leveling up or new gear, so you are constantly challenged to defeat enemies as efficiently as possible.

What do you guys think about this? Has anything like it already been done?

 

[punkrocker27]

I wish they would make a game set in antiquity about both real history and fantasy. Like you could be a legionnaire tasked with investigating werewolf attacks in Gaul. Or something that touches on the littler-known exotic national myths, like being able to play as Hayk from mythological Armenia.

Other than that though I like the idea that some people had about frontier America. It would give people the chance to see for themselves just how far we've puched our boundaries in terms of what we can and cannot take from the land.

 

[kannibus]

Trafalgar and environs. Dude, I would make that wild ass hat look epic!

Oh Jesus.

Cross Mass Effect with this. Commander Shepard of the Royal Navy?

"I'm Commander Shepard good sir, and I proclaim this venue to be my most favored brothel in Portsmuth."

 

[Endocrom]

Xerxes building a temporary bridge across the hellespont using a bunch of boats.

Maybe The Alamo.

 

[thepj]

I'd like to see a game that covers some kind of "the history of warfare" kind of thing. It goes from hunting and killing animals and other tribes of people in the African sahvana to shooting people with super advanced SPACE GUNS.

As for specific events (I'm not terribly sure what order these all come in but i've tried my best) : the seige of Troy, The battle of that place i forget the name of with the Spartans vs the Persians, some battles from the punic wars (where Rome fought carthage) cause admit it killing people on and then killing elephants would be awesome. Some of the pilliging Atilla the Hun did, the Battle of Hastings, crusades 1-3, the english civil war, the battle of Agincourt, skip forward a bit to: fighting natives in both South and North Americas. Some of the battles from the thirty years war. Skip forward a bit again to the American civil war and then to the Franco-Prussian war culminating with you marching into Paris. Skip again to the first world war to the battle of the Mons and then the Battle of the Marne (spelling?) then some bits of trench warfare, the battle of the Somme. Driving one of the first tanks into battle. The Russian civil war, the Manchurian Crisis, the Abbysinan war, the second world war taking in all parts western Europe eastern Europe and the Pacific. The Korean war getting the recognision it kinda deserves for inflicting a higher rate of casualties on the Americans than Vietnam did, the Tet offensive for that matter. The Cuban revolution and the Hugarian uprising, Afghanistan with the soviets, the gulf wars and finaly bringing it into the presant day with the Iraq war and Afghanistan with the Brits.

All of this would probably end up being such a huge supergame that the strain on reality and the systems would cause it the collapse, flop and disapear into development hell.

 

[WrongSprite]

personally I would like to see a major war from ancient history. Like an old school battle where you have like thousands of guys just running at each other and more than likely whoever had the most people would win.

Like this?

Rome Total War

Or like this.

What game is that? I don't recognise it...

 

[spartan1077]

The mongolians attacking China while you have to build the great wall. Ya.

 

[Entrophyinateacup]

Whether it be a conflict or not, what event would you like to see (or you would like to see more) in a video game. My personal choice would be WW1, I find it fascinating with the introduction of industrialization to warfare.

While it may have not been true events: Judas being made immortal as punishment, and having to go through time making up for his mistakes by doing good.

With kung-fu!

Or guns.

Imagine Gun Fu Action Judas

The game

 

[Kalabrikan]

U.S. Civil War

 

[King Toasty]

personally I would like to see a major war from ancient history. Like an old school battle where you have like thousands of guys just running at each other and more than likely whoever had the most people would win.

Like this?

Rome Total War

Or like this.

What game is that? I don't recognise it...

Age of Empires Online, a terrible, terrible game based on the awesome series.

 

[WolfEdge]

The Big Bang.

What do I win?

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

The Cold War. Not an RTS per se, but a series of infiltration missions on behalf of two alliances.

I'd say The Dark Ages but if the Warlord Trilogy is any indication even an M-rated game might not do such a hellish time period justice.

 

[Chamale]

Civil War FPS

total war.

This might be obvious to some, but you know...just putting it out there

Total War, yes, the classic FPS... Wait.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

-Charlemagne's Empire, focused around the Battle of Tours.

This has always been my vote, but Charles Martel would have to be the main character. There's so much potential for political/religious tension as well as general badassery, the story almost writes itself (it could climax with the birth of Charlemagne, or something to that effect).

 

[Giest4life]

Siege warfare. Love it! Epic Lord of the Rings style siege battles would be wonderful. The Battle of Pleanor (from the book) is perhaps the most epic battle scene ever. Although not quiet historical, if a game was made that allowed me to formulate battles of such epicness, I'd gladly shell out my money for that.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

The russian revolution.
Something to do with the bermuda triangle.
The lost city of Atlantis.

 

[CheckD3]

How about a WW game in the eyes of Germany? You start off as a German who signs up for the army, and go through the Nazi propoganda system, the videos watched changing your views of the world ect.

A game where you play as "the bad guy" would interesting, plus it'd be nice to hear Jack Thompson and the anti-gaming gurus flapping their lips about something they have no actual knowledge about

 

[Woodsey]

personally I would like to see a major war from ancient history. Like an old school battle where you have like thousands of guys just running at each other and more than likely whoever had the most people would win.

Surely this is a joke post?

 

[deonte9109]

personally I would like to see a major war from ancient history. Like an old school battle where you have like thousands of guys just running at each other and more than likely whoever had the most people would win.

Surely this is a joke post?

Nope I am dead ass. I want strategy to take the far back seat. I just want two massive armies, a large empty battlefield preferably a desert, and the sweet, sweet sound of metal clashing and flesh being cut and torn.