RPG settings left unexplored

[RatRace123]

Modern setting, Alpha Protocol is the only RPG I've ever played that takes place in a modern setting, and doesn't use magic or aliens or something like that.

Maybe a better way of putting it is that Alpha Protocol is the only "Realistic" RPG I've ever played.

 

[subject_87]

Feudal-era Japan, Victorian London, 1800s New York, 1700s Europe, Mayan/Aztec culture. (None: All of these would also be good settings for the next Assassin's Creed.)

 

[kikon9]

I've always been hoping for a dreamscape type thing with upside down oceans and crazy stuff. Or maybe hybridized stuff like in the Mardek RPGs, that's always fun.

 

[Jfswift]

Wild West

That's actually a pretty good idea. Wild Arms 2 loosely touches base on that but with too many sci fi elements to be classified as one.

 

[Extasii]

I'd like to see a single player RPG set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

I want. I want. I want.
I think it'd be pretty sweet basing it off of a chapter that recruits from the ranks of the Imperial Guard or goes more the way of the Space Wolves and recruits from the barbarous natives of Fenris. It'd give a solid tutorial of some minor skirmishes and then toss you into a massive firefight once you get your real power armor.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

the world of pokemon.

as someone who is universally hated by the pokemon.

 

[Vibhor]

The Shadowrun universe hasn't had an RPG since the ..SNES?

I second this train of thought
I really need an RPG about shadowrun
Played the genesis version a few weeks ago(still have old consoles)
I still think why the heck hasn't any fpsrpg done that universe

 

[cbot1]

you mean mario and luigi: bowser's inside story?

 

[Defense]

A medieval world with many ruins of modern civilization, especially huge cities and other wonders. And of course, NieR does that quite well. I know, I never shut up about it.

Cyberpunk and steampunk would also really be nice if it was used more, thankfully Atlus is making a steampunk RPG for the DS.

 

[individual11]

Hm...how about a cyberpunk setting on a spaceship. The crew has gone completely insane, weird mutations and so forth, and escaped biological experiments. Not only that, but the player will learn more about the crew's lives via their journals. Oh, and the enemy should be an AI trying to contain the mutant/batshit crew members, only it is not the real enemy. If only there were a really famous game like that, one which everyone ought to have played...
(yes, make more of them, please!)

Yes, please.

Wasn't Dead Space supposed to be the third one? I mean, before EA decided to go all "Clive Barker directs 'Alien'"?

I'd be happy if they re-release the second one with modern graphics, no changes to layout or gameplay.

EA, had over the rights to a company that can do some good, don't just sit on it.

I'm surprised you guys never heard of System Shock (the predecessor to BioShock), where a sentient computer (named Shodan I think) kills everyone on the ship and re-uses the flesh to play god and the hacker who constructed it has to kill it.

Please tell me you are being funny.

By "I'd be happy if they re-release the *second* one with modern graphics, no changes to layout or gameplay" I was referring to System Shock 2... and thethingthatlurks was being clever. All that understatement may be confusing to some people.

I still think you're being funny.

 

[Clarkarius]

Lets see I don't think the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic and the Neolithic are yet be explored by Rpgs (Monster hunter does not count!) there is also the Bronze age to consider, the Iron Age which is still fresh to a degree, and the Dark Ages which is begining to get crowded game setting wise.

 

[Kurokami]

I would love to see a Harry Potter themed RPG, where you are a Hogwarts student and you progress through your life, basically...

Might not have been what you meant by 'settings', but I figured I'd go with it

There's a game... Sorta. On BYOND, if you've heard of it, haven't really played it much and it's not like its a proper (or should I say official? Don't know what word to use) game, but just letting you know there's something out there.

Me, I'd like to see an X-men game in the same kinda theme as you.

 

[Akiada]

I'd love more Cyberpunk RPGs. It's a shame there's so few of them especially when they lend themselves so well to RPG elements (being able to upgrade yourself by buying/finding/stealing/etc. upgrades and all).

I mean, shit, a proper Shadowrun game would be amazing (even if Shadowrun incorporates a lot of fantasy into it's Cyberpunk). The character options alone would be insane.

 

[NLS]

The Arctic. I haven't seen many RPGs set in an Arctic Environment, and I would love the Thrill of trying to Survive in the Tundra in the Cold-War Era with a Winterized AK-47, wearing stolen Russian Military Gear while fending off bears, trying to find Food, Warmth and Shelters, while also trying to evade the wrath of the Soviet Military whose base I decided to raid.

That sounds quite awesome, perhaps someone could do a STALKER mod about it?

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Modern day setting would be cool...you know what needs to become RPG standard?

Real time like in Pokemon Gold and Silver...every console has an internal clock, why has this not been done yet for christs sakes

The mobile phone thing would be cool too

Also,you can now set it in a city that is a near complete copy of an existing city, say gameplay like Fallout 3/NV, with a mobile phone, radio, real time night and day in the city of London in modern times...I'd play that, and so would many people.

All this is terribly possible...I've even thought the idea of including real time weather would be awesome, I mean, the Wii has a weather channel, how difficult is it to link that to a game?

 

[Lord Legion]

Quantum Level!

I'm Particle Man, I do whatever a particle can!

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

You know...I just realized something. All these suggestions, and no one's mentioned this:

An RPG that takes place in the Discworld universe.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Final Fantasy XIII's setting remains unexplored. ZING!

 

[Guido656]

Modern day. Why does everything have to be really shitty or really great, we're at a pretty decent balance here and it won't be hard to get inspiration for locations.

Yes. Agreed. I have wanted this for a long time - why has no one taken it up?

 

[The Night Shade]

I want to see an rpg in a western or urban setting