Settings that need more love <3

[Don Savik]

Steampunk and a good cyberpunk, not like the crap that crappy Syndicate remake thinks cyberpunk is.

AND BIOSHOCK IS NOT STEAMPUNK, its retro-futuristic, nothing is run on steam in the bioshock universe. Also, more retro-futuristic games, those are good too.

And more games where I play as a non-human. I hate it that nobody wants to take the chance to ATTEMPT to characterize a non-human protagonist because they think people will think its too weird and instead buy the latest Football Manager game.

 

[Johnnydillinger]

That WWI setting described in the first post has been done in 1916: Die Unbekannte Krieg. It's a free FPS horror title, and gave me quite the jumps, but it had some nauseating graphics (for me at least). Definitely worth checking out.

As for another setting I don't see too often in games, what about ancient aztec or mayan worlds. Not just cameos, like in some Tomb Raider games and Sanitarium, and not taking place in present day (sorta) like in The Ball and once again, Tomb Raider games, but taking place in an age when their civilizations were at their strongest. Heh, maybe a new Assassin's Creed spinoff without assassins... Wait, that doesn't sound too bad thinking about it.

I'd also love to see something like the movie Outlander; a spaceman crashing on Earth in the age of vikings... but this time give those vikings some futuristic weapons that they loot off the spacemen that came invading them. Then, as a small squad, you force one of them to take you to their homeworld and take the war to them. The possibilities from there are endless.

 

[Seraj]

Middle-Eastern Fantasy. Genies and flying carpets, all that good Arabian Nights stuff.

I second that, there are simply not enough genies and flying carpets in my gaming life right now.

Or, so the game industry doesn't seem too biased, an FPS middle eastern setting that *doesn't* revolve around "Arabs gone bad, kill Arabs".

Maybe something that revolves around one of the revolutions? The Libyan one certainly had enough guns and a mad frothing dictator who says "my beeble loff me". If that doesn't make for a great setting, I don't know what does

 

[BakaSmurf]

I would like more settings set in harsh winter climate, like the arctic. I know Skyrim just came out but the winter there is so mediocre and has no bearing on gameplay. That is why I liked the Penumbra games, reminded me of The Thing.
I would also like to see more games set in a Renaissance type setting, or even a mix of fantasy/steampunk like Arcanum.

I'm willing to bet that you'd like Cryostasis, keeping warm is an essential aspect to survival, and it's a horror that manages to stay pretty freaky even after you've gotten your hands on a firearm, since operating a WWII-era bolt-action rifle is kind of awkward when your hands are sheathed in thick arctic gloves.


It's only like $10 on Amazon.com too, I don't think there's much to lose by taking a stab at this very under-appreciated game.

What settings do you think should be used in games more?

I think We need more WW1 games, although not neccisarly a FPS , A silent hill kinda horror game could be good in the trenches and no mans land, I mean that place is freaky as shit!

Darkest of Days had a few levels that took place in WW1 when Germany was trying to invade Russia, no horror to speak of but it's better than nothing.


Lots of people give the game more flak than it deserves, but just try to remember that this game was developed by a crew of 8 guys, so there was only so much they could do with the resources they had.

 

[teebeeohh]

Napoleonic wars on dinosaurs
also WW2 games where we are not american. And maybe modern day civil war in Africa where we are not some white mercenary/special forces guy.

 

[Pat8u]

A game set in australia, I want to do something in a game and reconigse the place from real life

Come to think of it, Has anyone atemptted a ned kelly(Not that I like him I think he was a racist arsehole/Criminial) game yet?

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

I want more Dead Island style. Bright, happy resorts or average towns. Environments you could actually end up in.
Realistic areas like MW2s segments taking place in every day streets.
I am fucking tired of fighting in some shit brown fuckhole in the middle east or on the dark side of the moon.
Gimme something bright and cheerful, somewhere I can go.

 

[Charli]

MORE CANDY LANDS.

Seriously, I want games made out of food. And make them reeeeally bloody awesome. Proper physics on whipped bloody cream.

 

[VladG]

Anything to do with Norse, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and or Mesoamerican mythology and folklore. Seriously, who doesn't want Vikings fighting feathered dragons, giant world eating leopards, with a sphinx or two thrown in for good measure?

I think you're talking about Age of Mythology right there

Though I must say I'd like more games with Norse mythology. I can remember exactly one other game (except the aforementioned) before Skyrim, and that's Rune.

 

[VladG]

an actual properly fleshed out (think rome in assasins cree brotherhood) full on steam punk city. (infact i think a game with similar gameplay to ass creed would kick ass in this regard)

Ahhhh but its just a dream.

The closest you can get to that is probably Thief 2 and 3. Exploration is very limited, so it's not exactly full on, but the games are awesome (Thief 2 much more than Thief 3)

The Stone Age idea sounds interesting... maybe a Stalker-ish game with a high difficulty curve where survival is half the game

 

[ToMegaTherion]

I just want more Age of Mythology-kind of games. Using cyclops agains an army of spearmen was incredibly satisfying. I love mythology so that would be awesome

Oh, and I want more classical horror stuff. Picture Resident evil 4-esque but fighting in Transylvania against hordes of Draculas minions(Zombies, Werewolfs etc)

And more Lovecraftian games. Not enough old ones in my games

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Ancient Egypt definitely! With the Gods and Pharaohs

 

[Suncatcher]

There needs to be more Steampunk.

And more urban fantasy, like Dresden Files or WoD style.

I'd also like some prohibition-era gangster stuff, like GTA or Saints Row but with fewer whores, more style, and tommy guns and dynamite instead of assault rifles and grenades.

And something with giant mecha; the only ones I can think of these days are the Armored Core series and those tend to feel more like a superhero or something than a walking tank that you pilot. Or Iron Brigade, but that felt less like a mecha and more like a reskin of the standard boring FPS in power armor.

And while we're at it, why haven't there been any real space games lately? There are plenty with space as a backdrop for a bunch of stuff by individual characters on the ground or within a ship, but none where you can fly a starship around in 3D.

We need more cyberpunk, a good Shadowrun or Ghost in the Shell or something.

A space western done right would be great; something Firefly-ish, preferably with a Fallout/Elder Scrolls style open world (galaxy) to fly your rusty little ship through, scraping by on your wits...

Ooh, if anyone's heard of the Temeraire series, that'd make a great setting. For the most of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's an alternate history of the Napoleonic wars, but with the addition of dragons. As in, they outfit a dragon with a harness, put a dozen soldiers with rifles and bombs on their back, and send them into combat like a flying ship. Think Aubrey-Maturin, but airborne with an intelligent vessel.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Say want you want about JRPGs, at least they know something more then "hey, let's go rip off Tolkien again". Seriously, what is wrong with Western RPGs?

I didn't know that games like Mass Effect and Fallout were Tolkien ripoffs....

I didn't know shooters with a lot of dialogue were considered RPGs...

Seriously though, I would take hits on Fallout simply because it has used the same damn setting ever since it was still called Wasteland. And, honestly, if Tolkien is on the number one spot for being ripped off, the whole "post-apocalyptic wasteland" shtick (most notably the Mad Max variety) is definitely a close second.

And Mass Effect... Well, I really liked Mass Effect, but it isn't that impressive if you've played Star Ocean before, they already did the whole intergalactic racial & politics thing, like, four times already. (And it really sucked the last time they did it.)

That said, kudos to you attempt, but giving two examples is still not enough to make my point invalid.

 

[PPencil]

What about a game that includes aliens that are NOT humanoids, I mean come on devs (I'm lookin' at you Bethesda and Bioware..) there are infinitely uncountable ways some kind of life form made it to multi-cell complex organisms! Does the entire universe-full of aliens NEED 2 hands feet and a head?! Why do we have BOOBS on ALIENS that could have ANYTHING ELSE to feed their offspring?!

Also, colours please. In fact, a game without grey or brown would be quite nice. I didn't calibrate my screens colours so that i could see better greys! Maybe even a game where you actually FIGHT grey and brown with a spray? That'd be fun. (The blob doesn't count, you fight black with him/her/w/e)

PS.: Hi.

Edit: splleing.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I agree with World War I. There's a wealth of battles and incidents to choose from. It doesn't have to be set in the static trenches on the Western Front, either. There were many secondary fronts that were far more mobile, such as Africa and the Middle East.

Some other settings to consider:
-A Warhammer 40,000 game from the perspective of an Imperial Guardsman.
-A decent Starship Troopers game.
-The Spanish Civil War
-The American Revolution
-The French Revolution

Those first two settings, you would probably only survive the first few seconds, even on the easiest difficulty! I would hate to see an imperial guardsman fighting off the forces of chaos with all the demons cranked up to nightmare mode.

 

[El Dwarfio]

This is massive nit-picking here but; the 'Hellenistic Period' is from the conquests of Alexander to the end of independent Hellenic states. The 'Classical Period' is from around 500BC-323BC.

I would love to see games set in either period, either the Classical period of Polis and the Peloponnesian War, or the (oft ignored) Hellenistic period and the continent spanning empires of the Diadochi, colonization and political intrigue.

Yeah massive points to you - I was in the library yesterday, picked up a book on Classical Greece and then was like shit! XDXD

 

[M0rp43vs]

-Someone mentioned an Arabian setting and I have to say I'm all for that.

-I have mentioned a modern fantasy masquerade in an earlier thread and Id like to restate that here. Why are there so many modern fantasy shows but not many games with the concept.

-Building on that, why not a Men In Black styled, alien agency on earth setting though I suppose with the new x-com coming out, that counts?

-Gensokyo or at least more settings like Gensokyo. For those not in the know of touhou, Gensokyo is the place where all eastern fairy tales are true and youkai and human (grudgingly) Coexist. Think Okami but less watercolour art. In fact more games based on differing mythologies besides western and greek(we got God of War for that)

-Not another Tolkein rip off. I dunno when fantasy became so mundane. Where people hate on skyrim because the elves don't look like the sparkling mary sues in regular western fantasy.

Or at least, if you're going to use that setting, subvert our expectations. Maybe instead of gold hungry miner dwarves, have them be tree hugging hippies who think being short means being closer to earth or technological elves who live in smog filled steam punk cities and act like cartoony capitalists.
And most of all, don't let the main heroes be(or at least don't give ALL focus to) humans. Maybe have us see through the perspective of an orc, an undead or a goblin adventuring group sick and tired of being adventure fodder(Cookie for the webcomic reference)

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

Modern military, post apocaliptic worlds and space warfare. lol

OT: I find more enjoyable settings that are built up from scratch, like Shadow of the Colossus

 

[M0rp43vs]

Wait! I forgot to add.

Why not a Magic school a la Hogwarts or what the college of Winterhold was promising but ultimately failed to deliver in(Really, passing of an arc that would've been a questline for one of the branches of the mage guild in Morrowind?)

You would get to learn several schools of magic and be free to train these practical skills in the real world(or on the resident bully).

Maybe add in a spell casting mechanic a la Magicka or use the controller in conjunction with voice commands to shout spells. Maybe allow clever use of kinect or move and make them something other than a waste of money to me

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