Unused Historical Periods?

[Feriluce]

India during the time of British Colonialization. You could play as a soldier in Ghandi's army and achieve total victory by simply not doing what the British said.

Brit - Press X now!
You - No.

The Anti-Quicktime event!

"Press X to not die"
"No!"

 

[Mr. Twitch]

What about pre-Columbus North America?

 

[paragon1]

The 30 years war. Might make a decent setting for an Assassin's Creed game.

 

[Oomii]

Don't know if I have ever seen a good Revolutionary War game. Though its hard to make a game in the period at all, but still.

 

[llafnwod]

You know what we need? A Dynasty Warriors style game set during the Hundred Years War.

Oh Christ. That game does not need more archers.

 

[Amnestic]

I hate to say it, but technically every time period in history has been covered by Civilization IV.

Except prehistory.

How can you have pre-history? Everything in the past is history. So prehistory would be...before time?

Actually that *would* be interesting.

I don't know of any real ninja games set in feudal Japan

Tenchu games sound like they'd be right up your alley. Fun games, I thought.

 

[ultrachicken]

The battle of Troy?
Actually, that has potential to be great.

 

[Diligent]

I'd love to play a first-person Medieval combat game.

Does 'Mount & Blade' count?

I can't think of too many games that are set in the early 1900's. Maybe there are some I don't know about?
There's potential for a cool crime drama story there, or if you want to get zany, a kart racing game based around the design of early cars, or wacky steam powered car-like contraptions.

 

[socialmenace42]

Something to do with the Mongol invasions.

I would love to see a game about that.

See Age of Empires II for Mongols. Also, the expansion pack featured an Atilla the Hun campaign.

As for me, I wouldn't mind some kind of civil uprising FPS, perhapse based in Franko's Spain during the Spanish civil war. Would be something fresh.

 

[peduncle]

something in the 600-900 C.E. time period would be a refreshing change

 

[Entropyutd]

For example, there are a trillion WWII games, but I don't know of any real ninja games set in feudal Japan, which is something I'd love to see. Any other good vacant historical settings?

So, then you've never played any of the Tenchu games?

I wouldn't mind seeing a civil war game. You'd pretty much only get 1 shot, better make it count.

North Vs South (Amiga civil war game)
Getttsburg - Great PC Strategy game.
I'm sure Zero Punctuation reviewed a game with a civil war theme too (and time travel) but the name escapes me.

I guess if you want to be picky then most time periods have been covered by games like Civilization.

 

[PopeJewish]

I hate to say it, but technically every time period in history has been covered by Civilization IV.

Except prehistory.

How can you have pre-history? Everything in the past is history. So prehistory would be...before time?

Actually that *would* be interesting.

pre-history is before RECORDED history, so not really before time itself, though sorta (as time is relative). Also Evo for the genesis kinda has this covered

I don't know of any real ninja games set in feudal Japan

Tenchu games sound like they'd be right up your alley. Fun games, I thought.[/quote]

Yea, Tenchu games and several other series are set in feudal Japan (there are a lot in sengoku era)

What about pre-Columbus North America?

This was my thought. I'd like to see an RPG based on the Gary Jennings book "Aztec." Which was a bit lengthy but absolutely fantastic

 

[theamazingbean]

The battle of Troy?
Actually, that has potential to be great.

If by great, you mean 10 years of boring siege warfare. Unless you want to kick historical accuracy in the balls, in which case I would like to suggest the Trojan Horse re-imagined as a steampunk war machine given to the Greeks by a time-traveling Archimedes.

 

[YuheJi]

I hate to say it, but technically every time period in history has been covered by Civilization IV.

Except prehistory.

How can you have pre-history? Everything in the past is history. So prehistory would be...before time?

Actually that *would* be interesting.

Prehistory normally refers to a time before there was writing.

I would want to see more Sino-Japanese wars stuff (don't know if those have been covered yet) and perhaps a game featuring Mao's Long March.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

The super future.

 

[NeutralDrow]

China around 220 BCE. I wanna participate in the rise and fall of the Qin Dynasty, dammit!

Also, Heian era Japan. You could probably get cute and claim that Okami covered that, but that game seemed to be set more in a mythologically-influenced earlier period. I wanna see something mid-Heian with court intrigue, or possibly even late Heian with the rise of the samurai.

 

[Enkidu88]

The battle of Troy?
Actually, that has potential to be great.

If by great, you mean 10 years of boring siege warfare. Unless you want to kick historical accuracy in the balls, in which case I would like to suggest the Trojan Horse re-imagined as a steampunk war machine given to the Greeks by a time-traveling Archimedes.

That has to be the most awesome idea I've ever read. If I had a couple million dollars I'd put money into developing that.

 

[Commissar Sae]

The Dark Ages....

It would be a good era to do, as no one know what went on and you could just make shit up.

Except we totally know what went on during the dark ages. At least, in most of Europe. Details are sketchy but we do have a pretty solid historical narative for most of the dark ages.
But I agree that it would be a pretty sweet setting. Medieval games focus on the late period too much in my opinion.
A game set during the Russian civil war could be cool too. That or the Crimean War, that could be hilarious/pointless.
A naval game set during the Russo-Japanese war could be cool too.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I hate to say it, but technically every time period in history has been covered by Civilization IV.

Except prehistory.

civilization VI will cover that im sure, once it gets talked up enough that they haven't covered "EVERY time period"

 

[Timbydude]

Alternate post-apocalypse idea:

"Global Warming: The Aftermath"

The game would consist entirely of you staring at a flooded, slowly rotating, post-apocalyptic Earth, feeling sorrow and regret for your selfish, selfish ways.

I'm predicting a multi-platinum hit here.