B-Cell said:
I want Call of juarez gunslinger 2.
Despite loathing modern Ubisoft, I would pre-order that the instant it went on sale. The spiritual parts and the showdown with the ghosts in the cemetery certainly qualifies it as weird. I adored CoJ: Gunslinger.
Kyrian007 said:
... I suggest checking out Hard West on Steam or GOG.
Was about to mention it. XCOM but in the Wild West and with occult elements. Tactical turn-based scenarios that get weirder as the game progresses.
I certainly wouldn't *not* want more western games, weird or otherwise. I wonder what an RPG set in the west would be like. Arcanum is probably the closest thing we already have, being industrial-era/steampunk but that's not quite right. The setting does lend itself to shooting and open-world roaming, but no reason we can't have games with other styles. I'm not sure if they should rush out to make a Total War: Wild West but something action-oriented could be fun.
There is a modern-ish version of the Wild West tho that can be used to similar effect in fiction, namely the podunk, middle-American town. Take an isolated, middle of nowhere, one gas station town with a small community and you have a setting that's partway between the West and modern day. You can have train tracks, a bar, a sheriff, a biker gang, whatever. A bit like True Blood maybe, that kinda setting.