Your idea of a perfect game?

[Booze Zombie]

What would your "perfect" game be?

For me, it is one where you can interact with almost everything. A zombie is coming at you? Pick up a tire iron! Or that old car door, or that wooden board or melt it with fire, eat it's soul, freeze it to the floor.

This would also include the story being interactive. The hitmen in the area giving you a hard time? Wipe them out at their source! But you'll be stuck finding freelance hitmen if you need someone taken out.

And of course, you'd have character interactivity. You wanna be a sniper or a necromancer? Go for it! A vampire, zombie, ghost, mutant or countless other things? Hell yeah!

I think I'd die happy if that game existed.

 

[Iaspis]

The "perfect game" is an utopia. What makes an excellent game on the other hand; pure, intense, addictive gameplay that makes your adrenaline gauge go berserk. I personally find this mostly in 2D arcade shooters, but FPSs or even some RTSs can do the trick. Also give me a catchy, techno soundtrack and a good joystick/mouse/keyboard/or-whatever and there you have it.

 

[crimsondynamics]

The Holodeck in Star Trek. You won't need anything else ever again.

 

[Iaspis]

The Holodeck in Star Trek. You won't need anything else ever again.

Nicely put.

 

[SimuLord]

For the sixty millionth time (it seems):

Either an EVE on Earth-type MMO (as in "what if Trevor Chan made Capitalism massively multiplayer and crossed it with Patrician/Port Royale?") or a game that managed to combine the economic elements of Patrician, the historical sweep of Civilization, and the land-based RTS combat of Rise of Nations with a little Total War thrown in for fun, then allowed the player to seamlessly experience any or all of the above with an AI smart enough to handle the rest of the global changes through history without introducing weird glitches like Roman-era technology on land while battleships worthy of the WW2 US Navy patrolled the seas. Make it as open-world sandbox as an Elder Scrolls game.

I figure that latter game would take the Earth Simulator just to run the AI.

 

[mmmurple]

Battle Royale: The Videogame

 

[Anarchemitis]

What would your "perfect" game be?

For me, it is one where you can interact with almost everything.

Use paperclip on doorknob niche.
*You unlocked door*
Use peice of lint on carpet.
*Carpet is now dirty, enemy vacuum-bot en route*
[Equip User-assembled Drill/Nail-Gun]

 

[feralfenix]

the perfect game (for me) would be a Spartan Total Warrior style hack-n-slash game with MMORPG elements and a game world that is actually effected by your actions (example: destroy an enemy faction village and return the next day to find the village hasn't been magically repaired over night, the village is still destroyed)

 

[J-Man]

The "perfect game" is an utopia.

I concur. Something that has an excellent design, story and humour would be brilliant. Psychonauts comes close.

 

[Gotham Soul]

I figure something with the elements of Savage: The Battle for Newerth. A system that requires cooperation between players, while blending multiple genres together.

 

[Syphonz]

no game would ever be perfect to me. I'd find SOMETHING to ***** about with it. Every game I love as much as my PS3 has its seriouz issues that if were a real person, I'd chew their throat out.

NHL 09 - Absolutely RETARDED defensive AI and the Be a Pro coach.

MGS4 - enemy soldiers have a habits of running right into me even though its not part of the path they should be taking.

Dead Space - Enemies sometimes have the ability to dash through my Stasis and machine gun fire.

Uncharted - Enemies on higher difficulties seem to have the amazing ability to see, move shoot through walls with pin point accuracy with a moving target.

Nothing will ever be perfect.

 

[Wolf Blade]

The "perfect game" is an utopia.

I concur. Something that has an excellent design, story and humour would be brilliant. Psychonauts comes close.

If you look at it like that, Portal comes damn well near as well.

 

[J-Man]

The "perfect game" is an utopia.

I concur. Something that has an excellent design, story and humour would be brilliant. Psychonauts comes close.

If you look at it like that, Portal comes damn well near as well.

Definitely.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

As of right now...

An RPG set in a world similar to that of FFXII
With a character creation/dialogue system similar to Mass Effect (You make your character, however, they feel like a character, not like an avatar, Dragon Age will also probably do this right)
A Battle System that operates like a combination of Never Winter Nights 2 and Chrono Trigger
A job system like Final Fantasy Tactics
A story with as much choice and influence as Planescape Torment and as much charm and emotional weight as Suikoden V.
Graphics would be similar in style to those found in Eternal Sonata, but with a little more realism infused into them.

That would, at the moment, be my perfect game.

 

[Ace of Spades]

If someone were to create a perfect game, the world would implode, and it would be awesome. My idea of a perfect game would be something that makes me forget that it's only a game. Awesome story, addictive gameplay, and enough replay value to justify multiple playthroughs.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well, other than Portal, the perfect game would be like in movies where you're actually in the game (e.g. Tron). You could use whatever you want as a weapon, and you are actually interacting. I mean, think Counter-Strike, but you can do whatever you want. You actually live the game. It'll probably never happen, but I swear, that would be awesome if it did.

 

[superbleeder12]

l don't think there will ever be a perfect game. I'd say the closest I've seen is Baldurs Gate II. a perfect blend of story. strategy Characterization and humor

 

[PureChaos]

mostly it depends on type of game (FPS, RPG, action/adventure etc)but in general anything with real time combat, you can use almost anything around you as a weapon/shield, the main character having some sort of telekinetic abilities (i just think telekinesis is great), decent plot/ending, appropriate music, is a challenge without being frustrating and when you don't win the reaction isn't 'oh well, i'll try again later' its 'bastard, i was so close, you're going down now' and having hoards of enemies that you can pummel/blast/shoot/shuriken and lightening your way through.

 

[Solo508]

My perfect game would be a multiplayer one where there is no random crap that can get you free kills.