Games That You Wish Existed Options

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

[Insert Half-Life 3 joke here]

A month or so ago, I quipped in The Everything Thread about a basic type of game I would like to see become real. After thinking about it every so often (and constantly forgetting about it), I figured: Why not make a thread for that kind of thing? Surely everyone has all sorts of ideas in that regard.

The game could be a totally new IP that doesn't exist yet. Or it could be an existing IP you love but you want to see something done differently with it (even if it would be a completely different genre and just a spin-off). Things of that sort.

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I'll start, and I'm going to go with my favorite series, The Elder Scrolls. First, I wish Bethesda would make the canceled Elder Scrolls Adventures games Eye of Argonia and Paradise Sugar. They were the sequels to Redguard. Eye of Argonia was supposed to have Cyrus again as the protagonist, I believe, which I would absolutely have been down for.

But more than that, I'd really love a TES fighting game. I rarely play games in that genre, but if there was one for TES I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I'd have to think about how I'd like to see the gameplay, etc. turn about, but it would be rad to have a roster of characters from across the series all in one game and fight each other. I believe Injustice and Marvel vs. Capcom have the characters say unique dialogue to each other before they fight, and I think that would be awesome to hear in a TES fighter as well.

Some of the characters that I want to see on the roster would be (games they appear in beside each name):

Jagar Tharn (Arena)
Dagoth Ur (Morrowind)
Gortwog Gro-Nagorm (Daggerfall)
Cyrus the Restless (Redguard)
Pergan Asuul (Shadowkey)
Azra Nightwielder (Shadowkey)
King Joruun (Online)
King Emeric (Online)
Queen Ayrenn (Online)
Shalidor (Online, but mostly from lore)
Mannimarco, King of Worms (Daggerfall, Oblivion, Online)
Kodlak Whitemane (Skyrim)
Vivec (Morrowind, Online)
Almalexia (Morrowind, Online)
Soth Sil (Morrowind, Online)
Vanus Galerion (Online, but mostly from lore)
Lucien Lachance (Oblivion)
Ulfric Stormcloak (Skyrim)
Legate Rikke (Skyrim)
Umaril the Unfeathered (Oblivion)
Pelinal Whitestrake (Oblivion briefly)
Baurus (Oblivion)
Fargoth (Morrowind) [He would make for a great joke character in the game, but actually have him be capable of fighting.]
Mankar Camoran (Oblivion)
Lord Harkon (Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC)
Serana (Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC)
Gaiden Shinji (Online, but mostly from lore)
Sai Sahan (Online)
Lyris Titanborn (Online)
The Underking (Daggerfall)
Dram (Redguard)
Admiral Richton (Redguard)
Prince Helseth (Morrowind)

I want more on there, but that is all I can think of for now. I don't know any characters from Dawnstar or Stormhold, but I'd like for them to be represented a bit, too. Obviously, this game would be non-canon.

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So what about you all? What kind of games do you wish existed and were playable?

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Aug 7 2019, 05:12 PM

[Lena Wolf]

I just want Oblivion with a speaking hero. And with companions - for consoles. Followers that walk close to you like friends do rather than "Skyrim security detail" half a mile behind. I mod my Xbox360 game to add companions, and there is an AI that makes them walk with you... but now I want it done properly. Also I want to see player character lie down on the bed to sleep like NPCs do. And may be sleep in real game-time? Then you could observe stuff, like an occasional vampire feeding on you? Oh!

And yes, hugs - I think I won't blush.

[Infa Red]

I just want Oblivion with a speaking hero.

Trip on this though. I used to want this too. Until I realized there would be absolutely no way to pull it off professionally (as in professionally voiced) without ruining immersion drastically. I mean I think I read somewhere else where you mentioned you don't really role play the character, but rather you are the controller/voice in the head of the character ?? right ? Maybe I am wrong or that was someone else.. but my point is then this might not ruin it for you. So that's understandable and cool for you.

But for those who like to role play that character.. it ruins it, because there is no way the voice would always match up to your character. Male, Female, etc.. it would get too messy.

Now, if you wanna take it futuristic, it would be cool IMO if the game came with a kit. This kit gave you instructions on what to say, and the setting, etc.. and you recorded the voice overs yourself for the main character. All it would do is store them, and then trigger them just like they do the recorded voice overs now. This way we get main character speaking AND its literally the player ! lol That'd be cool and definitely immersive.

Issue with that - Sometimes I like to play female characters and I am a dude. Solution - go get a friend to then do the voice overs for you maybe ? IDK

Either way, it gets messy. But I would agree with you if they just made it optional. My idea too, make it optional. This way you could roll with text responses or the new voiced main character.

The main issue is pretty much no matter what, voicing the main character will ruin immersion on certain characters played. There is no way around that. For instance, one could say, they can do a female and male voice, then it will automatically switch to the correct voice per character chosen in the beginning. That is a good idea and for the most part would work. Except for when your role playing a character that sure the gender matches the voice but you vision your character have a different voice, or a mute character that can't speak ! lol So it always comes back to maybe no voiced main character is best. IMO, unless they really put a lot of good crazy work into it. AND make it optional of course.