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[Broken]

What I want, in the deepest recesses of my cold heart, is a government conspiracy game.

Look Floor 13, is an old (1992) game about keeping your prime minister in his post (with any means)

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In Floor 13 you are the director general (DG) of a special branch of the British secret service. Your goal is slightly different than the MI6 though, as you don't fight for the safety of the nation, or at least not only for that.

What you are paid for is to keep the Prime Minister and his government ahead in the polls, and in order to achieve this you are allowed to perform various actions that a democratic state supposedly never permits.

Worrying about national security issues such as terrorist attacks will be only one part of your job.

You'll need to keep the scandalistic press quiet, to hide from the public eye the habits and the excesses of some ministers (corruption, satanism, drug smuggling, assorted sex scandals), to combat secret societies and other groups of power trying to influence the government and the public opinion in the wrong direction, and so on.

Retriving a secret document the night before it's sent to the press with a quiet house break-in is usually enough to achieve good results. Anyway, if things get too messed up, you'll be given the choice of much more radical solutions. If a journalist ends up knowig too much, it'll become vital to ensure that an "accident" happens to him. If you realize that you need informations quickly, you can send your boys to invite someone in one of your cells, where he will be convinced to tell you what you want to know. Of course the strangers who end up in your offices can't be allowed to go out once it's all over and talk to Amnesty International and things like that, so even if you end up discovering that you've kidnapped a honest peaceful citizen, you'll have to make sure that he doesn't tell your secrets to anyone.

[GentlemanRaptor]

What I want, in the deepest recesses of my cold heart, is a government conspiracy game.

Look Floor 13, is an old (1992) game about keeping your prime minister in his post (with any means)

Someone else remembers Floor 13? Color me impressed. I loved that game to bits, but the stories were all pre-generated and once you played it enough you started to recognize when certain stuff came up. Still, that holds true for any game that doesn't randomly generate missions. The incentive to not screw up in that game was nice, too. Death by Garcianation isn't a pleasant prospect. I guess I'd like something like that, but modernized and with aliens/MJ-12 stuff in it.

[Sergius]

A MMO-rpg like thing where you can build settlements like you would build things in (W/St)arcraft: someone plops a blueprint, and players do work with it with abstract material pools or whatever instead of having to grind for logs and pebbles and bricks and bolts and cloth and...

Also, the money spent on placing the blueprint goes to pay for the work spent by the players. And if no players are available then NPCs come and build it and get all the money.

If actual materials are needed, then players that drop materials are also paid.

Clearly there should be a system where the site owner can decide how much to pay in total, and set skill requirements and so on. That way long-time players can complain about "those noobs coming over here and stealing our jerbs".

I was thinking the owner/manager can set percentiles for NPC work, citizen work and foreign work. Hadn't thought yet of skills required, was assuming anyone can do this kind of building grind.

Also hadn't considered the owner setting the price arbitrarily tho.

[Graknorke]

Hey, building things is hard. And there's also a wide range of skills needed, there's teams who do digging and foundations, ones that do brickwork, ones that do electronics and so on. Then there's the managers too, who need totally different skills to the workmen.

[scrdest]

What I want, in the deepest recesses of my cold heart, is a government conspiracy game.

Look Floor 13, is an old (1992) game about keeping your prime minister in his post (with any means)

Someone else remembers Floor 13? Color me impressed. I loved that game to bits, but the stories were all pre-generated and once you played it enough you started to recognize when certain stuff came up. Still, that holds true for any game that doesn't randomly generate missions. The incentive to not screw up in that game was nice, too. Death by Garcianation isn't a pleasant prospect. I guess I'd like something like that, but modernized and with aliens/MJ-12 stuff in it.

Oh, I played it, and loved the concept, but yeah - it could be done better, nowadays, I think.

If you want a quick fix until someone does make something like that, try Toady's own LCS. Especially if you play it more subtly and on Classic. Planting sleepers, sending disguised operatives to steal compromising materials against your political opponents...

[itisnotlogical]

I liked old school runescape, for one reason:

I spent 90% of my time mining, fishing, and smelting shitty gear and then selling it for profit. I saw those with legendary weapons and armor. I saw the mages and the warriors, strutting about like gods. I ignored them, and enjoyed making fires and being relaxed.


In fact, to make this relevant: I want the above, as a game. Maybe more options. Be able to just...Live life, in a fantasy world. Sure, you could USE one of those daggers that you made, and go be a hero.

If you wanted.

I got a full set of bronze armor, never discovered how to make FAT STAX to buy equipment more suitable to my level, and then spent all my time either partying in Varrock or grinding gold with that banana quest in Karamja. It was surprisingly a blast to have an in-game party with random strangers, something nobody really thinks to do in other MMOs.

Anyways, I want more games based around voice recognition or similar concepts. It seems like a really unexplored gimmick in gaming, with the last really memorable voice-based game to be Hey You Pikachu.

[WillowLuman]

An RTS where you pit various (mostly) internet subcultures against each other in open combat, even if only for the phrase "Juggalo death tanks"

[KingofstarrySkies]

Multiplayer DF would be bitchin'. Turn based, maybe...I don't exactly know how it'd work.

Multiplayer LCS. One person is LCS, one is CCS. Turn based?

[Sergarr]

An RTS where you pit various (mostly) internet subcultures against each other in open combat, even if only for the phrase "Juggalo death tanks"

oh god the 4chan faction

oh god the tumblr faction!

[SealyStar]

An RTS where you pit various (mostly) internet subcultures against each other in open combat, even if only for the phrase "Juggalo death tanks"

oh god the 4chan faction

oh god the tumblr faction!

This isn't fair. I actually had this idea but I never thought about putting it here.

[Graknorke]

An RTS where you pit various (mostly) internet subcultures against each other in open combat, even if only for the phrase "Juggalo death tanks"

oh god the 4chan faction

oh god the tumblr faction!

4chan faction plays like a grey goo type thing, (for all gameplay purposes) a single huge mass that absorbs material and grows. Fluid-ish dynamics would make it interesting to play, need to keep it close together to create enough pressure to break through defences. But the loss in mobility is made up for by not needing any factories.

Tumblr faction can only produce weak combat units, but a few of them have an ability that when active has a chance to cause enemy units to fall under Tumblr's control for a short while, the effective time and area of effect is based upon the number of Tumblr units around the special one.

[flabort]

I want a game I would be justified in quitting my job to play. Any genre will do if it's more important than this damn job.

An RTS where you pit various (mostly) internet subcultures against each other in open combat, even if only for the phrase "Juggalo death tanks"

oh god the 4chan faction

oh god the tumblr faction!

This isn't fair. I actually had this idea but I never thought about putting it here.

I was going to run a multiforum deathmatch RP game, but I'm not part of enough internet cultures to do so (notably the three mentioned here).

[Mesa]

I wonder...
What do you guys think of a subreddit that would be essentially this thread on steroids? /r/GamesYouWishExisted, anyone?

(I mean, considering how niche some subreddits out there are, I don't think it would be a bad idea overall...)

[GentlemanRaptor]

Not bad, especially not if you advertised it a little on smaller gaming subreddits. God knows, getting something like this to a place where devs would be more likely to see it isn't a bad thing.

[Mesa]

Well, I made it, but it's complete bare bones and I just realized I'm completely and utterly unable to do all the moderator work on my own. :S
_{(it's private right now though so if you want to help out, message me or something so I can make you a mod)}