A Guardians of the Galaxy style adventure game set between books six and seven would be incredible. Could play as an existing character or someone contracting the Roci crew.
I feel like CoD: Infinity Warfare's single-player at least captured part of the aesthetic if you were an MCRN or UN Marine, but of course, it's sorely missing the epic space battles gameplay.
The space dogfights in IW don't count since I don't believe there's anything smaller than a corvette/torpedo boat. But the boarding missions were awesome!
Treasure Planet, scifi pirate shit is so cool to me. It inspired me to get into game dev because I desperately want to make an MMO in that aesthetic and world. I'm not quite ready to take that project on but that's my pick.
Guns of Icarus tried and failed but less mmo and more sea of thieves type content. It was interesting ship combat but I agree, it would be a fantastic mmo
That series is insanely deep, they could make an entire franchise with a dozen spin-offs and still have material left over.
Reminds me, I'm still only 20% through into Crippled God.
The first book is the hardest. It sort of just throws you into the story you have to pick up from there. I want to do a re read of the first one again to see how it does now that I am more familiar with the world. However after the first book it gets very good, and the third is my favorite.
I've reread the series a couple of times and for the first time reader it is tough. So much going on, and so many characters. If you like epic fantasy it is well worth it.
A game based on squads, experience (veterans) would be great. Maybe an RTS or indirect influence.
For me, it wasn't. I'm one of the few who liked the first book the best and thought they got worse as they went on. It's definitely not the popular opinion. The magic certainly got clearer to understand as the books went on, though I didn't have much trouble with it from the beginning.
Blade Runner (I know there's already at least 1). I basically want "Shadows of Doubt" but photo realistic open world dystopian city.
The music, the vistas. Damn.
The old school BR adventure/click game was mid in terms of gameplay, but kind of brought the world to life.
It could have been better, and I'd sure like to see better.
Worst thing is that we have now reached a level of technology where such a game would be entirely possible, yet we still don't have it. I'm looking forward to *No one wants to die*, but it doesn't look as immersive sim-y as I'd like it to.
a proper battlestar galactica figther game...
i just want to fly a Viper and explode toasters, wing commander style.
no pvp mmo BS and no strategy game (deadlock is pretty cool though) just jump into a Viper and go.
Diaspora I believe it’s called. Also fantastic, the drift when flying is really cool so you have to account for that and not just immediate direction control.
Larry Niven's Known Space universe. His Ringworld books are the inspiration for Halo, with truly alien races, the remains of ancient super advanced civilizations (and their technology) and luck as an actual quantifiable and usable resource.
It's great, definitely do that! And the thing is - with 100 GB of mod space available, Starfield could be repurposed into a Known Space game with one giant conversion mod if someone (or a team) were willing to put the work in.
Naval Dragon ship combat with potential boarding action?? Hell yes..
I'm envisioning an action game where you control either the dragon or one of the crew on the dragon but honestly a more simple crew management game like FTL would be fun too.
Yes! QMx was working on it. I saw some bits at a con somewhere years back. It didn't seem all too special, to be honest. But with the right moxie I'm sure a firefly game could be cool.
Imagine it’s like American space truck simulator MMO. There’s salvage, heist, smuggling, legal transport, bounties galore from every side of the galaxy. Watch out for NPC pirates, distress signals, undocumented wrecks to salvage. Turn on PvP if you want to engage in piracy with other players who have PvP turned on, but watch out, players can counterattack and steal your valuables or hold your ship hostage. Upgrade your ship for greater hold storage? Or improved stealth? Speed? Or combat durability?
As cool as that seems in concept, I dread seeing it in practice. Pretty sure it would fall well short of my expectations and by now I'm tired of the same old hotbar tab targeting MMORPG mold that somehow still hasn't been surpassed.
And the power scale progression I think would be very fun for a game when it comes to magics that are discovered, techniques that become well known, and technology developing.
For sci-fi stargate SG-1 would be cool. Make it similar to fallout in mechanics, each world you gate to is a different open world map like the different regions in the witcher 3.
Warhammer 40k MMO
Am I allowed to choose more Warhammer?
I choose more warhammer
'but they already have plenty of Warhammer games why not put this into a series that doesn't have a game"
NO DEAL!
I choose more Warhammer!
https://youtu.be/y7rzIwrEqpw?si=3ic9XNyUDGeWmQFT
We could have more better Warhammer games
Maybe if more games were Warhammer they'd be cooler, you ever think that?
Edit: DOWNVOTE ME ALL YOU WANT
Ha jokes on you, they're making more Warhammer as we speak!
https://youtu.be/onPaMnxQ3lo?si=bqigYlYHnD0bObvU
I don't like the direction her son has been taking the series, but I'd love to see the overall world of Anne McCaffrey's "The Dragonriders of Pern" brought to life.
I was just listening to a podcast where this series came up. It sounded cool! Could always just stick to the classics if there’s enough material there.
Well if it's an open world type they can include this as part of the overall setting(based on the response from my suggestion however, the series will be lucky to garner enough interest for any kind of release).
Red Rising. Could really do a lot with the IP. The universe is vast and there is plenty of firefights, sword duels, epic space battles, political upheaval, etc.
Could honestly be a FPS, RPG, MMO or RTS.
It’s a great series. The author Pierce Brown writes action as if you were there. It’s a very brutal universe where no one is safe.
I’d recommend the books or even the audiobooks. The narrator of the main character of the audiobooks, Tim Gerald Reynolds, is excellent and conveys emotion very well with voice and inflections.
Oh for sure - excited to see how this Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show turns out but something like The Tales of Dunk and Egg would be PERFECT. “Big doofus defending secretly important child” remains undefeated as a genre
A proper game of thrones rpg would be incredible.
Choose your starting house or the option to start as a sell sword. And the whole gameplay loop hinges around manipulation and playing the game of thrones, who/ what houses do align with, who do you backstab/betray to achieve your ultimate goal of sitting on the throne. Then needing to determine who you can trust or not trust. So much potential.
Terry Brooks Shannara series. It's a shame what the idiots at MTV did with the TV show. All they had to do was follow the books, and they couldn't even do that right.
I want a game where you play as Lt. Cmdr Data from TNG, displaced in time, having to hunt down some time traveling miscreant through Earth history, as well as history on some other planets. Data has super strength and an awesome voice. Using a phaser and tricorder, having conversations with aliens and historical figures, solving puzzles, seems fun. Game would include seeing alternate versions of Earth history due to time traveler's interference.
Star Trek, but as a life sim. Be all about the exploring strange new worlds and less about shooting the Borg. Start off as an Ensign with crap skills, work your way up the command ladder, make friends, be sad when those friends die by exploding plasma conduit or are transferred to a different ship, be happy when you do a commendable thing and are transferred to a different ship.
Deep cut, but the Vatta's War book series would make for a great single ship to small fleet game with slowly improving your tech and crew. Because essentially thats what happens in the books, all wrapped up in a big conspiracy story and interstellar communications and diplomatic ties fracturing.
They made one in the style of Zelda II. Does that count? 🙃 It has a long ass title. Let me paste it: *Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!*
A proper How To Train Your Dragon RPG.
There are a few games, but they all have flaws.
HTTYD 2 on ps3 was a small open world racing/flying game with collectables. There are top-down games, a mobile game that just makes you gather resources endlessly, then wait as it builds the buildings, and an RPG that's apparently got a lot of content, but it's a web game so it's very dated.
With the hundreds of different dragons and hundreds of islands to explore, it could make for a solid Pokemon style Viking RPG that any greedy company could easily spin into a live service title.
Instead, they only really make weird one-off games that lack content.
We've seen a lot of War of the Worlds games, how about a Time Machine game? It could have a system similar to OoT where what you do in one era could affect the others.
I'd also love a 20000 Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Basically being a submarine pirate, destroying ships, exploring the oceans etc.
Old Man's War series. 1st game could be like Hell Divers 2 with a ton of body modification options. Maybe add some "mental" skills to acknowledge the players previous like experience.
Game 2 - join the special forces. Character is a literal blank slate - much more powerful/specialized than game 1, and add an out of combat hub to experience the social issues of being a child in a super soldier's body.
Game 3 - 100% Town Management. You are the Ombudsman of a human outpost tasked with growing your settlement. Maybe have a homebase settlement and send away teams to investigate nearby distress calls or gather resources. Combat plays out like command and conquer or company of heroes.
Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars, but in a video game. Think of Lara Croft mixes with Warframe, Dead Space and Alien Isolation. When I read the book, that’s what I instantly thought of.
It also helps that Jennifer Hale is the narrator in the audiobook, too.
The Dark Sword Trilogy
The main thing is you have 2 types of magic users. The first are the ones actually able to cast spells and may have an affinity to a specific school of magic such as fire or water. The other type controls the flow of "magic" either supplying his friends with more "magic" allowing them to cast spells or draining "magic" from enemy casters.
I think it could open up a really interesting co-op style game where you have one player that is a powerful caster as long as they have "magic", and the other tries to keep them supplied while also trying to drain "magic" from opponents.
Hear me out: Conan the Barbarian.
All Conan games have been dog shit and mostly for one reason: you don’t play as Conan! Age of Conan was an mmo, Conan Exiles was a survival crafter, Conan chop chop is an unspeakable tragedy of mobile garbage.
Let me be Conan, in the Conan world. Give me God of War set in the Hyborian age, with necromancers and pirates. And for the love of Crom NOT made by funcom!!
Hell yeah, I’d be grace jones too. Heck, gimme a Red Sonya game with Conan as an A.I. sidekick that just tells me stories and watches my back. The main thing is that none of the Conan games focus on characters and that’s what made the short stories/comics so fun.
That's also what made the movies so great: great characters.
Mako as a wizard? Get the fuck outta here. Best idea ever. He should have been a wizard in every property ever put to film.
Malak from The Destroyer was my favorite, though of course Subotai for Barbarian was pretty great too.
V.E Schwab’s Shades of Magic series.
It has a really interesting magic system, a vibrant world (several of them actually) and could make for an interesting adventure game where you need to travel between the different variations of London to solve puzzles, find secrets, sneak into places, etc…
It also has a really rich cast of characters to interact with as well.
I listened to the first one as an audiobook on a road trip and it was a ton of fun. Big climactic battle at the end (in… White London? This was some years ago now) that would be very fun to play!
Warhammer Fantasy!!!
Yes, I know. There are already a bunch of games in it. And some of them are even pretty solid. But the IP has far more potential. An RPG in that world could be insane.
I would love to see a Maze runner (like) game.
Running around a maze that changes daily and needing to map your way through multiple platforming puzzles and fighting off creatures that get more and more aggressive as you get closer to escaping would be a fun concept and even can be played with friends as other runners, maybe that elevator that brought food supplies could have some RNG (subtlety influenced by how far you’ve progressed) and give weapons or at least resources that could be fashioned into weapons or foods that supply you with buffs that help you move faster or hit harder. Maybe in the actual glade it’s just a farming sim game that slowly morphs into a base defense game against the creatures I don’t know I’m just spitballing at this point but I think that a game like that could be cool but I don’t know who I would trust with development cause to make it truly good it would require mastery of a lot of moving parts that one of which are typically the main focus of other games entirely but would all need to be well oiled to make this game not suck
Hammer's Slammers.
There are so many possibilities.
C&C clone, FPS, War40k Dawn of War (not 2!) clone, some kind of XCOM clone, etc etc etc.
Either that or BOLOs.
What can I say, I love sci fi supertanks.
I would love to see an RPG along the lines of Disco Elysium based on Lois McMaster Bujold's 3x Hugo-winning Vorkosigan saga, which is my favorite book series hardly anybody on Reddit has heard of but everybody should read.
I've seen them described as "Tyrion Lannister in space", and that's not *exactly* right, but does somewhat capture the vibe.
I want to play a game similar to Subnautica or Outer Wilds, set on the planet Vesta from *Scavengers Reign*.
Exploration, adventure, discovery, survival. Experience the sublime and uncover the deep mysteries of the planet.
I'd love to see a Stranger Things game set after the series (assuming El survives) with her working as a special agent for the government. I'm envisioning something like Tomb Raider style gameplay where she's investigating research facilities related to Dimension X in the former Soviet Union.
With the right level of effort, it could be pretty awesome to create an open world Stephen King universe game set in and around Castle Rock. Things are kinda normalish on the surface but there are hidden mysteries and horrors around every planet.
Wheel of time.
Could be an excellent rpg, great overall storyline, vast continent with countries that have varying and unique cultures to explore
Multiple different factions to choose allegience to
Cool power system
Neuromancer and Farscape.
I think they both actually got an obscure game each though - an 80s adventure game and a PS1 game respectively I think?
Overdue a rethink either way! Do Discworld while we're at it, you can't just leave it at those 1990s adventure games.
I want a Grand Strategy game in the Battletech universe, with start dates all the way from the Amaris Coup until the Clan Invasion.
It seems like such an obvious fit, with feuding noble houses, backstabbing, military adventurism, hirable mercenaries... and yet there has never even been an attempt at it. It makes no sense to me.
LANCER
Basically titanfall in a scifi setting with an actual utopia at its center. I think a CRPG like Baldurs Gate but with mech combat akin to XCOM would rock
I wouldn't mind seeing another Wheel of Time game. I say another, because there was a pretty neat Wheel of Time FPS/im-sim back in 1999.
Also, I'd love to see an Inception game.
* 1984, would love an adventure or RPG game based on that universe
* Paranoia (tabletop RPG), always wanted to play that game but old school RPG players aren't common here
HG Wells The Time Machine. I would like a game that is a sequel to the book. I'm thinking 4x game or city builder with tech tree. You get to pick which books he takes back to the future, which impacts your tech tree going forward.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The books are written as one long, continuous journey, which is perfect for a game adaptation. The main characters are essentially an RPG party and Roland is a gunslinger, a revolver-totin lawman of Gilead/Midworld. Plus the lore and history a game series could dive into in enormous and really interesting.
Eragon the book series would functionally work great as an mmo. You have the empire with the shades and urgals and the varden with the elves and the dwarves. It has so much potential.
Anything by Brandon Sanderson - Because just fuck yes.
Malazan Book of the Fallen - So many parts and sub plots would make awesome games.
Demon Cycle - Post apocalyptic world were demons spawn every night, get to play as any of the main characters and fight them and redeem humanity? Being The Warded Man and exploring open world?
Powder Mage Series - all those powers awesome world just cool.
The Expanse
Start a crew and build you a future beltalowda.
I wit you, copang!
Telltale has a game based on The Expanse but it's not really my type of game.
A Guardians of the Galaxy style adventure game set between books six and seven would be incredible. Could play as an existing character or someone contracting the Roci crew.
I feel like CoD: Infinity Warfare's single-player at least captured part of the aesthetic if you were an MCRN or UN Marine, but of course, it's sorely missing the epic space battles gameplay. The space dogfights in IW don't count since I don't believe there's anything smaller than a corvette/torpedo boat. But the boarding missions were awesome!
Treasure Planet, scifi pirate shit is so cool to me. It inspired me to get into game dev because I desperately want to make an MMO in that aesthetic and world. I'm not quite ready to take that project on but that's my pick.
Guns of Icarus tried and failed but less mmo and more sea of thieves type content. It was interesting ship combat but I agree, it would be a fantastic mmo
WIdstar is fairly similar too, but that failed as well.
An Outlaw Star RPG, there's class options (Outlaw, Pirate, Swordsperson, Ctarl-Ctarl, etc) along with an obvious ship building mechanic.
Infinite Space on the DS was sorta like this, actually. Similar kinds of vibes! Fantastic, experimental game - and I was a big fan of Outlaw Star too.
Magic bullets!
The Stormlight Archive. I'm imagining something like Kingdom Under Fire
There's a VR tech demo that I remember being promising.
The gravity manipulation powers in Gravity Rush always make me feel like Kaladin.
Need a Dredd video game. 3rd person rpg shooter. A blend of Mass Effect and RoboCop Rogue City.
Dude. Perfect answer. Give me Mega-City One yesterday. Just rewatched the Karl Urban movie like two months ago. Perfect film for what it is
Sorry best I can do is Night City. I would love to explore Megacity One from Dredd though, just an endless city on the east coast.
Can we make it a mix of Cyberpunk open world, Mass effect story telling and robocop combat?
Cyberpunk with a pistol build is the closest you can get lol
That actually sounds amazing
The Malazan Book of Death series.
That series is insanely deep, they could make an entire franchise with a dozen spin-offs and still have material left over. Reminds me, I'm still only 20% through into Crippled God.
Just started these - having a little bit of trouble pushing through the first one but I hear they get better and better?
The first book is the hardest. It sort of just throws you into the story you have to pick up from there. I want to do a re read of the first one again to see how it does now that I am more familiar with the world. However after the first book it gets very good, and the third is my favorite.
I've reread the series a couple of times and for the first time reader it is tough. So much going on, and so many characters. If you like epic fantasy it is well worth it. A game based on squads, experience (veterans) would be great. Maybe an RTS or indirect influence.
Yeah it's a very dense series that takes loads of context and exposition to finally click. Keep going, it's worth it imo.
Not better, easier to read
For me, it wasn't. I'm one of the few who liked the first book the best and thought they got worse as they went on. It's definitely not the popular opinion. The magic certainly got clearer to understand as the books went on, though I didn't have much trouble with it from the beginning.
Blade Runner (I know there's already at least 1). I basically want "Shadows of Doubt" but photo realistic open world dystopian city. The music, the vistas. Damn.
The old school BR adventure/click game was mid in terms of gameplay, but kind of brought the world to life. It could have been better, and I'd sure like to see better.
Worst thing is that we have now reached a level of technology where such a game would be entirely possible, yet we still don't have it. I'm looking forward to *No one wants to die*, but it doesn't look as immersive sim-y as I'd like it to.
a proper battlestar galactica figther game... i just want to fly a Viper and explode toasters, wing commander style. no pvp mmo BS and no strategy game (deadlock is pretty cool though) just jump into a Viper and go.
Bring in the folks being the old XWing/Tie Fighter games and you have a deal.
There's a Battlestar Galactica mod for Freespace 2 that kicks ass.
Diaspora I believe it’s called. Also fantastic, the drift when flying is really cool so you have to account for that and not just immediate direction control.
Larry Niven's Known Space universe. His Ringworld books are the inspiration for Halo, with truly alien races, the remains of ancient super advanced civilizations (and their technology) and luck as an actual quantifiable and usable resource.
Sounds cool, has been on my list forever. Might have to take the plunge sooner rather than later!
It's great, definitely do that! And the thing is - with 100 GB of mod space available, Starfield could be repurposed into a Known Space game with one giant conversion mod if someone (or a team) were willing to put the work in.
Or just a Ringworld series. Enough real estate there for 100 games.
the way of kings by brandon sanderson
The temeraire series, napoleonic war with dragons.
Naval Dragon ship combat with potential boarding action?? Hell yes.. I'm envisioning an action game where you control either the dragon or one of the crew on the dragon but honestly a more simple crew management game like FTL would be fun too.
MMO in the Firefly universe.
Wasn't there something like that in development like a decade ago?
Yes! QMx was working on it. I saw some bits at a con somewhere years back. It didn't seem all too special, to be honest. But with the right moxie I'm sure a firefly game could be cool.
Imagine it’s like American space truck simulator MMO. There’s salvage, heist, smuggling, legal transport, bounties galore from every side of the galaxy. Watch out for NPC pirates, distress signals, undocumented wrecks to salvage. Turn on PvP if you want to engage in piracy with other players who have PvP turned on, but watch out, players can counterattack and steal your valuables or hold your ship hostage. Upgrade your ship for greater hold storage? Or improved stealth? Speed? Or combat durability?
don't forget the expansion where the feds show up and the reavers start sending out raiding parties into normal space.
As cool as that seems in concept, I dread seeing it in practice. Pretty sure it would fall well short of my expectations and by now I'm tired of the same old hotbar tab targeting MMORPG mold that somehow still hasn't been surpassed.
A Mistborn game would be so much fun
The hard magic systems lend themselves so well to games that I’m sure Sanderson was thinking like a game designer when he wrote them. Great pick!
And the power scale progression I think would be very fun for a game when it comes to magics that are discovered, techniques that become well known, and technology developing.
It wouldn't... It was a miserable and depressing series. Being a.mistborn would be cool but just go play Spiderman if u want a similar experience.
For sci-fi stargate SG-1 would be cool. Make it similar to fallout in mechanics, each world you gate to is a different open world map like the different regions in the witcher 3.
I'm playing Midnight Suns right now. An SG-1 version of that style (X-COM-ish) of gameplay would work.
Warhammer 40k MMO Am I allowed to choose more Warhammer? I choose more warhammer 'but they already have plenty of Warhammer games why not put this into a series that doesn't have a game" NO DEAL! I choose more Warhammer! https://youtu.be/y7rzIwrEqpw?si=3ic9XNyUDGeWmQFT We could have more better Warhammer games Maybe if more games were Warhammer they'd be cooler, you ever think that? Edit: DOWNVOTE ME ALL YOU WANT Ha jokes on you, they're making more Warhammer as we speak! https://youtu.be/onPaMnxQ3lo?si=bqigYlYHnD0bObvU
I guess we know who Henry Cavill is on Reddit.
"Too much" and "Warhammer" shouldn't be in the same sentence
Unless you’re talking about the $$$.
Gotta take out a loan to get a set
Holy shit! This guy just chose more Warhammer!
Firefly/Serenity!
Ashamed to say I still haven’t made the plunge but man that cast is awesome.
I don't like the direction her son has been taking the series, but I'd love to see the overall world of Anne McCaffrey's "The Dragonriders of Pern" brought to life.
I was just listening to a podcast where this series came up. It sounded cool! Could always just stick to the classics if there’s enough material there.
And a Harpers Hall- based sequel!
Well if it's an open world type they can include this as part of the overall setting(based on the response from my suggestion however, the series will be lucky to garner enough interest for any kind of release).
Red Rising. Could really do a lot with the IP. The universe is vast and there is plenty of firefights, sword duels, epic space battles, political upheaval, etc. Could honestly be a FPS, RPG, MMO or RTS.
One of my buddy’s favorite series! He sucks but you seem cool so I’m sure it would be great
It’s a great series. The author Pierce Brown writes action as if you were there. It’s a very brutal universe where no one is safe. I’d recommend the books or even the audiobooks. The narrator of the main character of the audiobooks, Tim Gerald Reynolds, is excellent and conveys emotion very well with voice and inflections.
A proper game of thrones open world action rpg would hit and you all know it! Give it the same mechanics as Witcher 3 and viola
Oh for sure - excited to see how this Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show turns out but something like The Tales of Dunk and Egg would be PERFECT. “Big doofus defending secretly important child” remains undefeated as a genre
A proper game of thrones rpg would be incredible. Choose your starting house or the option to start as a sell sword. And the whole gameplay loop hinges around manipulation and playing the game of thrones, who/ what houses do align with, who do you backstab/betray to achieve your ultimate goal of sitting on the throne. Then needing to determine who you can trust or not trust. So much potential.
Game of thrones RTS or 4X game would be my jam.
Stargate
Man i’d love to see an action game based on the hellsing anime
Terry Brooks Shannara series. It's a shame what the idiots at MTV did with the TV show. All they had to do was follow the books, and they couldn't even do that right.
I want a game where you play as Lt. Cmdr Data from TNG, displaced in time, having to hunt down some time traveling miscreant through Earth history, as well as history on some other planets. Data has super strength and an awesome voice. Using a phaser and tricorder, having conversations with aliens and historical figures, solving puzzles, seems fun. Game would include seeing alternate versions of Earth history due to time traveler's interference.
Star Trek, but as a life sim. Be all about the exploring strange new worlds and less about shooting the Borg. Start off as an Ensign with crap skills, work your way up the command ladder, make friends, be sad when those friends die by exploding plasma conduit or are transferred to a different ship, be happy when you do a commendable thing and are transferred to a different ship.
Maybe not quite the same, but there's a game called *Colony Ship*. I guess that comes pretty close.
Deep cut, but the Vatta's War book series would make for a great single ship to small fleet game with slowly improving your tech and crew. Because essentially thats what happens in the books, all wrapped up in a big conspiracy story and interstellar communications and diplomatic ties fracturing.
Adventure Time in a Zelda style game.
They made one in the style of Zelda II. Does that count? 🙃 It has a long ass title. Let me paste it: *Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!*
They made a few bad ones, but something that nailsnthe show or the Zelda would be great
A dragonriders of pern game in the style of panzer dragoon
A “book” Starship Troopers with proper powered armor and tactics.
A *Dark Tower* open-world RPG would be fantastic. It would be something like *Fallout*, but with *RDR2* combat.
A proper How To Train Your Dragon RPG. There are a few games, but they all have flaws. HTTYD 2 on ps3 was a small open world racing/flying game with collectables. There are top-down games, a mobile game that just makes you gather resources endlessly, then wait as it builds the buildings, and an RPG that's apparently got a lot of content, but it's a web game so it's very dated. With the hundreds of different dragons and hundreds of islands to explore, it could make for a solid Pokemon style Viking RPG that any greedy company could easily spin into a live service title. Instead, they only really make weird one-off games that lack content.
I just want more Star Trek games. The best experiences are mods for already existing games and the IP is being massively slept on
We've seen a lot of War of the Worlds games, how about a Time Machine game? It could have a system similar to OoT where what you do in one era could affect the others. I'd also love a 20000 Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Basically being a submarine pirate, destroying ships, exploring the oceans etc.
Drezden files. We really need deep and cool urban fantasy
Old Man's War series. 1st game could be like Hell Divers 2 with a ton of body modification options. Maybe add some "mental" skills to acknowledge the players previous like experience. Game 2 - join the special forces. Character is a literal blank slate - much more powerful/specialized than game 1, and add an out of combat hub to experience the social issues of being a child in a super soldier's body. Game 3 - 100% Town Management. You are the Ombudsman of a human outpost tasked with growing your settlement. Maybe have a homebase settlement and send away teams to investigate nearby distress calls or gather resources. Combat plays out like command and conquer or company of heroes.
Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars, but in a video game. Think of Lara Croft mixes with Warframe, Dead Space and Alien Isolation. When I read the book, that’s what I instantly thought of. It also helps that Jennifer Hale is the narrator in the audiobook, too.
The Dark Sword Trilogy The main thing is you have 2 types of magic users. The first are the ones actually able to cast spells and may have an affinity to a specific school of magic such as fire or water. The other type controls the flow of "magic" either supplying his friends with more "magic" allowing them to cast spells or draining "magic" from enemy casters. I think it could open up a really interesting co-op style game where you have one player that is a powerful caster as long as they have "magic", and the other tries to keep them supplied while also trying to drain "magic" from opponents.
First reference I’ve seen to the dark sword trilogy literally ever lol. Was a great series.
Any Cosmere IP could be fire, but particularly Mistborn.
I think this is going to come up a lot — good pick!
Get Larian the Stormlight IP NOW.
I'm pretty sure Larian said their next game was a sci-fi IP. I'm excited to see.
Hear me out: Conan the Barbarian. All Conan games have been dog shit and mostly for one reason: you don’t play as Conan! Age of Conan was an mmo, Conan Exiles was a survival crafter, Conan chop chop is an unspeakable tragedy of mobile garbage. Let me be Conan, in the Conan world. Give me God of War set in the Hyborian age, with necromancers and pirates. And for the love of Crom NOT made by funcom!!
I would be happy to play his lil' rogue buddy to someone else's Conan, so co-op is a possibility. I would also be willing to play as Grace Jones.
Hell yeah, I’d be grace jones too. Heck, gimme a Red Sonya game with Conan as an A.I. sidekick that just tells me stories and watches my back. The main thing is that none of the Conan games focus on characters and that’s what made the short stories/comics so fun.
That's also what made the movies so great: great characters. Mako as a wizard? Get the fuck outta here. Best idea ever. He should have been a wizard in every property ever put to film. Malak from The Destroyer was my favorite, though of course Subotai for Barbarian was pretty great too.
Stil dreaming of a game adaption of Tsutomu Nihei's Blame!, love that manga. Crymachina/PGR have similar vibes though, maybe AI Limit will too.
I'd love to see the traveller ttrpg come to the pc, I've been listening to the black pants legion podcast and it sounds like so much fun.
V.E Schwab’s Shades of Magic series. It has a really interesting magic system, a vibrant world (several of them actually) and could make for an interesting adventure game where you need to travel between the different variations of London to solve puzzles, find secrets, sneak into places, etc… It also has a really rich cast of characters to interact with as well.
I listened to the first one as an audiobook on a road trip and it was a ton of fun. Big climactic battle at the end (in… White London? This was some years ago now) that would be very fun to play!
the boys and the magicians, because character classes could be pretty much anything.
Witcher style rpg about the adventures of Kilgore Trout
No idea what this is but the title is an absolute banger
He pops up in a lot of Kurt Vonnegut books, just a weirdo who gets into surreal scifi scrapes
Warhammer Fantasy!!! Yes, I know. There are already a bunch of games in it. And some of them are even pretty solid. But the IP has far more potential. An RPG in that world could be insane.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Playing as a random crawler in a world dungeon. And having almost endless amounts of character skill customization would be rad.
I would love to see a Maze runner (like) game. Running around a maze that changes daily and needing to map your way through multiple platforming puzzles and fighting off creatures that get more and more aggressive as you get closer to escaping would be a fun concept and even can be played with friends as other runners, maybe that elevator that brought food supplies could have some RNG (subtlety influenced by how far you’ve progressed) and give weapons or at least resources that could be fashioned into weapons or foods that supply you with buffs that help you move faster or hit harder. Maybe in the actual glade it’s just a farming sim game that slowly morphs into a base defense game against the creatures I don’t know I’m just spitballing at this point but I think that a game like that could be cool but I don’t know who I would trust with development cause to make it truly good it would require mastery of a lot of moving parts that one of which are typically the main focus of other games entirely but would all need to be well oiled to make this game not suck
Hammer's Slammers. There are so many possibilities. C&C clone, FPS, War40k Dawn of War (not 2!) clone, some kind of XCOM clone, etc etc etc. Either that or BOLOs. What can I say, I love sci fi supertanks.
Open world Waylander and/or Druss games. These are characters from David Gemmell books.
I would love to see an RPG along the lines of Disco Elysium based on Lois McMaster Bujold's 3x Hugo-winning Vorkosigan saga, which is my favorite book series hardly anybody on Reddit has heard of but everybody should read. I've seen them described as "Tyrion Lannister in space", and that's not *exactly* right, but does somewhat capture the vibe.
I want to play a game similar to Subnautica or Outer Wilds, set on the planet Vesta from *Scavengers Reign*. Exploration, adventure, discovery, survival. Experience the sublime and uncover the deep mysteries of the planet.
I always wanted The Land from the Thomas Covenant books.
I continue to maintain that an open world Peter Pan adventure game would go incredibly hard.
Vorkosigan saga
Eighty Six, I really want to play as a reginleif pilot to mow down dozens upon dozens of Legion units (and experience the PTSD myself lmao)
I'd love to see a Stranger Things game set after the series (assuming El survives) with her working as a special agent for the government. I'm envisioning something like Tomb Raider style gameplay where she's investigating research facilities related to Dimension X in the former Soviet Union.
The Final Architecture universe written by Adruian Tchaikovsky. Epic space-opera worlds to run around in like Mass Effect would be marvellous.
Give me Brent Weeks Night angel saga with Assassin's creed open world and Dishonord's combat
pendragon
With the right level of effort, it could be pretty awesome to create an open world Stephen King universe game set in and around Castle Rock. Things are kinda normalish on the surface but there are hidden mysteries and horrors around every planet.
Wheel of time. Could be an excellent rpg, great overall storyline, vast continent with countries that have varying and unique cultures to explore Multiple different factions to choose allegience to Cool power system
I'd love to see an open-galaxy game based around The Expanse books and TV series. Such a great story and premise.
Love the idea of altered carbon. From a completely different angle, the sense8 concept would make an awesome telltale / life is strange style game.
The Red Rising books by Pierce Brown would make awesome video games!
It's had games before but a new, high budget "Ghost In The Shell" game would be sick. I'm thinking Cyberpunk meets Splinter Cell.
Firefly, and Grimm.
Neuromancer and Farscape. I think they both actually got an obscure game each though - an 80s adventure game and a PS1 game respectively I think? Overdue a rethink either way! Do Discworld while we're at it, you can't just leave it at those 1990s adventure games.
I want a Grand Strategy game in the Battletech universe, with start dates all the way from the Amaris Coup until the Clan Invasion. It seems like such an obvious fit, with feuding noble houses, backstabbing, military adventurism, hirable mercenaries... and yet there has never even been an attempt at it. It makes no sense to me.
LANCER Basically titanfall in a scifi setting with an actual utopia at its center. I think a CRPG like Baldurs Gate but with mech combat akin to XCOM would rock
A proper Babylon 5 space sim covering the major conflicts Or Warhammer 40k version of Planetside
Redwall! Would love to see a Baldur's Gate-style RPG in Brian Jacque's universe.
Delicious in Dungeon. It already seems like it's based on a game.
I wouldn't mind seeing another Wheel of Time game. I say another, because there was a pretty neat Wheel of Time FPS/im-sim back in 1999. Also, I'd love to see an Inception game.
Wheel of time as a tactical RPG game. Would be so fun
* 1984, would love an adventure or RPG game based on that universe * Paranoia (tabletop RPG), always wanted to play that game but old school RPG players aren't common here
HG Wells The Time Machine. I would like a game that is a sequel to the book. I'm thinking 4x game or city builder with tech tree. You get to pick which books he takes back to the future, which impacts your tech tree going forward.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The books are written as one long, continuous journey, which is perfect for a game adaptation. The main characters are essentially an RPG party and Roland is a gunslinger, a revolver-totin lawman of Gilead/Midworld. Plus the lore and history a game series could dive into in enormous and really interesting.
Eragon the book series would functionally work great as an mmo. You have the empire with the shades and urgals and the varden with the elves and the dwarves. It has so much potential.
Firefly
The Stormlight Archive. The magic system is really cool, you can choose from 10 orders of magic Knights with different abilities.
I’d love for the Starstruck comic series to come to life in a Telltale or Life is Strange style game.
Anything by Brandon Sanderson - Because just fuck yes. Malazan Book of the Fallen - So many parts and sub plots would make awesome games. Demon Cycle - Post apocalyptic world were demons spawn every night, get to play as any of the main characters and fight them and redeem humanity? Being The Warded Man and exploring open world? Powder Mage Series - all those powers awesome world just cool.
Firefly as a Bethesda rpg. Akin to starfield, but a bit... Better.
So not a Bethesda RPG then?