[Grug]

I like to dream, and to imagine what could be...

So people, what would be your idea for the perfect game?
Be it RPG, Flight Sim, FPS, RTS or whatever tickles your fancy.
Share your vision with others, and let us hope that someday they might go fullfilled...

One of mine would have to be a perfect RTS game. Something similar to Total Annihilation, yet less repetitive and with todays graphics.

I'd love to be able to control hoards of minions with a simple interface, yet have enough control as to perform either the most complex tactical manauvers known to man, or take the easy road and point and click and leave the rest up to the AI...

I want to be able to zoom right into the action and see the emotion on my soldier's faces as they gain victory over a superior foe. And I want to see the fear in my foe's soldiers eyes, as they finally realise they are about to die for an utterly pointless cause...

I want swarms of soldiers, hoards of vehicles, formations of air units, tactical bombardments from space, and finally massive levels to which there seems no end...

Probably most of all. I want a story that is original and believable. A universe packed with backstory and diversity. Something so epic that meets comparisons with Tolkien. After all, a game is supposedly just meant to be another medium as to tell a story, and to me is one of the most important factors in any great game.

Well I've shared one of my dreams, so I hope some of you will take the plunge and describe one of your own dreams...

[Singh]

A story. Everything else can be as good or bad as possible; in the end, its the story thats gonna make me play it more than anything.

[TopAce]

Any type of game, where the Ai does not cheat and the human player does not have handicap.

[aldo_14]

PES4 (fingers crossed)

[Black Wolf]

Personally, I'd like to see not one perfect game, but three perfect games, all of different genres (say, an FPS, RTS and space sim) but all liked by a single story. Imagine the scenario from Freespaces point of view.

FS1 - You, the player, get to walk around killing vasudans, get to board HoL destroyers, get to cower in terror when the lucifer is about to destroy Tombaugh station knowing there's nothing you can do about it except get to anescape pod, you get to take part in Hall fight, etc. etc.

FS2 - the space combat simulator that we all know and love.

FS3 - You've been selected for GTVA officer training, and have been given command of a small fleet. Start by hunting down pirates and remnant NTF, culminating in commanding the fleet that takes the battle to the destroyers for the first time in Terran/Vasudan history.

More important than the linked storyline, however, would be the games ability to integrate with each other seamlessly. If you own the space fighter and ground combat games, then ending a mission by jumping into your fighter would load up the next level as you escape the world you were just on whilst flying that fighter. Or if your command ship crashes onto an uncharted planet in the RTS, you might need to survive on this hostile world while you search for other survivors/rescue teams.

[Fineus]

Mine? Nothing big.

Just recreate a universe in every concievable detail. First person for the most part with access to every world, transport between same... each world individually evolving with its own ecosystem etc... societies and creatures. Background history.. wars between those societies. Everything.

And if you can't find it in game - you have the ability to put it in game.

That's it.

[Tiara]

Extremely detailed Story + characters. Those are the backbone of any good game. The rest is optional.

I mean, what else is more intruiging of a game which has detailed background stories on the world you are playing in, the characters you control and meet?

Wether it's an action game, an RPG, an FPS, etc etc, the story and characters are the backbone of the entire game. Not even graphics come close. Hell, I'd rather play Final Fantasy 1 on the 8-bit Nintendo then some mindless good looking game.

That reminds me, I need to get the original Zelda on the GBA

[Janos]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Mine? Nothing big.

Just recreate a universe in every concievable detail. First person for the most part with access to every world, transport between same... each world individually evolving with its own ecosystem etc... societies and creatures. Background history.. wars between those societies. Everything.

And if you can't find it in game - you have the ability to put it in game.

That's it.

Add huge multiplayer with dozens of factions AND SPACE BATTLES and you have my lifetime savings paypaled to your account in no time.

Oh Derek.

[Knight Templar]

Leisure Suit Larry 2

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Janos


Add huge multiplayer with dozens of factions AND SPACE BATTLES and you have my lifetime savings paypaled to your account in no time.

Oh definitely. Although in theory this game would be so vast and diverse that you could play it on your own and live out a totally believable second life inside of this game doing anything from farming to piloting a starship.

[Dark_4ce]

Hmm... Well, a space simulator. Where the explosions are dynamic and beautiful to look at. Each one a different spectacle of pyrotechnic mayhem, with bis of burning debris and such. Yet it utilizes specific location damage, so if you shoot the cockpit open, the pilot dies and you see him for example get sucked out and pop like a firecracker. Screw newtonian physics, let it be basic FS2 physics to boot. With LOTS of sounds in space. Weaponry has to be really flashy, missiles look really cool with funky contrails and the combat chatter is dynamic and acording to the situation. All commands given by the player will utilize the latest in voice recognition and the wingmen will respond to different tones in the players voice. The AI will be second to none, and pritty much everything you see will utilize the latest in graphics quality so it looks real. It also comes with a pair of 3D glasses so you get the true indepth feeling of the game. And the cockpit mechanics can be as complicated as you wish. You can go for the ultimate "movie reality" feeling in having all sorts of buttons to push and stuff to make you really feel like you know what your doing. Or you can just make it easier and consentrate on the flying.

Then the story. It has to be something that'll suck you right in, play with all your emotions, makes you feel deep sorrow when a character dies, and all voice acting will be supplied by famous or semi famous actors. The music will be composed by hanz zimmer.

Then when you think thats all of it. Then you realise theres a whole FPS part where you land on planets or take boarding actions. All of wich also uses dynamic level creation, so each planet or ship you board is different.

Then the Mutliplayer. A MMORPG. Maybe not so much a RPG than a constant battle between 2-3 factions with all the stuff you played in the single player game except that this time all the other players are actual people along with NPCs. News are reported by players and Key characters are played by payed employees "acting their part" in the game, so the story flows even in the online version. And subscription is free.

Yep, thats my dream. Not exactly possible, but I've seen parts everything I've mentioned, implimented in a game one way or another. So theres some hope.

[TopAce]

There is always hope, remember that.

[adwight]

Starcraft 2, would be my perfect game.

[an0n]

The Matrix.......only with more gratuitous sex.

[Deepblue]

@ Anon.

A multi-type game. You can do anything and be anything within the story-line. Example: (B5 universe) You can be a starfury pilot, then get out of your starfury and go places and interact. Make it moddable too.

EDIT: Life-like graphics wouldn't be bad either.
EDIT2: Dark Ace beat me to it. What he said.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by an0n
The Matrix.......only with more gratuitous sex.

So you want bullet-time tight black leather catsuit porn?

[Grug]

LOLs, please don't answer that

It's great to see so many people's idea's of the 'perfect game'. (lol @ Leisure Suit Larry though ) Whats PES4 though?

I'd love to see a fully integrated game also, with aspects of all the genre's. The creation of such a game would probably take more than one lifetime though, and something that grand would probably best be tackled as an Open Source gaming project.

Keep em coming people!

[Turnsky]

i think that's what sold the elder scrolls for the PC, the fact that it came with its own set of modding tools.... same with freespace, etc..

what i'd like to see in a game is length.. many modern games aren't really all that long, unfortunately.. i mean /real/ length.. like taking 40 hours + on an easy difficulty setting..
there are a few like that, but they're RPG's.. i mean something that would keep the player enthralled for that length of time, then have a high replayability to it, as well such as multiple paths, alternate characters, etc.. sure a game like that would take time to create, but, these days, i'd be happy with quality as well as quantity., and i don't just mean the graphics when i said 'quality' either.

[Singh]

One of these days...when im finally out of the army.....maybe i ought to start something.......
or not ;p

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Grug
LOLs, please don't answer that

It's great to see so many people's idea's of the 'perfect game'. (lol @ Leisure Suit Larry though ) Whats PES4 though?
 

I thought about the game & genre I'd play the most (and get the most enjoyment out of)....and I realised that PES3 is already practically perfect.