Concepts That Should Be Games?

Now that we've seen what's in the pipe for the immediate future IGN is running an article hoping for the games of the future, and talking about novels, tv shows, and other properties that they'd like to see be made into games. From the article: "...while we at IGN are all for original, non-franchise titles--reference Katamari, Psychonauts, God of War, Spore--a lot of us have places in our hearts for certain TV shows, films, and books that made us all fuzzy with joy." What would you like to see be made into a game? Microsoft, if you are listening, I have two words for you: Shadowrun MMOG.

Re:Babylon 5 Online

[Kelerain]

It may not be *massively* multiplayer, but the folks of the

Babylon 5 : I've Found Her [firstones.com]

project have done some marvelous work. Its in progress right now, but I had quite a bit of fun with the (free) prequel campaign. It is one of the few space fighter sims that seems to understand that momentum is conserved. They have both 'controlled' flight, where the corrections are made for you, and 'free' flight where you can gather enormous speeds.

Re:MMO War Game

[DingerX]

The dude before me mentioned WW2OL.
I supposed Planetside is in there as well.
There already are FPS RTSs -- specifically Operation Flashpoint Missions. The major problems are the underperforming netcode and the lack of Join in Progress. Both of these, I understand, will be addressed with the next game in the series (Armed Assault or something).
The problem with big battle simulations is that modern combat involves a bunch of grunts who get slaughtered and a few guys with nice toys who do the slaughtering. So when you try WW2OL, for example, you'll find that there are a lot of tanks and relatively few infantry. Nobody likes to run thirty minutes just to get machine-gunned.

Stupid writer

[Eivind]

Perhaps he should consider actually reading the books he is recommending as source-material for games ? This reads a lot as if he's simply read the back-cover blurb or at most a review of the books in question.

For example, when describing "Enders Game" he writes that: The gist of Ender's Game is that Earth is in danger of annihilation by an insectoid race. The twist is that the battle is taking place a long, long way from home, requiring Earth to train children to save the human race so that they won't die of old age by the time they reach the battlefield.

That is, infact, as they say "not even wrong". Ok, so it's correct that earth is in war with some aliens, but that's about it.

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But when Ender ends up commanding the flotilla in the final battle against the aliens (while himself beliving, or atleast being made to believe it is merely yet-another exersize) he is not old at all.

I don't remember if the book says exactly how old he is, but he gets put into military training from age ~7 and spends some time in two different (in-space) academies before this happens. I'd say he's probably a teenager or so.

If a 7 year old can command the battle at say 15, they could just aswell have started with a 20 year old and let him command at 28. Why this ain't done, but instead children are used isn't really explained in depth.

Re:MMO War Game

[chrismcdirty]

The sig never said that Anakin kills Padme (unless he changed it since you called him out). At this point right now it says "Anakin force-chokes Padme", which is completely true.