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Animal Crossing

Do I have the power to force amicable licensing deals? If so a Marvel vs Capcom title worth the franchises name. If not, new Soul Calibur.

What Anthem the Game could have been. There was SO much potential and they threw it all away!

Original game concept:

• a single player playing two games at the same time using split screen. One with the left analogue stick and left shoulder buttons, another game with the right ones.

Improve on old games:

• A proper remake/remaster of Final Fantasy 7 while keeping the original turn-based combat, pacing, and story.

• A true sequel to Shadow of the Colossus.

• New Burnout game with proper tracks instead of open world.

I've had this idea for a Supernatural game. It's a side-scroller beat-em-up/Detective game, with town maps similar to Southpark stick of truth.

Evolution themed team combat game. Both teams start with a basic set of skills and abilities, claws, teeth, etc. And as you complete objectives (capture the flag, killing an opponent, etc) you get to evolve new traits. Think competitive Spore, with hints of TF2. There could be different maps based off of environments, deserts, oceans, rivers, mountains, with each having their own environmental hazards to contend with.

I would make a game like Anthem, but good. I loved many aspects of that game: the exosuits, the co-op focused gameplay, the open world, and yes, I like looter shooters.

Other things I would do: -Combat/traversal would be a bit more ground-based. There would be jet-assisted jumping and maybe limited flight, but not sustained flight -A modular weapon system. Take a base handgun/long gun/launcher/etc and modify it to be rapid-fire, scatter shot, sniper, target-chaining, or whatever else. -A post-apocalyptic world with a harsh environment that requires vehicles or exosuits to get around in outside of established towns/shelters.

Other game Ideas I had: -A single-player story-driven game where you play as a battlemage in your nation's military. The setting would be somewhat modern-day with magic. Due to the presence of magic, guns would be extremely limited or nonexistent, and I think would be an interesting idea to explore. -A gacha game without the gacha. I like games like Genshin Impact with the open world, exploration, characters to collect, team building, and regular content updates, but without the predatory monetization and focus on dull grinding and daily-logins to drive engagement. I'm not sure how feasible this would be without the amount of revenue a gacha game brings in, though. MMOs kinda do this, but I would want to build my own party, rather than play a single character.

Just thought of another one, a narrative game but where the leitmotifs are constructed like Arabic roots and templates, IE 3 note progressions and chords to assign affiliation and frames to put them within that shows their narrative role in that affiliation.

Morrowind with online multiplayer. Don't get me wrong, I like Skyrim and ESO is cool, just different. But I enjoyed my Morrowind experience and would love to see it modernized in some ways, mostly visual

Crusader Kings 2: Remastered

An Assassins Creed game set in feudal Japan based around the samurai.

Totally dynamic from every level and fully integrated between mobile and PC. I would build a real time strategy game that encompasses space civilizations that span planetary systems, overhead strategy, and a first person individual level. I would put in place elements where recruiting human participants in a collective dynamic is important but not required for marginal success.

Most of all, I would add game theory at all levels where fighting, killing, and waring is a disadvantage to more complicated social and political elements along with exploration and adventure. I would not restrict the explicit nature in any way. I would use all of it for a hard SciFi social critique, as all SciFi really is under the surface. And I would totally avoid the dystopian nonsense and fantasy magic bullshit like FTL travel, and aliens of any kind.

Something like Avatar but with more humanity fuck yeah

Sonic Mania 2.

A recent SimCity that is great.

I'd just pay The Fun Pimps to get their game out of alpha. Of maybe Savage 3.

Banjo Threeie. Playing through those first two games with my younger brother are some great memories. I would convince him to take a week vacation so we could play through it uninterrupted.

World of darkness MMORPG, it has all the different WOD games in the same world, but they interact differently, so all the different vampires, wear wolves, wizards and demons.are vying for power in their own way, and the hunters are going full pvp, and changelings at just vibing.

I would call it "world" and it would just be a hyper detailed 1:1 recreation of earth. It would be more of a game engine than an actual game. So if you wanted a FPS you can do that. Want to build cities? you can do that. basically the use for it would be limitless.

X4 Foundations with realistic solar systems and landable planets, and set in the full Star Wars Galaxy with all the Star Wars assets.

I have two and i would have to flip a coin.

1: Make a First Person Investigative Horror game with Xcom style mechanics. You travel all around the world investigating anomolies, recovering artifacts, and occasionally have action levels where you have to eliminate a cult or something like that. I'd like to use a Call of Cthulhu style stat system with some changes, where you never really increase your base stats, but your skills can increase. I'd want cybernetic enhancements to allow for actual increases to survivability and combat. Idk, I think it would be really awesome.

2: I want to make a space game like Elite Dangerous but with the ability to use RTS elements to make empires. Somethin like Mount and Blade with X4 and Eve Online, but with the actual scale of ED. Landing on a planet and taking a settlement to gain some control, buiding fleets and stations to solidify that control, negotiating with other empires and factions, and building armies for ground invasions on highly populated worlds. I just really want to start out with like a single ship or a tiny middle of nowhere station or settlement and grow a huge empire from it. And like early on, you would have stuff you think is powerful, but then you encounter actual military ships and they wipe the floor with you, so have to do more hit and run tactics before facing them head on. And maybe empires could have different tech levels, so a pirate gang has mostly civi ships with guns while a small size democracy has medium tech military units with some civi support ships and autocratic empires have huge capital ships, capable of glassing planets. And later on, you start getting attacked by things from the deep void like Reavers from Firefly and later Chaos demons from Warhammer. Maybe you know the Chaos demons exist and you need to build a powerful empire if you have any chance to survive.

And ship interiors, at least like X4.

Left for Dead 3

I don't think I would want to be part of the creation process but another Zero Escape or Somnium Files game

An asteroid mining game in the style of shipbreaker, possibly same universe. The asteroid(s) should be more realistic in that they are far apart (maybe closer if you're mining in a ring, Saturn?) and surface is gravel-like. Cost-benifit of mining and returning certain materials, or using them as needed.

I would have Puppeteer from the PS3 remade for PS5 with full 4k HDR graphics. What a damn shame that game came out exclusive to PS3 as the PS4 was launching. Why they didnt release it as a cross gen game is beyond me because it's fantastic!

Sequel to freelancer.

Ultima 4 Quest of the Avatar.

Theme Hospital, as an appimage.

A VR shooter of the Most Dangerous Game