The ultimate combination...

[Technocrat]

So, as I was busy chugging away at Operation: Forklift, I've already been accumulating new ideas for what my next crazy project ought to be. Using elements of what I've been experimenting with, I was thinking a management game would be where I'm going, but after adding various elements on manually, I figured a better summary of the gameplay style would be thus:

"Tropico meets Sim City meets X-Com" - it's the tale of an eccentric billionaire who wants to build the ulimate holiday resort (management sim), but happens to have done so in a terrorist-ridden island chain, which requires flushing them out (turn-based tactical).

So, I figured it might be fun to consider mashups of different games to create new concepts, using the "X meets Y" or "the bastard child of X and Y" framework. What thoughts do you have, then?

[Anian]

So something like Total war (but slightly differnt genres combined)? By my comparison, you can see that that sounds like a good idea. Lot of work though, maybe not for Ags, but since you've already made some steps into strategy direction, you might have already saved some time.

Just installed Savage2, kind of a multiplayer cross of warcraft 3 and World warcraft...basically any mix up, if properly implemented and executed can be better than the sum of it's parts.

[ThreeOhFour]

I always dreamed about making a group based rpg style game within the Red Alert 2 setting as a teenager. Where you could recruit different characters from the game (seeing as there were a bunch of special infantry units in the game) and give them more personality and have proper stories and stuff with them. So umm... Red Alert 2 meets Arcanum/Baldur's Gate.

But I always used to have bad ideas like that before I actually started making games

[Crimson Wizard]

Red Alert 2 meets Arcanum/Baldur's Gate.

This game already exists 

[Ali]

Playing Fallout 3 (and getting very bored of killing raiders / killing in general), I'd say the ultimate combination would be a sandbox-style open world, with an emphasis on character and story-based gameplay rather than just combat. Morrowind was closer to this, though the quests sometimes didn't allow you to take the smart or cunning path I'd prefer.

My dream game would be a open world adventure in 19th century London. Starting as a street urchin, with the opportunity to join criminal gangs or go into service in the house of an aristocrat and so on. And you can kill people if you choose, but you'd have to hide your crimes and deal with the consequences.

Someone make that!

[Anian]

My dream game would be a open world adventure in 19th century London. Starting as a street urchin, with the opportunity to join criminal gangs or go into service in the house of an aristocrat and so on. And you can kill people if you choose, but you'd have to hide your crimes and deal with the consequences.

Someone make that!

Damn, that would be awesome. And as a fan (or something) homage a side mission with Jack the Ripper type serial murderer case, a werewolf hunt, Sherlock Holmes case, Casanova type class, Church conspiracy, child labour, a visit to the countryside in a Sleepy Hollow type quest, become a sort of arailroad tycoon (or spy), some oriental cult/ex-soldiers poisons and mystics etc.....maybe even an alien conspiracy replacing members of the royal family (though that might be hard to pull of to be entertaining).
Maybe even in iso perspective (like Fallout2 or similar).

You probably didn't mean it in that way, that's what ran through my head.  

[Ali]

That is what I meant (apart from the aliens), and don't forget opium conspiracies!

[Anian]

That is what I meant (apart from the aliens), and don't forget opium conspiracies!

*slaps forehead* Of course! Plus some bohemian painters/poets (from Dorian Gray to Cthulhu cults...what the hell, the whole League of extraordinary gentlemen).  Some graverobbing as well (what the hell, that's always cool). And fog, lots and lots of fog (when it would be dangerous to come through them).

Yeah, that aliens is farfetched but maybe a man with the iron mask/fake prince conspiracy would be a cool detail (doesn't have to be historically correct, just the atmosphere).

[discordance]

HOT DAMN. This game must be made immediately.

[Crimson Wizard]

Hey, I can draw backgrounds for that game. Because I already do same setting for my own one... which is taking too long (curse my lazyness and absent-mindness )