What does your ideal video game look like?

rolf

Right now I've been playing through the Dragon Quest games and I can't help but think about how good a game that combined all the good elements of each game would be.

Many party members that doesn't join too late and with strengths and weaknesses, like DQ4
Quick battles where party members don't automatically target the next enemy when the original target is dead so you can't just press A and must think to play efficiently, like NES DQ
smooth exp curve, no visible/easily grindable metal slimes which trivialise the game and are boring to grind like what dq7-8 3ds or dq9 sadly had
challenging maze dungeons full of actually threatening random encounters and a decently high rate that you will spend a good amount of time in, like cave to rhone in dq2
artepiazza/DS style graphics with huge field of view, beautiful yet snappy battle animations and rotatable camera
dq8 style world map which feels alive and grandiose, along with orchestral music and voice acting
dq5 style timeskips where you get to see the world and characters develop a lot through the adventure
dq7 length lol (100 hours)

Lumeinshin

rolf
For me its community created content, ie maps
rhythm games are best if people can make maps of songs, any racing game with custom tracks and cars is infinitely better, shooters are best with custom maps. and so on

Good base mechanics are needed too ofc but if the game can be helped by additional content it can be played forever

Gigachad

I just want my old games but with new levels.

mallorystarck

My ideal game would be incredibly expensive and impractical to make. I would love to have a narrative-heavy RPG with branching pathways and awesome writing in the vein of Planescape Torment, VTMB, or New Vegas, but with an equally deep and involved combat system like Sekiro (so far Sekiro is the only FromSoft game I've played through)

Usually those RPGs have pretty mediocre combat, and the stories in heavily combat centered games like Sekiro aren't bad but aren't nearly as interesting or engaging as the stories of those RPGs. If they could be combined it would probably be my favorite game of all time.

Lumeinshin

mallorystarck
I know the combat is still standard, but have you been playing Baldars Gate III? I havent but its been very bizarre seeing coworkers and my more normalfag friends talking about the game and enjoying it?
I've still got to finish the two Pathfinder games so I wont get it yet... maybe once its on sale.

Fantasy

I want a game with incredibly long and complex dungeons like Daggerfall, make the extremely difficult, have a very extensive skill system, very extensive gearing system, lots of player freedom, and co-op.
Imagine entering a dungeon you know is going to take 4+ hours, you bring a few buds, a few equips and supplies, and you use what you find and your skills that you've gotten to try to solve puzzles and such to progress through the massive dungeon. Having to sit and think about every fight. Should I use my big buff here? Should we approach from behind? Can we even get behind? Should we pull it into the water for the elemental combinations?
Lots of puzzles that require thinking, lots of hidden secrets in every dungeon, paths that go nowhere, paths that lead to massively different regions inside the dungeon, traps to disarm or lure enemies into, vertical depth with stuff to fall down to or climb up, etc
And then obviously infinite or as many as possible of these dungeons as you can do.

gingermilk

I don't play video games a lot but I really like those walking simulators/exploration games with minimal or even no plot. So I would like a game with really unique and atmospheric maps (preferably 3d) to explore with ambient music playing in the background. The goal of the game is just to collect objects and walk through the story. You basically do nothing other than walking around, picking up objects, and occasionally interacting with the NPCs.

Months ago I discovered this free game on Steam and HOLY SHIT THIS IS EXATCLY WHAT I WANT without the music part but I love those brutalist designs.

Fimm

I couldn't tell you what I'd want. But I can tell you what I certainly don't want.

Tutorials.

magicrabbit

I'd love a game I could customize to my heart's content, for it to be extensible either through the way you play it or through modding
I've thought about it for a while, and I think the way would be to have a regular RPG or something similar be completely open the moment you create your character and set foot in the world itself, and the "Main Quest" is hidden away for the player to accidentally stumble upon, having its progress not defined by a linear story where you're dragged around doing annoying at best and completely unnecessary filler missions at worse, instead rewarding the player for going out and playing the game, exploring and advancing as a character by doing work for the major factions present in the world, with those factions not only interacting with each other as genuine organizations living among each other, but also providing the bulk of the story for the game, with the Main Quest just being about the current crisis and giving the player deep philosophical questions that serve as the moral of the story, the conclusion integrated from all of the player's interactions with the world and the major factions he fought and worked for, giving true power to the concept of an Antagonist through the impact he has caused on the world the player has experienced

Lumeinshin

magicrabbit I think the way would be to have a regular RPG or something similar be completely open the moment you create your character and set foot in the world itself, and the "Main Quest" is hidden away for the player to accidentally stumble upon

I think thats a common desire, lots of mods for RPGs to try and get some sense of that.
Even the common complaint with lots of MMO's is the being dragged into the MSQ where you suddenly become the chosen one

Fantasy

Lumeinshin
I don't want a "main quest" in an rpg. Ideally all my goals are self-created.

magicrabbit

Lumeinshin
Yes I've played plenty of the Skyrim mods that make it so the start is randomized and the player can simply skip the opening sequence as well as the entire Main Quest if they don't feel like triggering the event set up by the mod

I think they still suffer from the game fundamentally being based around a Main Quest however, as all the rest of the content tends to be underdeveloped and underexplored compared to the MQ which gets all the attention, hence hiding away the big stuff and giving side content a bigger role to play (which players tend to use as roleplay anchors) plays into the extensibility of the game by giving the player greater choice

Also yeah the player being dragged into the role of the chosen one always plays out unnaturally and forced, surely there's a better way to set up an RPG/MMO protagonist

Fantasy
I can relate to this, not as strongly as some others who just never start the Main Quest past the point you're forced to do it, but I have experienced the main content the game pushes you into growing boring; and hiding away that part of the game is my answer to such boredom: just don't take part in the main content. Maybe the character you're roleplaying as just never finds the great crisis, maybe they refuse the call of adventure, the game shouldn't stop the player's development of their character just to insert something out of their control in the mix, have the player be a self-made hero throughout the whole game, not just the side content as it usually happens

z5e

The ideal video game would be the one you're invested in.
Which seems like a tautology, but it's phrased this way to highlight how investment isn't always necessarily tied to the specifics of a game and how it's constructed.

Some become invested because those in their community enjoy the same game.
Some become invested because the game induces a relaxed state, a mild curiosity, or a satisfaction of a "hard day of work" depending on the genre.
And some become invested because they want to challenge themselves, maybe they aspire to be the best in the server.

Sometimes the above "investment catalysts" no longer work.
There's a certain point where one just won't find themselves invested.

Maybe there's something uncomfortable about how games are a set of rules defined by the physics engine, the linear timeline, the objectives waiting.
The most fun seems to be that which allows one to push/explore the bounds of what is originally presented, to conquer cropped up unknowns.
Hence the success of Minecraft, or the concept of 'meta' and the desire to break 'records' along with the whole speedrunning craze too.

Zergface

I'd love a shooter with a retro anime theme, sort of like Shogo: Mobile Armor Division or Oni or the Demonsteele WAD for Doom. I've played another one on Steam called The Citadel and really enjoyed it, but overall it's a niche genre of game that hasn't been explored much.

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