Daikatana Ritsu posted:

In Training posted:

I want a game that's basically the torneko chapter from DQIV for 30+ hours but I think that exists already.

Bell_ posted:

My favorite part of Mass Effect 2 was when the aliens busted into the Normandy and started carrying everybody off and Joker was the POV: crawling around, losing his poo poo and getting taunted by the UI.

It was fun, tense, and I've been looking for something like that in other games (maybe I need to play SS-17?) I said then I would play an entire game of that moment, and I still would. Maybe even a small group of folks trying to escape a situation (please let it not be zombies, I'm sick of them) that can't be blasted through:

Scenario A: Wrong place, wrong time, wrong side of a rebellion: You and your friends live in a county made up of small towns/villages during post-Revolutionary War/Civil War/Modern Times. People in the area start the Whiskey Rebellion/Are in General Sherman's Way/do something stupid and President loving Washington/General Sherman/General {make up a name} sends a force effective enough to pulverize everything in the area that fully intends to (yes, I know the Whiskey Rebellion fled with their tails between their legs before anything got serious.) Any contribution to the renegade efforts would be limited to what these characters could do, and the goal in each case is to either escape or enable your friends/family to escape before everything is burned to the ground. I guess there's other situations you could pull from history which would be the same way from invasions to regimes forming police states.

Scenario B: Natural Disaster: You are not Gilgamesh, but thanks to storms (Hurricanes or otherwise) your poo poo is about to get underwater, and not because you flushed. Rule of law vanishes over time, the water rises and river currents become violently rapid. Survivors start to tend to forming into factions and gangs, and your character(s) will need to survive and keep look out for each other in time for the National Guard and FEMA to arrive, provide aid and establish order (which won't happen immediately when they arrive)

FactsAreUseless posted:

Same, DF is tl;dr for me too.

FactsAreUseless posted:

I actually liked the post I just wanted to make the Dwarf Fortress joke.

sector_corrector posted:

i was playing that this weekend. it's really good.

Bell_ posted:

I miss Bullfrog, too. And old Relic. And Origin. And pre-HALO Bungie. And Douglas J. Morgan.

Bell_ posted:

And Myth. Holy crap was I bad at that game but I loved it so much.

I added Douglas J. Morgan because most 80's kids had a Commodore 64 but I had a TRS-80 with probably not even a hundredth of the library, but somehow this loving Sorcerer made a first person, real-time RPG with sound effects to help locate which monsters were closer when they weren't being sneaky which haunt my dreams to this day, Infocom-inspired text commands in a five-level labyrinth. The game came out in 1982 and was eight kilobytes in size. Dungeons of Daggorath, Color Baseball and Rogue (dived deep, but never beat it) defined my childhood. Mr. Morgan hasn't really made any other games I know of and has been too busy being an executive for decades to do so.

Bell_ posted:

Romancing SaGa 2 might have done this too.

And I think Broken Chalice was supposed to as well, but I could only play so much of that without getting bored.

(You could argue that neither are open world and I won't fight it)

Faerie Tale Adventure for the Amiga would have qualified, if it were successors instead of three brothers.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Considering how early were into the Switch’s lifespan, this could very well happen. In the meantime I’m going to savor this magnificent game.

goferchan posted:

SMB 1, 2 & 3 on NES . Super Mario Land 1 & 2 on GB.... Galaxy 1 & 2 on Wii. And then you can argue stuff like Yoshi's Island and NSMB too

Pablo Gigante posted:

Hey Archer666, I'm gonna need some help reading your Imp Zone application