Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Feb 18, 2011 5:00pm PST

This is one of those three-day holiday weekends with signature sporting events here in the United Stated. The NBA makes a weekend out of the midseason break with the Rookie Challenge tonight, 3-pt and Slam Dunk Contests tomorrow night, and then the All-Star game Sunday. NASCAR starts the season with its "The Great American Race", the Daytona 500.

Seems to me a couple of games missed out on their chance be part of the weekend's festivities. Bulletstorm and Killzone 3 both come out next week, but plenty of people would have enjoyed making their weekend out of either of them. Granted, it's not an issue outside the US, but if either had released this past week...well, it's hard to beat a three-day weekend and a new game. Eh, maybe it's for the best; it just means more time for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and catching up on all the other games I want to play.

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I'd really like an Oblivion/Fallout 3 style game that takes place in Ancient Rome. Wander around the city, dealing with political intrigue, assassination attempts, crime, business, gladiatorial combat (well, not so much the latter--that doesn't interest me for some reason, but I think it would interest other people). It might also be fun to travel to the front lines and explore, say, Roman Britain or Germania or Dacia, but I wouldn't want to take part in the big battles, since being one soldier in a huge army wouldn't be that much fun. Maybe one could be part of a scouting unit or elite unit that operates independently. It might be fun to participate in some naval battles, particularly the early ones against the Carthaginians.

Some concessions would obviously have to be made for the sake of fun. Obviously the world was especially deadly at that time, so the game would have to be unrealistically forgiving. No death by infected wounds, for example. Recovery time from wounds would have to be dramatically accelerated.

Another issue is that I suspect developers would have a hard time making Rome as gritty and colorful as it really was, since we're used to grand, white marble structures, instead of painted statues and crummy, flammable tenements. Still, that's a game that I'd like to play.

Feb 18, 2011 8:05pm PST

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I'd really like an Oblivion/Fallout 3 style game that takes place in Ancient Rome. Wander around the city... : UtilityMaximizer
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- You know, that sounds like an awesome game. I would play it. : thetangent
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  Have you tried any of the Assassin's Creed games? : sgtsanity
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    No, actually. I heard mixed things about the first one, and didn't pay attention after that. : UtilityMaximizer
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  a battle that was done to scale and really got the atmosphere down would be amazing. : miasma&!
  - My concern is that marching in lockstep with a cohort would perhaps be interesting from an academic point... : UtilityMaximizer
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  There was that game Gladius a few years back, but that mixed in fantasy elements as well. : Carnivac
  - Gladius was an excellent turn based strategy game- not an open world game. : Delithio
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  Yea right, you would get eaten by the Odyssiousaurus Rex!! : HL3dsx
  - I'm not sure what this comment means. I choose to interpret to mean that, in the interest of commercial ... : UtilityMaximizer
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  Darkest of Days is definitely what you want : Hemtroll
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    Wasn't that game supposedly terrible and bug-ridden? : UtilityMaximizer
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      no it is definitely the best and it has romanians : Hemtroll
      
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      But he wants Romans. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      
      Well, I did mention Dacia, and nowadays the Dacians are Romanians. : UtilityMaximizer
    - yes it was : Unleashed
    - It was, yes : shirif
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  I think any setting that isn't post-apocalypse or dragony-elf-sword sounds appealing at this point. I can... : Dave-A
  - Perhaps an ancient China wuxia setting. : Dave-A
  - We need more games set in the Gilded Age / pre-WWI. : eldersveld
  - I want something in 13th century Persia : gydot
- I would pay hundreds of american dollars for this game : Rethius
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  Also, I know it's not ANYTHING like Fallout or Oblivion, but have you played Rome: Total War? Great game,... : Rethius
  - Yes, I played it until I was sick of it and frustrated by some of the world map-level gameplay aspects. I... : UtilityMaximizer
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  The open-world-ness of Oblivion/Fallout 3 is awesome and all...but the characters, interaction, and story... : Magus
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    Yes, I'm not interested in all the specific trappings of Bethesda games--the zoom-in on faces, the flat e... : UtilityMaximizer
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      The zoom-in on faces are a throwback to the talking heads in Fallout 1 & 2. They wanted to maintain the s... : Mad Brahmin Disease
      
      I suspect it was a carry over from Oblivion: http://i.imgur.com/dclis.jpg : Merconium
- There are a few mount and blade mods which might satisfy your urge, i haven't played any of them so i can... : RetroRedEyeJr
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  Speaking of Rome, did anyone see The Eagle yet? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034389/ Responses? : rasputinreborn
  - Is this based on a book? Because I think I read it when I was a child... : Vantage
- JUPITER'S COCK! : Jumperus
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  I would really like a futuristic Oblivion/Fallout in the vein of Blade Runner/Mass Effect/Anarchy Online.... : Druuge
  - Oh god yes. Bonus points if you get your own spaceship and can fly it seamlessly between planets. : thetangent
- Story written by and historical consultant David Drake, and you've got yourself a game! : AxeMan808
- I would like the next Assassin's Creed to take place in early 20th century America, like Prohibition Era ... : MaxPete82
- Genius! : Lightzout
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  Yeah, I've been wanting an epic RPG set in the ancient Mediterranean or Near-Middle-East for a long time. So much fodder for great stories, intrigue, wonder, action etc. Either ancient Rome, or the Hellenic world, or even earlier in Egypt/Mesopotamia.
  
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  Yeah, I've been wanting an epic RPG set in the ancient Mediterranean or Near-Middle-East for a long time.... : Vantage
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  Problem is, a game like that would require combat to be marketable. And not realistic combat either. The ... : edgewise
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    My combo moves include fuck-formations : Dave-A
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      fuck bears, you are a dongzerker! : stygian_whisper
      
      his flying anal jackhammer technique is not to be trifled with : PlanetPerfecto
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  That would be an awesome game. I think you could do a really similiar thing with feudal Japan as well. It... : gibolas1234
  - You sir, should check out Takeda. It's RTS with a turn-based overworld conquer map. But OMG it's as histo... : AxeMan808

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