We all have a list of games that we want to see made. Most people put Half Life 3 smack-dab at the top of the list; this is not one of those lists.
We had a sit down chat and came up with 5 games which we could feasibly see getting made, which tie into existing franchises and series. We aren’t including sequels or ports in this list - we would all love to see Monster Hunter return to its roots with Sony side, but once again that is not this list. This is simply a list of 5 games we would pay good money to see - game devs, this one’s on us if you make these games.
5. Aquaman
What if I told you that you were a superhero? You are the ruler of Atlantis and have the ability to talk to fish. Not just tuna - we’re talking whales, electric eels, sharks. Imagine you got into a fight underwater and you decided to throw a shark at your enemy to rip them to shreds.
Aquaman would take the form of a huge open-world sandbox RPG where levelling up your powers would allow you to communicate with bigger animals, taking on stronger enemies in various oceans around the world. It could just as easily be a side-scrolling beat-em-up like the Double Dragons games of old, or be based in and around Atlantis in some underwater version of Rocksteady’s Arkham games.
All we know is that we want an Aquaman game, and we would like Jason Momoa to voice him - because that would also be pretty cool.
4. Halo: Cortana
As we all know, Cortana is a Smart AI from the Halo series. She’s the little blue lady who lives inside the Master Chief Spartan-117’s Mjolnir armor, and functions as a hacking tool during the cutscenes. This epic hacking side of Cortana’s personality is only really explored in the books, and even then it’s just at a cursory glance.
Imagine a game where you play entirely as Cortana, viewing the Chief through the eyes of someone who lives in his head. This wouldn’t have to be a long game - it could even be a mobile tie-in to the Master Chief Collection, filling in those cutscenes where Cortana works her magic to help out the Chief, or cover the years spent with the Chief in stasis between Halo 3 and Halo 4. An AI can get upto a lot in single second - imagine whatshe could do in a few years.
To our knowledge, there are no games which see an AI protect the man she loves, so we don’t know where this game would begin - it doesn’t even have to revolve around the chief. This game could see the little blue lady spend time kicking back with other AIs, hacking them as she goes like she does in the books in order to garnish information for whatever reason. We would all love to see more of Cortana, and see her character more fully developed as long as any such depiction is faithful to her character. Such an iconic and greatly loved hero deserves a little bit of the limelight, don’t you think?
3. Battle Royale
Everyone loves Battle Royale, be it in the form of the original or The Hunger Games.
In the book, you are a school child in a dystopian Japan where society has fallen to pieces, causing the government to take drastic measures to keep their population in check. You stolen from home with the rest of your high school class and are dumped on a deserted island with only a canteen of water, a map, and a sharpened spoon.
There are 29 other students on the island, some of which were once your friends, others who bullied you for years.All of you have an explosive collar around your neck, and each with their own randomized weapon, each one trying to kill you. If you do not kill the rest of the island within your alloted three days, game over.
Now take this concept and put it into a game. Permanent-death survival games like Day-Z are incredibly popular at the moment, so there is definitely a spot in the market for this. We could even take this a step further, making the game into a roguelike where the map is randomly generated each time. His would make the game genuinely terrifying each time, particularly when the game starts locking out areas of the island to force your enemies towards you.
Imagine all of that as a multiplayer. It would be Demons’ Souls levels of insanely hard, but bloody hell would it make for a good game.
2. Pacific Rim: Enemy Unknown
You are a Jaeger pilot. Giant monsters from another dimension have come through a rift at the bottom of the Pacific in order to rip humanity a new one, and all that stands between them and your extinction is a massive robot with you inside it.
You start at the lowest rank as a newly qualified pilot, gaining battle experience as you kill Kaiju around the world. As you train on the job, you rank up, unlocking bigger spending budgets allowing for more and deeper research as you kill bigger, more advanced monsters. Unfortunately, like XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the entire Pacific rim is under attack, and you don’t have the resources to send out Jaegers to every country.
Which countries would you save? The ones with the most funding in the Jaeger project, or the ones with the biggest populations? Some countries may pull funding, other countries may be wiped out entirely in a mass monster-based genocide - who you save is up to you, and will have repercussions no matter which way you go.
1. Final Fantasy: the Mini Game compilation
We’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times, and we will keep hounding SquareEnix until they finally release the damn game. All we are asking for is a complete collection of the mini-games from the Final Fantasy games up to Final Fantasy X.
Imagine jumping into the Golden Saucer in full HD. Imagine jumping on PSN to play Triple Triad with your brother or friend in a different country. Just imagine multiplayer Blitzball leagues… If you aren’t salivating at the thought, reread this paragraph until you are.
Sure, we’re getting an iOS update of VII‘s motorcycle minigame, G-Bike, but it’s not enough. We want to see updated versions of everything, all on one disc and set in an updated Gold Saucer.
Nic Bunce
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