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Wishlist of games I want but will probably never make myself: - Warzone taxi / ambulance driver. I discovered this with GTA San Andreas: cheats "all pedestrian

Wishlist of games I want but will probably never make myself: - Warzone taxi / ambulance driver. I discovered this with GTA San Andreas: cheats "all pedestrians armed" and "all pedestrians fight", then run taxi and ambulance missions. I guess this could just be a game mode in GTA. Putting in the cheat codes is tedious, especially since it's usually nice to also do the 100% armor code so you have some chance of actually completing multiple drop-offs, so a separate game or a dedicated game mode that wrapped it all up together would be cool. Courier, et c., would also be cool roles. Crazy chaotic urban warfare in which you're not a main target, but you've got to get around the city, is the point. - Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim. You run a scrappy barely-getting-by flight service in some fictional Pacific island chain with a backdrop that's more-or-less the late 1930s. Survive, upgrade your plane, buy more planes, hire more pilots, et c. Indiana jones vibes (one mission type could be flying Indy-like characters to and from whatever ruins they want to explore, in fact). Maybe some Sid Meyer's Pirates! elements, to a degree—but you've got a flying boat, not a pirate ship. But, yes, pirates should be there, and all kinds of other unsavory characters. Spies, simple cargo runs, smuggling, the occasional military skirmish. A little like some of those trade-oriented space sims, but the planets are islands and the space ships are planes. Presence of plot(s) optional but encouraged. Big extra points if there's some element of first-person play outside the planes. I'd be OK with the flight being anything between pretty-damn-realistic and fairly-arcadey-but-not-so-arcadey-you-can't-stall. Then the ones that are just "why the hell is there no modern equivalent of this game?": - 4+ player (including at least 4 for local play) Return Fire for modern consoles. - Battletanx for modern consoles, w/ local multiplayer (um, feel free to rewrite the setting....) - A tower-defense type game even half as ambitious and weird and genre-mashing as Dominus was.

nemo44x 4y ago
> - Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim. Back in the day there was a game called "Escape Velocity" that was essentially this but in space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game)
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Yeah, space games like that are common enough, but the closest thing I know of set on Earth are age-of-sail games. I want my flying boat and air pirates and 1938 (or, fictionalized not-1938, whatever) cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, damnit.
- evantahler 4y ago
  There was also Skyrates! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrates
l33tman 4y ago
The Gauntlet with 4 players was cool..
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Oooh, yeah. I've played a couple newer gauntlet-alikes, but they're not the same. Legend was the version I played a lot of, and really enjoyed. Sweet spot for a couch-friendly action game that you can play without being fully engaged, perfect for casual local multiplayer with friends while shootin' the shit.
  - l33tman 4y ago
    Red Warrior needs food... badly!
staunton 4y ago
My dream game: First person shooter (UT style) in a non-Euclidian space (like in Manifold Garden)...
spacemadness 4y ago
There was a game in the 90s called Quarantine which was about driving a taxi in a post-apocalyptic city. It’s sort of what you are suggesting in that your had to pick people up and drop them off while bandits try to kill you. That game has stuck in my brain and I always wish someone would remake it while being careful to match the grungey cyberpunk aesthetic.
BryantD 4y ago
I love that late 1930s idea. It feels like something that someone could make incremental progress on, too -- mock out the economic sim aspects in a text interface, and chew off the graphics when you're ready to tackle that.
- bell-cot 4y ago
  My first reaction to the 1930's idea: On Random_Day(), the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Big Change in the situation you face...
- HeckFeck 4y ago
  Absolutely. I'm not an expert but I'd wager that between eccentric airline CEOs, glamorous travellers and upstart aeroplane manufacturers, there's tons of untapped drama and mayhem to be had from the golden age of flight.
MisterTea 4y ago
> - Warzone taxi / ambulance driver. Oldie but a goodie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game) > Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim. You had me at TailSpin. A solid series set in a world built on air transport instead of the automobile. I guess you could call it Airpunk? Though I'd want the ability to fly a plane on a mission with an AI co-pilot that can take the wheel while I switch back to a first/3rd person view and can now freely run around the plane to battle air pirates that have boarded mid fight. And toss in forgiving physics so you can air surf like Kit Cloudkicker.
paulryanrogers 4y ago
Crimson Skies?
croon 4y ago
Oh, I had almost forgot about Return Fire, it was so good, and really felt out of its time, in the best way. I wanted to say ahead of its time, but that would imply more games followed, which I can't say happened.
Spastche 4y ago
Pirates! but vaguely Tailspin / 1930s / Temple of Doom would be brilliant.
ravagat 4y ago
I thought I was the only one doing that style of play with GTA: San Andreas! What a reminder, thanks

nemo44x 4y ago

> - Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim. Back in the day there was a game called "Escape Velocity" that was essentially this but in space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game)

yamtaddle 4y ago
Yeah, space games like that are common enough, but the closest thing I know of set on Earth are age-of-sail games. I want my flying boat and air pirates and 1938 (or, fictionalized not-1938, whatever) cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, damnit.
evantahler 4y ago
There was also Skyrates! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrates

l33tman 4y ago

The Gauntlet with 4 players was cool..

yamtaddle 4y ago
Oooh, yeah. I've played a couple newer gauntlet-alikes, but they're not the same. Legend was the version I played a lot of, and really enjoyed. Sweet spot for a couch-friendly action game that you can play without being fully engaged, perfect for casual local multiplayer with friends while shootin' the shit.
- l33tman 4y ago
  Red Warrior needs food... badly!

staunton 4y ago

My dream game: First person shooter (UT style) in a non-Euclidian space (like in Manifold Garden)...

spacemadness 4y ago

There was a game in the 90s called Quarantine which was about driving a taxi in a post-apocalyptic city. It’s sort of what you are suggesting in that your had to pick people up and drop them off while bandits try to kill you. That game has stuck in my brain and I always wish someone would remake it while being careful to match the grungey cyberpunk aesthetic.

BryantD 4y ago

I love that late 1930s idea. It feels like something that someone could make incremental progress on, too -- mock out the economic sim aspects in a text interface, and chew off the graphics when you're ready to tackle that.

bell-cot 4y ago
My first reaction to the 1930's idea: On Random_Day(), the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Big Change in the situation you face...
HeckFeck 4y ago
Absolutely. I'm not an expert but I'd wager that between eccentric airline CEOs, glamorous travellers and upstart aeroplane manufacturers, there's tons of untapped drama and mayhem to be had from the golden age of flight.

MisterTea 4y ago

> - Warzone taxi / ambulance driver. Oldie but a goodie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game) > Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim. You had me at TailSpin. A solid series set in a world built on air transport instead of the automobile. I guess you could call it Airpunk? Though I'd want the ability to fly a plane on a mission with an AI co-pilot that can take the wheel while I switch back to a first/3rd person view and can now freely run around the plane to battle air pirates that have boarded mid fight. And toss in forgiving physics so you can air surf like Kit Cloudkicker.

paulryanrogers 4y ago

Crimson Skies?

croon 4y ago

Oh, I had almost forgot about Return Fire, it was so good, and really felt out of its time, in the best way. I wanted to say ahead of its time, but that would imply more games followed, which I can't say happened.

Spastche 4y ago

Pirates! but vaguely Tailspin / 1930s / Temple of Doom would be brilliant.

ravagat 4y ago

I thought I was the only one doing that style of play with GTA: San Andreas! What a reminder, thanks