just a thought, after mentioning WWI: probably it would be the most frustrating strategy game to make a WWI western front game. I would not want to see a battle statistics panel with such a horribly high amount of soldiers killed/lost, beside the result of moving the front with a few meters...

I was watching a friend's son play "Call of Modern Battelfront #23" ( Yeah I don't play many games but you know what I'm saying). The players where insanely stupid with there lives. I thought all this "Most realistic war game" marketing was a lie at that point. They had no formations or plans of action or real communication and team work. And it was because dying 20 time in 5 minutes was the heart of the game.

Soldiers are brave and place there lives at risk but they are not insanely stupid with their lives because they know they don't re-spawn after death.

To the point - I would like to see a super modern war game that did this.
-When you started up the first time you had to choose one of 2 sides and are stuck for life.
-When your player is killed you can not re-spawn for at least 24 clock hours( and maybe you have to buy the life from a market like xbox live).
-The players are assigned to units inside bigger units and plan with intel, maps, troop reports,ect ... on a massive out of combat part of the game.
-Players can become backlines soldiers that are overseeing the battle and coordinating the effort. (Hello command - Generals - Leaders)

Any ways just some ideas. It would not be fun for the "charge and die" players we have now. It's a higher level of game. More thinking and planning and your life is way more valuable to you, and how you use it has a much greater effect and overall would be more rewarding. It changes the goal of these games form the short gain of "kill this", to a long term effort to "win the war".

Do I here millions of ADHD kids crying that "this game sucks" ??

How about a game were the player can make short telaports (blinks) like Night-crawler from the Xman. Remember the movie where Night Crawler attacked the White House? I saw it then and thought - what a awesome thing to do in a game.

What about a game where you lead a clan of cave men like a team 3d-person rpg? And you attack and defend your clan. You have to run hunting parties. And you advance your clan by stealing innovations from other clans and taking there "smart people" to be in your clan.

Here is the thing: It's a game.
Realism isn't fun, heck, war is mostly about waiting around and the rest is crapping your pants and trying to stay alive. There are niche games that cater for that genre, the ARMA series for example, but it is what it is: A niche game.
People want fast paced, fun games. They don't want to be punished for having fun, and a virtual life isn't as precious as a real life.

At the end of the day: Games are just games, and most things concerning realism are absolute boring.

I fully understand Sid and I did go way to far to the other end of the field. But I'd just like to see more strategy ideas being played in a massive player game. I guess I just really dislike the super fast pace.

I know I'm over posting but each post is an separate Idea.

So because we talked about fast paced modern combat type of play -->
Would it be a cool idea to do one where it was bullets verses magic. With the Same in city battle field but one group is like mages come through a dimensional hole or such.
You would have the guns and tech toys and all the current combat stuff, but the other side would use spells and elementals and summoned beast , ect ,ect.
Someone said this was like a "shadowrun" thing but I really have no idea what that is.

Edit - did a quick google on the ShadowRun 2007 windows game. Didn't learn much.

So I always wanted to do a combat magic game after the ego-shooter rise. And people pointed out Hexan (I am not a gamer so again i have no idea why this should be a red flag) as why not to do it. The base point they made was magic an ego-cam do not work.

I see the game play of the new combat games and think if you can give people all the gun and run, with the same feel for scroll and cast. It to me would be cool.

It's an idea and not one that I think works well in this indie game market. But Hey it gives you something to talk about.

Ok last one and I will stop--

I loved the Zelda 64 game with the magic pipe. But I didn't like Link and the whole goody good way of games. I wanted a game with a darker character. So I thought up Fink and evil elf assassin that takes murder for hire jobs. I want to take Zelda and make it a stealth and kill game. He could sneak - back-stab - hide in shadows - uses magic - assume the shapes of near by object (mario and the statutes) -ect.
This idea I think can be done many ways to fit the indie game world.

-> Shut up Mal
-> um ok.....

Why should one shut up in such thread like this?
Man, let your ideas come out, as soon as they appear in your mind!

Edit: I wish I had so many ideas in my head..

Greets

Thanks 3run...
It's been like 12 years here so when I couldn't actual make anything I just start writing ideas I though were cool. Then like every paranoid newbie I hide them like a porn mag when you were a kid.
"Oh no if I share an idea, then one of these guys will steal it and make 'my' millions off it." LOL.
It's a great community for all the help and friendship, but a lot of one man bands thinking the next guys is uncreative and worse a thief. Well that's not fair, it reflects my thinking more than anyone elses real actions that I have ever seen on this forum.
I like to think of beginners and there "ideas". People think there are million dollar idea, but there aren't. I can think up an idea that I think will be awesome but if I can't turn it into a product that sells it's just a million dollar fantasy.
So I say hell let me share -> If it gets made maybe I make something from it or get to work on it or can just smile to see someone take my brain fart and turn it into something real.