326a19 No.16806048
Subject. I'd like to see an Old Man's War TPS/FPS
>Be a geriatric who has nothing else to do, enlist in a space army
>Get given a physically perfect(relatively to humans anyways) genetically altered younger body of yourself and a high tech rifle/boolets that can take multiple configurations and attributes and your body is green because why not
>Go wild against aliens who want to fuck humanity up, eat them, or just fight them
>full scale wars against alien races like the Rraey
>special missions like fighting against that one alien race that was tiny but had very lethal weaponry which made anti air/antivehicles difficult
>constant threat of the Consou who adapt to your tactics and technology
>endgame missions or different campaigns where you play the even stronger special soldiers which focuses more on your enhanced abilities as well as your better communication with teammates, i.e it's Mass Effect's party system but improved and refined until it's actually fun
>Or maybe space battles or Gameran operations in space
>Or if you want to take the shit later books into consideration, special ops against the Conclave
>Get to fuck your green physically fit squadmates after every fight too
>Gameplay would be somewhat similar to Rogue Trooper, TPS with weapon forms and whatnot
>Movement would be quick and superhuman, with large leaps, impossible parkour and level design to accommodate multiple plans of attack
>Combat would be to adapt to whatever you're fighting's tactics(So maybe one race uses a lot of explosives so you have to always be on the move and avoid close quarters combat since you can blow up enemy soldiers, or another relies on ambushes meaning the most direct route will be the most deadly, and alternate routes will most likely have traps and secondary ambushes in place) but should stay far away from hitscan, regenerating health and cover heavy shootan. Maybe that actual Prey 2 concept where you had some basic form of parkour and you were allowed to take cover and shoot from various positions, like hanging from a ledge? Anything to make use of the movement.
Everything after The Ghost Brigades sucked massive dick and isn't worth talking about because they introduced jack shit in terms of technology or world building, and the fact that the colonial union somehow became the bad guys and would not join an alliance of races and instead opting to fight this giant alliance of races while being denied new colonies, despite the first two books making it clear how diplomacy is more often than not fruitless and a good chunk of races want each other dead since there isn't enough land to go around is a giant load of shit. and what the fuck was that description of a five gendered race with XHE AND ZHE as fucking pronouns, what is wrong with you John Scalzi
I'd say The Forever War too but I'm not sure how you'd do that right in a vidya, especially since the MC in the book doesn't do much fighting in the first place.
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e88388 No.16806061
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60b8a5 No.16806069
>>16806048
The author of that book is an insufferable faggot
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8db704 No.16806071
Pic related. Anyone who read it knows why.
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b10836 No.16806075
>>16806048
This is a book?
>>16806069
Tell me more.
I think a Lost regiment game could be good but fuck me if I could figure out how to do it. Civil war regiment gets transported to a planet where 8-10 foot aliens live like mongols and eat humans. They call us cattle. As they make there way around the world they visit cities where there are lotteries for who will have to go with them. The one who rides ahead to let the cities know they are coming are called the namers of time. The cities are places like Rome and feudal Russian societies. Humans may not be the only sentient species that are used as cattle.
Maybe a 4x game centered around planning for the horde.
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e986fd No.16806076
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8db704 No.16806078
>>16806071
and here's a .pdf for anyone who wants to read the book. Highly recommended
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460e7e No.16806093
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326a19 No.16806109
>>16806075
>This is a book
Yeah, I picked the jap cover because the green chick is hot and the other cover is, well.
>Tell me more
It's very easy to tell where the author's politics lie. The first book is pretty interesting where contact with aliens is more or less fighting for land rather than diplomacy and it's made clear that diplomacy has failed repeatedly in the past, where even the races where good relations have been established get eradicated by another race because that's just how things are, and there's a bit of depression amongst human troops because they get to visit the stars and all they do is fight races they've never seen before but at the same time they have to protect the humans they've left behind and the colonists they've also never met so it makes sense.
The second book is more actiony but it also explores this purpose of pretty much being bred only to fight. It also has this really interesting dynamic between a Rraey(a species that hates humanity and pretty much only use them as food) scientist and a special forces soldier and they ponder a lot of concepts in a fascinating way. They also introduce a neat thing where the special forces begin to question whether or not the CU should be enlisting people when they could just make more special forces instead and the Gamreans are introduced which implies eventually humanity will win the war for land by virtue of them not needing land in the first place and being able to live in space.
The third book goes fuck the wars and the warriors, let's have an entire book set on a planet where they do nothing but farm and have inner drama at not being able to access electronics. They setup there's some sort of werewolves on the planet but that goes nowhere and they introduce the Conclave as real which goes completely against the "diplomacy is useless" point and it gives the Colonial Union a "this bad" carciture to it because there's no way they'd choose endless war, against a powerful enemy that they can only do guerilla tactics against than a relative peace.
The fourth "book" is more or less 6 short stories and it's where shit hits the fan. It handles the internal drama between the CU, humanity and the conclave and it does that by making caricatures of bad guys on either side and having the "good" guys of the side deal with them.
>Oh no, the CU can't legally establish colonies but we've got people doing that illegally and that's elevating tensions against the conclave
>We'll send our guys to talk to the mary sue conclave sub-leader and resolve something
>Oh the mary sue went to the illegal colony who turn out to be a bunch of racists who just want to live amongst their own kind and it results in the cringest chapter of dialog I've ever read, and that includes the Broken Empire trilogy and threatened them into fucking off, problem solved no one's ever going to make new colonies!
The fifth book handles a group that's secretly working to pit the CU and Conclave against each other for some reason and it ends in a bunch of nukes almost being fired at earth but it doesn't happen because apparently sending in a bunch of people against their will to pilot nuke ships in a suicide mission and then having a defector talk the rest of the pilots down was a completely unforeseen outcome and it's handled poorly because the third faction's motives are completely retarded.
It also introduces a worthless piece of shit species that's only there so they can go "I'm progressive look I have a species with 5 genders and one of them prefers xhe or some shit as a pronoun!". It introduces no new technology or interesting races, ponders no ideas or concepts, the CU vs Conclave plot is idiotic and is lampshaded by the writer going "Duuh the CU was founded by people who were in a lot of wars so naturally when they're presented by peace they'll just go "fuck that" and that's that!"
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326a19 No.16806110
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0cadea No.16806125
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90cffa No.16806129
>>16806125
Would it be some kind dating/murder game where you get hookers and then kill them in crazy ways?
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0dfc21 No.16806135
>>16806078
>>16806071
I'm 1/3rd way in, thank you very much for posting this. Its really good.
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0cadea No.16806148
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206789 No.16806161
It's a science-fiction novel about a godlike planet is destabilizing the entire galaxy. It's been a while since I've read it, so correct me if I'm wrong. The fundamental property of the universe are how it's split up into sections known as "Zones of Thought," that dictate consciousness. The first zone can only support the most basic life forms incapable of thinking. The second zone is where humans were originally from. FTL travel is not possible in this zone, hence why it is known as the "slow zone," so humans travel distances by going into cryostasis for decades if not centuries. The largest Empire is the Qeng-ho, which are space Mongols, though this is briefly mentioned and isn't important in this first book. The third zone is where the book takes place and allows for artificial intelligence and FTL travel. Human presence there is accidental, after a mining ship from the slow zone ended up there. The humans speak a language called Samnorsk, which is some derivative of Norwegian as the ship belonged to a Norwegian company. The final zone is called the Transcend, which is where civilizations that become a technological singularity hang out. They still interact with people in the third zone, but they keep to themselves much of the time.
It's divided into two main stories. One being about some children crashlanding onto a planet after escaping the godlike planet they woke up and meeting a dog-like race of aliens known as Tines in their era of antiquity. The Tines are actually pairings of multiple dogs that are considered a single entity. A single Tine is a wild animal, but a group of three or four Tines create a collective conscious equivalent to human intelligence and communicate thought through ultra-sonic communication. The second story involves a pair of humans hiring sentient plants that ride around in powered wheelchairs to travel to the Tine planet in hopes that the crashlanded ship somehow has something that makes the godlike planet vulnerable.
The game wouldn't necessarily have to follow the story of the books, but the setting would be awesome for an Elite or X game.
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1ddaf6 No.16806179
Old man's war is boring and a leftist copycat of Heinlein without any of his talent to make a good futuristic scenario or plot-twists, it only "hurr militaristic cocksucking" that was never in Heinlein books in the first place, but hipsters think it was because they only watched the movie.
But Stars my destination would be a great game:
>teleporting gameplay, you and the enemies teleport freely around the map, you have to stealth kill, guess where a enemy will teleport or use wide-area stuns/explosions
>telepaths can read mind and guess your next location
>enemies who don't feels pain due removal of pain nerves
>pitch-black prison map where you have to escape without seeing anything or teleporting
>you are in the middle of a war between the rock planets and gaseous planets of solar system, both hunting you for a secret weapon you know the location
>you are ruthlessly hunting around the solar system who betrayed you and left you to die
>weirds cults around the solar system
>different landscapes, mars, earth, the moon, the asteroids, ect
>rape epidemic since criminals can enter and escape from almost any place
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326a19 No.16806193
Also I know they're not the best books but a Ciaphas Cain vidya would be great.
Also why is the site super slow and why does the update button bring me to the top of the page?
>>16806179
Wait, is there an Old Man's War movie or are you talking about Starship Troopers?
Funnily enough I liked the military cocksucking and it's why I really liked The Ghost Brigades too, it's just that after that there wasn't much to draw me into the remaining books since I think other sci-fi books like Forever War or Dune have much better story telling.
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885349 No.16806220
Monster Hunter International would be well suited for an X-Com clone.
>play as monster hunting organization founded in 1901 after the PUFF passes
>raise a team and send them to kill monsters for money
>can sign protection contracts with local governments and private companies, giving you recurring cash bonuses but removing the ability to pick your battles in certain locations
>the game's timescale means a playthrough will last over a century, so your team will get old and your guns obsolete
>since a big theme of the books is learning from your predecessors and knowledge being as valuable as guns when hunting monsters, you can give new recruits accelerated learning by pairing them with an experienced mentor, letting you salvage an older hunter's skill
>new guns also means new calibers, forcing you to choose between fielding obsolete guns or setting up production of a new caliber of silver bullets
>global events can modify a lot of default mechanics
<for example the World Wars means fighting age men as recruits become exceptionally rare and new items are hard to find due to production being devoted to the war effort, but their end brings a flood of recruits with above average combat skills and a bunch of new tech
>invention and events are randomized as part of difficulty selection, so you can't rely on history to know when a new gun is coming
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80a7b4 No.16806233
I wish I had enough money to hire Vince D. Weller to make fallout-styled game out of it
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e2d848 No.16806244
>>16806233
COMING SOON: A BATTLE ROYALE SURVIVAL RPG BEFORE
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f4818b No.16806266
An action rpg wheel of time game would be great, when you make your character you have a 30% chance to be able to channel whether you select the channeling class or not. Learning sword forms in the borderlands and fighting back the blight or getting involved in politics in the black or white tower. Perhaps even just fuck about as a smuggler or trader with a river boat. I can't believe nobody has tried to turn this series into a game other than that one game that doesn't get talked about.
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80a7b4 No.16806280
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a98ee7 No.16806286
Pic related only real answer. Can't be done by western studios in today's age tho. Maybe central/eastern europe or even japan.
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4d2b82 No.16806909
>>16806161
>Thought there were only two Zones of Thought books
>Turns out there're four now
Any idea if the last two are any good? Reviews seem to indicate the series went to shit real fast.
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4d2b82 No.16806913
>>16806909
And the "fourth" book is only a preview of the third book, which is shit. Can't delete the post either, never mind.
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724453 No.16806917
>>16806076
I don't think any game could capture how intense some of those scenes feel
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326a19 No.16806938
>>16806286
Man Frazetta's artstyle is excellent.
Speaking of which, are there any good Conan games? I vaguely remember the 2007 one because Ron Perlman's deadpan delivery and that one
>You will serve a woman then?
>Service her, aye, and gladly
line.
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768496 No.16806969
Sabriel
Don't care if it's her or her father as the protagonist but I really dig different style of fighting undead/necromancer.
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ff5c59 No.16807017
Starship troopers, but a game from the actual robert helen book and not that kike disgrace of a movie made to destroy the imagery of a philosophic book.
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326a19 No.16807056
>>16807017
I cannot wait for the new Dune to usher in a new era of utterly garbage bastardizations of novels, and it making shittons of money because the Blade Runner guy is making it and people who haven't read the books go "Look the author Brian Herbert is on board so clearly it's going to be good!"
I fucking hate Brian Herbert. How much hate would you have for your father to shit on his legacy like that?
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