[Combichristoffersen]

So basically game should just ponder to a certain market? We shouldn't have a wordly view on our games? Why would anyone not want more games based in france or around that culture? I want games set in latin america and want to be in locations in latin america. What about australia and that culture? Barely any games are set in australia.

Games need to be marketable in order to sell, and America is an important market, so.. yeah.

As for latin America, there's Max Payne 3.

[Lissar]

Want a bigger coincidence? Your username contains my real name :O

:O Random awesome connections!

Games need to be marketable in order to sell, and America is an important market, so.. yeah.

Men ages 18-35 is also an important market. Should we also only make games that pander to the stereotype of what men these ages want?

[teruterubozu]

Captain Cook: Romance of the South Sea

[Neuromancer]

Dat ending.

Everyone knows Amelia Earhart died crossing the Pacific ocean. What my game presupposes is, maybe she didn't.

[Combichristoffersen]

Men ages 18-35 is also an important market. Should we also only make games that pander to the stereotype of what men these ages want?

No, but that's what we're gonna get since that's generally what sells.

[Endo Punk]

Probably controversial but a game where you play as Hitler depicting his rise and fall. And it will end with you blowing your brains out.

It could go horribly wrong but in the off chance that it is done right it would be an interesting experience.

[Pociask]

Some great replies in this thread already.

I'll throw Ernst Junger out there. He was a German soldier in World War I, and later became famous for publishing his memoir, Storm of Steel. Here's the Wikipedia description:

"Storm of Steel begins with Jünger as a private entering the line with the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in Champagne. His first taste of combat came at Les Eparges in April 1915 where he was first wounded.

After recuperating, he took an officer's course and achieved the rank of Ensign. He rejoined his regiment on the Arras sector. In 1916, with the Battle of the Somme underway, Jünger's regiment moved to Combles in August for the defence of the village of Guillemont. Here Jünger was fortunate to be wounded again, shortly before the final British assault which captured the village — his platoon was annihilated. In 1917 Jünger saw action during the Battle of Arras in April, the Third Battle of Ypres in July and October, and the German counter-attack during the Battle of Cambrai in November. Jünger led a company of assault troops during the final German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918 when he was wounded again. On 23 August he suffered his most severe wound when he was shot through the chest."

[BibiMaghoo]

Miyamoto Musashi.

He killed a dude with a bokken he carved from the oar of his boat. Very little is as badass as this.

[Gustav]

Rasputin, Columbus or Schindler.

[Rollo Larson]

a harvest moon/atelier ___deep strategy/sim hybrid based on benjamin banneker

[Santiako]

Trauma Center Mengele

[enzo_gt]

Nikola Tesla.

Dark Void brah

[Gustav]

Also, Neil Armstrong!

[Baron_Calamity]

A Jack the Ripper game done in the style of Snatcher. The unresolved ending might put certain players off, though.

Isn't there a game in development at EA where you plat Jack the Ripper?

[Combichristoffersen]

Isn't there a game in development at EA where you plat Jack the Ripper?

Supposedly Visceral were working on The Ripper, but I have no idea if the game is still in development or if it's canned. Either way, I'd really like a game based on the Ripper murders.

[Furoba]

Fritz Joubert Duquesne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Joubert_Duquesne

Jack Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Simo Häyhä
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Otto von Badass

[chaostrophy]

Ho Chi Minh.

[Shaffield]

continuing the Roman theme, let's see a Rape of Lucretia dating sim

[Mike M]

Teddy Roosevelt

I'd buy it.

[shinobi602]

Some type of open world/ RPG as Genghis Khan or something with the Mongol horde sounds pretty sick.

[Wubby]

Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Erich Hartmann

[RedSwirl]

Why don't more countries make there games based on there culture? Why do games have to continue to be set in america or ponder to americans to be made?

AAA gaming man. Hast to pander to the American market to sell. That's true of games made in France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and now it's looking like Japan too. It is lamentable though, and it partly has to do with the fall of middle-class gaming.

The main reasons Japanese gaming and Eastern European gaming still stand out is because they are made with viewpoints based on their native cultures and not to directly pander to Americans. If you want to look for more culturally-based games, your best bet is the PC right now.

America is an important market, and how many Americans do you think would care, or even know about, random European historical or mythological figures like, say, Boudica, Olaf Tryggvason or Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia? Hell, most Europeans probably wouldn't give a shit about those historical figures.

They could learn. More importantly, games could be made cool enough to make those settings and historical figures interesting. Movies actually pull it off every once in a while. That website I posted in this thread is dedicated to just that thing.

Just to throw some shit out there:

Hervor (She could almost be the main character of a God of War game)
http://badassoftheweek.com/hervor.html

Baron Fredrick von der Trenk (Fought wars, escaped from prison, and macked on bitches, including two, possibly three queens):
http://badassoftheweek.com/trenck.html

The 20-or-so guys who got the first ever Medals of Honor:
http://badassoftheweek.com/johnwilson.html

Skuld (Viking sagas in particular are a goldmine for gaming material):
http://badassoftheweek.com/skuld.html

Viktor Leonov:
http://badassoftheweek.com/leonov.html

Joshua (Probably David too):
http://badassoftheweek.com/joshua.html

Grace O'Malley (One of the pirates I was talking about earlier):
http://badassoftheweek.com/omalley.html

Jan Zizka:
http://badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html

Toussaint L'Ouveture (Danny Glover's been trying to get a movie about this guy made forever):
http://badassoftheweek.com/toussaint.html

A Jamestown game from the point of view of Myles Standish:
http://badassoftheweek.com/standish.html

Hongi Hika:
http://badassoftheweek.com/hongihika.html

Ned Kelly:
http://badassoftheweek.com/nedkelly.html

I kinda stayed away from WWII and Sengoku badasses because the former could be the basis for parts of WWII games in general, and the latter have already probably been featured in a ton Japanese games I haven't played.

Just some food for thought.

[JohnTinker]

Daniel Boone & Davy Crockett, in a RDR-style open world game

[Combichristoffersen]

They could learn. More importantly, games could be made cool enough to make those settings and historical figures interesting. Movies actually pull it off every once in a while. That website I posted in this thread is dedicated to just that thing. Just to throw some shit out there: Hervor (She could almost be the main character of a God of War game) http://badassoftheweek.com/hervor.html Baron Fredrick von der Trenk (Fought wars, escaped from prison, and macked on bitches, including two, possibly three queens): http://badassoftheweek.com/trenck.html The 20-or-so guys who got the first ever Medals of Honor: http://badassoftheweek.com/johnwilson.html Skuld (Viking sagas in particular are a goldmine for gaming material): http://badassoftheweek.com/skuld.html Viktor Leonov: http://badassoftheweek.com/leonov.html Joshua (Probably David too): http://badassoftheweek.com/joshua.html Grace O'Malley (One of the pirates I was talking about earlier): http://badassoftheweek.com/omalley.html Jan Zizka: http://badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html Toussaint L'Ouveture (Danny Glover's been trying to get a movie about this guy made forever): http://badassoftheweek.com/toussaint.html A Jamestown game from the point of view of Myles Standish: http://badassoftheweek.com/standish.html Hongi Hika: http://badassoftheweek.com/hongihika.html Ned Kelly: http://badassoftheweek.com/nedkelly.html I kinda stayed away from WWII and Sengoku badasses because the former could be the basis for parts of WWII games in general, and the latter have already probably been featured in a ton Japanese games I haven't played. Just some food for thought.

Thanks for those links, I'll be reading the articles as soon as I have the time. Also, Manfred von Richthofen would be a candidate, although he did appear in the 1990 PC game Red Baron.

[Wiz]

Hopefully no one takes my idea and actually makes it into a game, but I want a game where you play as Jesus, performing miracles and saving lives and all that stuff.

[Prophane33]

An open world Shinsengumi game; also there should be more games based around Oda Nobunaga.

[Shai-Tan]

Hopefully no one takes my idea and actually makes it into a game, but I want a game where you play as Jesus, performing miracles and saving lives and all that stuff.

I would be surprised if there isn't already an iOS game

[YoungHav]

I want a Pol Pot RPG.

[SuperEpicMan]

Someone in another thread posted that Rockstar should make an open world pirate game, which would be so awesome. They could have you play as some rookie crew member as you guide him towards being the most feared pirate on the ocean and at some point reveal that it is blackbeard or something lol

[NoirVisage]

Harriet Tubman.
I strongly believe doing it right would change gaming forever.

[Pociask]

Toussaint L'Ouveture (Danny Glover's been trying to get a movie about this guy made forever): http://badassoftheweek.com/toussaint.html

Speaking of Toussaint L'Ouveture, Simone Bolivar needs a game, stat.

[King of the Potato People]

George VI, kind of like PaRappa the Rapper, you have to time the buttons, getting the rhythm or he stutters.

[eagledare]

A Kobayashi beat-em-up in which all the enemies are hot dogs.

[The Boat]

I'm gonna go with Miyamoto Musashi too, dude was a badass.

[akira28]

George Washington. And leave the Revolutionary War stuff for last.

[EXGN]

A lot of the Three Kingdoms characters would be cool outside of the standard Dynasty Warriors/ROTK games.

[spanks]

Anyone mention Jack Churchill yet? I don't think I've ever played a WW2 game where your main weapons are a claymore and bow. Also bagpipes.

Oh, how about Rasputin? Could play like NeverDead. Heh.

[Apdiddy]

Honestly this. Doesn't matter what type of genre either, it'll work perfectly. War Sim, RTS or otherwise such as Total War. Bored one day? Just declare war on Spain, that'll work out. Shooter? Third person cavalry. Hunting sim? Just has average weekend. Educational game? Him studying history and imagining he was there in the Napoleonic Wars or fighting against Rome or alongside the Irish regiments of the U.S. civil war. Not just land, a student of naval history from 1812 would be right up his alley. Economic Simulator. Trust building, square deals, threatening them with a stick while working through Panama and all the trades there of. Point and Click Adventure? Why the Bull Moose party is full of such grand dialogue and being shot. Survival Horror? The Amazon expedition. Animals and unfriendly tribes with early 20th century supplies running out. Crossover game. Remember, Scrooge McDuck and Theodore Roosevelt went to war over a very special hill in Duckburg.

I also agree....to me, a Teddy Roosevelt game would be almost like Uncharted meets Professor Layton. I could foresee him taking a young FDR & Ernest Hemingway (for co-op play!) to Africa and have to fight off zombies, natives, wild animals, and look for a lost treasure but of course, he made it all up.

[arglebargle]

The aliens who built the pyramids.

i could be remembering wrong, but i think herc's adventure had an area where aliens were building the pyramids and you had to get something from them.

[RustyNails]

I always imagined a game setting in an alternate 1400s Romania where Vlad the Impaler is actually the real Dracula. You play a Janissary from Sultan's army in the vein of Assassin's Creed, but much more action-adventure oriented (linear, God of War esque). There's virtually unlimited possibilities for scenarios.

[Combichristoffersen]

I always imagined a game setting in an alternate 1400s Romania where Vlad the Impaler is actually the real Dracula. You play a Janissary from Sultan's army in the vein of Assassin's Creed, but much more action-adventure oriented (linear, God of War esque). There's virtually unlimited possibilities for scenarios.

Have you read Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian?

[djtiesto]

Rasputin, Columbus or Schindler.

They made a Columbus themed RPG for Famicom:
video
Review (apparently this game was translated too!)

[Endo Punk]

http://i.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/1979...political-tit/

I heard about this title a while back and It would be really awesome if it does happen with Rockstar collaboration.

[mclem]

Niccolo Machiavelli.

There was a remake of Merchant Prince a while back which took his name, but it wasn't really very, well, Machiavellian. I'm thinking political intrigue in Renaissance Italy has a lot of potential. We sort of saw it from the outside in Assassin's Creed, but it'd be nice to see from the inside, too.

[SpacePirate Ridley]

I real Titanic game with boarding and all the sinking that is not a point and click game.

A Walt Disney parody game.

[RustyNails]

Have you read Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian?

Havent read it but kinda disappointed that there isnt much fiction in this topic.

[BosSin]

My penis is a historical figure

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Just to throw some shit out there: Hervor (She could almost be the main character of a God of War game) http://badassoftheweek.com/hervor.html Baron Fredrick von der Trenk (Fought wars, escaped from prison, and macked on bitches, including two, possibly three queens): http://badassoftheweek.com/trenck.html The 20-or-so guys who got the first ever Medals of Honor: http://badassoftheweek.com/johnwilson.html Skuld (Viking sagas in particular are a goldmine for gaming material): http://badassoftheweek.com/skuld.html Viktor Leonov: http://badassoftheweek.com/leonov.html Joshua (Probably David too): http://badassoftheweek.com/joshua.html Grace O'Malley (One of the pirates I was talking about earlier): http://badassoftheweek.com/omalley.html Jan Zizka: http://badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html Toussaint L'Ouveture (Danny Glover's been trying to get a movie about this guy made forever): http://badassoftheweek.com/toussaint.html A Jamestown game from the point of view of Myles Standish: http://badassoftheweek.com/standish.html Hongi Hika: http://badassoftheweek.com/hongihika.html Ned Kelly: http://badassoftheweek.com/nedkelly.html I kinda stayed away from WWII and Sengoku badasses because the former could be the basis for parts of WWII games in general, and the latter have already probably been featured in a ton Japanese games I haven't played. Just some food for thought.

This has to be one of the most fun to read historical webs ive ever seen, holy fuck :lol

[Combichristoffersen]

Havent read it but kinda disappointed that there isnt much fiction in this topic.

The first half of the book is relatively slow, but it's a good book, based on the premise that the historical Vlad Tepes was actually a vampire. I definitely recommend it.