When you dream of a perfect game you imagine...

Share your dreams of pc gaming perfection. Here's mine:

Setting: Open-ended sci-fi mega-city with every building explorable, every door openable.

Story: Several conspiracy "storyline trees" to choose from. Make-it-yourself style.

Gameplay: Armed/unarmed Fps/3rd-person combat, vehicles, RPG elements, Character Customization, Dynamic Dialogue (Unscripted) AI.

Think Matrix with a lot of nasty animated sex. ;)

Share your dreams of pc gaming perfection. Here's mine:

Setting: Open-ended sci-fi mega-city with every building explorable, every door openable.

Story: Several conspiracy "storyline trees" to choose from. Make-it-yourself style.

Gameplay: Armed/unarmed Fps/3rd-person combat, vehicles, RPG elements, Character Customization, Dynamic Dialogue (Unscripted) AI.

Think Matrix with a lot of nasty animated sex. ;)

TryDaBeardON

You dream of MASS EFFECT ( It will be for XBOX360, but it will probably come out for PC in 1 or 2 years ). I think Mass Effect will be the greatest game of all time

An sci-fi themed MMORPG, with loads of options and combo's, real time fighting action in craft and on plannets, with realy good financial management elements. Then put in a weapons/armor/item system like in diablo 2 (without the uniques). And a big load of characters with all kinda abileties but ballanced just about right. An "unending" star system like the one in frontier 2. The abilety to construct bases and micro manage a planet. Great story lines and quests. I don't care mutch about the graphics but photoreal would be fun :P.

 Gameplay must be team based too, having a big carrier ship you bought with all your friends and own money and have someone command it (more can arm the different cannons to attack or defend stuff). Have it flying to astroid belts to mine and load stuff in, meanwhile have defenders to defend raider for killing your mining ships. Many jobs and professions can be learned/trained but you'l need to specialize so you standing strong as a team.

 A crossover with WoW, eve online, frontier and diablo would be just great.... i'm drueling already :P

well, to start off, the game world would have to be huge. As has already been said, every building would be explorable, and there would be all kinds of places to explore outside of cities. Think Morrowind, but bigger, and with more terrain variation. You would also be able to do literally whatever you want, right down to becoming the ruler of a country and leading it to battle against another. It would combine just about all different types of gameplay, and could be set in just about any setting. Take a sci-fi, futuristic setting for example:

-Fully explorable planets, with all kinds of hidden things that you could concievably never find. (First Person shooter/slasher/brawler/whatever)
-wide open space exploration, a la Freelancer
-space combat
-varying terrain on planets (Desert planets, forest planets, volcanic, grassland, etc.)
-ability to do whatever you want (space pirate, mercenary, soldier, trader, leader of a guild, ruler of a planet, etc.)
-possibility of new planets being discovered at any point (this could be acheived through downloadable content)

That would be the ultimate game.

A massive online Star Wars flight sim was my childhood dream, heavly pvp

my perfect game:

- open ended worl like huge

- modern time setting basically year 2000 to 2010 not futurisitc

- guns, vechiles, rpg elements the whole 10 yards

- every door openable, shops, gyms the works

- FPS and 3rd person, awesome melee and gun fights

LOL 

Share your dreams of pc gaming perfection. Here's mine:

Setting: Open-ended sci-fi mega-city with every building explorable, every door openable.

Story: Several conspiracy "storyline trees" to choose from. Make-it-yourself style.

Gameplay: Armed/unarmed Fps/3rd-person combat, vehicles, RPG elements, Character Customization, Dynamic Dialogue (Unscripted) AI.

Think Matrix with a lot of nasty animated sex. ;)

TryDaBeardON

And tell me, why exactly do you want a mega-city with every door openable? There are thousands of doors even in a small city. What makes you think that opening doors and seeing regular families inside over and over again will somehow add to the gameplay? Even if it was bossible to create such a setting, Im sure you'd get lost in a second in desparate search of what doing next. If you want a realistic game like that, just go out of your house (or your parents' basement - just kidding), walk the street and speak to people, pick up branches, soda cans and other stuff, open doors and such. Will you enjoy it? I doubt. A game requires a goal. And it needs to help you in achieving the goal. Asking a random NPC "how many times a week you have sex with your wife?" will not move the story forward. Opening random doors and finding random crap will offer little to no fun. Of course, the game shouldn't be completely linear (especially if it's an RPG) but I dont think that the fun to be had from a game is proportional to it's non-linearity. Some explorable areas (that provide exploration rewards) that are not mainly connected to the main quest are fun, but overall, i think that any game should be more linear than not, so that you will never lose the the main goal from your sight.

A MMO Game where you can play FPS, RPG, Fly Flight Sims, Build Cities, Fight Wars, Drive cars.

Imagine an online world where you could sim a space ship to Mars and then get out and Fight monsters like in Doom FPS style, then return home to fight the battle against NOD Command and conquer style. Then celebrate by driving your car around hawaii like that car game.

Just a huge massive world with tons and tons of different "mini games' Although each mini game would be as big as a normal game.

mmmmm goood 

Share your dreams of pc gaming perfection. Here's mine:

Setting: Open-ended sci-fi mega-city with every building explorable, every door openable.

Story: Several conspiracy "storyline trees" to choose from. Make-it-yourself style.

Gameplay: Armed/unarmed Fps/3rd-person combat, vehicles, RPG elements, Character Customization, Dynamic Dialogue (Unscripted) AI.

Think Matrix with a lot of nasty animated sex. ;)

TryDaBeardON

my perfect game is a FPS game and imagine my character carrying a sword in a battlefield where other soldiers are also fighting

and I can go in duels and mount horses and make charges and ambushes and stuff...........:roll: wake me up cuz I know I am

:)dreaming

I always thought a more open Hitman style game would be good. Like where you get dropped in a large open city maybe with diffrent area having loading screens inbetween to make for lower required specs but have a note telling to pick up a phone in an area at a specific time, telling you where the info on the target is. You get the info and can just view the name a place of residence or be thorough and look through they entire family tree, job location daily route, so on and so forth and plot your kill. Go into his flat guns blazing or sneak in and poisen his food, snipe him while he watches TV or plant a bomb in his car. You have to acuire the equipment and maybe theres added bonus money for doing a particular thing to him, like maybe ring his mobile and say a line to him before blowing his car sky high or something.

I also always wanted to see a game where you are SWAT or armed police and you have a diffrent scenario to deal with through the levels and you have to do everything from sitting through the negotiations to planing your strike and finaly taking in the oponent.

I guess I aim to high :D 

And tell me, why exactly do you want a mega-city with every door openable? There are thousands of doors even in a small city. What makes you think that opening doors and seeing regular families inside over and over again will somehow add to the gameplay? Even if it was bossible to create such a setting, Im sure you'd get lost in a second in desparate search of what doing next. If you want a realistic game like that, just go out of your house (or your parents' basement - just kidding), walk the street and speak to people, pick up branches, soda cans and other stuff, open doors and such. Will you enjoy it? I doubt. A game requires a goal. And it needs to help you in achieving the goal. Asking a random NPC "how many times a week you have sex with your wife?" will not move the story forward. Opening random doors and finding random crap will offer little to no fun. Of course, the game shouldn't be completely linear (especially if it's an RPG) but I dont think that the fun to be had from a game is proportional to it's non-linearity. Some explorable areas (that provide exploration rewards) that are not mainly connected to the main quest are fun, but overall, i think that any game should be more linear than not, so that you will never lose the the main goal from your sight.

Ark123

First of all, my perfect game has several stories/campaigns to choose from. Second, no one's forcing you to open every single door, and you wouldn't be ABLE to open every single door (just like IRL) without tools, keys, getting busted by cops, etc. , but it would nice to have the option. And having a goal has very little to do with the setting. There are plenty of ways to steer the gameplay without having 2 dozen doors in a hallway with only one that opens.

Sorta open ended

Soldiers

Angels

Satan.

I got a good idea for a story, but too long (it was a dream I had). 

I imagine...

1.  A rich, detailed story written by a leading author of whatever genre the game will be set in (Military, Sci-Fi, historical, etc.)

2.  An extremely well optimized game engine with high-rez textures and adequate lighting and shadows (basically just gimme the Source engine)

3.  Open ended gameplay with linear story missions, but side missions that actually matter.  Something like Independence War 2; if you wanted to progress in the story, you needed to go do some space piracy so you could trade items for better weapons so you could deal with increasingly difficult bad guys.

4.  The ability to play the game how you want to, not play the game the way the game wants you to.  Games that have mastered this aspect of gameplay include Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Oblivion, Fallout 2, and others.

What I really want is a solid RPG set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.  The imagination of that man is unparalleled in my opinion, and (outside of the RTS Dune 2) there hasnt been a truly solid game built based on the books, and there is thousand upon thousand of pages of material to use.

The story would be written by Frank's son, Brian Herbert, who despite being an average writer, is well-versed in Dune lore and writes entertaining books.  I would like it to be set in the time period of the House books, before the Atreides officially moved to Arrakis.  This leaves a little bit of breathing room for story development.

I think the various classes and factions would be incredibly amazing.  You could be a number of characters and classes, as some examples:
-Atreides Swordfighter
-Atreides Spy
-Harkonnen Soldier: a tank
-Harkonnen Assassin: stealth-based character
-Bene Geserit Reverend Mother: the "magic" user
-Bene Geserit Acolyte: a mix between a melee karate-using fighter and a "magic" using Rev Mother
-Ixian Engineer: makes weapons and robots (no thinking robots, of course)
-Ixian Scientist: maybe he mixes chemicals and stuff, a type of "magic" user
-Sardauker Warrior: the tank
-Sardauker Officer: boosts morale of party members, utility-type skills
-Fremen Fedeykin: the "barbarian" **** light armor and reckless, but strong attacks
-Fremen Waterthief: a stealth character, can rob men of their "water" and heal himself, hide in sand, etc.
-Suk Doctor: the healer
-and the list goes on...

In terms of gameplay, I would like to see a camera perspective set between a KOTOR view and Neverwinter Nights isometric view.  Perhaps keep the zoom limited, but make it so that you can zoom out enough to see the range of your ranged weapons.  This game would be suitable either as a singleplayer with free multiplayer, or perhaps even an MMO.

Basically, it would be your generic RPG formula, but set in the Dune universe.  I would like to see some new things added, more specifically a "cinematic" camera (after you que your attacks, the camera could zoom around and whatnot), but I think the developers would be better at that than myself.

Just imagine being an Atreides Swordmaster exploring the caverns of Ix and coming across an ancient killer machine left over and intact from the Butlerian Jihad 10000 years prior, or being a Harkonnen Assassin and managing to infiltrate a Fremen camp to assassinate their leader, or working for the emporer as a Sardauker officer and leading your men into battle as you raid a rebellious planet.