Any settings you find underutilized in games?

[Xeogred]

Jason and Freddy are heroes.

[Jagosaurus]

There really aren't too many (any?) serial killer video games period. It's mostly run from/fight your way through an overall threat. I guess it's hard to develop a game around a single killer enemy. Hence the multiplayer focus of FT13. I loved the idea of needing to find walkie-talkies to talk to your team. That's amazing.

Any setting could use more Jean Claude Van Damme!!!



Wait... we already have the German playing the American... in a movie of game, then turned into a game... that resembles the original game's rival game . That's some John Connor level Matrix stuff. All our original ideas can't top that mind bomb .

[Segata]

Star Wars as an RPG. We had the Bioware games way back when.

I'm thinking a Star Wars RPG more in the vein of a JRPG style in narrative. Still be a ARPG.

IMO the best Star Wars RPG isn't Star Wars. Final Fantasy XII. I'm not the biggest SW by any means but it would be kinda neat to see a setting and set up similar to FFXII. Since there is no EU anymore they would have more freedom with it.

[marurun]

Jean Claude is Belgian.

[Erik_Twice]

There are surprisingly few games that take place in mundane environments. That is, I can't think of any notable game that depicts life in the office or other mundane.

[PartridgeSenpai]

For the second, I'd argue maybe not underused as much as not used to its full potential, are the Sengoku/Edo period ( hopefully that's right, I'm going for active Samurai). My big thing for this would be an open world Ronin RPG, 2D or 3D. Overall, I feel like Samurai games are lacking outside of the RTS genre.

There are actually a lot of games in that setting, but the thing is that almost none of them actually make it outside of Japan. Most developers still go by the notion that that kind of thing is "too Japanese" for Westerners to ever care about it *cough* Sega *cough*.

There are surprisingly few games that take place in mundane environments. That is, I can't think of any notable game that depicts life in the office or other mundane.

I think there's a good reason for that though. Video games are a medium that are literally based on the concept of interactivity. It's very difficult to portray a mundane kind of story that doesn't feel contrived or not fun (think the early bits of Heavy Rain). It was already mentioned in the thread, but That Dragon Cancer is a good example of a game that tries to portray a more down to earth story that unnecessarily shoe-horns in very game-y elements because it feels the need to remind the player that it's a video game. Books and movies excel at stories like that because they're a very passive medium. Video games demand interaction, and unless you're purposefully trying to make a game not fun (with a more 'indie' mindset than a 'profit' one), it's very difficult to make interactions in mundanity not feel like work. By contrast, you can't go too far towards the passive when making a mundane game, because then you end up making a Dear Esther or a Stanley Parable where, while it might be engaging and interesting, it's not really a video game.

[AppleQueso]

they are video games, there isn't any good reason to try and seperate them.

visual novels are games too

[ElkinFencer10]

Jean Claude is Belgian.

In fairness, the Germans have spent a lot of time conquering the Belgians over the years.

[alienjesus]

By that logic, most of the world is British, Italian, French and Spanish. Most nationalities are ate least 2 or 3 of the above

[ElkinFencer10]

By that logic, most of the world is British, Italian, French and Spanish. Most nationalities are ate least 2 or 3 of the above

Laissez le bon temps rouler, old chap.