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I Want to be a God
What I really want is a game that lets me do this. So (and this may exist already) what I'm thinking is a game where you get to be a God creating a world and all life in it. Imagine something like Mage Knight but instead of turning over tiles for the sake of exploring your creating the world from scratch and creating your own creation myth as you go along. Intelligent life starts coming around at some point and they may follow you and tell your stories. Your buddies can steal your followers somehow (maybe war, propaganda, manifestations etc... ) and vice versa. So technically your buddies army may belong to you (if you kill all the opponents in a war then you get no new followers.. although buddy still has less now).
I was thinking of it as a fun project I could start working on but then I remembered that I just don't have time for that shit. So someone either design this game or show me where it exists already. The key component is that it can't just feel like another exploration civ style game. It needs to feel like your creating mythologies and allow some freedom for those stories to be personal or based on things you've done in game.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
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- ThirstyMan
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No seriously, you need to play Dominion. You get to create a God and then get followers and then kill everyone. It's great fun. Can get it on Steam.
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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160550/godz
It's made by the same folks that did Super Fantasy: Ugly Snouts Assault which Barnes and others have heaped praise upon. Might be sort of what you're looking for. Probably not.
If you're going the PC gaming route then you'll probably need to track down Populous, Black and White, Spore or something else created by Will Wright or Peter Molyneaux.
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I never played the sequel, so not sure it's better than the original. The original was ridiculous. I'm not sure it's a good "game", but I had a blast playing it. It had some uniquely fascinating bits to it. It was like one part RTS and one part 4X, but then you could also come down from the heavens in and avatar and have scenes like this
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Michael Barnes wrote: Milch und Gherkin will feature many of the things you are looking for. And many things you didn't realize you wanted.
So the design has changed drastically since
fortressat.com/forum/13-eurogames/21490-...for-milch-und-gurken
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Because it was about selling pickles.. but that's an easy and common theme switch.
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I did play some game on my 360 that I thought was called Dust where you created the land and had followers and mitigated disasters.. it was ok. Someone recommended Gheos and other than it sounding too light to do what I want it does sound close otherwise.
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EDIT: Ninja'd by JJ.
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Can be interesting.
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SIMLIFE was one of the first.
Populous series was one of the best ever.
Dungeon Keeper (sort of) does this.
Black and White does this, sort of.
From Dust is really a great example.
As far as board games, lots do that, but in an abstract way. Dominiant Species and Evo kind of does this.
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