>>6300854>new game setting ideaswell recently I have just been mostly replaying old videogames, I redid all Oblivion Main and guild quests, replayed Fallout New Vegas up to Brotherhood Of Steel girl, replayed Crysis on my phone lol (winlator, yay) currently casually playing through hundreds of ancient Homeworld 1999 fanmade multiplayer maps they are super fun. I also tried to broaden some of my gameplaying genres hunting for inspiration so I tried Victoria (the grand strategy games) also naval / submarine sims like Cold Waters, Naval Hurricane / Battle Of Jutland etc. but they take a bit of learning though, I appreciated the game design ideas
In addition to that Gatekeeper rpg scenario, some genre settings I was thinking about
- Homeworld made me super nostalgic for the old 1970s Chris Foss style huge chunk spaceship art again. I had this idea of a space opera setting where you would escort a FUNERAL BARGE casting the sarcophagus of some dead space monarch into the sun. I was trying to think up of more original spaceship themes beyond just battlecruisers and frigates lol, things like those SAFARI SHIPS from Traveller or say a shrine ship /pilgrimage or mercantile exchange barque (slaves?), maybe even some oracle spaceship drifting from planet to planet providing prophesy etc. I think the basic notion is to take some rite or phenomena that is ancient and transpose and reformulate it IN SPACE
- I watched a lot of Merchant Ivory period dramas, EM Forster A Passage To India, Heat And Dust etc I fantasised briefly over a hardcore BRITISH RAJ cantonments setting, it might be somewhere like Simla or the Civil Lines etc. The setting is so alluring but this one takes too much effort (hard to find visuals)
- a weird swords and sorcery idea I had, but what about some standard medieval or Dark Ages rpg with the evil necromancer, but the prophesy says he can ONLY BE DEFEATED BY A VIRGIN ie some uncorrupted pure youth come of age. So your task is to travel through the realm trying to find this mythical unsullied hero virgin destined to vanquish The Great Evil etc nooo do not sex them that leads to WORLD DESTRUCTION. I actually had this framing idea from Cultist Simulator where the Exile setting pits you against a nemesis with weird weaknesses (not virgins though) I was thinking about this frame in relation to a two stat Ron Edwards style rpg just two attributes SEX and DEATH etc
pic related is 1970s art by Angus McKie ? vs modern Homeworld 3 which I have not played
>>6298025>SILK ROAD... in space?did you know the Kushan in Homeworld are based on 貴霜 the Yuezhi tribes. Also see the space pirate Turanic Raiders, Turans etc.
