Double post

I miss the days when pretty graphics weren't enough.

To Equestria (I think that's how you spell it) to the land of magic and ponies. Actually a RPG based on MLP:FiM in stlye of TES would be fun.

The horse armor DLC could make its triumphant return!

And there would be much rejoycing---yay---.

My game would include:

Post apocalypse
Team based
Open world
Steam punk
Deep character customization (face/body)
Plethora of weapons/ armor choices and upgrades
Multiple branching power trees
....

I'll add more later

Back to Vegas, shall we?

Cloudrest made some really good recommendations, and I'm on board with this "Back to Morrowind" business, so the only thing I will add is, get rid of voice-acted dialogue. It's annoying, doesn't add much, and really takes away depth. I don't want to listen to a savant for 30 minutes to get all the cool little details of the world, I want to read about it in 15 minutes or whatever. So much more could be added if the dialogue were text based.

I disagree, especially with the upcoming next gen consoles, there should be plenty of depth with VA.

If anything I would say we no longer need to worry about graphical improvements and need to focus on depth and quality of the writing for VA.

Assuming I did have all the time and money in the world it would just be like Skyrim with more stuff. More voice acting and customization choices. I'd also try to get 'natural disaster' type things into the game, things like random lightning strikes during big storms, slippery ice, mud that you sank into if carrying a lot of stuff, avalanches and stuff. Mainly it would be like Skyrim though because I already like that type of game.

BIS and Troika.

Wherever I want it to go. *closes eyes like a smug [censored]*

Keep all the flashy modern features [like voice acting, beautiful graphics and physics] and combine them with the stats, dialogue trees, choices and consequences, quality storytelling of old Fallout, Kotor, Planescape and the likes. This is my favorite future direction. The most probable direction is take the modern features and combine them with first person shooter insta-gratification bang-bang action.

And yet we have new vegas...

Yea, except New Vegas is not state of the art either, buggy mess meets Gamebryo = fail.

New Vegas isn't necessarily the best looking game but it's good enough visually. I bought NV a month after it was released on PS3 so it was buggy as a mofo. But I now have the Ultimate Edition which isn't nearly as buggy/glitchy. It makes the game much more enjoyable. It's the fallout game that I wanted all along.

Hopefully back to its roots, I don't want to play watered down cinematic action "rpg's", I want something I can sink me teeth into darn it.

It's not enough and besides Obsidian would have made it like Fallout 1,2 if they had the choice. I want developers like Bethesda to make huge open world 1st person RPGs with all the stats and dialogue depth of the past classics. I don't want isometric turn based [censored], I want games like Oblivion, Skyrim, Two Worlds, Gothic, Risen... but made very rich in content and substance like the old ones...

We need isometic turn based, cause it's no where to be found. You can find plenty "modern" graphics FPS action games everywhere. We simply don't have any RPG that care less about graphics anymore.

Where I want to see RPG's go... Well as graphics have been getting better in games more often I get disgusted with just slashing down killing un-named people. Not that them having a name and a backstory would make me feel any better about it just the gravity of someone being killed and actually having a part in the act would weight so heavily on a person the first time they did it the only thing they're most likely going to do is sit down and stare at what they've just done, and or possible vomit. It's a terrible thing and just doing it repeatedly over and over again with little or no consequence is rather ugly to me the more detailed people look.
I know this isn't actually a fault of video games its just a game after all, I come from a place with a culture of violence and its too easy to be violent choosing a different path is much more difficult and challenging and in video games I'd prefer to be the unambigous good guy that kills monsters or what not.

Making an rpg... depends if I'm making something I would want to sell Making something I would want to play I would actually try to put some effort into it.
I suppose of the former and latter if I were making something I would want to play it would have to be single player.
I would try to make an first person shooter rpg, that way it has a balance of personal input doing the actual work like moving and aiming, then use rpg elements to effect how the character is played. A few things off the top of my head maybe they started out in the story as a chemist and get an early selection to upgrade modify stuff like flame throwers to shoot farther but a shallower width that takes time to arc forward, or maybe they can make the flame wider but a lesser range but I would avoid actual skills to use weapons or changing their trajectory/power type stuff. Movement bonuses type stuff depending on how the (environments are wouldn't want it to be a bunch of corridors so) and different enemies. The enemies wouldn't be human I guess the first alternative would be aliens since that can be just about anything and I could spend a lot of time thinking up a random aliens that wants to eat you and move around in different ways, bunch of ways to go about a story with aliens too maybe they first look like unintelligent creatures just bent on destroying humanity maybe they're a little more clever than people would assume and have a larger objective despite appearing so primitive. I would probably add a few others humans to the story just so I can have the ones I think are likeable killed, I do it in most of the short stories I write to get a rise out of the reader and create some suspence in the story what are they going to do with this guy, or trying to get a he will be missed sentiment some actual gravity to a person getting killed.

I want zombie survival like minecraft, with better graphics. Not like dead Island, but I want to be able to build stuff and have zombies all over the place that try and kill you.
I also want more scary games.

A game where a kill would mean something again would be nice too. Sneakers made me think of that. I don't want to kill and attack dozens of wild animals, giant rats, nameless bandits anymore, I want to play a role. If that role is a pacifist wizard, I should be allowed to.

Morrowind combined with Daggerfall please.

And Skyrim.

Hm.. Daggerfall + Morrowind + Skyrim = Elder Scrolls World: Nirn?