Modern wars that aren't frequently covered. I'm talking stuff that isn't WWII, various terrorist incidents, and a theoretical WWIII with Russia. I'd just like more of stuff like Vietnam, Korea, all those conflicts in Africa, theoretical conflict with China, Algeria, Vietnam vs China, basically anything that hasn't been done to death. And Arthurian Myth or maybe even just Welsh mythology in general, as both despite having been vaguely used in a lot of stuff haven't ever been properly done.
Ancient Greek and Roman settings are obscenely underutilised, probably those are my favourites. I'm one of those people who think HBO's Rome series is the best thing ever. And like
Wunderbar said, various national folklores would also make for very interesting settings.
I was going to go for that, drat. It seems like the only titles that ever deal with those places are strategy games. Which are nice, but some variety would be nice once in a while. The rest of the classical world too, though we at least have a lot of stuff that's themed Egyptian in some way.
For RPGs, Hell. There's only Disgaea what I can think of which has you actually living in the "underworld".
It'd be nice to have a wonder round the fiery realm, have a cup of tea with Satan, a chat with some of the Demons, learn a few bard skills from Jim Morrison and Lemmy, and romance/torture a few demonesses along the way etc.
It's been used a fair bit in action games, but as far as actually roleplaying in Hell I can't think of many RPGs which go there?
There's also that Wasteland related game, Escape From Hell. NWN's expansion Hordes of Underdark counts if you count fantasy hells.
Modern-day Russia. Games only ever acknowledge the soviet union, or imperial russia if it's a 4x or economic sim. Modern russia would be perfect for a GTA-style game.
Aren't there ones like that? I only know of the game based off Brat 2, but I could have sworn there were multiple (admittedly crap) ones made in Russia.
That's true, we barely see chingchong theatres in games. Would be nice to see the British play in foreign territory and win (since for the first half of the 20th century, that was what they did), and by contrast, old enemies like china and japan squaring off in ways they did for centuries.
Would like to see late 19th-early 20th century combat as well. Ruso-japanese or first sino-japanese war. I find it to be an interesting time in history, as it had neither the nihilism of post-ww1 nor the familiarity of the olden days.
I'm sure the reasoning for this is that the PRC government throws a hissy fit if you imply their government wasn't ever the only government in China, and Japan likes to pretend that nothing between the 1870s or so and 1950 ever happened. The only media I can think of that tackles the first was the second Lady Snowblood film.
You'd think more people would be interested in the first time a non-European power kicked the crap out of a European one.
