I wish someone would do a T2k sandbox computer RPG

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Originally Posted by Legbreaker

You're right, it would be great, but nobody is going to do it, at least not in the format we here would like to see.
The days of the cold war are over by a generation or more, nobody really cares any more about what could have happened. Any games made these days will be all about more current events like Iraq or Afghanistan, or some made up country which looks a lot like those sorts of situations and where the good guys (aka the western world) always comes out on top without having to resort to nukes, chemical weapons and massive worldwide depopulation.

The tech certainly exists to do a great T2K game (or similar scenario), but who'd play it? More to the point, who besides us archaic fanatics would spend the money and buy it?

Well, computer (and console) gamers like to game; I don't think there'd be much looking at the actual scenario so much as the gameplay. I mean, consider the almost-but-not-quite-T2k setting of Fallout, one of the most beloved franchises in computer gaming. You had what, two or three isometric perspective RPGs and then on top of that you had the first-person shooter. Those games' backstory was rooted firmly in a 1950s style "Duck and Cover" era of A-Bomb blithe ignorance, yet they were warmly received. A T2k with good, accessible gameplay would be equally embraced, too. Wasn't one of the recent Medal of Honor games set in the Cold War?

Anyway, I'm a little rusty on my C## oh and a couple hundred devs, a few thousand QA folks and $50m to make it happen, so... :P