Yeah, I would buy the rights to Kerbal Space Program and Dungeons and Dragons and just make it all free and make the KSP2 we all deserved. Then I’d fund a professional SCP cinematic universe, it basically has to be free because it’s a licensing mess of community creations but there are so many stories in it worthy of being part of a high budget serialized cinematic universe.
If moneys truly no object, then buy the Fallout IP, build a new engine with a creation kit that all actually works and is made with ease and stability of modding in mind and then make a high fantasy game with the same engine and let people go nuts. Downvote me if you want but I don’t think TES is inherently a good enough fantasy IP (the games have always been better than the central unique overarching plot) to be worth not just starting something new, or better yet, tie it in with the D&D IP I bought earlier.
I would acquire the rights to Tales From The Afternow by Sean Kennedy(The Fucking Man!)
Make a proper hbo quality(westworld level of production) out of it.
Then pay the author to write something that could be turned into a trilogy based on it, but set a thousand years forward.
And create a video game series using the main charqcters various life extensions set between the original series and the new trililogy, where hes on the same space ship but its like the outerlimits and you never know if the next episode is a continuation or a different era because the ship, much like in red dwarf, is essentially an immortal unchanging character
Separate idea: An open-world survival game, but using the TV show Jericho as the setting.
You find yourself stranded in western Kansas after dozens of American cities have just been nuked, and with nothing but the clothes on your back and a stolen car, you have to rob and scavenge the countryside to survive.
…I realized after typing out several paragraphs, that I basically want The Long Drive as a base game, but with BeamNG’s driving and crash physics, and Insurgency: Sandstorm’s gunplay.
Players would get most of their supplies from fighting NPCs, having to find a fine balance between crashing out their cars without destroying the stuff they’re carrying, or the player smashing up their own ride in the process. I feel like Jonah Prowse’s story on the show would make for a fun endgame: the player creating/joining an organized gang to fight with larger convoys/settlements.
I’d happily finance another Dredd movie with Garland and Urban working on it.
Dredd was a seriously excellent action movie that really captured the spirit of the comics
I’d finance a historical movie about the Soviet invasion of Central Europe in 1944-1945. Similar to The Promise with Oscar Isaac, which introduced loads of people to the Armenian Genocide, my movie would show the reality of the Soviet invasion towards the end of WW2. Too many people, especially in the affected region, still think of the Soviets as liberators, when in fact they were even more ruthless than the Nazis.
I’d love to see an R-rated survival horror Metroid movie.
Nintendo will never let it happen but I can dream.
I want a The Magicians video game, or movie, or another show set in the same universe.
This! 👏
I’d fund the final three season of The Expanse.
And pay for the Elite Dangerous developers to better support simulators.
I’d hate Bezos a little bit less if he greenlit a season or two of the expanse to round off the last 3 books :o
His funding the middle three definitely made me hate him just a little bit less.
At this point I’d be willing to accept a movie of each of the last three books.
Maybe they’re going to wait another 20 years to make sure the actors are appropriately aged for the time skip. Think of the savings on makeup alone
Amazon/Bezos are too busy throwing money away on Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time.
are there any god rts like games in VR? That does seem like a good idea. I haven’t played anything VR so IDK anything
Not a clue. The only VR I have is PS4 and I’m not a huge fan of VR games. I just loved Black & White and since it’s pov was already that of a god, it just seemed like it would have been perfect to adapt. Plus, I think third person VR would probably get around all the weird nausea issues.
playing ball with your creature and them whipping out the village would be so awesome
Kaos season 2 to infinity
I’d fund A quality Fantasy MMO rpg so it wouldn’t ever have micro transactions and would also scrub all guides about it from the internet in an attempt to bring back community based progression instead of ‘why no meta bro?’
Mmmmmmm me likey.
GIVE ME BACK ASHERON’S CALL!!
Patron/vassal pyramid scheme experience gain system that incentivized helping out less experienced players because you got a % of their XP (at no loss to them) and their vassals, etc etc…
Back in the day when you didn’t have an online guide for everything. World was HUGE and there was no real fast travel, but there was a crazy portal network. Random portals in the middle of nowhere that would dump you out at other random parts of the map. Portals exiting dungeons randomly take you somewhere else. I had a spiral ring notebook of portal coords and sometimes to get somewhere it was 7-8 hops through a few dungeons… Or hours running across the map trying to not get janked by high level mobs or other PVP players.
That era of MMO will never live again, and it’s a damn shame.
I’d buy Magic The Gathering and just make it less greedy
TV limited series adaptations of The Culture novels. Amazon obviously made a start before giving up but they picked absolutely the wrong one to start with.
Yes Consider Phlebus is the first chronologically but a TV series where you have to replace the main character every episode does not work when you are already trying to adapt a very difficult IP. Player of Games is where you want to begin. Clear storyline, no tricky time/universe/world jumps. Spends most of the time in an Earth-esque civilization. If you can successfully adapt PoG then you can try something more challenging like Phlebus or Use of Weapons.Did the (anti)protagonist shape shift that much in Phlebas? And even then would it have been a problem for the series? Money no object after all…
Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating on the “every episode” but you’re still going to need at least three actors to play the main character, plus intermediate appearances as they transform which lasts an episode or more. It’s definitely a significant additional problem that you just don’t have to deal with if you start with one of the other books.
The other challenge if you are thinking about doing multiple books and you start with Phlebas is that the Culture are the baddies. You spend a (most) of a series presenting them as such and then flip.
Regardless of the other difficulties, Amazon can absolutely not be trusted with Consider Phlebus to do anything but make the Culture either the bad guys or ancaps.
Stargate SG-1.
Not Atlantis, with their star trek uniforms. Not Universe with their angst and jeans.
Hard, military professionals jaunting through wormholes into alien words they don’t comprehend and won’t really try to, fucking up local politics and delicate galactic power balances alike in their incessant hunt for really big fucking guns, and Baal clones.
Came here to say something similar.
A Stargate spin-off with a premise that leans away from Earth being so extremely overpowered like they were by the end of the show. Focus on feet-on-the-ground missions and exploration. Less space battles (but not none), more mysterious alien worlds.
A live-action or animated adaptation of Worm.
Pump as much money as humanly possible into the JWQS / Clear and Muddy Loss of Love animation they’re currently making.
Straight up entirely remake Borderlands 3.
A Pokemon game like Colosseum & XD, but only going up to Gen 4, I don’t really like the direction the designs went after that.
Fund a proper Pacific Rim sequel.
A high budget Bionicle game would be neat.
And, provided I can pay money for a licence or just buy the original IPs, I’d have my favorite fanfics turned into animated shows as well.
