I mean, if you want to make a fictionalized version of the Buddy Cianci story, sure?
edit: Wait, shit, I'd play that...
edit: Wait, shit, I'd play that...
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Lovecraft inspired open world set in the 30s, or Life is Strange like graphic adventure, or a Block Island silenthill.
Only themes I can think of.
Only themes I can think of.
Make a game where you play as native and you fight against imperialist America trying to take your island away. Death to the Haoles!
Rhode Island is a cool state that actually has a lot of history behind it.
- A lot of pirates lived here, Jamestown and Newport were busting seaport towns.
- H.P Lovecraft, Author and virulent racist who created the Cthulhu mythos was from here.
- Roger Williams was the states founder who was kicked out of Massachusetts for being too radical. He thought that people should have freedom of religion and separation of church and state. In 1636.
- RI was the first colony to say "Hey England, Fuck off!"
- The first water powered textile mills in the country were started here.
- The first indoor-malls were in RI.
- And, even though its incredibly sad we even have this in America, RI was the first state to enact a "Homeless Bill of Rights" that wouldn't allow discrimination over housing status.
Malta is better. It's smaller than Rhode Island too. And it's actually interesting.
It's also actually an island. Rhode Island is a fraud.
It's also actually an island. Rhode Island is a fraud.
What isn't?
I can't hate Rhode Island. It has the Nordic Lodge. The greatest all-you-can-eat buffet in the world.
Jesus christ this map really shows how tiny Malta is. I knew it was small, but that shit is smaller than Montreal? Wat?Malta is better. It's smaller than Rhode Island too. And it's actually interesting.
It's also actually an island. Rhode Island is a fraud.
It could be like Fargo (movie and show). They pretend all that crazy stuff happened as a joke with the disclaimer.
There is a Frank Pepe there. That has to count for something.
Open world racing, but I believe the map in Fuel is as big as Connecticut.
You think RDR2 didn't use to procedural techniques for its open-world? All open-wolrds used it to some extent for assets placement.
Yeah, it would feel small in that video game way where the size is just representative of a bigger place narratively but no, it's actually just that small.
The only time rhode island is related to games will be when Obsidian are working on "project rhode island" before it gets a proper name.
As a Rhode Islander, I definitely agree this place isn't exciting. But you can fuck off with this shit. There's plenty of culture here.
You know that's not what I mean. There's a difference between using procedural grass and daggerfall. RDR2 is mostly a handcrafted game.
That's when these awesome things called imagination and creativity happen
ITT: people are discovering that Rhode Island is the Delaware of New England.
- It took the state only until the late 2000s to ban minors from stripping professionally.
I wished I lived there, but dunno about it as a game setting. Maybe an open world Lovecraft horror game?
i think the point is "i can take an already interesting setting and use my imagination to fill it with more cool stuff" over "i can take a setting barely anyone care to fill with cool stuff"
Then why set it in RI? If you want to use it only as a geographical/geometric basis, then sure. But you really framed it like a 1:1 digital RI recreation would be a good game without any further clarification.
This thread is amazing by the way.
I think you grossly overestimate the scale of most open world games and grossly underestimate the scale of even "small" Rhode Island.
For $11.99.
I give you... Nebraska. (Please dear god SCS, bundle that shit w/ both Dakotas.)
Yeah I could kind of see this after reading Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh which about half the book is when she lived in RI as a teen.
Dead.
Just for kicks I'm going to think of a few:
-Racing sim where you commute from some
small, underprepared, overvalued suburb in Mass to your job in Providence. In the higher difficulties every NPC is a senior collecting multiple pensions who still drives a 30-45 year old sedan. They have no peripheral vision.
-Ace Attorney clone where you get to cook spaghetti and incarcerate the mayor.
-Point and click historical drama where you enjoy Newport before property taxes.
-Tennis. Except it's smaller.
But in all honesty, just from hearing the stories my family talks about, there was a serious organized crime presence from the 1990s and prior. If the Mafia franchise wanted to branch out to another city that wasn't based on NY like they did in Mafia III, RI has some potential.
I don't know, I just think it would be cool. I don't think it would automatically make for a good game, it would just be a unique setting.
The doom of the two Chinatowns could be an interesting historical setting.
I think RI would make a great setting for a hippie, or gloomy, or less traditionally masculine video game.
Plus RI has a great art scene and one of the best art schools in the country. And with Brown and Thayer St, the college hill has its share of weirdos.
I think RI would make a great setting for a hippie, or gloomy, or less traditionally masculine video game.