I am honestly looking forward to an honest-to-goodness spiritual successor to Quake - thematically and mechanically, with relevant upgrades where appropriate.


And life-like VR sex games. 

 

That might be a bit specific, but in terms of:

More games that provide a good blend of old skool visceral action, dark gothic atmospheres, with modern production values and tweaks.

I think most of us would get behind that?? And yeah Quake is the prime example of that.

I forgot to add that general desire to my list. There's a fair gap between the slickly produced, good GFX, linear interactive cover shooter movie bullshit FPS, and the fast paced deliberately crude ass ugly pseudo-retro bullshit FPS. Most previous attempts to bridge the gap have failed (Painkiller - bland and arena-y, Serious Sam - badly themed hordes, Bulletstorm - cheesy naffness). And that gap should be filled with, well, spiritual successor to Quake type stuff.

Doom4 did a good job I think. I wasn't initially convinced by the "so desperate to avoid D3-style criticism feature ticklist", but really it worked well. It looked great, had some many cool vistas and scenes compared to D3, had the usual RPG-lite-lite tweaks and upgrades, but still good brutal action. OTOH it was a bit artificially arena-y and the bestiary doesn't have the same overall evileness of Quake's best monsters. But it showed a lot of potential for this genre so hopefully it will become more of a thing in the future. 

5. DLC being released honestly, suitably priced and clearly and explicitly described.

DLC has a lot of potential to be a really good thing, but also a really bad thing. I'd like there to be an unwritten rule that nothing is deliberately left out of the game, and the released game provides a full and complete experience, and that any additional DLC is just that, additional. I also think it should be kept clear where DLC adds additional features (characters / weapons etc), what DLC is purely cosmetic, and what DLC actually adds additional gameplay areas (levels / missions / etc).

So far I've rarely bought any DLC but sometimes I've seen it done in an appealling way to me. Skyrim DLCs had two full mission pack DLCs that added proper new areas, missions, story, etc etc, just like mission packs of old. And Mordheim shipped with a plenty adequate 4 races, added two more as DLC, as well as characters for each race. The Skaven felt complete "out of the box" with Assassin / Gutter Runner / Grey Seer / Black Skaven / Rat Ogre / 2 basic troops, but I also bought the Plague Wind Globadier to add extra fun, that worked fine.

Obviously the DLC shouldn't be "pay to progress" nor game-breaking....devs and pubs really need to keep that in check. 

the non-Shambler replies in this thread have been:

1) A joke reply

2) "Errr...Quake I guess."

Sounds about right lol 

It vaguely interests me. If you so-called gamers can't be arsed, whatever.