But mirrors edge was really quite different.

Dont forget that you will have advanced players and rambo’s, i picked my words carefully and said : “1 Command your squad in battle and control one of em to join thefight.” With which i ment : You control one of the soldiers.

An even more interesting part would be multiple squads in the same team. like, 4 vs 4 players? with each a squad of 5 to 50 men. player one could be like a sniper team, with 2 scouts and 1 medic, 1 engineer and 1 machine gunner ? and player too would go massive idiotic grunts, like, 30 bots ? and just command them.

Those things should make an 2d sidescrolling RTS interesting.

You still get your guys to do what you want em to do, and you can decide by yourself how many men you would pick etcetc, but this also adds an dimension of teamwork.

team-based matches of clans with players specialized in different roles, like the hacking system i spoke off;

plyr #1 would have insane hacking skills, having a squad of 5 engineers/hackers to build sentries and hack doors and cameras.

plyr #2 would go spec-ops, stealth suiting his men and directing snipers and support

plyr #3 would go grunting, lots of infantry.

plyr #4 would go mech’s & vehicles.

This is the full-scale-war RTS you were talking about at the very beginning of this blog. The only different thing is, you wanted to let 1 player control every aspect of it.

( dont forget i had beer mkay ? )

archont: The human mind won’t change fast, so we won’t see games based on, say, completely different mechanics.
Yes that’s my point. And you are right that the commercial games are actually going backwards.

TLD: I’d very much like to have a complex part in the game like super-micro-managment of bot tactics and inventory cause in the long-term it would keep players like me who like that sort of stuff. But on the other hand players can’t be forced to do that sort of stuff if they just want to join and have a quick fight.

FinDude: haha awesome :). If they are illegal then I’ll become rich like a narcotics king.

Gnoblar: mirrors edge was totally new and awesome, sane (to a degree) with assassins creed.
Prince of Persia 1989?

Look at DICE, mirrors edge was totally new and awesome, sane (to a degree) with assassins creed.

We’ll get fresher games.

At least until infinity ward takes over the universe.