For me, Westerns would be interesting only if there''s more to it than gunfights and horseriding.

I''d love to see the social issues of that time prominently displayed. For example, I loved the movies Geronimo and High Noon. Geronimo for the integrity and nobility of the Captain who admired the Apache people, and High Noon for the troubling question it asked about facing one''s fear and having to face the music all by yourself.

If it''s just riding a horse, guns blazing at the nearest desperado/indian, then it''s no different than any other mindless shooter that''s out now. However, it would at least be interesting in the sense that I''d like to see a FPS game in which the player only has weapons that fire very slowly and take forever to reload.

Also, I''ve just thought of this now...why stick to the classical western time frame of post Civil War to the 1890''s? Why not a Lewis and Clark era expedition? Why not cover some of the other famous "mountain men" that trailblazed a way out west? How about a story set in the Mexican-American war (I''m sure people would love to play in the Alamo). Heck you could even have a El Zorro style game in which you play a noble Don trying to protect the poor peasants from more cruel Don''s.

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If it''s just riding a horse, guns blazing at the nearest desperado/indian...

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Not just riding a horse as in piloting a vehicle - but rather an evolving two way partnership between player and an NPC which has numerous individual traits, and plays off of your skills to achieve the effective and growing relationship as in the real life relationship between man and animal.

I''m not going to drag this out and read every post here. It''s really simple.

Nobody makes western games because the number of people actually interested in the wild west is very, very small. Even then, that number is largely among those who are largely computer illiterate, over the age of 60 and are not interested in games usually.

In other words, there is no reason to make westerns. They might sound interesting, but the storylines are about as varied as the western movies from the 50s and 60s were... not very.

I havnt read the rest of the posts, because im pretty lazy. However there is one western game that I can think of, and its frikin awesome. Its called OUTLAWS by LucasArts. Its a FPS but not quite 3d like quake, its more like doom or duke3d. (I think ID calls that 2.5d) anyway the soundtrack alone is worth the 8 bucks it cost me at the used store. Its really a fun game. Its a welcome change to unreal tournament (and just about every other game these days), where you can get shot in the face 3 times with a rocket launcher before you die. In OUTLAWS, you can get shot once, twice, maybe three times if your lucky, but thats it. It makes for a lot of sneaking around and playing it safe, rather than barging in guns a blaze. I really enjoyed this game and I wish they would do a 3d remake of it so i could use my mouse and keyboard, because the old duke3d style games are hard as hell to control.

- Mad Dog Mcgee I & II
- Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
- Daydreamer Dave had a whole level set in the old west.
- Bill & Tedd''s Excellent Adventure had a billy the kid level.
- Sega had that Dragon''s Lair Style holographic game with a cowboy.
- Lethal Enforcers II
- Outlaws by Lucas Arts
- I know there was a side scrollor involving the west, but for the life of me, I can''t remember it... I think it is Outlaw Riders or something equally silly.

Sunset Riders... I think that''s what you''re thinking of... one of my favorite games...

Guess you could always play, The Oregon Trail!

You usually won't make much money in a fab-driven market with a flock mentality unless you get in real early on each fab.

Westerns have fallen out of most developer's perspectives right now, so someone who can give the genre a new twist might have a game equivalent of Dances With Wolves (the no 46 top grossing movie, worldwide) on his hands.

[edited by - HenryAPe on December 1, 2003 6:51:36 AM]

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Sunset Riders... I think that's what you're thinking of... one of my favorite games...

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That's it! That was a solid platform game. The console ports for sega genesis were frustrating though.

If you beat it on easy or normal, you'd get a message, "Try a harder level". Hard was insainly hard.



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[edited by - dede on December 1, 2003 1:02:52 PM]

It is agreed! There has atleast been one good western game... SUNSET RIDERS.

It was great... You had to fight the outlaws, run on the backs of stampeding bulls... genious...

Uberness...