I just want to see how many people are going to write in with 'sex'.

-Nick Herman

What I'd like to see simulated? Well....you know...

-Banjax
Practicing the safest form of sex known to man since 1978

In a word? Sex.

-Vishal

I'm not feeling too inspired right now, so I'll just add to the inevitable heap of people writing in to say "sex". Ha ha. That wacky AJ.

-AJ

Agent Nich,

I think I'd like to see a Virtua Chef-like thing, like a cross between that TV show Iron Chef and the Suikoden II cooking mini-game. Instead of maracas like SdA, you would have this huge mini-kitchen console where you would prepare meals and stuff to please the judges. Uh, I don't know what the other gameplay details would be like or how developers would go about making this thing possible but oh well, it would be fun for instant bowl noodles-only people like me. Naturally, you could compete with your friends over the 'Net via modem in this undeniably over-expensive game. Then we can all have a feast! Yay! End virtual world hunger!

-- Disassociative Identity Disorder, who insists Kobun are cuteness supreme.

Hey Nich,  

If yesterday's column about cute sidekicks wierded you out, why on earth did you ask people what they'd like to see simulated in a game that's not really out now? With an audience still composed of more adolescent males than any other group, you had to know what sort of replies you'd be getting... pervert...

Personally, I don't think it's that the market hasn't seen a variety of sim games, it's that they don't come out on our shores. The Japanese have all sorts of crazy sim games. I played around with a demo disc that had some sort of cooking game on it a while back. I forget what is was called, but it was a whole lot of fun after I got past the fact that I couldn't read the instructions or what mode I was in. Basically, you had to serve customers drinks and soup as they came in, and it got trickier as you went along because the restaurant would fill up. It used both analog sticks and was pretty addictive. I'd like to see an updated version for domestic release starring Julia Childs and Emeril Lagasse. It would follow the same guidelines as the Japanese game, with whomever you choose having to prepare food fast enough for the customers. You could also challange a friend to a cook-off. An Iron Chef game would be kind of cool, too. Especially with two multitaps (assuming its on the PS2) so that you can go 4-on-4.  

Also, a simulation based on filing your tax return would be pretty cool. Like Majora's Mask, it could take place in a 72-hour time period, only you can't go back in time. You would have to journey through the depths of your closet for old reciepts and rush to the post office before midnight on the last day. It'd be educational and fun at the same time. And while we're producing educational games, we ought to make one called "How to Punch Your Ballot Correctly", where players would have to go through tricky mazes and solve lots of puzzles in order to find the right punch hole for the candidate of their choice. All Floridians recieve a free copy in the mail (I can't believe I live down here...).  

Oh, and Quina Quen is damn cool, Pikachu is cuter than Raichu because it's smaller and has a sqeakier voice, and I consider brussel sprouts, portable toilets (the kind they put at fairs and construction sites), and Rosanne Barr to be disgusting, not that you asked or anything.  

-CTZanderman, twitching until he can get back to college and leave his insane family behind.  

Mr. Nich-guy,

What I want to see simulated is...wait for it... life. The SIMs was crap, but it did an ok job. Gimme a game where I can play console/PC games in the game, the little things like that. This would save all us super junkies from actually having to have a real life to any extent, besides hourly infusions of caffine and synthesized food, with a bi-hourly quick trip to the bathroom during loading times. A friend of mind last year had a wonderous idea. A game where you play the role of an actual assassian and have to follow the same guildlines. You go to a place, get info, make contact, study yer target, then kill them in a horrific and varying way before moving on. Mabe you posion his chinese takeout, or cut his breaklines, but something with as many possibilites as in real life (his idea not mine, though I like it). Huge possibilities to be used or not used at your own discretion. Sounds cool.

-Efrate

Nietzsche,

I think the answer as to what we'd find disgusting is pretty obvious.

The Ubercute. You know how many Pokémon and Chu-Chuesque entries would be on that list if you were to ask that question?

As for what I'd like to see simulated... Virtua Mime! Mime Mime Revolution! Mimania! Samba de Amima!

I am so freaking high on egg nog right now.

~Ian P.

Nich, you crazy son-of-a-gun,

The absolut coolest thing I have ever want was a VR RPG/Fighter. Kinda like Quest mode on some fighting games out there. You would be able to hold a sensor bar and use it as a sword/staff/wand/whatever to slice and dice your opponent. And since he/she's not goint to take you swinging that his/her way s/he will attempt to lay the smack down on your arse.

I can see it now the life-or-death duels, the merry swashbuckling, and intracate swordplay. Oh, the glory!! To be able to do more with you sword than "attack", to fence, to swipe, slash, perry, thrust, and charge! Oh what a glorious game, rendered in a fully three-dimensional world!! To be able to walk up to some punk on the street of RPGville and force him/her to draw steel and fight. The skills, not the stats would triumph, ohhhh the sweet, rapturous glory!!!!!!!!

Rayeth, still deaming of that day.....