I’ve thought about this a few times, mostly while playing RDR2. A new take on Oregon trail could work. It’s an RPG. It’s a puzzle. There could be a combat element, you could choose what your specialty is among the camp, it could be a hunting game, a survival game. How is this not a remake we’ve already gotten?
Right? They could do so much with it. Hunt and craft while on the trail, when you get to town you can trade and sell, you can run into problems in town, run into problems on the trail so there’s some combat, gather supplies throughout. They could make beautiful cut scenes of the actual travel, make it cinema-level scenes a la RDR2, make a great band of travelers a la RDR2, you could become a scoundrel a la RDR2…basically make RDR2 again but oregon trail.
Oregon Trail II for Windows 95 was amazingly detailed. You could actually change routes and end up in several other locations, and it would sometimes simulate special events for the particular route you take. For example, if you try to cross the Donner Pass in 1846 you get stuck in the snow for months.
The thing about realizing it in a 3D game engine is it’s a game about walking a thousand miles. In any implementation of Oregon Trail you see the oxen take three steps and that’s a day gone by without incident. If anything it’d be a hilarious troll to make people walk the entire length of the trail.
I’ve thought about this a few times, mostly while playing RDR2. A new take on Oregon trail could work. It’s an RPG. It’s a puzzle. There could be a combat element, you could choose what your specialty is among the camp, it could be a hunting game, a survival game. How is this not a remake we’ve already gotten?
Yeah, a modernised, simulationist attempt at the experience of travelling the Oregon trail today… Man, could be great.
Right? They could do so much with it. Hunt and craft while on the trail, when you get to town you can trade and sell, you can run into problems in town, run into problems on the trail so there’s some combat, gather supplies throughout. They could make beautiful cut scenes of the actual travel, make it cinema-level scenes a la RDR2, make a great band of travelers a la RDR2, you could become a scoundrel a la RDR2…basically make RDR2 again but oregon trail.
Oregon Trail II for Windows 95 was amazingly detailed. You could actually change routes and end up in several other locations, and it would sometimes simulate special events for the particular route you take. For example, if you try to cross the Donner Pass in 1846 you get stuck in the snow for months.
The thing about realizing it in a 3D game engine is it’s a game about walking a thousand miles. In any implementation of Oregon Trail you see the oxen take three steps and that’s a day gone by without incident. If anything it’d be a hilarious troll to make people walk the entire length of the trail.
RDR2 but it’s Oregon trail and the animations are faster and I’m in