for me its dragon ball z. i’ve always wanted a good 3d open world dbz action rpg kind of game, but it’s just never been done to its full potential. the closest we’ve gotten in my opinion is dragon ball z kakarot, which has great DBZ fighting game style fighting, and tries to incorporate it with an open world with rpg-light type features, but the world and rpg elements are just so uninspired and poorly done. they don’t really blend well with the fighting segments either, it feels like all of the ‘open world’ is more of just a 3d overworld with minigames
Yeah total war would have to be revamped to fit it. It might be more suited for a mount-and-blade type thing and the more I think about it the more I realise that would be so much radder. Imagine playing as a mercenary and working your way up like Götz of the iron hand.
There was a Fire and Sword spin off for Mount and Blade based on the book of the same name. Not the 30s years war but just after in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
dang bannerlord tactics do be looking pretty sophisticated these days. maybe it could be tooled appropriately
I think it could be doable, though the diplomacy system would need major retooling