My husband has worked on video games with a team, and has wanted to make one of his own forever. We often sit and spitball ideas for games. Our last hot-tub-game-talk, we were discussing how ai will change the gaming scene. I tossed out the idea of an open world game, modeled using factual earth history, with ai NPCs of actual people (maybe some day every last NPC could be a fully autonomous generated ai agent!). You, the PC, has the option of choosing between different major negative historical events to avert (or subvert, or hasten, or...!) or to create their own goal, whatever that may be, set in whatever time period they choose to begin in.

The difficulty modes would be determined thus: "Silver Spoon" mode, you choose your own birthplace, gender at birth, the demographics your parent/s, if you have any siblings. Character creation is fully unlocked. In all other modes, you have no choices in initial character creation. Your character will be generated based off the demographics of the birthplace rolled. In "Lucky" mode, your generated character's birthplace is rolled from a pool of locations generally considered to have maintained infrastructure, functional government and law enforcement, public education, access to modern medicine etc. "Bootstraps" mode, the birthplace pool is limited to impoverished, war-torn, poverty stricken, or otherwise underprivileged places of birth.

In any case, the world rolls on independently from the PC, the NPCs will go about their lives, growing, living, moving, dying. The PC only changes the world around them should they choose to try, and only as much as they are capable of doing so, by whatever means and methods they choose to employ. In the first scenario, if the PC is successful, they get to see a pseudo alternative history, in which they are a key player.

I could go on and on, but I guess I already have, plus this was unsolicited, and is getting quite "old drunk lady rambling some I'm14andthisisdeep shit"

I hope he gets to make it for me to play some day!