Final Fantasy: My life as a King.
Anyone who's played it will likely say it's unique, but surely there is some sort of similar game out there? For those that have not played it, it's not a typical tycoon game at all. You actually play as a character, which you have to walk around your city in a 3rd person view at all times to build/interact/etc, and send your citizens on quests to eventually beat the game, level up your citizens, etc. That is the part of the game I'm wanting something similar to. A 3rd person game where you build a city/kingdom/town/whatever as you walk around it. This instantly rules out Simcity, Cities XL, Tropico, and any other game where it's just a straight up city builder sandbox.
I found that Majesty lets you assign quests to your citizens in a very My Life as a King way, and I did enjoy that game a lot, but the fact it's not a third-person game where you control one character really kind of made me get bored, but it is by a long shot the closest game I've found so far. That's not good, as it's really not very similar.
It can be for any system, all I ask is that it be a 3D game (not 3DS 3D, I just mean not sprite based).
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the city building aspects of Dark Cloud 1 and 2 are indeed very similar to what I'm looking for, but they have a major problem: it's maybe 10% of the game at the most. The rest is just mediocre cliche action RPG. Some sort of a game that's comprised only of the building aspects of DK1 and 2 would work as well.
EDIT 2: Minecraft would be pretty much what I'm looking for, but the problem with that game is that there is absolutely no point/objective to it. Like MLAAK, DK1 and 2, and Majesty games, I need some sort of major overall objective.
Anyone who's played it will likely say it's unique, but surely there is some sort of similar game out there? For those that have not played it, it's not a typical tycoon game at all. You actually play as a character, which you have to walk around your city in a 3rd person view at all times to build/interact/etc, and send your citizens on quests to eventually beat the game, level up your citizens, etc. That is the part of the game I'm wanting something similar to. A 3rd person game where you build a city/kingdom/town/whatever as you walk around it. This instantly rules out Simcity, Cities XL, Tropico, and any other game where it's just a straight up city builder sandbox.
I found that Majesty lets you assign quests to your citizens in a very My Life as a King way, and I did enjoy that game a lot, but the fact it's not a third-person game where you control one character really kind of made me get bored, but it is by a long shot the closest game I've found so far. That's not good, as it's really not very similar.
It can be for any system, all I ask is that it be a 3D game (not 3DS 3D, I just mean not sprite based).
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the city building aspects of Dark Cloud 1 and 2 are indeed very similar to what I'm looking for, but they have a major problem: it's maybe 10% of the game at the most. The rest is just mediocre cliche action RPG. Some sort of a game that's comprised only of the building aspects of DK1 and 2 would work as well.
EDIT 2: Minecraft would be pretty much what I'm looking for, but the problem with that game is that there is absolutely no point/objective to it. Like MLAAK, DK1 and 2, and Majesty games, I need some sort of major overall objective.
