If you could delete one game forever, what would it be?
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*reads your rules
Never mind. I would want Postal deleted forever but I haven't played it and it has a sequel so deleting it would do nothing. Why would deleting a game not delete its remake? Can we just make up the rules as we go, like "I only want this game deleted from this franchise" or "Game X but not its remake because the remake was good"?
Assuming I ignore your rules, I want Postal deleted because its always the go to example for "them vidya games is turrible!". What you do in the game is the most idiotic, juvenile, shit I've heard. It sounds like the type of thing that would only exist as a half-life mod made a deranged high school kid
*reads your rules
Never mind. I would want Postal deleted forever but I haven't played it and it has a sequel so deleting it would do nothing. Why would deleting a game not delete its remake? Can we just make up the rules as we go, like "I only want this game deleted from this franchise" or "Game X but not its remake because the remake was good"?
Assuming I ignore your rules, I want Postal deleted because its always the go to example for "them vidya games is turrible!". What you do in the game is the most idiotic, juvenile, shit I've heard. It sounds like the type of thing that would only exist as a half-life mod made a deranged high school kid
I would say delete Minecraft because of the countless hours I wasted on it, but it led me to make my own texture pack and generally get my first introduction to modding. Not sure if any of that is ever going to be useful to me, but we'll see.
Oh, I've got it. I'd delete Borderlands. The sequel was great, but the first one ended with 'tentacles and disappointment', leaving me feeling as though I'd just wasted something like 100 hours of my time. It probably would have been better with friends, but so would most aspects of my life.
Oh, I've got it. I'd delete Borderlands. The sequel was great, but the first one ended with 'tentacles and disappointment', leaving me feeling as though I'd just wasted something like 100 hours of my time. It probably would have been better with friends, but so would most aspects of my life.
Baron von Blitztank said:I suppose out of all the games out there, there is one in particular that I would like to see erased...
Just to fuck with some heads!
The graphics are crap. The colors are muted and the design is so boring. Its all brown and gray, you think the devs could have sprung for a bigger color pallet. The gameplay isn't any better. It practically takes years of grinding to get anywhere and it takes forever to finish the tutorial and pick your classLetalisK said:
Damn, I could do this all day
Mirror's edge, because anita is working on the sequ- ok I'm kidding, just a slight bit of friendly trolling
No if I had to give a game that needs to never exist, Sonic 06, I played it on a dare from a friend....ugh....just ugh, do I need to explain why it needs to die
No if I had to give a game that needs to never exist, Sonic 06, I played it on a dare from a friend....ugh....just ugh, do I need to explain why it needs to die
Since I'm a good sport I'll chime in with getting rid of fable 3. Whilst the graphics were okay and the story was okay. It needed way more time to get developed it was way too short and it needed more weapons.
To the people saying no deletion of games If it's deleted it would never become their favorite game in the first place and they would find another to love. That is depending on whether deletion from existence entails memory as well because that is one of the parts that would make your argument.
To the people saying no deletion of games If it's deleted it would never become their favorite game in the first place and they would find another to love. That is depending on whether deletion from existence entails memory as well because that is one of the parts that would make your argument.
I and whomever else with like answers did the exact same thing everyone else is doing, that isn't quoting or being quoted. Pop in, say our answer and leave. Possibly refresh every so often to see what other people said. No different than what anyone else did.ccdohl said:
The question, however, was what we would erase if we had the option to erase any one game. He wasn't asking us what games we dislike or what we wish were never made. If the OP wanted to know what I disliked or wished was never made, he should've asked that, instead.
Spider-Man 3. I couldn't even play long enough to play as the Green Goblin which would probably have been just as disappointing. Almost every other Spider-Man game was good to fantastic, but three...three was dropped on it's head when it was an alpha.
The problem is that I need to come up with a game that doesn't have sequels that sent the industry careening down a path that I didn't much care for. It's pretty clear that gaming has diverged from my own tastes pretty substantially. It's sad when I can pick up an issue of Game Informer (yeah, yeah, it's crap, I hear you), and only really be intrigued by one or two games in the issue, almost none of which are actually the featured game.
Part of me wants to get rid of Final Fantasy VII, not because it was a bad game, but because of what the long-term effects have been on the RPG genre as a whole. But the same effect would have been wrought with FFVIII, so it's useless. A similar effect occurs with Grand Theft Auto III. Games that had strong effects on the market are typically not one-hit wonders, so they stick around, and games that weren't very successful were just that, and don't have the sort of influence on the market to make it worth deleting them, especially in the case of games that are just awful.
We could delete those CD-i Zelda games... but those don't exist. I don't even know where that idea came from.
Actually, let's go with FFVII. I can imagine an alternative history where SquareSoft doesn't pursue their CG-laden vision, and still produce games for the N64, keeping Nintendo's profile sky-high and dooming Sony's initial bid in the market, and perhaps even keeping Sega as a hardware manufacturer alive. The subsequent games just end up on a different platform, and maybe, just maybe, S-E focuses more on gameplay than the budget.
Or we could just delete Big Rigs, or Drake of the 99 Dragons, or Superman 64.
Part of me wants to get rid of Final Fantasy VII, not because it was a bad game, but because of what the long-term effects have been on the RPG genre as a whole. But the same effect would have been wrought with FFVIII, so it's useless. A similar effect occurs with Grand Theft Auto III. Games that had strong effects on the market are typically not one-hit wonders, so they stick around, and games that weren't very successful were just that, and don't have the sort of influence on the market to make it worth deleting them, especially in the case of games that are just awful.
We could delete those CD-i Zelda games... but those don't exist. I don't even know where that idea came from.
Actually, let's go with FFVII. I can imagine an alternative history where SquareSoft doesn't pursue their CG-laden vision, and still produce games for the N64, keeping Nintendo's profile sky-high and dooming Sony's initial bid in the market, and perhaps even keeping Sega as a hardware manufacturer alive. The subsequent games just end up on a different platform, and maybe, just maybe, S-E focuses more on gameplay than the budget.
Or we could just delete Big Rigs, or Drake of the 99 Dragons, or Superman 64.
Isn't there one game you know of that doesn't have a right to exist?Racecarlock said:
I believe that you can learn things even from shitty games, but New Super Mario Bros. U has nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to offer ANYBODY that 8 other Mario games didn't already offer.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
This loathsome pile of garbage is the single canonical stain on an otherwise fantastic series.
Repetitive gameplay using a control scheme unfit for the hardware and a micro-managing mechanic which didn't work very well.
A plot that plodded at sub-snail pace, focusing on a brand-new character rather than the actual protagonist, needlessly complicating the terms of the protagonist's existence/abilities and altogether missing an obvious opportunity to flesh out the many pre-existing characters who were even given fully-playable status for the Mission Mode.
Days is a huge missed opportunity, a boring narrative which teeters on the border between canon and filler... and the gameplay couldn't even try to be fun.
This loathsome pile of garbage is the single canonical stain on an otherwise fantastic series.
Repetitive gameplay using a control scheme unfit for the hardware and a micro-managing mechanic which didn't work very well.
A plot that plodded at sub-snail pace, focusing on a brand-new character rather than the actual protagonist, needlessly complicating the terms of the protagonist's existence/abilities and altogether missing an obvious opportunity to flesh out the many pre-existing characters who were even given fully-playable status for the Mission Mode.
Days is a huge missed opportunity, a boring narrative which teeters on the border between canon and filler... and the gameplay couldn't even try to be fun.
Considering that this game was one of the reasons, that the 80's video game crash occurred which almost killed video gaming. I would also delete the game from existence.Magnus Greel said:
I would say delete Halo Reach or Halo 4. Halo 3 should of been the last game of the series... At least I would only have good memories instead of bad ones with bloom, armor abilities, join in progress, camping in swordbase, crappy maps in Halo 4, etc etc.
Alright, I'm a Sonic the Hedgehog fan so there is one game I want erased from the world. And that game is:
You thought it was Sonic 06 didn't you?
What can I say, the Hedgehog's 15th Anniversary was indeed a troubling one, but while 06 was terrible this game was worse by the sheer fact that it took something good, and completely screwed it up.
What is Sonic Genesis you might ask, well SEGA decided to port of Sonic the Hedgehog 1 onto the GameBoy Advanced for Sonic's 15th Birthday, and this game was released the same day as 06. What's added to it, well the speed cap on Sonic is removed, and he can now spin dash. That's where the only 2 good things about the port end. Time to get into the terrible parts.
For one, the framerate will chug miserably on the GBA, emulators as well, in certain areas for some unknown reason. Second, the music was bit-crunched...that's right, SEGA decided to bit-crunch a game that was on the Genesis, a 16-bit console, for a handheld that could play Donkey Kong Country and was just about as powerful as a Genesis, was bit crunched. It's like when Capcom bit-crunched the Legends music when they ported the games to the PSP.
Second, the physics in the game are wonky as all can be, seemed to be a staple of Sonic's 15th Anniversary, maybe he had some sort of grudge against Newton or something. Anyway, your momentum jumps around like crazy, and you speed up when going up an incline. Yes you read that correctly, you go faster when going up a hill rather than down. Combined with the framerate issues there will be instances of you going very fast to suddenly extremely slow, and when you try to stop you still fly forward. The reason for the whacked out physics is because SEGA got lazy and literally has Sonic Genesis running of the Sonic Advance engine. For anyone who ever wants to go into game design, never just port an engine exactly over for a game than never used something like it. Want another example of whack out physics see Sonic 4 Episode 1 as that actually runs off a straight port of the Sonic Rush engine...
Worst of all, and this was something many ported games for the GBA were known for, the lovely screen crunch. The screen crunch makes certain obstacles even more deadly. You will be blind-sided by Badniks, crushers, and bosses constantly because of how bad the screen crunch is. It's especially bad in Final Zone when facing Dr. Robotnik for the final time.
Sonic Genesis needs to be wiped away for good, because while Sonic 06 was bad, it was bad from the start. While Sonic Genesis took a game that was well loved and adored, and somehow managed to ruin it for many.
You thought it was Sonic 06 didn't you?
What is Sonic Genesis you might ask, well SEGA decided to port of Sonic the Hedgehog 1 onto the GameBoy Advanced for Sonic's 15th Birthday, and this game was released the same day as 06. What's added to it, well the speed cap on Sonic is removed, and he can now spin dash. That's where the only 2 good things about the port end. Time to get into the terrible parts.
For one, the framerate will chug miserably on the GBA, emulators as well, in certain areas for some unknown reason. Second, the music was bit-crunched...that's right, SEGA decided to bit-crunch a game that was on the Genesis, a 16-bit console, for a handheld that could play Donkey Kong Country and was just about as powerful as a Genesis, was bit crunched. It's like when Capcom bit-crunched the Legends music when they ported the games to the PSP.
Second, the physics in the game are wonky as all can be, seemed to be a staple of Sonic's 15th Anniversary, maybe he had some sort of grudge against Newton or something. Anyway, your momentum jumps around like crazy, and you speed up when going up an incline. Yes you read that correctly, you go faster when going up a hill rather than down. Combined with the framerate issues there will be instances of you going very fast to suddenly extremely slow, and when you try to stop you still fly forward. The reason for the whacked out physics is because SEGA got lazy and literally has Sonic Genesis running of the Sonic Advance engine. For anyone who ever wants to go into game design, never just port an engine exactly over for a game than never used something like it. Want another example of whack out physics see Sonic 4 Episode 1 as that actually runs off a straight port of the Sonic Rush engine...
Worst of all, and this was something many ported games for the GBA were known for, the lovely screen crunch. The screen crunch makes certain obstacles even more deadly. You will be blind-sided by Badniks, crushers, and bosses constantly because of how bad the screen crunch is. It's especially bad in Final Zone when facing Dr. Robotnik for the final time.
Sonic Genesis needs to be wiped away for good, because while Sonic 06 was bad, it was bad from the start. While Sonic Genesis took a game that was well loved and adored, and somehow managed to ruin it for many.
Zelda: The Ocarina of time because I didn't get the chance to steal Christmas.
OT I can't think of any title I've played that the world could do without. Even crap games, as they show that great games really are great. For example, if more of us played Retribution Ride to Hell we might have realised Dead Space 3 was a good game in spite of some silly design choices.
OT I can't think of any title I've played that the world could do without. Even crap games, as they show that great games really are great. For example, if more of us played Retribution Ride to Hell we might have realised Dead Space 3 was a good game in spite of some silly design choices.
Tomb Raider: Anger of Darkness.
There's a reason they took a break and started the franchise over after that bomb hit.
There's a reason they took a break and started the franchise over after that bomb hit.
Hm.
If we're going at this from a greatest social good standpoint, I'd say World of Warcraft. I know people who lost jobs, who stopped eating and bathing because of that game; and while I suspect more of the blame goes to the individual than to the game, still. It would bum me out that there'd be no inspiration for Mogworld, though.
If we're going at this from a charity angle, I say Ultima 9, because with any luck the game would be replaced with a much better ending than the one it got.
...But I can't delete either of those, since the rules of the game are it can only be a game I've personally played, so, sorry, Final Fantasy X-2, your name is being erased from the Book of Life. Nothing about you was interesting or amusing, and when you can say that about a game that includes scenes of three hard-bodied girls wrestling in a spa, something has gone very wrong.
If we're going at this from a greatest social good standpoint, I'd say World of Warcraft. I know people who lost jobs, who stopped eating and bathing because of that game; and while I suspect more of the blame goes to the individual than to the game, still. It would bum me out that there'd be no inspiration for Mogworld, though.
If we're going at this from a charity angle, I say Ultima 9, because with any luck the game would be replaced with a much better ending than the one it got.
...But I can't delete either of those, since the rules of the game are it can only be a game I've personally played, so, sorry, Final Fantasy X-2, your name is being erased from the Book of Life. Nothing about you was interesting or amusing, and when you can say that about a game that includes scenes of three hard-bodied girls wrestling in a spa, something has gone very wrong.