Make a bad game better with one change.

[Denamic]

DotA 2.
Ban Russian from non-Russian servers. Not the players, just the fucking language. It's a team game, so when a queue for a west European server, I don't want all of the players speaking fucking Russian. There is a Russian server. Use that.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Some of these aren't bad, but I think they could use the changes:

Mass Effect 3 - I can live with the ending, but if they wanted to make the engine "multiplayerable" and like GoW then I wish it would have been as fluid and easy to play as GoW. It feels very stiff and wonky, even compared to ME2.

L.A. Noire- make the investigations and interrogations have more depth and nuance than the stupid "truth/doubt/lie" system, and it could be my favorite game ever.

Alan Wake - Remove the Stephen King wanking and pages that spoil what's about to happen to you, and you have a great action-thriller.

Every Assassin's Creed game - Make the PC port not shit. The 360 version barely pulls 30fps and the PS3 versions are even worse, hovering around 20. I want to enjoy them but every version is technically hobbled in some way.

Most of the truly bad games I found needed a hell of a lot more than one thing changed for them to be considered good.

Ooh! I got it. Force Unleashed 2 is a bad game. The one change would be...more time in the oven or at least more length if that isn't a valid change. I can deal with the ridiculously stupid boss battles, and strong desire to be God of War, but I beat that fucker in something like 4 hours and it was glitchy throughout.

 

[StormShaun]

Call of Duty (Series): ...

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... grab a lifevest and jump to another boat, but don't bring the burning children to burn this one.

Mass Effect 3: Give us a real ending, kill the star child.

Uncharted (The series): Naughty Dog decides to make Jak 4 instead.

Saints Row 3-4: *Points at Saints Row 2* Be more like your older brother.

Beyond Two Souls: Remove David Cage ... add Jim Sterling ... with a David Cage mask.

Dragon Age (Series): Give me my dual-wielding warrior and we'll be square.

The Sims (Series): Make me a murderer!

Final Fantasy: ... I don't like Lightning, I mean I love lighting THE element, but not lightning the character.

Neverwinter Nights (series): Make another one!

Myself: Less complaining.

There we go.

 

[IceForce]

I like how half of these suggestions basically amount to, "SPEND ANOTHER 6 MONTHS OF MANPOWER TO FINISH THE GAME"

There's nothing wrong with that though.

If a game needs more polish and isn't ready for release, it shouldn't be released.

 

[keiji_Maeda]

Mass effect 3. Give the developers the time they needed to actually get in something good.
Make that most post-EA bioware games.

This guy/gal right here got it in one.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Dark Souls: Oh. Shit. Can't improve this game because it's pretty much perfect.

Fix the PC version so that you don't have to sign into multiple Microsoft websites just to save the game! This kind of DRM crap is exactly what makes piracy thrive!

It's going to be an agonising wait for GFWL to be patched out, isn't it?

I worry that it won't happen due to From Software lacking PC development experience, but it's only GFWL, it's not like Steamworks integration, right?

...right?

 

[Pink Gregory]

Alan Wake - Remove the Stephen King wanking and pages that spoil what's about to happen to you, and you have a great action-thriller.

Or at least make them more ambiguous/well written. You leave with the impression that, wow, Alan Wake is a terrible writer. Inelegant prose and no suspense. That's hardly Stephen King, now, is it?

 

[Ishigami]

The Last Remnant: Have a fixed set of actions aviable during combat instead of the random stuff.

 

[GundamSentinel]

OT: Far Cry 3 - Make Jason Brody likable and believable. I still despise that fucking prick.

Oh yes. I loved everything about Far Cry 3. Except Jason. He was such a douchebag. I really have no other word for him. I suppose that him being a douchebag could fit within the premise of the story, but I could not take him seriously as the protagonist.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

Final Fantasy 13- A story that makes sense. Stop making up gibberish names for everything and adding a ton of confusing information, then contradicting half of it later in the story.

Or

A traditional combat/leveling system. I want to control everyone I field, and I want to control how they develop. Stop railroading me into preset builds and single character action.

Square Enix, if your design team has such a fraking hard-on for Devil May Cry, give them a new series to work on, I'm tired of DMC getting shoehorned into my Final Fantasy.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Risen 2 - Give it the same dodging mechanic that the first Risen had. So many problems with combat would be fixed by this.

 

[Fireaxe]

Also, I would say take Deus Ex: Human Revolution, remove the nonsensical unavoidable boss combat sequences. Put whatever moron came up with that in front of a firing squad and have the inquisition hunt and burn all his works, then nuke the third-party company that implemented the idea, just to be sure.

The actual combat sequences themselves are fine -- quite decent even, but they really don't belong in a Deus Ex game.

 

[Bombiz]

Errr, I have some ideas for the opposite actually. Make some good games way better with one change.

Spelunky: Let me pan out, control the camera and see the entire level, and then pan back to the auto-follow camera. Often times in this game you are killed by something that occurs off-screen (arrow trap, leaping scorpion, Thwomps).

Minecraft: AoE tools/AoE placement of blocks. Nuff said.

Skyrim: Remove that stupid kill-cam that takes control away from you and slows the pace of the game. V.A.T.S. was fun because the PLAYER had control over when they wanted to use it. Skyrim's kill-cam is randomly occuring.

Guild Wars 2: Make the game less punishing. I stopped playing before I even got to level 10, because I died so much.

Dark Souls: Oh. Shit. Can't improve this game because it's pretty much perfect.

MMORPGs in General, but also specifically WoW: Stop forcing me to pick only 2 professions. Geezus. I get it, you don't want uber-duber hardcores controlling the 'markets', but that happens ANYWAY, because those players are fucking HARDCORE. You can't stop them. If they want 1,000,000 gold, they'll have it. In a week. Let us play around with all of the professions so we can make our own shit. The people who would be fine dumping gold for stuff (for whatever reason, lack of time etc.) will still do just that.

I could probably do this with all of my beloved games. But I'll stop here.

edit: By the way, I realize Dark Souls is right below my GW2 punishing sentence, and that may seem hypocritical. It would, if I considered Dark Souls to be punishing, which I don't.

i'm pretty sure that there's a mod that does that. in fact let me look for some.

here they are
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=9299
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33/?

i think you should find those mods to your liking. have fun