Make One Slight Change to A Game, Make it 1000X More Awesome

[thiosk]

SPORE.

Make the game about warhammer 40k instead of stupid penis monsters. Remove the evolution parts of the game. Use the creature creator to decorate your charachters with Nurgle's gifts.

 

[talideon]

I would have to say fixing Space Wizards 3's ending, and removing the insta-kills from Banshees, Phantoms, Brutes, Praetorians, and Scions. I would also do away with thermal clips and go back to heat management as thermal clips are stupid.

Yup, though I don't think the idea of thermal clips is completely useless: they could still be used as a limited quick cooldown mechanism.

 

[ZephyriaSoul]

Also, add a counter in Dishonored that tells you DURING THE MISSION how many people you've killed. Or how many times you've been detected. When I'm going for Ghost and Clean Hands, it would be nice to know how many people have detected me while I'm DOING the mission, rather than afterwards.

 

[SilverBullets000]

A slight change?...hm...

-A skip button in Persona 4, especially for the second playthrough. First hour of the game is nothing but text. I love it, but I just want to play it sometimes.
-Challenges in Brawl get steadily harder as opposed to having an easy-normal-hard setting. Co-op is allowed, but not needed to play other challenges.
-Weapon Master Mode or a semi-competent Story Mode in Soul Calibur 4. At least 3 tried.
-Able to rechallenge trainers in Pokemon Black/White. Grining wild poke'mon is such a *****.
-The ability to pick race in DA2 and have that race come with its own stat abilities.
-The fire-jet ability in Infamous 2. Just holding R2/L2/the button that activates it allows it to be continuous as opposed to constantly hopping upward in mid-air.
-Skyward Sword can keep the new combat system, but allows it to be played via controller.
-Skyrim has a God-Mode after beating it and allows custom map creation. [sub][sub]PC gamers have all the luck with those damn mods.[/sub][/sub]
-Prey's "living weapons" have a function that allows them to talk and can be shut off.

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Take WoW, fix the broken combat system that's been haunting it since day 1. Enjoy your awesome. (Yeah I know that's not a small change, but its so obvious).

Take Bioshock, change good/evil to Civilized/Savagery (as it was it was going for) and add few tweaks to support that approach, enjoy your sense making overarching theme.

 

[Racecarlock]

Grand Theft Auto with the driver san francisco shift ability.

 

[SD-Fiend]

A slight change?...hm...

-A skip button in Persona 4, especially for the second playthrough. First hour of the game is nothing but text. I love it, but I just want to play it sometimes.
-Challenges in Brawl get steadily harder as opposed to having an easy-normal-hard setting. Co-op is allowed, but not needed to play other challenges.
-Weapon Master Mode or a semi-competent Story Mode in Soul Calibur 4. At least 3 tried.
-Able to rechallenge trainers in Pokemon Black/White. Grining wild poke'mon is such a *****.
-The ability to pick race in DA2 and have that race come with its own stat abilities.
-The fire-jet ability in Infamous 2. Just holding R2/L2/the button that activates it allows it to be continuous as opposed to constantly hopping upward in mid-air.
-Skyward Sword can keep the new combat system, but allows it to be played via controller.
-Skyrim has a God-Mode after beating it and allows custom map creation. [sub][sub]PC gamers have all the luck with those damn mods.[/sub][/sub]
-Prey's "living weapons" have a function that allows them to talk and can be shut off.

That's all I can think of right now.[/quoterhey have a skip button in persona 4 the golden. And i still wonder why they got rid of the vs seeker.

 

[Dethenger]

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Halo Reach had a racing gametype. Not quite what your were describing but it was there.

The ability to play as Batman would vastly improve many games

You're right, that Arkham Asylum game totally would have sucked if you couldn't play as Batman.

Well I certainly wouldnt have bought it if it starred Aquaman

I'd have played the shit out of Aquam Asylum.

Ahem.

In any case, take Portal guns. Put them in Mirror's Edge. [http://i.imgur.com/Fj1JJ.jpg]

 

[floppylobster]

Take Command & Conquer 4, take out EA, and put in anything else.

 

[De Bureau]

A Total War game with the character-driven political system of Crusader Kings 2.

It would be the ultimate historical strategy game.

Oh god, the El Dorado of historical strategy. I try not to think about this hypothetical game because it's too painful knowing it will never exist.

 

[Retsam19]

StarWars Battlefront 2: Put the Bespin map back in.

Ah yes. I loved the Bespin Platforms map.

And, on the subject, I've got a slight change for the original Star Wars Battlefront:
Put a 3 on the end.

 

[Signa]

Borderlands 1 ending:
Make Steele a boss fight. She was a siren, so it could have been cool. Then you get to open the vault yourself, and that's when you find the tentacle monster.

Duke Nukem Forever:
Proper 9 weapon limit, though it would help if the game wasn't so insanely average. Changing just one thing wont fix all of it

Morrowind:
Magic system that is as effective, if not more so than enchantment spamming

Oblivion:
Failure chance.

 

[Stryc9]

The Command and Conquer franchise: Take it away from EA and beat them with a rolled up newspaper until the cower in the corner like a bad puppy.

 

[Meatspinner]

Have a "skip non-gaming shit" when you are replaying a game

 

[wabbbit]

Saints Row 3: Bring back the SR2 controls for planes and helicopters
Barnstorming on SR2 was deadly, SR3... not so much.

Halo Reach/Halo 4 : Add a better last mission. (Just an epic warthog mission like 1/3)

 

[Popbangwoo]

I really think RAGE would be so much better if you were able to go back and do missions, or at least say " Hey we know you love side missions, so if you advance in the story anymore these missions will be blanked out"
As well as this, i really think the ending should at least be a little more non-sequelly. You just know that a game is a cash cow when it has such an open ending like that.

 

[NinjaSocks333]

Hmmm.

Combining Rise of Nations with a RUSE like system once you reach the Industrial (Or maybe Enlightenment + eras). That would be...

Well, it would make me fail Uni. Heh.

I know most people did not like RUSE. That is because RUSE was a pile of shite. However, if someone combined RUSE with a real strategy game, an old school game at that (I miss advancing through time periods, I miss upgrading my units from dicks with spears to dicks with assault rifles, I miss rock paper scissors medieval battles, I miss the subtle combination of strategic AND tactical combat, I fucking hate Starcraft) it would, quite frankly, be exactly what the RTS community needs and exactly the kind of game that I would be able to get 100+ hours out of (A feat no game released in the last 5 years has managed to succeed. I do not want to even think about the amount of time I spent on RON)

And I know most people do not even know what Rise of Nations is. Because it is very old, had one amazing expansion pack and its sequel was an abomination. I also know Rise of nations is dead, I know that the old school RTS model has died and been replaced with Starcraft, I know these things.

But if you took Rise of Nations, gave it a new coat of paint and a scale of warfare similar to RUSE... Or just a new coat of paint it would, in my eyes, be the best RTS on the market.

Because it is still one of the best RTS games I have ever played. With a few mods and the right game settings it is essential real time civilization with tactical battles.

Fuck it. I need to stop thinking about RON. I have reading to do and essays to write. Fuck me, being a student is horrible sometimes. And I need to stop procrastinating.

Give this man some modding tools. I want this ON THE DOUBLE!

OT: RUSE was actually pretty good. i don't know why it was so panned.

 

[purf]

Coming from a lenghty session of Guild Wars 2, here is my estimation of Tyria's age demograhics:

[small]0-6:
6-10:   █
10-15:
16-25: ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
26-35:
36-45:
46-55:
56-65:
65+:[/small]

puhlease. And, no, giving an old voice to Babyskin Dollface #4122 does not help. So, yeah, Arenanet, get to work!

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

Dark Souls: Dial down enemy damage by about 3 times.

 

[EvolutionKills]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Fix the boss fights so that they're not mandatory kill-or-be-killed circle strafe-athons, for all of the stealth/pacifist Adam Jensen's out there.

Deus Ex: Invisible War - Ditch the purple jumpsuits, nobody wears purple jumpsuits...

Far Cry 2 - A faction system similar to the 'Mercenaries' games, so that you could play one group off of the other instead of All vs You.

Far Cry 1 - Fix enemy binocular super X-ray vision, especially when combined with tower guards armed with rocket launchers...

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction - Add in swimming instead of drowning GTA3 style, and allow me to run over trees with a tank!

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Thanks for adding in swimming and destructible trees, now try to drop the Mt.Dew mentality and embrace the mellow cool aesthetic of the original.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Redo the entire main quest story line, so that you're not just the sidekick of the bastard emperor's son turned dragon avatar god-killer.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Give me a handful of charismatic NPC's that I can actually care about, a la any Bioware game ever.

Fallout 3 - Add in all of the old Fallout mechanics that they brought back in New Vegas.

Fallout: New Vegas - Well it's an Obsidian game, so like all Obsidian games: A more fleshed out ending and fix the damn bugs!

Mass Effect 3 - Need I say more?

Test Drive Unlimited 2 - Less douche-baggery with the characters, add in MOTORCYCLES! (I want my 1987 Honda VF700 Super Magna damn it!)

Borderlands 1 & 2: Fix the leveling so that at endgame, not every enemy is such a freakin' bullet sponge. Carrying twice as much ammo than at the start is mute when everyone takes 5x more ammo to kill...

Just Cause 2: Health that completely regenerates, not this ever receding pool of regenerating health that leaves you with no more than a quarter of your health bar after the first firefight.

BRINK - Female avatars (and for god's sake, make then at least remotely attractive)

Dirt 2 - Add in MOTORCYCLES!

Fable series - Give me a REASON to CARE about ANY of the random generic NPC's I'm supposed to whistle/fart/dance/threaten/laugh at...


S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series - Fix the fugly character models and animations, make guns so they're not a massive pile of ass and recoil.

Left 4 Dead 2 - Chocolate helicopters...