Remove one feature from an excellent game to make it awful

[Jacob Haggarty]

Pokemon: pokeballs of all sorts. Resorting to having to catch them with nets and traps, the good ol' fashioned way.

Batman arkham asylum/city: Batman. Enough said.

Call of duty: Ammunition.

Guitar hero: Colour.

Bioshock: Windows.

 

[Veldel]

Fallout - Humour.
Its a satirical deconstruction of mid 20th century ideas of the future with a whole bunch of cultural references and a healthy dose of fatalism. Take out the humour and its a deconstruction of mid 20th century ideas of the future designed to inspire wrist slitting.

The older Fallouts where not really funny for stuff i mean you can mow down children in them XD


On Topic: Dynasty/Samurai Warriors the removal of Peons

 

[imnot]

All the cover from gears of war, all of it.

 

[Kjakings]

Tribes (2). The Jetpacks.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Mass Effect: both games, remove the dialogue system.

 

[cryogeist]

Horde from Gow2...oh wait...Epic already did that -_-

the Guns from BF halo and CoD.

 

[Areani]

Portal. The portals. Oh man.

I'd say that if you removed the portals and it was a puzzle game by some other means, glados, the plot and humour alone would still make it an awesome game. On the other hand if you removed glados or the humour from the game then it would be little more than a tech demo for the portal gun.

 

[Johnnydillinger]

The Force Unleashed - remove the Star Wars setting. Then I'd love to see how many people would like it.

System Shock 2 - remove the inventory (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)

Final Fantasy series - remove the open world, not just silly-girl-mode like XIII did for the most part of the game, but completely.

I Wanna Be The Guy - remove the checkpoints. I mean, Fuck. That.

Deadly Premonition - remove York.

Prince Of Persia Sands trilogy - hehehe, no time rewinds?

 

[Tharwen]

Far Cry 2 - Gun jamming OH NO WAIT THAT WOULD MAKE IT GOOD

OK, erm... Angry Birds - Gravity

Oh! Oh! Another one! Killing Floor - Those beautiful voiceovers.

It's like Croydon on a Friday night!

 

[Xprimentyl]

Agility orbs from The Crackdown.

 

[supermariner]

Interesting thread actually
hmm let's see

The vehicles from Mercenaries 2 (and yes, as crazy as I sound, I consider the vehicle based gameplay in M2 to be really fun)

 

[dimensional]

The music from any rhythm action game like rez or parappa or guitar hero and rockband. Also special moves from fighting games and humour from monkey island.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Hmm the Social Links from Persona 4... No that wouldn't ruin it exactly just make it a lot more grindy... Wait what would happen to all the characters?! Without the Social Links there'd be no reason for most of them to exist! GAH RUINED!

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

The difficult bosses in Final Fantasy X. If they could all be killed by simply attacking them, the whole game would be long and tedious.

 

[DanielBrown]

Any driving games; removing the gas pedal.

Enjoy your game!

 

[Deus mortuus est]

Any game: The code.
Would make it pretty a pretty miserable gaming experience.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

The ball in pong

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Putting in Japanese dialogue(No english subs nothin') to a bethesda game...

With the terrible voice acting in Oblivion I think this might actually improve the game!

OT:

Alan Wake - The light mechanic.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The boss battles... no wait... LOL not really. The Augmentations.
Assassin's Creed - The free running.
Metal Gear Solid - The cutscenes!