Remove one feature from an excellent game to make it awful

[zombiestrangler]

Saints Row 2: No driving planes, boats, choppers, or automobiles. You have to run EVERYWHERE.

 

[Kunzer]

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

The result of such an action would be WH40k Space Marine. Or at least, something pretty close.

lol

 

[emeraldrafael]

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!

I'll follow up on this and instead give you only one persona that becomes unleashed and no party to go with. Once you hit the shadow that is immune or worse absorbs your respective element, you're pretty much screwed.

Also without social links you cant access the most powerful persona in the arcana so that alone would make it terrible one you played the game with the armegheddon attack.

EDIT: also, remove either the ghosts or the dots taht let you eat the ghosts from pac man.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Remove time travel from Chrono Trigger. It becomes, then, just like any other fantasy RPG.

Remove camouflage from Metal Gear Solid and it's a plain shooter.

Remove difficulty from Catherine and -- oh wait, it becomes better if you do that.

 

[thatguy1]

Driver San Francisco: Remove Shift.
The one incredibly original, weird, feature that makes the game unique and incredible.

 

[Austin Howe]

Junctioning in FFVIII. Drawing spells alone would be a *****.

 

[Insanity72]

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

What do you mean the removed horde from GoW2?

 

[Dratis]

Gears of War - The Ability to shoot back

 

[NeoShinGundam]

The Hyper Combo Meter from [Ultimate] Marvel vs. Capcom 3. That would also remove things like Snap Backs and Crossover Combos.

 

[Uzbekistan]

Graphics.

Having everything lag every other second.

 

[FoolKiller]

Waist high walls in Gears of War. Its now called BRB... Bullet Riddled Body

 

[Arrogancy]

Take the intrigue out of bioshock and what do you get? Nothing worth playing.

 

[Tselis]

The highly stylized look that the Shin Megami Tensai games have. It adds a great deal to the atmosphere, and environment. The look of everything helps to tell part of the story without words. Without the games would only be partially sensible and only a pseudo mind-fuck. Nocturne and Digital Devil were particularly needing this context. Also, the ability to 'capture' monsters and combine them into more powerful monsters that would fight for you. Many of the boss fights wouldn't have been win-able without that.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Jumping from Mario

Wow! That's brutal.

OT: The speed-base for FFX's turn-based combat. Unlike Golden Sun, which is pretty much built around an attack per turn formula, the viability of a fair chunk of builds (and therefore battles) are about being able to out-speed your opponent (trading single powerful blows for frequent, weaker ones). I mean, can you imagine fighting some of those bosses if it was strictly 1 attack per turn? Sure, Aeon overdrives would absolutely own everything, but apart from that you'd lose most of your advantage.

 

[GamerKT]

Boost (ARS) from Vanquish.

 

[xvbones]

Remove the RPG elements from Fallout 3.

Remove the destruction physics from Red Faction: Guerrilla

Remove the ability to lift or place blocks in Minecraft.

 

[A Weary Exile]

L4D2 - Cooperative play.

 

[Maximum_Power_Cheese_Supreme]

Team Fortress 2: Remove the button that allows you (as the Spy) to instantly re-disguise yourself as your previous disguise. (the "b" key, but I bind it to Mouse4 on my G7)... still it would actually make Your Eternal Reward a useful weapon for once.