Remove one game from existence
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Duke Nukem Forever, I had more fun making jokes about it never releasing than I did playing the game.
Well said, sir! Seems like CoD is the game that gets targeted most often for this sort of thread. But apparently there are a great many people who enjoy it. Yet in spite of (dare I say, because of?) that success, there are still wonderful, different, innovative games out there to enjoy.Mr Cwtchy said:
Live and let live! Play and let be played...or something like that.
I second this one. Theme parks are being created after this game. Then there is all the merchandise and a tv show is even planned. That is a bit too much for a cell phone game.excalipoor said:
I have to say Call of Duty 4.
The previous games (especially CoD 2) were great. CoD 4 was even better...
Too bad it not only created the most (in my opinion) overrated multiplayer franchise that we have today, but also helped start the video game industry's focus on multiplayer and gray-brown shooters.
The previous games (especially CoD 2) were great. CoD 4 was even better...
Too bad it not only created the most (in my opinion) overrated multiplayer franchise that we have today, but also helped start the video game industry's focus on multiplayer and gray-brown shooters.
DmC: Devil May Cry. I don't care if it ends up a good game, that'll only make me wish it didn't exist even more. I want Devil May Cry 5 dammit, they can't just up and leave Nero unexplained.
All I know is that I didn't give a shit about MMOs before Blizzard announced theirs, so I'm inclined to say that the existing IP is the single greatest reason for their success. WoW managed to make MMOs mainstream by taking their existing fanbase with them. Plus they already had Diablo/D2 under their belt, so there's that.RyQ_TMC said:
Final Fantasy XIII
It ruined the series.
I was prepared to overlook many of the flaws in XII, but when XIII came out, I realised that the signs of Squeenix's downfall were all there.
It ruined the series.
I was prepared to overlook many of the flaws in XII, but when XIII came out, I realised that the signs of Squeenix's downfall were all there.
Goldeneye. And just like that, the console obsession with FPS games is gone. I wonder what this generation would have looked like in that world.
Rage
Just...kill it. Never have I played a game so horrible before. If I ever do see a bad game now, I think, "At least it's not Rage." ID was too full of itself and thought they could get away with this game on the coattails of its predecessors. Sheer garbage.
Just...kill it. Never have I played a game so horrible before. If I ever do see a bad game now, I think, "At least it's not Rage." ID was too full of itself and thought they could get away with this game on the coattails of its predecessors. Sheer garbage.
Daikatana
Typical "What if..." scenario.
What if Daikatana never happened?
Ion Storm excelled under Spector's leadership, not Romero's.
I'm curious how they would have done if John Romero wasn't too busy stroking his ego and sucking down funds to fuel his gloriously awful Opus.
Barring that...
Typical "What if..." scenario.
What if Daikatana never happened?
Ion Storm excelled under Spector's leadership, not Romero's.
I'm curious how they would have done if John Romero wasn't too busy stroking his ego and sucking down funds to fuel his gloriously awful Opus.
Barring that...
Nearly every change I've come to despise in shooters started with innovated with Halo, and the sick thing is that I don't think Halo is a bad game. At all. Quite the opposite, I didn't start becoming truly disgusted with Halo until Halo 2.
For all the so-called innovations Halo brought to gaming, it was also responsible (along with Half-Life 2) for shoving the "cinematic" approach to level design down our throats.
Which meant the death of level exploration, secret paths and branches. Half Life 2 had limited exploration, but Halo basically had NO exploration, with levels and elements being repeated for establishing scale (mechanically, there is a LOT of empty space in the Halo series).
Regenerating health + frequent checkpoints work as a One-Size-Fits-All method for balancing encounters, which unfortunately also subtracts any tension from the encounter because there is absolutely NOTHING at risk.
You die? So what? The game quick-loads for you.
You need to commit to using your big guns and outs to win? So what? The next encounter is guaranteed to restock you.
Granted, this means the player won't get stuck, but with good game design that is never really an issue.
I do like lowering the number of weapon slots you have to juggle, though two is a tad low (ideal number is around 4, letting the player swap out loadouts at certain points).
And I love melee attacks for all weapons; it gives the player an incentive to use weapon roles to augment their approach (Deus Ex: Human Revolution did this remarkably well, IMO).
It's just a shame that so many shooters blindly cloned Halo's formula. Wasted potential.
And it doesn't help that CoD4.x is perpetuating that trend even further, by basically cloning Halo's formula verbatim, swapping Sci-Fi for Tom Clancy, and making iron sights+scopes into a new fad.
For all the so-called innovations Halo brought to gaming, it was also responsible (along with Half-Life 2) for shoving the "cinematic" approach to level design down our throats.
Which meant the death of level exploration, secret paths and branches. Half Life 2 had limited exploration, but Halo basically had NO exploration, with levels and elements being repeated for establishing scale (mechanically, there is a LOT of empty space in the Halo series).
Regenerating health + frequent checkpoints work as a One-Size-Fits-All method for balancing encounters, which unfortunately also subtracts any tension from the encounter because there is absolutely NOTHING at risk.
You die? So what? The game quick-loads for you.
You need to commit to using your big guns and outs to win? So what? The next encounter is guaranteed to restock you.
Granted, this means the player won't get stuck, but with good game design that is never really an issue.
I do like lowering the number of weapon slots you have to juggle, though two is a tad low (ideal number is around 4, letting the player swap out loadouts at certain points).
And I love melee attacks for all weapons; it gives the player an incentive to use weapon roles to augment their approach (Deus Ex: Human Revolution did this remarkably well, IMO).
It's just a shame that so many shooters blindly cloned Halo's formula. Wasted potential.
And it doesn't help that CoD4.x is perpetuating that trend even further, by basically cloning Halo's formula verbatim, swapping Sci-Fi for Tom Clancy, and making iron sights+scopes into a new fad.
Honestly not sure what game I think shouldn't have existed, even the bad ones taught lessons about what I did and didn't like saving me from other bad games, moreover teaching the industry with each failure.
Though part of me wants to say Call of Duty as I've slowly grown a dislike for them, they are all loved and played by millions, moreover COD 4 was a great game and deserves life damnit!
Another part of me wants to say Half Life based soley on that small minority who go batshit insane everytime someone suggests it might not be the best thing in the history of gamerkind and hate anything considered by people to be superior, for example on these forums I've seen threads on 'OMGZ HOW Teh hell iz Mass Effect, Halo, COD, GTA, Battlefield better than halflife?!?!?!111oneoneone'. Yes it's a great game, but that small (small) minority of people really do piss me off. But again, Half life deserves existence as it's a great game and hell if I'm going to get pissy about a community I'd have to detonate everything popular and we'd all become hipsters and seriously fuck that idea.
Screw it, destroy the newest Prince of Persia game. I'd rather it never have existed than have to feel dirty for liking that game.
Though part of me wants to say Call of Duty as I've slowly grown a dislike for them, they are all loved and played by millions, moreover COD 4 was a great game and deserves life damnit!
Another part of me wants to say Half Life based soley on that small minority who go batshit insane everytime someone suggests it might not be the best thing in the history of gamerkind and hate anything considered by people to be superior, for example on these forums I've seen threads on 'OMGZ HOW Teh hell iz Mass Effect, Halo, COD, GTA, Battlefield better than halflife?!?!?!111oneoneone'. Yes it's a great game, but that small (small) minority of people really do piss me off. But again, Half life deserves existence as it's a great game and hell if I'm going to get pissy about a community I'd have to detonate everything popular and we'd all become hipsters and seriously fuck that idea.
Screw it, destroy the newest Prince of Persia game. I'd rather it never have existed than have to feel dirty for liking that game.
it would be Call of Duty for me, if it wernt for that game, we wouldnt have those obnoxious boys calling people fags or jews instead of just calling them stupid.
also, almost all first person shooters copy COD and its made them boring and dull as shit.
also, almost all first person shooters copy COD and its made them boring and dull as shit.