Remove one game from existence

[snekadid]

Definitely Metroid: Other M, along with any ideas to make it the new direction for the series.

THIS! It added nothing to gaming, the controls were terrible, the story was garbage and it assassinated the reputation of gaming's strongest female lead and creating possibly the strongest example for sexism in video games.

This game needs to be removed from existence 5 minutes after Team Ninja's 2 week waterboarding session for perpetrating such a crime.

Theres alot of bad games out there but this one was purely destructive.

 

[Oly J]

I'd probably say Duke Nukem Forever, it just seemed better when it was still just a joke in development hell

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, one of the most vile things to ever touch the Star Wars brand and -that- is saying something.

 

[BytByte]

I'd pick Starcraft to see how competitive gaming evolved, hopefully with less RTS.

 

[Danoloto]

i see your Golden Eye,

and raise you Wolfenstien 3D

FPS's don't even GET to exists

Technically if you're going that route you would need to get rid of the early dungeon hack games like Alkabeth, which in turn inspired ID to create Catacomb 3D (action oriented dungon hack), which in turn led to Wolfenstein.

My choice however would probably be Diablo 3, because when all is done, the seven seal are broken, the angels sound the final horn of judgment and my life is laid bare before me, my purchase of that game will stand as a black mark damning my eternal soul to the very pits of corporate hell it was concieved in.

Witchcraft. How did you quote me, when that wasn't even what I had typed in the first place?

Also, I find playing Diablo 3 with some friends hilarious. Especially because the wizard in our group never plays games apart from the sims and rollercoaster tycoon.

My word, I typed myself into thinking what would happen when The Sims franchise would disappear. That would leave the whole casual gaming scene as we know it to day very differently.

 

[Lancer873]

I love how everyone forgot the first Modern Warfare was actually damn good and wasn't at all a gun-obsessed crying eagle of a pure "'MERICUN" game. The second one, however... Well... Even if it wasn't made, there'd still be the trend. Maybe if I could make it so that it simply sucked hard and therefore bombed in terms of sales, that'd certainly change history.

Otherwise... Hrm... I think I'd... wait a second. *puts on armor* I'd go for a Final Fantasy game, possibly FF7. Not because they weren't good games, but because I wish Japan hadn't gone overboard on the turn-based RPGs (my least favorite genre) business when they made some of the best platformers and action-RPGs (my two favorite genres) that there ever were. TBRPG has become the Japanese equivalent of the American FPS and I am not fond of that, so if I could stop that from happening you better believe I'd do it. That's just my opinion though and I know I'll get flamed to hell because of it, but there it is.

Upon further reflection, I'm unsure... It would indeed decrease the proliferation of TBRPGs, but then again it might have killed off some of Square's great Action RPGs like Legend of Mana... I guess I would've gone for FF2. Keep the success but kill the series.

Diablo. Began the real-time action RPG genre and killed off anything turn-based.

... Hello, my nemesis...
Even though we're talking two separate action-RPG genres... We should seriously call Diablo's genre "RPG-action" or just "Real-time-RPG."

 

[zehydra]

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.

Thing is, a different "Goldeneye" would have been made. It was only a matter of time.

Also, by eliminating Goldeneye, you also potentially eliminate or at least change Banjo & Kazooie

 

[RJ 17]

Ohhhh I've got one that'll really piss people off.....

Final Fantasy 9. If they cut the series off at 8 by never making a 9, none of the games made after 9 would exist either.

***** all you want, but do the math and you'll KNOW I'd be right to rid the world of every FF after 8.

And really, I would have said 8, but I let that give that one a pass as just being the START of the downhill slide for the series. My only real complaints are that the junction system made it ridiculously easy, and that pretty much every character in the game was an over-acting emo. The card game was fun, though, once you get a handle on the ridiculously complex rules...or just make it so that the entire world only plays by the rules you like.

I would have said 7 just so it'd rid the world of a lot of fanboys/fangirls. >:3

 

[Palademon]

ET for the Atari 2600.

Just because of its importance in the industries crash in 1983... sometimes I wonder what would have happened if that game was never made...

Like would Atari still be making consoles? Probably not, but its interesting to ponder haha.

I second this. It seems like the only non selfish answer.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Final Fantasy 2, so Square/Squeenix would have GONE ON TO OTHER THINGS DARNIT. (Like making that real sequel to Chrono Trigger.) Alternatively, FFVII, just to spite all the fans who are causing Squeenix to pump out endless weird extensions of that game. Why has this one game spawned so many freaking side games?

Actually, since much of the mechanics and inspiration from the subsequent Final Fantasy sequels went into making Chrono Trigger, the Chrono Trigger that you know wouldn't exist either and instead be replaced by a new beast entirely, whether for good or ill. See how hard this is?

...I have always kind of resented the idea that "Chrono Trigger is just another Final Fantasy game." But fine, I'll go with killing FFVII. Or at least whichever Final Fantasy has the stupid equip-spells-as-items system, because then maybe Chrono Cross would have had a *decent* battle system...

 

[StriderShinryu]

Other than the obvious and probably best choice of just saying "nothing" I'll personally name Ninja Gaiden 3. It disappearing from existence wouldn't really hurt or change anything outside of the fact that it's poor sales and reception have probably doomed the series' continuation at least over the short term.

Honestly, though, I'd probably just go with nothing. Even if you remove some crap licensed piece of shovelware that no one would conceivably miss, there's always the chance that the person who makes the best game ever created 20 years from now enjoyed that game or was inspired to create games because of it.

Regardless of trends in the industry, there are so many great games out these days that I can't play them all. I can just ignore the ones that don't appeal to me.

 

[Orks da best]

Well, if I could remove a game from existence. No questions asked and no wrong done. I'd kill WoW.

This game is the most harmful thing to have happened in the gaming genre. It butchered the lore of Warcraft and turned millions of people into mindless husks. WoW isn't a game. It's a place you meet up and grind indefinetly. I think people can do better than this, regardless if they like it or not. Might as well just remove the game from existance. Also, dumb corporate people always try force game-makers to make their MMO like WoW instead of creating something original. Too much money is wasted into projects that can't compete with WoW, and because of it, those studios get closed down shortly after. Why can't game companies just focus on making good managable games? Start out small and then build up the player base? Actually, maybe that's what newer companies get for being stupid in the first place.

Ah well. Guess it's a good thing WoW exists. Survival for the fittest and all that.

It's not like my friends play that dumb game to begin with so what do I really care anyway?

So I guess I wouldn't remove any game.

That is a app reason to kill wow, or remove it in this case. The damage its done to mmo genere is massive, but at the same, its home to one of two great machinima creators: Oxhorn, along with Rooster Teeth and their redvsblue series. That and the massive amounts of fanmade content, webcomics, videos, artwork, and even music videos, I like a lot of that stuff.

But the stranglehold and effect its had on the iudusty and genre cannot be ingored, but at the same time, another mmo could have done the same thing and we at the same stage, just different game and names.

The truth is that most of these games people would remove the effects of the game in question would have likely still happened, just later or with a different title.

Though that mean we still can have fun with "what I would like to remove."

For me I would do the first cod game, cut the head off the snake, also I think gamer culture could do without the steretype cod kiddie forming entirely.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Definitely Metroid: Other M, along with any ideas to make it the new direction for the series.

THIS! It added nothing to gaming, the controls were terrible, the story was garbage and it assassinated the reputation of gaming's strongest female lead and creating possibly the strongest example for sexism in video games.

This game needs to be removed from existence 5 minutes after Team Ninja's 2 week waterboarding session for perpetrating such a crime.

Theres alot of bad games out there but this one was purely destructive.

I can see where you're coming from, but why would Team Ninja be water boarded? They designed the gameplay, sure, but the characters and storyline as seen in the game were given to them by Nintendo.

 

[Absolutionis]

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.

Aye, I was going to say Halo until you beat me to the source even further.

Goldeneye showed that consoles can play FPSs very poorly. Halo was the go-to game for people with XBox Stockholm Syndrome and thus pushed the "FPSs can work on consoles (poorly)" fad.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Silent Hill Homecoming. Just get rid of it! Or Silent Hill Origins. I'm not too picky, just get rid of one of those. They had their moments and the boss fights in Homecoming were quite good but overall it felt too damn boring.

Ahh you beat me to it! The world would be that much richer if the West hadn't tried to emulate what made the originals so great.

 

[Xenowolf]

Postal. Imagine if people COULDN'T point to any game as a straight-up "murder-simulator".

Postal 1 or Postal 2?

 

[Lancer873]

ET for the Atari 2600.

Just because of its importance in the industries crash in 1983... sometimes I wonder what would have happened if that game was never made...

Like would Atari still be making consoles? Probably not, but its interesting to ponder haha.

Thing is, you'd also have to kill the Pac-man game. And also probably a few of Atari's idiotic leaders. It wasn't really the game that caused it, it was the massively excessive confidence of Atari that caused it. There inevitably would have been some other game for them to cause the crash with.

 

[TaintedSaint]

superman 64 an abomination that should not be allowed to exist

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

...I have always kind of resented the idea that "Chrono Trigger is just another Final Fantasy game."

OH! No-no-no-no-no-no-no! I love that game with a passion because of it's strides away from the Square formula, but let's be honest, every JRPG Square makes takes some ques from their work in the Final Fantasy series, so ultimately without them what we get is a different game entirely. Maybe a better game, but it won't be the Chrono Trigger we know.

That's why I like this kind of question, it's a hard choice to make if you take the big picture into consideration...

 

[snekadid]

Definitely Metroid: Other M, along with any ideas to make it the new direction for the series.

THIS! It added nothing to gaming, the controls were terrible, the story was garbage and it assassinated the reputation of gaming's strongest female lead and creating possibly the strongest example for sexism in video games.

This game needs to be removed from existence 5 minutes after Team Ninja's 2 week waterboarding session for perpetrating such a crime.

Theres alot of bad games out there but this one was purely destructive.

I can see where you're coming from, but why would Team Ninja be water boarded? They designed the gameplay, sure, but the characters and storyline as seen in the game were given to them by Nintendo.

Nintendo gave them the basis, but Team ninja developed it as the abomination it is. Metroid fusion hosted the 2 main characters if memory serves and i remember the character interactions to be both more lively and to put it crudely... didn't paint Samus as Shinji from evengalion. They picked a voice actress that sounds like she tried to kill herself with antidepressants and was then kidnapped by Team Ninja and forced to read lines.

If you still want to cling to your opinion of Nintendo is to blame rather than team ninja, I would like to point out that Nintendo threw them the ball and they ran with it, doing something incredibly stupid just because someone else tells you to doesn't mean you aren't stupid too.

I'd like to point out that from my viewpoint historically, Nintendo doesn't lock down developers creative control very much when they loan out their licences to outside offices, in comparison to certain companies<coughcoughdisney&lucasartscoughcough> and give them enough rope to hang themselves with, which means we get some bad games but we also get gems like super mario RPG.

superman 64 an abomination that should not be allowed to exist

Meh, its a horribly broken POS game, but it doesn't actually harm the industry in any way, more likely it acts as something as a warning for developers to avoid repeating. Plus its freaking hilarious watching people try to play it and has made the internet a better place.