Remove one game from existence

[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.

 

[MBurdock]

KOTOR. Great game, but Bioware has been doing nothing but remaking it in slightly different flavors since it came out. Worse yet, the combat has become more FPS'ey and less tactical. Gross.

 

[lacktheknack]

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

Postal 1 or Postal 2?

One, thus removing all three.

 

[crazyrabbits]

In all seriousness, no game deserves to be "erased from existence". Because even if a vast majority of people didn't like a certain game, I guarantee that SOMEBODY, somewhere, enjoyed it. And who are we to deprive somebody else of enjoyment, honestly?

I would.

For a game representing the downfall of an entire franchise, I'd go with Ultima 9. I remember the backlash it received when it came out. It destroyed the endings of half the prior games, made the player character into a drooling moron, flushed any sense of goodwill the series had up to that point down the toilet and eventually resulted in the death of its developer. I can practically guarantee you that anyone you talk to about Ultima these days is more apt to relive the glory of the older games, and/or bemoan EA for destroying one of the oldest hallmark franchises of RPG gaming.

For a single game that should be banished from reality, I'd go with ET for the Atari 2600. A cash-in title that was programmed in something like three-and-a-half weeks, is infamous for its difficulty and nonsensical interface, was mass-produced and eventually buried en masse in a landfill, and likely contributed to the video game industry crash of 1983.

CoD and Halo have nothing on either of these two games.

 

[Frankster]

I'd say Halo as that game series practically saved the Xbox and helped establish it as it is today, without Halo the xbox wouldn't have been as much of a success and a second xbox wouldn't have been made.

The likeliest result of this would be that Japanese manufacturers continued to dominate the gaming industry. This would mean the rise of first person military shooters likely wouldn't have happened and who knows what else.

It would surely make for an interesting alternate gaming history timeline: what if halo never existed and never made the xbox popular? So yeh not picking on Halo, just it's a very influential game that had the ff7 effect on the xbox (although this gives me another idea...What if Final fantasy 7 never got made and the ps1 didn't become the success story it eventually grew into? Would the Sega vs Nintendo console wars endure to this day?)

 

[C F]

Hmm... I probably shouldn't have said "Half Life 2: Episode 3" a few years back. In retrospect, I can't even remember why I said it. I mean, I can't possibly have been so selfish as to remove a video game from the pool of many such creations that people flock to, could I? Alas, past versions of us always do dumb things.

If I get a second go, I shall not take it. I shall learn from my mistake and the void it has created.
...
Nah, I'd totally blow Metroid: Other M out of the ocean.
Arrivederci!

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

WoW. It tears at your very soul and leaves you a brain-dead husk incapable of any thought or action besides the game. Your life revolves around WoW instead of WoW revolving around your life. You can deny that the game isn't addictive or harmful, but then you're just sounding like the many drug addicts out there who deny the poison that has worked its way inside their bodies. It turned some of my best friends into overweight, depressed, antisocial zombies and has literally ruined the lives of many more. The world would be a noticeably better place without WoW.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I wasn't going to say one. But I've seen several posts mentioning one game, and I have to agree that the entire series would be better off if this game didn't exist. It adds nothing and destroys years, if not decades, of character development.

That game is, of course, Metroid: Other M. Only game that actively pissed me off, and the fact that the person responsible for destroying Samus's character is none other than one of the co-creators of Metroid is baffling.