Remove one game from existence
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I would.Pandaman1911 said:
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.
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?)
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?)
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.
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Nah, I'd totally blow Metroid: Other M out of the ocean.
Arrivederci!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Half Life 2. Because fuck all of you.
Though I really would just get rid of Duke Nukem Forever. It doesn't need to exist.
Though I really would just get rid of Duke Nukem Forever. It doesn't need to exist.
Half Life 3 ... What's that? It has not even been announced, yet alone released yet?
Well... sure, that is what you remember it as
Reshaping Time is a funny thing to spectate.
Alternatively, on a more serious note, whatever title that introduced On-Disc Day-1-DLC, let divine reality-removing judgement be fallen upon it.
Well... sure, that is what you remember it as
Reshaping Time is a funny thing to spectate.Alternatively, on a more serious note, whatever title that introduced On-Disc Day-1-DLC, let divine reality-removing judgement be fallen upon it.
No no no, if you want to fuck everyone over, get rid of Super Mario Brothers. NES doesn't sell nearly as much, game industry possibly flops, everyone sadfaces.Spartan Altego said:
the whole bad mortgages/credit default swap scam thing that was a major contribution to the recession was a game, a gambling game pure and simple, that we could have definitely done without.
As for a game that takes place in a more discrete, hypothetical logical space...you know what? Screw Monopoly. I can't help but wonder how much mindless, rote action get shoehorned into boring games because of Monopoly's influence. Monopoly is a horrible game, with barely any skill or agency, and its spread out over endless, boring hours, where half the time you already know whats going to happen and your just going through the motions. Seriously. When was the last time anyone actually had fun playing Monopoly, BECAUSE of Monopoly? Because I'm pretty sure that event is a myth.
As for a game that takes place in a more discrete, hypothetical logical space...you know what? Screw Monopoly. I can't help but wonder how much mindless, rote action get shoehorned into boring games because of Monopoly's influence. Monopoly is a horrible game, with barely any skill or agency, and its spread out over endless, boring hours, where half the time you already know whats going to happen and your just going through the motions. Seriously. When was the last time anyone actually had fun playing Monopoly, BECAUSE of Monopoly? Because I'm pretty sure that event is a myth.
Imma go with Mass effect 3, I didn't hate it but it was a real disappointment in the way of story to me. All it did was ride off the success of mass effect 2. And of course the ending was just underwhelming.
I strike it from this earth and have them do it over again.
I strike it from this earth and have them do it over again.
Diablo 3 for sure, I've never been a huge fan of the series, but some of my friends are, and want me to play with them. I just can't do it though, i just find the game play to be terribly boring. The whole this is a mess that i could rail against for paragraphs, it not existing would make the world a better place for me, and it would remove a great stain from Blizzard's record.
World of Warcraft (MMO). Spent 3 years of my life playing that game, time I could of put to better use.
Call of Duty 4...
Oh I see there are other bright people here. Well I should have figured.
While it may not be bad in and of itself but it is the root of all evil in terms of the stagnation of the FPS genre to the date, and while it does bring a lot ( AND I MEAN LOT) of money into the industry, most of that money ends up going in the wrong direction.
Oh I see there are other bright people here. Well I should have figured.
While it may not be bad in and of itself but it is the root of all evil in terms of the stagnation of the FPS genre to the date, and while it does bring a lot ( AND I MEAN LOT) of money into the industry, most of that money ends up going in the wrong direction.
Damn dude, how about you tell us how you REALLY feel about it??Black Arrow Officer said:
I played WoW for... lemme think, about 5 1/2 years, with the last 2 years being far more casual than the former 3 1/2. And while I can agree that it has a potential to be "destructive" I don't agree with it having ACTUAL PHYSICAL addiction, forcing you to play. Those 3 1/2 hardcore years of gaming were just that, gaming, and I never felt overwhelmingly compelled to play whatever time of the day. Maybe I was spared because of my young age(9 when I started, 14 when I quit, 16 now) when I started playing, and while I can still admit WoW had a fundemental factor in causing the gamer in me that I am today, it didn't really go beyond that.