We can rebuild it...

[The_root_of_all_evil]

A positive thread...

Take a game you really dislike.

Fix it whilst still keeping the same basic idea.

For an obvious example, remove the DRM from Spore and make the gameplay more challenging.

 

[afrophysics]

Metal Gear Solid 4. Remove everything except the control scheme and improved gameplay elements, and replace it with Metal Gear Solid 3.

I like all games, ^that^ was just irrational fanboy tripe.
Although I would like to change MGO like I said here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.71174.715918

 

[COR 2000]

Turning Point:Fall of Liberty. The game overall was decent, but there were a ton of obvious bugs that could've easily been fixed.

 

[JakubK666]

CoD4: Remove Grenades,Helicopters and Airstrikes as well as Martyrdom,Jaggernaut and Stopping Power.Add new Attack & Defend Gametype a la TF2 with clear objectives and voila - A great team game!

 

[Dudemeister]

CoD4: Remove Grenades,Helicopters and Airstrikes as well as Martyrdom,Jaggernaut and Stopping Power.Add new Attack & Defend Gametype a la TF2 with clear objectives and voila - A great team game!

What, remove all the fun ?

 

[Jumplion]

I'm just waiting for Eggo to say what I htink he's going to say.

Anyway;

MGO: FIX THE FUCKING COLLISION DETECTION! AND BE WITH PSN NOT YOUR OWN NETWORK GOD DAMNIT! Konami wouldn't have most of these problems (IE. expansion pack problems, lag, need of two accounts, system maitenence problems) if it didn't have to make it's own network and just use PSN. Other than that, I'm happy with it

 

[UberMore]

Make the Wii version of Fire Emblem available on other platforms, amp up the graphics...pretty much it

 

[The Iron Ninja]

First of I would like to make a direct response to the thread title that formulated in my mind before I even clicked on the link.

"We have the Technology!" *Badadada Badadadadadadadada*

Give Mercenaries 2 local co-op, it pissed me off so much when I found out it wasn't the case (my co-op partner who was waiting eagerly to join in on the fun wasn't that impressed either)

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Give BF: Bad Company any form of Co-Op.

 

[Lazy Lemon]

Metal Gear Solid 4 - get rid of:

Snakes moustache
Raiden
Rose
Raiden's kid
Otacon
Sunny
Meryl
Baron Von Crapsalot
Those robot football things
Naomi's American Accent
The man-catapults

And replace the mission briefings with codec moments.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

First of I would like to make a direct response to the thread title that formulated in my mind before I even clicked on the link.

"We have the Technology!" *Badadada Badadadadadadadada*

Yay, cookie for you.

 

[nmmoore13]

Geist

Old game for the Gamecube. It was a really good idea. You were a ghost seperated from your body. You could possess enemies and objects, using them as soldiers and to solve puzzles. The problem was, it was broken. Shitty AI, awful controls, glitches, bad design. Fix those probs and the game would have been fantastic.

 

[p1ne]

Rewind time to November 2007. Epic releases Unreal Tournament 3 as a finished game with a GUI that isn't frankly an insult to the fanbase and supports it properly after release. UT3 goes on to sell decently and the community, while small, doesn't die entirely.

Also, I'd like a pony.

 

[GloatingSwine]

CoD4: Remove Grenades,Helicopters and Airstrikes as well as Martyrdom,Jaggernaut and Stopping Power.Add new Attack & Defend Gametype a la TF2 with clear objectives and voila - A great team game!

What, remove all the fun ?

He's removing the shitty spam gameplay, that would make that game more fun.

Also, everythingwhich differentiates it from every other shooter ever, natch.

 

[Caliostro]

Take any generic craptastic mmo out there:

- Remove the grind... GRIND is just pointless and sort of a "prosthetic lifetime extension"... It serves no purpose...
- Had a decent combat system... You know, where you need to have skill to do things... A combat system that rewards skill, not one dumbed down to be perfect accessible to the most uncoordinated incapable lump of a person because you can play it with 1 finger.
- Actually add a decent plot to the majority

Tada... There's a lot of MMOs out there with potential... POTENTIAL... Interesting graphics, decent scenarios, some even have innovating ideas! (Shocking, I know)...etc.. But then, it's like he developers have this chronic fear of success and immediately shoot their own game in the knee caps by giving it turn based/one click combat and grind up the arse...

 

[GloatingSwine]

- Had a decent combat system... You know, where you need to have skill to do things... A combat system that rewards skill, not one dumbed down to be perfect accessible to the most uncoordinated incapable lump of a person because you can play it with 1 finger.

There's always going to be one big problem with that. Network Synchronisation.

An MMO has to cope with reasonable synchronisation between all the people in a given instance. Even limiting that to raid instances you're talking about up to 40 connections, where you can't guarantee a given minimum latency, and they all have to be updated with the actions of each other and every mob around.

That gets worse in the overworld, where you could have hundreds of people with different connection latencies and machine speeds.

Maybe when we all have FTTH this will be possible, until then, there's always going to be some limitations on player character interaction.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

CoD4: Remove Grenades,Helicopters and Airstrikes as well as Martyrdom,Jaggernaut and Stopping Power.Add new Attack & Defend Gametype a la TF2 with clear objectives and voila - A great team game!

Well martyrdom is kinda cheap but it does keep things interesting some times. And why the hell would you get rid of gernades...I respect a well tossed frag over some campers headshot anyday.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Take any generic craptastic mmo out there:

- Remove the grind... GRIND is just pointless and sort of a "prosthetic lifetime extension"... It serves no purpose...

Isn't like that sorta the point of mmo's..teaming within the online community..building your character from level one up? i mean not even in just mmorpg's...the leveling system in COD4 is what makes that so much fun IMO as opposed to other games.

 

[qbert4ever]

CoD4: Tone down the M16 and Grenade Launcher, and make it so players can veto more then the first map.

Battlefield Bad Company: Add a Killcam like Cod4's. Huge maps + near invisible snipers = pain in the ass.

 

[fedpayne]

Burnout Paradise. Three things could have helped it.
1) Make the cars not fly into the air upon the slightest tiny graze of a traffic car, especially when there is SO MUCH TRAFFIC
2) When the car crashes, not teabag you by showing that horrifically slow slow slow slow motion unskippable shot of your car flying into pieces. First few times? Awesome. Then... Raaargh!
3) No local multiplayer? WTF? GTFO. Y?

Oh, also less mapreading, more giant arrows on top of the screen, or a sexy gps voice. Let people look at map if they want a shortcut.

What a frustrating game.