Things I NEVER want to see in a game ever again

[Brainiac 8]

btw, I'd say this would be very appropriate in this thread...

One of the things I don't agree with was only getting limited ammo in survival horror games. Isn't the point of those is to find ways to survive with limited resources? I don't see it as a contrived way to up the difficulty.

Other than that, most of the list was pretty spot on and funny.

 

[Aiden]

When a developer promises revolutionary gameplay, I don't just want the same old FPS game with some stupid gimmick

 

[Horrorfan]

When a developer promises revolutionary gameplay, I don't just want the same old FPS game with some stupid gimmick

EA Headhoncho: 'too bad cause that's what you're getting, budday'

 

[Aqua Is Forever]

Tingle

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Games that last no longer than 5-10 hours. I'm not paying 40-50 pounds to finish something in a few hours. Sure, sometimes I don't mind, but look at Ocarina of Time, the first time you play that, the game goes on forever!

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I disagree with WWII games to a degree. No more games that start with D-Day and take you through the Allies advance on the Western front. How about a game where you are the Red Army and start at Stalingrad advancing up until the Battle of Berlin? The Eastern front is the bloodiest of all WWII. There should also be a flying game based in the Pacific theater. Imagine playing Midway with all the dogfights and bombing Japanese carriers.

One complaint I have is that WWII games are pretty much the only war games we get on consoles. If it's anything else, they usually suck. How about a WWI game? How about a game based on the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, or American Revolution?

 

[xwolverine2]

i hate being timed

 

[KevanG]

I think they should do away with timed levels, following missions and include level select for EVERY GAME WITH LEVELS!!! I mean look at the first spiderman game for PS2. It had everything we could ask for level select, good graphics (for its time), unlockables, you could play as the green goblin for a WHOLE NEW STORY!!! after doing certain requirements, and by using cheats you could have your character have a different skin and play as MJ or a thug through the game. The down sides were that the swinging system wasn't that great and there were alot of inside and sneaking levels.

Now look at Spiderman 2 for the PS2, it lost EVERYTHING it's predecessor had, and what do we get for it? Spidey can now walk on the ground instead of just having rooftops and the swing system if fun. Look at all the extra things I mentioned before and now cross them off the list for this game. No more anything and what "extras" they did give us were crap. The movie theatre had 3 movies, the activision logo, and the two demos that came onm if you didn't hit the start button at the start screen. The only other bonus was the battle arena and that was fun except that it was timed.

Of course both games are hit with one thing I didn't like. The part where you have to find "tokens" hidden throughout the game. The first game wasn't bad with this, when you found tokens you got cool combos to use. The second one has no point to it. All you do is get points that could be used at a "spidey-store" which wasn't that bad when you were actually playing the game, but after you finished the main story and they let you free roam the rest of the time, there was no point. There was nothing more to buy or use points for. I loaded up my last save on that game (sometime back in september) and I had over 300k and nothing to use them on.

Really this is only an example of two games that I've played where they pretty much raped the second game when they had so much from the first to ADD ON TO. I know theres dozens of other examples but I was just going through my older PS2 games the other day and I saw the two of them.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

NORMANDY. No more Normandy!!!

 

[The Last Meatbag]

how about Omaha Beach?

 

[WhatsHisFace]

They should storm a nude beach and just have the rest of the game be a breast fest.

Or just make a WW2 game where you are the Nazis. Now THAT would be an interesting, fresh take.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

....or


.................or a game where you take out the Nazi party from the inside out



and nude beaches

 

[Spidey-Bat]

**** the Nazis. I wanna play as the Commies

 

[Master Chief]

They should storm a nude beach and just have the rest of the game be a breast fest.

Or just make a WW2 game where you are the Nazis. Now THAT would be an interesting, fresh take.

The dev team would probably be accused of being neo-nazis.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The dev team would probably be accused of being neo-nazis.

Unless it was just focused on the eastern front where the Nazis were killing the Commies.

 

[lars573]

I disagree with WWII games to a degree. No more games that start with D-Day and take you through the Allies advance on the Western front. How about a game where you are the Red Army and start at Stalingrad advancing up until the Battle of Berlin? The Eastern front is the bloodiest of all WWII. There should also be a flying game based in the Pacific theater. Imagine playing Midway with all the dogfights and bombing Japanese carriers.

Thing is all those games your wanting do exist in one form or another. Just not for consoles. Red Orchistra is an FPS game set in the eastern front. But only for PC, I also don't know if it has a single player of if it's like Battlefield.

One complaint I have is that WWII games are pretty much the only war games we get on consoles. If it's anything else, they usually suck. How about a WWI game? How about a game based on the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, or American Revolution?

Again games in these eras do exist, just again not for consoles. I have RTS games that are set in the ears of WW1 (WW1: the great war), Napoleonic wars (CDV/GSC's Cossacks 2: Napoleonic wars), ACW (CDV's American conquest 2: Divided nation), and American revolition (CDV/GCS's American conquest). The problem with making a pre-WW2 game for a console is what format do you use? RTS really hasn't worked well (although if the wiimote is good for anything it might be as an RTS cursor). FPS without automatic weapons won't work. At least that's what the suits think anyway. So that leaves adventure/RPG type 3rd person games, like Besthesdas pirates of the carribean, or God of war. Which if desgined well could work. I mean you could make a 3rd person Sharpe game (with Sean Bean doing Sharpe voice natch).



What I never want to see again is cavemen to mech RTS games like Empire Earth or Rise of nations that skirt over how warfare between 1500 and 1940 actually was. Even the pre-1500 warfare is brief at best.

 

[THWIP*]

They should storm a nude beach and just have the rest of the game be a breast fest.

Or just make a WW2 game where you are the Nazis. Now THAT would be an interesting, fresh take.

I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE A GAME WHERE THE U.S. INVADES CANADA, AND KICKS THEIR PASSIVE ASSES. up:

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE A GAME WHERE THE U.S. INVADES CANADA, AND KICKS THEIR PASSIVE ASSES. up:

Ghost Recon 3 is kind of like that, only it's Mexico and not the USA.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE A GAME WHERE THE U.S. INVADES CANADA, AND KICKS THEIR PASSIVE ASSES. up:

Ghost Recon 3 is kind of like that, only it's Mexico and not the USA.

 

[Horrorfan]

Ghost Recon 3 is kind of like that, only it's Mexico and not the USA.

Reson GR's Mexico streets was so deserted? Immigration

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Reson GR's Mexico streets was so deserted? Immigration

YES!!!!! I need to remember that one!

 

[THWIP*]

Ghost Recon 3 is kind of like that, only it's Mexico and not the USA.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S WHY I CAN'T REALLY GET INTO THAT GAME (STILL CAN'T BEAT THE FIRST MISSION); IT FEELS LIKE I'M ATTACKING MY BEST FRIEND.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S WHY I CAN'T REALLY GET INTO THAT GAME (STILL CAN'T BEAT THE FIRST MISSION); IT FEELS LIKE I'M ATTACKING MY BEST FRIEND.

I've shot pretty much everyone in Gamera's neighborhood, but at least Gamera is in Texas buying shirts while I'm doing it.

 

[Indiglo]

gamera can drive to texas to buy shirt so he won't get killed by super soldiers but he won't come see me

 

[Master Chief]

I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE A GAME WHERE THE U.S. INVADES CANADA, AND KICKS THEIR PASSIVE ASSES. up:

lol, the military would just end up getting hammered, then russia would nuke america when everyone there is all wasted and turn the world into communism.