Games that would've been better without Combat.

[Vakz]

Dragon Age.. It might just be that I'm not of the "old school"-RPG club, but holy shit, I really can't stand the combat of that/those game(s).

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Call of Duty, just to see what the multiplayer would be like

This. I would really like to see the COD community use their diplomatic skills to resolve conflict.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Yet it would be a perfectly valid way of playing any P&P RPG. Oh, how times have changed...

Oh, come on. How many people play a D&D campaign where all the party spend all of their time selling things in different sections of a department store and only roll dice to see if customers complain about the price.

 

[GiantRaven]

Oh, come on. How many people play a D&D campaign where all the party spend all of their time selling things in different sections of a department store and only roll dice to see if customers complain about the price.

Very few of course, but the potential for non-combat orientated game-play is still there.

 

[AetherWolf]

I was gonna say Mirror's Edge, but uhhh... ninja'd.

The Uncharted series, then. Yes, it should have combat, but there should be less of it and it shouldn't be so hair-tearingly frustrating. Otherwise they're great games.

Or maybe the problem is that I'm just plain sick of cover-shooters.

 

[Pearwood]

Mirror's Edge.

I disagree.

While it does make you more vulnerable and more likely to use the free-running to escape, the game would lose a lot of believability. I think what DICE should have done is make the guns so inaccurate that they become worthless and remove advanced fighting techniques (such as jump kicks and slide kicks).

I can't tell if you're being serious but just in case you are, that's the worst idea I've ever heard. The combat sucks enough without making it more obnoxious.

 

[natster43]

Dynasty Warriors 7. Not because the game was bad or anything. I kinda just want to see a movie version of the game.

 

[bluewolf]

Alpha protocall, I hated the combat in that game so, so much.

 

[Caligulove]

Crysis. The first one that is.

The crytek engine is just crying out for a game where you DONT shoot or blow up something every 5 seconds and can actually enjoy just how lush and amazing the worlds it can create are. Don't get me wrong, here, though. I liked Crysis and have only played through some of Crysis 2 and am enjoying that as well. But I couldn't shake the feeling that I guess what could have been Crysis could have possibly been one of the best first-person adventure/exploration game.

Hell, maybe even keep the aliens in and make it some kind of a game trying to discover more about alien abductions on this beautiful, mysterious island, finding clues and generally discovering more ruins and piecing together the past history and events of what has happened on the island before- maybe even having a part of the game where you yourself are abducted and have to escape the probing table, etc realize you're running for your life, naked, through a sophisticated alien spacecraft. All the wonder of the Mothership from Crysis with the confusion, panic and dread from something like Amnesia: Dark Descent etc etc.

I also understand that there would probably be no way that the engine would have been developed if it didnt have foreseeable applications in a game genre that would turn a profit (First Person Shooters) so it wouldn't have taken the place of Crysis in the first place... a man can dream, though.. a man can dream.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

I really could not stand Dragon Age Origins.It may have been the Renn Fest accents,but I just couldn't stand it.There was endless talking and the combat never changed.It would do better without combat in that order I agree,but it could go for a lot less,chat about how we're going to end the darkspawn for three years as opposed to actually doing it,and for some reason,that sounds familiar.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Black Ops needed far less violence, I felt. If you switched some of the early missions in Medal of Honor where you had to move to your objective without making a lot of noise with the story of Black Ops, you would have a far better game, in my opinion. Treyarch is, unfortunately, not known for the less is more approach. I remember in the first Call of Duty one of the best missions of the game you didn't even fire a single shot, you acted as a decoy for a sniper. My favorite mission in WaW was the first Russian mission where you spent half the mission sneaking.

 

[RipperSU]

I would also say Mirrors Edge but only in one section. When I played that game, I didn't use guns or kill anyone and I loved it...right up until the underground carpark bit. The developers literally force you to grab a gun and kill shit in this section and it totally removed the immersion for me.

 

[Hosker]

The Deep Roads was my favourite part!

I can't really think of a game that would be better with no combat, but I think some JRPGs would be better with less.

 

[Katana314]

I would say a number of the Tomb Raider games. Combat was never its strong suit anyway.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Assassin's Creed. Not really less combat, more like less killing. I know your an assassin and all, but the title seems to wear out when you murder hundreds of guards and civilians that aren't even your target. I would like to have more of a stun option that knocks them out Arkham Asylum style, that way I don't feel a little suspicious about how the Roman army could still be functioning at this point when over half of them are dead.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

uncarted

If you mean Uncharted- then I agree.
I loved the jumping and climbing puzzles, all that stuff was a relief from all that stupid shooting every other game had. It felt as if they weren't entirely commited to making a new game- so they went halfway and filled the rest with some okay shooter.

 

[Austin Howe]

Ico
Soul Reaver sub-series of Legacy of Kain
Terranigma would've been cool without it.

 

[Zay-el]

Dreamfall, the combat was wonky tacked on and very unnecessary.

Ninja-d! Damn good game though, aside from that.

 

[GenericAmerican]

Recettear: Item shop videogame I can't remember the name of properly.

BUY MY APPLE.
600% OF MARKET VALUE.

That game was hilarious. It was like economics for 7 year olds.

Go to a store. Buy a sword for 100 gold. Bring it back to your own store and sell it for 150 gold to the guy who owns the store you bought it from in the first place.

They should make an adult version of "Recettear" where the young girl who runs the store has to buy stuff for 100 gold but then have to sell them for 95 gold due to the local competition. So then she fiddles with the cash register to avoid having to pay sales tax to make up the difference. Then she avoids paying social fees on her employees to save money. Later the trade union busts her on it and puts fines on her that she delays paying until the mountain of debt becomes so big that she has to apply for bankruptcy. She then places all the remaining money in another company listed abroad. Then when the feds crack down on her operation her father goes to jail for it all since the business technically belongs to him while she flees the country to Thailand with a briefcase full of dough. A year later she has run out of money and is forced to work a coke mule. Transporting tiny bags of nose candy where the sun doesn't shine. Then on a job back to her home country she decides to run off with the remainder of the drugs and sell it herself but she gets busted by the cops and is sentenced to life in prison where she has to sell her body for cigarettes.

I would play that game.