Games we want to acutally be something else.

[Slinker07]

So do you have a game that you played a lot, because you liked some aspect of the game so much even though the actuall game isn't really that fun? Or a game that is missing a certain feature you thought would make it so much better?

I've played warcraft a few years. Always in a pretty casual way. But regardless of how many times I start it up I always get rather disapointed and yet again realise that warcraft isn't really the game I imagen it to be.

Because I pretty much imagen warcraft to be a singelplayer game. Thats pretty much how I play it. Not that I'm not a social person in the game. But the stuff I enjoy doing the most, you can mostly do on your own. Like exploring the world, take part in world events, or playing through the larger more story filled questlines. And while wow sometimes shines on these parts it's very obvious it's not the main focus of the game.

And yet it's events like the Wrathgate that lead to the epic battle in Undercity that pretty much made me buy another expansion. Hoping it would have more of that. No, that it would contain a WHOLE game of just that. That I can play by myself.

I doubt I'm the only one who thought it would be awesome with a bioware-style game in warcrafts setting, and somehow when a new expansion lurks around I sort of falls into the trap that this expansion is a step closer to the game I REALLY want.

Two more obvious examples of this is Brutal Legend and Dead island. Brutal legend had a great setting and story, but then somehow it turned into an awkward RTS and you somehow keep playing it, hopeing for a level simialr to that awesome one right at the beginning.

And Dead Island, now a lot of people has said this. But I really wanted the game to be like the trailer. It's silly to believe an pre-renderd CGI trailer will be like the actuall game. But damnit, it did really make us want the game we saw in there.

Anyone got more examples of this or similar stuff?

 

[Blindrooster]

I'll go ahead and say Spore. It has alot of depth, but not near as much as was shown before it's released. It got too dumbed down and, ultimately, was fun yet dissapointing.

 

[JSRT]

Enslaved should have been a movie, i liked the story and characters. The gameplay, not so much....

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Brink should have been a 3rd person shooter. Parkour just doesn't work that well in first person and it just looks a lot more playable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y86_ngv0b4c

 

[bigredlyms]

ive tried playing dragon warrior games and i just cant do it. i just happened to play the golden sun games first, which sorta spoiled me because i can't care about the characters in dragon warrior. they dont have as much depth and you can replace them whenever you want. thats about it i suppose. ps i love golden sun: TLA so much

 

[Sixcess]

I'd certainly agree about WoW. I never got much past lvl 55 or so, because the longer it went on the harder it became to follow the storylines to their conclusion since they all ended in group based dungeons that, being old levelling content, people just weren't doing anymore. Besides, whilst I enjoy group play in MMOs I also consider it the absolutely worst way to experience an actual story.

So yeah, WoW as single player - I'd buy that in an instant. The sheer size and depth of MMO worlds has spoiled me now. A small part of me died when I set out on my journey in Dragon Age... and that tiny little map screen popped up. Sigh.

Other than that, [Prototype] I enjoy it a lot, but it's shallow as hell. A subtler game, with some action/adventure and even RPG elements instead of nothing but non-stop mass mayhem, could have made much better use of the story and setting and been a great horror game.

 

[pearcinator]

I was going to say Dead Island (and also to a certain extent Brutal Legend) but you beat me to it OP!

So, I will be different and say a MOVIE that should have been a video game.

Sucker Punch (shit movie, would have made a pretty awesome game)

 

[Slinker07]

So yeah, WoW as single player - I'd buy that in an instant. The sheer size and depth of MMO worlds has spoiled me now. A small part of me died when I set out on my journey in Dragon Age... and that tiny little map screen popped up. Sigh.

There aren't that many singelplayer rpgs with an open world these days these days. The once I can think of are Elder scrolls/Fallout 3, and the gothic 3/risen (I THINK they are open world. Haven't played them that much.)


Should be more singelplayer rpgs like this.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Well, i tried Just Cause 2 lately. I expected it to be a sandbox crpg, but all i got was a linear shooter. :|

 

[twaddle]

Final Fantasy 12 should have been a novel and without Vaan in it

 

[twaddle]

Megaman Zero. I wish it was third person action/shooter with rpg elements

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'll go ahead and say Spore. It has alot of depth, but not near as much as was shown before it's released. It got too dumbed down and, ultimately, was fun yet dissapointing.

Depth? Bloody hell, it just felt like a virtual Mister Potatohead to me.

Well, i tried Just Cause 2 lately. I expected it to be a sandbox crpg, but all i got was a linear shooter. :|

What on earth made you expect an RPG? And what on earth makes you think it's linear? There's around 400 square miles of fully accessible terrain to dick around in.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Well, i tried Just Cause 2 lately. I expected it to be a sandbox crpg, but all i got was a linear shooter. :|

What on earth made you expect an RPG? And what on earth makes you think it's linear? There's around 400 square miles of fully accessible terrain to dick around in.

...and there's nothing interesting to see or do. Also : that's my personal experience and i like it to stay it that way, thank you very much.

 

[JSRT]

Enslaved should have been a movie, i liked the story and characters. The gameplay, not so much....

Did you really like Trip's character? She was a monumental ***** pretty much the entire game. And what's that about being a "good programmer"? She sucked at that too.

I've seen more annoying characters in games than her, but yeah she was a ***** but i figured that was kind of the point at first. She be a ***** at the beginning until they start getting along as it goes by. Stupid ending was stupid though

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I'd like Mass Effect 2 and Fable 3 to actually be RPGs.

ZING!

But really, I'd like it if the DiRT games were arcade racers instead of leaning towards the sim side.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

L.A. Noire.

I wanted so badly for that game to be a GTA game set in the 40s with lots of jazz, exaggerated lighting, neo-noir tropes and a heavily romanticized atmosphere. As it stands now it's one of the most boring games I've ever played in my life, with the most lifeless art direction on the planet; it's as if they just made a bunch of old 40's props and threw them under GTA4's lighting engine.

I don't care that it was true-to-life and I especially don't care for the facial tech. True to life is boring to me, and if I want real life actors I'd watch a movie. That and I can't read people worth a shit. I'm fully aware that it's entirely my fault I hated the game and not the devs cause they put a lot of work into it and so many people loved it, but man do I personally wish it were something else.