I would have enjoyed 'X' if 'Y'

[TheSYLOH]

I would have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if it picked whether it wanted to be a modern shooter or a classic shooter.
Either embrace the post COD era and go full cover based.
Or even better, be a throw back to the shooters of the 90s.
Rather than what it was, the worst aspects of both meshed into one disaster.

 

[WendelI]

i would enjoy DOTA2 more if it had a simplified mode where there was only one shop and itemization was a bit more streamlined. No i dont wanna play more league, yes i am a scrub.

 

[Bombiz]

I would've enjoyed D3 if it would be more like PoE.
I would've enjoyed D3 more if there was no AH from the get go.
I would've enjoyed D3 if it would've been released in the state it currently is.

Yes, i'm still mad at Blizz for D3 and ruining my 2nd most beloved franchise after they killed my most beloved one.

hell i would've enjoyed D3 if they just made it D2:LoD but with better graphics and smoother multiplayer/online.
it's funny cause a lot of people confuse PoE with D3.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

For something maybe a bit closer to the reality of Final Fantasy XIII, imagine playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown, except you only control one of the four-six squaddies you sent out on a mission.

Actually, if this was an extra option (can't remember what they?re called?) I would probably do a playthrough or two. If the humans were AI'd the same as the xenos and I still controlled how they leveled/geared up it would be interesting to see what the computer did with them.

But I agree, as a default setting, no.

 

[shrekfan246]

For something maybe a bit closer to the reality of Final Fantasy XIII, imagine playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown, except you only control one of the four-six squaddies you sent out on a mission.

Actually, if this was an extra option (can't remember what they?re called?) I would probably do a playthrough or two. If the humans were AI'd the same as the xenos and I still controlled how they leveled/geared up it would be interesting to see what the computer did with them.

But I agree, as a default setting, no.

Well, that's the thing it comes down to, right?

When you give the players extra options, everyone can be happy. When you force them to do something because it's the only way you wanted it done, you end up ostracizing a certain group of people.

I could get behind XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within having a setting by which you set up your team, but only manually control a single member. I wouldn't use it, most likely, simply because as stated I don't like when turn-based party-driven games don't give me a certain element of control over the entire party, but why should I care about optional difficulty settings? Throw all of them in, it'd be cool to see what other people come up with because of it.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

I'd really like to have a short one for one fix for FF13. I can't do it though. I guess...

If the combat was slowed down, and I controlled all 3 characters. Make the combat about fewer, more powerful hits. Let me queue up a list of attacks that activate when the active time meter fills up to that point. That way, I can bounce between characters, queuing up upcoming moves, and if I really need to micromanage one character (like a healer who is fixing status ailments and healing) I can.

That still doesn't cover the class system though. I'd rather the Crystarium have been more like 10's Sphere Grid, with each character having access to the same layout. Let me decide who the best tank, healer and DD is.

But all that doesn't even approach the story... Nothing I can suggest would fix that train wreck.

 

[Piorn]

Really? I got a serious vibe that it was built for controllers. The mouse control for the minions just flat out doesn't work. Maybe it's just a crap game.

that's impossible, there are parts of that game that are literally impossible to do with m/k.

It appears Overlord 2 just has really crap controls then as I can't even imagine how they'd get any worse than the gamepad controls.

To make your crowd of minions run around you need to hold the camera stick in the direction they need to run.
Now imagine that with a mouse. You're constantly rowing your mouse around because you reach the end of the table.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

Option #1
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Reason: Piss poor AI

I can't believe people loved this game so much. While I did eventually finish it because the story and characters were cool, the AI was incredibly stupid. All you had to do for the vast majority of fights is send Fredrick ahead to pull bad guys and then run away. A few bad guys would split from the group and the team would decimate them. Fredrick goes on ahead again, pulls more bad guys, rinse and repeat until everyone is dead. Not to mention that all enemies had a death wish, since many would attack Fredrick with a 0 possible damage attack while Frederick would murder them. It was pathetic.

The only challenge the game really posed was a bullshit tactic of ambushing. You couldn't prepare for it, they appeared wherever they wanted to, and they got to move right away. Basically the only deaths I ran into from that game wasn't from it outsmarting me; it was the game cheating by "ambushing" my back line with three bad guys.

Did you ever give it a try on Hard or Insanity? (Nightmare? W/E Highest is) The enemy starts skilling and gearing just like your party. They use more advanced classes, and sooner. Knights will have the weapon defense trinity, for example, sometimes with the archery one, meaning even your best melee characters will likely have 10% chance to hit, at best: forcing you to actually get a mage over there and nuke him. No more ROFLstomping them with 4hit Ninjas or Swordmasters.

 

[blackrave]

X3
I would have enjoyed it much much MUUUUUCCCCHHHH more if the #$%^&* GUI would have been designed for humans, not xenons

Minecraft
I would have enjoyed it more if world generation would generate actual planets (or at least something that acts like planet)
Hopefully one day there will be mod released

P.S. I still like both games and play tons of them.

 

[tippy2k2]

Did you ever give it a try on Hard or Insanity? (Nightmare? W/E Highest is) The enemy starts skilling and gearing just like your party. They use more advanced classes, and sooner. Knights will have the weapon defense trinity, for example, sometimes with the archery one, meaning even your best melee characters will likely have 10% chance to hit, at best: forcing you to actually get a mage over there and nuke him. No more ROFLstomping them with 4hit Ninjas or Swordmasters.

I played on Hard with deaths on. Some of the fights actually were challenging when the game used it's people properly (like escaping the castle). The problem was that most of the fights allowed you to play the AI like a fiddle. The enemies would be on screen but wouldn't "activate" until you got close enough.

This allowed me to run up, poke a few of them, run away and let them throw themselves on my sword/spear.

The harder difficulty didn't make them smarter; just a bigger pain to take down.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I would have enjoyed (and bought) Ace Combat: Assault Horizon if it didn't have that ridiculous on-rails mechanic.

Seriously. What kind of colossal retard takes a game series where the fundamental enjoyment comes from flying and having the freedom to fly as you like, and then makes it so that you have NO CHOICE BUT TO RELEASE CONTROL OF YOUR PLANE WHEN THE GAME DEMANDS IT.

Fucking hell, I hope Ace Combat Infinity is alright. I still need to fix my PS3 so I can play it...

The Ace Combat series is without a doubt my absolute favourite game series, but I feel so let down by Assault Horizon. At least I still have 4, 5, 0 and 6 ready to go at any time and X is on it's way. I'm tempted to buy 2 and 3 on ebay as well. Never got a chance to play those two and I do need to dust off my PSX... Might play through the games in release order and see how the series evolves.

I would have enjoyed it much much MUUUUUCCCCHHHH more if the #$%^&* GUI would have been designed for humans, not xenons

I didn't even know noble gases could operate computers.

 

[ThreeName]

I would play the HELL out of Burnout Paradise if the menus in that game weren't so fucking horrible.

This game, but I never used the menus, I just couldn't deal with that shitty ****-arsed DJ.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

I could have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if the ?You?re fucked? scene didn?t disgust me so much. Seriously what the hell were the devs thinking when they created that scene?

 

[RealRT]

I could have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if the ?You?re fucked? scene didn?t disgust me so much. Seriously what the hell were the devs thinking when they created that scene?

I was bothered as all hell by it until someone pointed out that none of the girls were actively raped at that moment, those things were just holding them in place. The impregnation occurs orally a la Aliens and can happen to Duke as well. So... no horrifyingly distasteful pun, just a very insensitive comment on Duke's part.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

I could have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if the ?You?re fucked? scene didn?t disgust me so much. Seriously what the hell were the devs thinking when they created that scene?

I was bothered as all hell by it until someone pointed out that none of the girls were actively raped at that moment, those things were just holding them in place. The impregnation occurs orally a la Aliens and can happen to Duke as well. So... no horrifyingly distasteful pun, just a very insensitive comment on Duke's part.

Well in a sense it still is rape but that?s not really what bothers me. It?s the fact that it?s so inhumane and character breaking that Duke even says that in that situation. Women are crying bound up being forcefully impregnated with alien monstrosities and two girls he actually knows are before him swelling up and he still has time to make a joke at their suspense? I can?t believe that even Duke of the 90?s would have done that.

 

[RealRT]

I could have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if the ?You?re fucked? scene didn?t disgust me so much. Seriously what the hell were the devs thinking when they created that scene?

I was bothered as all hell by it until someone pointed out that none of the girls were actively raped at that moment, those things were just holding them in place. The impregnation occurs orally a la Aliens and can happen to Duke as well. So... no horrifyingly distasteful pun, just a very insensitive comment on Duke's part.

Well in a sense it still is rape but that?s not really what bothers me. It?s the fact that it?s so inhumane and character breaking that Duke even says that in that situation. Women are crying bound up being forcefully impregnated with alien monstrosities and two girls he actually knows are before him swelling up and he still has time to make a joke at their suspense? I can?t believe that even Duke of the 90?s would have done that.

Since there's no actual rape in that scene, I prefer to think of it as a bad choice of words. At least this way of thinking allowed me to beat the game. And Duke of the 90s, while still pretty macho, wasn't nowhere near as obnoxious as DNF Duke. When was the last time you played DN3D? I've beaten it not so recently and while it had a plenty of "Shake it baby" and "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives", that was pretty much it.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

I could have enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever if the ?You?re fucked? scene didn?t disgust me so much. Seriously what the hell were the devs thinking when they created that scene?

I was bothered as all hell by it until someone pointed out that none of the girls were actively raped at that moment, those things were just holding them in place. The impregnation occurs orally a la Aliens and can happen to Duke as well. So... no horrifyingly distasteful pun, just a very insensitive comment on Duke's part.

Well in a sense it still is rape but that?s not really what bothers me. It?s the fact that it?s so inhumane and character breaking that Duke even says that in that situation. Women are crying bound up being forcefully impregnated with alien monstrosities and two girls he actually knows are before him swelling up and he still has time to make a joke at their suspense? I can?t believe that even Duke of the 90?s would have done that.

Since there's no actual rape in that scene, I prefer to think of it as a bad choice of words. At least this way of thinking allowed me to beat the game. And Duke of the 90s, while still pretty macho, wasn't nowhere near as obnoxious as DNF Duke. When was the last time you played DN3D? I've beaten it not so recently and while it had a plenty of "Shake it baby" and "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives", that was pretty much it.

About 3 weeks ago (just got my hands on the PS1 version) and yeah exactly he was still a beef headed women objectifying knuckle walker back then but I don't think anyone would have written anything like that to come out of his mouth for that situation back in those days when he was still the ideal "cool" gaming protagonist.

 

[momijirabbit]

I would have enjoyed Bioshock and Shadow of the colossus if the controls didn't make me want to kill myself.
They are that bad.

 

[Black Reaper]

I would have enjoyed Bayonetta if it sticked to being a spectacle fighter or whatever you want to call it, and didn't try to do all sorts of shit it just doesn't do well(driving sections and qtes for example)
I would have enjoyed Bayonetta's story if it wasn't so overly sexualized

I would have enjoyed Blazblue's arcade mode if it didn't take ages to continue whenever you die

I would have enjoyed Moon Diver(more) if you could control your characters with the d-pad

I would have enjoyed Vindictus if you could cancel your attacks with defensive maneuvers, like blocking and dodging
That last one actually applies to quite a few action games