Make One Slight Change to A Game, Make it 1000X More Awesome

[CardinalPiggles]

I'd like every single PC port to not use the item wheel as oppose to hotkeys. Have the option to use either/ both? But seriously, not allowing PC users to use hotkeys is ridiculous.

Dead Island uses this shit and it pisses me off, I won't be getting the sequel until I know it's a good port. If it's not then I won't even wait for a sale I just won't buy it.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

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Halo Reach had a racing gametype. Not quite what your were describing but it was there.

The ability to play as Batman would vastly improve many games

You're right, that Arkham Asylum game totally would have sucked if you couldn't play as Batman.

Well I certainly wouldnt have bought it if it starred Aquaman

 

[ZephyriaSoul]

Take any Modern shooter, and remove regenerating health. Also 2 weapon limits, but that would be the 2nd coming of christ. Best aim high at first, and aim for impossibility later.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

American Football: Don't pick plays after each down. The team should know several plays by heart and assign a coded term, phrase, etc to said play. After each down they shout the code during the huddle and resume play within 15 seconds of Down or face severe penalties.

Take any Modern shooter, and remove regenerating health. Also 2 weapon limits, but that would be the 2nd coming of christ. Best aim high at first, and aim for impossibility later.

Take out regenerating health and don't release anything unless there is at least one gun/weapon that can't possibly exist in this reality...like a box that shoots circular saws or, a tube that shoots electro-whips which turn to snakes if they don't hit a person directly. Then set these war games in otherwise realistic depictions WW1, The Gulf War, etc etc...

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Wii Music: Add the letters 'al' to the title so as to make Wii Musical. Everyone is a vocalist and you start out with everything Andrew Lloyde Webber has written (excluding sequels like Love Never Dies which you unlock by completing the originals)

Just Cause 2: Let me buy more than one item from the drop-point helicopter person.

 

[vasiD]

FF10:
Take out the voice acting.

Edit: Return the original Japanese voice acting.

Which, by the way, there is an International edition rom out there that has that patch, and it's awesome.



OT: My change would be to the ending of Fable 2 and goes as follows:

Endgame: Your dog is unveiled to be a shape shifting demon who has been manipulating you and events around you the whole time to make you the cause of the apocalypse, summoning the demon's Lovecraftian god into your reality by sheding the right blood in the right places at the right times. Then you get a choice, either you submit to the will of the new god, or you choose to fight it and get brutally beat down, crushed, and tossed aside for it was only the demon's powers giving you any strength.


Also I'd be quite keen on changing Fahrenheit so that it's ending is simply the Mayan ritual killings mentioned halfway through, taking out all the terminator/matrix/independence day bullshit... Maybe stuff in a bit of a more Lovecraftian source of evil...

Does it show I'm a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan?

The Japanese voice acting was worse. Have you heard the scene that EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET SHOWS TO "PROVE" FFX HAD CRAPPY VOICE ACTING? IT SOUNDS WORSE IN JAPANESE BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FORCED!
/rant

OT: Devil May Cry's combat in Skyrim's world. They have a mod for it, and it is AMAZING.

Two things:

1) I didn't find the Japanese voice acting bad at all... but I must admit I haven't reached that scene yet... You've made me both curious and afraid, which is a good combination as I'm a fan of survival-horror!

2) There is a mod that does that?! What is it's name sir?!

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Mass Effect Series: different races for the PC.
Armored Core V: Unlock the regions. You dicks.
Monster Hunter: Release on other platforms. You dicks.
Any FPS: Enemies are penguins and speak in penguin. It would instantly turn into brilliant satire.
A lot of games: Get rid of quest markers. Have key bits of information told to the player once, in one form, and then available in a quest log.
Phoenix Wright: Have a system whereby the player can make arguments themselves. I don't care how you do it.
The Binding of Isaac: Have a mode where you can choose your eventual loadout.

 

[ZephyriaSoul]

Take any Modern shooter, and remove regenerating health. Also 2 weapon limits, but that would be the 2nd coming of christ. Best aim high at first, and aim for impossibility later.

Take out regenerating health and don't release anything unless there is at least one gun/weapon that can't possibly exist in this reality...like a box that shoots circular saws or, a tube that shoots electro-whips which turn to snakes if they don't hit a person directly. Then set these war games in otherwise realistic depictions WW1, The Gulf War, etc etc...

Hell. Fucking. Yes.
Then include a in-story reason as to why they exist. "The Nazis did it" would not be applicable.

 

[elpapagenius]

Far Cry 2 : Remove the Respawning roadblocks

Skyrim: Invest part of the mana pool every time you use a buff spell, instead of having to recast every 30 seconds( there's a mod for that thankfully!)

Alan Wake: Just let me drive a bit around the world! Not in the sense of a sandbox, but a small driving part between chapters to get from one location to another would have done wonders for the atmosphere. E.g in the prologue, driving from the town to Cauldron lake while chatting with Alice..

 

[AlbertoDeSanta]

Take Half-Life 2 - Add Sandbox Elements + Grappling Hook + More Bugbait usage + Jet Pack. I think we'd all die from the Awesome.

 

[vasiD]

FF10:
Take out the voice acting.

Edit: Return the original Japanese voice acting.

Which, by the way, there is an International edition rom out there that has that patch, and it's awesome.



OT: My change would be to the ending of Fable 2 and goes as follows:

Endgame: Your dog is unveiled to be a shape shifting demon who has been manipulating you and events around you the whole time to make you the cause of the apocalypse, summoning the demon's Lovecraftian god into your reality by sheding the right blood in the right places at the right times. Then you get a choice, either you submit to the will of the new god, or you choose to fight it and get brutally beat down, crushed, and tossed aside for it was only the demon's powers giving you any strength.


Also I'd be quite keen on changing Fahrenheit so that it's ending is simply the Mayan ritual killings mentioned halfway through, taking out all the terminator/matrix/independence day bullshit... Maybe stuff in a bit of a more Lovecraftian source of evil...

Does it show I'm a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan?

The Japanese voice acting was worse. Have you heard the scene that EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET SHOWS TO "PROVE" FFX HAD CRAPPY VOICE ACTING? IT SOUNDS WORSE IN JAPANESE BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FORCED!
/rant

OT: Devil May Cry's combat in Skyrim's world. They have a mod for it, and it is AMAZING.

Two things:

1) I didn't find the Japanese voice acting bad at all... but I must admit I haven't reached that scene yet... You've made me both curious and afraid, which is a good combination as I'm a fan of survival-horror!

2) There is a mod that does that?! What is it's name sir?!

The Japanese VAing isn't bad. But the English VAs aren't as monumentally awful as everyone tries to paint them as.

The mod is DMCCombat Mod on Skyrim Nexus. It is almost a straight port of the DMCCombat mod from Oblivion. While it isn't perfect, being able to high time a bandit into the air with your crafted sword, then stingering them when they land is really fun.

I liked most of the English voices (especially Auron and Lulu), but couldn't stand Tidus (I know he's a good voice actor... I just really didn't like him in that role for some reason), plus I was a bit of an anime-nerd in high school so I'm all for original Japanese voices.

Oh, snap, there isn't a mod out for the game like that yet, that was his improvement. Dumb me. v.v Still, it was fun looking in to it, here's hoping one gets made soon. This however does make me want to play Oblivion... Now if only there were a mod taking out that fucking Pie conversation mini-game...

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Having just beat Halo 4:

Spoiler: You have been warned, if you have not beat the game yet and plan to don't click this.

Have an actual battle at the end with the Didact, instead of having the stupid QTE crap. None of this, him being defeated with a single Promethean grenade, being blown back by it to fall off the ledge.

Dragon Age: Origins:

Change its snail in molasses combat system to the combat system from Dragon Age 2.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

--How cool would that be to have legit Mongoose races in Halo? One player drives and the passenger gets to shoot the guys in 2nd place in the face. What's not to love about that idea?

They already have that.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Xenoblade Chronicle- Have the Quest giver ! icon on their head much bigger and their icon on the map bigger aswell. Also the npc releated to the quest icon bigger again (they only appear as a red dot). Also the quest info should contain a map of where the quest give is located (including the time when he or she is available).

Gotcha Force- Take out the muppet voice acting and the different "mmmm" sound effect.

 

[Sir Pootis]

LOZ: Skyward Sword - Have a proper control scheme.

 

[Fasckira]

2. Take any AAA shooter and add racing to it. I'm not talking about a dedicated racing game. I'm saying that all a developer would have to do is add a moveable starting line and finish line in multiplayer maps. BOOM. Instant racing, except everybody has guns.

Years ago when Counterstrike was still a mod and in beta, they updated to beta 7 (I think) with the ability to drive cars. This prompted a wide range of custom race maps with jeeps and was actually quite a bit of fun but it was no longer counterstrike, it was more Mario Kart with AWPs. To that end, I treat any genre crossing with a bit of mistrust.

 

[hazabaza1]

Just add jetpacks to everything. Boom, instant perfect games.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Dungeonkeeper 2. Add more power to manually controlled minions, to actually give an insensitive to control them.