Comments on: What Game Would You Unmake?

By: NKato

NKato — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:43:29 +0000

They should unmake Star Wars Galaxies so that I wouldn’t have gotten jaded about video games in the first place.

Also, I found it interesting that this site uses the original theme version of the one I use at my website. :)

By: DX Gaming » Which Game Would You Unmake? [Question]

DX Gaming » Which Game Would You Unmake? [Question] — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:57:32 +0000

[...] You’re all so quick to tell us which games you’d love to see made, but how about unmade? Huh? Yeeeaa-aaahhh. Not so easy. If you had the chance to go back in time and unmake one game, which would it be? Warhammer Online dev Paul Barnett’s asking the question over on his blog, and boy, it’s a doozey. Do you pick one for the shitty genre it spawned? For spoiling a franchise you once held dear? For plain old major suckage? Me, I’m going for Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Shenmue, you came second by *this* much, with Wing Commander Arena coming in third). What game would you unmake? [Paul’s blog, via MMOG Nation] [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:10:55 +0000

My first thought was also about Shadowrun.
I was very astonished when you mentioned it aswell!
It is an awesome IP. I can hardly believe what has been made of it until now (regarding computer games aswell as movies). It is really a pitty.
Same for Cyberpunk.

I remember two SR video games, both pretty solid, but they are more than ten years old.

By: Cameron Sorden

Cameron Sorden — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:51:25 +0000

There WAS a Shadowrun RPG.

And it rocked.

They should remake it or do a modern sequel.

By: funcro

funcro — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:56:54 +0000

Easy: Halo. Halo has had enormous effects on the entire industry, and I haven’t liked a single one of those effects.

A close runner up is WoW. It is becoming increasingly clear that there isn’t room on the PC platform for much beyond casual games and WoW. That’s a sad state of affairs.

Third place goes to Doom. Doom begat the horde of mindless FPS clones and sequels under which we currently find ourselves buried.

Understand that I enjoyed each of these games in their time, and that my desire to unmake them doesn’t stem from any criticisms of the games or their construction. Hindsight, however, reveals their effects on the gaming ecosystem to be more negative than positive, to my eyes.

By: Alan De Smet

Alan De Smet — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:38:14 +0000

Shenmue.

I have no idea why people keep bringing it up as a classic. It was crap when it shipped and looking back on it it’s still crap. Sure, it’s open ended. You can collect toys and play video games all you like. But what’s the real game play? A big chunk is quick reponse events, a plague that now infests far too much of our gameplay. Any sudden “Quick hit this button, or else we’ll make you redo this section” is utter bullshit and Shenmue was full of them. The combat system was mediocre. As an adventure game it was simplistic. And, wow, a game where you can, and indeed must, get a boring job moving crates around. I’ve frequently watched a kung-fu movie in which the hero much avenge their father’s death and thought, “This is okay, but what would really make it rock would be hours of forklift driving.” Add in a multi-game storyline that we will likely never the end of of. All the time spent on the weather simulation, which is admitedly nice, could have been spent on delivering a complete story without the endless padding.

So what would happen in a world without Shenmue? At the very least, generally very good Resident Evil 4 would have been better for not having those blasted quick response events.