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March 4, 2008 - Tuesday 

I was asked an interesting question yesterday, obviously it's an intellectual bit of none sense but never-the-less I had some fun thinking about it.

What computer game would you unmake for the betterment of mankind.

By 'unmake' I mean it never happened, it never got thought about and thus all the none sense that followed, the games it influenced and so forth never come about.

So be careful with your choice, I mean you may end up killing off entire branches of game development, or are you just terminating a game you dislike, one you wasted too much time on? Would the world be better off if Myst never happened? Do we end up at a better place if Donkey Kong Conga never got made, are we happier as a race if we never got to play Populous? Imagine games without sim city? Interesting thoughts...

So, what game would you unmake?

Tony Carbs
Tony Allen

 
Easy. Dance Dance Revolution. I'd even pay some demonic power to make it happen, if you happen to know of any.
 
Posted by Tony Carbs on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 8:40 PM
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Corwin
Corwin Walls

 
Two Worlds man that was a bad game.
 
Posted by Corwin on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 8:52 PM
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J
Jeremy Duniec

 
SWG........


its such a mark on th MMO and Star Wars name that it makes me sick the people out there still havent found a better game




and Two Worlds.



but that a given..


cheers!
 
Posted by J on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 9:36 PM
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Tilmi
Tilman Riedel

 
that´s easy for me: gothic 3. no discussion. it was bad. afte tons of patches it was still bad. and it was one of my greatest disappointments, because i loved the gothic 1 and 2.
 
Posted by Tilmi on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 9:37 PM
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Tilmi
Tilman Riedel

 
that´s easy for me: gothic 3. no discussion. it was bad. afte tons of patches it was still bad. and it was one of my greatest disappointments, because i loved gothic 1 and 2.
 
Posted by Tilmi on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 9:37 PM
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Angie
angie Pickens Webb

 
I would unmake Kung-Fu Master! Then there would have been more time for puzzle and adventure games. Just too much punching and hitting and stuff. Not very interesting.
Kung-fu Master; i dont like it.

And the little logic in my head says that Dance Dance Revolution would have lead to Guitar Hero which lead to Rock Band which is increadible!!!! So lets keep the Dance Dance Revolution, please?
 
Posted by Angie on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 10:29 PM
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Niles

 
I would unmake the plans to can Shadowbane 2...

The first is probably the best, barring all the bugs, PvP game that's ever been made.

We would re-raise Scorned Death's banners and set about conquering servers again.
 
Posted by Niles on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 10:47 PM
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Morbieus
Robert Shaver

 
I would undo Halo... mediocre story, no real challenge, especially once ported to computer. How can you miss with a HUGE retivle, and mouse and keyboard controls. Then all the crappy FPS games that were made cause ot it...
 
Posted by Morbieus on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 10:50 PM
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Brennan James

 
Well, that actually is a good question. I would have to say honestly World of Warcraft. Because it served no purpose for me. I used up god knows how much money just to play, and when i pretty much have nothing to do when i hit max level, i make a new guy and redo everything. If it did never come out I would have more money and not think about all the memories with it and the need to go back.
Don't think I will ever play it again though, especially in the 3, 4 whatever it is months when the real mmo king comes.
 
Posted by Brennan James on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 11:09 PM
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Brennan James

 
Well, that actually is a good question. I would have to say honestly World of Warcraft. Because it served no purpose for me. I used up god knows how much money just to play, and when i pretty much have nothing to do when i hit max level, i make a new guy and redo everything. If it did never come out I would have more money and not think about all the memories with it and the need to go back.
Don't think I will ever play it again though, especially in the 3, 4 whatever it is months when the real mmo king comes.
 
Posted by Brennan James on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 11:10 PM
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not

 
That is a really interesting question. The problem is, even bad, horrible and unmentionable games have an impact on the creation of other games. So, the only games safe to unmake would be games that almost no-one has heard of, which kind of eliminates the need to unmake them.

Nice catch-22 you have there Yossarian.
 
Posted by not on March 4, 2008 - Tuesday - 11:33 PM
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Grady
Grady ̛͖͈̫͔̰̜̺̿̍̍͑́ͅP̵̲̪͕̈́ͦ͋̓͋̒hillips

 
I think its interesting that people are saying this, and I bet without WoW MMO's wouldn't have grown so much.

Two Worlds, yes. Rented that piece of crap and got 4 minutes of gameplay....all of which SUCKED.
 
Posted by Grady on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 12:10 AM
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Melanie

 
Pretty much. I mean, DUDE. There were *never* any popular MMOs before WoW. Good thing that game got the ball rolling.
 
Posted by Melanie on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 6:34 AM
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Doom Blade
Doom Blade

 
E.T. on Atari 2600!!!

Omg this game was so... nonesense!! AND BAD!! And... I guess it traumatized me as a kid to be stuck on the first stages for HOURS (I was really young) without being able to go left or right... and seeing theonly thing ET could do was to lift his head to get off the ground...

Who could even THINK you had to go out of the first screen from the TOP!

So yeah... E.T.

Not sure how many of todays gamers have played this game so it might not have that huge of an impact on the Gaming Industry.
 
Posted by Doom Blade on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 1:18 AM
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Desmond
desmond moore

 
This is a fantastic thought experiment. I guess if I were able to unmake any game out there, it would have to be the most recent incarnation of Shadowrun. They took a very colorful and interesting intellectual property and butchered it into a mediocre form of a genre it should never of been introduced to.
 
Posted by Desmond on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 3:13 AM
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Kyle

 
What a question...

As much as it would be interesting, I don't think I could unmake WoW...

I think I'd have to go with unmaking SWG, I don't think it'd have a gigantic impactic on the market...it didn't really push any envelopes that I can think of...and it was a disgrace....

Now...if we are allowed to unmake any game, regardless of type...unmaking M:tG could be interesting ;)
 
Posted by Kyle on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 3:36 AM
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Steven

 
Madden NFL

same game every year.....except new menus and roster updates...-.-
 
Posted by Steven on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 5:45 AM
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Melanie

 
Everquest. I'd like those seven years of my life back, please.

Yeah, I know it'd probably unmake (or at the very least delay) the MMO market, but hay- real life is pretty sweet and I wish I'd figured that out in high school.

(And damn it, when WAR comes out? The cycle, it will continue.)
 
Posted by Melanie on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 6:34 AM
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J
Jeremy Duniec

 
...I said somthing right for a change.......I am saving this...thx guys....
 
Posted by J on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 8:07 AM
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steadyhand

 
GTA 3- san adrase (or however its spelt) to stop the hot coffie thing every happening and knock on effcts it had, that way the industry might have moved forword a lot more in peoples minds and have grown a lot more and not have to worry about what they put into thier games or at lest it not be such a mess like it is now
 
Posted by steadyhand on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 3:58 PM
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B. 6

 
Manhunt

Pointless slaughter with a poor "story-line" which caused no end of controversy for the games industry and fuelled right-wing America's fear of everything non-W.A.S.P and pure.
 
Posted by B. 6 on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 5:59 PM
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Dominic

 
I'd have to say Vanguard. I think it ruined the reputations of several people, and might also have turned some consumers against the MMO genre . . . until WAR comes out!
 
Posted by Dominic on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 7:45 PM
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Scratch

 
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Never played it, but I loved all the reviews. I recommend everyone check them out on YouTube and such.

You're WINNER!
 
Posted by Scratch on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 9:40 PM
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Vanguard.

Still not done.
 
Posted by on March 5, 2008 - Wednesday - 10:49 PM
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Ruslan
Jeff Jones

 
VANGUARD SAGA OF HEROES, the crappiest of all MMOs on the face of this planet, this class 9 stupidity game has more holes than a 9 ounce sponge, and has more crap than a field of cows. I think god would feel better if Vanguard never came to existance.
 
Posted by Ruslan on March 6, 2008 - Thursday - 5:32 AM
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I wouldn't mind if Hunter: The Reckoning got unmade. Or that crappy RPG Vampire: The Masquerade game that was on the PC.
 
Posted by on March 6, 2008 - Thursday - 5:19 PM
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hallower

 
Everquest.

I loved it, and it did so much to get MMOs going. But without it, perhaps MMOs would have been less about grinding than about playing... about thoroughly enjoying every individual experience, rather than endlessly repeating mildly-amusing actions in shallow scenarios to achieve yet another fleeting reward churned out on the assembly line. So much potential wasted.
 
Posted by hallower on March 6, 2008 - Thursday - 11:52 PM
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Mickey
Michael Williams

 
ET. After all, it has been claimed to be the game which heralded the video game decline. Without it, video games may have been even more popular now than they already are!

That, or Final Fantasy, because without that people might appreciate GOOD RPG's like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment and Mass Effect instead of RPG's which are actually just movies with the only RP elements being that you level up and change equipment. Dialogue options? Pah! Non-linear gameplay? What!?

Sorry...I just don't see the appeal.
 
Posted by Mickey on March 7, 2008 - Friday - 2:08 AM
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Michael Smith
Michael Smith

 
Guitar hero.
 
Posted by Michael Smith on March 7, 2008 - Friday - 2:20 AM
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The Real Abe
Abe Pralle

 
We must save humanity! For consideration:

- Infocom's "Cornerstone". Okay, fine, it's database software... but it's the albatross that killed a great game industry pioneer.

- Pac Man and (as people have mentioned) ET for the 2600... the double whammy that killed video games for a while. But if that hadn't happened, would Nintendo have ever gotten their chance to shine?

- Ultima 8... or Strike Commander. I don't have a personal grudge against them, but I imagine either or both of them marked the beginning of the downfall for Origin. It was like Episodes I-III coming out... everyone was kinda like "hmm".

- Star Flight. If this great game hadn't blown PC gaming open, our technology would be 5-10 years ahead of what it currently is... we'd have evolved from Amiga and ST instead of having to wait for crappy PC tech to catch up.

In the end though, I'll have to go with Madden football. Man, EA was so cool in the beginning before they got lost in sports titles.
 
Posted by The Real Abe on March 7, 2008 - Friday - 6:09 AM
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yan

 
Matrix online
What a cluster fuck of a game - so many bandwagons to leap on so many basic conceptual mistakes. you're in a ship plugged in to the matrix by someone else and you're actively trying to betray you're controller... er just so wrong at so many levels.
 
Posted by yan on March 7, 2008 - Friday - 11:06 AM
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Edward

 
I had to think about this for a while, but I would have Final Fantasy 8 unmade. I think the series went down hill from this game forward for introducing such things as:

-cut scenes every 10 minutes
-electron microscope level mini management of characters' abiliites
-no ability to skip summon creature animations
-suicide thought inducing emo lead characters
-forgettable side quests (card games wtf?)
-a new combat system for building up magic strength that did not make sense and made the game boring and harder to play
 
Posted by Edward on March 8, 2008 - Saturday - 6:25 PM
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Marcus
Marcus Cooke

 
Starwars Super Bombbad Racing.

Oversized heads in undersized vehicles, honestly just ruined the whole StarWars image for me. Plus i cant think of any game that would have benefitted from it being made.
 
Posted by Marcus on March 9, 2008 - Sunday - 11:16 PM
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C

 
I'm torn between Might and Magic VII and Might and Magic VIII.

MMVIII is OBVIOUSLY the lesser work, but VII was the first to begin to sully a franchise that was completely revived in glorious style with MMVI.
 
Posted by C on March 12, 2008 - Wednesday - 3:46 PM
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Makeshift

 
XTreme Paintbrawl. This title nearly destroyed the gaming industry after showing just how much money companies could stand to make by putting a couple months worth of work into a single game title for which they had no standards and slapped a 15 dollar price tag on it. 1998 and '99 proved to be good years to release budget titles targeted at gullible casual gamers and showed the industry that under-developed games with low price tags could make net profits significantly higher than those of triple-A titles that took years to develop.
Months after the release of XTreme Paintbrawl, I remember hearing stories about how some companies started axing projects and fired entire development teams in favor of opening budget titled game studios. It was a truly grim time in gaming history and one that I was worried might actually kill it off entirely up until Warcraft III was released to overwhelming success, proving that triple-A titles were not a waste of resources.
 
Posted by Makeshift on March 14, 2008 - Friday - 12:44 AM
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Dale
Dale Stewart

 
The Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen II while it had a compelling story the graphics and gameplay were horrible when compared to others in the series, or even other genres. It was full of glitches and under produced... which, to me, is sad as I'm a huge fan of the series.
 
Posted by Dale on March 18, 2008 - Tuesday - 9:19 PM
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Ken

 
Any of the Sonic the Hedgehog games after SEGA's crash.
 
Posted by Ken on March 20, 2008 - Thursday - 12:29 PM
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Mike B
Mike Bologna

 
I would unmake anything that happened to Star Wars Galaxies lets say.. 6 months after it launched.

At Launch it was such a fun game, and I know people will spam on and on about how they BROKE it, or how it's not BROKE and people give it too much a hard time- whatever.

Personally- I loved it in the beginning, and then after they changed the mechanics, I didn't love it anymore... kind of like when this girlfriend I had wore these god awful red boots one day.. had to dump her... right there. dump.

same thing with galaxies.
 
Posted by Mike B on March 31, 2008 - Monday - 12:12 AM
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