79f374 No.785
You're elected president of Video Games. You can now put a genre or game idea on moratorium for a few years. Anyone attempting to make a game that fits the genre will be hanged. What do?
I'd remove every game that claims to be "Minecraft with guns" and every open world zombie survival game.
0c13fc No.786
Can we have an embargo on mechanics, too?
If so: crafting. To watch all the cash-grabbing fucks without an original thought in their heads squirm.
79f374 No.790
>>786You mean in-game crafting or the shitty valve crafting where you combine items to make more expensive items?
84614e No.794
>>785Arena shooters, "survival horror", mmorpgs, and walking simulators.
c22934 No.796
Minecraft-core, shitty horror games, COD ripoffs, walking simulators, zombie games
376383 No.802
>>796it fucking boggles me that nobody has made a minecraft clone that doesnt suck in the laat five years.
74e189 No.808
>>790Anywhere it's used to extend a mediocre product, whether it's part of the core gameplay (because hurf durf it worked for Minecraft), or it's bolted on.
It shits me that only RPGs - predominantly only Western ones, at that - rarely tried to implement crafting systems into their worlds with things like alchemy, but now you can't play even FPSs without tripping over this flavour of the month crap.
1659d6 No.809
>>790>>808I don't play games with crafting much (or ever - I'd struggle to name one I've played anyway), so what's a game that had a good crafting system? Because the alchemy sort of thing sounds really interesting.
>now you can't play even FPSs without tripping over this flavour of the month crapDo you mean the Dead Island sort where you can attach a knife onto a baseball bat and so on? (I don't know if you can attach a knife to a baseball bat but it's something like that, isn't it?)
7b951c No.810
moba is now punishable by raep
04618d No.811
>>810being in the same country as a moba developer is also punishable by raep
c23e83 No.812
>>785Let's-play baits.
>>802Does Terraria count?
6ee6a3 No.825
>>802It's because minecraft is barely a game, it's a platform for modders
The modders are what holds that game up, and almost any mod imaginable can be made for it, and everyone is familiar with it
Why bother making a clone when the twist that would make it unique probably exists for minecraft already
edf8f5 No.841
I don't think it's likely another Crysis will come out any time soon, but I'd ban it just to be sure. I've never seen such soulless sellout sequels.
819140 No.865
>>809>I don't play games with crafting much (or ever - I'd struggle to name one I've played anyway)That's just my problem with it, anon. I've nothing against the mechanic itself - I think it can be implemented well and it
can add a lot to a game. It just pisses me off that every second developer seems to have only just
discovered it and is intent on shoehorning it into their whatever.
The only one I can actually name off the top of my head, after all my ranting, is Arcanum. And I always thought that was way too fiddly (tech schematic master race, represent).
>>812>Let's-play baits.Can you give an example? My hobbies don't include watching retarded people on YouTube.
0ce093 No.867
>>865A good example of Lets-play bait would be Goat Simulator. It's an intentionally shitty "game" that nobody would have bought if it wasn't for "wacky and quirky" streamers jumping on the bandwagon.
1659d6 No.868
>>865>ArcanumLooks like a neat game. I'll check it out.
>LP baitFly in the House is the latest one. Basically a game that nobody wants to play or buy just to play themselves but people will watch others play - which will make people buy them (why I don't know). Usually it involves oh-so-hilarious physics and some stupid gimmick. Low quality, quick to make and easy to sell. Streamers like them because they usually get to act over the top and their viewers enjoy it a lot more (which is why they play horror games a lot - people pretending to be scared).
d7496a No.872
MMORPGs. If the genre can't last five years without new entries then it doesn't deserve to.
e1e7bc No.896
>>867>>868>LP baitI'm sorry I asked - I would've preferred to remain ignorant of such inane shit.
Remember when those kind of brainfarts were contained to Newgrounds and were actually fun for five minutes?
79f374 No.902
>>896thanks to Steam Greenlight, flash games aren't free anymore; you get to pay for them.
2d6f50 No.904
Whatever the new Final Fantasy games are nowadays, it must be forbidden!
50a2fe No.908
For good alchemy system, try Witcher 1. Be warned though, combat is old and clunky.
1659d6 No.909
>>904Do you mean the battle system where it's an action game with a long wait between attacks? It's sort of turn-based and is freely merged with the overworld.
It seems so pointless to have a turn-based system that isn't turn-based. FFXII had it as well and the issue is you don't get to control the rest of your party properly (unless you keep pausing and telling them what to do - so it ends up like a more awkward FFVII system), the gambits are hit and miss depending on what you've got the ability to buy (awful for a long time when it comes to black mages) and the ability to move freely is completely useless. I still liked it but I'm not sure how that sort of system could be improved.
>>908I've been meaning to give it a go once I have a decent PC set-up.
>>902They need to quality check the games they sell. They won't but they should.
1df4c0 No.914
>>909>They need to quality check the games they sellWhy? They've got the perfect delivery model: customers throw money at something based on expectations, and they're the ones that get burned if the title isn't up to expectations. Individual developers might gain a bad reputation, but the system as a whole? That would require steam users to exhibit a modicum of restraint with their wallets.
1659d6 No.916
>>914A store that sells broken products is a shit one. Shows they honestly don't give a shit if the customer gets a decent product or not.
058685 No.919
>>916I'm not debating that. But if they're the only store within a thousand miles, they can afford to not give a shit, because people won't go elsewhere.
058685 No.920
>>919Wait, no - I made a shitty analogy there.
It's more like Gaben's got himself a chain of big box stores, and people know that a lot of the things there are shit, but it's just so much more
convenient to shop there.
Who cares if someone gets food poisoning from the shitty instore cafe's tuna sandwich? What are they gonna do - just up and shop at the mom and pop bakery half the town away?
1659d6 No.921
>>919>>920I misunderstood. Sure, I agree, plenty of companies don't bother holding themselves to a higher standard because they simply don't have to, they're still making a profit.
I should have said 'they should quality check the games they sell'.
751c48 No.964
somehow manage to find a way to remove every single ASSFAGGOTS