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All Gamers Turned Into You....... What Would Gaming Be Like?
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Endless Fluff
Banned
The Dreamcast would've been a success and SEGA would be king. EA and Ubisoft would've closed doors by now... I've only bought one game in the past years from them (Mario&Rabbids and Battlefield 4).
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
This sounds like a great idea!
In 2002 EA released a game called Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat which featured cheat codes to unlock multiple bikinis for its large chested female pirate protagonist.
It's funny to contrast that with the modern EA of Battlefield V.
Silent Duck
Member
Online multiplayer would be dead. We would only play local multiplayer.
We wouldn’t want to deal with 30+ year old children crying and screaming into their headsets when people snipe their twitchy asses in a free for all game. Then have them report you for “unsportsman like conduct”.
Note: It’s not camping to setup a sniping postion (which would be compromised after the first shot taken). If you’re too stupid to keep running into the same spot over and over, that would be your problem.
Incoming angry posts in 3... 2... 1...
We wouldn’t want to deal with 30+ year old children crying and screaming into their headsets when people snipe their twitchy asses in a free for all game. Then have them report you for “unsportsman like conduct”.
Note: It’s not camping to setup a sniping postion (which would be compromised after the first shot taken). If you’re too stupid to keep running into the same spot over and over, that would be your problem.
Incoming angry posts in 3... 2... 1...
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EXcluding fighting games, there would be no online game at all, and even then, there woukd be a lot less emphasis on e-sports, tournaments, etc. Those things would be back just as they started: as hobbies, and most players would have to find a REAL job, living a real life.
All the games would be lenghty, cinematic, intense, immersive sims, single player only. Games like the Deus Ex saga, God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption, etc.
There would be a lot less open-world games, and many more level based games.
Customization would be 100％ free.
Loot boxes, gambling, cashgrab mechanics, etc would be banned and persecuted the same way as piracy.
Mobile gaming would be just a couple good java games and a lot of retrogaming emulation on the go.
The only successgul genres would be fighting, first and third person shooters, action games, action adventure, RPG, action RPG, JRPG, cinematic experiences (Quantic Dream games), point and clicks, survival horror, dungeon crawlers, Tactical shooters, platformers.
Sports game would be released once per fneration and will be mega-patched every year for a minimum wage, unless there is a total graphic and gameplay overhaul, no longer copypasted Fifa, PES, NBA, WWE games with updates rosters released as full games, just patches for a price if 9.99 €.
Correct value currency transiction according to the stock exchange fluctuations: I am sick of spending 10€ for something that costs 10$.
10$＝8€ or slightly more, I don't wanna pay a good 20％ more for the sane good bought under dufferent currency.
The same offers for all the markets: for the reasons above, I am sick and tired to make alternative accounts just to buy at a discounted price for the US or JAP store.
Fan Patches and Mods would ve allowed on consoles too.
All digital goods would be tax-free.
All licenses have no expiration times.
All games should be released with the english language incorporated from day one, even japanese ones. All the other languages options should be kept as optional. At least Multi-10 should be mandatory (ENG, SPA, FRE, DEU, POR, ITA, JAP, RUS, CHI, HIN).
Public founding of indy developers.
No politics in videogames, like, at all (except punching/killing Nazis, it's too much fun).
All the games would be lenghty, cinematic, intense, immersive sims, single player only. Games like the Deus Ex saga, God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption, etc.
There would be a lot less open-world games, and many more level based games.
Customization would be 100％ free.
Loot boxes, gambling, cashgrab mechanics, etc would be banned and persecuted the same way as piracy.
Mobile gaming would be just a couple good java games and a lot of retrogaming emulation on the go.
The only successgul genres would be fighting, first and third person shooters, action games, action adventure, RPG, action RPG, JRPG, cinematic experiences (Quantic Dream games), point and clicks, survival horror, dungeon crawlers, Tactical shooters, platformers.
Sports game would be released once per fneration and will be mega-patched every year for a minimum wage, unless there is a total graphic and gameplay overhaul, no longer copypasted Fifa, PES, NBA, WWE games with updates rosters released as full games, just patches for a price if 9.99 €.
Correct value currency transiction according to the stock exchange fluctuations: I am sick of spending 10€ for something that costs 10$.
10$＝8€ or slightly more, I don't wanna pay a good 20％ more for the sane good bought under dufferent currency.
The same offers for all the markets: for the reasons above, I am sick and tired to make alternative accounts just to buy at a discounted price for the US or JAP store.
Fan Patches and Mods would ve allowed on consoles too.
All digital goods would be tax-free.
All licenses have no expiration times.
All games should be released with the english language incorporated from day one, even japanese ones. All the other languages options should be kept as optional. At least Multi-10 should be mandatory (ENG, SPA, FRE, DEU, POR, ITA, JAP, RUS, CHI, HIN).
Public founding of indy developers.
No politics in videogames, like, at all (except punching/killing Nazis, it's too much fun).
brian0057
Banned
- Swap Todd Howard with Julian La Fey.
- Take the money wasted by Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding and give to Otherside Entertainment along with Warren Spector.
- Cut in half the budget for the Final Fantasy series and give the other half to Eidos Montreal (the only good thing Square has).
- Patrice Desile makes Assassin's Creed great again.
- Get Creative Assembly to make Alien: Isolation 2.
- EA never gets (or looses) the exclusive rights to make Star Wars games.
- Respawn gets the rights to Call of Duty.
- Reunite Team Silent.
- Naughty Dog keeps making Crash Bandicoot (the only good games they've ever made).
- Ubisoft stops making Rainbow Six Siege DLC and makes a new Splinter Cell with Michael Ironside back as Fisher.
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Closer
Member
- Too many games looking like Yoshi's Island
- Too many games with 10+ endings, a la Chrono Trigger and Nier Automata
- Too many rhythm games
- High-competitive multiplayer galore
- Twitch Gameplay galore
- Stylish silly looking crazy combos
- No game is too serious
- No game is too dumb
- No game is too emotional
- Bayonetta would be in every. single. game. Araki Hirohiko and Kojima Ayami art and style are top reference.
Hell yeah.
- Too many games with 10+ endings, a la Chrono Trigger and Nier Automata
- Too many rhythm games
- High-competitive multiplayer galore
- Twitch Gameplay galore
- Stylish silly looking crazy combos
- No game is too serious
- No game is too dumb
- No game is too emotional
- Bayonetta would be in every. single. game. Araki Hirohiko and Kojima Ayami art and style are top reference.
Hell yeah.
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Silent Duck
Member
DarthBuzzer
Member
It would be the best case scenario, what can I say?
- People wouldn't be judgmental about anything in gaming when they haven't got the full story.
- Everyone would be embracing VR.
- Everyone would be willing to try new things.
- People would look for innovation and new things in gaming rather than rehashes.
- People would not stand up to loot boxes or any gameplay-oriented microtransactions.
- Socializing in VR would be the new discord.
- People wouldn't be judgmental about anything in gaming when they haven't got the full story.
- Everyone would be embracing VR.
- Everyone would be willing to try new things.
- People would look for innovation and new things in gaming rather than rehashes.
- People would not stand up to loot boxes or any gameplay-oriented microtransactions.
- Socializing in VR would be the new discord.
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kingwingin
Member
Gears of war sequals as far as the eye can see
JordanN
Banned
-Tons of experimental and original IPs.
-30fps is discouraged. 60fps becomes ideal.
-Bigger focus on gameplay. Cinematics are only thrown in if it relates to gameplay.
-VR goes mainstream
-No Feminism or SJW propaganda
-No paid internet services
-Handheld gaming makes a comeback.
-DLC is discouraged. Games are made to be playable on day 1.
-Less toxicity and no crunch in the game industry. Games are made to push art barriers, rather than spoonfeed shareholders.
-Gaming itself also becomes a lot more mature. No more pandering to kids, whales or casuals. It's now a medium for people who just want to relax, look at pretty things and have fun.
-30fps is discouraged. 60fps becomes ideal.
-Bigger focus on gameplay. Cinematics are only thrown in if it relates to gameplay.
-VR goes mainstream
-No Feminism or SJW propaganda
-No paid internet services
-Handheld gaming makes a comeback.
-DLC is discouraged. Games are made to be playable on day 1.
-Less toxicity and no crunch in the game industry. Games are made to push art barriers, rather than spoonfeed shareholders.
-Gaming itself also becomes a lot more mature. No more pandering to kids, whales or casuals. It's now a medium for people who just want to relax, look at pretty things and have fun.
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KINDERFELD
Banned
Castlevania series would still be around and their future 3D games would have been made using the template of Curse of Darkness
Silent Hill series would still be around.
Soul Reaver series would still be around.
Resistance series would still be around.
There would be a Battlefield Bad Company 3 and probably 4 by now.
Dragon's Dogma 2 would have been Deep Down and it would have been out by now.
Bloodborne would have a Pro patch that gives the option of 4K/30fps or 1080p/60fps and the frame pacing issue would have been fixed.
Metroid Prime Trilogy Remastered would have been announced for the Switch already.
Folklore 2 would have been made.
Silent Hill series would still be around.
Soul Reaver series would still be around.
Resistance series would still be around.
There would be a Battlefield Bad Company 3 and probably 4 by now.
Dragon's Dogma 2 would have been Deep Down and it would have been out by now.
Bloodborne would have a Pro patch that gives the option of 4K/30fps or 1080p/60fps and the frame pacing issue would have been fixed.
Metroid Prime Trilogy Remastered would have been announced for the Switch already.
Folklore 2 would have been made.
strange headache
Banned
All the great developing studios would still be alive and kicking, bringing us the most creatively diverse games possible:
We would celebrate our developers like rock stars, but not the lame ones we have today, the good ones that we had in the past. They'd make so much money they would buy Lamborghinis, probably snort coke off prostitutes and do nerdy sh*t like owning a space company and buying random expensive hardware just for the fun of it. In short, they'd straddle the fine line between genius and insane, eccentrics with flaws who have stories to tell and meaningful sh*t to do rather than feeding us the same old sanitized PR speak.
We'd take our developers and their games like they are, judging them on their merit. We'd be spending our time talking and bickering about games, rather than fine combing their twitter feeds for stuff to be outraged about.
Once in a while these studios would go into a multi-year blackout, while secretly hammering and coding away on their newest project. No social media pressure from the outside compromising their creative vision and process. And then, from one day to the next, *BAM* they'd hit ya with their latest masterpiece... fresh new gameplay, deep themes and intriguing stories, colorful humor, violence, sex, drama, comedy, the whole spectrum of human emotion... anything goes baby!
In essence, every game studio would be like Pink Floyd, but for gaming.
- Bullfrog
- Psygnosis
- Westwood
- Origin Systems
- Maxis
- Visceral
- Carmack
- Warren Spector
- Molyneux
- Will Wright
- Chris Sawyer
- Chris Avellone
- Ron Gilbert
- David Braben
- Keiji Inafune
- Yoko Taro
- Hideo Kojima
- Sid Meyer
- Shigeru Miyamoto
We would celebrate our developers like rock stars, but not the lame ones we have today, the good ones that we had in the past. They'd make so much money they would buy Lamborghinis, probably snort coke off prostitutes and do nerdy sh*t like owning a space company and buying random expensive hardware just for the fun of it. In short, they'd straddle the fine line between genius and insane, eccentrics with flaws who have stories to tell and meaningful sh*t to do rather than feeding us the same old sanitized PR speak.
We'd take our developers and their games like they are, judging them on their merit. We'd be spending our time talking and bickering about games, rather than fine combing their twitter feeds for stuff to be outraged about.
Once in a while these studios would go into a multi-year blackout, while secretly hammering and coding away on their newest project. No social media pressure from the outside compromising their creative vision and process. And then, from one day to the next, *BAM* they'd hit ya with their latest masterpiece... fresh new gameplay, deep themes and intriguing stories, colorful humor, violence, sex, drama, comedy, the whole spectrum of human emotion... anything goes baby!
In essence, every game studio would be like Pink Floyd, but for gaming.
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Bonfires Down
Member
Sport games would be dead within a week 
Patrick S.
Banned
We'd play many Mass Effect games.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
- Original IP and Story (Like ps1 and ps2 era)
- No Football games
- Visual novels more to america and japan
- RPG, Surival Horror 90´s, JRPG, FPS, RTS, The main Genre
- No censored versions in any consoles.
- No Suscription in online mode, no lootbox or DLC
- Fortnite , PUBG, No man´s Sky and COD are detroyed and incinerated.
- More RPG originals and JRPG with anime and plot of 90´S 80´s
- No more "Youtubers games... or dumb games like Hello Neighbor , Emily wants to play, (X Simulator)"
- No more Only multiplayer games.... More Single player and Coop Split screen
- More Beat em up 90´s Style
- Arcade Zones in everywere
- Bankrupt to EA, Hello Games, and recovering Konami 90's Capcom 90´s
- Gravity rush in TV Show, Movies and Every year a new game
- Religious Cult to venerate our Gravity Queen Kat xD
- No Football games
- Visual novels more to america and japan
- RPG, Surival Horror 90´s, JRPG, FPS, RTS, The main Genre
- No censored versions in any consoles.
- No Suscription in online mode, no lootbox or DLC
- Fortnite , PUBG, No man´s Sky and COD are detroyed and incinerated.
- More RPG originals and JRPG with anime and plot of 90´S 80´s
- No more "Youtubers games... or dumb games like Hello Neighbor , Emily wants to play, (X Simulator)"
- No more Only multiplayer games.... More Single player and Coop Split screen
- More Beat em up 90´s Style
- Arcade Zones in everywere
- Bankrupt to EA, Hello Games, and recovering Konami 90's Capcom 90´s
- Gravity rush in TV Show, Movies and Every year a new game
- Religious Cult to venerate our Gravity Queen Kat xD
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Deputy Moonman
Member
There would be dozens of Ocarina of Time clones. Smash Bros. game play would slow back down to the original. And Halo would revert back to classic halo game play.
Ascend
Member
Story-driven games are the most popular
RPGs would be very common (both JRPG and WRPG)
Virtua Fighter 5 would still be active and we'd probably have gotten a sequel by now.
Online multiplayer titles are 3D fighters and racers only, no shooters.
Dead or Alive would be seen as a great fighter and not as a boob fest.
Mirror's Edge would be a much bigger franchise
Games subscription services would fail miserably
Most games would sell miserably in the first few weeks, since most games are only bought during sales.
No Feminist or other SJW nonsense in games
nVidia wouldn't exist
Playstation would be releasing very good 3D rendered movies on YouTube for free.
Nintendo's main franchise would be Pokemon.
Backwards compatibility would be mandatory for all consoles.
RPGs would be very common (both JRPG and WRPG)
Virtua Fighter 5 would still be active and we'd probably have gotten a sequel by now.
Online multiplayer titles are 3D fighters and racers only, no shooters.
Dead or Alive would be seen as a great fighter and not as a boob fest.
Mirror's Edge would be a much bigger franchise
Games subscription services would fail miserably
Most games would sell miserably in the first few weeks, since most games are only bought during sales.
No Feminist or other SJW nonsense in games
nVidia wouldn't exist
Playstation would be releasing very good 3D rendered movies on YouTube for free.
Nintendo's main franchise would be Pokemon.
Backwards compatibility would be mandatory for all consoles.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Team Silent would still be around making Silent Hill. Sonic Team would still be making games. Working Designs would have continued to make games. We would have seen RPG's and Action games from a particular creator rather than outsourced to different teams. ShenMue 3 would have been released as well as ShenMue 4-16 (all 16 chapters). The Versus franchise would have kept the X-Men characters for the fighting games. We would see a lot less of Guardians of the Galaxy. Mistwalker would have probably not existed because Salaguchi would still be at Square. Enix would might not have merged with Square.
BioHazard would have probably been darker and the original development team would have stayed on board.
As far as the west goes...
Gears of War would have never had Judgment and Epic would not have sold the IP. Epic would still make single player games. The Doctors from BioWare would still be working there and they would have created another universe to explore.
Irrational Games would have made another utopia to discover and unravel its mysteries. Developers wouldn't retire early and they would have stuck it out instead of following some multiplayer scramble to get to the top and make the most money. All the small smart phone game gimmicks would need to be a lot more intelligent and not just a clever time based game in order to get everyone's attention.
This feels like a wishing well.
BioHazard would have probably been darker and the original development team would have stayed on board.
As far as the west goes...
Gears of War would have never had Judgment and Epic would not have sold the IP. Epic would still make single player games. The Doctors from BioWare would still be working there and they would have created another universe to explore.
Irrational Games would have made another utopia to discover and unravel its mysteries. Developers wouldn't retire early and they would have stuck it out instead of following some multiplayer scramble to get to the top and make the most money. All the small smart phone game gimmicks would need to be a lot more intelligent and not just a clever time based game in order to get everyone's attention.
This feels like a wishing well.
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theclaw135
Banned
Prohibit additional Chrono Trigger re-localization projects. Enough already.
FeldMonster
Member
- Sony would have left the console market after the failure of PS1
- PC gaming would not exist at all
- No fps elitists, Everything would be 4K, 30 fps
- Japanese/anime games would not exist
- FPS games would be more popular
- FPS games with awful gunplay and weightless feel would adapt or die (looking at you Doom and COD)
- Nintendo would make consoles powerful enough to compete, or would be forced to go 3rd party
- Sega would still be making consoles
- Portable gaming would be nonexistent
- AKI wrestling engine games would continue to the present day
- Fighting games would get rid of illogical things like back to block (moving backwards makes you invincible?) and trading projectiles (a fireball and a bullet hitting each other, make neither exist?)
- Strict skill based matchmaking would be in all multiplayer games
- Single player campaign DLC/expansion packs would be very common, and profitable
- Excess CPU capacity would be used to make human like AI for campaign enemies and multiplayer bots
- Side scrolling beat em ups would still be a thing
hououinkyouma00
Member
- No censorship, including stuff like 18+ on consoles
- Japanese games dominate the industry
- Stuff like MGS, Silent Hill are still at their prime
- Microsoft never entered the console space.
- Sega stayed profitable and the while the Saturn may have failed in the west, the Dreamcast flourished.
- What would become Forza Horizon and Project Gotham Racing still existed but were Sega franchises.
- Battle Royale games are popular but not the juggernaut they are now where everybody chases Fortnite money.
- PC gaming remains the same, but without the elitist bullshit.
- Visual novels are profitable.
- The Vita didn’t fail
- Season passes didn’t exist
- Console multiplayer was free
- Arcades still exist, and not the D&B fruit ninja bullshit
- Game booklets still exist
- Digital games are put at a $50 price point for $60 games
- 4K wasn’t the focus. Devs instead focus on animations and 60fps gameplay for the majority of games.
- BoxBox is the top League streamer :3
Oof, even Halo/Destiny feel way better at 60fps. But to each their own.
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
2D hack 'n slash and beat 'em ups as far as the eye could see.
GigaFlareX
Neo Member
Full utopia.
All games would be day 1 worthy and profit is made more by sales numbers than high price tags.
Arcades alive and well, genres like SHMUPS, beat'em ups, action games like Castlevania, Contra are still incredibly popular.
No politics in games like it is today. More like it was in the 90's.
I could go on for a while.
Just basically whatever is considered sucky doesn't happen.
All games would be day 1 worthy and profit is made more by sales numbers than high price tags.
Arcades alive and well, genres like SHMUPS, beat'em ups, action games like Castlevania, Contra are still incredibly popular.
No politics in games like it is today. More like it was in the 90's.
I could go on for a while.
Just basically whatever is considered sucky doesn't happen.
The Sega Saturn and Dreamcast would have been successful. Nintendo would be dominating more than they already are. Microsoft and Sony would still be successful but maybe less so. Call of Duty, Battlefield wouldn't be sustainable. Microtransactions and MMOs wouldn't be either. Visual novels wouldn't sell worth a shit. Sports games would die off outside of stuff like SSX and NBA Street.
That said honestly I don't think it'd be good for gaming as a whole if every gamer had my tastes or any one person's taste really. It would have never left the 90s in my case. The industry needs variety and it'd have a lot of negative and even unintended consequences if my 'type' was in charge. This is a fun question but for anyone thinking that gaming would be some Utopia aren't really thinking about the question beyond face value I think.
That said honestly I don't think it'd be good for gaming as a whole if every gamer had my tastes or any one person's taste really. It would have never left the 90s in my case. The industry needs variety and it'd have a lot of negative and even unintended consequences if my 'type' was in charge. This is a fun question but for anyone thinking that gaming would be some Utopia aren't really thinking about the question beyond face value I think.
