What is the worst idea a game developer ever had?
Realtime turnbased combat.
Singlehandedly killed Gen 5 for me
>>335112519
Who the fuck did they think would want to play this game on a Wii
Who did they think owned a Wii and not a DS
>>335112519
Lfg tool:wow.
A single mechanic started a landslide that ruined a genre.
>>335112519
Amiibo locked content.
quick
time
events
>>335112884
I haven't even played WoW and I agree with this
>>335112884
this
a single tool that turned one of the greatest MMO's ever, along with most other MMOs to come, into a worldless, playerless matchmaking where there were no more communities and the sense of the world was gone.
>>335112519
All the crap they stacked onto Dead Space 3 ranks pretty high up their for me.
Sherlotta Is cute!
Remember where it all started, /v/?
>>335112519
If the main character in FF13 dies, the entire party wipes, if a side character dies you can res them. I cannot even understand what went through their heads.
>>335112884
came here to post this. it's amazing what streamlining can do.
>>335113065
>if this happened today there would be no controversy
>>335112790
>let's make all the optional content rely on online
>on a system that can only connect with routers that use an encryption so unsafe only an idiot would use it
>>335112884
>>335112990
>>335113198
It wouldn't even be so bad if it wasn't impossible to make a profit on an MMO without this feature now.
>>335113249
Except it kinda did with the paid mod idea, and there was a huge controversy.
>>335113138
I am convinced someone at SE saw Persona 3 and really wanted to make an ATB version of that battle system.
>>335113339
I wouldn't even mind if it was a simple online system, but it was an obtuse, repetitive flash game that you were only allowed to log into once every 24 hours.
You got a house to decorate but there was no way for anyone on your friends list to see it, only random people,
>>335112519
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter.
They put the ENTIRE GAME on a timer.
They put the entire game on a timer that increases not only as time passes but when you use abilities in combat.
>>335112661
You take that back motherfucker, Valkyria Chronicles was great.
>>335113339
take that back, WEP is my waifu
>>335113441
To be fair I think getting your main character killed being game over is stupid in SMT as well. Like in Strange Journey there is an attack that inflicts random status ailments to all party members, if your main guy gets petrify you automatically lose. So you either have to gamble or waste an equip slot on a petrify ring.
>>335112884
>>335112990
Except there still was a community in Wrath when LFG was introduced.
LFG isn't what killed the community, the game becoming boring did.
>>335113578
Opens her legs to anyone who asks forcefully and lets them in?
>>335113578
I take it you make a living out of breaking into people's connections.
When Activision literally changed the music from Biometal into shitty remixes of 2 Unlimited songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwLd6iS7XT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1AGeA7Dwc8
>>335113661
Not LFG in general but the tool that randomly matches you with people trying to do the same instance.
>>335113662
>asks forcefully
You don't even have to ask
>>335113641
At least in SMT it makes sense because your demons will abandon you if you get killed like an idiot. And in P3 your death triggers the third impact.
>>335113661
LFG was step 1. Back when it came out it was server only.
Step 2 was when LFG was made battlegroup wide. Still a little community, on ours we would all throw up our arms and despair when we got BR fucks from Warsong.
Step 3 and the final nail was when all battlegroups were merged and it went to every and any server.
>>335112519
>Lets allow the player to use an OP boss online with no nerfs added on.
Bullshit, ruins the fun, if bosses are playable online it should be a balanced version that won`t stack the odds in your favor.
>>335112884
what if I just done have friends that play WoW?
>>335113758
No I know what you're talking about, which is why I said "in Wrath when it was introduced".
You know why the community was still around even with the LFG system in Wrath? Because Wrath still had something that WoW has strayed away from until Legion, and that's a shared capital city for the xpac. That city simply existing causes people to hang out together.
>>335113831
In fairness, it was either that or just outright merge the servers permenantly like TOR did. Personally I think they should've just done that, but for some reason they don't want to.
>what if we made a turn based RPG with no EXP system whatsoever?
>and made literally every attack consumable?
>>335112790
This was absolutely retarded, it's like they were encouraging you to use Pokegen/sav instead.
>>335114060
What happens when you run out of attacks?
>>335114060
It's not even an RPG, it's a tangled web of fetch quests in a coat and hat trying to pretend it's an RPG
>>335114154
Nah, WoD was on paper a good idea.
Cataclysm was their worst idea, especially since the overarching villain, while someone very important lore-wise, was quite frankly a character most players didn't give a fuck about and thus didn;t care about beating.
>>335112884
You mean the cross server LFG right that came in Wrath right? I'm pretty sure LFG was put in and didn't cause any problems at all since it was server only at first.
>>335114149
Better run, bitch.
>>335114149
I think you get free really shitty attacks.
>>335113964
Avoiding server merges was purely a PR move. Server merging has huge negative connotations and a bunch of technical issues, so they avoided those by making cross-server tech.
>>335114276
No, cross server LFG wasn't introduced until 2011, nearly a year after Cata was out. Before that LFG was for your server only, which is why most people didn't mind it.
that stupid fucking mechanic where one person had to pick up and set down that aura thing constantly
it ruined what would otherwise be an amazing game for me
>>335114526
Also that you had to use a GBA with link cable and not just a GC controller
>>335114407
What? No Cross Server LFG was definitely in during Wrath because I stopped playing at the start of Cata and it was already there.
>>335114060
You got the wrong FF8 picture senpai
>>335114526
Or having to wait for that dumbass moogle to slowly haul it for you. You'd have to give him haircuts and shit so he'd move faster on the desert level but the haircuts took forever jesus christ what a horrible mechanic.
Game was great overall though, for its time.
>>335114561
>Cross-realm grouping, introduced between Patch 4.2.0a and Patch 4.2.2, is the ability to invite a character from another realm (of the same faction)
>4.2.0a
>August 8, 2011
>Catacylsm release date
>December 7, 2010
You're misremembering
>>335114556
yes this too
a lot of dumb decisions with this game
such a shame since the core of it was actually really great
Take what made Guild Wars great, then do a 180° turn.
>>335114680
You're wrong idiot. That's completely different mechanic. Patch 3.3 added the dungeon finder which was a cross-server dungeon matching system.
>>335114556
>>335114703
Have fun with 4 people using a menu based inventory on a 480i screen on your 18 inch CRT
>>335114748
Why does everyone but me have a hard time with this?
>>335114613
But FFVIII had multiple forms of exp, and only spells and items, most of which were useless in battle, were consumable.
>>335114748
That's not the lightning minigame.
>>335114890
yes I'm sure the only solution to that issue absolutely had to involve 4 individual handheld purchases
>>335114910
Its not even hard people just need to git gud
>>335114060
I'd call it a failed experiment, but I'd give them credit for attempting to do something different.
What's inexcusable is the fact that they made the exact same game again
I feel kinda bad for the guy who won
>>335115086
I didn't grow up in the ghetto so all my friends owned their own GBAs before the game even came out.
>>335115162
I had no idea about this until after the whole thing that blown over and been forgotten, reading about it was the most hilarious thing I'd seen in a long time.
Is Godus still in development? Did they ever get back to the guy?
>>335114556
>Had 3 controllers for games
>Think there should be no issue
>Need 2 working GBA's and a stupid fucking cable
>Can't play co-op
>Stuck with the faggot moogle that forces you to pick the chalice up from time to time.
>>335115174
so did we but that doesn't mean I'll defend essentially 400$ in peripheral purchases to enjoy a single game
don't let that nostalgia stop you from fucking that chicken though anon, godspeed
>it happened over a decade ago so it's ok
bless your heart
>>335115082
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te-ihMHRtJ8
I still think the 0:00 time is more of a shit, the lightning bolt isn't that bad when you know how to trigger a bolt
Fuck the birds and the balloon hit detection
>>335115248
Last I heard about it was an interview with Molyneux where he basically said "oh right, that thing. Yeah we kinda forgot about that"
>>335112790
I never even used it, BW2 are still my favorites
>>335115174
They should remaster the game for the WiiU
Of course the purchase of a Nintendo New 3DS would be necessary, for each player.
That's not a problem for you though, is it anon?
"Lets make this gun look like an AR-15"
t.every_game_that_has_guns
Sony exclusivity
>>335115346
I just looked it up.
>Speaking to The Guardian, Molyneux explained that the person in charge of keeping in contact with Henderson [the guy who won and was promised a ton of money] left the company and no one was ever reassigned the position, an act which Molyneux called "inexcusable"
Holy fucking shit. How do you just let something like that happen?
>>335115934
I almost feel bad for Molyneux. He's such a happy, excitable guy and nothing that he gets excited over ever works out for him.
Lord of Verminion
>>335116385
Realm Reborn in general
>>335116018
He's like David Cage or John Romero, the kind of guys who need 20 sensible people holding them down at all times lest something like Daikatana or the latter half of any David Cage game happen.
>>335112519
Using a FPS on skyrim, ruining the melee potential.
>>335114407
I think maybe the other issue is that, not having LFG forces you to interact with people and sometimes make friends. So there was some lag between the introduction of LFG and its negative consequences kicking in. Which is why, like horse armor, it didn't seem to be a complete disaster up front.
>>335112884
That was a good idea with bad execution though. Having some sort of group builder would have been better.
>>335112519
Online gimmicks in single player games, especially when they shut down the online portion
Looking at you Shiren the Wanderer and your rescue mechanics
>>335114237
>Nah, WoD was on paper a good idea.
You mean adding time travel parallel dimension bullshit to the mess that Warcraft lore already had become was a good idea?
>>335112519
The concept of this game could have been OK: do a higher resolution version that takes more advantage of the Wii hardware and put better textures with it that could also interact with the DS version.
Straight out porting the game to Wii with the shitty interface and just shit port in general is one of the laziest things I have seen a developer do.
>>335112519
Exclusives. Microtransactions. Day1-DLC. Walled-garden distribution.
Though that's on the publishers.
>>335112790
>Try it out.
>Loads of shitty flash games.
>Transferring your Pokemon can be a bit too annoying and many times would fail to connect.
>Forced to play shitty flash games in order to get any of the rare Pokemon with HA.
>Berry system is TIED DIRECTLY TO IT IN GEN 5 WHAT THE FUCK.
>You are limited by how much you can do in a single day.
>A lot of shit in Gen 5 was tied to online.
>Went down pretty much as soon as Gen 6 came out.
Dream World was honestly one of the biggest fuck ups gamefreak did to the Pokemon franchise, and like the poster before said it was one of the main reasons I hate B&W (BW2 is pretty good though).
>>335119380
There was a program you could run which would automatically beat all the games for you by exploiting flash or something. I used it once or twice.
>>335112962
QTEs are perfectly fine when you want the player to do something during a point where they would normally just watch a cutscene. It's when developers replace actual gameplay with QTEs is the problem.
>>335114526
Why does that guy have spike cage boobs?
>>335118908
It WAS a good idea on paper
Remember that the whole point was to wipe the slate clean and start again
But Blizzard had to fuck it up right from the get go.thanks Metzen,you fucking hack
>>335119756
Except that the addition of presumably infinite parallel universes removes any sense of stakes left in the world.
>>335119505
>Press X rapildly for 5 seconds for this cutscene not to restart
Shenmue is literally the only games where QTEs are acceptable, because in that game it was actually SUPPOSED to represent sudden, jarring shit that you might fail.
>>335120219
>Failing certain QTE's is instant death
Thanks Resident Evil 4
Level scaling.
>>335120641
>I only play on casual baby easymode and should stomp the entire game!
k
>>335121175
Level scaling makes games easier
>>335121342
Level scaling DOWN makes games easier.
>>335121581
Level scaling up makes games easier. If you ever have to backtrack or enter what was originally a lower level area (see oblivion dungeons) the enemies are leveled upwards and drop leveled loot. So you don't have to try at all to stay up to date on equipment or experience.
