If you could change one thing in gaming history, what would it be?

[Weiss]

Personally, I'd make it so that Rare never left Nintendo. I love all their old IPs.

In this halcyon world we'd have:

- Banjo and Kazooie in Smash Bros.

- An actual Banjo-Threeie.

- Perfect Dark on Gamecube.

- Killer Instinct as Nintendo's other Fighting Game series.

- Dinosaur Planet wouldn't have had Star Fox characters tacked on and people would see that it's actually an awesome game.

 

[Fat4all]

i dunno, but it probably would have something to do with Sega

 

[headspawn]

MS should've bought SEGA and left them autonomous.

 

[Antony]

Dreamcast winning

 

[X1 Two]

Replace the d-pad with four buttons

 

[Kapryov]

Stop Horse Armour from releasing

 

[alr1ght]

Call of Duty 4 and its influence on RPG mechanics in everything. It's the worst.

 

[Crayon]

I'd like it if everyone pushed back on paid online from the start and it went away before it ever started.

 

[bdwnfn99]

The Mother/EarthBound series finds commercial success and we still get new games in the series today

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

Probably tell Sony the cell would be a disaster.

 

[RexNovis]

Smack some sense in to Sega and their advertising / market planning circa the Saturn and Dreamcast. The latter especially deserved better.

 

[crimzonflame]

Arcades never dying

 

[ComputerBlue]

People being okay with paying to play online on Xbox, or the idea of the paywall ever being thought of by anyone and introduced.

 

[Oddhouse]

Great question !

Microsoft to not have closed Lionhead. RIP.

EA not have taken over Bioware.

Loot boxes not to have become a game mechanic which alters gameplay decisions.

Crypto currencies not sent graphics cards prices sky high pushing up cost of gaming machines.

Console makers going with AMD who lag Nvidia.

 

[BlueManifest]

The Nintendo Sony partnership, the snes with cd drive

 

[cervanky]

Everything to do with Sega after like....1992. The Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast infighting nonsense...oof. So I'm not sure what singular event I'd change specifically...maybe for them to develop a Saturn that was more like the PlayStation, instead of what it was - a powerful 2D arcade machine forced into being 3D when it was apparent Nintendo and Sony were going all-in.

 

[Deleted member 1190]

I'd make it so Valve didn't abandon the Half-Life series.

That Ep 2 ending still hurts

 

[FrostyLemon]

Nintendo using CDs for the N64.

 

[TheBeardedOne]

No motion controls

 

[Log!]

Make it so Call of Duty 4 wasn't half as popular as it was.

 

[unagi]

Respawn was bought by Microsoft, not by EA
The start of Xbox One, no TV TV TV, DRM and all Microsoft exclusives only on Xbox One
Cancellation of Scalebound

 

[ShaggsMagoo]

The Nintendo Sony partnership, the snes with cd drive

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Yeah, you have to wonder how different the industry would be nowadays had Nintendo not pulled the shit they did with that.

 

[Deleted member 16609]

i dunno, but it probably would have something to do with Sega

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Yup

 

[skeezx]

3DO dominates the 90s. releases the 3D0miNATION console years later to roaring success. panasonic buys out everybody, eventually MS. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Origins tops 2017 with 50 million units sold, not counting digital

 

[ConanEdogawa]

Sega being much more successful and never leaving the console business

 

[Stalker]

Call of Duty 4 and its influence on RPG mechanics in everything. It's the worst.

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What RPG mechanics are in cod 4?

 

[Blade Wolf]

Delay the whole Konami vs Kojima event by 3 years.

So MGSV gets released in a finished state, Silent Hills never got cancelled and Death Stranding eventually still happens.

 

[Deleted member 3082]

Same thing I posted in the last version of this thread; Eliminate World of Warcraft

Not because WoW was a bad game, but because it snuffed out the potential of the genre just as it was starting to take off. Before WoW, MMOs were extremely different from one another and could have gone in any number of interesting directions, especially as high speed internet became more available. But after WoW everyone was chasing to copy their success and that still continues today, even all the years later; you have games that set out to be radically different regressing backwards and adding all sorts of WoW-isms (Guild Wars 2 being a prime example).

Good video about it here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64

 

[TyrantGuardian]

Shitty men constantly putting down female gamers.

 

[Brhoom]

Subpixel precision for the PS1 and Saturn.

More texture memory for the N64.

 

[Slime]

I'd convince Sakaguchi not to make The Spirits Within.

 

[Deleted member 28523]

Delete Halo 1 and make sure console FPS games never take off.

 

[cardboardboxer]

The US Super Nintendo launches with the SuperFX chip as its main CPU.

 

[Majukun]

slap yamauchi-san in the face when he decided to go for cartridges on the n64

 

[Deleted member 2099]

The ways in which women characters are portrayed, treated, misrepresented, not given equal treatment to men characters, change them from being sexualized/hypersexualized to being taken seriously, give them better and professional appearances, make them positive appealing for women instead of somehow someway ending up being tailored for men, stop the waifu culture, given women characters straight love stories just as how there are straight love stories for men characters(and don't take this as an attack for LGBT, not the point nor purpose of this message, please and thank you) and so much more in regards to this.

Plus what this user has said...

Online abuse.

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I've gone thrue my unfair share of online abuse from people, this is something I never want others to experience.

 

[SirNinja]

I would switch the fates of Panzer Dragoon Saga with Final Fantasy VII. We'd all be playing Panzer Dragoon Saga IX right now and crying our hearts out yet again at the surprisingly-poignant fate of a laser-shooting dragon and his unlikely companion. This timeline sucks.

Personally, I'd make it so that Rare never left Nintendo

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Rare were second-party devs. They weren't ever "with" Nintendo so much as they just kept making stuff for Nintendo consoles because they had a great partnership together. When Microsoft acquired them, then they were finally 'with' someone. And by/around that time, a significant portion of talent had left the studio, so it ended up being a not-so-great acquisition overall (with a few exceptions, of course, but overall...nah).

If Rare had continued to develop stuff for Nintendo it still would not measure up to the quality of their N64 output. A studio is only as good as its people, and quite a few people had been shuffled around during that time. We would still have gotten mediocre stuff like Nuts & Bolts and Perfect Dark Zero...but they'd have just been on Wii instead. I do kinda agree on the Dinosaur Planet point though.

 

[Deleted member 15447]

Online abuse.

 

[Kipsta]

GTA Online being aborted.

 

[Why would you do that?]

I would make the IBM PC have a much more capable sound chip by default than terrible PC Speaker.

Check out other PCs like the Sharp X68000. It came with FM Synthesis standard, meaning every single game had a soundtrack that was at the very least awesome.



Or for more period appropriate PCs, look at the Commodore 64 or MSX, with their multichannel audio. Anything but the PC Speaker!

 

[Knight613]

People willingly paying to play online last gen.

 

[Mashy]

Id make sure the first FF13 never happened.

 

[kubev]

Dreamcast winning

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I would've just wanted Dreamcast to find close to the same level of success that PlayStation 2 had. It wasn't so much a matter of winning or losing to me; I just think Dreamcast deserved a much longer life. It's a shame that the system ultimately failed to keep Sega afloat as a hardware company, because I honestly don't believe that Dreamcast made any bad decisions in relation to Dreamcast (aside from the copy protection not being so great). It was everything else from before (combined with the competition of PlayStation 2 and EA's lack of support) that hurt the system.

 

[Dary]

The bit in the 80s when they decided to market video games as a "boy's toy".

 

[Fou-Lu]

Sega didn't make a bunch of stupid mistakes or somehow Dreamcast made enough money to keep them around as a console developer.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I'd stop Nintendo from releasing the DS. A good system, but in the end it did too much harm to handheld gaming. PSP wouldn't have had a negative stigma to it, Sony would have dominated the handheld space, and in all likelihood it would have led to Vita being a runaway success.

 

[Renna Hazel]

Personally, I'd make it so that Rare never left Nintendo. I love all their old IPs.

In this halcyon world we'd have:

- Banjo and Kazooie in Smash Bros.

- An actual Banjo-Threeie.

- Perfect Dark on Gamecube.

- Killer Instinct as Nintendo's other Fighting Game series.

- Dinosaur Planet wouldn't have had Star Fox characters tacked on and people would see that it's actually an awesome game.

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Agreed 100 percent. Losing Rare has been the biggest hit to the industry for me and I'd love for pre-Kinect Rare to make a comeback.

Obviously not going to happen on Nintendo but I'm fine with it happening on Xbox.

 

[trugs26]

The whole Gunpei Yokoi tragedy.

 

[jay]

i dunno, but it probably would have something to do with Sega

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I know I'm too emotionally invested in this stuff because this makes me sad (and yeah I agree).

 

[Demacabre]

More than anything, Sega remaining in the hardware space.

 

[blastprocessed]

for EA to not exist