Current Events > What "innovative" game design changes are a surefire way to kill it?

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I'm gonna go with

- making things open world, for no reason, when nobody asked, when it ruins the rest of the mechanics to even try
- making it accessible to noobs by nerfing skill-based performance advantages
- hiding game changing content behind an additional paywall or 50

For a start
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Removing half of the dex
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Weapon level
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Trying to appeal to competetive gamers by making the SP mode absurdly difficult.
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Everything in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejeIT0MBSac
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Changing the main character to Jar Jar Binks
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These might not all be major enough, but here goes:

- Smearing the screen in blood or making things blurry (unless it's done more subtly) to replace a health bar
- Crafting systems that use generic crafting materials that you're meant to scrounge for everywhere
- Forcing everything (including cutscenes and conversations) into first-person (I used to think this was cool, but I've seen the light)
- Survival mechanics in non-survival games generally (like extremely limited carrying space), unless in a separate mode (e.g. New Vegas' Hardcore mode)

mrgoatthief posted...

Making it open world when it wasn't designed to be an open world game from the start. You can't just add in open world halfway through and expect a living breathing world that feels right with your engine.

They really fucked Dynasty Warriors with this one
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Requiring an input method which noone has or uses.

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luigi13579 posted...

(like extremely limited carrying space)

This irritates me to no end. Especially in RPGs where you have chests and stuff.

Your inventory is full. What do?

Crap, let me drop a potion and then go to the bank.

Your bank is full. What do?

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU
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Trying to make familiar and necessary 'gamey' functions more realistic / immersive to the point of annoyance. I remember one of the Fables replaced the equipment menu with some magical closet where you had to wander around and find / actually put on all your equipment. I played that shit for all of a couple hours before finding something infinitely better to do.
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masterpug53 posted...

Trying to make familiar and necessary 'gamey' functions more realistic / immersive to the point of annoyance. I remember one of the Fables replaced the equipment menu with some magical closet where you had to wander around and find / actually put on all your equipment. I played that shit for all of a couple hours before finding something infinitely better to do.

Reminds me of Terranigma, which has something similar. You jump into a magical box, and each room is essentially a menu. It was cool and not *too* annoying, but I'd definitely rather have a regular menu.

DevsBro posted...

luigi13579 posted...

(like extremely limited carrying space)

This irritates me to no end. Especially in RPGs where you have chests and stuff.

Your inventory is full. What do?

Crap, let me drop a potion and then go to the bank.

Your bank is full. What do?

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

Really upsets me when the game has a storage facility and puts a cap on it, like whats the point of having it then? I mean limited inventory in general sucks but thats worse.

What they should do is what the Ys series does and just place limits on each item like you can only carry 9 Potions, 5 Mega-Potions and 3 X-Potions. Or even Zelda has it figured out with bottles.
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luigi13579 posted...

Smearing the screen in blood or making things blurry (unless it's done more subtly) to replace a health bar

Oh yeah unless its psychological horror this is a trash mechanic.
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adding pvp

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The latest iteration in a much-beloved series . . .

coming to mobile.

adding pvp

*invades you*

basically any time they forget to consider the player's time. remember legend of legaia? remember the combo system in legend of legaia? on paper, a combo system in an jrpg is fun and cool. in practice, it means 40 button inputs to do what other RPGs accomplish in five.
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"realistic character designs"

- all men are tanned 6'4" with abs
- women have average faces and no breasts

Just like real life.

Collections of dozens or hundreds of baubles

Shoehorned vehicles
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Just look at everything Mass Effect Andromeda did.
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luigi13579 posted...

- Smearing the screen in blood or making things blurry (unless it's done more subtly) to replace a health bar

Fuck, I hate this so much.

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pinky0926 posted...

- making it accessible to noobs by nerfing skill-based performance advantages

they did this with smash and it's selling more than ever >__>
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