How does your decision save gaming?
It ruins it because these red/blue gold/silver black/white versions are cash grabs that lead directly to day 0 DLC and other dogshit industry decisions.
>>10883069Psssst... all video games are made just to generate income... it's kinda the whole point of the business.
I prevent the release of Doki Doki Panic, thus forcing Nintendo to release Lost Levels in the US. This reveals nintendo as hacks as it is perceived the same game released for full price. Nintendo and other japanese developers are abandoned en mass and the future of the 8 and 16-bit micros is guaranteed.This results in Japanese style game design never taking off and a western developed Mario 2 is released for the amiga where you push up to jump and hold fire and push forward to make mario do a karate kick and up-forward to make him do a headbutt which the manual officially calls the 'Glasgae Kiss'.
>>10883092>Doki Doki PanicFascinating choice>>10883092>push up to jumpinteresting
D&D. You didn't say it had to be a video game :^)
>>10883065It's quite simple. I prevent the release of final fantasy 7, preventing normalniggers from using it in their "final fantasy started at 7" retard buzzphrase.
>>10883065I prevent the release of Goldeneye 64. Call of Duty audience never develops. FPS remains a niche nerd hobby.
>>10883119That makes no sense. If true, ff only has 3 good games
>>10883119>>10883119>prevent the release of final fantasy 7or release it on Nintendo hardware without FMVs?
>>10883156That would improve it, and the future, considerably. Non-gamers and normals were wowed by the FMVs and fooled themselves into thinking they were a major part of the game and that they added value to games in general. Imagine a world where game developes treat cutscenes with contempt and only add them when utternly nessescary.
I would stop the release of the first cod or gta so gaming never goes mainstream
>>10883192This is interesting. Is there a single game we could stop to keep gaming a niche hobby?
>>10883116Now RPG's don't exist. I guess you saved us from the overwhelming horde of JRPG's, so nice.
>>10883065Super Mario Bros. Consoles die and gaming remains a niche hobby for the PC community.
Half-Life. Games never attempt to be "cinematic".>>10883240Irreconcilably based
>>10883119nobody says that THOUGH. nobody even thinks it "started getting good at 7" or whatever, stop listening to voices in your head.
>>10883252Kill yourself gaslighting normalnigger
>>10883251How is Half-Life cinematic? It doesn't even have dialogues, let alone cutscenes.What you really want to cancel is MGS.
>>10883258>can't readmany such cases. i said that about final fantasy, dunno about fallout i never played that series but for final fantasy you can start at 4 and it's basically the same as 7. now maybe they say it started getting good at 4 because the nes games are too hard for them idk that's a possibility.
Donkey Kong the arcade game. I think Nintendo was in dire straights before that released, and it was either Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros (arcade) thay saved the company.
>>10883264(YOU) cant read you dumb fuck. one of your normalfag friends in the image literally says "and if morons are going to ask why the fuck i would think that Its because final fantasy started at 7"
>>10883065Hotel Mario
>>10883260It does have dialogues; but the player doesn't interact with them. You watch them passively. Likewise, it also has cutscenes. Unskippable ones where you watch NPCs talk to each other.
Goodbye Sonic the Hedgehog
Portal so normie women don't get into gaming and rape the industry for slightly longer
>>10883280check in but you cant check out
Virtua Fighter. The game that truly unleashed the polygon scourge on the world.
Doom
>>10883369>t. demon full of buckshot
>>10883116Given no further context than this being a thread on a video game board for video game discussion I think it makes more sense to assume we are talking about video games here you wise-ass.
>>10883065The first Madden game. Think about all the cool platform games and shooters we missed out on because developers were obsessed with another sports game. If you compare 8 bit to 16 bit you can really notice the shovelware and the normification of gaming.Street Fighter 2. Kind of ruined the arcade, I think we would have got so many different games if they weren't trying to make crappy SF2 clones. I can imagine the variety of software that would be on neo geo if its wasn't for SF2, probably many more platform games, brawlers and racing games.>>10883130Really feels like GE led to Halo.>>10883294The genesis sells a little more than the master system, modest but not amazing. This leads them to take less risks so they don't do the 32x and the Saturn is a more simple design which makes it easier to develop for and they are able to support it much longer while losing less money.
Mother 3
>>10883343>Virtua Fighter>>10883343>polygon scourgeDelay polygons a decade and enjoy more pixel art?
>>10883258Man, the 2000s really were the dark age of gaming.
For me, it was silver.
>>10883274okay well maybe i can't but one guy saying that in an image about a different rpg series entirely seems to indicate it's that one guy's retarded opinion. also this isn't even recent this is some fuckin 2008 college. so thus not a normalfag buzzphrase just some moron you obsess over for no reason, ergo ipso facto, that's that.
SMT
Halo 2 so Xbox Live would fail. Xbox Live is responsible for the death of split screen multiplayer.
OOT. I'm not trying to save gaming and don't know the effect. I just think itd be funny
>>10883069It's ok when nintendoes it
>>10883208Maybe if the Xbox was prevented as a whole. It might've slowed things down for a few more years.
>>10883583>OOTLttP sequel not 3D polygon would be interesting.
>>10883616Yeah, that's literally what Link's Awakening is.
>>10883321Based, I would try to find the system or game that attracted the most normalfags to gaming and prevent it.
>>10883092Even under cursory examination your theory doesn't really hold up. While it was a top seller, NoA didn't float along by SMB2 alone, there were plenty of other high-sustaining titles (and sequels no less) that the idea they'd be panned for a Mario self-clone doesn't really hold up. You're also suggesting they'd be "forced" to release it and I really doubt they'd release it at all. The whole reason it wasn't was because of NoA's exacting standards, so if they hadn't converted YKDDP into a Mario title, they probably would have either done it with another game or found some other solution. The worst case scenario would have been hiring some westernjank developer to make a clone if R&D4 refused, but again, NoA was very strict about not releasing shovelware whenever possible so a very unlikely scenario.
>>10883260>It doesn't even have dialogues, let alone cutscenes.It literally invented "interactive" cutscenes, i.d. "walking section with exposition dump", so fuck them.
is that ryan gooseling
>>10884227nope, chuck testa.
These games, fuck pokemon.
>>10883084There's definitely more noble ways of doing it.
>>10883130>FPS remains a niche nerd hobbyAre you retarded? Doom was huge. Every normie wanted to play it. That ship has sailed by the time G64 came
You retards realize that if you prevented game X, another one would just take it's place a few years down the line and have the same effects, if not earlier
>>10883065Remove online gaming and /vr/ would still be alive today
>>10884872Remove multi-player games as a concept and you might have some success.
>>10883065>>10883065Jet Set Willy. This means that Nintendo can’t rip it off for Metroid and thus Super Metroid never gets made; subsequently Redditvania: Symphony of the Upvote doesn’t exist and we only get Classicvanias for the rest of eternity, also we are spared all of the soulless modern pixel art indie Metroidvanias that flood the market.
>>10883065The very first Assassin's Creed, the entire 7th gen of consoles is saved.>>10883092Good choice, with lost levels getting a US release the hobby might've been gatekept longer.
>>10883065Card games. Nintendo wouldn't exist and gaming? Heh. It would be saved. All hail the Philips Videopac+.
>>10884869Can you honestly say that about Megaman Battle Network?
>>10883917I can't believe super mario bros, duck hunt, super mario bros 3 and teenage mutant ninja turtles fucking died
>>10885006>Heh. It would be saved. All hail the Philips Videopac+.It would be different. Maybe better in some ways and worse in others.
Morrowind. Bethesda goes under. Fast-travel openslop never proliferates.
>>10883426Yes.Normies weren't all about "muh 3d graphics" when it was just flight sims on PC. Polygon graphics have their place, but all my favorite games having their graphics replaced by hideous blocks was traumatic.
Pic related. The SNES was struggling to gain traction, having come out years after competitors, but not being powerful enough to offer games on the same level as those competitors, it was very nearly a total flop until this game came out. It's not a good port, but apparently it's "good enough" to trick people into playing it, ultimately "saving" the SNES, and without it, the SNES might have totally failed and the 16-bit era could have been far more glorious without skilled developers having to dumb they're games down for shoddy hardware. It's a bad game that propelled a bad system and left a shitstain on what is otherwise the unequivocally best era of gaming we have ever seen.
>>10883119>I prevent the release of final fantasy 7This raises some interesting questions. Does this stop the Final Fantasy franchise dead in its tracks? Does it make Squaresoft inexplicably skip from FF6 to FF8? Does a new FF7 take the place of the original?
>>10883260Half-Life doesn't have cutscenes :^) it just locks you in rooms while people talk at you and things happen while you can't do anything. It's all in-engine and ugly so it's not a cutscene :^)
>>10886326It would be based as fuck if Half-Life never locked you in rooms and you always could just push forward at your own pace and skip dialogue. I'd love to just run into the test chamber, turn on the laser beam, and throw the alien rock into it without waiting for all the exposition. Even better would be if the NPCs reacted to you ignoring and rushing past them in that way.
>>10883065Can I nuke the PS2 as a whole instead, so the Dreamcast gets to live?If not I'd settle for nuking the 32x and SEGA CD
>>10883065I stop Gunpei Yokoi from seeing that business man fiddle with a calculator, giving Yokoi the idea for the Game & Watch. Nintendo never enters the video game market and consoles permanently die in North America.
Resident Evil 4 is my first answer, but Persona 4 could follow.Because of budgets, I'd be very humored to see what happened if Myst or Tengai Makyou Manjimaru were simply never released after development.
>>10888035They already made dedicated game machines and arcades, all you did was prevent the Gay Boy.
>>10884869What you could probably do:>go full butterfly effect by getting rid of some hugely culturally significant game like Pokemon or Street Fighter>delete a very specific mechanic by getting rid of the game that invented it and hope it doesn't get used in anything else>fuck companies like Squaresoft by erasing the game that first put them on the mapWhat you probably couldn't do:>stop 3D fighters from ever existing by getting rid of Virtua Fighter>prevent anything that had a lot of patient zeros happening simultaneously, like microtransactions
>>10888260The real way to change the course of gaming history would be with the power to turn one game into a massive financial failure. For example, making Oblivion an infamously horrible failure for introducing horse armor would do far more harm to microtransactions than just making Oblivion never exist.
>>10883065GSCniggers are such posers.
>>10883065I would prevent the release of Half Life 2. Ideally this kills Steam as a DRM rental company and as an added bonus makes companies less willing to spend money trying to set up their own DRM rental software. Games are released on physical media still, the world is a better place.
Persona 3 gets cancelled.Romance in videogames needs to fucking stop.
>>10883084No, video games are made solely for my benefit. I am the only person who matters. If I have to share MY world with billions of people who aren't me, they should at least have the decency to do whatever I want them to do. I deserve compensation for having to tolerate not-mes.
Sonic Adventure 1. We get one of two scenarios:Scenario 1 - The first real Sonic game after the massive hiatus after Sonic & Knuckles is Sonic Adventure 2, a game in which a small child gets shot to death in front of newcome Shadow the Hedgehog. Rogue the Bat and her gigantic titties are also introduced here as well. This would have been way more hilarious and less digestible without Sonic Adventure 1 to ease us into what Sonic would become for the next 20 years.Scenario 2 - Sonic Adventure 2 doesn't happen either and Sega goes two console generations without a Sonic game and becomes a third party developer which would be really fucking funny.
>>10888386you do realize this would just make Sega collapse much earlier?
>>10888346You'd probably have better luck erasing Counter Strike.
>>10883092This would just make them release Doki Doki Panic as Super Mario Bros 3 and we'd get different didyaknow facts like did you know Super Mario Bros 3 in Japan was actually Super Mario Bros 2?
>>10888472Yeah
>>10888386likely wouldn't even survive as a 3rd-party dev
>>10888352This anon gets it
>>10883258>TESyeah because TES before morrowind was so good that bethesda was going to go under if morrowind had flopped.>falloutfriendly reminder that bethesda was the only company to actually make money with the fallout IP. interplay & black isle wouldn't have gone under if that wasn't the case (all those cancelled fallout projects & BoS are proof of that) while new vegas despite it's acclaim is the worst selling modern fallout.at the end of the day CRPGs are a niche while scifi RPGs are an even smaller niche and fallout is a niche within a niche within a niche.>inb4 i don't care about popularity/profitsgood luck getting sequels to things you like if it's only you and your friends, mark & stan buying them.
>>10883251what's wrong with half life? i thought the way they did the dialogue was fun, i prefer it over a video i have to watch
>>10890452I've noticed that there's a disconnect between zoomers and HL1 and 2 because nothing those two games do are innovative, new, or unique anymore, and they weren't around to witness it.
>>10883184>>10883258Retarded snob take, no one is impressed that you’re a hArDcOrE gAmUr
>>10883084most reddit post
>>10886250it makes square die off with some dignity left.
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted.Now Shinobi world also launches on the Mega Drive and Alex Kidd remains the mascot.
>>10890473i'd argue that it's just a handful of schizos shitposting here about half life. HL as a whole still has relevance with a younger generation of gamers due to things like black mesa & GMOD while mods are still being made for both games to this day.>>10888346given the rise of online shopping if it wasn't steam it would've been something else that leads to the prevalence digital distribution. what you'd likely stop is the rise of other publishers doing their own platforms but that heavily depended on how much of a percentage the big platforms are taking in the first place.
>>10883065Well OP you chose my answer for me. You know how "Disney adults" is a common term for Disneyfags? Well, "Pokemon adults" are an even worse disease. The game might be fun, but to prevent its release is to prevent a generation of cancerous autism
>>10883880You want PongSpace Invaders or Pac-Man are also options
>>10883065Make sure Faceball 2000 for SNES can actually run at the speed needed to finish the game.
I'm interested in the timeline where quake was never a thing and they kept doom going the whole time.
>>10883065The Sims. Attracted way too many casual gamers and was full of expansion packs.
>>10883065i erase halo from existence and buy the fps genre at least 5 more years
>>10883385Fine, Zork.
>>10883065Sonic the Hedgehog: autistic future furries have nothing to latch on to.
>>10883065Most of the major developments in gaming history are due to business decisions rather than games.
>>10883092You could just prevent the release of American Super Mario Bros. 2 and let Doki Doki Panic live.
>>10883065>Goslinghe just like me!!! except Crystal is the best. and the remakes i guess.
>>10894663chrischan has been prevented from undergoing his transformation
>>10883065Armored Core.
>>10892293Because if there’s one thing Reddit loves, it’s the acknowledgement that the profit motive drives most coordinated human endeavors more complicated than two star GitHub repos and fetish furry pornIdiot
OoT. Not to save anything, just to fuck with Nintendo fans and also I'm curious if the game really is as influention as people claim or if everything would have turned out more or less the same without it.>>10883251>Half-Life. Games never attempt to be "cinematic".HL didn't make people suddenly want cinematic games. Neither did MGS nor RE nor Uncharted nor whatever other title you care to name. People have always wanted cinematic games, the only reason the trend didn't start sooner was because the technology wasn't there, and even then people tried their damnedest to make it happen. At most you would prevent some lesser trends like the pseudo-cutscene thing it innovated.
>>10896684>influention*influential
I delete Pong. While it's not the first game, it's definitely the first to become a major hit. Maybe this sets back the popularity of videogames for a few years. Maybe the environment would be different these days and better. I have no idea how though.
>>10883065Both Silver and Gold fans can agree: Crystal animated sprites suck ass
>>10883065World of Warcraft. MMOs evolve in a different way instead of just trying to ape it and dying out, and Blizzard doesn't get so greedy that it ruins all their games to come.
>>10896679>and fetish furry pornHe doesn't know...
>>10896914Definitely. Crystal lovers are just boring secondaries, just like Link's Awakening DX lovers[/spoilers]
>>10896684>Not to save anything, except for Sony fanboys' egos from being damaged for decades on endFTFY
