This is a list from a rather hardcore gamer about things that I have found while playing video games that I really liked. Things that I think the perfect game would incorporate. It also includes things that I don’t understand how if it happened 10 years ago they can’t make it happen now.
1. Spending more time on single player rather than multiplayer.
We all know what I’m talking about. In today’s gaming industry if a game doesn’t have multiplayer it automatically gets knocked down points by reviewers. Perfect examples of this would be Bioshock or Uncharted. The first of both these games were single player only, and both game’s single player was incredible and worth playing 100 times over. However the gaming industry said they should have multiplayer. While Uncharted 2 did this fairly well Bioshock 2 short and in turn spent too much time on multiplayer instead of single player, but not enough time on either one. Another example is COD:MW2. Infinity ward spend so much time on the single player their single player story has more holes then Swiss cheese. Not every game needs multiplayer.
2. Glitches
I’m not saying glitches are a good thing. In fact generally I believe the opposite. I’ve been playing through some older games in my collection and I’ve come across a surprising fact. A lot of old games have less glitches then some of the newer games. Take for instance Metal Gear Solid. I don’t believe I’ve found a glitch in that game. Newer games like MW2, well that’s about as much as I need to say there. If a game on the PS1 could be made without glitches why can’t a game on the 360 or PS3?
3. Accuracy
Guns. They are either super accurate (MW2) or fire everywhere except where you’re aiming (Kayne and Lynce 2). Set up high speed cameras and fire guns at a target. Then rewatch the footage to get bullet trajectory, speed, muzzle hop, ect. Guns should be more closely related to their real world counter parts. Not more accurate than a sniper rifle or incapable of hitting the broad side of a barn.
4. Health
This is just a personal opinion of mine. I don’t like playing a game where I can hide behind a trash can for 5 seconds and I am fully healed again after taking an RPG to the face. I can mildly understand body armor/shield regenerating but not your actual health. I’m actually glad that Halo changed this with Reach. That is closer to what I feel it should be like.
5. Map Editor.
Generally I try to not use the same game twice but in this list are games that either shine for their innovation, or shine because they make good examples of bad examples. Halo is the prior of the two. I love forge. Am I any good at it is another story. But I think it is an incredibly brilliant idea. Give the players the freedom to create a map the way they want to. Why can’t I do that with every game? I only wish Halo allowed you to put as much as you want instead of giving a limit to how many of any specific item can be added as well as how much can be added all together. I’ve only really noticed two other games that do this, Farcry 2 (pc) and Uncharted 2 has a Machinima mode.
6. Game viewer (Theater)
Again another Halo creation. It was a stroke of genius to give player the ability to rewatch their games over and over again. They can take pictures, record clips, watch from other player’s perspectives, free roam, ect. This was an excellent idea and probably my favorite idea they came up with. Again Uncharted 2 has something similar but you can’t do as many things with it. The only improvement I can see to make is to add the ability to upload straight to YouTube or upload to a website where you can download them onto your computer later. Thankfully I have heard that Black Ops will be doing this.
7. Co-op
I am talking actually single player when I say co-op. I like the ability to play the main game with friends. It adds to the fun. I do believe that adding extra ops to the game for people to play co-op is a great idea, but I want to play the main game co-op.
8. Split screen multiplayer
This is a biggy and I know a lot of people are demanding for this back. If my fiend comes over and we want to play some co-op he shouldn’t have to bring over his system so we can play. Honestly how hard it is to add split screen. It makes the game more fun and enjoyable. I have hear rumors the Killzone3 will be doing this again but nothing is confirmed yet.
*Extra* The lightsaber
I know. I’ve done this whole list without touching Starwars. I am a Starwars fanboy, as I’m sure many of you are (Whether you want to admit it or not). A big thing that angers me is when I’m playing a Starwars game and it takes more than one swing from a lightsaber to kill someone. I mildly understand other Jedi but there is some excuse for why it takes 5 or 6 connects with the lightsaber to kill one droid or storm trooper. There is only one game series I have seen that does this right. Starwars: Jedi Knight, and among them probably the most famous is Starwars: Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast, for its code g_saberrealisticcombat 1 which allowed players to actually cut off limbs, decapitate, remove hands, cut people in half, ect. Now if only they could make another good Starwars game where this was standard.
9. Being able to be revived.
This is something that really annoys me. How come I can heal my teammates and my team mates can heal each other, but no one can heal me? If a teammate becomes incapacitated while fighting they can be revived. But if I die while fighting it’s game over. How come I can’t be revived? What makes them so much more special than me?
10. Intelligent Squad mates.
Let me ask you a question. Do you remember a game where you are fighting the bad guys and you have an AI controlled teammate that just stands there? Or when that same teammate does move he runs straight into harm’s way and gets clobbered. Of course you remember it. It just happened, MW2, Reach, Halo 3, Killzone2, ect (I know that they can’t die in MW2, and Killzone2 but they get shot by so many bullets that they can’t get back up to shoot back). The AI seems to be anything but intelligent. A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away a game was released. This game was called Starwars: Republic Commando. This game had some of the best AI I have ever seen. They killed better than me, they fought better than me, and they actually worked in a military fashion. They were like real soldiers. You told them to go to cover and they fought their way there. If you told them to take up a sniping position they would fight their way to the position and pull out their sniper rifle. If an enemy got close they would switch weapons. They didn’t stand around and try and kill the enemies before they went to cover. They were killing the enemies on their way to cover and then killed once they got there. If you moved to far away they would follow. They followed their orders and did so precisely. They were like another player fighting with you and working as a perfect team. If this could be done on the original Xbox why can’t it be done now?
These are just some of the things that I have noticed over about a decade of playing games. This isn’t all of the things I would like to see changed, but it is the major points. I hope that within the next gaming year some major companies can start getting these things right. It will cause more people to buy the game. They will get higher reviews. And less people will be trading them in for other games.
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