The 'What if' gaming thread

[Psychospacecow]

What if EA collapsed after multiple failed Sims, Mass Effect, and Battlefield games, but Spore was epic?

[Carlos]

What if Berry was a berry in a game?
Now we're bringing up the what if's.

[retrolinkx]

What if...

Spoiler

The Nazi's won WW2

how would video games be affected then?

Maybe it'll all be work simulators...

[BumblebeeCody*]

Gonna take a different -more controversial- approach

What if "gamers" where actually open to the idea of diversity and din't shit on anyone trying to make the industry more inclusive (I went there)

What if Kotaku didn't exist? Would gaming journalism finally have credibility?

What if "gamers" actually tried games because following what other people say and then using that as their own experience and/or opinion?

What if Nintendo had a stronger online presence?

What if Nintendo didn't make the Wii?

What if Microsoft did buy Nintendo?

[Psychospacecow]

What if Guitar Hero was still popular?

[CLXcool]

What if Guitar Hero was still popular?

It still would be if Activision didn't pull the plug on the band.

[ClaudX]

What if Rare wasn't bought by Microsoft?

What if PC gaming never took off and the only way to play games was on console?

[Psychospacecow]

What if E.T. had next generation fish AI?

[Berry]

What if Berry was a berry in a game?
Now we're bringing up the what if's.

There is a reason why this is simply a what-if



#OPAsFudge.

[RepentantSky]

What if Last of Us wasn't made. The world would be a better place since we'd have at least 50% less retarded fanboys drooling over a mediocre game and trying to hype it as the pinnacle of gaming.

I can't agree with this statement. The Last of Us has some of the best characters I've seen in gaming and how they bounce off each other and develop is amazing.

[Mass Distraction]

But it is a bland and boring game. The gameplay is so unbelievably mediocre I have no idea how it keeps getting constant 10s. Nice game, sure, but nowhere near a 10.

[Zaliphone]

What if Last of Us wasn't made. The world would be a better place since we'd have at least 50% less retarded fanboys drooling over a mediocre game and trying to hype it as the pinnacle of gaming.

Aww man...I'm just gonna go sit in the corner and replay the Last of Us.


What if Xbox Live never existed? Would the 360 still be as successful and would PS+ still exist?

[RepentantSky]

But it is a bland and boring game. The gameplay is so unbelievably mediocre I have no idea how it keeps getting constant 10s. Nice game, sure, but nowhere near a 10.

It's not about the gameplay, which I do believe is more interesting than most 3rd person shooters I've played. The idea is to focus on the characters so that when things happen to them, good or bad, you feel the same way the characters do. For me, a pinnacle of gaming is when it literally has such an effect on me after something intense happens that I have to put my controller down, walk away from the game and take a moment to process what just happened and how I feel about it. The Last of Us made me do this four times. I've never had a game do that to me more than once and I have never felt a characters emotions like I do Joel and Ellie. The gameplay, be it something to write home about or not, is good enough that you want to keep playing to figure out what happens next. A game like that is all about making an impact with it's story, not about making the game so fun that you hardly care about what goes on when you aren't pressing buttons like say, Tomb Raider. The fact to that I replayed this game about 5 months after it came out and most of the things that hit me so hard still got to me at all is the sign of a good game. Anyone who can't play the game for the characters is playing it for the wrong reasons and needs to stop and take a deeper look at it before continuing.

[Psychospacecow]

What if power creep wasn't a factor?

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

What if Miyamoto still loved F-Zero games?