If you can erase a single game from existence what would that game be?

Because Borderlands is a more recent and "relevant" example of Virtual Meme Machines, and trying to find the "source" of the troubles like some man hunting down the werewolf that bit them will just result in every answer being, "erase Pong."

Smash bros Brawl

>erase Pong
BASED

Last of Us. It was the main movie game that started people yearning for escapism gaming.

But if I could erase the Square-Enix merger instead, I would do that.

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Dark souls 2

gaylo

I think we need to go deeper. Erase Royal Game of Ur.

First post based post.

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These two have it right. Don't erase terrible games, erase games that popularized terrible trends.

Final Fantasy, shit franchise with the worst fanbase, worse than Fortnite

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Niggers

>escapism gaming
Your average weebshit is a lot more 'escapism' than an old dude and a little girl shooting dudes in the woods in Canada

when did movie games begin? and don't say Metal Gear Solid 1 because that game actually played well
whatever led us up to The Walking Dead and Life is Strange needs to die

Dino Crisis 3

Modern Warfare 2. The hype that prolefeed garnered ruined the later half of the 7th gen.

I bought one of these for my brother for his bachelor party, but didn't have the heart to give it to him.

Dora the Explorer: Journey to the Purple Planet

Wrong

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I think without horse armor there's a good chance microtransactions as we know them wouldn't exist.

Gotta go with Oblivion.

Half Life series and if possible, the whole Valve - that shit started the trend of scripted cinematic FPS

I'd argue it's pointless to "delete" that genre of gaming because we're already "done" with that particular style (Telltale's death made sure of that) but I'd say the Walking Simulator you really need to get rid of is either Dear Esther or Gone Home, both critically-received darlings of gaming journalism and the start of journalistic websites being blatant about their favoritism.

this is a fine answer
We would have gotten a legit sequel given enough time and generations passing, but thanks to this hunk of shit I doubt it'll happen any time soon.

PUBG

Bullshit, if it wasn't them it would be someone else.

onions

your mom

your onions

Warcraft III. Just imagine...
>RTS are still alive
>RTS aren't bastardized with Diablo Lite bullshit
>ASSFAGGOTS don't exist
>WoW doesn't exist
>MMO genre isn't ruined by WoW
>Overwatch doesn't exist without WoW money and ASSFAGGOTS influence
>without Overwatch the average quality of porn fan art is infinitely better
>without ASSFAGGOTS and Overwatch Hi-Rez Studios either go bankrupt, fix Tribes or make a properly monetizeable good game
>no WoW-like cartoonish garbage instead of art direction
WoW's damage to video games industry is fucking immeasurable.

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Don't get me wrong, it's a god-tier game. But it turned the fanbase into what it is today, and I don't think the series would have fallen from grace if it had stayed on track with the focus on high-end exotics like it used to have.

It also would have given the Midnight Club series the spotlight it deserved.

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Team fortress 2 or CS:GO

Those shit games normalized loot boxes and extreme micro transactions in console/PC games

Fortnite

Maybe then we wouldn't have so many Chinese shills on here

if its wow then you're trying to kill then it should be everquest.

Undertale

Undertale. Imagine how much better the internet would be.

Then they just make Starcraft Brood War II and World of Starcraft and everything is the same but with more guns and xeno porn and Warhammer 40k would be completely dead.
Hey wait this future sounds awesome

League of Legends if its retroactive. So much wasted time and Dota wouldn't have been able to hold my attention.

Assassin's Creed 2. It introduced a style of open-world that developers are just now starting to move away from. Think of a world where Ubisoft towers and collectible waypoints every 5 steps didn't exist. Assassin's Creed 1 also had those things, but I think 2 really popularized that style of gameplay because of how much everyone loved 2.

Nah, TLoU had precedence with Uncharted.

Super Mario 64

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All that means is that 3D games stay like Jumping Flash and King's Field a little longer. If it wasn't SM64 it would've been something else.

you're thinking of Dragon's Lair, zoomer.

What would have happened if this didn't came out?

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smash

Destiny. Which should subsequently erase D2. I can’t stomach knowing the extent of the wasted potential, poor treatment of the consumers, and the overall disappointment of wasting time on it

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how has undertale affected negatively the gaming community? I always see people thrashing it along with minecraft but no one provides good arguments as to why that is the case.

Halo 5
Halo 4 molested the franchise, but you could still recover. Halo 5 just dicked it into oblivion.

Fate/Grand Order, and anything related to if

Stop bitching about Overwatch porn and embrace the Providence of Pokégirl porn.

Atari and Nintendo might've switched places historically. Well, in terms of relevance anyways. Nintendo wouldn't necessarily release an ET tier flop but without the gaping hole Atari left there's no telling how successful they would've been beyond Game & Watch and arcades.

Dota. Not because for what it is, but for what it spawned.

Fortnite is the only real answer

Based

Halo, X-box fails casuals never become the target audience.

Assassin's Creed

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Zelda

World of Warcraft.

Mass effect andromeda. There's a thin chance the series could've survived and been better without that nail in the coffin.

>World of Starcraft
Even back then Blizzard were too stupid to come with idea of making an MMO that isn't in generic fantasy setting.

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Twitter, only brainlets think it isn't a game.

Demon's Souls or PUBG. (I know PUBG wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the one that actually became popular.)
Or whatever game that would effectively kill off roguelike indie games. Not sure if you could do that with just one, though

You forgot that this would also get rid of MOBAs, unless that's what you meant by assfaggots. That's a good choice

dota

Duel Links. Konami's making so much money of it we'll never get another proper yugioh game again.

>casual
you mean the dude bro demographic

>he would erase the best souls game
cringe

Fortnite hasn't done anything that Doom, Quake, Goldeneye, Halo and CoD didn't do before it. It's just the FPS fad of today, with the added bonus of pop culture references because those are just the times we live in.

>There's a thin chance the series could've survived
How is that a good thing? All ME games are fucking garbage but it took such an atrocity as Andromeda to finally kill that cancer.

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>You forgot that this would also get rid of MOBAs, unless that's what you meant by assfaggots

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anal crossing

Well there are several good candidates
>Mario Bros for putting Nintendo on the map and giving second life to console gaming while creating the worst possible gaming generation that manages to cling on to empty nostalgia decades later
>Half-life for creating a fad for story-driven linear FPS design
>Halo for making it even worse
>Final Fantasy for creating a similar fad in JRPGs
>Minecraft for putting low-tech indie gamedev on the map
>that one old obscure PES spinoff game that utilized random sticker mechanic that Andrew Wilson decided to turn into microtranzactions and created lootboxes
>Starcraft for creating a tourney focus in RTS genre which drove to the homogenization of their mechanics

The first one is decent.

>The whole genre would have existed anyway, as virtual pets, SMT and Dragon Quest V style monster taming predate it
>It wouldn't have reached such heights, but it would never have been sucked by the black hole that is Pokemon

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WoW was certainly easier than our average MMO of the day, but it was still based around both social and role-playing aspects. Only in WotLK they started to focus on funneling the intended model of experience to the player.

Loot boxes were unavoidable, it would be a matter of time before West figures out Gachas, so I would not waste it on a FIFA spinoff.
I am also not sure if Minecraft started the low effort indyfad, wasn't that Braid?

world of warcraft warlords of draenor

Why Demon's Souls? If you wanted to erase the series from the root, you'd have to go with King's Field. If you wanted to erase the point that gave it mainstream popularity, then it would be Dark Souls. Demon's Souls was a still a niche as fuck game.

PUBG
It ushered in the era of battle royal garbage.

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Unironically Smash Bros

Yeah, without PUBG the battle royale system might have stayed within the bounds of ARMA and potentially would not have blown up the way it did. That's not to say it wouldn't have been co-opted without PlayerUnknown's consent or his own development plans, but what a world that would have been.

>people still believe this was the cause of battle royale.

I don't think Atari would've been saved, though. ET was shit, but it was just the cherry on the sundae that was Atari's financial situation and what the industry itself was going through.

well Id say earase twitch streamers for blowing it up with pubg, but twitch dosnt fit the thread bill.

Cyberpunk 2077

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>Loot boxes were unavoidable, it would be a matter of time before West figures out Gachas, so I would not waste it on a FIFA spinoff.
That's kind of a moot point, because you can argue that any negative trend would be started by somebody else and none of the potential erasures would have any impact.
>I am also not sure if Minecraft started the low effort indyfad, wasn't that Braid?
I considered it, alongside Limbo, but those games still had effort put into their graphics and they weren't very successful. Minecraft showed the world that you can make a game ugly as shit and still get tons of money for it. That was the point where indie exploded.

>mario bros
thats a retarded answer. pc gaming never existed back as the piracy scare was at an all time high and the only reason mario bros got popular is because everyone had a free game included to their console. so it didn't matter at all. they could swap out any other ip and that ip would take marios place.

>he thinks GTA 3 had the first open world

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Melee

Fable III.
Fable 2 wasn't perfect by any means and it gutted a lot of what made the first Fable so soulful, but it did have its own improvements and was a good game on its own.
Fable III on the other hand cut anything that remained and replaced with nothing good. I'll never forgive Molyneux for ruining what little good will Fable still had with that steaming pile of shit.

For me it wouldn’t be a game but a console, the original PlayStation, the industry was better when it was just Nintendo SEGA and NEC. Sony is a large part to blame for the cinematic crap.

Dota.
It killed the RTS genre.

This

Just for laughs FF7

PC gaming did exist, and was huge in Europe with platforms Commodore, Amiga, and DOS, which is why neither NES nor Sega were all that successful there. Only American market followed your understanding and I think the reason why would be obvious.

You're not old enough to browse here.

Look at this fucking mongoloid...

youtube.com/watch?v=A0Tir0mBAmQ

OP and then Yea Forums

This place is unsalvageable

DMC2. Could have a passionate fanbase revolving around the first, or just have it all to myself. Fuck this fanbase consisting entirely of secondary basic bitches desu.

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Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy. One of the worst "games" I've ever played.

Fair, but stranger things have happened. They could've been redeemed with a single hit, just look at Square and Final Fantasy. Not saying it was incredibly likely but you never know with these things.

Wasn't the first but it was arguably the main catalyst for its popularity as it stands today. Sometimes you target relevance rather than raw innovation, kinda like hitting RE4 even though it's hardly the first third person shooter.

completely unremarkable and shitty game that leaves a noticeable stain on the series. at least with crap installments in other series there is some discussion to be had, here it is just sadness

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League of Legends

In fact, all ASSFAGGOTS

What the fuck are you talking about?

Fifa. EA never would have gotten as huge as they are now if they never had a monopoly on Brazil Ball. I basically just saved the entire industry.

No DMC2, no serialized franchise for muh cuhrayzeefaggots.

Why is it even called Fifa? What is a Fifa?

Pong

According to google FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Basically its the soccer version of the NFL/NBA

Arguably yes, I would still say that Shenmue inspired the initial desire for open world gameplay with all of its unexplored possibilities. GTA just made it feel as though you could do "anything".

Witcher 3

No it didn't. 3 did that. 2 was drab and boring and Dante was even more of an emo bitch than he was in 1.

League of Legends. Then I'd be free.

Super Metroid

I'd rather see Castlevania dead than become a low IQ walking simulator like Super Metroid

It all leads into one another, dipshit. If we never got DMC2, Itsuno would have never lead the series focus into into combowankery.

PUBG

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Sonic

Nice bait

It wasnt retard.

>muh Kamiya
Yeah, nah.

Like I said, secondary basic bitches.

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CoD4:MW

BotW simply because nobody can judge it objectively, nobody can see its merits and flaws, everyone either says it is a flawless masterpiece because it is made by Nintendo or that it is absolute dogshit. Nobody is right and I am yet to see one post on Yea Forums regarding this game that is not absolutely retarded. This game is the best proof that all gamers are absolute fucking idiots and tools.

>you can argue that any negative trend
Well, that is true, but lootbox isn't really a design thing.
For example, if you remove Half-Life, while it may delay such games, the environment of gamedev would develop completely differently, and pieces of what Half-Life did might get implemented in one title and something else in another and by the time someone finally puts it all together, it no longer is that impressive and is less likely to be a trend setter,as people have seen it all before.
Lootboxes however concern monetary policy. Gacha and "mystery pack" have been thing for decades, its an industry that developed complete separately and was only waiting integration into vidya.
In our case this came as a result of Wilson seeing merit in the Pro Team or whatever that FIFA cardgame was called.
It could have as well been some Ubisoft executive seeing his kids open up Kinder Eggs or some Western Executes going on business trip to Japan and seeing Gacha machines or even worse, some nips bringing it over to the West.

I am not going to argue about Minecraft, sounds resonable to see it being a catalyst for "ugly" projects

Just take the compliment dude.

Yeah, nah. I’ve played through the first game and generally enjoyed it and DMC3 takes the good parts of the DMC1 and refines it while kicking DMC2 to the curb.

Resident Evil 4.

Well... we wouldn't have Counter Strike Source for one thing.

I think you'd have to erase Spirits Within, a movie, in order to do that. I mean I didn't even remember the virtual actor shit they tried to spin in hyping that trainwreck.

I understand what you mean by getting rid of DOTA and it's wretched spawn, but Warcraft 3 was the game that got me back into PC gaming in the first place.

It was new, memeable by normies, and suddenly popular. Most of it is contrarianism at work. It's not the world's best game but to me it's an example of a game with some heart put into it.

Ultimately I would have to say: John Madden Football 1988 for the DOS. If I recall correctly, EA more or less swindled the code from Bethesda to make that game happen. Erasing this game from existence might have substantially crippled the revenue from EA and prevented their parasitic growth to this day.

I can already tell you've never played DMC1 beyond normal to say such bullshit. DMC3 was a directional change entirely. Enemies were walloped with health points, and you were gives much more moves that all do piss for damage and removal of critical hits across enemies. If it was a true refinement, the game would have been based on speed and efficiency, where the mission rankings clearly encouraged, rather than jacking enemies off in the sky.

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if you removed this or daggerfall from existence then bethesda wouldnt exist today

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Drakengard 2

Bertie the Brain/Tennis for Two
We would be all doing something more productive

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It was Minecraft Hunger Games.

I'd say Morrowind is fine, it's Oblivion that became the breaking point. It was sold mostly on hype, had much less effort put into it, and it pioneered the DLC with horse armor. From that point on Bethesda started a steady decline.

It's an overhyped, poorly executed attempt at shock horror and fourth wall breaking. Plus I just want to look up Doki Doki Panic speedruns without finding weeb fags in the comments.

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pic related ruined so many games forever

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>It's an overhyped, poorly executed attempt at shock horror and fourth wall breaking
Replace "shock horror" with "ironic humor" and you have Undertale.

RE4 really popularized them though.

Angry Birds.

Cookie clicker

Shenmue's ambitions with almost autistic levels of detail and interactivity with it world is actually pretty neat, though.

I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in my life.

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PUBG

or whatever game really tipped the BR craze over the edge

Gothic 3

nintendo

spyro reignited

u r idiot.
Minecraft hunger games was the first, but it was around for YEARS played only by minecraft fans. Twitch created the trend, and they did it with PUBG.

I think if we're trying to rewrite history you could do one better by erasing DayZ, since then there's no survival simulator trend which led to PUBG

Mass Effect so that the worst sequels of all time couldn't be made by those hacks at Bioware. Mass Effect 1 was a 10/10 experience and ME2 and 3 were 3/10 worthless garbage games that regressed on all fronts and made the game play completely unfun.

League of Legends
A game consisting of a cesspool of degenerates. Nothing would be lost if it were to disappear.

DAH remake, I don't need to see more of those stupid shitty threads

this is the better choice

oblivion

>ahem

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Instead of telling me to imagine why don't you describe it instead?

Sonic 06, imagine the timeline where Sega doesn't rush out their games.

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That EA Canada league soccer game that started microtransactions in 2009.

Half-Life 3

I would Erase Sonic the Hedgehog 1. Sure, we'd miss out on a couple of great games, but think of how much better society would be without Sonic popularizing the furry menace

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I'd miss big fat bat tats but I can't say your aims aren't noble.

Based

[Your favorite game], of course.
Either that or [contrarian pick to show how edgy I am] or [flavor of the month I'm mad about for flooding muh Yea Forums]

She is Morrigan, but with less of a personality.
Somehow...

Surprised no one has said Portal yet.
Love the series but it has been blamed time and time again for attracting the biggest normalfag retards to the industry.

I meant the autism in the threads, I'd rather not have a remake if it means that shit

EA games

MGS V TPP.
Never have I been more disappointed or let down with a game in my life, it is a my favorite series and the last ever game will be a permanent black spot on it.

>No Ocarina of Time

fucking nostalgiafags

I mean if we really want to hit the root of the problem we delete Winback, which really launched the whole 3rd person cover shooter thing that lead to all those 3rd person cover shooter movie games like Uncharted and Last of Us.

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That is not a single game and I do not believe removing just one EA game would impact anything. You've got the right idea but that power has not been bestowed upon you by the OP.

I dunno about you but I like having decent close combat in my 3D action games and OoT was kinda ground zero for that. Before DMC, OoT kinda was the bar for that sort of shit.

are you talking about waifufaggotry or just general pants-shitting?

breath of the wild

Wish Granted. Sonic '06 has been replaced with Sonic '07, and is much worse

If someone can remove Yea Forums mods I can kill ea

Now that's a world worth living in

...

Can't think of a single game, I just hate modern online matchmaking. Things where better when you had to select a server.

Starcraft, though the inspiration it had did give way a lot of good games

League of Legends. I don't hate the game itself but it fucking destroyed my gaming friends.

7 years later or whatever the fuck it's STILL all they play. They buy a new game here and there, play it for like a day, then it's back to League. They all turn into fucking spergs on it too, like we were a chill group and now whenever it's League time 'blah blah why didn't you do this?!' x100 for years.

I miss my friends

I think matchmaking was first introduced in CoD:MW. Though I'm not 100% certain.

Sonic Adventure 2

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I knew a guy in high school who was a giant fucking asshole to me and just singled me out one day to start ranting about jungles and champions and shit. Fuck that guy. Post poppies.

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Probably the first game that popularized it.

Surprised no one said Chrono Cross, it's the first thing that jumps to my mind.

Halo. Popularized Xbox, paid multiplayer and the whole dudebros-buying-the-360-for-halocod shit.

zelda because its overrated shit people never shut up about

fuck off

Planetside 2

I wouldn't want any game removed from history, but if I had to pick something it would be Sonic the Hedgehog. Imagine how many social lives would be saved if that game never came out.

Skyrim

Why do kids think Half-Life was some blasphemous game that "ruined FPSes"?

Halo had a MUCH bigger impact in changing the genre.

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Metal Gear Solid.

>it was arguably the main catalyst for its popularity as it stands today

nigga, ZELDA was open-world on the fucking NES!

how fucking stupid do you have to be to think GTA had ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with popularizing open-world games?

It was the first major "FPS movie" game. Clunky and tedious gameplay

bad taste

half life gameplay is as fast and fluid as quake. level design is another question though
you want to talk about clunky and tedious at least pick a valid target like halo or even counter strike

FIFA

That's where the EA lootbox originated

Wolfenstein The New Colossus

How young do you have to be to not know that Zelda was open-world for YEARS before GTA or Shenmue? Or that open worlds were common in PC gaming since the 80s?

Half-Life literally runs in the Quake Engine. How retarded are you?

World of Warcraft

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It wasn't FIFA it was a different soccer game

I don't know about that first part but I guess the second part works

I would post a brainletjak but im not a wojak poster

Depression quest

>Half-Life literally runs in the Quake Engine
Yeah, it's pretty amazing that they managed to bastardize it to the point where Half-Life movement feels almost nothing like Quake's.

Puzzle & Dragons for being one of the first big games normalizing gacha.

fucking pong

Fantasy is great, normie escapism is boring as fuck