If you could remove a game from existence....

B. Duke Nukem Forever.

This option isn't up there, but I'd clear up a ton of Katamari and Lumines games, and maybe keep a couple of the good ones.

A. Ridge racer.

Post any details, if you want, about what you would (or wouldn't) remove or why. This isn't calling out to any specific games, it's just curiosity.

Quite frankly I don't think I care enough to remove any given game from the timeline, but DA2 comes close.

Id remove Skate 3

I wouldn't remove anything. There is something special about games that are bad. Sometimes it is fun to play them, I don't know why..

E. Even the worst games never did anything to actually harm me in any way. If I don't like a game or don't think it's worth playing, I don't play it.

I'd say "ET, since an industry without the crash would be incredibly different", but given that it was more a prime example than a sole cause, the crash would've happened, regardless. As for an actual answer, I'll go with Pac Man for the Atari 2600. I'm aware of what I just said, and I stick by it.

B. If the previous games were good, why would I want to delete those?

@BleedingStarX said:

Id remove Skate 3

You're insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGF9duxVQnI&feature=relmfu

Why would anyone want to remove this.

FarmVille.

Dino Crisis 3

I bet you can't even name the first video game ever made. You wouldn't notice if it was gone.

Deal with it , don't buy it, don't look at it and stop bitching.

Crysis 2. I would remove it so hard.

Call of Duty, and any other modern war shooter.
 
Bring back the days of Perfect Dark and Timesplitters!

Why would anyone want to remove a game from existence? There will be people out there who enjoy it.

what kinda time travel? will it be a different world line? how are we traveling to the past; sending a text message? sending our memories back? actual time machine?

TIME TRAVEL IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

A: Fifa or any sports game that allows companies to leech money off of idiots.

@LordAndrew said:

I bet you can't even name the first video game ever made. You wouldn't notice if it was gone.

You're right, I can't, and won't try to. The idea is that things might be different in all kinds of unpredictable ways if it were gone; butterfly effect and all that. I tried not to read into it.

It's just a lighthearted poll anyway, there might be some people out there so dissatisfied with gaming as it is that they'd want the option to somehow shake up everything.

B: Resident Evil Survivor.

                   

I'd say "ET, since an industry without the crash would be incredibly different", but given that it was more a prime example than a sole cause, the crash would've happened, regardless. As for an actual answer, I'll go with Pac Man for the Atari 2600. I'm aware of what I just said, and I stick by it.

                   

               

no game is worth removing from time

@bighat_logan said:

no game is worth removing from time

I second this, but nobody said Custer's Revenge yet?

@AhmadMetallic said:

Crysis 2. I would remove it so hard.

This. Fear 2 as well. Rainbow 6: Vegas. Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Basicallly, pc games that have become console focused.

I can't really think of an example in which it has resulted in a better game. It's resulted in more money but I can't think of a game objectively being better because of it.

None. You know how it goes: you remove one game from history, come back to your own timeline, and suddenly the communists have taken over, there's a giant statue of Lenin in the middle of New York, Zeppelins are the primary form of air travel, the coffee bean is extinct so everyone has to drink Comrade Cola instead, all game development is state-controlled and regulated, bullets are the primary currency, worldwide radiation levels are super-high, and the automobile was never invented.

I'm not willing to risk that.

@Moonshadow101 said:

None. You know how it goes: you remove one game from history, come back to your own timeline, and suddenly the communists have taken over, there's a giant statue of Lenin in the middle of New York, Zeppelins are the primary form of air travel, the coffee bean is extinct so everyone has to drink Comrade Cola instead, all game development is state-controlled and regulated, bullets are the primary currency, worldwide radiation levels are super-high, and the automobile was never invented.

I'm not willing to risk that.

You forgot to add the part where your dad is killed and your mom is married to Biff.

Doom.
 
I just stopped every school shooting ever.
 
You're welcome, America.

Halo: Combat Evolved.

I love that game, but imagine how different the shooter world would be without it.

I might've said Duke Nukem Forever, if "The Doctor Who Cloned Me" DLC hadn't made the gameplay and humor better, and updated the character of Duke to be a likable character.

I would say A) To Call Of Duty, because I always hated the franchise and the unoriginal, lazy writing.

@LordXavierBritish: Oh also, you're a dumbass. School shootings date back to the 1600's, way before video games were even invented.

B: Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust

I wouldn't remove any game ever because it would be pointless.

Donkey Kong - look, you're just going to have to trust me on this one, okay?

Advent Rising

I really liked that game and knowing there is no sequel makes me sad.

@Lifestrike said:

@BleedingStarX said:

Id remove Skate 3

You're insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGF9duxVQnI&feature=relmfu

Why would anyone want to remove this.

Because the 1st and 2nd were infinitely better? You could do all that stupid crazy stuff in the first 2 Skate games

@MrNeoshredder said:

@LordXavierBritish: Oh also, you're a dumbass. School shootings date back to the 1600's, way before video games were even invented.

*whoosh*

Metal Gear Solid 4, saving the series' lore.

Fallout 3, saving the series' lore.

What happened, happened.

Bad games teach us lessons, we need them almost as much as good ones

@AhmadMetallic said:

Crysis 2. I would remove it so hard.

But... I thought Crysis 2 was one of 2011's highlights...

OK, it certainly wasn't as impressive as its predecessor, but I still don't see the hate for it. Unless you're using it as a scapegoat for consolization, in which case... shit, I can't argue against that one. Still, fantastic game as far as I can tell. What, in particular, did you hate about it?

Anyway, I voted that I would go back and remove Metroid Other M because it's one bad mark on an otherwise near perfect record, but I didn't go on down and see the "why am I wasting this?" option. I would not waste time travel just to remove a video game from its existence, even if it were the most execrable pile of crap in existence.

I wouldn't remove anything, there's a good chance someone out there loves whatever game I choose and I wouldn't want to make them sad!

i went with "E". why do this when games have provided so much enjoyment? bad ones can always be ignored. why not use time travel to go 252.28 million years into the past to attempt to observe the Permian-Triassic extinction event? that would be truly worthwhile

@Cloudenvy said:

I wouldn't remove anything, there's a good chance someone out there loves whatever game I choose and I wouldn't want to make them sad!

This would mean that someone loves either ET or Custer's Revenge.

@believer258 said:

@Cloudenvy said:

I wouldn't remove anything, there's a good chance someone out there loves whatever game I choose and I wouldn't want to make them sad!

This would mean that someone loves either ET or Custer's Revenge.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone did love them ironically. Or at the very least wouldn't want them to disappear from the world!

I would remove a extremely popular game, something that sold gangbusters, then design it again myself and make mad scrilla.

Become Batman.

I wouldn't remove any game, good games are praised and bad games are ignored. We need bad games just as much as good ones to show us what is a good game. You might laugh and say of course good games should have x,y and z but if we didn't have bad games to point that out how would we know?

Besides, removing a game might cause a butterfly effect and destroy the universe!!

Brutal Legend....

None. No game is worth the trouble.

I think someone has enjoyed almost every game so why take that away from them?