This is in no particular order, just things that would be good.

Creating a “Next Gen” Interactive Communication System

It’s pretty funny that a game like Colossal Cave, having been released more than THIRTY years ago would feature something as peculiar as a fully functional text-based adventure game, only to let the concept fade away as good graphics slowly took the upper hand within development of games.

For those not familiar with Colossal Cave – it is a game where you navigate yourself by typing in what you want to do in order to navigate the colossal cave in which you find yourself in.

What if this technology were to find itself to today’s development? Wouldn’t it be fantastic to be able to actually communicate with the NPC’s of a game, and not just choosing answers already written by the games designer? Actually fulfilling this complete connection to a video game instead of a pretty superficial link via a handheld controller. The only problem is that this would be extremely difficult, as you have to not only analyse what the Player has written, but generating responses – stitching together animation and audio in real-time… *sigh*

Death to all Space Marines

Yeah, all of them can just go to hell.

Lay off the Nazis

Now before you go off thinking “Oh noes! He is a nasi simpathyzer!,” let me just say two things.

First of all – F*** you, they screwed up and they’ve been paying for it ever since, which some may see as appropriate whereas others might not. I’m not going start a political debate about the Nurnberg trials or anything like that, mostly because 90% of the people reading this won’t even know where Nurnberg is located on a map. It just seems to me that the German people have suffered enough through these 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich and we could cut them some fucking slack. And I know what you’re thinking – “they shouldn’t relate themselves to the Nazis unless they are also Nazis,” and I agree with you to some degree. But the fact remains that it’s an incredibly painful chapter in their, as well as our, history. I mean, how many games are made depicting the horrific acts of violence caused by the Russian or American troops during WWII? Not many, although it would make a pretty refreshing experience…

Second of all, I cannot be the only one who is sick and tired of killing the same old generic, kraut-eatin’, demon-worshipping (if id software weren’t lying!) Nazis over and over again? Something clever that Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of the Escapist Magazine review series “Zero Punctuation” once said:

“The Call of Duty series has actually gone on longer than World War II.”

WE GET IT, THEY FUCKED UP.

HAIR

What is the excuse for all of these damned bald (or hat-wearing) protagonists nowadays, anyway? Off the top of my head (no pun intended) – Alex Mercer, Cole McGrath, Marcus Fenix, Nathan Hale, Althair, the new Max Payne, Mario (sort of)…

I’m not saying that everybody should have long, wavy hair that flow in the wind and can be transformed to venomous snakes that eat the faces of your enemies while it also wipes your ass and is able to beat a Chinese in a game of Chess.

Joking aside… Hair is a good thing. Everybody remembers how Cloud from FF7 looks like, right? I’m not saying that there aren’t other things that can be used to define a character, but hair is probably a really good alternative since it’s relatable. (Sorry to all of the bald people reading this)

The passing of Bobby Kotick

Yeah, I went there. You know what I’m talking about. I’m not the only one thinking it.

More exclusives

Before you all blow your lids, hear me out.

I won’t write three paragraphs about the subject, but it’s a pretty well-known fact that exclusive games are better than most multiplatform titles. Gears, Uncharted, MGS4, LBP, Forza, GT5… the list goes on. Why is this, you ask?

Well, as someone who doesn’t really work in the industry, yet possesses the brain power necessary to add 1 and 1 together, it seems to me that working with a single engine architecture would be much simpler than working with two. You don’t have to fit it to both consoles, which give you more time for optimizing the code, testing the game and just polishing it…

NOTE: This doesn’t mean that exclusives are automatically better than other games – look at Haze, Fable, LAIR etc…

EXTRA NOTE: I actually did kind of like LAIR. Seriously.

More mature themes

I don’t really want to see every single game featuring drawn-out stories about someone’s child dying in their arms or someone having to deal with breast cancer, but it sure would be swell to see something other than plots basing themselves on revenge or saving the world. Or saving your wife… I mean damn it! Why can’t women just use pepper spray or something? Yeah, I know that it’s a 200 feet space monster, dear – but try to kick it in the nuts… if you can find them, that is.

More innovation in FPS games

Bullet time, regenerating health, strange alien races hell-bent on destroying the Earth and crates of ammo around every single corner… How about something new?

Variety in weapons is also one of those things that I’ve begun to really notice lately, and not in a very good way… Machine gun, rocket launcher, SMG, handgun and the magnum… Why can’t there be a gun that turns the ground into strawberry jam, devouring the enemies and turning them into pieces of toast? How about a rifle that shoots strings of jelly, binding people and objects together and crushing them as the string tightens?
At least I’m being creative!

Less Star Wars

How many games based upon George Lucas’ IP has been released over the last two years?

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes
• Lego Star Wars II
• Star Wars: Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
• Star Wars: Battlefront: Elite Squadron
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (not yet released, though)

The scary thing is – I’m not even sure that I didn’t miss one or two…

Oh right, and this LEGO thing can fuck off, as well. I mean LEGO Rock Band? Are they high?

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