#What's a part of a video game you think had missed potential?

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honest patrol
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Mage class terraria

winged lotus
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skylanders couldve been huge

honest patrol
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gritty aspen
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minecraft progression

covert sequoia
winged lotus
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also if tf2 got actual support and good updates it could genuinely have been a massive esport

quasi orbit
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half of the features in zenless zone zero getting used in one chapter and then being forgotten about

winged lotus
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also yea minecraft, as was said before

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that progression system fucking sucks lmao

zenith atlas
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plants vs zombies heroes

gritty aspen
quasi orbit
covert sequoia
quiet dirge
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mario kart 8 battle mode

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(wii u mk8, not mk8d)

lime dawn
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surely so many examples i know but i cant think of any rn

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sobbing

scenic rain
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Lowkey BFN… consider

clever cargo
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gw2 pve

devout folio
subtle hare
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Joustous from king of card is rlly fun

gritty aspen
# winged lotus that progression system fucking sucks lmao

bosses are ass (either over/underpowered and underwhelming)
diamond gear is way too easy to find
netherite "upgrades" are too hard to find
its only kinda fun when you handicap yourself and pull a lukethenotable and even then it gets kinda boring

quasi orbit
regal drift
winged lotus
regal drift
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yea

winged lotus
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also the combat system

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is way too simplified

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and half of the items in the game serve no purpose/are creative but suck

gritty aspen
covert sequoia
quiet dirge
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arpeggio

desert briar
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Every game should’ve had user pea cap’s birthday at some point yet never did

quasi orbit
inland talon
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pvz heroes

regal drift
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when i got back into the game i was super surprised how fast i was going through the chapters and when i found out it was removed i was like damn

gritty aspen
desert briar
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I agree that theres an <in general more support> clause you can add to a ton of games like TF2, but idk if anything specifically core feels lacking

covert sequoia
humble parcel
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The final battle of borderlands 2, don't get me wrong, it's a pretty cool battle but it feels like I'm fighting a big ass kraggon, jack makes it special i guess

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The warrior it's a pretty mid boss

round pivot
honest patrol
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not real

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its just ranged now

round pivot
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Real

honest patrol
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calamity made it rogue

round pivot
gritty aspen
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the fortnite building mechanic
its way too juiced out of all of its fun and its way too old/needs a rework(?)

desert briar
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Standard LoR answer too. Prismatics, art, expeditions, ‘achievements’ further than mastery all could’ve been higher prior early. A lot of those were lacking unfortunately.

gritty aspen
high oak
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Antonblast as a whole

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Very underwhelming game, lame movement

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Also the lore from Lunacid I found really lame

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And the game in general gets way boring as you advance

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And also the characters suck

viral marlin
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Imo, not part of a video game but rather a concept

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The Nemesis System

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Patented by Sony

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Nothing done with the system after the lotr games

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:c

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Its so cool, more games could use it

next kraken
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Kessler if the sovs understood their own rules :)

lime dawn
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Oh yeah clash mini

rancid plover
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Fortnite

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(The good one)

torn sentinel
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Mega Man 8. It has the best shop system out of any of the games with a ton of shop unlockables/upgrades that allows for crazy build variety (that greatly shakes up how you play the game, as opposed to the other games where shops only sells lives and stuff) and replayability, a new currency system that encourages level exploration, some of the best designed bosses in the series, a very solid selection of Master Weapons, introduced Master Weapon + Buster Shot duel-wielding (so you can use the Buster Shot alongside any other weapon without having to switch weapons), so many QOL changes.

The problem? The levels suck!! Most of them revolve around some dumb gimmick that has nothing to do with action-platforming and don't let you engage with your upgrade builds. The snowboarding level, the shmup level, the puzzle dungeon level, the fucking maze level! If these levels were actually good, this would easily be the best Mega Man game due to everything else, but the levels just ruin it. Not to mention the fact that pretty much everything introduced in this game never returned in later games. Later games all use the Mega Man 7-style shop system AND currency-system which in comparison is so fucking boring and encourages enemy-drop grinding instead of level-exploration, there is no upgrade system like MM8 in the later games (so creating dedicated upgrade builds is gone), the Buster Shot dual-wielding mechanic never returned I have no idea why it hasn't (this applies to many of the QOL changes MM8 introduced).

It just sucks, MM8 should have been a slam dunk but just fumbles so badly in the level design that it turned an S-Tier Mega Man game into a C-Tier one, and as consequence likely hindered the later MM games due to none of the features introduced in 8 ever returning, like the shop system which later games use MM7's instead. At minimum I'd appreciate if SOME of the QOL changes MM8 made returned, like telling you exactly how many uses of a Master Weapon you have left.

next kraken
keen mirage
gritty aspen
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the wormhole mechanic in pokemon (ultra..?) sun/moon games
after you get all the available legendaries from the tier 3 wormholes you just get shinies from regular wormholes

hasty cobalt
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battle for neighborville's upgradexsystem

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it could have been so much better but it felt so half baked :[

heavy crown
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saying anything other than bfn would be lying

lime dawn
quiet dirge
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Like the market itself was dying because it was a niche

next kraken
quiet dirge
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and also yknow the market dying

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think abt it

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the whole toys to life stuff was a fad

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it blew over after like 8 years

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Disney infinity was discontinued Lego dimensions was just updates now

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Starlink came out in like 2019 and the only reason that was relevant was because of star fox content on the switch version

winged lotus
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it was cool though

quiet dirge
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no i agree it was really cool

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it just wasn't sustainable

winged lotus
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yea fair

next kraken
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I think them taking it off the wii was a death knell because they took it off one of the biggest consoles of all time and made it so that Nintendo kids (a big group of people), could only play skylanders if they had a wii u and the wii u was a colossal failure

This is purely anecdotal of course but my brother was a massive skylanders fan but we skipped the entire super chargers generation because we didnt have a wii u and super chargers wasnt released on the, and instead the wii got this terrible racing game called super chargers racing

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And then by the time imaginators came out we did have a wii u but he was less into the series by then cause the super chargers debacle soured the games for him so we barely bought any of the new skylanders

keen mirage
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How expensive was it to get started in the skylander series, like when the toys were still sold and stuff, getting one of the games and the toys to play the games should add up. (Assuming bare minimum and like one of each element needed to pass certain levels)

keen mirage
quiet dirge
next kraken
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They should have pulled a just dance and kept the games on the wii because everyone had a wii and the wii made perfect sense for a toys to life game because of how it was controlled and marketed

full schooner
junior crater
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Cuphead's Delicious Last Course should have had more Run N' H Guns.

rancid plover
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Ok real talk, Fortnite STW
To this day it maintains >10k active players for a $20 (used to be more) game that is overshadowed by its pvp cousin which is very impressive, especially when you compare it to Lego fortnite's PVE which only has about double despite being free

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The story is very good even if the quests can get tedious and the gameplay while repetitive is really only as repetitive as any other zombie game

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plus there's so many different builds and gimmicks that you can try and they're still adding some new ones every now and then, and most of them have been really good

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So close to greatness

twin heart
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Pvz and it's pay to win ness

steep girder
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focus blast

round pivot
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nah what u talkin 'bout, focus blast fine

nimble palm
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Pvz2

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My glorious king pvz2

sour flame
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rocket league sideswipe, bomber friends, almost every .io games

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hell even fun run 3 if they update new stuff to the game

silent trellis
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We had enchantments

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And potions

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But mojang jus gave up midway and…

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Went to engineering eurgh

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Like wts is copper bulbs and tools

quasi orbit
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copper in general was just such a random addition

pine stream
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every single pvz game has a part like this

for pvz heroes it's the entire game

quasi orbit
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trye

clever cargo
river void
steep girder
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fr if they don't add my ancient egypt hero the game will never live up to its potential

quiet vault
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uhh calamity mod

quiet dirge