[Column] General: The 12 Least Popular Game Innovations of All Time

SBFord

When is an innovation not an innovation? When everyone hates it, some of you undoubtedly answered. In today's Fair Game column, we take a look at some of the worst innovations in gaming history. See if you agree before adding your thoughts to the list in the comments.

1. Edible Armor: The idea being that backpacks looked silly and ruined one’s attempt to cut an adventuresome dash, one needed a way to do without them. Alas, adventurers have an unfortunate tendency to injury, and healing draughts simply have to go somewhere. Several attempts (and much chafing) later, and the idea for eating one’s own armor was born. If injured, one could simply start snapping off (and snacking on) one’s pauldrons. Edible Armor was available in three styles: Matzo Mail, Jerky Jerkins and Flowing Robes of Ramen; eventually discontinued after the invention of pockets.

Read more of Lisa Jonte's Fair Game: The 12 Least Popular Game Innovations of All Time.

Stromm

Been on the "special" cookies again eh? :-)

birdycephon

WTF did I just read?

flizzer

Late April Fool's ?

 

Reizla

List has 13 items actually (between 2 and 3 )

Character Classes - The standard mix of Warrior, Mage, Cleric and Thief, having long since lost its luster, has game designers ever on the hunt for something new and exciting for players to imprint upon like addled baby birds.

JimmyYO

We should be able to vote for the most poorly written articles of all time.

Psychow

I don't understand this at all.

kasta

I think it was supposed to be funny but as Edmund Gwen said, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard."

C.L.O.U.D

I was beginning to think I was just too dumb to understand what this article meant. I'm glad I looked at the comments above to realize I wasn't alone in this confusion.

Bootez

^ What C.L.O.U.D. said.... 

 

What the hell did I just read?

Dracondis

Woo hoo!  Fame!

Wow...  That didn't last long.

nuttob

How about some real ones, like in eq1 where the more coin you carried, the more slowed down you would get.  Who the hell put that in the game hehe!

Dracondis

Also, I think that you're too subtle for this group.  You're going tohave to dumb down the sarcasm.  But I got it.  And it was clever.

Psychow

Originally posted by Dracondis
Also, I think that you're too subtle for this group.  You're going tohave to dumb down the sarcasm.  But I got it.  And it was clever.

 

Please interpret for the rest of us!!!

Randayn

It doesn't need to be dumbed down.....it's just really bad humor....I didnt laugh once.   I do give the writer credit for being creative...just didnt find it humorous.  I think it was because I was let down by the content not exactly matching the title.

Sinkael

wait...what?

tawess

Don't give up your dayjob...

I am very curious of Dracondis explenation of the deep humor.. more so the the.. what ever it is up there.

 

Vorthanion

More importantly, why did the editor at MMORPG.com allow this to be posted in its current state?

DamonVile

Originally posted by tawess

Don't give up your dayjob...

I am very curious of Dracondis explenation of the deep humor.. more so the the.. what ever it is up there.

 

Reading his post made me think of homer singing "I am so smart, S M R T".

VikingGamer

wha? 

BTrayaL

WTF was that...?

Unknown

Thats a special brand of crack ya'll smoke over there

Harafnir

Where is the "report for spam" button?

xDrac

What is this shit?

Telondariel

Ok, good..I'm not the only one left scratching my head over here.

 

Why was this even published?

red_cruiser

The problem with this article is that there are no doubt 12 unpopular game innovations out there that witty observations could have been made about; that people would have enjoyed reading and sharing their own insights on.   Taking absurd ideas out of real life and seeing how they could be shoe-horned into a vide game didn't seem to translate that well.