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What’s the most innovative game hook that never took off or got copied? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by massred@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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Basically what’s a game that you’ve played that seemed so mind blowingly unique at the time but for one reason or another the game never took off and other developers didn’t pick up and run with it either.

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[–] DoubleSurreal@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember that game! I played it for a bit and remember that it ended up making me paranoid as heck! You could choose anywhere from light immersion where all the phone calls and such had a disclaimer at the beginning that it was part of the game, to full immersion where there was no warning and you were getting death threats out of nowhere late at night.

It was a really neat concept and I was sad when they shut it down.

[–] massred@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

LOL. My parents would have killed me if I had them get random death threats to the phone line without a disclaimer. I was still living at home the first couple years of college. The game was super immersive. I liked the story too. They made that whole fake game company that supposedly made the game and then had them collapse and be behind the conspiracy. Super cool. Back when EA stood for innovation instead of destroying smaller companies that it acquires.