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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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[–] WMan37@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it never got copied but it definitely feels like it disappeared off the face of the earth:

Difficulty increases in linear games also change the objectives of a mission not just health and NPC behavior, like in Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark, and Thief: The Dark Project.

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

Mgs2 did this a decent amount. Not that that game isn’t ancient by now either though lol