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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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[–] Denbus26@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Splitgate did a great job of using the portal gun mechanic in an arena shooter. I played it on PC, but I kinda sucked at aiming with mouse and keyboard, so I could only win straightforward gunfights about 30% of the time, but I remembered playing Portal all those years ago. I usually managed to finish matches near the top of the scoreboard despite my shitty accuracy by thinking with portals™ and just constantly portalling around the map and catching people by surprise.