Gaming

15 readers

2 users here now

A community for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@level-up.zone

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

submitted 1 year ago by massred@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

205 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] boogers19@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Kinda wish Xbox had followed Sony with the light bar and speaker in the controller. I feel like it would have made room for more devs to develop features for it.

There's not even anything super game changing or anything, but there is just so much possibility for little touches.

GTAV pumped the cop radio and flashing cop lights thru the ds4 when you catch stars.

One game had a talking sword. The sword talks thru your ds4 speaker.

But even the smallest stuff was great. The Tomb Raider games will flash thru a mix of orange/yellow/red when you sit at a campfire. Glows off your knees, feels cozy. TLoU1/2 and I think Uncharted send the little click of the flashlight to the ds4.

So many possibilities.