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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

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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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[–] Matuno@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a free class based shooter where one team had to do various objectives to get to the end of the map, and side objectives could give you an edge. An engineer would use a resource bar to restore a bridge, the enemy could place Dynamite and hold control to blow it up and set them back.

Others could sabotage of take over the enemy outpost for quicker resource generation which translated to more healing, ammo, airstrikes etc.

Nowadays it's all death match or point capture with no skirmishing over a larger area at all. Shooters are bland as heck.

[–] SD456@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I wish some modern FPS had this, I loved this!