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.
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.
Back in 1998, activision dropped a game called Battle Zone that I thought was one of the coolest games i’d ever played.
It was a first person shooter, but you had these hover tank vehicles that you piloted and you could jump out of them and into other ones, etc. This was already really cool in and of itself, but what made Battlezone really stand out to me is that it was also a first person RTS game. You had a whole base, built an army of wingmen that would go into battle beside you, etc. You build harvesters, gathered resources, all that jazz.
I thought it was amazing. And while they did make a Battle Zone 2 at some point, I haven’t seen ANY other games that combined FPS and RTS like that ever since. The closest game i’ve seen that does something like that hasn’t even released yet I don’t think and it is still in development, but even it doesn’t do it exactly the same because in this new game one player acts as the commander and plays the game like an RTS and the other players act like soldiers and do the fighting on the ground in first person. So even that isn’t exactly the same, but it’s the closest i’ve ever seen.
I think it was a really cool genre that i’d love to see explored and refined.