Everything that was being developed on the original DOOM engine right before ID revealed Quake...
Great Games released at the WRONG time.
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I also have a huge soft spot for the studio. tri-Ace knows how to make a game fun and that's a rarer and more valuable skill than some people assume. Their storylines and characters are often kinda silly, but they always deliver an entertaining experience thanks to some of the best and most innovative battlesystems out there.FoolKiller said:
Earthbound (1995). Sure, now there is a large cult following for the Mother series. But when that game was released in the west, it was a flop. It was near the end of the 16-bits era, and the SNES had two of the best JRPGs of that generation.
How could gamers who saw console RPGs with graphics like these...
...could see this...
...as something good.
How could gamers who saw console RPGs with graphics like these...
...could see this...
...as something good.
"Can I start therapy now? Or I should wait until the nightmares set in?"
Vengeance didn't fail because of bad timing, it failed because it abandoned everything good about the prior games. The one and only good thing it did was give itself a story (which was more than Tribes 1 or 2 had) and tie that story back to the earlier games.GabeZhul said:As for others... Well, there's Tribes: Vengeance. It is an extremely fun FPS with a decent single player campaign following five different characters through almost two decades, great gameplay- and movement-mechanics (different armor-suits with different abilities, "skiing", jet-packs and so forth) and map-design. The only problem was that it was released just a few months after Doom 3 and just a bit before HL2, with practically zero advertisement support (not to mention it was using the updated Unreal 2 engine at a time where everyone was trying to wow the public with high-def graphics and textures and physics and whatnot). It was a commercial fail, and I don't think it had much of a cult following either, but it was still a pretty good, fast-paced old-school FPS. Yathzee would probably love it too.
Haven't seen this gem mentioned yet, so without further ado: Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi-Ops:_The_Mindgate_Conspiracy].
This game had everything you could possibly want out of a psychic warrior game: Picking things up with your mind. Throwing things with your mind. Surf on objects you picked up, with your mind. Make people's heads explode, with your mind. Control other people with your mind. Make other people kill themselves, with your mind. Scout ahead with your mind. See another dimension with your mind.
Set people on fire, with your mind.
I mean, you get all that and it's developed by Midway so you know it is decently bloody, what more could you possibly want? Yet you never hear anyone talk about it, and it never got a sequel. ThanksObama Ed Boon.
This game had everything you could possibly want out of a psychic warrior game: Picking things up with your mind. Throwing things with your mind. Surf on objects you picked up, with your mind. Make people's heads explode, with your mind. Control other people with your mind. Make other people kill themselves, with your mind. Scout ahead with your mind. See another dimension with your mind.
Set people on fire, with your mind.
I mean, you get all that and it's developed by Midway so you know it is decently bloody, what more could you possibly want? Yet you never hear anyone talk about it, and it never got a sequel. Thanks
In all their infinite wisdom, Nintendo released every single Metroid Prime game in the shadow of the Halo releases.
Obviously Metroid Prime is nothing like Halo, other than being a science fiction themed first-person shooter. And I know there's going to be someone who leaps on this to honk at me that Metroid Prime is "an adventure, not a shooter", so let's just get the semantics right out of the way. It has a first-person perspective, and you shoot aliens. To a casual player who doesn't follow the press and doesn't know the details of what Metroid is, they look close enough, and Halo has the power of name recognition where Metroid Prime does not.
If it had only happened once, it could be forgiven as a strategic mistake. They thought that the success of Halo would get people excited for sci-fi shooters, and that they could tap into the new market for console FPS games that Halo would create. This did not work. If they had changed tactics and learned from that mistake (Nintendo learning from a mistake, heaven forbid) it would just be a single misstep. But instead, they did it for both of the sequels (Hunters being the only exception). Now, as a result of the poor sales this has caused, the board of directors has been made skittish, and that's why Nintendo does not do any in-house or second party (like Retro Studios) Metroid games any more.
Obviously Metroid Prime is nothing like Halo, other than being a science fiction themed first-person shooter. And I know there's going to be someone who leaps on this to honk at me that Metroid Prime is "an adventure, not a shooter", so let's just get the semantics right out of the way. It has a first-person perspective, and you shoot aliens. To a casual player who doesn't follow the press and doesn't know the details of what Metroid is, they look close enough, and Halo has the power of name recognition where Metroid Prime does not.
If it had only happened once, it could be forgiven as a strategic mistake. They thought that the success of Halo would get people excited for sci-fi shooters, and that they could tap into the new market for console FPS games that Halo would create. This did not work. If they had changed tactics and learned from that mistake (Nintendo learning from a mistake, heaven forbid) it would just be a single misstep. But instead, they did it for both of the sequels (Hunters being the only exception). Now, as a result of the poor sales this has caused, the board of directors has been made skittish, and that's why Nintendo does not do any in-house or second party (like Retro Studios) Metroid games any more.
Going too go with a more unusual one: TimeShift.
To be fair it wasn't a "great" game honestly. It was quite linear and weapons were imbalanced and various other problems. But by the gods it was a lot of fun. You had a time manipulating suit that allowed you to slow, stop and even reverse time over short periods. And the multiplayer was incredible, throwing "balls" of time at people to slow them down or stop them in place temporarily.
Why was it released at the wrong time? Because of a certain other super-suit shooter with gigantic marketing behind it from a different publisher.
TimeShift - 30th October 2007
Crysis - 16th November 2007
To be fair it wasn't a "great" game honestly. It was quite linear and weapons were imbalanced and various other problems. But by the gods it was a lot of fun. You had a time manipulating suit that allowed you to slow, stop and even reverse time over short periods. And the multiplayer was incredible, throwing "balls" of time at people to slow them down or stop them in place temporarily.
Why was it released at the wrong time? Because of a certain other super-suit shooter with gigantic marketing behind it from a different publisher.
TimeShift - 30th October 2007
Crysis - 16th November 2007