Terrible Game ideas that turned out to be Great!

[Lonely Swordsman]

Falling blocks need to be arranged into lines to earn points. Sounds exciting, doesnt it? :yawn:

 

[RanD00M]

a seven hour defene/escort mission.
actually one of the best games i have played
anyone know what i mean

Halo?

Kingdom Hearts was a great game compare to the stupid idea.

 

[Acidwell]

you're a physics grad student who is involved in scanning some rock
(admittedly its only when this messes up that it becomes good)

 

[The_ModeRazor]

A fat plumber goes and saves a princess from a turtle.

EDIT:

SLAI, the Baldurs Gate games(OMFG I am on a neverending quest to find BGDA:II) The Bards Tale, Some others I don't remember....

Dark alliance 2? I have that.

I hate you. I'm going to steal it now.

I have it too. The one with the prison at the beginning and the torturer who kills

Spoiler

Khalid?

or the expansion I also own?

Big eyed spikey haired teens continually save the world from ever increasingly propostorous pretenses.

No, not that one... I have no idea what youre talking about.

You're talking about Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, the shite spinoff action game that console got. He's talking about the actual RPG game, Baldur's Gate 2 for the PC which was decidedly not shite and is in fact so awesome that anyone who calls themselves an RPG gamer had better have tried it at least once.

I did, and I thought it sucked big time.
OT:Orcs kill humans and humans kill orcs rawr!

 

[AvsJoe]

I just recently found a Facebook app called Restaurant City. The point of this game is to build and manage a restaurant not unlike you manage your hotel in Sim Tower. I though it was a dumb idea and that I would never play it. Boy was I ever wrong.

Wait, does a Facebook app count as a game?

 

[The Austin]

Uhhhh......

OOH!!! I GOT IT!

 

[scareBro]

Psychonaughts: I thought it was going to be like Sleepaway Camp mixed w/ that seen from The Matrix: "There is no spoon"...effing bull. That'd be a TERRIBLE game

 

[Sonicron]

A yellow sphere with a triangular cutout floats along a maze with no exit, eating white dots and being hunted by brightly colored squid things.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

You're a nerdy scientist who for some reason is put in epic power armor and given a gun that can launch objects at high velocity. No, nothing can go wrong there...

 

[JoeKickAzz]

a seven hour defence/escort mission.
actually one of the best games i have played
anyone know what i mean

Resident evil 4?

i think RE4 took more than 7 hours

 

[DrScoobs]

Ever played a game who's concept seemed so terrible, so utterly stupid that you never thought it would be a success.
And in the end it turned out to be a very fun game to play?
Share your experiences with this

capture the flag if (in the words of matt) the flag was a big fat ***** and you had to give her cake to make her harder to carry :S

 

[Crabturtleking]

A bear and bird go after a witch that stole the bears sister, while going to random places and transforming into other animal-thingies.

 

[the Magelord]

A fat plumber goes and saves a princess from a turtle.

EDIT:

SLAI, the Baldurs Gate games(OMFG I am on a neverending quest to find BGDA:II) The Bards Tale, Some others I don't remember....

Dark alliance 2? I have that.

I hate you. I'm going to steal it now.

I have it too. The one with the prison at the beginning and the torturer who kills

Spoiler

Khalid?

or the expansion I also own?

Big eyed spikey haired teens continually save the world from ever increasingly propostorous pretenses.

No, that is Baldur's Gate 2 shadows of Amn. Dark alliance 2 is the one that starts with you on a road killing goblins to rescue a caravan. (with the PC choice of a drow assassin, an elven necromancer, a dwarven cleric, a human cleric and a human barbarian)

However, my favourite game of this would be Baldur's gate, simply for its plot
Sarevok "Hi, I'm a big bad evil guy who terrifies all 8 year old players and i am going to kill you because

Spoiler

we share a daddy. By the way, we're demigods"

the plot was interesting, but the characters; I think a combination of Minsc's lines says it all
Minsc "Who wants some" "Butt-kicking for goodness!"

 

[Yuzzi]

You take control of a human-like creature's average life and help him/her get through a normal 9-to-5 day time after another.

 

[NordicWarrior]

Freddy Pharkus, Frontier Pharmacist.

Just kidding.

 

[Arisato-kun]

I honestly thought Kingdom Hearts was going to be an awful game. The premise just seemed laughable. Then I played it and was amazed at how well it worked.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Well I was amazed that a game based off of a King Kong movie would turn out fun and playable... but you know it really was.

It was fun, sort of like Turok without the sci-fi elements. But the fact that you set bones on fire made no sense.

OP:Kingdom Hearts, who knew that Square Enix + Disney = Fun times?

 

[chinese_democracy]

"HEY GUYS! i got an idea. Lets makes a game where you catch monkeys who travel through time."

-Ape Escape creater