Terrible Game ideas that turned out to be Great!

[jebussaves88]

Working as a cab driver... ooooh SHIT HERE COME'S SEGA!

 

[Professor M]

avouleance2nd:
a seven hour defence/escort mission.
actually one of the best games i have played
anyone know what i mean

Resident evil 4?



not even close but it was jappanese

ICO .. and on topic I can't think right now. Unless you count Kane and Lynch, where the two main characters are the most horrible emotionless idiots ... and yet I somehow connected with them :|

first how did you know?

second i would be worried if i could relate to a phycopath[/quote

Well, escort missions are always terrible, and theres only one game thats managed to make the whole thing one big escort mission, without the players even realising

And I know, its weird right? I went back and played it again, and it just seems to be the story that draws me in

 

[atomictoast]

Animal Crossing, just imagine the pitch for that thing.

"Yeah...so your telling me the main action in the game is Fishing, Bug Catching, Writing Letters, and paying your bills?"

 

[MecaEcco]

Kingdom Hearts

 

[Voltano]

Developer: Let's make a game with a tarzan wanna-be character in a loin cloth hopping and biting his enemies that happen to be pigs with magical powers--

Publisher: Well...That seems like it could work. We could sta--

Developer: --And the protagonist has pink Vegeta hair!!!

Publisher: ...

One of the best platformer series I have the luxury of owning...

 

[daywalker1776]

a super soldier, who is a mute, in the year 2552 fights for humanity against a genocidal alien alliance, and he single-handedly destroys a weapon created by their alien forefathers, which the alien alliance worships, only to discover another one after the aliens attack Eath, deactivate that, returns to Earth again without his sexy AI counterpart, who he's been with since the beginning, finds out shes on something outside the galaxy that can control all the other weapons, which were used originally to destroy a parasitic alien race, goes there, gets her back, and destroys it with a weapon built to replace the one he destroyed in the first game. He is presumed dead and a funeral is places in his honor as well as all the other people who died in the war, but it is revealed that he survived and is drifting to an unknown planet.

 

[bowserboy26578]

a man in a skirt with long blond hair and a whip mows down zombie to kill Dracula, and so goes the tale of Castlevania

 

[oppp7]

The Sims. You play as a human being, and control their lives by deciding if they get a job, have kids, etc. For some reason, it's actually pretty fun.

 

[sarahvait]

Deadrising, ZOmbies appear because of radioactive wasps, thatw as ridiculous, but the game was GREAT! FANTASTIC!

Oh yeah, it's great game. Unless you have to escort survivors. Or try to fight a boss fight.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

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

Goddamnit you beat me to the punch.
Ummm....you play as a bunch of rollerbladeing graffiti artits in some alternate version of Tokyo run by facists whose armed police force can be killed by coverng them in spray-paint= Jet Grind Radio/Jet Set Radio Future. Two of the best games. Ever.

 

[Chrono180]

Somehow, Wolverine: Origins turned out to be pretty fun. I mean, since it was based on a movie, I thought it would almost certainly suck horribly, and I made a point of not buying it for months because of that, but when I finally did buy it, it was one of the most fun games I had played in a long time.

Oh and the Lego games, nuff said.