foogledricks Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 I was going to make this a poll, but I just didn't think I could come up with the list alone. Celda was hammered, and ended up a big success. Likewise with Metroid Prime's first-person transformation. The PC world said that Halo belonged on the PC, and now Halo 2 is one of the most anticipated games of all time. What other successes that defied skepticism should be added to the above games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles. Everyone predicted that the required GBA-connectivity would doom the game, and it's one of the GameCube's biggest and fastest sellers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFo Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 My vote goes for Nintendo releasing the original NES at a time when the video game industry was, for the most part, utterly dead. It took either an enormous pair of brass balls or stunning amount of stupidity for them to jump into a market in as bad a shape as that. Maybe a little of both. Obviously, the gamble paid off more than anyone could have imagined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Maybe not quite as big as that one, but I think we're all glad that, a year into the project, the Half-Life team decided they didn't like what they had done so far and started over, rather than pressing on with something that wasn't working. Because second time really was a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Ew, I have three candidates - Duke Nukem Forever! The gameboy DS. And Resident Evil 4, which is changing the franchise significantly, and making it exclusive to the Gamecube. We'll see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 "Duke Nukem Forever!" I thought this was risks that have paid off.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 As much as I hate to say it, having Sony split away from Nintendo & the SNES CD, & jumping into the videogame biz paid off HUGE... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Nintendo dropping their attempts to find a US partner (at one time Atari) to help introduce their NES to the US. Deciding to go it alone in a decimated game market took balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 It's probably too early to tell if it paid off at this point, but I think Xbox Live was a bit of a gamble, since online multiplayer games really weren't very popular when it was released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 online multiplayer games really weren't very popular when it was released. Not on the consoles at least . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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