Whether they dropped in quality or increased as their series went on, these were some fine new IPs (Red Dead half counts because of Revolver on PS2)
Another strong list.
That's an interesting point, do you count Batman as a whole or Batman Arkham as its own universe? I lean towards the latter but you'd probably never convince everyone.
Dark Sector!!! I forgot that existed, that was quite fun. That was the one with the spiky magic boomerang, right?
Forgot about them but I love both as well.Little Big Planet is another one. The floaty physics sucked then and they suck now, but the interactivity of the levels was above most platformers. The art style felt fresh. Many other games imitated the "crafting supplies as videogame textures" thing. It had 4p couch and online multiplayer. The level editing, the social element of leaving Likes and comments on community levels, even using that stupid Eye camera to take your picture... it all felt like an obvious videogamification of where the Internet was headed. The modding/customization aspect was very PC and this game was influential in bringing it to a console normies.
Then the second game came out and added circuitboards and controllable camera, which players took and broke and made games-within-games. These came out in 2008 and 2011 respectively. Minecraft Survival mode was in 2009, so Little Big Planet definitely gets some credit for popularizing this stuff with the mainstream.
Wii Sports is another favorite series that came from this era. It's fun with all ages in short bursts, never really gets old unless you overplay it and wear it out. The series got better with Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort, and now Switch Sports. The simple toy-like amusement of the motion controls is enough to keep me trying.
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Those franchises have one thing in common. All of them were great and now all of them suck. Incredible.
I spent an absurd amount of time playing the beta and full release of this game. I liked LBP2 a lot as well, but there was a certain charm to how much more you had to do to get simple things to work in the creator in LBP1 before it had the circuit boards.Little Big Planet is another one. The floaty physics sucked then and they suck now, but the interactivity of the levels was above most platformers. The art style felt fresh. Many other games imitated the "crafting supplies as videogame textures" thing. It had 4p couch and online multiplayer. The level editing, the social element of leaving Likes and comments on community levels, even using that stupid Eye camera to take your picture... it all felt like an obvious videogamification of where the Internet was headed. The modding/customization aspect was very PC and this game was influential in bringing it to a console normies.
Then the second game came out and added circuitboards and controllable camera, which players took and broke and made games-within-games. These came out in 2008 and 2011 respectively. Minecraft Survival mode was in 2009, so Little Big Planet definitely gets some credit for popularizing this stuff with the mainstream.
Wii Sports is another favorite series that came from this era. It's fun with all ages in short bursts, never really gets old unless you overplay it and wear it out. The series got better with Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort, and now Switch Sports. The simple toy-like amusement of the motion controls is enough to keep me trying.
yes I realize that i cannot be accepted by D-Pad as a hardcore gamer by admitting these things
If you make that distinction for Batman then you end up with stuff like PS4 Spider-man, Wolverine, Guardians of the Galaxy counting as new IPs.
good call with Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon @Ferdinand the Cowfish
Another good 360 gem was The Last Remnant. You practically needed a game guide to understand how to properly build your party on the 360 version, but I feel like it was a massive "upgrade" to the standard 4-character party JRPG model that most games followed.
The PC version cleaned up the gameplay mechanics and fixed some bugs, that's the one I spent the most time on. I'm not sure if that stuff got patched to the 360 version. There's a modern port, too. Hmm, maybe I should get it on Switch, seems like a good match for a handheld.
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I think they sit somewhere in the middle. They obviously aren't new intellectual property, but they are their own, new, distinct things as game series and should be classed as separate offerings than whatever came before. So while Batman on PS3 or Spider-Man on PS4 aren't strictly new IPs as such, they were something brand new from new dev teams and are all but new except in the most obvious way.
I will never understand why Sony ditched Resistance and Killzone. Plenty of cool stuff could be done with these franchises.
Especially since everyone has complained for years Sony has no 1st party response to Halo.
Devils Advocate response could be that Sony doesn't necessarily dictate what their studios make either. I'm sure there's truth in that statement somewhat.
I skipped 3, because I downloaded the demo and noticed how brown everything was, but I loved 1 and 2. 2 especially, I always get a nostalgia boner for the co-op because I was the best damn medic on this whole planet.
Oh yeah, where were you when I was in the trenches taking hedgehog grenades, you selfish son of a bitch!?!?
The biggest wow moment for me was the 40-player online with dedicated servers on a launch PS3 game in fucking 2006. This shit was just on another level for console games at the time.
This was going to be mine. A lot of people weren't cognizant of what a JRPG powerhouse the 360 was during that time. The fact that it had not one but TWO exclusive games made by The Gooch and both of them were fucking awesome JRPGs was amazing. I loved Lost Odyssey. Easily my favorite JRPG of the generation.
It's really too bad that Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon both got stuck on the X360. I think they would have been much more popular and beloved had they appeared on a console that was more popular in Japan.
Both games deserve remasters and releases on PC, along with Eternal Sonata.
I loved Resistance. I just replayed it not too long ago and it holds up surprisingly well. Definitely on my list too.
The snow swirling around during the boss fight late in the game where you had to hide under shit was a wow moment for me, so cool.
I'll be honest with you, because they were B-tier franchises at best that Sony super fans claimed they loved to high heaven and were amazing titles but in reality didn't move the needle much and nobody would care to replay or remember them just a few years later.
