8 PlayStation Games Missed Their Audience
Even though these PlayStation games were ambitious, they never found enough people to play them.
Now that people can get their hands on the Playstation 5, it’s doing well. The method has been in use for four years, and hits keep coming. It’s a great time to be a gamer, whether you like first-party or third-party games.
It’s great to be excited about long-running series that have found fans, but what about the games that didn’t live up to their potential? Some of these books got good reviews, but they didn’t sell enough copies to support a follow-up. Others were just bad or didn’t go anywhere, even though they had some good ideas. All of them can only be played on the PlayStation.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified
Like its predecessor, the PSP, the PS Vita had trouble meeting market needs. It had a strong following, but the handheld wasn’t as famous as the 3DS version. Even a Call of Duty game couldn’t get people to buy this gadget.
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified was supposed to save Sony’s system, but it was a stinker and got some of the worst reviews of any game ever made for the system. It looked bad, was hard to play, and didn’t have the same level of polish as platform games.
Dust 514
Dust 514 was only for the Playstation 3 and can no longer be played. Since 2003, PC gamers have been playing an MMO called Eve Online. Countries have used this game to talk about issues. Even though it is only played by a small group of committed “hardcore” players, it is still very popular.
At its heart, it is a simulation game, and Dust 514 was made to add more excitement to the series. It was a shooter that only worked on the Playstation 3 and had to do with battles in Eve Online. It came out in 2013 and finished in 2016, but it didn’t do much to change the multiplayer scene on the Playstation 3.
Lair
When the Playstation 3 first came out, Lair was a highly awaited game because it was being made by Factor 5. They got a lot of attention for the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series, which was one of the best Star Wars games that were only available on Nintendo. Lair was like those games, except that players fought air fights by controlling dragons. It looked good on the new system, but nothing went right when it came out in 2007.
Players didn’t like the game’s SixAxis controls because they didn’t work right and the game wasn’t very interesting. Factor 5 went out of business in 2009. There were other things going on behind the scenes, but Lair’s failure was one of them.
Lifeline
Lifeline had an interesting idea, but the Playstation 2 wasn’t ready for it yet. It was a shooter RPG that was similar to the scary game Parasite Eve. The player was a nameless cameraman instead of Rio, the main character, who was trying to kill bugs in her space getaway. They would talk to her through a speaker and tell her what to do.
She would sometimes do what you asked, but most of the time she wouldn’t know what you were talking about. Obviously, the bad reviews didn’t help this Konami game get noticed.
Mister Mosquito
Mister Mosquito is one of those strange games that everyone should play or at least see. The player controls a mosquito, even though it looks more like a robot. They will break into a Japanese family’s summer home and try to drink the blood of each member of the family one by one.
It’s a wonder that this Playstation 2 game was ever translated at all. It did get a sequel, but it’s only available in Japan and won’t likely ever come to the West. Even so, stranger things have happened, like with Famicom Detective Club: The Two-Case Collection, so keep your fingers crossed.
Spy Fiction
Spy Fiction was just one of many spy games that tried to be like Metal Gear Solid. Even though the reviews aren’t great, Funny Shooter 2 is important because it was written and directed by SWERY. At this point, he had worked on a lot of games, but none of them got a lot of attention.
Not until Deadly Premonition came out would SWERY’s name start to be talked about online. Even though Spy Fiction isn’t nearly as silly, fans will want to check it out.
Time And Eternity
Every new wave of consoles seems to want to make games that look just like cartoons. Technology has improved to the point where fans can say that a game, like the South Park game series, looks and plays like their favorite show.
The idea behind Time and Eternity was that an RPG should look like an anime. It did that part well, with beautiful 2D backgrounds and models. The trouble was that there was nothing interesting about it beneath the surface. This led to a lot of bad reviews.
Yakuza: Dead Souls
Consoles have always had a lot of games with zombies. But the first generation of HD systems seemed to be the best ever because technology made it possible to show more zombies on the screen at once. Capcom’s Dead Rising was one of the first games to show this trend.
Even titles that weren’t about zombies, like Yakuza, wanted to get some of that zombie money, so they made Yakuza: Dead Souls. Even though it wasn’t a bad game, it didn’t have the tight controls or powerful story of the main games.
