What are some risks that companies took that actually worked out? Like surely DKC1 could have been a bad move to reintroduce DK with a new cast, setting, no mario etc but it nails it.
>>738276981A lot of games that went from 2D to 3D, although that was kind of an expected risk to take. Games like Mario 64 and OoT, while amazing, were developed by Nintendo themselves who already had a stellar reputation for putting out great games. I'd say real risks were games like Metroid Prime, which was developed by an unproven team in Retro Studios. It ended up being an incredible succ
>Ken Lobb having to fight against nintendo japan telling them the N64 needs 4 controller ports for multiplayer games>Goldeneye was almost a time crisis clone and not an FPS>The multiplayer was kept a secret from nintendo and they made it with no extra funding
