The person Rong is talking to will not remember that.
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What's funny to me is that there was already a retro, vintage series of G.I. Joe games upon which they could have built new games...
Not to mention the actual Konami arcade game, which was not a belt scroller...
Seems to me that GI Joe I.P. would make for a good Call of Duty type game. All the playable characters would have a weapons loadout and special ability or two based on the character. You could do a single player story mode based on old episodes/comics from either a Joe or Cobra perspective, or a multiplayer Joes vs. Cobras.
My world for a metroidvania GI Joe game made by WayForward (see their Aliens DS game and The Mummy Demastered)
I’ve long argued that a tactical RPG like X-Com would be an ideal choice. And Mario+Rabbids showed you could “simplify” the concept without removing key fundamentals of the genre. You are able to keep the “main characters” as recruitable, but also allow for potential “green shirts” you could upgrade into your own custom “code named” specialists. Points and resources gathered on missions would allow you to upgrade your own Pit (to various game play effects). Maybe even do a mix of vehicle “special attacks” and some missions where you would control a squad of vehicles instead of the individual characters.
And it would probably be cheaper to make than trying to make a game that would, invariably, end up competing against hero shooters and/or Call of Duty.
I never really got into G.I. Joe much. Didn't watch the show much, no comics, almost none of the toys. The only exception was this game. Never owned it, but rented it and really enjoyed it. I even ended up buying a bunch of the toys that were featured in the game. I remember loving playing as and with Hawk in particular with his jetpack.
It gets funnier. Just a few short years after the VCR console debacle they did it again. Their next attempt was a VR console. They were willing to try anything but just making a normal console, apparently. When that didn't work out either they bought Atari.