I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

Have crossovers in a game ever influenced you to buy or play that particular game?

For example, I love NieR: Automata to death and rank it among my top favorite games of all time, but I’ve never bought or played another game simply because it had a NieR: Automata crossover.

So, in my case, these NieR: Automata crossovers weren’t effective and the other game companies didn’t entice me to buy or play their game. 😅

If anything, I’ve only seen crossovers as nice little bonuses if they involved 2 games that I was already familiar with or playing.

What are your experiences with crossovers? 🤷‍♂️

Comments

asunamyag t1_jeghoi4 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:04 PM

Smash Bros.

DickWriter69 t1_jeghtsk wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:05 PM

Lol this is the PERFECT example cause it also goes both ways where I played games I would've never played if they weren't represented in Smash Bros

Lightspeed_Lunatic t1_jeh5glo wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:58 PM

I remember when I got my first Smash Bros. game. I was like 12, and I had pretty much only ever played Mario games up to that point. I ended up branching out to all the cool franchises represented (barring the M rated ones since I was 12) and I'm glad I did. Mario's still great, but thanks to Smash, I now play all sorts of other great games too.

hurdygurdy21 t1_jeggjuj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:56 PM

Mario + Rabbids

No one asked for it. No one needed it. A couple of the best games I've ever played.

ItsLCGaming t1_jeghchs wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:01 PM

My favourite games are kingdom hearts which is a crossover in itself lol

Prestigious-Yak4344 t1_jegh22p wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:59 PM

I think it works to a degree, or they wouldn't do it. but personally it doesn't influence my choices I wouldn't say.

FaceTimePolice OP t1_jegisow wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:11 PM

Yeah that’s part of what I wanted to dig into. I didn’t mention that in my original post, but yes, crossovers are obviously working to some extent or they wouldn’t continue doing it. It was just weird to me, personally, because I’ve never bought another game simply because of the crossover. 😅

Frosty_View_3289 t1_jegkli9 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:24 PM

I had already played SOME Professor Layton before then, but Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright may have convinced to get into Layton.

Steady-Nutty t1_jeglrfj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:32 PM

A lot of people got in to Dead By Daylight because it had their favourite horror game characters on it. For example, I know the Silent Hill and Resident Evil characters were popular enough to sell a load of DBD copies.

Ashikura t1_jegh527 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:00 PM

I think of crossovers as fun side diversions but they aren’t selling points for me. I know when I was younger they could on rare occasion entice me to get a game I was on the fence about but it doesn’t have the same effect anymore.

Reece3144 t1_jeghfq8 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:02 PM

Some are fine but most of the time you can tell it's for marketing.

Sabetha1183 t1_jegn8kh wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:42 PM

I think it woks, just not really by itself.

It's basically like any other form of marketing. It's probably not going to be the sole reason why people buy it, but it will shine a spotlight on it and the people running it hope that some people find the game interesting enough to buy it

It does also just straight up work with a lot of kids. My niece and nephew got Smash Bros and now they predictably want to try other games that their favourite Smash Bros characters are from.