12 Games That Defined Their Genres
Some games innovate enough to create an entire genre.
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Some games innovate enough to create an entire genre.
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Just a derivative of the Four-X style of game, no?Tiamat666 said:I think you missed the Sim City/Settlers/Caesar/Populous type, real-time "build and expand" games.
We're differentiating from the first true one and the one that *defined* the genre. It's why we chose, say, Street Fighter 2 over Street fighter.morbidpixie said:Ahem... Wolfenstein 3D did it. Not Doom. Doom had the multiplayer, so you could say it was the start of FPS Multiplayer. But Wolfenstein 3D was the "put you inside a person's head".
For a well-known example, Battleship probably qualifies, no?Nazrel said:Actually there were games where you couldn't see your opponent before the computer did it. They were called fog of war games, you had 2 boards with one side set up on both of them. You need a GM to tell you when and what you saw of the enemy.
Heck no. They aren't even related to RTS games, most of the time - they're closer to the "Tycoon" genre than anything else.DeadlyYellow said:Just a derivative of the Four-X style of game, no?Tiamat666 said:I think you missed the Sim City/Settlers/Caesar/Populous type, real-time "build and expand" games.
That. Wolfenstein started it, but Doom was the one that really set the standards from then on.John Funk said:We're differentiating from the first true one and the one that *defined* the genre. It's why we chose, say, Street Fighter 2 over Street fighter.morbidpixie said:Ahem... Wolfenstein 3D did it. Not Doom. Doom had the multiplayer, so you could say it was the start of FPS Multiplayer. But Wolfenstein 3D was the "put you inside a person's head".
On that thought, do we include racing with a sports start, or is this a sampling of genre-definers?John Funk said:We're differentiating from the first true one and the one that *defined* the genre. It's why we chose, say, Street Fighter 2 over Street fighter.morbidpixie said:Ahem... Wolfenstein 3D did it. Not Doom. Doom had the multiplayer, so you could say it was the start of FPS Multiplayer. But Wolfenstein 3D was the "put you inside a person's head".
We specifically only wanted to highlight specific genres in our genre wheel. While Grand Theft Auto 3 was definitely a game that spawned many imitators, it is a mixture of different genres like driving, brawler, shooter and RPG. Open world or sandbox games aren't a genre but more of a quality that some games have.MintyNinja said:I was honestly expecting Grand Theft Auto to be on this list. Don't know what to think now that it's not there. meh.