Genre defining games
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Surely Timesplitters is the definitive console FPS. It's the one that finally created a coherent control scheme with a gamepad, and all the others copied it thereafter.
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I was thinking of it, but I also really enjoyed Red Alert, Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge, Total Annihilation, Metal Fatigue (something different), Command & Conquar, C&C Generals, etc.Veylon said:
In other words, there were so many good RTS games back in the 90's and early 2000's. I miss those years.
I'd have to go with EverQuest over WoW for MMORPGs. It was EQ that blazed the trail, setting up most of the ideas and systems that WoW uses now. Sure, Warcraft is massive, but to my mind it's not doing anything that EQ hasn't already done. Except maybe marketing. It sucks at that. But gameplay-wise, no contest.
And for FPSs', I'd be torn between Doom and Wolfenstein.
And for FPSs', I'd be torn between Doom and Wolfenstein.
Dark Age of Camelot for defining PvP in MMO's.
Arguably no other MMO has managed to get PvP right since.
I do get tired of the whole "it's a clone of WoW" argument seeing as WoW is the biggest clone of the lot, "borrowing" everything from all the MMO's that came before it.
All WoW did was make it "accessible" to the masses.
MMO's up until that point were a niche genre.
So it may have technically garnered popularity for MMO's it did not "innovate" or "define" anything. It just took what we already had and made it simpler.
And yes I went there. Compared to the grind that was Ultima and then Everquest, WoW is on par with a "babies first" toy. It simplified things and made them a lot easier.
Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike WoW. On the contrary it's my wifes favourite game and anything that makes my wife happy makes me happy but i'm well aware (mainly because I played them) that WoW was not the first of it's kind and didn't improve on all aspects of the MMO genre.
Arguably no other MMO has managed to get PvP right since.
I do get tired of the whole "it's a clone of WoW" argument seeing as WoW is the biggest clone of the lot, "borrowing" everything from all the MMO's that came before it.
All WoW did was make it "accessible" to the masses.
MMO's up until that point were a niche genre.
So it may have technically garnered popularity for MMO's it did not "innovate" or "define" anything. It just took what we already had and made it simpler.
And yes I went there. Compared to the grind that was Ultima and then Everquest, WoW is on par with a "babies first" toy. It simplified things and made them a lot easier.
Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike WoW. On the contrary it's my wifes favourite game and anything that makes my wife happy makes me happy but i'm well aware (mainly because I played them) that WoW was not the first of it's kind and didn't improve on all aspects of the MMO genre.
I don't really think you can call Goldeneye "modern" any more. It's aged a lot, and pretty badly. Plus I don't think you can really put puzzle games in to one category by itself. So many different things can come under that umbrella. Although I guess if you had to pick an archetypal puzzle video game, Tetris might be a good choice.krazykidd said:
A 'genre defining game' would be, essentially, an ideal game from X genre...
Horror games: Silent Hill 2
RPGs: Chrono Trigger.
Action-Adventure: Ocarina of Time.
3D Platformer: Super Mario Galaxy.
Horror games: Silent Hill 2
RPGs: Chrono Trigger.
Action-Adventure: Ocarina of Time.
3D Platformer: Super Mario Galaxy.