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Genre-Defining Games?

Posted by Zonk on from the because-who-doesn't-love-maniac-mansion? dept.

Gamasutra has up responses from its frequent feature, the question of the Week. This week's question was a call for the best of the best. "For any genre of your choice, what is the game that defines that genre for you?" From the article: "For the RPG, simply Final Fantasy 6. It has the best story, greatest variety of characters, tons of different music, and added many secret areas. It was the first game to truly to define a real experience of an RPG to the player. -Anonymous" What games would you refer to as Genre Defining?

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  1. Sports Games by g-san · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotta be pong!

    1. Re:Sports Games by bigman2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well a lot of times they put Racing in the sports category. So, I'll talk about racing...

      One of the crack-addict submitters to the original story said: "PC racers include Burnout, Need for Speed, and so on, with the same dull, lifeless AI."

      If he thinks Burnout 3 (he mentioned the '3' earlier in the story) has dull, lifeless AI he is completely insane.

      That game has the most aggressive AI I have ever played against. The first time the other cars came after me and rammed me off the road in a big ball of flames I nearly shit my pants. And it was like that hour after hour after hour. (I changed my pants a lot.)

      So...take their list with a grain of salt...

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  2. Re:Genre Defining? by EddieBurkett · · Score: 4, Funny

    For me, Duke Nuken Forever is defined the Vaporware genre.

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  3. Katamari Damacy by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Funny

    It really got the ball rolling on the whole genre.

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  4. Hungry Hungry Hippos by funkify · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hungry Hungry Hippos defined mindless button mashers before there even was such a thing.