Genre-Defining Games?

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 15, 2005 @11:25AM 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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Sports Games by g-san · 2005-04-15 11:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Gotta be pong!
Re:Genre Defining? by EddieBurkett · 2005-04-15 12:21 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Katamari Damacy by rsilvergun · 2005-04-15 12:24 · Score: 3, Funny

It really got the ball rolling on the whole genre.

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