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Genre-Defining Games?
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?
How about Dungeon Master? I'd say that would be one of the CRPG-defining games, if not the CRPG-defining game...
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I'm afraid I must agree, although the term "RPG" is really way too broad to be defined by any one single game.
Wasteland helped define the post-apocalyptic party-based RPG "genre".
Bard's Tale defined the standard form for many party-based RPGs for quite some time.
Ultima IV was a defining game for RPGs where your in-game choices changed your character, and where certain situations would have no "correct" solution.
Ultima VII showed that you could create a surprisingly living world.
FF6 may be genre defining for it's little niche of the RPG landscape... I haven't played it myself and can't really say.
I'm suprised Fallout didn't show up on that list. The game and its spiritual predecessor Wasteland were genre defining in a way - post holocaust RPGs. Granted, a very small genre but on their strength alone they should have gotten at least honorable mention.
the only genre-creating and defining game
First Person Sneakers!!!!
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I compare almost all strategy games I play to X-Com.