This is a followup to @[email protected] ‘s recent thread for completeness’ sake.
I’ll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre… in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of “doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book” puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.
So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.
Yeah, I genuinely hate FromSoft fans. I like a lot of the games, but you can’t criticize anything without that community being insufferable.
I’m an Armored Core enjoyer and people can and have pointed out some glaring flaws with those games.
And I accept that. I even agree with many of those criticisms.
THAT SHOULD NOT BE A RARE POSITION TO TAKE.