What Games Ruined You For A Entire Genre?

Octopath Traveler's battle system is like that.

They've basically gone from a turn/atb based RPG series to hack n slash beat em ups given XV and 7R.

none, bad topic

I wouldn't say it ruined it for me, but going from 2D sprites to 3D really messed with me. About PS1/N64 gen. I eventually got really good at Goldeneye for N64 because my friends and I would always play that. I eventually unlocked every single secret and beat all the record times. It certainly wasn't easy.

It kind of nearly broke me into just wanting to go back to my comfortable SNES days. I still prefer older non-3D games for the most part; playing old SNES, PSP, and GBA on emulator.

You young whippersnappers get off my lawn!

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night set the bar so high, it's been impossible to scratch that itch ever since. The GBA/DS games kiiiinda got close but they're just an imitation, and it shows. Didn't manage to play Bloodstained yet, I hear it's good but I doubt it can capture the same essence.


Huh, how so?

I was at the perfect age to make the transition from 2D to 3D because I had no brain cells devoted to criticism back then. Those first-generation 3D games were overwhelmingly pretty bad though. Most of them look really bad and you can tell developers had no idea how to craft controls for them. The only games I can think of on the N64 that really stood the test of time are the Banjo-Kazooie games.

There were 2 genres of gaming in my high school/college years that really just never clicked with me- fighting games and FPSs. But there was one exception- 007 Goldeneye for N64. Completely ruined any other FPS for me just because I got exposed to it at just the right moment for that kind of competitive game vs an RPG which was almost all I played prior.

To this day, I've just never felt the draw of things like Halo, Call of Duty, etc...they just do it for me. But power weapons in The Stack with 3 fellow drunk buddies- that will always win out for me.

I felt this way for a long while, then I just stopped clinging to what I liked so much and branched out, eventually just not having a favorite or opinion of visual style for whatever direction a game goes in. That also allowed me to drop the mentality that 'x-is my favorite game of all time and nothing can ever compare to it because it's so perfect and anything anyone ever has to say is flawed and wrong because I'm the only one that's right about everything and anything.'

Oh Lord. This thread reminded me of tank controls for things like Parasite Eve 2 and Resident Evil.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Quick_Hit

You better get your butt out there and play Super Metroid if you havn't.

Bloodstained is beautiful and has some really creative enemies. You can tell the devs were having fun. I mean... a giant cockerspanial dog head. A giant horned cat. A woman rocking out on a guitar.

My only gripe about Bloodstained was I didn't have everything memorized like Castlevania SotN. I would get frustrated being stuck in a position where I had to travel across a giant map in case I missed something on an ability opened up a new path. I mean I know you're supposed to explore and try new things, but I don't really want to have to watch a youtube video to do a playthrough. May as well just watch the playthrough.

Half-Life: Alyx set the bar to high for me to VR games.

Disco Elysium's writing quality is so good that whenever I play a new RPG I'd subconsciously compare the writing quality, then found myself unable to enjoy the story because other game's writing quality isn't as good as DE.

Goddess, yes. Of course, I also keep running into a similar situation with a rerun through the Mass Effect trilogy. ME2 and 3’s reload button is ME1’s grenade button. I’ve been wasting a bunch of grenades this run through.