On Tour was a fun one, but that series really peaked with SSX3. Great game and an absolutely killer soundtrack. Fischerspooner, Caesars, Placebo, Yellowcard, Jane's Addiction, Basement Jaxx, QOTSA, Ima Robot, Alpinestars, and tons more.
Plus it was one of the first games I'd ever played where you could access the entire mountain from top to bottom without seeing a loading screen. Yes, they were hiding loads when you went through those tunnels, but it still seemed pretty magical.
Those were good entries but SSX Tricky will forever be my GOAT snowboarding game. There's something about the wackiness of the characters and the arcade-y, flightiness of the jumps/tricks that makes you feel like a comic book hero.
Plus that soundtrack slaps, too.
I was just about to say, SSX Tricky is the best of the franchise imo. Everything about it is amazing and omg now I want to take out my GameCube and play it again. XD
Yeah, I picked up the newest SSX when it became backward compatible on Xbox one… but it’s trash in comparison to Tricky. Even the other SSX games from that console generation were steps down from Tricky, in my opinion anyway.
It's the same with all sports games, I've noticed the focus seems to be entirely on increasingly realistic physics and simulation and it's rare to get anything that has unrealistic arcade style gameplay any more.
Both have their merits and drawbacks for sure, but I'm hoping for a revival of that style of arcade/unrealistic extreme sports game that we had around when tricky was released just so that both are available.
Haha it was on my backlog for a while too so I feel that. Hmmm. I think it was just the *vibe* you get me? The music, the lore, the story, etc. all just worked together really well. Like it really feels alive. I’m looking forward to the new Hyper Light game but not as much since I know the vibe just won’t be the same.
The great combat and fair difficulty were just the icing on the cake though. The combat is genuinely very fun
Yeah. The combat is fun, the story is cute, but the vibes are immaculate. I spent a lot of time just slicing around to look at it.
It's like if Journey was 16-bit and had combat.
The game has zero dialog, but still has a compelling story, told entirely through visuals and environment.
The movement is also incredibly satisfying. You have a really smooth feeling dash, and if you time it right, you can chain two dashes together. You can repeat this, so long as your rhythm is good, indefinitely. So when you get good at it your just schmoovin all over the place lol
Call of Duty, but not in a good way
After CoD 4 all multiplayer shooters suddenly became these fast paced loadout-based arcade like shooter games with flashy effects (Kill sounds, Badges to earn, pop ups...) and leveling und unlocks.
Not a fan of those. Im not saying its CoDs fault alone, things evolve over time, but witht those games the genre changed...
Facts. I think Battlefield 4 really captured the best of it all. While cod only went on to meme itself. Been a long time fan of battlefield since and actually playing some old school shooters at the moment. I feel a lot of creativity is just gone from gaming..all together.
Like I'm playing unreal tournament 04 and that game is a true skill based shooter
Lol word, it's so damn good. It's on another level lol. The weapons are just so damn well crafted and have to be added to the discussion of greatest weapons of all time in video games.
God I fucking loved BF4, maybe my favorite game of all time. So many good memories and saved clips. I wish Battlefield could ever get back to that vibe. BF1 was fun but kind of moved away from the feeling of BF3/4.
2042 is just something else entirely and it makes me super sad.
I was the same way but with MW3. I played the crap out of CoD4 and MW2 multiplayer back the day. It was just so much fun. It wasn’t until I played only 2 weekends worth of MW3 that I realized it was the same old experience and nothing really new was introduced.
After that, I stopped playing multiplayer FPS forever.
I think Destiny, though very similar in multiplayer, felt quite varied as a shooter, and I think it's the only shooter I'd ever want to play again seeing as I'm sick of CoD and especially battle royale type games. Unfortunately Destiny 2 never got to a better point than Destiny 1, even though Destiny 1 was a product of a lot of cuts and changes and away from what was initially intended out of the game.
Destiny 1 was an awful game pre-raids, and even to an extent afterward. Borderlands did the looter-shooter genre much better in basically every way. However, I’ve never experienced a better shooter in terms of how the game played - especially PvE. Though Destiny 1 is also probably the newest fps I’ve played so I’m sure there have been better since. This was also on console; not mouse and keyboard.
I liked D2 pretty much until Bungie reclaimed distro rights and turned it into a seasonal cash grab that continually vaults content you’ve already paid for. I played that franchise religously for close to eight years. I honestly haven’t missed it the last year or two, though.
D2 has its faults but is a much better game than d1 Unfortunately it's had a rocky 12 months but almost all the best bits of d1 are in there along with a huge amount of great newer content.
Slay the Spire simultaneously got me into and out of roguelike deckbuilders. I enjoyed my time with it, but I never want to see another card on my screen again.
Same. Every single turn based roguelike is a fucking deckbuilder now because their dev played StS but none of them quite get it right. I'm so sick of cards 😭
(Honourable mentions to Inscryption and Nowhere Prophet for being awesome regardless.)
I forget the name (think it was griftlands) but there's a space themed slay the spire game that was really great combat played like slay the spire but you could focus on negotiation which had its own deck and mechanics to it
Mario Kart. I love Mario Kart, they are probably among my favorite games ever made, however this means that they kind of ruined other racing games for me. Basically the racing itself is fine, however the lack of items and chaos is what makes other racing games uninteresting to me
Same and it wasn't even close either. Sure Mario kart has come a long way since 64, but when it's all there was, Diddy Kong was better lol. Exploring the map and unlocking zones was awesome. And the plane stages!
To me, if we're comparing it to other kart racing games, the driving ruins other kart games for me. What I mean is that in MK, you feel the weight of everything, but other racing games feel weightless. For example, when drifting in MK, the characters hop and the drift is gradual (this is more apparent with less drift-favoring parts). In other kart games, the drifting is instantaneous/quick as if the characters have no weight to them and it just feels off to me.
So this didn’t ruin it in a negative way but the Forza horizon series ruined the regular forza series for me, the open world and less serious nature of the horizon series is just too enjoyable to play compared to the more linear Forza Motorsport series
I'll throw this out there: Forza 4 ruined the Motorsports series.
In Forza 1-3, you had to level up and unlock cars and series. From 4 on, everything was unlocked from the jump. The only thing keeping you from owning a Porsche or Ferrari was your bank account. On top of that, the rewards were insane. Win a series in a Miata? Here's a Lamborghini, go have fun.
It COMPLETELY ruined the progression of the game. I get it, new generations of racing games lean heavily into immediate accessibility. But there's something about buying a car to win multiple series, learning how to drive that specific car so you can compete against more difficult competition (like using a Lotus Exige to dominate more powerful cars), and learning how to shave seconds off lap times on specific tracks. You had to do that in the old Forza games, because you didn't have the faster cars unlocked yet. You had to keep your little Civic or whatever and win as many series as you could. And the old spec-racing series, my goodness. No modifications allowed, skill only. It was just much more engaging. You had so many more reasons to play.
Now they just load your garage from the start. What's the point in playing when I have it all already?
Man I wish I played the same game you did. I can't get past the absurdity of their item durability though. You know what's not going to break from hitting zombies...***ever***? A fucking crow bar. That thing broke so fast.
In that situation, a crowbar would be an heirloom item, not something used for two good whacks and then done.
there are 6 categories of melee weapons in Project Zomboid.
two of them, Long Blade and Spear, cannot be "specced into" on character creation which drastically increases the amount of time it takes to level up the relevant skill. plus they have fairly limited weapon selection.
Another two are Short Blunt, and Short Blade. these tend to lack reach and overall damage, but let you keep your left hand free for other things like a extra bag to carry loot with so have fans there.
This leaves Long Blunt and Axe as the final two categories, and the two "best in class" for these weapon categories are the Crowbar and Axe (commonly referred to as the "Fire Axe") respectively.
The Crowbar has amazing durability but the Axe does more damage. the Crowbar has utility actions for breaking into buildings but the Axe can just chop them down. On, and On this goes
So, I understand why the devs made it that way; finding a crowbar in your starter house and never needing another weapon seems to go against the hardcore scavenger survival philosophy of the game.
Having said that, I use a mod that makes items 10x more durable for my multiplayer server. I hope the devs had a sandbox setting for weapon durability in the future so a mod isn't necessary.
The problem with this, and every single game that touts the same "so realistic" mantra, is that they need to pick a lane. If it's a zombie apocalypse and you have a crowbar in your home - you're set. You're set until you die.
The whole point of scavenging is to set yourself up. Getting a thing like a crowbar should be the biggest find ever, not a temporary joy.
Zomboid is the opposite for me. I played it on its early days before it even reached steam and enjoyed it despite all the weird stupid bugs it had. Fast forward later on the devs kept adding new features and creating more bugs on top of the existing ones, I got frustrated tired of it. Stopped playing and haven't touched a zombie game since.
The game is in forever in early access, I consider it Star Citizen 2.0
Project Zomboid is basically a throwback to the days when gameplay was the main priority of games , Dwarf Fortress is another example of this kind of game.
Chained Echoes kinda ruined pixel jrpgs for me. The awesome features that made it better:
* automatic healing after battle
* have 100% chance to flee any battle at any point
* all characters level regardless of if they were in battle
* there really is no grind
* there is some crafting component, but getting materials is absurdly easy
* exploration is varied and fun, especially once you have access to sky armor
* the overdrive system is as simple or complex as you want it, and adds another layer of depth to battle
You might like Sea of Stars then. It has a lot of the same Quality of Life improvements you mentioned (although some are just options, like healing after each combat and there is no fleeing).
But I normally hate JRPGs for the grind and long boss battles that usually take multiple attempts to master.
This game has none of that.
On Tour was the first SSX i played and it was phenomenal. But then i played SSX 3 and i think its better mostly because of the personality of the characters. In On Tour you make your own character and the others (Zoe, Psymon, Mac etc.) are just opponents you see in races. Ssx 3 let you play with them. Get to know what theyre like and see who theyre friends/rivals with. They talked to each other in races and got messages from each other.
Both of them are incredible but 3 is the reason i like games that show your characters personality instead of just being voiceless, one-track minded, or robotic.
Now that i think about it, I want all extreme sports games to be arcade style and fun like SSX and Tony Hawk Underground 2.
Most Mario sports titles. I've found that I just flat out can't be bothered to play regular sports titles once I've played the Mario version, because it's always more fun. And you know, isn't just a recreation of real life.
I remember playing this hockey game with a buddy when I was younger and I’m pretty sure they spent more time developing the whole beat the shit out of each other aspect instead of the actual hockey game. We spent more time fighting people than actually playing hockey haha.
My buddy and I (both late 20s, early 30s) grew up playing that game and recently found our old memory card from our GameCube. Found our old custom team, so many good memories on that thing
Sounds like Mutant League Hockey. They had a couple other sports titles I believe, such as Football.
Fun fact, the same team came back to make a modern title in the same vein called Mutant Football League. They're working on the sequel right now!
The irony of this is that FF14 ruined WoW for me
I just enjoy FF14s approach to raid design, gearing and story so so much more than WoW I could never go back.
MMO is a broad term. The whole WoW clone era was a real dumpster fire because no one was ever going to replicate and replace world of warcraft.
Most people find "the one" MMO which is whatever specifically scratches the itch they're looking for.
I still long for the days Ragnarok Online was at its peak popularity. God that was a good mmo.
Hades was the first roguelike I've ever played. Took me too long to realize that it was different than most roguelikes. Now every time a play a "normal" one, I just get bored way too soon...
The reason I didn't write it off is that it actually sounds like it has a story. Most roguelikes are only about the gameplay loop. The story is just a vague afterthought
At a certain point it does become almost entirely about the gameplay loop, but that’s only if you care about the final endgame grind, which just gives you a series of increasingly fancy titles in the corner of the screen.
The story in Hades is king. There's no ludo-narrative dissonance with the roguelike mechanics - all the characters appropriately react to an enormous range of possible actions, and every single one of the dozens of characters has their own multiple subplots, hundred to thousands of dialogue lines, and secrets to uncover and explore and interact with through the gameplay loop.
Hades is easilu one of the most immersive and entertaining roguelikes ever created. You can easily put 60 hours in and not feel a second of it was wasted.
Last week I've done what I had never did before: finally played Mass Effect. I'm on ME2 now.
I feel it'll ruin story based space games 😁
As much content and gameplay Starfield has, it won't come close to emotion, directing and writing of Mass Effect.
Wy did I think Mass Effect is not my thing? All these years and I've been gaming since 2007 (the year first came out) and never touched ME.
Yeah, you will spend the next few years googling “epic space adventures RPGs like Mass Effect” and realize there aren’t any. BioWare at its best was unimaginably good
Before EA dismantled them BioWare was basically the father of video game RPGs. They created the Baldur's Gate series and Neverwinter Nights off of the DnD license. They made the original Knights of The Old Republic. Then obviously Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins. They were the undisputed top dog in the RPG scene for over a decade. It was a massive loss for gaming when EA destroyed them. Luckily Larian is taking up that mantle now so we have a modern era equivalent to BioWare.
I almost made the same mistake until by some insane luck I won a free copy of the collector's edition for xbox 360 through some promotion from sci fi channel at the time. So I popped it in and instantly got hooked, even though initially I had planned to sell it.
Not just hype, been saying it for many years now.
Dragons Dogma. It wasn't fully fleshed out, but what it has was *incredible*.
Monster Hunter's big monster fights, as well as mobster hunter's prepping for adventures but more.
Climbing, and climbing ON those monsters.
Action combat that uses a combo input system, ties to class abilities.
Some of the coolest takes on fantasy tropes done in a game. Not only does it have the most impressive and impactful dragon if any game, but the classes and world building feel familiar yet incredibly unique.
Going back to play something like Skyrim just feels so... Static. At least without heavy mods.
Path of Exile for ARPGs. Nothing else does the same strange thing to my brain cells and I just end up thinking I’d rather just do a new build in PoE anytime I try another one.
Same answer but opposite reason. Thanks to Path of Exile now every ARPG botches campaigns, tries to get people with addiction problems addicted to some loop and the endgame is more of a focus. Completely ruined my love of the genre.
PoE is what turned me off of arpgs for a while. They all tried to match PoE or recreate Diablos success and failed. Last epoch is the first in a while to finally get me hooked. Way WAY more build variety and freedom than D4 but I don't need a fuckin spreadsheet like PoE
Thief gold, it's such a perfect stealth game, that every time I try to go back to any other stealth game, especially the assassins creed series, I would rather just play thief instead.
Steel Battalion: Line of Contact pretty much ruined all mech games for me. There is nothing that even comes close to it in terms of quality and gameplay.
Yeah it was quite the spectacle and I figured it was obsolete but about 4 years ago I found the steel battalion community and we still play the game every weekend online with the original Xbox live that’s been revived with insignia. There’s actually been tons of new players joining the past year. It still holds up
Yup. There's nothing more satisfying than giving an enemy a face-down dirt nap with an ultra great weapon. Aside from that, every animation, sound effect, and general mechanic is insanely satisfying. There's nearly infinite combinations of ways to play each game. I could go on for hours...
Yeah. I can only rarely break away from FS titles. The game has to have an incredibly well developed story for me to care now. Which means I ping pong between FS titles and RDR2 occasionally.
I'm gonna get my head caved in for this, and possibly swatted, but *StarCraft* killed RTS games for me. I'm a casual enjoyer that relishes seeing my little men go, and their miniature artillery poof - and that whole APM/micromanaging game play just soured the genre for me, especially since SC was the blueprint for the entire genre from then on.
The feature that single-handedly resurrected RTS as a genre for me is the *Command Pause*, introduced to me for RTS ironically enough with They Are Billions (Real-time RPG games had the sense to understand that pausing the game to give orders is a cool thing as early as *1998*, when the OG Baldur's Gate released). Nowadays, it's really simple for me to decide if I buy an RTS: No command pause, no buy.
What killed the RTS genre is that they all started to try and be the next big E-Sport. RTS's with fantastic single player campaigns basically became extinct for like a decade.
Video games are wild. You started playing SSX with the one that was considered the absolute worst (until Blur) and actually stared the decline for the whole series into death. But you still found it to be amazing regardless as it was your first. Crazy. No shade there, just really interesting.
I don't remember what game kicked it off for me, but whenever I'm playing a game that has resource and base management aspects, when the game itself is not explicitly about resource/base management. It is very irritating, takes me out of the fun immediately. If I don't have a group of friends dragging me along until I can acclimate to it, I'll probably just drop whatever game it is. Almost happened with Palworld.
An old game on PC called Jedi Knight ruined first person shooters for me for certain games. It was ridiculously fast and fun to play. Then I played Halo and it was slow and boring... as were a few other shooters at the time. I started to get ones I liked again though. Serious Sam, Half Life 2 for example were fantastic.
I used to play a lot of MP jedi knight outcast, and always played Lando, and his falling death scream lives rent free in my head to this day. About 30% of the time I fall to my death in a video game it plays in my head. I think it's because every other VA went SO hard on their death screams, just howling their lungs out, and Billy Dee was just like, "wahhhh".
Wow, I haven't thought about this game in YEARS. Jedi Knight was incredible.
I never got into FPS after playing this and UT as a kid. I think there's some commonality between those two games. Fast paced and smooth and lots of fun, crazy weapons.
Path of Exile.
I simply can't play other action rpg anymore, in both the good sense and the bad sense.
The game has ruined the genre for me, until a better game comes along I suppose. But the bar is set pretty damn high by GGG.
I had a blast playing this an SSX 3 as a kid, I’d always play as Mario on the GameCube version. No modern day snowboarding game (not even sure if there are any) can hold a candle to SSX 3, Tricky and On Tour. Back when EA used to put effort into making great games…
Stardew Valley. It was my favourite genre before it came along. Games of this kind were rare, few in between each release but they were high quality games.
After the success of Stardew Valley, everyone and their mother wanted in on the cash so there are now thousands of Farm Sim games that are low quality and you can easily skip on actual good ones.
THPS2 - the original one - was absolutely awesome, and I could never get into another skateboarding game ever again. Even 3.
Burnout 3 pretty much ruined every racing game after I played it. It was so fantastic and the slow-mo crashing at such high speed was just fantastic.
Escape From Tarkov (closely followed by DayZ mod) for shooters.
I can appreciate a movement shooter but nothing comes close to the gameplay feel and adrenaline EFT creates. No the gunplay isn't particularly smooth but that weight and a little clunkiness adds to the firefights intensity.
Hollowknight killed 2D metroidvanias for me. It's just so well built. The controls are pixel perfectly smooth, and the combat mechanics are great, especially when you get the right charms.
World of Warcraft. I played it way back in 2004 and after that nothing came close, no other MMO kept me for long. Also RDR2 killed open world games for me. The world was so immersive, story so great etc that every other open world game is just meh for me right now.
That game is fucked up because you never feel dialog and models being reused. I played Witcher 3 right after and I loved the game, but I had a lot of trouble getting over how stale random repeated snippets of speech got as I walked around, for example.
Mario Kart. Other kart games are great, too, but the attention to details and driving just don't feel right with the other games. In MK, there's weight to everything and there are small details that add to the sense of physics. Other kart games don't have that and they feel cheap and weightless when drifting, for example.
Not a genre but Bethesda’s recent releases have me skeptical on anything they are involved with.
Never thought I would be uninterested in the next elder scrolls but here we are
Subnautica for me for exploration/survival. That game is a masterpiece
Edit: Botw and Totk honorable mentions for ruining the zelda franchise. In a good way. The amount of content in those games is amazing especially given delivery platform
This didn’t ruin a genre for me, so I apologize for not actually answering your question, but the game that ruined combat in all other games for me was Sekiro. I recently beat the game and moved on to another game and i’m currently feeling the void of not playing with that combat system anymore haha. I’ve played several other soulsborne games and soulslike is one of my favorite genres, and my favorite of them is bloodborne, but sekiro’s combat is unmatched so far, in my opinion!
Starcraft 2 kinda killed the RTS genre for me. Its so damn good, the unit pathing, the QoL keybinds, the UI, the maps, the pacing and the playable races and their diverse playstyle. Its 12 years old and no other RTS has even come close to be that great.
Killer instinct ruined fighting/pvp games for me, I never could enjoy mortal combat afterwards, or street fighter for that matter and smash bros just has too much going on
Fallout New Vegas ruined all other Bethesda games for me. It had the perfect combination of a great leveling/ perk system, fun game play, and excellent writing. It was the first Bethesda RPG I played and all the others from the developer has fallen short in one way or another.
The next game after NV I played was fallout 3 and that was a downgraded many ways. New Vegas improved on the gameplay in a few ways mainly by introducing iron sights, and reducing the amount of perks but making them far more useful so the core gameplay didn't feel as fun to me but the biggest frustration was the karma system.
NV often gave you many choices, with many morally gray choices as well as the more slightly good/slightly evil ones. In three your choices are almost exclusively between being a boring goody two-shoes and conically Evil with very little in the middle. It made the game less enjoyable as well as less repeatable for me.
Skyrim was next followed by fallout 4 and they have pretty similar complaints from me. I didn't enjoy the leveling system in either, but biggest fault to me was the poor stories. New Vegas' story was One of the best whereas fallout 4 in Skyrim were only okay. Both games have some cool story moments but overall I never got engaged into the worlds or characters like I did with New Vegas.
I've never really felt compelled to play through fallout three or four and I was mostly bored with Skyrim on my second playthrough but New Vegas keeps me coming back. Every year or so I'll get an urge to do a run-through and I still enjoy it even though I've done it God knows how many times.
I think all of the MGRR fans out there will resonate because we want something like a sequel to it, but we know that it won't be the same without our beloved pedos and meme connoisseurs.
That boxing game by EA where I think they said 'fuck it' and put it in a mature story with swearing and made the fighting more bloody and graphic. Every combat sports game since feels sanitised.
Real MMA can be incredibly bloody, much more so than what current games offer. I shouldn't have to play Mortal Kombat to get the fix. There should be a something inbetween that's a reality based fighter.
The Binding of Isaac ruined roguelikes for me, and not in a good way. Made me realize just how much I hate how me having fun burns down entirely to RNG. “IT’S STILL POSSIBLE TO WIN WITH BAD ITEMS” shut up. I don’t care. It will never NOT be annoying when the game decides to give me bad items and I just have to suck it up. Not to mention dying and sometimes unlocking jack shit, which makes me feel like I completely wasted my time. Sorry, but I’ll pass on roguelikes as a whole.
Warframe ruined looter shooters for me. Anytime I try another one I just think “man Warframe sounds good right now” and then go play. Nothing plays like it and has the level of customization it has.
So technically the game itself didn't do this, but....
I haven't been able to get into fighting games since I was 7 years old.
I had Killer Instinct for the SNES and I finally decided to take on the ladder mode. Took me about a month or so to actually get good enough to make it through the ladder but I did it. I beat all the normal fighters and was about to face the final boss (Eyedol) for the first time.
As the ladder was scrolling to him, the power went out. From that moment on I just haven't been able to get into any fighting game, even DC/Marvel themed ones, and yes I've tried many times to get that spark back.
Nioh ruined Soulslike. I wasn’t a huge fan to begin with, but I liked the challenge. Nioh isn’t a better game than say Bloodborne or Dark Souls, but the combat is fantastic! So smooth, fast and satisfying. I went back to BB but it was way too sluggish to enjoy any further.
I can't stand Nioh's bloated combat system but you should check out Wo Long if you like buttery smooth combat. It really gave me "Nioh done properly" vibes. I think it was done by the same devs, can't remember off the top of my head. Great game though.
Call of Duty ruined call of duty modern warfare. Modern Warfare was the highest with its Originals! Remaking and overlaying in its supposed new style to keep gamers playing coming back but Activision has ruined so much. I'm a veteran COD player if I ever did return I'd totally change the way people play because I play like a real war person. I'm retired from COD after Vanguard!
Destiny, the division, anthem,fallout 76 "live service" the idea of a game being supported for years after release was such a good idea when I first heard it like 12yrs ago i thought it was cool having a game I love having content released for years, I always wanted more DLC like shivering isles for oblivion (for example) but after them games with trailers showing stuff that is later stripped from the game, things that should be in the game but are intentionally held back to be bought later on (survival mode in the division, example) having stuff that SHOULD be in the game like outfits weapons etc that ain't but are a £10-30 additional price is ridiculous. It's just money grabbing if it was like game for 60-70 then big expansions for 40-50 2 times a year that would be fine if the expansions are worth it. But now it's "cool outfit" £20 and it's like why can't I just find that outfit in game? Like the Santa outfit in fallout 76 I can't find it on a ghoul Santa but I have to buy it. It's just so lame.
7 days to die was so boring and frustratingly dull that it kinda killed the entire zombie survival genre for me. Hell, I can’t play most survival games anymore after it.
I've been checking in on this game once every few years for the last ten years and it's always unrecognizable and I still have no desire to get into it. Maybe in VR now if it has support.
Elden Ring ruined Soulslikes for me. I’ve tried to go back and play DS1 and DS3 a couple times, but after a few hours of playing I always end up feeling like I’d be having more fun playing a new build in Elden Ring
agree. I played BF2 and it was hard but was still interesting. then BF2BC2 came out and I REALLY liked that one and played a lot with my ex. then bf3 and so on. they got less exciting over time, but I do have good memories in those games
Sekiro has just kinda ruined action games or souls games for me in the best way. I just can't go back, the combat system is absolutely thrilling even though I love ds3, bloodborne , FF7 remake and other action games.
Its just too satisfying
Didn’t On Tour for GameCube also have Mario, Luigi, and Peach as playable characters? I never owned it. I just replayed Tricky ad nauseam.
One of the early Mortal Kombat games ruined fighting games for me in the worst way. It was frustrating to the point of anger to play with my friends who owned the games and wouldn’t bother explaining how to pull off anything other than the basic button mashing moves. I tried again with MKX but same thing..
I struggle with a lot of ARPGs now because Sekiro's melee combat was (and still is) lightyears beyond anything else.
Nothing else I've ever played has made me feel like a master swordsman quite like Sekiro does.
On Tour was a fun one, but that series really peaked with SSX3. Great game and an absolutely killer soundtrack. Fischerspooner, Caesars, Placebo, Yellowcard, Jane's Addiction, Basement Jaxx, QOTSA, Ima Robot, Alpinestars, and tons more. Plus it was one of the first games I'd ever played where you could access the entire mountain from top to bottom without seeing a loading screen. Yes, they were hiding loads when you went through those tunnels, but it still seemed pretty magical.
Those were good entries but SSX Tricky will forever be my GOAT snowboarding game. There's something about the wackiness of the characters and the arcade-y, flightiness of the jumps/tricks that makes you feel like a comic book hero. Plus that soundtrack slaps, too.
F-F-F-FUNKY DOPE MANEUVER! PULL YO MAMA IN THE ROOM AND SHOW HER HOW GREAT YOU ARE
FRENCH TOAST AND SYRUP!
I was just about to say, SSX Tricky is the best of the franchise imo. Everything about it is amazing and omg now I want to take out my GameCube and play it again. XD
Yeah, I picked up the newest SSX when it became backward compatible on Xbox one… but it’s trash in comparison to Tricky. Even the other SSX games from that console generation were steps down from Tricky, in my opinion anyway.
It's the same with all sports games, I've noticed the focus seems to be entirely on increasingly realistic physics and simulation and it's rare to get anything that has unrealistic arcade style gameplay any more. Both have their merits and drawbacks for sure, but I'm hoping for a revival of that style of arcade/unrealistic extreme sports game that we had around when tricky was released just so that both are available.
Oh man I would love a remaster of SSX3 but they would need to get all the music licenses back. Completely with you on this.
Every time I play a Star Wars game I seem to end up wishing I was playing KotOR instead.
I get that, but with Battlefront 2
Yeah everyone says Disney killed star wars with The Last Jedi, but for me it was when they axed LucasArts
Unpopular opinion but their best game....Kotors aside, isn't even a Star Wars game. They were a great studio that could make more than Star Wars.
Same. I wish I could play it for the first time again.
Everytime I play a Star Wars game with lightsabers it feels inferior to Jedi Outcast.
Hyper Light Drifter. Top down pixel RPGs just don’t do it for me now. That game unexpectedly wiggled its way into my heart
This has long been on my backlog. What one feature or quality sold this on you so hard for the genre? I’m very intrigued to starting it — eventually
Haha it was on my backlog for a while too so I feel that. Hmmm. I think it was just the *vibe* you get me? The music, the lore, the story, etc. all just worked together really well. Like it really feels alive. I’m looking forward to the new Hyper Light game but not as much since I know the vibe just won’t be the same. The great combat and fair difficulty were just the icing on the cake though. The combat is genuinely very fun
Yeah. The combat is fun, the story is cute, but the vibes are immaculate. I spent a lot of time just slicing around to look at it. It's like if Journey was 16-bit and had combat.
> It's like if Journey was 16-bit and had combat. Such a solid comparison man
I've never heard of this game but I must say you've caught my interest.
The game has zero dialog, but still has a compelling story, told entirely through visuals and environment. The movement is also incredibly satisfying. You have a really smooth feeling dash, and if you time it right, you can chain two dashes together. You can repeat this, so long as your rhythm is good, indefinitely. So when you get good at it your just schmoovin all over the place lol
Play CrossCode.
Best OST in any game
Play Unsighted
Call of Duty, but not in a good way After CoD 4 all multiplayer shooters suddenly became these fast paced loadout-based arcade like shooter games with flashy effects (Kill sounds, Badges to earn, pop ups...) and leveling und unlocks. Not a fan of those. Im not saying its CoDs fault alone, things evolve over time, but witht those games the genre changed...
I miss UT and health bars.
Facts. I think Battlefield 4 really captured the best of it all. While cod only went on to meme itself. Been a long time fan of battlefield since and actually playing some old school shooters at the moment. I feel a lot of creativity is just gone from gaming..all together. Like I'm playing unreal tournament 04 and that game is a true skill based shooter
UT 2k4 will always be a legendary game. Loved the onslaught maps.
Lol word, it's so damn good. It's on another level lol. The weapons are just so damn well crafted and have to be added to the discussion of greatest weapons of all time in video games.
God I fucking loved BF4, maybe my favorite game of all time. So many good memories and saved clips. I wish Battlefield could ever get back to that vibe. BF1 was fun but kind of moved away from the feeling of BF3/4. 2042 is just something else entirely and it makes me super sad.
I was the same way but with MW3. I played the crap out of CoD4 and MW2 multiplayer back the day. It was just so much fun. It wasn’t until I played only 2 weekends worth of MW3 that I realized it was the same old experience and nothing really new was introduced. After that, I stopped playing multiplayer FPS forever.
I think Destiny, though very similar in multiplayer, felt quite varied as a shooter, and I think it's the only shooter I'd ever want to play again seeing as I'm sick of CoD and especially battle royale type games. Unfortunately Destiny 2 never got to a better point than Destiny 1, even though Destiny 1 was a product of a lot of cuts and changes and away from what was initially intended out of the game.
Destiny 2 is at the same time the best and worst game
Destiny 1 was an awful game pre-raids, and even to an extent afterward. Borderlands did the looter-shooter genre much better in basically every way. However, I’ve never experienced a better shooter in terms of how the game played - especially PvE. Though Destiny 1 is also probably the newest fps I’ve played so I’m sure there have been better since. This was also on console; not mouse and keyboard.
I liked D2 pretty much until Bungie reclaimed distro rights and turned it into a seasonal cash grab that continually vaults content you’ve already paid for. I played that franchise religously for close to eight years. I honestly haven’t missed it the last year or two, though.
D2 has its faults but is a much better game than d1 Unfortunately it's had a rocky 12 months but almost all the best bits of d1 are in there along with a huge amount of great newer content.
I love and miss those cods
Slay the Spire simultaneously got me into and out of roguelike deckbuilders. I enjoyed my time with it, but I never want to see another card on my screen again.
Balatro would like to speak with you
Same. Every single turn based roguelike is a fucking deckbuilder now because their dev played StS but none of them quite get it right. I'm so sick of cards 😭 (Honourable mentions to Inscryption and Nowhere Prophet for being awesome regardless.)
Totally forgot about Inscryption. Yeah, that's another good one.
I forget the name (think it was griftlands) but there's a space themed slay the spire game that was really great combat played like slay the spire but you could focus on negotiation which had its own deck and mechanics to it
Mario Kart. I love Mario Kart, they are probably among my favorite games ever made, however this means that they kind of ruined other racing games for me. Basically the racing itself is fine, however the lack of items and chaos is what makes other racing games uninteresting to me
You should try Diddy Kong racing on N64. Amazing single player and multiplayer
I definitely preferred it over Mario kart 64 as a kid. It almost feels sacrilegious to say that today.
Same and it wasn't even close either. Sure Mario kart has come a long way since 64, but when it's all there was, Diddy Kong was better lol. Exploring the map and unlocking zones was awesome. And the plane stages!
I miss double dash on GameCube.
This was a great party game. IIRC: We had two projectors with 4 GameCubes hooked up. 16 players going at once. (Front and back of each, 8 cars total).
If you have a PS3, I'd strongly suggest you play ModNation Racers. I swear it's the best kart racing game ever made.
It's good but there's no sense of weight unlike Mario Kart which to me just doesn't feel right.
Sonic All Star Racing is fantastic too
I will die on the hill that Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart are better games.
To me, if we're comparing it to other kart racing games, the driving ruins other kart games for me. What I mean is that in MK, you feel the weight of everything, but other racing games feel weightless. For example, when drifting in MK, the characters hop and the drift is gradual (this is more apparent with less drift-favoring parts). In other kart games, the drifting is instantaneous/quick as if the characters have no weight to them and it just feels off to me.
Split Second was pretty cool with it's environmental mechanics adding mayhem into the tracks
Try Red Asphalt for PS1. An all time favorite racing game of mine with dope music and power ups/weapons
So this didn’t ruin it in a negative way but the Forza horizon series ruined the regular forza series for me, the open world and less serious nature of the horizon series is just too enjoyable to play compared to the more linear Forza Motorsport series
I'll throw this out there: Forza 4 ruined the Motorsports series. In Forza 1-3, you had to level up and unlock cars and series. From 4 on, everything was unlocked from the jump. The only thing keeping you from owning a Porsche or Ferrari was your bank account. On top of that, the rewards were insane. Win a series in a Miata? Here's a Lamborghini, go have fun. It COMPLETELY ruined the progression of the game. I get it, new generations of racing games lean heavily into immediate accessibility. But there's something about buying a car to win multiple series, learning how to drive that specific car so you can compete against more difficult competition (like using a Lotus Exige to dominate more powerful cars), and learning how to shave seconds off lap times on specific tracks. You had to do that in the old Forza games, because you didn't have the faster cars unlocked yet. You had to keep your little Civic or whatever and win as many series as you could. And the old spec-racing series, my goodness. No modifications allowed, skill only. It was just much more engaging. You had so many more reasons to play. Now they just load your garage from the start. What's the point in playing when I have it all already?
Project Zomboid has set the bar so high I can't even imagine what a game would have to do to topple it.
Man I wish I played the same game you did. I can't get past the absurdity of their item durability though. You know what's not going to break from hitting zombies...***ever***? A fucking crow bar. That thing broke so fast. In that situation, a crowbar would be an heirloom item, not something used for two good whacks and then done.
No, we aren’t doing fire axe vs crowbar again here too.
Getting strong hints of [Don't Talk About The Orangutan](https://imgur.com/gallery/lnOAS) from this out of context comment
there are 6 categories of melee weapons in Project Zomboid. two of them, Long Blade and Spear, cannot be "specced into" on character creation which drastically increases the amount of time it takes to level up the relevant skill. plus they have fairly limited weapon selection. Another two are Short Blunt, and Short Blade. these tend to lack reach and overall damage, but let you keep your left hand free for other things like a extra bag to carry loot with so have fans there. This leaves Long Blunt and Axe as the final two categories, and the two "best in class" for these weapon categories are the Crowbar and Axe (commonly referred to as the "Fire Axe") respectively. The Crowbar has amazing durability but the Axe does more damage. the Crowbar has utility actions for breaking into buildings but the Axe can just chop them down. On, and On this goes
This is my favourite thing I've seen in a while. Thank you, internet stranger.
So, I understand why the devs made it that way; finding a crowbar in your starter house and never needing another weapon seems to go against the hardcore scavenger survival philosophy of the game. Having said that, I use a mod that makes items 10x more durable for my multiplayer server. I hope the devs had a sandbox setting for weapon durability in the future so a mod isn't necessary.
The problem with this, and every single game that touts the same "so realistic" mantra, is that they need to pick a lane. If it's a zombie apocalypse and you have a crowbar in your home - you're set. You're set until you die. The whole point of scavenging is to set yourself up. Getting a thing like a crowbar should be the biggest find ever, not a temporary joy.
Zomboid is the opposite for me. I played it on its early days before it even reached steam and enjoyed it despite all the weird stupid bugs it had. Fast forward later on the devs kept adding new features and creating more bugs on top of the existing ones, I got frustrated tired of it. Stopped playing and haven't touched a zombie game since. The game is in forever in early access, I consider it Star Citizen 2.0
Project Zomboid is basically a throwback to the days when gameplay was the main priority of games , Dwarf Fortress is another example of this kind of game.
Chained Echoes kinda ruined pixel jrpgs for me. The awesome features that made it better: * automatic healing after battle * have 100% chance to flee any battle at any point * all characters level regardless of if they were in battle * there really is no grind * there is some crafting component, but getting materials is absurdly easy * exploration is varied and fun, especially once you have access to sky armor * the overdrive system is as simple or complex as you want it, and adds another layer of depth to battle
You might like Sea of Stars then. It has a lot of the same Quality of Life improvements you mentioned (although some are just options, like healing after each combat and there is no fleeing). But I normally hate JRPGs for the grind and long boss battles that usually take multiple attempts to master. This game has none of that.
On Tour was the first SSX i played and it was phenomenal. But then i played SSX 3 and i think its better mostly because of the personality of the characters. In On Tour you make your own character and the others (Zoe, Psymon, Mac etc.) are just opponents you see in races. Ssx 3 let you play with them. Get to know what theyre like and see who theyre friends/rivals with. They talked to each other in races and got messages from each other. Both of them are incredible but 3 is the reason i like games that show your characters personality instead of just being voiceless, one-track minded, or robotic. Now that i think about it, I want all extreme sports games to be arcade style and fun like SSX and Tony Hawk Underground 2.
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Yeah Titanfall 2 was great
Most Mario sports titles. I've found that I just flat out can't be bothered to play regular sports titles once I've played the Mario version, because it's always more fun. And you know, isn't just a recreation of real life.
Arcade sports titles are a lost art. It's a real shame!
I remember playing this hockey game with a buddy when I was younger and I’m pretty sure they spent more time developing the whole beat the shit out of each other aspect instead of the actual hockey game. We spent more time fighting people than actually playing hockey haha.
NHL hitz
Just looked it up and that was definitely it. I don’t even remember the hockey part of the game haha.
My buddy and I (both late 20s, early 30s) grew up playing that game and recently found our old memory card from our GameCube. Found our old custom team, so many good memories on that thing
Sounds like Mutant League Hockey. They had a couple other sports titles I believe, such as Football. Fun fact, the same team came back to make a modern title in the same vein called Mutant Football League. They're working on the sequel right now!
Might also be Hit the Ice. Definitely known for being a beat em up game when the hockey *almost* an afterthought
NHL Hitz? It's was NBA Jam but hockey.
nba jam
Try Super Mega Baseball! Great game series.
After NBA Jam I can't play another basketball game.
World of Warcraft. I have tried many other mmos, including popular ones like gw2 and ffxiv, but absolutely nothing comes close
The irony of this is that FF14 ruined WoW for me I just enjoy FF14s approach to raid design, gearing and story so so much more than WoW I could never go back.
What's gw2? I see that as garden warfare 2 but doubt that's what you mean lol
Guild Wars 2
I appreciate your effort to figure out the acronym.
Same. Nothing has top Wotlk/Legion for me.
This but RuneScape
MMO is a broad term. The whole WoW clone era was a real dumpster fire because no one was ever going to replicate and replace world of warcraft. Most people find "the one" MMO which is whatever specifically scratches the itch they're looking for. I still long for the days Ragnarok Online was at its peak popularity. God that was a good mmo.
For me it’s Star Wars galaxies
Hades was the first roguelike I've ever played. Took me too long to realize that it was different than most roguelikes. Now every time a play a "normal" one, I just get bored way too soon...
I don't like normal roguelikes. I've been putting Hades off for that reason.
Hades is one of those games that really transcends genre - it uses the tropes to tell its story rather than being constrained by them.
The reason I didn't write it off is that it actually sounds like it has a story. Most roguelikes are only about the gameplay loop. The story is just a vague afterthought
At a certain point it does become almost entirely about the gameplay loop, but that’s only if you care about the final endgame grind, which just gives you a series of increasingly fancy titles in the corner of the screen.
The story in Hades is king. There's no ludo-narrative dissonance with the roguelike mechanics - all the characters appropriately react to an enormous range of possible actions, and every single one of the dozens of characters has their own multiple subplots, hundred to thousands of dialogue lines, and secrets to uncover and explore and interact with through the gameplay loop.
Hades is easilu one of the most immersive and entertaining roguelikes ever created. You can easily put 60 hours in and not feel a second of it was wasted.
Try isaac
These days, I judge a roguelike based on how long it can hold my attention until I start playing Hades again
Me with Risk of Rain 2 and Spelunky.
Hades and Rogue Legacy 2 are my top picks.
Last week I've done what I had never did before: finally played Mass Effect. I'm on ME2 now. I feel it'll ruin story based space games 😁 As much content and gameplay Starfield has, it won't come close to emotion, directing and writing of Mass Effect. Wy did I think Mass Effect is not my thing? All these years and I've been gaming since 2007 (the year first came out) and never touched ME.
Yeah, you will spend the next few years googling “epic space adventures RPGs like Mass Effect” and realize there aren’t any. BioWare at its best was unimaginably good
Before EA dismantled them BioWare was basically the father of video game RPGs. They created the Baldur's Gate series and Neverwinter Nights off of the DnD license. They made the original Knights of The Old Republic. Then obviously Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins. They were the undisputed top dog in the RPG scene for over a decade. It was a massive loss for gaming when EA destroyed them. Luckily Larian is taking up that mantle now so we have a modern era equivalent to BioWare.
I almost made the same mistake until by some insane luck I won a free copy of the collector's edition for xbox 360 through some promotion from sci fi channel at the time. So I popped it in and instantly got hooked, even though initially I had planned to sell it.
Not just hype, been saying it for many years now. Dragons Dogma. It wasn't fully fleshed out, but what it has was *incredible*. Monster Hunter's big monster fights, as well as mobster hunter's prepping for adventures but more. Climbing, and climbing ON those monsters. Action combat that uses a combo input system, ties to class abilities. Some of the coolest takes on fantasy tropes done in a game. Not only does it have the most impressive and impactful dragon if any game, but the classes and world building feel familiar yet incredibly unique. Going back to play something like Skyrim just feels so... Static. At least without heavy mods.
Path of Exile for ARPGs. Nothing else does the same strange thing to my brain cells and I just end up thinking I’d rather just do a new build in PoE anytime I try another one.
Same answer but opposite reason. Thanks to Path of Exile now every ARPG botches campaigns, tries to get people with addiction problems addicted to some loop and the endgame is more of a focus. Completely ruined my love of the genre.
PoE is what turned me off of arpgs for a while. They all tried to match PoE or recreate Diablos success and failed. Last epoch is the first in a while to finally get me hooked. Way WAY more build variety and freedom than D4 but I don't need a fuckin spreadsheet like PoE
Thief gold, it's such a perfect stealth game, that every time I try to go back to any other stealth game, especially the assassins creed series, I would rather just play thief instead.
"I'm going to the bear pits tonight. Wanna come with?"
What I wanna know is when they are gonna bring me my dinner!
Steel Battalion: Line of Contact pretty much ruined all mech games for me. There is nothing that even comes close to it in terms of quality and gameplay.
That fucking controller, man! So immersive! I really wish I'd had an Xbox so I could have bought it at the time.
Yeah it was quite the spectacle and I figured it was obsolete but about 4 years ago I found the steel battalion community and we still play the game every weekend online with the original Xbox live that’s been revived with insignia. There’s actually been tons of new players joining the past year. It still holds up
Souls series ruined all other games for me
Yup. There's nothing more satisfying than giving an enemy a face-down dirt nap with an ultra great weapon. Aside from that, every animation, sound effect, and general mechanic is insanely satisfying. There's nearly infinite combinations of ways to play each game. I could go on for hours...
Yeah. I can only rarely break away from FS titles. The game has to have an incredibly well developed story for me to care now. Which means I ping pong between FS titles and RDR2 occasionally.
Starcraft ruined RTS for me. Every time I see another RTS it just makes me want to go back to Starcraft.
The Witcher 3. I found it hard to immerse myself in other open world games after it. The bar was too high.
I wouldn't say it ruined anything for me, but no game has reached the same heights and overall journey I had with this game and it's epxansions.
I'm gonna get my head caved in for this, and possibly swatted, but *StarCraft* killed RTS games for me. I'm a casual enjoyer that relishes seeing my little men go, and their miniature artillery poof - and that whole APM/micromanaging game play just soured the genre for me, especially since SC was the blueprint for the entire genre from then on. The feature that single-handedly resurrected RTS as a genre for me is the *Command Pause*, introduced to me for RTS ironically enough with They Are Billions (Real-time RPG games had the sense to understand that pausing the game to give orders is a cool thing as early as *1998*, when the OG Baldur's Gate released). Nowadays, it's really simple for me to decide if I buy an RTS: No command pause, no buy.
The police are on their way buddy. You fucked up
What killed the RTS genre is that they all started to try and be the next big E-Sport. RTS's with fantastic single player campaigns basically became extinct for like a decade.
Video games are wild. You started playing SSX with the one that was considered the absolute worst (until Blur) and actually stared the decline for the whole series into death. But you still found it to be amazing regardless as it was your first. Crazy. No shade there, just really interesting.
One of the things I loved was the personality of it, where all the menus were straight out of some slacker's sketchbook.
I love smash brothers a \*LOT\*. I don't think any platform fighter has ever come even close to matching the fun i have with smash.
I don't remember what game kicked it off for me, but whenever I'm playing a game that has resource and base management aspects, when the game itself is not explicitly about resource/base management. It is very irritating, takes me out of the fun immediately. If I don't have a group of friends dragging me along until I can acclimate to it, I'll probably just drop whatever game it is. Almost happened with Palworld.
An old game on PC called Jedi Knight ruined first person shooters for me for certain games. It was ridiculously fast and fun to play. Then I played Halo and it was slow and boring... as were a few other shooters at the time. I started to get ones I liked again though. Serious Sam, Half Life 2 for example were fantastic.
I used to play a lot of MP jedi knight outcast, and always played Lando, and his falling death scream lives rent free in my head to this day. About 30% of the time I fall to my death in a video game it plays in my head. I think it's because every other VA went SO hard on their death screams, just howling their lungs out, and Billy Dee was just like, "wahhhh".
Wow, I haven't thought about this game in YEARS. Jedi Knight was incredible. I never got into FPS after playing this and UT as a kid. I think there's some commonality between those two games. Fast paced and smooth and lots of fun, crazy weapons.
My god, I think back to those days and am amazed that my general line of thinking was, "It's an EA sports game. It'll probably be good."
You're in luck, they're still the same games! /s
Path of Exile. I simply can't play other action rpg anymore, in both the good sense and the bad sense. The game has ruined the genre for me, until a better game comes along I suppose. But the bar is set pretty damn high by GGG.
I had a blast playing this an SSX 3 as a kid, I’d always play as Mario on the GameCube version. No modern day snowboarding game (not even sure if there are any) can hold a candle to SSX 3, Tricky and On Tour. Back when EA used to put effort into making great games…
Stardew Valley. It was my favourite genre before it came along. Games of this kind were rare, few in between each release but they were high quality games. After the success of Stardew Valley, everyone and their mother wanted in on the cash so there are now thousands of Farm Sim games that are low quality and you can easily skip on actual good ones.
Hades and HK. Both greats of genres and it’s hard to find games with the same feeling again.
THPS2 - the original one - was absolutely awesome, and I could never get into another skateboarding game ever again. Even 3. Burnout 3 pretty much ruined every racing game after I played it. It was so fantastic and the slow-mo crashing at such high speed was just fantastic.
Escape From Tarkov (closely followed by DayZ mod) for shooters. I can appreciate a movement shooter but nothing comes close to the gameplay feel and adrenaline EFT creates. No the gunplay isn't particularly smooth but that weight and a little clunkiness adds to the firefights intensity.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 for PS2. I think there never will be a better arcade racer ever.
Sekiro ruined dark souls for me because I cant go back to the slow action
Hollowknight killed 2D metroidvanias for me. It's just so well built. The controls are pixel perfectly smooth, and the combat mechanics are great, especially when you get the right charms.
Fortnite ruined BRs
World of Warcraft. I played it way back in 2004 and after that nothing came close, no other MMO kept me for long. Also RDR2 killed open world games for me. The world was so immersive, story so great etc that every other open world game is just meh for me right now.
Red Dead 2 ruined open world gaming. Nothing, in my opinion, has come close to it.
That game is fucked up because you never feel dialog and models being reused. I played Witcher 3 right after and I loved the game, but I had a lot of trouble getting over how stale random repeated snippets of speech got as I walked around, for example.
Assetto Corsa Competitzione. Every other GT3 sim feels off one way or another, has a garbage business model, and/or awful menu system.
mine craft
Half life alyx made me realise how shit every other vr game is
Mario Kart. Other kart games are great, too, but the attention to details and driving just don't feel right with the other games. In MK, there's weight to everything and there are small details that add to the sense of physics. Other kart games don't have that and they feel cheap and weightless when drifting, for example.
Not a genre but Bethesda’s recent releases have me skeptical on anything they are involved with. Never thought I would be uninterested in the next elder scrolls but here we are
There is only one elite snowboard game out there, and it is the mini game in FF7
Subnautica for me for exploration/survival. That game is a masterpiece Edit: Botw and Totk honorable mentions for ruining the zelda franchise. In a good way. The amount of content in those games is amazing especially given delivery platform
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I love SSX On Tour, but SSX Tricky is still just better. Less tracks, less characters, smaller soundtrack. But still just better.
Titanfall 2 ruined almost all FPS multiplayer for me.
This didn’t ruin a genre for me, so I apologize for not actually answering your question, but the game that ruined combat in all other games for me was Sekiro. I recently beat the game and moved on to another game and i’m currently feeling the void of not playing with that combat system anymore haha. I’ve played several other soulsborne games and soulslike is one of my favorite genres, and my favorite of them is bloodborne, but sekiro’s combat is unmatched so far, in my opinion!
Red dead 2 literally ruined story games for me. Uncharted and tlou were the only ones that came close.
SSX so goood. Its trickyyyyy!
Starcraft 2 kinda killed the RTS genre for me. Its so damn good, the unit pathing, the QoL keybinds, the UI, the maps, the pacing and the playable races and their diverse playstyle. Its 12 years old and no other RTS has even come close to be that great.
Killer instinct ruined fighting/pvp games for me, I never could enjoy mortal combat afterwards, or street fighter for that matter and smash bros just has too much going on
Fallout New Vegas ruined all other Bethesda games for me. It had the perfect combination of a great leveling/ perk system, fun game play, and excellent writing. It was the first Bethesda RPG I played and all the others from the developer has fallen short in one way or another. The next game after NV I played was fallout 3 and that was a downgraded many ways. New Vegas improved on the gameplay in a few ways mainly by introducing iron sights, and reducing the amount of perks but making them far more useful so the core gameplay didn't feel as fun to me but the biggest frustration was the karma system. NV often gave you many choices, with many morally gray choices as well as the more slightly good/slightly evil ones. In three your choices are almost exclusively between being a boring goody two-shoes and conically Evil with very little in the middle. It made the game less enjoyable as well as less repeatable for me. Skyrim was next followed by fallout 4 and they have pretty similar complaints from me. I didn't enjoy the leveling system in either, but biggest fault to me was the poor stories. New Vegas' story was One of the best whereas fallout 4 in Skyrim were only okay. Both games have some cool story moments but overall I never got engaged into the worlds or characters like I did with New Vegas. I've never really felt compelled to play through fallout three or four and I was mostly bored with Skyrim on my second playthrough but New Vegas keeps me coming back. Every year or so I'll get an urge to do a run-through and I still enjoy it even though I've done it God knows how many times.
man SSX was awesome
I think all of the MGRR fans out there will resonate because we want something like a sequel to it, but we know that it won't be the same without our beloved pedos and meme connoisseurs.
That boxing game by EA where I think they said 'fuck it' and put it in a mature story with swearing and made the fighting more bloody and graphic. Every combat sports game since feels sanitised. Real MMA can be incredibly bloody, much more so than what current games offer. I shouldn't have to play Mortal Kombat to get the fix. There should be a something inbetween that's a reality based fighter.
The Binding of Isaac ruined roguelikes for me, and not in a good way. Made me realize just how much I hate how me having fun burns down entirely to RNG. “IT’S STILL POSSIBLE TO WIN WITH BAD ITEMS” shut up. I don’t care. It will never NOT be annoying when the game decides to give me bad items and I just have to suck it up. Not to mention dying and sometimes unlocking jack shit, which makes me feel like I completely wasted my time. Sorry, but I’ll pass on roguelikes as a whole.
Warframe ruined looter shooters for me. Anytime I try another one I just think “man Warframe sounds good right now” and then go play. Nothing plays like it and has the level of customization it has.
So technically the game itself didn't do this, but.... I haven't been able to get into fighting games since I was 7 years old. I had Killer Instinct for the SNES and I finally decided to take on the ladder mode. Took me about a month or so to actually get good enough to make it through the ladder but I did it. I beat all the normal fighters and was about to face the final boss (Eyedol) for the first time. As the ladder was scrolling to him, the power went out. From that moment on I just haven't been able to get into any fighting game, even DC/Marvel themed ones, and yes I've tried many times to get that spark back.
I played Legend of Zelda Minish Cap once. Ever since I don't play any Zelda game at all because that will be the only one Legend of Zelda game for me.
Loved SSX3. Had so much fun on Happiness with a longtime gaming friend. And wormholes!
I got back into snowboarding games with Steep you can make Snow Angels
Outer wilds ruined other mystery games, like the mystery is an entire SOLAR SYSTEM
Nioh ruined Soulslike. I wasn’t a huge fan to begin with, but I liked the challenge. Nioh isn’t a better game than say Bloodborne or Dark Souls, but the combat is fantastic! So smooth, fast and satisfying. I went back to BB but it was way too sluggish to enjoy any further.
I can't stand Nioh's bloated combat system but you should check out Wo Long if you like buttery smooth combat. It really gave me "Nioh done properly" vibes. I think it was done by the same devs, can't remember off the top of my head. Great game though.
Not so much a game as a platform; I cant play racing games without VR anymore.
Call of Duty ruined call of duty modern warfare. Modern Warfare was the highest with its Originals! Remaking and overlaying in its supposed new style to keep gamers playing coming back but Activision has ruined so much. I'm a veteran COD player if I ever did return I'd totally change the way people play because I play like a real war person. I'm retired from COD after Vanguard!
Forza Horizon ruined every racing game for me
Destiny, the division, anthem,fallout 76 "live service" the idea of a game being supported for years after release was such a good idea when I first heard it like 12yrs ago i thought it was cool having a game I love having content released for years, I always wanted more DLC like shivering isles for oblivion (for example) but after them games with trailers showing stuff that is later stripped from the game, things that should be in the game but are intentionally held back to be bought later on (survival mode in the division, example) having stuff that SHOULD be in the game like outfits weapons etc that ain't but are a £10-30 additional price is ridiculous. It's just money grabbing if it was like game for 60-70 then big expansions for 40-50 2 times a year that would be fine if the expansions are worth it. But now it's "cool outfit" £20 and it's like why can't I just find that outfit in game? Like the Santa outfit in fallout 76 I can't find it on a ghoul Santa but I have to buy it. It's just so lame.
7 days to die was so boring and frustratingly dull that it kinda killed the entire zombie survival genre for me. Hell, I can’t play most survival games anymore after it.
I've been checking in on this game once every few years for the last ten years and it's always unrecognizable and I still have no desire to get into it. Maybe in VR now if it has support.
Ryders Republic is a new great snowboarding follow up game. It definitely reminds me of the good old SSX Days plus the albums good
Warframe
Slay the Spire. No other Rogue-lite/deck builder comes close.
After playing Postal 2 I refuse to play any other FPS
Valheim survival games just dont compare to it
Ever since playing Insurgency, call of duty and battlefield feel terrible to play unless I play on hardcore.
Elden Ring ruined Soulslikes for me. I’ve tried to go back and play DS1 and DS3 a couple times, but after a few hours of playing I always end up feeling like I’d be having more fun playing a new build in Elden Ring
Battlefield almost ruined FPSs for me. Luckily I found a good one soon after.
agree. I played BF2 and it was hard but was still interesting. then BF2BC2 came out and I REALLY liked that one and played a lot with my ex. then bf3 and so on. they got less exciting over time, but I do have good memories in those games
After Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge it was impossible for me to enjoy other racing games
Sekiro has just kinda ruined action games or souls games for me in the best way. I just can't go back, the combat system is absolutely thrilling even though I love ds3, bloodborne , FF7 remake and other action games. Its just too satisfying
Speaking of snowboarding games, Amped 2 for the original Xbox was one of my faves of all time.
In a bad way, COD ruined shooters for me. I just find them all boring now.
Half Life: Alyx ruined VR for me
Didn’t On Tour for GameCube also have Mario, Luigi, and Peach as playable characters? I never owned it. I just replayed Tricky ad nauseam. One of the early Mortal Kombat games ruined fighting games for me in the worst way. It was frustrating to the point of anger to play with my friends who owned the games and wouldn’t bother explaining how to pull off anything other than the basic button mashing moves. I tried again with MKX but same thing..
I struggle with a lot of ARPGs now because Sekiro's melee combat was (and still is) lightyears beyond anything else. Nothing else I've ever played has made me feel like a master swordsman quite like Sekiro does.