This is a followup to @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net '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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Fine, I'll say grimdark signifiers if not a technical adherence to some academic definition, like "hehe this guy strung up and he ate poop thrown at him" details.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I don't care what you call Elden Ring, I was just thinking aloud. As I said, I think it's a bad game, I just like the lore (and also a couple of bosses, like that anime wrestler dude near the end).