The Most Generic Game Ever

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Dendio

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Ok ill bite:

Boy is born into tragedy and narrowly escapes death as an infant. He is saved by his mentor while the rest of his family and village dies.

Boy grows up to avenge his family and village. Along the road Boy meets a sibling he previously thought dead.

Along the road boy has to fight and defeat his mentor.

Boy defeats the main evil and wins the game

Boy stands at final zone after credits roll and wonders what now...for eternity ;-)
Fable 2? (fairly close)
Fable 1 ! haha funny how that turned out.

I really want to play fable 2, but now its seeming the tales may be a bit 2 similar ;p

Fable 2 on pc pls!

Not to knock fable 1 though ...awesome game

Its name is fable after all, so the generic story might be intended

only thing it missed is the generic love interest
 

Mr. Gency

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Play as a space marine, shooting anything and everything that moves, with you vanila SMG. On the PS3, you have to install everything one at a time (new game, install the first level, then install the intro cut scene). On the 360, all the voice acting is replaced with screaming childern. On the Wii, mini-games, mini-games, MINI-GAMES!

EDIT:Why is it that [user]mexicola[/user], [user]Dendio[/user] and me are the only ones who seem to have read th OP?
Redlin5 said:
Tower defense and the legions of generic similar bottleneck defending games it spawned. There are too many of them out there now.
You played one, you played them all.
 

Volafortis

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Uncharted 1 & 2. If they don't scream "generic adventure game" while you're playing hem, there's something wrong with you. Not saying they're bad, just generic.
 

Dexiro

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Not sure if this counts but EVE at least gets the award for the dullest game in existence.

You're in space. And that's just what it is, a lot of space. Empty space at that.
The core mechanic is to make or join a business and basically do jobs for people like farming for hours a day to earn money - it's practically a second job.
 

Erana

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It makes me sad that no one's made a post in here that's not just a dig at something they don't like because said thing is popular.

Personally, I have to vote that Oblivion is one of the most generic games out there. I love the game, but I can't think of a single thing that I found original. The most interesting things out there they wrenched from previous TES games, really.
Its like a world-class ballerina; doing the same thing for years, but at its very best.
 

Becoming Insane

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DeMoNxDaVe said:
Just roll with me here...

But I'd have to saw Borderlands. right of the bat people think fallout when they play because in trailers they look similar and people are stupid sometimes. The story isn't SUPER generic but by god. The gameplay is horribly generic. It copy and pastes most main controls from a lot of different games and a lot of creatures look like other creatures from different games. The skill point thing is pretty fresh. I'd have to say this game really is ba-

CATCH A RIDE!!!

Oh so that's why I like it. Humor. Huh.
Hah. I freaking love Scooter. Especially
THIS IS WHERE THE CARS LIVE! GIT 'CHOO ONE!

OT: Okay. here's my generic idea pitch.
You're an Ageless Faceless Nameless Gender-Neutral Action-Adventure Person born in the faroff country of Generica. Something happens, and you're called upon to do stuff. Game is first-person perspective; people never refer to you by name and there are no mirrors. After defeating the final boss, you finally get a look at yourself and you find out that you're just another average Joe who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Too generic?

EDIT: @Assassincreed548: Oi! Lay off the Gamecube hate, 'kay? That generation of console war is over.
 

jubosu

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WOW PLAYER:THE RPG
You play a character, playing World of Warcraft.
You have to raise your stamina, endurance, and whatnot by doing menial tasks around the house.
Then you sit and play WOW whilst monitoring your health levels.
You have to roll to keep your eyes open as the life drains from your body while playing the game.
 

troth

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jubosu said:
WOW PLAYER:THE RPG
You play a character, playing World of Warcraft.
You have to raise your stamina, endurance, and whatnot by doing menial tasks around the house.
Then you sit and play WOW whilst monitoring your health levels.
You have to roll to keep your eyes open as the life drains from your body while playing the game.
Or, you know. This:

http://www.theonion.com/video/warcraft-sequel-lets-gamers-play-a-character-playi,14240/
 

Becoming Insane

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troth said:
jubosu said:
WOW PLAYER:THE RPG
You play a character, playing World of Warcraft.
You have to raise your stamina, endurance, and whatnot by doing menial tasks around the house.
Then you sit and play WOW whilst monitoring your health levels.
You have to roll to keep your eyes open as the life drains from your body while playing the game.
Or, you know. This:

http://www.theonion.com/video/warcraft-sequel-lets-gamers-play-a-character-playi,14240/
That's actually rather not generic. Really boring, yeah, but not generic.
 

weker

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eisenhiem said:
PN 03, one of the worst purchases I ever made for my GameCube...
WTF how is PN 03 generic u dance to kill ppl

(edit) what the hell why are there so many games in this list that ppl say are generic
paper mario, fable
how do ppl think these are generic games????
 

Vie

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FPS-RPG With RTS elements and plenty of QTE's, set in a post apocalyptic former soviet republic where everybody speaks with either an American accent, a badly faked Russian accent and the very very British badguy. All signs are in English and have very poor jokes built into them. Obligatory vehicle sections handle badly, with the steering set up firmly for consoles only, oh and if it rolls over you either have to use a QTE or a motion sensing flailing action to recover it. Main character is an armor plated space marine with stubble and a bald head, complimented by an inexplicably fake scar covering at least 2/3 of his face on one side. Support character is a busty and skimpily dressed woman who appears to be legal only in Victorian England, she claims to be a tuff fighter but gets captured by everything and its dog and needs you to go rescue her (after going to a nearby druggies house to get a special brand of sledgehammer to get into the room she is held in.) Firearms are your weapon of choice, though the portal/gravity/lightning/skeleton-removing-thingy-that-you-only-use-in-one-level is HEAVILY promoted. Plot resolves around you being the "only one" who can save the world from... ..aliens, yes Aliens - Communist Aliens who eat babies because there just that evil. Occasionally you will have allied NPC's fighting with you who are coded to run in front of you and moan when you shoot them. Enemies run towards you at top speed and some of them explode when they get close enough to deal incurable special damage upon you for the rest of the level. Endgame occurs at the top of a scifi tower built out of greyish blue metal, where you shout your enemy to death between using QTE's to save the Orphans from falling off (Oh did we forget to mention the Orphans, yeh you have those on each level - save enough and you get a cake at the end of the level!)

And some how it turns out your reliving the memories of one of your ancestors.
 

Jekken6

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TexaNigerian said:
Early games in any genre fit in here as later games tend to build upon and improve what little innovative content that they had. For example-

Wolfenstein/Doom ( is every Nazi shooting/space marine FPS ever but without an interesting gimmick such as hyper-realistic/brown visuals or a nifty physics engine)
Dude, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were pretty much the FIRST FPS games. They INVENTED the generic FPS, therefore not making them generic,since they were first.
 

ZeroDotZero

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I'd say Wolfenstein, but it has the Particle Cannon, so it wins.

The plot would be that there is an alien warlord, and you (the nameless, faceless, macho space marine), has to single-handedly destroy the alien fleet using standard machine guns and a laser. The alien warlord sounds foreign, and any humans you meet are go-getting Americans. You have to rescue a few British prisoners too. There's also a section where you get bullet time. Then it ends on a cliffhanger.