Damn... you Ninja'd, but yeah, you're probably right, in terms of shooters, Halo is about as generic as you can possibly get.Sardonac said:
That or Far Cry 2 *shudder*
The Most Generic Game Ever
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That or Far Cry 2 *shudder*
Eh? They are almost all set in different worlds and have an exaggerated and magic based coherence to a lot of real time periods also, though the characters most definitely (aside from the very main character) not super, even if they were, how is super boring?The Lord of Boom said:
Final Fantasy is only really generic if you haven't given it a chance plus it only developed JRPG tropes around the time VII was released, that's 6 main titles not generic and a bunch of spin offs
The main character is a hard-boiled space marine with a dark past that he feels guilty for, but it's stupidly obvious to everyone but him that he did the right thing.DustyDrB said:
In any case, there is an invading force and only one man can stop them (guess who!). The entire army backing him up clearly isn't worth a damn since all they do is die around you. In time, a mysterious chain of events causes him to confront his dark past and he's given a chance to redeem himself. Soon, as you close in on victory, you will find that the old grizzled general that has been giving you your orders has betrayed you! He's actually the real enemy here and you need to seek revenge during the last leg of the game. You defeat him and are given the chance to kill him for what he's done. You'll hesitate, just long enough for him to give a speech explaining that he was responsible for the dark events of your past. This speech will give him enough time to pull a gun so that you have an excuse to shoot him, or he'll do something stupid that gets him killed anyway.
It doesn't matter because he'll be coming back in the sequel as the secret mastermind of whatever it is that you're fighting.
Tower defense and the legions of generic similar bottleneck defending games it spawned. There are too many of them out there now.
Batman on the NES. Stretching a little, but there is another example I just can't think of it...Uberjoe19 said:
As for the most generic game, please define a generic game. I mean, while Mario is pretty much the genre codifier for platformers, I would think it would still fall under the category of "generic". You jump on baddies to kill them, try not to fall down pits, and get power ups to do both of those better. If we are talking about generic in the way I think we are using it then here goes..."nearly every fps after halo". Actually, despite the tremendous ups this game had imo, even it is kinda generic. There seems to not be a whole lot you can do to a fps that doesn't always boil down to "point this end at monsters and squeeze trigger until the noises stop"
That being said, generic isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Anything with Spacemarines, Nazis, Aliens, Spacemarines and Aliens, Nukes, and soon to come, Russians, and Russians with Nukes...
If you'll notice, i did not say "Nazis and Aliens" why you ask? because to my knowledge there hasn't been any games with both Nazis and Aliens in it... someone needs to fix that because i think that'd actually be pretty good
(this is the part where someone chimes in and tells me there actually has been a game like that...)
If you'll notice, i did not say "Nazis and Aliens" why you ask? because to my knowledge there hasn't been any games with both Nazis and Aliens in it... someone needs to fix that because i think that'd actually be pretty good
(this is the part where someone chimes in and tells me there actually has been a game like that...)
Oh my god, you played The Force Unleashed too?!Kelbear said:
Just replace space marine with anything, and it works. Jedi, actual marine, prostitute, General, etc. You just described almost every popular game out right now.
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.
Oh and most MMO gameplay is painfully generic but that's a given.
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.
Oh and most MMO gameplay is painfully generic but that's a given.
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)
Rygar (is every side scrolling or 3-D monster mash-up hack-and-slash game but without a memorable main character or memorable monsters)
Pong (is every tennis/ping pong game without even basic character graphics or back grounds)
Final Fantasy (the protagonists don't even have a single line between the four of them to make up for the fact that they are standard fantasy story archetypes in a run-of-the-mill fantasy world.)
Karate Champ (the characters could eaily be found in a real dojo except not made of pixels...maybe)
Ah,you get the idea by now, I'm sure.
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)
Rygar (is every side scrolling or 3-D monster mash-up hack-and-slash game but without a memorable main character or memorable monsters)
Pong (is every tennis/ping pong game without even basic character graphics or back grounds)
Final Fantasy (the protagonists don't even have a single line between the four of them to make up for the fact that they are standard fantasy story archetypes in a run-of-the-mill fantasy world.)
Karate Champ (the characters could eaily be found in a real dojo except not made of pixels...maybe)
Ah,you get the idea by now, I'm sure.
Ok ill bite:DustyDrB said:
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 ;-)