Rayman. Started as a side scroller, changed to a 3rd person game, and finally whatever the fuck Rabbids were.Eh, the 3d ones were still platformers... just changed perspective lol
EDIT: I guess tbf the Rabbids crap were spinoffs.
Mario might be the winner just by sheer virtue of him being in every fuckin' genre
If you count spinoffs, then Mario has gone from platformer to...dozens of different genres.I'm not counting spin offs, main titles only.
Wasn't the first Dynasty Warriors like a fighting game or something?It was.
From a score-based arcade maze game, to a...point-n-click pseudo virtual pet thing?to a few 3D collectathons
Touhou went from a shmup to a literally everythingIt's even weirder since the first game is more like an Arkanoid clone than a shmup
Wasn't the first Dynasty Warriors like a fighting game or something?Well fighting games and beat-em ups are pretty darn related since they have a fundamental starting point of beating up the other guy. So something like Fatal Fury was initially conceived as a game like Final Fight. In this case Dynasty Warriors went in the opposing direction.
Puyo Puyo started as a dungeon crawlerTIL
Oh yeah, Spyro.It's wild how degraded poor Spyro got
3D platformer to a low effort toys to life game, which comoeltely ignored Spyro as it went on.
It's wild how degraded poor Spyro gotWhat do you mean
How has Resident Evil not been mentioned?Eh, Resident Evil was always more actiony than people like to think. It transitioned pretty slowly all told.
From a score-based arcade maze game, to a...point-n-click pseudo virtual pet thing?
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OP, you've been here long enough to know this but lemme help you out because I see you -On the contrary, this is quite possibly the only way to get people to click a topic about Jak and Daxter.
If you want to discuss a specific thing, you can't have a topic title like this with a rhetorical question that's begging for "but actually" responses. No one is going to talk about Jak And Daxter now, even though that's probably what you hoped would happen.
Nah, you need a to not offer that rhetorical question. Some helpful suggestions:
* Jak and Daxter had the most insane genre shift
* Still thinking about how Jak and Daxter went from collectathon to GTA clone
etc.
hope this helps
I'm not sure why people are surprised by the spyro evolution. After finally playing the trilogy, I felt it made sense, each sequel to me gave diminishing returns in terms of enjoyment. I liked the first one, still like the second one although the mini games were annoying, and then by the third one was even more annoyed by the minigames and liked it less. Still glad I got to play them though.And then came Enter The Dragonfly.....
Darksiders games are all half beat 'em ups and then they swap the other half out for a different genre in every single one.
I really, seriously need to consider some day trying/playing these games, especially to see if they're really the zelda clone people built them up to be.First one straight up is a Zelda clone.
Puyo Puyo started as a dungeon crawlerPuyo Puyo is a spinoff of a dungeon crawler. Not quite the same.
I really, seriously need to consider some day trying/playing these games, especially to see if they're really the zelda clone people built them up to be. I remember the demo for the first game like, 15 years ago, and it felt kinda clunky, so I never did get the series. And at different times the game(s) have been on sale for like, $5-$10 and for some reason I never got them.You can definitely feel the Zelda in the first two. They're worth playing, I played DS2 for the first time earlier this year and mostly enjoyed it, though a section of it definitely dragged on. It's one of those games where if I'd gotten to play it on release it'd be one of my favorite games of all time, but because I played it now I "merely" like it a lot.
OP, you've been here long enough to know this but lemme help you out because I see you -What lmao. I did not intend to talk about Jak and Daxter at all, this was about crazy genre jumps in the first place
If you want to discuss a specific thing, you can't have a topic title like this with a rhetorical question that's begging for "but actually" responses. No one is going to talk about Jak And Daxter now, even though that's probably what you hoped would happen.
Nah, you need a to not offer that rhetorical question. Some helpful suggestions:
* Jak and Daxter had the most insane genre shift
* Still thinking about how Jak and Daxter went from collectathon to GTA clone
etc.
hope this helps