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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.
ghost of tsushima besides being far right bushido propaganda bullshit, isnt that fun or beautiful and the story is not compelling. I dont see how people like this game, it has to just be weebs. my ex best friends conservative boyfrind went off on me for pointing out the historical inaccuracies while playing. elden ring also looked boring but i just watched my friend play also it weird how bad characters look for how hyped it was.
Some
types judge whether a game is good based upon how ponderous and grueling it is to play.
Oh hey I do this
(The more it is, the more I hate it)
And if you dare to express that you don't enjoy ponderous and grueling gameplay you're said to be a baby that wants games for babies because the purpose of games is to do ponderous and grueling things competitively to impress other ponderous and grueling
And heaven help you if you say accessiblity or difficulty options should be available.
and then when you say you don't like it they just say its because your bad at the game.
The belief that someone has to have a specific arena rating or gearscore or K/D ratio to even have an opinion about a fucking toy is serious
The "Kurosawa mode" broke something in me that I didn't know was still there in terms of my ability to believe that game critics are people.