Cfrock
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This is somehting I've thought about on and off for some time now. There are certain franchises which ocassionally switch genre or experiment with a different genre in a one-off kind of way. Two examples would be Resident Evil and Halo.
Resident Evil started off as Survival Horror (literally defining the genre; the term 'Survival Horror' did not exist before Resident Evil) but has since transformed into Third-Person Shooter. This wasn't a gradual change either, RE0 was Survival Horror and then a couple of years later, RE4 was a Third-Person Shooter.
Halo shows the one-off thing I was talking about. The genre is a First-Person Shooter but they had a one-off Real-Time Strategy game in the form of Halo Wars. Resident Evil also kind of does this with On-Rails Shooter but it does this fairly often.
Warcraft is another example, going from Real-Time Strategy to MMO. Fable, also, went from RPG to Massive Pile of Turd (just my little joke ^^ )
Question time! Do you like or dislike when a franchise does this kind of thing and why? What other examples can you think of which have done this in the past? If you were to pick a franchise to do this with, what would it (they) be and which genre(s) would you have them dabble in?
Resident Evil started off as Survival Horror (literally defining the genre; the term 'Survival Horror' did not exist before Resident Evil) but has since transformed into Third-Person Shooter. This wasn't a gradual change either, RE0 was Survival Horror and then a couple of years later, RE4 was a Third-Person Shooter.
Halo shows the one-off thing I was talking about. The genre is a First-Person Shooter but they had a one-off Real-Time Strategy game in the form of Halo Wars. Resident Evil also kind of does this with On-Rails Shooter but it does this fairly often.
Warcraft is another example, going from Real-Time Strategy to MMO. Fable, also, went from RPG to Massive Pile of Turd (just my little joke ^^ )
Question time! Do you like or dislike when a franchise does this kind of thing and why? What other examples can you think of which have done this in the past? If you were to pick a franchise to do this with, what would it (they) be and which genre(s) would you have them dabble in?