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.
Dark Souls is too hard for my tastes, as much as I want to just walk around the worlds and see them.
I have 0 interest in BotW, crafting stuff isnt for me. Just lemme find/earn the item.
Street Fighter isn’t in my top tier fighting series.
Most point and click/old timey adventure games (like the aforementioned Myst) were boring to me.
BOTW only has a crafting mechanic for food. There is 0 other crafting in the game.