@mangeurdenuage huh, it is a little weird how similar they look
@FlatCulture yeah like what if pacman goes down on you and he thinks your dick is a power pellet
m&ms
@creamqueen @RustyCrab @chog10 @pernia @anemone @Cocoa @bronze @graf @AryanSwastika gonna turn her into a peanut m&m
@LukeAlmighty half life is what I would call genre defining, it marks the end of the more level based "boomer shooters" and has more narrative/exploration elements. You can't really pick the very beginning of the genre because those are often pretty rudimentary and lack polish. Like, I would pick super metroid over metroid 1. But we could probably debate all of this for hours lol and that's why every list is going to be subjective or aggregate at the end of the day.
@LukeAlmighty I know people who are NPCs who will just respond the exact same way to things every time lol. There's a dude I work with who, every time it is raining, will tell several people "it's wonderful weather for frogs" and now that line is stuck in my head in the same way that "stop, you violated the law!" is.
Just yesterday my boss said something about me over the phone and then proceeded to say how I was ignoring her by not saying anything, but the truth is that I just really had nothing to say.
@LukeAlmighty most are based on the cultural impact, yeah. I think that's fair, since a game with a large cultural impact is also probably a pretty damn good game. But it would be interesting to see a list of games that practically invented or defined entire genres. I suspect there would be some overlap there. Half Life would be on both lists for sure, for instance.
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