video games aren’t ever transforming an
evolving landscape and the franchises
adapted right alongside their industry
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
franchises and video games that
successfully changed genres before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the best examples of video games that
succeeded in making significant changes
in their formula games that essentially
became whole new experiences whether it
was a perspective shift that completely
changed how the game was played or jump
to a completely different genre these
are the franchises that managed to excel
in unfamiliar territory however we will
be ruling out games like breadth of the
wilds that did bend their genre but
didn’t quite change completely number 10
Baldur’s Gate series traditional RPGs to
hack and flash halt who goes there
still considered to be one of the
pillars of modern role-playing games the
bounders gate series is based on the
Dungeons & Dragons universe with
mechanics that directly translate into
pen-and-paper rules into a video game
while there have been dozens of D&D
based games throughout the decades
recognition baldur’s gate received
earned in a console spin up at founders
gate Dark Alliance what do you want I
got no qualms despair going from
hardcore RPG to a more console friendly
hack and slash RPG was a risky move but
it paid off as Dark Alliance was a much
more deep and complex than any of its
other RPG competitors on the console
maintaining the spirit of the franchise
welcome friend so you cut them in nasty
bump on the head you’ve got their number
9 Resident Evil series survival horror
to action and back to survival horror
as important to the fear factor as the
atmosphere itself the series of gameplay
in the original few games relied on a
slow pace with a small amount of tough
enemies and limited ammo with just a few
seemingly superficial tweaks to the
formula namely camera angle and controls
Resident Evil 4 transformed into an
entirely new Resident Evil game and for
better or for worse brought the games
from horror to action Wow re 4 is
indisputably a fantastic game later
games in the series most notoriously
Resident Evil 6 and umbrella core a
flat-out ban still the franchise has
been able to remember where it came from
and Resident Evil 7 return to the series
to it through number 8 police quest
series aka SWAT series adventure game 2
tactical shooter Beck has been
neutralized the police quest series
began in the 1980s with the
point-and-click adventure game police
quest in pursuit of the death angel
during the early to mid 90s key venture
games were one of the first casualties
of technology as publishers began to
push more realistic graphics jumping on
the bandwagon police quest open season
and police quest SWAT teams the series
into a full motion video games
[Music]
thankfully the subtitle SWAT inspired
publisher Ciara
to spin-off the franchise into Rainbow
six style tactical first-person shooters
with the first team in the new series
SWAT 3 close quarters battle while never
hitting the popularity of Tom Clancy’s
branded competitor the SWAT games were
nonetheless standout shooters in their
own right go go go red go blue number
seven dynasty Warriors series fighting
game to hack a flash at first it sounds
surprising the dynasty warriors began in
the fighting game series but when you
stop to think about it going from
fighting game to hack and slash isn’t
that much of a leap now of course when
gamers think of dynasty warriors they
think of it as a franchise that keeps
raising the bar when it comes to fast
paced action adventures
[Applause]
and that are almost as dozen
hack-and-slash games within this series
but go back to the playstation 1 and
hidden among the myriad of 3d fighting
games you’ll find the original dynasty
Warriors and looking at it now it’s no
surprise that nobody really remembers
the fighting game number 6 Metroid
series side-scrolling adventure the
first-person shooter Nintendo’s 2d
Metroid games were revolutionary
brilliant all that good stuff in a time
when so many games were running gun till
the end Metroid showed that 2d
side-scroller could be dynamic and
nonlinear when Nintendo brought the
franchise into 3d they opted to also
make the game a first-person shooter but
when Metroid Prime was released for the
Gamecube
in 2002 critical success and fan
reception was through the roof as the
change in genre and perspective while
maintaining the Metroid’s formula left
fans with one of the best first-person
shooter games ever released on a home
console
number five Castlevania series
side-scrolling adventure to Metroidvania
genre change that basically created a
new genre Castlevania took all the
defining aspects from the Metroid
franchise namely the nonlinear adventure
exploration and character progression
and expanded on them in new and exciting
ways with 1997 Castlevania Symphony of
the Night the character progression
turned into a full-on RPG system with
equipment and stats and be nonlinear
dungeon became more open in detailed
stealing mean Metroid style sub-genre
away from its namesake symphony of the
night became the patient Bureau for
dozens of similar titles often imitated
but never duplicated the only games in
the Metroid babyish on that could ever
live up to Symphony of the Night to
claim for the subsequent calculator
games number four sim series city
simulator to life simulator
listen franchises hop jar is quite a lot
since its first release with Sim City in
1989 while many of the games like sim
far more similar but different spin-off
games like simcopter were entirely
different game the most successful of
course being 2002 Sims a game that
brought the franchise down to seemingly
humble focus by simulating real-life
humble is probably the wrong word
however as the game not only made
players feel like God going with the
lives of individual Sims but this
spinoff series would go on to become a
huge success with the games selling over
a hundred million copies as of 2016
number three Fallout series isometric
RPG the first-person RPG
like many beloved franchises that make
the jump from 2d to 3d all our fans were
very nervous when Bethesda bought the
rights to this series changing the
perspective first person in the process
modeling their new game on their elder
school’s formula Fallout 3 revived the
franchise by completely overhauling
every aspect that made the first two
games great while retaining much of the
atmosphere world depth and quirkiness
that made fallout so weak as much in
omage to the franchise as it was a
sequel but that staff fully understood
why fallout 1 & 2 were so memorable and
made one of the best RPGs of all time in
fallout 3 what it sounds like fun
doesn’t it which do you want to do first
number 2 Mario Brothers series arcade
platformer – 2d side-scroller
and then everything else
while Mario himself made his first
appearance in 1981 arcade classic Donkey
Kong as mr. video or jump man the
mascots franchise officially began in
1983 with the first Mario Brothers video
game a single screen co-op platformer
mario and his bro luigi stomped out
waves of monsters in the sewers of New
York City shortly afterwards the
plumbers made the jump to Nintendo’s
home console and the rest is history
now we have Mario games in every genre
Under the Sun from sports titles from
racing games to puzzle games and even
RPGs while not everything that Mario
touches gets a gold star there’s really
no stopping this iconic video game hero
[Music]
number one Warcraft series realtime
strategy two MMORPG the original
Warcraft and four importantly the
follow-up Warcraft two tides of darkness
didn’t discover the real time strategy
genre but they did really help define it
so when Blizzard announced World of
Warcraft an MMORPG
in the Warcraft universe there was
little doubt that it would at least be
able to compete with the reigning MMO
King EverQuest of course when World of
Warcraft was released in 2004 and not
only loud gamers brought the planet but
some mention itself as the new MMO God
rolling everything else out of all water
within a year now over 12 years later
while still stands as the MMO and while
it has lost a little bit of steam the
endless war between the Alliance and the
Horde is still co and strong
and travels do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
watch mojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
[Music]
evolving landscape and the franchises
adapted right alongside their industry
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
franchises and video games that
successfully changed genres before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the best examples of video games that
succeeded in making significant changes
in their formula games that essentially
became whole new experiences whether it
was a perspective shift that completely
changed how the game was played or jump
to a completely different genre these
are the franchises that managed to excel
in unfamiliar territory however we will
be ruling out games like breadth of the
wilds that did bend their genre but
didn’t quite change completely number 10
Baldur’s Gate series traditional RPGs to
hack and flash halt who goes there
still considered to be one of the
pillars of modern role-playing games the
bounders gate series is based on the
Dungeons & Dragons universe with
mechanics that directly translate into
pen-and-paper rules into a video game
while there have been dozens of D&D
based games throughout the decades
recognition baldur’s gate received
earned in a console spin up at founders
gate Dark Alliance what do you want I
got no qualms despair going from
hardcore RPG to a more console friendly
hack and slash RPG was a risky move but
it paid off as Dark Alliance was a much
more deep and complex than any of its
other RPG competitors on the console
maintaining the spirit of the franchise
welcome friend so you cut them in nasty
bump on the head you’ve got their number
9 Resident Evil series survival horror
to action and back to survival horror
as important to the fear factor as the
atmosphere itself the series of gameplay
in the original few games relied on a
slow pace with a small amount of tough
enemies and limited ammo with just a few
seemingly superficial tweaks to the
formula namely camera angle and controls
Resident Evil 4 transformed into an
entirely new Resident Evil game and for
better or for worse brought the games
from horror to action Wow re 4 is
indisputably a fantastic game later
games in the series most notoriously
Resident Evil 6 and umbrella core a
flat-out ban still the franchise has
been able to remember where it came from
and Resident Evil 7 return to the series
to it through number 8 police quest
series aka SWAT series adventure game 2
tactical shooter Beck has been
neutralized the police quest series
began in the 1980s with the
point-and-click adventure game police
quest in pursuit of the death angel
during the early to mid 90s key venture
games were one of the first casualties
of technology as publishers began to
push more realistic graphics jumping on
the bandwagon police quest open season
and police quest SWAT teams the series
into a full motion video games
[Music]
thankfully the subtitle SWAT inspired
publisher Ciara
to spin-off the franchise into Rainbow
six style tactical first-person shooters
with the first team in the new series
SWAT 3 close quarters battle while never
hitting the popularity of Tom Clancy’s
branded competitor the SWAT games were
nonetheless standout shooters in their
own right go go go red go blue number
seven dynasty Warriors series fighting
game to hack a flash at first it sounds
surprising the dynasty warriors began in
the fighting game series but when you
stop to think about it going from
fighting game to hack and slash isn’t
that much of a leap now of course when
gamers think of dynasty warriors they
think of it as a franchise that keeps
raising the bar when it comes to fast
paced action adventures
[Applause]
and that are almost as dozen
hack-and-slash games within this series
but go back to the playstation 1 and
hidden among the myriad of 3d fighting
games you’ll find the original dynasty
Warriors and looking at it now it’s no
surprise that nobody really remembers
the fighting game number 6 Metroid
series side-scrolling adventure the
first-person shooter Nintendo’s 2d
Metroid games were revolutionary
brilliant all that good stuff in a time
when so many games were running gun till
the end Metroid showed that 2d
side-scroller could be dynamic and
nonlinear when Nintendo brought the
franchise into 3d they opted to also
make the game a first-person shooter but
when Metroid Prime was released for the
Gamecube
in 2002 critical success and fan
reception was through the roof as the
change in genre and perspective while
maintaining the Metroid’s formula left
fans with one of the best first-person
shooter games ever released on a home
console
number five Castlevania series
side-scrolling adventure to Metroidvania
genre change that basically created a
new genre Castlevania took all the
defining aspects from the Metroid
franchise namely the nonlinear adventure
exploration and character progression
and expanded on them in new and exciting
ways with 1997 Castlevania Symphony of
the Night the character progression
turned into a full-on RPG system with
equipment and stats and be nonlinear
dungeon became more open in detailed
stealing mean Metroid style sub-genre
away from its namesake symphony of the
night became the patient Bureau for
dozens of similar titles often imitated
but never duplicated the only games in
the Metroid babyish on that could ever
live up to Symphony of the Night to
claim for the subsequent calculator
games number four sim series city
simulator to life simulator
listen franchises hop jar is quite a lot
since its first release with Sim City in
1989 while many of the games like sim
far more similar but different spin-off
games like simcopter were entirely
different game the most successful of
course being 2002 Sims a game that
brought the franchise down to seemingly
humble focus by simulating real-life
humble is probably the wrong word
however as the game not only made
players feel like God going with the
lives of individual Sims but this
spinoff series would go on to become a
huge success with the games selling over
a hundred million copies as of 2016
number three Fallout series isometric
RPG the first-person RPG
like many beloved franchises that make
the jump from 2d to 3d all our fans were
very nervous when Bethesda bought the
rights to this series changing the
perspective first person in the process
modeling their new game on their elder
school’s formula Fallout 3 revived the
franchise by completely overhauling
every aspect that made the first two
games great while retaining much of the
atmosphere world depth and quirkiness
that made fallout so weak as much in
omage to the franchise as it was a
sequel but that staff fully understood
why fallout 1 & 2 were so memorable and
made one of the best RPGs of all time in
fallout 3 what it sounds like fun
doesn’t it which do you want to do first
number 2 Mario Brothers series arcade
platformer – 2d side-scroller
and then everything else
while Mario himself made his first
appearance in 1981 arcade classic Donkey
Kong as mr. video or jump man the
mascots franchise officially began in
1983 with the first Mario Brothers video
game a single screen co-op platformer
mario and his bro luigi stomped out
waves of monsters in the sewers of New
York City shortly afterwards the
plumbers made the jump to Nintendo’s
home console and the rest is history
now we have Mario games in every genre
Under the Sun from sports titles from
racing games to puzzle games and even
RPGs while not everything that Mario
touches gets a gold star there’s really
no stopping this iconic video game hero
[Music]
number one Warcraft series realtime
strategy two MMORPG the original
Warcraft and four importantly the
follow-up Warcraft two tides of darkness
didn’t discover the real time strategy
genre but they did really help define it
so when Blizzard announced World of
Warcraft an MMORPG
in the Warcraft universe there was
little doubt that it would at least be
able to compete with the reigning MMO
King EverQuest of course when World of
Warcraft was released in 2004 and not
only loud gamers brought the planet but
some mention itself as the new MMO God
rolling everything else out of all water
within a year now over 12 years later
while still stands as the MMO and while
it has lost a little bit of steam the
endless war between the Alliance and the
Horde is still co and strong
and travels do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
watch mojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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