"We want to include everybody to be a part of it. This is going to be a different game, and this is going to change the genre."
"Over the past 10 years, we've seen this re-emergence of the horror genre into something prestigious."
"As the movie industry faced political pressure to censor content, the gangster movie genre fell out of favor."
"We might finally be at a point where this genre could survive because they're finally willing to evolve."
"Superhero movies went from being generally looked down upon to being the dominant force at the box office."
"Silent Hill pivoted the entire genre towards psychological horror."
"He takes hip hop to a new level as opposed to keeping it popular with the same cliches that everyone else already does."
"World in Conflict was an incredible breath of fresh air and a standard bearer for what the genre could be."
"Outbreak pushed the game into a whole other genre of video game."
"Innovation in gaming, I just love it. I really love to see new ideas emerge in a genre."
"Wheel of Time’s kind of place in the genre, in my eyes, is to kind of take fantasy out of the shadow of Tolkien and move it forward."
"Resident Evil 4 can be seen as both the savior and downfall of survival horror."
"Dead Space 2 is a case study on how to keep that Horror in future titles."
"Boundaries are being pushed by modern science fiction right now."
"Ultimately SoundCloud rap changed rap music history."
"SoundCloud rappers were not exactly accepted with open arms by hip-hop in the beginning."
"I love to see people that are carrying the torch, you know, forward the action genre and taking it to places that we never got to take it in the 80s and 90s."
"The concept of a female Bond flick was obsolete by Atomic Blonde. What do you think? No, I think Atomic Blonde proved that it can work if it's properly handled."
"Do you want to talk about the movie? It became less and less like a satire and more and more like a documentary."
"Things are obviously drastically changing in this genre."
"Scream asked the question: what would happen if characters in a slasher were aware of the rules of a slasher?"
"Transcends and moves beyond a lot of classic fantasy tropes."
"The Ratchet and Clank games felt like a perfect evolution of the platformer genre."
"Maybe just maybe as superheroes stories inevitably sally off to the glue factory we saddle up shoulder our sick shooter and revive the genre that effectively invented pop culture."
"A fighting game credited with taking the genre into 'true 3D' for the first time."
"Demon Slayer feels like a genuine evolution of the Shonen genre."
"Resident Evil 7 shook the genre to its core."
"Solo content didn't ruin the genre, it kept it relevant."
"Black Summer is the perfect case study in why zombie flicks are no longer classed as flogging a dead horse within the horror genre."
"Metal is supposed to be about strength of character and breaking new ground."
"Scream is fun and it was great, like a new twist on slasher movies." - Pat Healy
"Psycho changed the face of horror forever, as it represents a firm break with the gothic tradition that had been prevalent in the genre up to that point."
"It moves the genre forward with something unique and fresh."
"What happens to rap if 'joke' hip-hop surpasses authentic underground artists?"
"I think what we've seen is prog metal get redefined, get expanded."
"Did the 2010s breed some badly needed new life into the genre?"
"Music has always been my biggest passion. I like classical music because that's what I was kind of brought up on, but um, now I make like more electronic like synth wave 80s style music."
"It's as if they cast away the shackles that locked them into that grounded Monster Hunter feel - and over time has really come into its own and embraced... this like fighting game's soul as an influence."
"I want Diablo 4 to come up with new concepts, new ideas that completely blow the ARPG genre up."
"The original Night of the Living Dead broke free from horror's occasionally cheesy monster matinee past."
"The shallows transcends tired shark attack tropes with nasty Thrills and a powerful performance from Blake Lively."
"Satirical cyberpunk: a refreshing twist signaling the genre's evolution."
"A drastic change in turn between Jack 1 and 2 came out of nowhere yet it appeared to be the shot in the arm that the platforming genre needed."
"Symphony of the Night doesn't just copy Metroid whole-hog... its greatest contribution to the metroidvania formula is its RPG elements."
"Streaming has really opened the door for a new wave of romcoms."
"2005 panic at the disco completely accidentally made a record that would literally change the entire course of the emo and pop punk movement."
"Showing that you can come from the emo pop-punk world but do something larger than life."
"Social links add to the series so much regressing back to a more formulaic JRPG would take away the very essence of Persona at this point."
"An open world twist on Dark Souls will work and wow does it work."
"Fear revolutionized first-person shooting in its day."
"Science fiction is the only contemporary genre of storytelling that's so willingly acknowledges the increasing rate of cultural and technological change."
"Chilling is evolving into a must-have for all horror lovers."
"Breath of the Wild was a mind-blowing experience, revolutionizing the genre in a way I kind of struggled to go back to other games."
"343 found a way to innovate on the second oldest mode in the shooter genre."
"Superheroes for adults, man. It's making a statement of superhero movies, you know, the corporate branding of all these superheroes."
"It's like taking the Mass Effect formula and taking Star Wars and just evolving it."
"The future of scary stories online is in safe hands."
"One horror game which began its life as another title was Devil May Cry which was initially planned as Resident Evil 4."
"Death metal is honestly a big part of what rap is today."
"How can a genre advance if its fans don't want it to change?"
"Golden Sun is a game that expands on proven traditions of the RPG genre to deliver an experience that both pays tribute to and refines the formula."
"With that reveal not only did Marvel change the nature of superhero movies forever, but also movie-going habits."
"Transcend the genre by putting a different skin on familiar beats."
"Things changed once Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns' found massive success."
"Gaming would eventually be the place that horror found its true calling."
"Western animated fantasy is finally establishing its own adult audience and identity... and while I can't guarantee they'll all be quite as good as this, I do like to think that they won't be quite as bad as this."
"As much as it plays by the book, the absolute paradigm shift of the third person gameplay makes it all feel fresh."
"Instead of just oversaturating and dying, the MOBA genre decided to offer us some of the best examples that genre in the last few years."
"The new battle system makes Final Fantasy 7 feel more like an action RPG than an old-fashioned JRPG."
"It was like starting off like a nice little Sinatra thing."
"Doom Eternal was an evolution for the genre."
"You just gotta grow through it and I feel like I started at such a young age and I jump so many genres that I consider myself a genreless artist like I don't know."
"The MCU started relatively grounded, but now leans more into comic book tropes and sci-fi."
"The Batman essentially takes the comic book movie into another genre."
"There's a lot of modern rom-coms that have reinvented rom-coms."
"Hip hop was called rap, relegated to a tiny section in the music store. It was like, as far as my hands, it was like, two feet. It was like, 'Yeah, I could name all the artists in it.' You know, like now it's a mega-write, mega-john."
"Blacula was made at a time when horror was in a transition from the classic monsters to more realistic and modern fears."
"One chance in a million was all that chump ever had in his life, and he made it good."
"Ultima changed gaming. It added character and philosophy and story to a previously pretty brainless genre."
"The effect it's had on what kind of anime gets made in the 2010s has been totalizing."
"Our folk used to tell a story with their music. They used to tell a story with their rap too, but someone decided that they were going to change this thing to gangster rap."
"The loss of cool if flawed experiments like Descent is the downside of that as the genre coalesces."
"Kids before 2000 thought that Dragon Ball was the only show they could expect hyped up fights but Grappler Baki came in 2001 and changed the game forever."
"Horror would give way to splatick would evolve into adventure comedy, and along the way, the indelible style of Sam Raimi would become unmistakable."
"Sly took the soul music template and amped it up on all the psychedelic characteristics in vogue at the time."
"But what makes the genre fascinating is how it sticks to its foundation but continues to evolve."
"Birch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid marks the end of the classic Western era."
"It's safe to say Donna Summer and disco music helped open the doors for hip-hop music."
"This is the birth of progressive rock. This is the game-changing moment."
"Halloween 2 plays far more with action tropes and offers a more explosive ending than the ambiguously sinister ending of the first film, as well as more sustained scenes of stalk and slash."
"The Silence of the Lambs changed our perception of horror, proving the genre could have prestige and maturity."
"There's certain movies that are just stalwarts in horror that change things and pivot the whole genre, and there's no doubt 'Paranormal Activity' is one of those. So it belongs, no doubt."
"Edge of Sanity Crimson, along with Opeth, the band that took the European death metal scene in the '90s to a proggier territory."
"I consider it to be a watermark moment for slasher films as a whole."
"I think the main reason [cloud rap] died out was because the genre was running out of creative and original things to do."
"Adapting to contemporary socioeconomic and political issues is one way the genre has survived."
"Country music's in a cool spot we are having our Nirvana moment the industry is starting to react."
"Altered the sonic landscape but also catalyzed a paradigm shift by popularizing rap as a collaborative force within the genre."
"Classical music is just heavy metal before electricity."
"Before cop buddy movies became so watered down and shitty."
"Alternative, the catch-all handle for music genres not getting mainstream AirPlay, began ascending to the forefront of the public's awareness."
"Modern fantasy is by far the most interesting position the genre has ever been in."
"They've taken that and ran with it and polished and refined the genre."
"Science fiction is ripe for experimentation and boundary-pushing, which is what it has done throughout its history."
"I think the ultimate example of this can be seen the difference between Brandon Sanderson's protagonists in the fantasy genre now and Tolkien's protagonists within Lord of the Rings."
"Science fiction didn't become a widely respected and popular genre until the release of Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey."
"That's why hip-hop music is now pop music."
"I think fantasy stepped out of that shadow a bit and I really like a lot of things that are happening now because of that."
"How was there so much talent, so many movers and shakers of the genre taking the oftentimes limited palettes of emo and pop punk to new heights?"
"New genesis debut showed us a side of K-pop that felt entirely new and exciting."