"Crest’s stylized graphics were made to look like abstract African tribal art, and its inspired spin on the genre is a joy to tinker with."
"Vampire Savior paved the way for a whole new subgenre, did it in ways to open up the door for new players without subtracting from people that are already entrenched in the genre."
"It's lack of monsters and clear conventions of the genre while still being able to build dread and fear in a masterful way definitely makes it a standout experience."
"Sometimes this practically invents the genre of comedy game but at other times it's very human and occasionally dark."
"Reshaping the genre into a more nuanced social contribution."
"Blumhouse changed horror by redefining the haunted house and home invasion genres."
"Mario Kart invented the arcade racer spin-off genre."
"Every piece of information we're presented with here is immediately built on or juxtaposed in the very next scene which is actually really refreshing not even for a Disney movie but for the adventure genre in general."
"Neon Genesis Evangelion revolutionized the medium as we know it today."
"Game of Thrones is famous for tossing fantasy tropes on their head."
"The movie was a hit, and proved not only that audiences loved Deadpool but that an R-rated superhero movie could go over well with audiences."
"Zombie built this whole landscape of cursed dubstep music that existed in its own lawless parallel universe."
"Making a more action-focused fantasy game that's also an MMORPG? That is a surprise announcement that I was not expecting."
"The Batman Arkham series did for superhero video games what Rockstar did for open-world games."
"Grounding the shooter genre in reality would provide a new and interesting perspective."
"It's more difficult for men to get sex than commitment and it's more difficult for women to get commitment than sex."
"Hearthstone: reshaping the card game genre one draw at a time."
"Marvel has created their own genre now, totally."
"Kung-Fu Master is often credited as the game that created the beat-em-up genre."
"Deadpool shattered what anybody thought was possible for this R-rated superhero film."
"Games that copied Metroid and Castlevania are a dime a dozen, but for the genre to actually advance, we need more games to push the boat out and do something different while still staying true to what made the originals great."
"They pretty much created the template for modern metalcore."
"I've gotten a lot of criticism from people who are concerned that making analog horror content for a younger audience will dumb down the genre... I simply shrugged it off since I'm only here to tell a fun story about the characters I love."
"A Marvel horror series based on comic characters that are children of the devil sounded incredible."
"If there was ever a savior of anime Evangelion was it."
"More than probably anybody else, they were the ones that took that 90s basement screamo kind of sound to the mainstream."
"Dark Souls 1 popularized the Souls games and as a result invented the Souls-like genre."
"Scream is fun and it was great, like a new twist on slasher movies." - Pat Healy
"Frost Punk is a genre-defining survival city builder."
"You don't create a genre by taking a unique game and unnecessarily changing its core mechanics."
"It moves the genre forward with something unique and fresh."
"Mirror's Edge: A unique take on a cherished genre."
"Shinji Mikami didn't just reinvent Resident Evil here but revolutionized the third-person shooter genre."
"Ghost of Tsushima is a fantastic game...streamlines the open world genre beautifully."
"Toby Hooper's 1974 slasher classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is one of the most groundbreaking and influential horror movies ever produced."
"System Shock 2 solidified the immersive sim as something that's more than just an experiment."
"I want Diablo 4 to come up with new concepts, new ideas that completely blow the ARPG genre up."
"Easily bro come on took W's all year long are you kidding me he dropped a seven song Masterpiece with Daytona which was an instant classic hip-hop moment."
"Swords and Souls... basically inventing a genre of its own and is an all-time gem."
"I was a massive fan of Legion. I liked that they're pushing the boundaries of what you can do with the superhero genre."
"It's a nice break in monotony for what we may be used to in regards to the FPS genre."
"Jordan Peele breaks new ground for challenge of color in the horror genre."
"Resident Evil put the survival horror genre on the map."
"Rarely has the genre felt this vibrant, this ambitious, this diverse."
"It injects so much personality into a genre where you really wouldn't expect it."
"Essentially, Mario Party helped create the party game genre as we know it today."
"The fusion of metal and punk is arguably one of the most important things to happen in the last 40 years of alternative music."
"A mystery once thought solved, Allen Wake 2 reopens the case for what's possible in its genre. It's a delight to relive classic horror titles through Modern mistakes."
"Symphony of the Night doesn't just copy Metroid whole-hog... its greatest contribution to the metroidvania formula is its RPG elements."
"A philosophy espoused by the band's frontman hunter hunt Hendrix sort of labeling the style of music that liturgy plays as transcendental black metal."
"That's a new frontier for the genre and for my country."
"The boys reinvented the superhero genre by asking one simple question: what would a world with superpowers really look like?"
"Damn, it's just now hitting me how bad we need more government conspiracies in our first-person shooters."
"They took the archetypes that Silent Hill birthed and evolved them, making something intensely familiar but novel at the same time."
"It's the strongest update to the genre in years."
"These shows add their own twist to the superhero universe."
"Nobody can deny the impact that Resi had on the gaming world, breathing new meaning into the term survival horror and creating a much more mainstream mature audience."
"Players were literally spoiled for choice when it came to new and exciting takes on the genre."
"Nicki Minaj avoided easy categorization...she's also largely broken the mold of hip-hop."
"Hitman movies like this are sort of like garage rock... when you put them in an interesting order and put in a few interesting flourishes something can feel quite new."
"It’s punching above its weight, being less cumbersome than higher budget contemporaries which also tried to mix shooting and melee."
"Redefine modern perceptions of just what can be considered a fighting game."
"It helped coin the video game genre title first-person shooter."
"Introducing science fantasy into Dungeons and Dragons."
"A breath of fresher air in the horror genre."
"Danganronpa v3, it's pretty much a jack-of-all-trades. It defies the expectations of the hybrid visual novel genre."
"Book of Travels is an anti-RPG, flipping the genre on its head."
"I think what I want to do is make low-budget scary movies... make them weird and different and subversive."
"This game challenges conventions and advances the roguelike genre."
"Blue Fire isn't just a fantastic 3D platformer but also a really great demonstration of how we can take a familiar genre and execute it in a pretty different way."
"The Impossible Lair recalls the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy while offering its own unique take on the genre."
"Coppola took a genre that was traditionally pulpy and moulded it into a sweeping operatic romanticized epic with a larger scope of content character and drama."
"Christopher Nolan is like that, the way he takes these genre films and reinvents them and adds a lot of personality to them."
"American Horror Story was extremely transgressive for its time."
"Why not lean into the romance angle even more than the action angle and give us our first true rom-com in an adaptation of spider-man blue?"
"Superhero movies can tap into other genres... keeping them fresh and evolving."
"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds pioneered the battle royale genre in a way that nobody had before."
"My mission is to create a genre that does not currently exist and which takes everyone by surprise." - Hideo Kojima
"Kingdom Rush has kept the tower defense genre interesting."
"The forest has been revolutionary in the genre."
"This is one of the most unique spins on that sub-genre that I've seen in a very long time."
"It's very interesting to see a horror/suspense film use the subject of race as a way to add more horror, add more suspense."
"So this movie really changed the world as far as what was expected from found footage."
"Someone took the concept of the genre and made it into something that both tells a story and is equally terrifying."
"I want to create this kind of pop-flavored genre music as well!"