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Most Orginal Videogame/Videogame series?

Zora

perpetually tired
Okay, the title says it all. As for me, I think the Mario series is very orginal. Yes nowadays it is just repeating the mechanics of the old game, but still the characters are very orginal. Who ever heard of a talking Mushroom.
 

ShiningClefairy

Meteor Trainer
As far as FPSes go, Timesplitters 2 was very original.

And Pokemon is original IMO. Back when monster collecting was a novelty, that is.
 

Golden Egg

Pokémon Breeder
Mario & Pokémon
 

Fidgety Raichu

A SKITTY IS FINE TOO
Might as well be the one who says this:

Katamari Damashii.
 

Usagi

Well-Known Member
Blue Blood said:
I had never heard of Pikmin when I got it. It just strikes me as one, if not the most original game.
I thought that game was original as well.Pokemon was pretty original too when it was first released.
 

Wes

Iblis Wings
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. The main hero is a boy in a chiken suit trying to save the morning of all thing from evil crows and you beat up enemies with eegs or using the hacthed egg's animal as well and along with beating up bosses and solving puzzles. I mean....a freaking chicken suit is what you wear!
 
Kingdom hearts, just a revolutionary (crazy, stupid) idea, that somehow worked.
 

Prime Wolf

I got a Wii!
i think the GTA games and Metroid games.
 

Cobalt_Latios

Well-Known Member
For me it has to be the Metroid series. You start with practically nothing, and end up with unbelievably strong weapons as you try to rid the planet of evil. Its also the only series that has a game(metroid fusion), that can actually be beaten with only 1% and even 0%(though nearly impossible). Yep it made itself even more different with the release of Metroid Prime. It was both a FPS and an adventure game.

-C_L-
 

Alilatias

Simple Bard
I've got several for this topic.

Mario series:
Come on! It's the game whose orginality made the gaming industry the way it is today! Even though the concept of the storyline might have been reused over and over in many other franchises (princess gets kidnapped, unlikely hero comes to rescue her, etc.), the things you do along the way are orginal. The enemies are a bit absurd, but very believable, and how you defeat them is believable too, since there's no magic needed (except when you shoot out fireballs and fly in the later Mario games, but that's beyond the point). The hero is a regular human that's a plumber too, which I think is very orignial!

Katamari Damacy:
I'm not sure if I spelt the name of that game right, since I don't actually own the game myself. From what I've seen though, it has to be one of the most original games ever. Whoever made this game the way it is probably has to have been on drugs. Either that or that person has a huge amount of imagination and creativity. Whoever came up with the concept for this game, I salute you.

Pikmin:
For the same reasons as Katamari. Again, I don't own this game myself, but I do remember reading in an EGM magazine in an interview with the creator of this game about 2-4 years back about how he came up with the idea of this game while staring at his backyard and gardens as ants were going along with their merry lives.

Rockman.EXE/Megaman Battle Network series:
Probably not one of the most liked series when compared to Mario and much of the other Rockman series, this series brings the concept of the internet to the point where it controls most aspects of every character's life in this game. And for those of you thinking 'Matrix', no, it's not like that. When you've got every single modern device connected to the internet, in an age where viruses are rampant and can cause destruction, in an age where crimes are now far from simple, total chaos can insue. The battle system is rather original, with you controlling whatever character you happen to be controlling at that time. It's turn-based battles on a real-time battlefield, as some might call it. I'm not going to go into the details as to how the battle system works, because it's going to take me forever to do so.
 

^^Yoshinichi^^

Well-Known Member
Fire Emblem seem's like a pretty original RPG for it's realistic concept's. Like the unfixable death's (unless you do the restart chapter or whatever thing) weapon's breaking over time, and humourus support conversation's.

Pikmin is very strange with it's odd giant item collecting antic's and well....odd companion's.

Drill Dozer was the interestingly made side scroller that barely anybody played. And to think it was made by Game Freak too.

And Electro Plankton. Musical microscopic bacteria. Lol. You serious? Yup.
 
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