Will any new game genres come along and be game changers?

[Ssenkahdavic]

Onyxmeth said:

Ssenkahdavic said:
Add Final Fantasy Tactics (ps1) there for Strategy RPGs. There were a few before, but this one put them on the map.

I think a game changer has to do more than just sell well. It has to change something. Turn based strategy RPGs sold poorly before FF Tactics, and sold poorly after it also.

I will conceed that because you are absolutely right.  However, without this game its very possible we would never have gotten some of the other great (and maybe underappreciated/low selling) strat RPGs such as Disgaea, Jean D'Arc and others.  Like the OP said with Tower defense games, there have been so many (good and maybe bad) that the original that brought them into the limelight has been overlooked.  Just saying with FFT, this has not happened.

 

Oh yea, Quake started the hugely successful play-online FPS.