Games That Saved Their Genre?

[Dulfite]

hinch said:

Dulfite said:
Black Flag. The previous AC games were gradually getting less and less fun and more glitchy, especially 3, but then Black Flag came out of nowhere, stunning many of us and turning people not fans of the series (like me) into huge fans of open world games like that. Then they changed genres to a more RPG style for Origins and Odyssey and forgot about Black Flag until announcing Skull and Bones and subsequently not doing anything with that since announcement. Super annoying.

I wouldn't call that a genre saving game though. Popularity for open world action games hasn't dwindled at all. That game might have saved Assassin Creed franchise though from falling.

In the same year (2013) Saints Row IV and GTA V released.

Well it's an assassination style genre I think it saved. But your probably right.