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Notable Features:
- Vibes or Mechanics: Mechanically Inclined
- Text or Graphics: Mostly Graphical
- 2D or 3D: Almost exclusively 3D
- Primary Perspective: Over the (Dragon's) Shoulder
- Real-time or Turn-based: Real-time
- Alive or Dead: Still kickin'
- Back of the Box Blurb: Sometimes you're the dragon, and sometimes you're just riding one!
Do you know of any other games in this genre, or can think of a better name for it? Please let me know by commenting on this post!
Interestingly it seems to have been a bit more of a thing on the early PS2 days, cuz these three examples came to mind with this post. I've never played them so I dunno how they fare (tho I haven't heard great things about Dragon Rage... unexpected considering how 3DO's PS2 offerings tended to fare. lol), but then again I haven't played the ones you mentioned, so there's that too.
...hell, now that I'm remembering there's also the Drakengard games, so it very much did happen quite a bit.
Yeah, I was shocked by how big this "genre" was when doing research into it! Sadly, a lot of PS2 games don't have great screenshots (or any at all) on MobyGames, which is the biggest limiting factor when typing one of these up.