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Most Influential game of all time
- Thread starter Chrome Hyena
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Was my immediate thought when I saw the thread too. List definitely needs some kind of early MUD included which all spawned from D&D.
Metal Gear definitely deserves to be on that list for voice acting and cinematics. I don't think anything else at the time matched the quality of voice work (and it's still better than a lot of stuff today). And he did real time cutscenes.
several. A youtube channel specialized on stealth games called them proto-stealth games. Games before the class of 1998, when Tenchu, MGS and Thief came out. When stealth was fully formed
Goldeneye is more influential than the likes of Tetris, Zelda, Space Invaders and likely many others I can't remember?
Fortnite
Why?
Because it gave so much money to epic that now they are able to destroy PC gaming as we know
Why?
Because it gave so much money to epic that now they are able to destroy PC gaming as we know
Would you be able to back that argument up? :P That more games were influenced by Ghosts and Goblins than they were Mario?
i mean, it was discussed right in this very thread. There was no saving and no industry that needed saving. I have no clue how this even became a thing
Right. I saw your discussion about it. I disagree. I think you are underestimating it's importance. It proved that console gaming was more than just a fad, and brought gaming back into so many households in a way that PC gaming, which was still very niche at the time, could not. I'm old enough to remember what it was like.
I think it's arguably the first game centred around a character as well.
there's nothing to disagree. What you're claiming doesnt exist. It didnt happen. There was no video game crash on a whole. It happened only in the united states. It lasted like very little. It had no effect on any othre platform. It had no effect on consoles in europe. It had no effect on computers in the entire world. It had no effect in japan.
Its a non event. Somehow it became vastly overinflated and gets attributed significance it never had.
I think there's a difference between important and influential. Yeah, Super Mario Bros saved the industry, but how is that game impacting game design in 2019? I'd say something like Doom or Halo are more influential as they created and perfected a genre that is still wildly popular today.
I'm willing to treat this as the correct answer. It's not a video game, but its influence on video games is unparalleled.
Super Mario bros basically set a precedant for gaming for years, and 64 set the bar and standard for gaming in 3D
MGS showed that games can have great narrative focuses
Id put wolfenstein above doom in regards to influence because it influenced doom. Id also have halo and goldeneye on the same levek
MGS showed that games can have great narrative focuses
Id put wolfenstein above doom in regards to influence because it influenced doom. Id also have halo and goldeneye on the same levek
Adventure games have been doing that since the 80's. Wing Commander had actual actors and cutscenes.
The game that saved arcades and possibly gaming nah...not worth mentioning.
I think people are vastly overestimating the impact of the video game crash. It was very localised to North America.
Most people I know who play games and were alive in the early 80s were too busy playing games on their ZX Spectrums to notice the crash!
Most people I know who play games and were alive in the early 80s were too busy playing games on their ZX Spectrums to notice the crash!
To be fair, the US was like 60 percent of the game market back then. That's not an insignificant number.
It's also a masterful example of game and level design, one still used to teach people about fundamentals, and not just at Nintendo.
Actually I've heard similar things about BotW too
Out of that list, for influence today, it's Doom.
Overall it's Grand Theft Auto 3. You could also make an argument for Half-life 1 or even glQuake for starting the 3D acceleration race.
Fifteen years ago I would have said it was Mario 64. Nintendo's handling of manipulating a character and camera in a 3D world is masterful. But fewer games today are 3rd-person and platformers are largely a niche genre.
Overall it's Grand Theft Auto 3. You could also make an argument for Half-life 1 or even glQuake for starting the 3D acceleration race.
Fifteen years ago I would have said it was Mario 64. Nintendo's handling of manipulating a character and camera in a 3D world is masterful. But fewer games today are 3rd-person and platformers are largely a niche genre.
Yep. It's amazing how often this game gets ignored given that it wasn't even obscure and almost certainly influenced SMB.
Super Mario Bros is really the only answer as it's the game that kickstarted modern video gaming.
I recall Kojima saying it inspired him to go into video games as a career, and he created what I consider to be the second most influential video game ever made in MGS1, so there's that.
I recall Kojima saying it inspired him to go into video games as a career, and he created what I consider to be the second most influential video game ever made in MGS1, so there's that.
The game market is so large and varied, it's hard to say. Super Mario Bros is a great choice, certainly, and got my vote. Platformers are long past their prime, though. But I'd argue it didn't just inflence platformers. Hell, I once made the case that it influenced Doom, with its episodic levels, distinctive enemies, and secret areas.
FPS games are bigger than ever, but today's shooters are more heavily influenced by Halo, unfortunately, than by Doom or Goldeneye. Doom was hugely influential; Goldeneye was not nearly as influential as it should've been.
Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time stand out as giants in intelligent early 3D design.
FPS games are bigger than ever, but today's shooters are more heavily influenced by Halo, unfortunately, than by Doom or Goldeneye. Doom was hugely influential; Goldeneye was not nearly as influential as it should've been.
Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time stand out as giants in intelligent early 3D design.