Most Influential Game(s)

[Rodimus]

I was reading my Game Informer and they had an article on the 20 most influential games. I don't remember all of them but as a gamer I have my opinions and I agreed with some while shaking my head at others.

Also they kinda contradicted themselves at one point. They pretty much said that "Alone in the Dark" was more influential than "Resident Evil" cause it was the first survival horror. Okay thats fine. But then they said that "Doom" was more influential than "Wolfenstein 3D" cause it made the genre popular. Well thats what "Resident Evil" did for survival horrors, DUH.

So I'll leave it to us to decide what we thought was influencial, here's my list:

RPG - Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest JPN)
Fighting - Street Fighter II
Shooter - Life Force
2D Side Scroller - Super Mario Bros. (of course probably THE most influential ever)
3D Platformer - Mario 64

Yeah!!!!! my 500th post

[sblymnlcrymnl]

Congrats ...I'd throw Virtua Fighter in there too for fighting ...

[Weedy649]

Cant argue with what you picked although for shooter id say goldeneye and rpg i would say ff7. My favorite rpg is ff6 but still 7 id say has had biggest influence.

[Rodimus]

Cant argue with what you picked although for shooter id say goldeneye and rpg i would say ff7. My favorite rpg is ff6 but still 7 id say has had biggest influence.

Well Shooter as in games like Ikaruga, not like First Person Shooter (FPS)

Although Goldeneye would get my vote for that.

[Parathod]

Zelda for adventure
Zelda: OoT for 3D adventure (the lock-on system)

[Parathod]

And I guess Puzzle would be tetris. The whole idea of stuff falling and being organized.

[Matrix2k3]

FF7 was just the first completely mainstream RPG. It did not give anything too new to the genre. For RPG I would either say Dragon warrior original or Ys books 1/II they were some of the first to introduce a few basic concepts like FMVs. For fighting Street Fighter
3D fighter-Virtua Fighter
FPS-Doom
Online-Counterstrike
Platformer-Mario!

[peteloaf]

I would agree with Doom over Wolfenstein 3D and any other FPS because it introduced the single most popular feature for FPS games - multiplayer.

[int80h]

Didn't faceball 2000 come out before wolfenstein 3D? I thought faceball 2000 was the first FPS. Faceball 2000 also had multiplayer.

Edit:
I looked it up, Faceball 2000 came out in 1991, Wolfenstein 3D came out in 1992, making Faceball 2000 the first FPS.

[smalien1]

Goldeneye gets multiplayer, but I don't think it gets shooter, it is a great shooter but it ain't that influential

[alphaomegacode]

i would say final fantasy 2 for the super nintendo. that was ground breaking at the time and really jump started the final fantasy dynasty here in the states. still my all time favorite.

they had me at the intro music..... they had me at the intro music.....

[jaykrue]

Pong - because it sparked the idea in ppl's head that games can be played on a monitor

[msdmoney]

Cant argue with what you picked although for shooter id say goldeneye and rpg i would say ff7. My favorite rpg is ff6 but still 7 id say has had biggest influence.

I wouldn't really call FF7 all that influential, popular yes, but not really all that influential or new, unless you count it as influencing games turning into CGI movies.

[Sartori]

Final ffantasti
Mario brothers
And rDragon qeust

[Rodimus]

Yes Final Fantasy 7 was a great game, and it did influance future games, but Dragon Warrior was the start of what we see in every RPG we play today.

[cyberlian]

The Grand Theft Autos : They make me want to jack (a car)

[Rodimus]

The Grand Theft Autos : They make me want to jack (a car)

GTA was on Game Informers list of the most influencial game, and I gotta say, I "sighed" a big breath of disapointment when I read that. The only thing I feel it created was the ability to steal cars and kill innocent pedestrians aimlessly in 3D. Everything else has already been done in other games, and better.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Pool of Radiance (Gold Box) I know Zork and Ultima came first but I've always consdiered PoR the most influential of the three.

X-wing
MS Flight Sim
Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson
Doom
Half-Life
Warcraft
Diablo

[punqsux]

wolfenstein
ddr
street fighter 2

[Tromack]

Pong - because it sparked the idea in ppl's head that games can be played on a monitor

Incorrect. The first videogame was called Spacewar. So really that sparked the idea. And in terms of influential early arcade games, Pacman deserves a lot of credit.

[Kaijufan]

The GI list:
Computer Space
Dungeons and Dragons
FSI Flight Simulator
Zork
Pac-Man
Adventure
Gauntlet
Super Mario Bros
Tetris
Outrun
The Legend of Zelda
Tecmo Bowl
Price of Persia
Simcity
Sid Meier's Civilization
Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior
Alone in the Dark
Doom
Road Rash
Command and Conquer
Super Mario 64
Ultima Online
Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid
Grand Theft Auto 3

[CaseyRyback]

Super Metroid should have been on the list.

Metal Gear Solid should be replaced with the original Metal Gear


aside from that every other change I would have made has already been said (Wolf for DOOM , RE for Alone in the Dark)

[Tromack]

The Grand Theft Autos : They make me want to jack (a car)

GTA was on Game Informers list of the most influencial game, and I gotta say, I "sighed" a big breath of disapointment when I read that. The only thing I feel it created was the ability to steal cars and kill innocent pedestrians aimlessly in 3D. Everything else has already been done in other games, and better.

I personally preferred Carmageddon's pedestrian killing.

[jaykrue]

Pong - because it sparked the idea in ppl's head that games can be played on a monitor

Incorrect. The first videogame was called Spacewar. So really that sparked the idea. And in terms of influential early arcade games, Pacman deserves a lot of credit.

Heh, looks like we're both wrong. The very first videogame was called Tennis for Two which debuted in 1958 while Space War came out in 1961

http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play1sta1.htm

[beerguy961]

Can't really complain about the list except it could have used another RPG (although good call with D&D). GTAIII deserves to be on the list because it was the game that popularized using that type of advancement that is seen a lot now (off the top of my head, THUG and Spiderman 2 use a similar missiong system). Not a great game to me, but it carries influence.

[punqsux]

Super Metroid should have been on the list.

Metal Gear Solid should be replaced with the original Metal Gear


aside from that every other change I would have made has already been said (Wolf for DOOM , RE for Alone in the Dark)

and the original metal gear should be replaced with MG2:solid snake
:wink:

[CaseyRyback]

Super Metroid should have been on the list.

Metal Gear Solid should be replaced with the original Metal Gear


aside from that every other change I would have made has already been said (Wolf for DOOM , RE for Alone in the Dark)

and the original metal gear should be replaced with MG2:solid snake
:wink:

if it came over to America I would agree with you.

[Kaijufan]

Can't really complain about the list except it could have used another RPG (although good call with D&D).
I agree that D&D should be on the list. I also think that Dragon Quest should be on the list.

[GuilewasNK]

Hard to narrow it down but here's mine...

SimCity (SNES and PC versions)
Street Fighter 2
Super Mario Bros.
Ms. Pac-Man
Zelda
Resident Evil
GoldenEye 007
Quake III Arena
Tetris
Super Metroid
Castlevania
Tecmo Super Bowl (I think this was more influential that the first Tecmo Bowl)
Space Invaders
Final Fantasy III (SNES)
Oregon Trail
Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?
The Sims
Virtua Racing
Virtua Fighter (not for the gameplay, for the realization of a 3D fighting environment)
Wing Commander

[Rig]

Definately Super Mario Bros. and later on Super Mario 64.

[sying]

Karamari Damacy for the gathering ball genre

[PapiChullo]

For me..

SMB
Final Fantasy VII
Tony Hawk 1
Super Tecmo Bowl
Sonic The Hedghog
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter

[crystalklear64]

Lets not forget the ever popular music genre. Without a successful music game ala DDR we'd never have the crazy controllers of today. (That running pad thing for the NES doesn't count)

[Rodimus]

Lets not forget the ever popular music genre. Without a successful music game ala DDR we'd never have the crazy controllers of today. (That running pad thing for the NES doesn't count)

Yeah I think someone already mentioned it. But I've found myself playing it alot lately. It's the first game that's good for your health. It's like aerobics.

I still strongly disagre with GTA 3 though.

[evilpenguin9000]

Hmm I'm noticing there not a lot of games from this generation are being considered influential. I mean there is GTA3, but really the GTA series always had similiar open ended gameplay, it was just the 3D graphics that opened it up to the masses.

In the future, what games are people going to point at and say that is the key game from this generation?

[Riptard]

Metal Gear Solid

Every other game that comes out now has a fawkin' stealth aspect in it.
And yet MGS still does it best, in my honest & humble opinion. :roll:

[Trakan]

I think GI had Tony Hawk 3 on their list. I agree with that.

[GuilewasNK]

Metal Gear Solid

Every other game that comes out now has a fawkin' stealth aspect in it.
And yet MGS still does it best, in my honest & humble opinion. :roll:

I agree with that stealth statment. Also MGS was influential for giving gamers more of a movie feel to their games (FMV games not with standing). Of course Kojima did that even before MGS with Snatcher.