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I'd add not only games, but game system--the Atari 2600. The Atari brought video games into the home. That did more to change the industry than anything else.
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shenmue, mortal kombat, mario series(almost all the big mario games had a big impact on the genre. example: mario 64 for 3d platform, mario kart for kart racing.) & of course doom
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DOOM = Opened many peoples eyes to the PC games market.
Half- Life = Changed the way FPS play, and also that the game can get an extended life period with free MODs and add-ons.
Rainbow Six = Helped to move us away from standard FPS formula, that you could take an unbeliveable amount of firepower before going down. Started the trend with more realistic FPS shooters.
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Half-Life
Mario (series)
Starfox was sweet
Mortal Kombat
Final Fantasy
Quake (series)
Metal Gear Solid
UT
Zelda
If I think of any more I'll let you know.
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How about Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Great topic guys.
But we need to go old school to really see the important games that affected a genre of gaming.
Fighting games - take a look back guys, before Mortal Combat was the game we all know and love...KARATE CHAMP. Even more old school then that...TAG TEAM WRESTLING. Or how about...PUNCH OUT? Was it called punch out, I know your first opponent was Glass Joe, and the 4th opponent was Bald Bull.
KARATE CHAMP - PUNCH OUT - TAG TEAM WRESTLING
Action/Adventure - I can't believe that no one has said this game yet. It changed gaming to be more like what it is today. More strategy involved then just running through a maze eating dots...DRAGON SLAYER.
DRAGON SLAYER
Sports Games - Atari had a baseball game way back... but the first true game with decent graphics and true game style play...TECMO BOWL.
TECMO BOWL
Racing Games - POLE POSITION. I know you all loved that game at first...it was awesome to actually sit while playing a driving game...great game.
POLE POSITION
Mystery and Suspence - Definitely...RESIDENT EVIL.
RESIDENT EVIL
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All of the Quake Series!!
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Well, I know I am late answering this but I still say Myth The Fallen Lords was a break through in game design. To date it still has the best strategy game engine and blows away any multiplayer resource gathering game (starcraft, C&C, AoE, etc). I am still surprized that no other companies have tried to steal this great idea, but so far only Myth and Myth 2 have displayed this strategic only (no resource BS), 3d panning, real time, real physics, multiplayer gaming sensation! Too bad Microsoft bought Bungie...damn sell outs....
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but really FFIII or Chrono Trigger and just about anything squaresoft before the PSX.. imho squaresoft hasnt made a great game in years..FFVII/VIII/IX sucked.. FFt, Xenogears and Chrono Cross (borrowed a lot from Trigger) were nice... but not great. I think FFX will also suck.. squaresoft is taking too much time in caring what it looks like and has forgot about the important part the storyline.
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Maguss (IMHO) was the best char in Chrono Trigger
Damn I loved Chrono Trigger...
As for the most important... Well, even if it is a cliche, I'd say Doom.
Of course the descent series (maybe not D3) was extremely innovative when all these fps were out.
How come no one mentioned Tetris. This must be the most influential game ever, with clones numbering in thousands (what other game can claim that?). However no clone could beat the simplicity and fun-ness of the original !
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My votes:
Command and Conquer (the orignal)
Myst
SimCity (the original)
well true it is a game with many many many clones... which nothing else can touch.. but what sucks is the orignal russian dude who wrote it couldnt copyright it so he made like nothing.Quote:
Originally posted by Shvarz:
How come no one mentioned Tetris. This must be the most influential game ever, with clones numbering in thousands (what other game can claim that?). However no clone could beat the simplicity and fun-ness of the original !
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Maguss (IMHO) was the best char in Chrono Trigger
The game that is the foundation for most of the games we play today... DUNGEON. That is the orignal game that zork was modded to be named.
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You guys name a lot of good games, but not many ground breaking games.
C&C - first came war craft
War Craft - first came Dune II (made by same company as C&C)
DOOM - Come on. This game was nothing original. There were too many games that it learned from to list. It was DARN good, but not ground breaking.
System Shock/2/Deus Ex - Ditto
Half-Life - What this game did that was ground breaking was post release. They did not just release their source code; they totally supported the heck out of the mod community. We all know where that went. The original game WAS EXCELLENT, but again, not ground breaking in any way. It just did tons of stuff right (Wish Valve would put out just ONE product that’s actually new though.)
Rainbow Six - Seal Team (I think that’s the correct name?) from EA. If you can remember this game you are old school hard core. If the people from EA did not play Seal Team I would be amazed. The similarities between the two are LARGE. If you don't know anything about it, it’s about the Seals Team in Vietnam. It's pretty awesome; Operation Flashpoint would probably be a more comparable product though.
Anything you play on your TV. - Give me a BREAK. Rpg’s is about all they HAD. If they are right THIS time about the death of the computer game, then I am done with games... Consoles do have their place though.... in a 15 year olds rec room. (I try not to flame, but I honestly hate consoles. sorry to anyone I have offended).
Deciding if something is ground breaking is totally a perspective and opinion thing though. But that’s my 2 cents (American).
(Of course gotta give props to the true originals such as Zork, Wizardry, pong, asteroids, their predecessors and many others…)
-J