Most influential games?

[Chaosolous]

Doesn't have to be any one particular game, what do you think some of the most influential games over the history of gaming have been?

Pong - Just making games in general more common place.

Super Mario 64 - Set the standard for early 3D game development.

DOOM - Set the FPS genre up to the mainstream.

Alien Resurrection - First game to use the Dual Joystick FPS control scheme.

Final Fantasy - Brought turn based JRPG's to the mainstream West.

I'm sure there's lots more.
What're your picks?

[HarleyIsntReal]

resident evil 4

[Good Night Owl]

Final Fantasy - Set the bar for JRPGs

World of Warcraft - First major MMORPG that successful

Skyrim - The RPG that set the bar in the 2010s. Every RPG gets compared to it now.

Halo - The reason Xbox exists. Also proved shooters with controller is doable

Mario - Probably the reason gaming is as big as it is

Half Life - A big reason Steam is what it is

Madden - Proved you can trick players to spend money for nothing

Overwatch - Popularized loot boxes, yay

[sage2001]

Virtua Fighter: First mainstream 3D fighter.

[Basho]

Half Life (1) is pretty influential - if not pioneered then at least crystallized and popularized environmental story telling.

Hotline Miami - maybe niche, but it seems to have popularized the "neon violence" aesthetic seen in far flung cases such as John Wick, as well as popularizing the synthwave genre to some extent.

GTA - pioneered and popularized the open-world genre. for a long time any game with even a passing semblance (such as ability to enter and drive vehicles in an open-world setting) used to be called "GTA clones".

[sage2001]

Parappa the Rapper is also pretty notable for putting rhythm games in the mainstream, with Beatmania and DDR coming out a few years later.

[ナルゴ]

Warcraft 3

[bad_fur_day1]

I feel Resident Evil 2 was influential to me personally, being it partly proved to me gaming could be a very involving medium, and like omg zombies!

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Doesn't have to be any one particular game, what do you think some of the most influential games over the history of gaming have been?

Pong - Just making games in general more common place.

Super Mario 64 - Set the standard for early 3D game development.

DOOM - Set the FPS genre up to the mainstream.

Alien Resurrection - First game to use the Dual Joystick FPS control scheme.

Final Fantasy - Brought turn based JRPG's to the mainstream West.

I'm sure there's lots more.
What're your picks?

fortnite, now everyone want go there to get $$$$

it turning video game into casino online

[Tristin]

Street Fighters.
Though it was not the first fighting game that existed, it sure expanded the genre with the popularity.

[Uncle Sam]

Sid Meier's Civilization & Age of Empires, also Command & Conquer in regards to RTS, imho and honorable mention to Empire Earth.

[Tiberius]

Skyrim. After skyrim, every game wanted to have the biggest open world ever

[sage2001]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Skyrim. After skyrim, every game wanted to have the biggest open world ever

i dunno, i feel like that trend may have started either with GTA 3 or the original Farcry if anything

(and morrowind, can't forget that)

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Assassin's Creed.

Open world games with parkour blew up after the first AC released. Even today games like Ghost of Tsushima are still coming out being compared to Assassin's Creed.

Now if only someone copied the parkour from the earlier games instead of making the movement as barebones as people thought AC was (then actually became).

[Kamiyama]

Demon's Souls spawned a whole genre.

[Kamiyama]

The original Rogue also spawned a whole genre.