Most influential game of all time [no poll]

You can't have an exact answer for this.

Most influential RPG- Ultima: Quest of the Avatar- your actions shaped whether you would win or lose. And it had the first modern tactics battle system. Every tactics like RPG owes Ultima some serious credit for giving a different take on the RPG. Final Fantasy just got people playing RPG's and has a great story but Ultima has the better battle system

Most influential shooter- fill in whatever you want here

Most influential RTS- probably either warcraft or maybe the original Command and conquer

Most influential Platformer- Super Mario Brothers.(period, no questions asked)

Most influential game for graphics- fill in game here

I think the most influential FPS would be Counter-Strike.
As for RTS, I would probably have to agree with either Warcraft or Starcraft KEKeke.

original warcraft sucked. WC2 semi-sucked. Starcraft was the first blizzard RTS game to really be great.
first C&C was the best, IMO, but since C&C and the -craft games are completely different, i'd say SC and C&C1 are the 2 most influential RTS games.

as for FPS: Doom. you all know it's the first one u played, and that u played it alot, and memorized the codes. "oh no, outta ammo!! IDKFA IDKFA IDKFA!!!" if u dont understand that, u suck.

most influential fighting game: Mortal Kombat. i remember when that and Doom were so controversial. anything controversial is usually influential, at least momentarily.

which would make GTA one of the most influential games in recent years. the whole idea of having huge, free-roaming environments and limitless gameplay is something that is getting picked up more and more these days, and GTA is choke full of freedom and hugeness.

I completely forgot about good 'ol Doom..IDDQD IDKFA leet. I would have to agree about Doom being the most influential.

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Now for the serious answers.

Most influential FPS would definitely be Doom- it created a freakin' genre, man. Half-life, a close second, didn't create a genre, however- it simply refined and perfected it.

Yup. Doom was teh pwnzor creator.

Three w00ts for John Carmack!

wolfenstein 3d would be more influential than doom, i think..

i know this is a tough thread to really pinpoint an overall most influential game...but if i had to cast one vote it'd be for the first legend of zelda game...we all know it's a great game, but i feel it's so influential b/c it was the first (or at least first decent) game to allow saving....no more 200 digit password for faxanadou or metroid...YAY

Doom was before W3D. If there was no Doom, there might not have been a W3D.

Half the responses to this thread crack me up, really bad. You guys have no idea what you're talking about.

Counter-Strike is influential since when? It's a friggin' mod. Half-Life is the influential one in this case because it set the standard for FPS games. CS is a derivative of Half-Life. See?

As for Ultima: Where would RPGs been if not for AD&D? Know your roots, young one. Also, Ultima didn't cause any waves, or set any standards, etc. Good game, true, but it went under most people's radar.

As for Fighting Games, you can't get more influential than Street Fighter 2. It pretty much gave birth to the genre here in the States. Mortal Kombat was influential to a degree, but the problem is, in other ways. It showed that people liked button-mashey violence with no real gameplay and helped contribute to the downfall of good fighting games.

When it comes to RTS games, Warcraft was the influential one. Dune was the first, but no one has even really heard of it as a game. It's sort of like how Final Fantasy gave rise to console RPGs even though Dragon Warrior was the first console RPG. Unfortunately, FF7 is also an extremely influential game because it turned thousands and thousands of gamers onto the RPG scene (for better or worse). It also showed how pretty graphics sell moreso than a good story and workable gameplay system.

And GTA was not influential. GTA3 was. There's a big difference.

Tetris is also a highly influential game. You realize that more than any other game, Tetris is what most women into gaming played first? (I no longer have the source for this bit of information, sorry.) I think that everyone has played, at least at one point, Tetris. Without it, the puzzle game genre may have never been created.

The orignal Unreal. It pretty much made everybody up the quality of their games ten fold.

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just out of curiousity, was the legend of zelda the first console game to allow saving?

Dude, have "you" even heard of the concept of INFLUENTIAL?

You completely missed my point. Whether a game is good or not has nothing to do with whether it was influential. Understand? More people played Warcraft. More people were turned on to the RTS genre because of Warcraft. C&C wouldn't have been made if not for the success that Warcraft won (seeing as C&C was made AFTER WC).

AND, for the record, the first Warcraft was awesome. I never liked the C&C games.