Most influential game of all time [no poll]

[SuperLuigiBro]

I'm clearing the which fps came first ordeal and getting out of the way, for the 101st time.

[Anticrombie0909]

PC adventure gaming basically doesn't exist anymore. I guess the series was influential.. but you can't call a series influential if it couldn't hold it's own genre up.

Myst, Riven, there's still a genre.

[Kenzya]

Originally Posted by Anticrombie0909

Myst, Riven, there's still a genre.

I said basically...

Did you know Lucasarts cancelled both Full Throttle 2 and Sam and Max 2 (pc adventure sequels to pc adventure games) because they don't believe there's a market? That's why Sierra is producing FPS's now and stuff like that. Of course there are still independent companies who are creating a few adventure games a year. But it's not the booming genre it once was.

Other than that.. there are TONS of fan games. I'd have to say that adventure gaming has the most fan sequels than anything else. But those don't bring home the bread.. they're low quality and often very short.. So it could be one of the most influential genres.. but, eh.

[Omeganitros]

Originally Posted by SuperLuigiBro

Sigh, all you you FPS nuts are wrong, the first FPS, which I dunno if everyone has heard of, is called Catacomb, not Doom, not even Wolfenstein 3D, Catacomb3D. Before those games, you were nuking orcs and other things in Middle Ages times, AND the first FPS with texture mapping. Don't believe me? Then visit here, and click on games. You all lose, Game Over.

Hm.

*Shrug*

I'll be damned.

[Anticrombie0909]

Must've sucked if nobody's ever heard of it.

[Laharl]

Originally Posted by Anticrombie0909

Must've sucked if nobody's ever heard of it.

Not true.

You ever heard of Valkyrie Profile? Damn awesome game. Lots of people never knew of it's existence.

[tnyhwk900]

Pong. It created the "video game" genre. I win.

[SuperLuigiBro]

Yup, we all lose.

[Anticrombie0909]

Originally Posted by Laharl

Not true.

You ever heard of Valkyrie Profile? Damn awesome game. Lots of people never knew of it's existence.

But this "Catacomb3D" game created a genre. Usually games like that are really famous, and people call them 'end-all, be-all' games even if they suck. The fact that nobody's heard of it kind of leads me to believe that it really sucks. But whatever...

[Laharl]

It probably did, but still...

You got to figure it was created in a time when games didn't exactly get around. Something groundbreaking might have come out and no one would have known about it because it just never made it into the media.

[RuhielRaptor]

Most influential racing game- pole position, there, i win.

Most influential game- asteroids/pac-man/space invaders/pong, these games actually got people playing the games so they are godly now.

[suicidalmuskrat]

Originally Posted by suicidalmuskrat

hope this hasn't been brought up in a thread before, but what's the most influential game of all time?? (excluding first gen things like pong b/c that's just silly)

notice the end of my post, where i talk about no first gen games...which all of the ones you mention fall into...

[evilbutterfly]

whoa, i'm bleeding...damn

now, on topic: whatever the first shareware/demo disc thing was the most influential game. i remember never owning Doom, but playing several demo discs which contained Doom and other cool games. the whole "demo" thing made games alot more widespread, because demo discs were cheaper and let u play a buncha games so u would know what u liked. demo discs were the most influential, even tho they arent exactly games in and of themselves...

[Omeganitros]

Originally Posted by Kenzya

Did you know Lucasarts cancelled both Full Throttle 2 and Sam and Max 2

http://whydoom.ytmnd.com/