Any new age classics?

[Zeke the Freak]

There are games that are good, and there are games that are great. Then there are the games that become permenantly engraved in socioty and culture. Some oldies include doom, donkey kong, megaman, pac man, resident evil, silent hill and many more.

I want to know if there is any recent games (within the 21st milennea) that have such effect. One that I know of is Bioshock. Its the only game that made me genuinly, pants crappingly scared, not that "jump-out-and-yell-boo" suprised that I get, but suspense and total fear of the unknown. And the story was fan-fucking-tastic and totally caught me off gaurd.

Spoiler

especially the part where it turns out my only buddy Atlas was Frank Fontain and i was under mind control, I was flabberghasted to say the least.

Half-life is another one, More for the game itself but the story aint half bad either.

to tell you the truth, Im looking to make a list of what games to buy before they become another scratch in history.

 

[KoRn_Leader]

Silent hill is not a new age classic.

 

[Zeke the Freak]

Silent hill is not a new age classic.

reread the OP.
i said oldie

 

[742]

WoW, unfortunately.

 

[Peach_hat]

The Sims.
Obvious ones are the FPS': Halo and Half Life 2.

 

[RavingPenguin]

Hate being "this guy" but Halo is probably a good candidate.

 

[Sewblon]

Eternal Darkness, Psychonauts, Disgaea, Killer7, No More Heroes, WoW, Half-life 2 and portal.

 

[742]

Warcraft 3 was classic before it even hit the shelves. Same with SC2.

And WoW will be in children's history books in 50 years.

idk i think WC3 will be eclipsed in most peoples minds when SC2 comes out(were not talking great games, were talking iconic games that people will remember for decades, like pac-man and doom), which brings me to my second point: this century. its blizzard, and it hasnt been released yet, unless you work at blizzard and are from the future, its a bit early to be saying that.

 

[Kiutu]

Halo 1 maybe, but I still hope Halo 3 will be one of those things in like 10 or 20 years that people say "I cant believe we thought that was actually cool"

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

I haven't played it myself, but I think EVE Online would be a fair candidate. The first game where large scale criminality is legally condoned. [http://eve.klaki.net/heist/] For those of you who haven't heard of this (it has been mentioned on the Escapist before), you should read it, it's really quite interesting.

 

[Quiotu]

Can't believe someone hasn't said it... revolutionized fighting games and started a trend of violence that isn't done yet.

Ahem...

MORTAL KOMBAT!!

 

[Grimm91]

I would say the Sims. It was original and its been a hit, I think that qualifies as a classic.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Hmmm Half Life 2 for creating such a believable world and the advances in storytelling and A1

GTA for being the first to turn mainstream games into giant playgounds and have it have huge sussess

Team Ico's games, for raw emotional depth

 

[wrightofway]

Baldur's Gate 2 and KOTOR are widely considered among the best RPGs ever made. Planescape: Torment was released in December of 1999, so I'm not sure if it counts.

 

[goater24]

Wii Sports has become the new PONG for all the casual retards. Also Guitar Hero and Rock band.

EDIT: My 21st centuary classic would be Mario64 but I fear it isn't being played by the massess on their mobile phones and therefore cant be regarded as such!

 

[new_age_reject]

Guitar Hero/ Rockband, Bioshock, The Sims and a great deal of Valve stuff like Half Life/Portal/TF2(I think it breathed fresh air into the lungs of online FPS imo).

 

[Zeke the Freak]

Guitar hero for sure, cant beleive I didnt mention that one.

 

[Zeke the Freak]

Would you consider Gears of War to be a newage classic?

 

[MartnRendrs]

no one mentioned Crysis! i haven't played the game but it's crap it'll go into the history books as: (write something here to make it sound like an epic fail)

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Eyetoy, Singstar, Nintendogs, Wii Sport. All of those games that we don't care about that sell gaming to normal people.