Question of the Day, August 12, 2010

[Luke Cartner]

I cant help wondering why games that actually changed gaming are missing, off the top of my head the following games where games that highly impacted gaming as a whole:

Pong
Donkey kong
Ultima
Doom
Everquest
World of Warcaft
Diablo
Warcraft
Command and Conquer
Monkey island
Grand theft auto
Grand Turismo
Buldars Gate
Street Fighter
Mario
God of War
Final Fanasty 7
Etc

The list provided for this poll was highly derivative compared to for example the above games (and of course many others)

 

[Crimsane]

None of the above?

 

[maxcubus]

if they were so great why is it i havn't played them (some never heard of).
where is halflife or wolfenstien or any of the CIV games,

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I vote for the "None of the Above" option.
Or GTA 3.

GTA 3 'made' sandbox games... and I love sandbox games... if you couldn't tell.

Gaming as a whole? Pac-Man.

Also, I smell troll.

 

[Spiner909]

Who was stupid enough to not put Halo on the list, among others? Nearly all of said titles are crap.

 

[Drexlor]

Pikmin? That was different, right?

 

[SoranMBane]

By what unfathomable space logic are ANY of those considered influential? I'm guessing that this must be a joke poll, so I'll just play along.

Disgaea, because the main character was so annoying that he "influenced" me to stop playing the copy I had borrowed from a friend.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I don't think any of them changed gaming at all, but I liked playing the Zelda game, so I guess I'll go with that.

 

[Yokai]

Um...what about Half-Life, Dune II, Doom...fucking World of Warcraft? What mind did this list come from? One that only plays Nintendo consoles with limited experience on the 360, it seems. Honestly, I don't think any of those were very influential.

 

[syltman]

Pikimin lead to that PC game were you play as an evil dude whatever it was called

harvest moon maybe lead to farmville.

 

[Darth_Dude]

I havn't heard of any of them apart from Fable II....

 

[Bad Cluster]

Speaking of influence without including a single PC game in the list is wrong, so wrong!

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

what the hell? - none of those games changed gaming if you ask me :/

 

[JoshGod]

pikmin. apart from fable it was the only one played.

 

[CopperBoom]

Animal Crossing but mostly Harvest Moon because it came first.
The whole Zynga thing was the distillation of that kind of "causual" (it does not have to be a bad word) gaming.

 

[theultimateend]

How exactly is Harvest Moon not winning by a landslide?

Didn't it basically show that the farming model works in the gaming world and thusly was the progenitor for what is one of the largest gaming genres on the planet?

Or did I miss where Farmville is suddenly not Juggernaut? (Not that it is good, I can't stand it, but it is huge)

Animal Crossing but mostly Harvest Moon because it came first.
The whole Zynga thing was the distillation of that kind of "causual" (it does not have to be a bad word) gaming.

+10 Ninja points for you sir.