Searching Revolutionary Games

[Mirroga]

I'm a gamer who wants to have a collection of Revolutionary games. A revolutionary game in my book is considered as such:

1. It is a game which brings something new to the table. It could either range from a wonderful concept of a weapon which is clearly original and brings a new form of fun in using them (e.g. Gravity/Portal Gun), up to a new game concept which brought upon a new style of fun from the bland repetition of today's game genres (e.g. Shadow of Colossus).

2. It is a game which has a wonderful pacing and variety in its storyline and combat. It avoids, if not completely removes, repetitiveness of combat. It brings wonderful variety of immersive environments and types of enemy to defeat (e.g. Headcrab zombies from Ravenholm up to Striders in the city alongside rebels).

3. It has a wonderful replayable aspect which makes you come back for more (as stated from the above posts), without the means to have online support. In other words, replayable story modes and multiplayer / online is only a PLUS.

Thus I would like you to suggest to me games (next-gen console games) which you deem as "revolutionary" games.

 

[The Political Gamer]

This for PC, 360, PS3, Wii?

 

[Pimppeter2]

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Heyy!! Works both ways!!

 

[squid5580]

Prey. Intereting guns, neat use of gravity, disturbing enemies, online MP. And it turned dying into another part if the game.

 

[Mirroga]

This for PC, 360, PS3, Wii?

Remove the Wii and 360 there. I believe that 360 exclusives are not what i would call revolutionary, unless you can convince me otherwise.

 

[Calobi]

Prey, as squid5580 said. Good times, and those children ghosts still haunt my dreams.

Mirror's Edge is good in book. It's a touch on the short side, but I really enjoyed it.

 

[ckam]

I think Beyond Good & Evil is good recommendation.

 

[The Political Gamer]

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Heyy!! Works both ways!!

Or Civ4.

 

[megapenguinx]

This for PC, 360, PS3, Wii?

Remove the Wii and 360 there. I believe that 360 exclusives are not what i would call revolutionary, unless you can convince me otherwise.

So only PS3 and PC....um not much I can really say for the PS3 besides LBP.

 

[Screens]

Team Fortress 2? Beautiful graphics, amazing gameplay, and constant updates by Valve (this being the PC version, of course).

 

[TaborMallory]

Well, starting off with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee-
...Oh, wait. Next Gen? Damn. "Revolutionary Next-Gen" is an oxymoron in my book.

 

[Mother Yeti]

Custer's Revenge, duh.

 

[Vern]

I think this has exactly what you're looking for:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html

 

[Mirroga]

Oh, wait. Next Gen? Damn. "Revolutionary Next-Gen" is an oxymoron in my book.

Yep. I have a hard time finding revolutionary from all this blandness.

 

[Fenring]

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Heyy!! Works both ways!!

I hate you for getting here first.



Civ IV is better.

 

[Weaver]

I don't know how in the fuck you're going to find it, but Starfighter 3000 was a DOS game and the first 3D game to my knowledge with fully destructible terrain. The problem was I think the original (and more popular version) was for the RISK architecture (all CPUs you're going to find now are x86). There was certainly an x86 version though, I had it.

 

[TaborMallory]

Oh, wait. Next Gen? Damn. "Revolutionary Next-Gen" is an oxymoron in my book.

Yep. I have a hard time finding revolutionary from all this blandness.

Here's my suggestion: Buy a really old console. I've got several games made back when the programmers didn't give a shit about making sense, which of course leads to very interesting games, gameplay, and plot.

 

[Chipperz]

Mirror's Edge (for gameplay), Fallout 3 (for story and replayability, and also being the first game (to my knowledge) that has a Neutral option in it's Morality system), Saint's Row (as has been said, revolutionised Sandbox games), Halo (repopularized the FPS genre), Wii Sports (The most sold game of all time must be doing something right...), LittleBIGPlanet (just... Yeah, if you need this explaioning, you aint a gamer)

I don't know how in the fuck you're going to find it, but Starfighter 3000 was a DOS game and the first 3D game to my knowledge with fully destructible terrain.

Bah! Asteroids! The enemy WAS the terrain, which in turn was fully destructible! Doesn't get more revolutionary than that

 

[Weaver]

Mirror's Edge (for gameplay), Fallout 3 (for story and replayability, and also being the first game (to my knowledge) that has a Neutral option in it's Morality system), Saint's Row (as has been said, revolutionised Sandbox games), Halo (repopularized the FPS genre), Wii Sports (The most sold game of all time must be doing something right...), LittleBIGPlanet (just... Yeah, if you need this explaioning, you aint a gamer)

I don't know how in the fuck you're going to find it, but Starfighter 3000 was a DOS game and the first 3D game to my knowledge with fully destructible terrain.

Bah! Asteroids! The enemy WAS the terrain, which in turn was fully destructible! Doesn't get more revolutionary than that

You'll notice I said 3D

 

[Vrex360]

Ha- No I won't say it, I'd like to menjtion Combat Evolved but I've been blowing that whistle too muvch lately. Okay I would mention titles like Mass Effect and Bioshock but even though they are both masterpieces I can't really call them revolutionary. I probably can't mention Portal either as everyone will have mentioned Portal at some point. I could go with Dead Space but it just had some original ideas not full revolution.
You know what, Gears of War perfected cover based third person shooters so I'll mention that.

Also Otogi Myth of Demons, naturally.

P.S as I said in a thread similar to this, Pong.