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    Default Most Influential Games

    Wired has an interesting list of their top 15 most influential games of the previous decade. It's particularly thought-provoking, because influential is not the same as successful. The criteria are summarized as "games that made big leaps and defined what would come to be traditional aspects of the big-budget grand adventure, and others that pushed the reset button on game design." Here's their list:

    1) The Sims
    2) GTA 3
    3) Guitar Hero
    4) World of Warcraft
    5) Brain Age
    6) Halo
    7) Bejeweled
    8) Wii Sports
    9) Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
    10) Metroid Prime
    11) Silent Hill 2
    12) Half-life 2
    13) Metal Gear Solid 2
    14) Happy Farm
    15) Portal

    There's a lot of decent stuff there, but there are several omissions that I consider as significant milestones in gaming since 2000.

    Diablo 2 - Showed just how much entertainment value there was in online action gaming, and fundamentally changed the entire notion of how to reward players for their game time. Was also a major milestone in online gaming, giving a major boost to MMOs.

    Tribes 2 - Introduced vehicles into FPS games in a way never before encountered. The successes of the Battlefield series built off of this game.

    Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Redefined the concept of the scripted event. While the MoH-style scripted levels are now often considered rather boring, at the time it introduced a level of immersion into FPS gaming that had not previously existed. The sheer number of games that adopted this style of level scripting shows its influence.

    Farcry - Upped the ante on the open-world FPS concept.

    So, what other games can you think of that have changed the way games are made over the past 10 years?
    Last edited by TinCow; 12-28-2009 at 18:43.


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