Most Influential Games

[Martok]

I thought that RTW did. I played AoE III after buying RT:W, expecting it to be good, only to be disappointed. It made normal RTSs fail in comparison, including War/Starcraft

I believe Nagamasa's point was that if you're going to use that argument, then it would be Shogun Total War, not Rome, that deserves to be on the list -- it being the first one in the series, after all. STW was the game that revolutionized the RTS genre, not its successors/sequels (regardless of how much more commercially successful they may have been).