BAFTA Names The Most Influential Video Games Ever, And Some Choices Are Big Surprises

Looks like Steam Awards, where everybody just votes for the games they like, whether they fit a category or not. Like, how is Kingdom Come 2 influential? It just came out. What has it influenced?

Goldeneye? Resident evil? SimCity? Mortal Kombat? Street Fighter 2? Baldur's gate 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2? WAYYY to new of games, both great games, but wayyyyy to new for that list.

Yeah, Shenmue at the top has completely undermined the entire list in my opinion. In fact, I'm not even sure it deserves to be on there at all. And a couple of the other choices are clearly just stupid, especially Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. You simply cannot have a game that's only been out for a few months make such a list. The fact the people making the list didn't understand this instantly is very telling really. Many of the games on the list do deserve to be there, for sure, but I just can't take it seriously ultimately.

Not only is this list holding some ridiculous games, but the order is just seemingly random. What they need is a set of reasons by each game to explain why, otherwise there is little logic to this list.

I'd take off these two as it is far too early to say and I don't think they're influencing anyone. Not that aren't good games, but they aren't innovative....

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Baldur's Gate 3

And no Resident Evil lol

Shenmue coined the term 'Quick Time Event'.

As a game though... meh. It's one of those games that was way too ambitious and bit off more than it could chew. You can see what it was aiming for, but it didn't even come close to hitting the target.

"Shenmue "feels like the original blueprint for the dynamic, detailed settings that have since become the expected norm at gaming’s bleeding edge.""

This feels like the people who voted where Shenmue diehards and dug deep to try and justify their choice. I never would've said Shenmue had that much influence on gaming.

I would say KCD1 over KCD2, and I guess I could see Shenmue being near the top given it was one of the first kind of open world games i think....but I dunno about number 1.

At least they didn't put FF7 Remake on the list instead of the original, lol.

Yea, Shenmue was not as influential as Doom., Or Halflife for that matter. Or Mario.

Baldur's Gate 3 hasn;t even been around long enough, to influence games. It's Baldur's Gate that did that.

Grand Theft Auto III all the way down there?

Good gravy.

i would say arkham asylum over kcd2