Most Influential or Loved Game?

Older game= Earthbound, Paper Mario, Crono Trigger

Newer Game= Tie between KH, WEWY, and SMT Series

Doom.

It opened up the video game world to me at the age of six.

Probably Super Mario 64.

Basically all the older (and newer) Zelda games.

Doom.

It opened up the video game world to me at the age of six.

Treflis

Super Metroid is the biggy for me.

Zelda is another huge one. The top down action adventure style is what opened me up tothat view point, leading me to some of my favorite games of all time, Ultima Online (pre-expansions), Diablo series, Baldur's Gate, etc. Had I never got hooked on Zelda, I don't think I would have given those other games a chance.

I wish Nintendo would release a new top-down Zelda for WiiWare... perhaps even have it 3D isometric.

Well.. I think the most influential game is Pong, it was like the first... right? or maybe Super Mario Bros because it revitalized the industry after the crash.

Still, my most loved game is probably The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Super Mario World. Both coincedentally are also very influential as well.

For me it was probably Zelda OOT.

but before that came Donkey kong Country, I grew up on it my parents thought I had a serious problem Because i wouldn't stop playing it.

I think Golden Eye 64 revolutionised the standard and genre for FPS games. Overall the most influential must be Super Mario Bros .....

The 8-bit Nes is what opened me up to my love for gaming. Not to say i haven't loved games for the SNES, N64, PS, PS2 and so forth, but the influental platform was the NES at the end of the day. These are the games I think impacted me most off that system:

Metroid
Super Mario Bros 3
Kid Icarus
Metal Gear
Mega Man 3
Legend of Zelda
Castlevania 2

My most loved game however would be Deus Ex.ebbderelict

Deus Ex is absolutely brilliant. One of the few PC games I really loved. Even the sequel was still great, although I don't think it comes close to the original.

I personally think that Shen Mue is one of the most influential games ever. It has this movie-like feel and offers an impressive freedom at the same time. I'm sure it would have gotten a lot more recognition if it hadn't been released on a dying platform. My personal favorites however are Shining Force (GEN) and Wonderboy in Monsterland (MS).

I'd have to go with shining force
For its time it allowed you to have a huge aray of optional characters in your team each unique from the next guy. (30 or so from how i remember it) and it certainly was the first to succesfully mix strategy and RPG

I just recently started replaying this game and its still great fun despite its age wich cant be said of many games

Shenmue 4 LIFE!!

Yeah agree with all of you except the dude that said GOW. its good but not revlolution material.

I love Rpgs more than anything else with my list.

LOZ:LTTP. It single handedly got me into gaming.

After LTTP I was hooked on gaming forever.

WoW was influental to me too, because it made me realize that I shouldnt take other peoples opinion into account when playing a game, Warcrack, warcrap, it's probably one of the most ripped on games ever made, but it is easily one of the ebst games I have ever played no matter how many people hate it.

Paper Mario and Pikmin 2.

Don't know why but I just found them both so fun and I played them both to death. Also my favorite series is the Mario RPGs which I believe started from my love for Paper Mario and Super Mario RPG which I played moments after Paper Mario.

Loved:

Mega Man X

Plok

Street Fighter series

Influential:

Snatcher

Shadow of the Colossus

Mother 3

Super Mario world and Zelda: Wind waker. Super mario world was the first game I ever loved. Cave story is another favorite of mine.

My personal most influencial game was Pokemon Blue :-) Introduced me to the world of gaming, that one did.

But my favourite would be... A tie between Red Faction II and Diablo II

Doom.

It opened up the video game world to me at the age of six.

Treflis

You played doom when you were six? You must have been pretty brave lol.

although it is hard to gauge a video or computer games' impact on the industry, i think shadow of the collosus will become the most influential video game. i think SOTC is ahead of its time. but saying that it is ahead of its time feels wrong. it feels wrong because the kind of design innovations that that game made could have happend a lot earlier; it is just that the digital games industry is very slow to innovate and is still growing.

it is hard to explain, but shadow of the collosus automatically has influence on every game, regardless of genre; these include...

*visual/interactive storytelling - storytelling THROUGH the graphics, envrionment and collossi (w/out dialogue and cut-scenes)

*re-thinking the concept of level design, bosses, enemies and plot structure

*making new and interesting developments in character design (wanda & agro, similar to yorda & ico)

*depending on how you read the game, it can mean a lot of things - it has a purposefully ambiguous structure

SOTC is designed from the ground up; from a small drawing on a scrap of paper by one person with no other people disturbing the vision. the team also seems to have had limitless technological power and a large budget at their disposal. it's an extremely organised team of very creative individuals.

the creator, fumito ueda, has said that he works on a 'design by reduction' principle; stripping away any superfluous material, and only sticking with the necessities of what the design must be. it's a game that hasn't been compromised.

my most loved recent game is probably super metroid, not that it is recent, but i only deeply got into it recently. and i think that game is as influential as SOTC, although not necessarily just because of its influence on 2D adventure games. REZ is also up there. it is a tie between SM and REZ (also very influential, but i've blabbed enough already about SOTC!).

fondest memories... super mario on the snes...and probably banjo kazooie and donkey kong country. before REZ and SM, Zelda:OOT is my past favourite/loved game. it defined immersion and adventure for me (in virtual terms!).

Super Mario world 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES), Donkey Kong Country Trilogy (SNES)

i played these games all the time when i was younger up until me and my brothers sold our super nintendo (Big Mistake). They really opened me up to video games and i really loved 2D platformers. just boguht a DS along with a copy of Super Mario world advance: Yoshi's Island and plan on getting the donkey kong country copies on GBA as well.

Final Fantasy series. Vi VII VIII IX.

Zombies ate my Neighbors (what?!)

Sparkster(again, what?!)

I've only recently in the last few years starting playing anything on the PC =P

I think Golden Eye 64 revolutionised the standard and genre for FPS games. Overall the most influential must be Super Mario Bros .....

daftdog

I just can't agree. I don't think there was a great impact. FPS's were doing just fine on PC and the release of Goldeneye didn't change anything with how FPS was going to be made on PC. Only Perfect Dark was the other that was a stand out FPS to be consoles so FPS didn't mean much on home consoles at the time.

I feel that Halo is the true reason we have so many FPS games in the original Xbox era. Pretty much every game was trying to emulate the controls for dual analogs (Goldeneye only worked with one) and many people were starting to go to the consoles for FPS's even if they had a PC. I find the first game to be the weakest but its impact was much greater than Goldeneye.

metroid as a whole, but particularly super metroid. that game was just wow.

and of course super mario bros for nes. that game introduced me to gaming. it was soo fun, and probably the reason why i want to be a video game designer. because of the joy that game gave me as a child, i now want to make games that will entertain millions worldwide. wow i cant beleive im saying this, but mario influenced my life

metroid is a good choice. very ahead of its time. didn't have the mass appeal of mario, but it's very well designed and innovative.

littleBigPlanet.. just wait and see

but for real- doom spawned and entire genre

doom doom ? heck no goldeneye 007 owns it , on so many different levels, and my most loved game is not goldeneye but i hate to say it but top gear super mario series (bros kart etc) zelda metroid driver paralel lines , gta san andreas saints row wwe ,, these are my favorites, no not that ps2 rip off topgear dare devel that goes in the garbage, any top gear after ps2 nope

n64-snes yep ,

If I had to pick one, only ONE!...It would have to be Secret Of Mana. But man, Final Fantasy VI 3* influenced me BIG TIME.

littleBigPlanet.. just wait and see

teldath

how do you think LBP will influence other developers and game design in general?