Gametrailers top 10 most innovative games

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#1 books83
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GameTrailer has put together the top ten most innovative games.

10. Dune 2- The reason being that it really was the patriach of  RTS games

9.Yie Ar Kung Fu- The reason that it laid the foundation of fighters

8.The Sims- Will Wrights blending of human phsycoligy and interior decorating landed this on the list.

7. Body Harvest- The true first 3D free roaming sandbox game

6. Super Mario Bros. - The first to nail the art of smooth 2D side scrolling action on a home console.

5.The Legend of Zelda- The first epic game

4. Ultima Online- First to pair a virtual world with graphics

3.Wolfenstien 3D- Spawned the genre of  FPS

2. Super Mario 64- Issued in the proper way to do 3D

And here we are at Number One

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The origanal Pong

Ushered in not only the arcade scene but also the home console.

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#2 poopinloop32
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"Innovative"now thiers a word thats used too much
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#3 DA_B0MB
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Very good list for innovation.
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"Innovative"now thiers a word thats used too muchpoopinloop32
Yes, it seems that it just popped up and never died since the Wiimote was shown to the world.
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#5 Blackbond
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"Innovative"now thiers a word thats used too muchpoopinloop32


Do you ever stop trolling threads that you don't create?

Back on topic I think its a good list. Pretty much covers every major creation of a new genre too.
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nice to see Dune 2 on there. somewhere Frank Herbert is smiling.
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#7 Planeforger
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Wait, shouldn't Ultima Underworld be there instead of Wolf3D?
I mean, Wolf 3D was based on a tech demo of UU, UU came out first, and was more like a modern FPS than Wolf3D was.

*Edit* Ah good, it got a mention, but it still should have been on the list, as should some of the early Ultima games.
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gametrailers dishing videos like never b4
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Pong was only the first commerically successful video game; the first time people actually took notice of the technology flourishing under their noses. It wasn't the first game, wasn't the first arcade game, wasn't the first console game, hell, wasn't even the first ping pong game.

Sorry if that's what the video's implying, I just can't stand it when people credit Pong for being the father of gaming.

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lol on that site yu can just ff throught the ads!!!!! 
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wrong title for those lists. none of those were really all that innovative( those things were done before in other games). Exchange OoT with Myst and rename it to "10 most influential games and you've got a winner :)
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#12 yuna707
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Pong. haha you're kidding me right. How about a little known game called tetris... you know the game that single handedly made the puzzle genre, and helped propel the GB into the stratosphere...
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#13 Ibacai
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What a joke. This is a pathetic list of "innovation". The narrator even says that some of the games chosen aren't the ones that were innovative but the ones that got it right. Freaking hilarious.
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Where is simcity? Can't have a list of innovative games without that game..
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sweet
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PHANTASY STAR for the SMS should be on there over LEGEND OF ZELDA.
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PHANTASY STAR for the SMS should be on there over LEGEND OF ZELDA. JiveT
Phantasy Star also came out more than a year after Legend of Zelda.
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Where's Duck Hunt? That game is really innovative.
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#19 books83
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What has really suprised me is that nobody has tried to argue the Body Harvest claim yet.

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#20 JiveT
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So what? Its a lot more innovative than that garbage. ADVENTURE for the 2600 came out 6 years before ZELDA and invented that genre.
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So what? Its a lot more innovative than that garbage. ADVENTURE for the 2600 came out 6 years before ZELDA and invented that genre.JiveT
We're talking about the precedent of scale, and in its day Zelda was massive. I agree that the honor should be granted to Adventure though (first easter egg in a video game as well, IIRC).
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#22 16bitkevin
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Before I watch, my guesses for some of them are:
Zelda OoT
Half-Life 1/2
Doom
Wolfenstein
A Street Fighter game

EDIT:
Well, I kind of got Zelda, but I got Wolfenstein correct :). How could I forget about SMB?
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Glad they realize that GTA3 wasnt the first 3D free roamer. body harvest was an awesome game.
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#24 the-very-best
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I agree with many of those listed but I'm very surprised they didn't list GTAIII. It deserves to be on that list I think.
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I agree.
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Glad they realize that GTA3 wasnt the first 3D free roamer. Film-Guy


So what? SM64 wasn't the first platformer either.

GTAIII brought a hell of a lot to the genre. It's not right for them to leave it out of the list.
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[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]Glad they realize that GTA3 wasnt the first 3D free roamer. the-very-best


So what? SM64 wasn't the first platformer either.

GTAIII brought a hell of a lot to the genre. It's not right for them to leave it out of the list.



SM64 was the first game to feature true 3D control, something that have been adopted in nearly every game today.
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Where is simcity? Can't have a list of innovative games without that game..ngg1980


They gave Will Wright his props...The Sims is on there. Very deserving too, if it weren't for that game, casuals wouldn't be buying Radeon X300s and Geforce 7300s. The real innovation is in The Sims 2 though...their interactions, your Sims have wants and aspirations that change depending on their mood, an economy was added in expansions...

The Sims 3 needs to add physics of some sort, and it needs to be optimized for multiple core CPUs.
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#29 AdrianWerner
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SM64 was the first game to feature true 3D control16bitkevin
No, it wasn't. But it did influence others the most