Most Important game in History?

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"][QUOTE="peacebringer"][QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"][QUOTE="SolidTy"]

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]Another one would be Ocarina of Time.peacebringer

NO way. LOL.
I may have said that when I was younger, but NO way.

MOST IMPORTANT IN HISTORY....not most revered N64 savior game.

ET for the Atari. Without it, the gaming industry might not have fallen and caused the creation of all the games you listed. zomgrad

And we wouldn't have learned that Movie games suck, We could have rated Eragon AAA!

RE4 has influenced other video games-Sora

I say SMB. Without it, console gaming would have died, which pretty much means all gaming.glitchgeeman

No Doom, which put FPS on the map. No Quake that put online play on the map and was the first fully 3D game? No Pong? The game that put games on the map? No SM64, which left the blueprint for soo manny 3d games to come?

EDIT: Would Dune be one too, wasn't it that game that made RTS? 

For those who said OoT, thanks for the laugh.rpg9000owner

I say SMB. Without it, console gaming would have died, which pretty much means all gaming.glitchgeeman

No Doom, which put FPS on the map. No Quake that put online play on the map and was the first fully 3D game? No Pong? The game that put games on the map? No SM64, which left the blueprint for soo manny 3d games to come? rpg9000owner

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]No Doom, which put FPS on the map. No Quake that put online play on the map and was the first fully 3D game? No Pong? The game that put games on the map? No SM64, which left the blueprint for soo manny 3d games to come? peacebringer

Either Doom or Dune 2.smokeydabear076

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.rpg9000owner

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.rpg9000owner

Yeah, I would replace Madden with Doom.

I also think that Grand Theft Auto 3 took violent video games to much more media coverge than Mortal Kombat.  Besides, Mortal Kombat was a game that rode off the popularity of another game in the same genre that was far more influential...Street Fighter 2.

I agree with the other three choices, and I do no believe Ocarina of Time deserves a spot.  Ocarina of Time was a popular game in a popular series, but did not effect the world around it at all

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.peacebringer

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.peacebringer

yes because everyone remembers everysingle amazing game they ever played 10-20 years ago that had a impact on gaming history.... please why are you even atacking the guy

rts id say starcraft, huge rts title, revolutionized multiplayer with battle.net

fps either doom or wolfstein

rpg, FF 1-6, 7 while 7 mantained the same level of quality as its previous game FF franshise started to go loose its touch since then

mario64 mario 64 was and still is how a 3d plataformer should be made

2d plataformer Mario/Castlevania/Megaman 3 great franshises that changed 2d gaming

Ultima for opening the mmo door

and pong for making all this possible 

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.smokeydabear076

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="rpg9000owner"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"]Either Doom or Dune 2.rpg9000owner

pacman and supermario are my picks.

OOT was not important??? Maybe im misinformed, but tell me a of a good 3D action-adventure game before OOT please. I guess the only one would arguably be Tomb Raider...but imo it wasnt that good. OOT set the standard for how sword games are played in the action adventure genre. OOT also had the lock on system.

It may not have been the most influential game ever, but saying it wasnt important is totally wrong. 

Setting standards is not the same as being influential.  New video games set standards all the time.  And standards can be disputed...I believe that Ocarina of Time has been surpassed, but many people do not.

Importance can't be disputed.  People can hate Final Fantasy VII all they want, but that doesn't change the fact that the medium became much more RPG based because of its success

Street Fighter II and Dragon Quest were more important then Mortal Kombat and Final Fantasy if you ask me.Blackbond

Now this isn't merely a matter of greatest game, this is based on history and thus I believe my choices fit well if not best.

In no paticular order:

Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros.

These games essentially got the game industry going. Sure there was Pong and Space Invaders before but these are landmark titles that got people to buy and play these games. There could be more attributed to the beginning but I think these 3 are the most important.

Mario

MGS

Resident Evil

In no particular order:

Halo- Without it the Xbox would have made the Dreamcast look like the PS2.

Doom- One of the best FPS's ever and along with Quake and Wolfenstein helped define the FPS genre.

KOTOR- Best story ever.

FF7- Without it the PS1 may never have been successful.

Diablo- No Diablo means no WoW. 'Nuff said.

Trying to pin down the most influential and important titles in gaming history to just a few is pointless. It's like trying to pin down a few songs or bands as the most important/influential ever. There are simply way too many genres, franchises, spin-offs, styles etc to claim that just a few could possibly be responsible for the massive range that exists today.

On a side note, I'd easily put classic arcade games like Pacman or Space Invaders as more historic than games like Madden or Metal Gear Solid (much though I love the latter). And FF7, while undoubtedly more popular, is less important than the original Dragon Quest on the NES, which pretty much started the whole idea of console RPGs, like it or not.

Trying to pin down the most influential and important titles in gaming history to just a few is pointless. It's like trying to pin down a few songs or bands as the most important/influential ever. There are simply way too many genres, franchises, spin-offs, styles etc to claim that just a few could possibly be responsible for the massive range that exists today.

On a side note, I'd easily put classic arcade games like Pacman or Space Invaders as more historic than games like Madden or Metal Gear Solid (much though I love the latter). And FF7, while undoubtedly more popular, is less important than the original Dragon Quest on the NES, which pretty much started the whole idea of console RPGs, like it or not.

Jagazaar

[QUOTE="Jagazaar"]

Trying to pin down the most influential and important titles in gaming history to just a few is pointless. It's like trying to pin down a few songs or bands as the most important/influential ever. There are simply way too many genres, franchises, spin-offs, styles etc to claim that just a few could possibly be responsible for the massive range that exists today.

On a side note, I'd easily put classic arcade games like Pacman or Space Invaders as more historic than games like Madden or Metal Gear Solid (much though I love the latter). And FF7, while undoubtedly more popular, is less important than the original Dragon Quest on the NES, which pretty much started the whole idea of console RPGs, like it or not.

Truthgotmebaned

In English-speaking countries, yes, fair enough. In Japan though, it pretty much exploded onto the scene, creating a whole new genre, and the mass market appeal you mentioned spawned series like FF. Without DW's success, there probably wouldn't have been an FF7, at least probably not in the form as we know it.

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]Another one would be Ocarina of Time.SolidTy

NO way. LOL.
I may have said that when I was younger, but NO way.

MOST IMPORTANT IN HISTORY....not most revered N64 savior game.

I actually agree somewhat with you. But you did regard his list as a decent one and I can't see any reasons of why MGS, MK, FF7 or Madden would stand above OOT in that category. I can actually see reasons of OOT being ahead of all of those.  

good list.

imo, the top 5 most influential games would be.

1. pong - resposible for sparking alot of interest in the early game industry

2. mario bros. - set new standards in puzzles, secrets, and gameplay, set the quality standards for the next decades.

3. zelda - ditto

4. dragon quest - game after which all rpgs are modled, notably ff

5. Sonic - helped to widen the gaming marketplace by a significant amount, without this, sony may have not seen helping nintendo as intelligent business expansion, which would mean there would be no ps or xbox, nintendo would have likely held a monopoly on the industry when sega would enevitably fall.

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Pong, It provided proof that people would buy video game consoles.

 

peacebringer

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