The Most Influential Developer of All Time.

I don't know who made the first game in first-person perspective. But, I remember Battlezone and Star Raiders.

Plenty of games did that before Shenmue. Ultima games had NPC routines and stuff and there was a game in 1991, that was fully open world and inspired GTA. Sandbox games were there before Shenmue as well. And there were also plenty of games with full voice acting too.

Nintendo.

Great thread. Nintendo is the obvious choice with the impact of Mario. SMB3 is just a gameplay monster. It's unbelievable that game exists inside 256KB of space.

Wing Commander II was not the first game with voice acting.

Nintendo is the most influential developer. I want the drugs you're smoking.

It's Nintendo. Honorable mention to Sega.

"First Computer Game". Who's smoking drugs again?

Wasn't the first PC game to do voice acting either.

Although I've never been a Nintendo guy, it's hard to go past them.

Yeah. Origin is easily one of the most influential developers in history. Ultima alone (the most influential series of all time, easily) is enough to secure that position and they did far far more

Sega is up there as being influential, I'll give you that.

All these things about Shenmue though? All of that shit was done years and year prior man. Half that stuff was covered by Zelda alone, though even then, Zelda wasn't close to being the first.

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On topic, Nintendo. Really no way around it. That said, Origin is an excellent choice as well.

Nintendo... No one else comes close

Nintendo and Sega.

Nintendo,

Please enlighten us. I'm not talking about direct movie sound rip offs but actual speeches during the gameplay itself written by game writers.

Voice Sampling =/= Voice Acting.

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Nintendo in my opinion

Lmao @finalstar2007 dude got laughed out of the thread.

Mario teaches typing on dos in 1991. They hired a voice actor for it. Got rereleased in 1995 with a different voice actor.

I respect the OP's well thought out conclusions, he did a good job of presenting it. However, I have to agree with you here and say Nintendo.

Like what ?

IDSoftware.

I have no wordt for the people that say Naughty Dog...

Nintendo. Period. They created the modern market. They revolutionized the branding, the games, and the hardware numerous times. It isn't even debatable.

Probably nintendo. Sad how far they have fallen

As devs,how have they fallen exactly?

all games are influential because developers are influenced by previous and current games of all genres. Who did what first doesn't have much relevance on what inspired it nor influenced others because movies, art, books and even other gamers..etc also influences game development.

@MonsieurX: their games have become stale and simplified as much as possible

Nintendo's games are the antithesis of "stale".

As for simplified, almost every major developer in the market is guilty of the same, and a lot of them in much more extreme degrees than Nintendo.

Please provide further examples.

the most recent mario titles for example. basically reskins of the 2d mario titles from 25 years ago. the last games they made that felt fresh are the mario galaxy titles. and before that there was another incredibly long gap. if you look back to the 90s they were making games that were paving the way for what other developers did(star fox, mario 64, wave race, zelda OoT, mario kart etc. now their games are stale and simple as all ****. they are incredibly polished no doubt, but still stale.

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Nintendo and Sega.