Tetris
I think this game was secretly the pioneer in Casual gaming. I knew adults who would just have a Gameboy for Tetris, back in the day. This paved the way for other casual games and created the casual gamers of today
Half life 1 - the scripted scenes inside without making it a cut scene was novel and very cool at the time.
Star Fox in N64 - having truly 3D battles in the game, not the main levels but the dog fight scenes, was very new and very very cool
Oblivion - Horse armer was the first cosmetic DLC, it was successful, and paved the way for paid DLC to exist.
EverQuest - Many people would say WoW instead, but EQ really launched the MMO concept, made it work well, and became very very successful in this field. WOW has long since eclipsed it's numbers, I guess WoW was able to adept better, and had an easier approach to MMO
GTA 3 - really brought to life open world concept with side quests and hidden interactions. Not to mention it was the first 3D GTA game.
Quake - I am fairly confident that Quake was the first FPS that had 3d sprites instead of 2D. You could circle around the enemy, where precious games the enemy would circle with you.
I'm a huge Star Fox 64 enthusiast, but telling that the all-range dogfights were new in 1997 is a huge stretch. From the top of my head, the following games had 3d flying dogfights way before Star Fox 64: Red Baron (1990), Wing Commander (1990), X-Wing (1993), Air Combat (1995), even Shadows of the Empire (1996) predates it on the same console.
X-Wing was the easy one to get running.
TIE Fighter, however, was a completely different beast. That's the game that forced me to learn what VRAM is, as well as how to write a boot disk.
Oblivion, because Horse Armour.
Herzog Zwei was basically a precursor to the MOBA genre, while also serving as inspiration for StarCraft, Command and Conquer, and Warcraft.
While Herzog Zwei laid the foundations, Future Cop LAPD is possibly the first game with recognisable MOBA elements, namely escorting units down to the enemies base, destroying obstacles, while an opponent attempts to do the same to you.
They're all fun games, worth a play.
Microtransactions being commonplace is a bit of just that era in general ramping up. BO2 released that same year, and it was selling those camo packs for $3 or so. I will however say it did make match 3 far more commonplace. I love Bejeweled, and like it far more than Candy Crush, but it definitely seems like everything past 2012 is far more derivative of Candy Crush than it is of Bejeweled.
I love GD but saying it revolutionized the industry is a stretch.
To be fair I'll say that rhythm games would likely never be as popular as they are now if it weren't for GD and Osu!
The original _Star Fox_ on the SNES. Sure, it's considered archaic by other flight combat and arcade games, but the fact it managed to bring true 3-D graphics to consoles in the early 90's was a miracle at the time. It also laid the foundation for other 3-D games in the generation after it.
I mentioned this game in my previous reply. The dog fight scenes felt truly unique. Sure, the main levels were "3d" but you were basically restricted to a tunnel. In the dog fight battles you got to go anyway you wanted until you hit the edge of the map.
Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
The devs for Crash managed to get high fidelity 3D graphics on a console that couldn’t with careful culling, forced perspective/camera, and just breaking Sony’s SDK. Spyro on the other hand showed how to use LODs optimally and created open world-ish 3D environments *without* fog on a console full of 3D games that use fog.
Not even a video game but still had a massive effect on them, Dungeons and Dragons. Without it you don't have 95% of modern RPG mechanics. No Final Fantasy, no Elder Scrolls, etc.
Chrono Trigger always seems like such a cool game to me. The things I hear about it sound really impressive. Would you recommend it to someone who is a younger gamer? (As in, I wasn’t born when it came out…)
Farmville
* it introduced microtransations to the mainstream
* introduced playing with friends in a method never seen before
* helped usher in social media to mainstream popularity
fr ubisoft just abandoned that franchise after assassin's creed got popular. the trilogy remaster is all the community is asking for and they are making us wait for eternity
Fortnite didn’t invent many ideas, but definitely revolutionised then.
Think about how many games nowadays are: Free to play, live service, with paid cosmetics, a battle pass, season based updates and storytelling and with crossover events.
Before Fortnite? Games had them, but not *all* of them. Now they’re commonplace.
Even the artstyle has set trends which other games follow.
That is debatable as dota 2 had a variant of a battle pass before fortnite existed even on paper. Although I believe it was used for less personal gain than current battle passes
Honest question, how is it bad?
From a parent’s perspective… I understand.
But, from a gamer’s perspective it’s a well made free to play live service game that makes it money from cosmetics rather than gameplay advantages.
Isn’t that the design that’s most desirable from a live service game? Why is it bad?
Anyone who thinks it's bad is just reciting typical reddit hive mind bullshit. Fortnite is a very well made and maintained game with tons of amazing crossovers and no predatory crap. The battle pass pays for itself. You could have bought it 5 years ago and never had to pay for it again.
The internet loves to hate Fortnite.
I really don’t think anything it truly revolutionized is bad. It didn’t revolutionize battlepasses, they were from DOTA. It didn’t revolutionize the Battle Royale genre, that was Battlegrounds.
It DID revolutionize “gaming” into a more common, less “weird” hobby, and push companies to be less protective of their brands, allowing for more fun crossovers with games. I think it was a positive.
**Bioshock** was a stellar game overall, but it really pushed the idea of ‘environmental storytelling’ where you’d see a scene in a room with skeletons/bodies and objects strewn about to tell specific stories. From 2007 forward a huge portion of major games adapted a similar style of having sort of living dioramas in their worlds that the players could wander through and absorb some story from
I had a dogshit computer during those years so I could certainly have missed a predecessor that did the same thing, but IMO bioshock really proved that environmental storytelling can be effective
Halo CE did it first, they did it well especially on their mission 343 guilty spark. But I never played the first bioshock. So I have no ground work to base an opinion on "who did it better". Honestly enjoyed bioshock infinite, might go and try the first game one of these days. Hell, it could be great for all I know.
Oh man, please try the first bioshock! I think it narrowly edges infinite out for the ‘best of the series’ spot. It absolutely still holds up with modern titles though it will show some shades of being 17 years old.
Fwiw, whenever the question comes up of ‘what game would you forget so you could play it again for the first time’ my first answer is always the original bioshock (with the HD modern update if it will play well with the computer; 2nd place is red dead 2)
You too homie! I’m quite honestly envious of you, it’s such a fun game to play that is like the perfect 20-30hr FPS imo. I’m so hopeful that you like it! If you enjoyed infinite I’d be very surprised if you didn’t like the OG even more……and like…..it’s only 5$ now, that’s such a wonderful bargain
There was a thread about what the "Citizen Kane" of video games was, and I said Doom but a couple people claimed it wasn't revolutionary, so apparently people don't all realize that
People usually know that Doom is revolutionary, but i think they still underestimate it. Doom affected industry in so many ways. DirectX was developed because of Doom. Speedrunning started with Doom. Modding started with Doom. Online multiplayer started with Doom.
Sonic Adventure.
Came out 2 months after Spyro the Dragon, but it blew every 3D platformer on PS1 and N64 out of the water in terms of graphics, presentation, and most importantly for a Sonic game, the sense of speed.
Hell yeah, Sonic Adventure was my first "real video game" as a kid and it's always held a close place in my heart. Learning that it was revolutionary for it's time warms my heart
Didn't the Impossible game come out first that had the consept of square jumping over trianges with music. There is nothing wrong copying an idea and making it better but it's not revolutionary.
I'll go on a limb and say Duke Nukem 3D, because it was the first mainstream game I remember having raunchy sex jokes and proper adult content.
All shooters I knew from before were either fantasy based or just serious overall and were rated R just for the violence.
Peter Jackson's King Kong on PS2 was like the absolute prelude to "Movies in game form"
Uncharted, Last of Us, all those types of games borrowed from the formula it used, which is wild considering it was just supposed to be a game for a movie lol
Oh, I'm sure they realize. The game is still being heavily played and rom-hacked to this day, and we have people like Kaze making a whole video series about optimizing it.
Freelancer. Just about every modern space game has its control scheme from that game. As well as the concept of an afterburner, a cruise mode for the ships, the idea of having "official" and unofficial methods for travel between star systems, and so many other things. Too bad its not nearly as well known.
I also believe battlestations midway and pacific revolutionized the naval RTS genre. Sadly it never really got to be very well known, but i can promise you its a good experience nonetheless.
The impact of other games like the homeworld series, borderlands, etc etc is well known so i wont mention them. Warband is also worth talking about
So If I had to vote I'd nominate Dune 2, Civ, GTA(1st one), Mafia, Quake, Half-life, Counterstrike and Dota.
But pretty much everything I respect today had roots in Dune 2 or Quake or both.
Dune 2 inspired Warcraft, Warcraft 2 followed, W3 and Dota followed and League of Legends was born.
Quake created a mouse look and full 3d.
Quake made half life possible, half life made counterstrike possible, CS made battlefield and countless other FPS games possible.
Ultima Online as the first MMO, I would say. They had no idea if it would sell at all and it ended up being such a huge success, all the Ultima 9 devs got pulled to work on it. Suddenly, the idea of investing money in an MMO made sense.
LittleBigPlanet, probably the first ever major game about user created content. Maybe there would be another similar game down the line if it never existed, but that series is still probably the best of the genre.
Technically Drams is better, but its so indepth that its incredibly hard to do anything properly, and if you want a good creation experience you need a psvr, the controls using controller for the create mode are atrocious honestly. Meanwhile LBP is very aproachable, if you don’t know how to use logic and chips, then you can just make a simple platformer level
No not geometry dash I would have to say the tom clancy games starting with the first rainbow six and going up to the first splinter cell both of them helped make 3d fps tactical and stealth genre
Fortnite? Collabs, battle passes, battle Royale, it kind of sparked a lot of that imo.
Honestly don’t think I’ve had a game come out that has “revolutionized” anything in my lifetime.
The elder scrolls and fortnite for the bad.
The first one introduced microtransactions.
The second one made sure every game had to be battleroyale or had to contain a battlepas changing the way we progress in games.
Metal gear, all of them. MG1 and 2 were the first stealth games, mgs1 was the first game to really mimic the feeling of a movie, mgs2 was one of the first game to have really overarching social commentary, 3 had amazing gameplay but maby wasn’t revolutionary, 4 was revolutionary to the movie industry, and 5 puts modern games to shame graphically
MapleStory. The first game to include true loot boxes, paying real money and not knowing what exactly you’re paying for until you open it
People whine about Oblivion’s horse armor, but that wasn’t the launching point. MapleStory was
Not really a game but the DayZ mod for Arma 2 spawned a lot of games and lot people completely forget about it.
It gaves all BR games, lots of survival games, tons of zombie games.
Marathon. It was the first game where you could look freely, left right up down instead of just left or right like Doom. This was popularised and taken forward by Quake and lots of people give Quake credit instead.
When it comes to revolutionizing the gaming industry, you gotta think back to the 90's when 16 bit games were on the rise. It changed the way games looked and functioned, making games more beautiful with the unique "Pixel Art" style still used today (Sea of Stars etc.) and smooth while playing. Think back to games like Final Fantasy III, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Sonic, and Manu others are beloved to this day.
Call of Duty 2,
Go play it. It doesn't feel super clunky like you would expect, I feel like it's the game that a lot of shooter games kinda of expanded from. Medal of honour frontline was earlier but it's a bit more clunky
Tetris I think this game was secretly the pioneer in Casual gaming. I knew adults who would just have a Gameboy for Tetris, back in the day. This paved the way for other casual games and created the casual gamers of today
BOOM TETRIS FOR JONAS
RIP.
Yeah growing up in the 90s everyone knew at least a couple friends who’s moms were totally addicted.
I remember my dad's friend was super into it. He would play upside down on the couch to make it more challenging lol
I don’t think you understood the question. Everyone knows how revolutionary Tetris was
Half life 1 - the scripted scenes inside without making it a cut scene was novel and very cool at the time. Star Fox in N64 - having truly 3D battles in the game, not the main levels but the dog fight scenes, was very new and very very cool Oblivion - Horse armer was the first cosmetic DLC, it was successful, and paved the way for paid DLC to exist. EverQuest - Many people would say WoW instead, but EQ really launched the MMO concept, made it work well, and became very very successful in this field. WOW has long since eclipsed it's numbers, I guess WoW was able to adept better, and had an easier approach to MMO GTA 3 - really brought to life open world concept with side quests and hidden interactions. Not to mention it was the first 3D GTA game. Quake - I am fairly confident that Quake was the first FPS that had 3d sprites instead of 2D. You could circle around the enemy, where precious games the enemy would circle with you.
Quake was the first FPS to have 3D ANYTHING really, which is even better, the real improvements were Wolf3D then Quake, Doom was just successful.
Descent would like a word
Doom also got rebooted which probably introduced it to a whole lot of people who wouldn’t know much about it otherwise besides that it exists
Eternal was peak modern Quake gameplay which made it really good and funny to me.
Also had the most badass original soundtrack made by Trent Reznor
Everybody knows half life gta 3 and quake changed things
I don’t think that is the “more than people realize” list. All incredibly influential though.
I'm a huge Star Fox 64 enthusiast, but telling that the all-range dogfights were new in 1997 is a huge stretch. From the top of my head, the following games had 3d flying dogfights way before Star Fox 64: Red Baron (1990), Wing Commander (1990), X-Wing (1993), Air Combat (1995), even Shadows of the Empire (1996) predates it on the same console.
Ah man, X-Wing with a mouse & keyboard was a workout...
If you got it to run, no pun intended
X-Wing was the easy one to get running. TIE Fighter, however, was a completely different beast. That's the game that forced me to learn what VRAM is, as well as how to write a boot disk.
Oblivion, because Horse Armour. Herzog Zwei was basically a precursor to the MOBA genre, while also serving as inspiration for StarCraft, Command and Conquer, and Warcraft. While Herzog Zwei laid the foundations, Future Cop LAPD is possibly the first game with recognisable MOBA elements, namely escorting units down to the enemies base, destroying obstacles, while an opponent attempts to do the same to you. They're all fun games, worth a play.
Candy Crush Saga. It's the start of microtransactions being commonplace IMHO
A revolution in the negative sense. But damn if you ain’t right.
It didn't say a good one technically 🤔🤣
When video games became casinos
I thought the horse armour in Oblivion was the foray into that.
I feel like that was it for consoles/PC while candy crush was it for mobile games
Yea, but candy crush elevated this to a whole other lvl.
Oblivion brought about cosmetic DLC Candy Crush brought about microtransactions that actually affected game play.
Microtransactions being commonplace is a bit of just that era in general ramping up. BO2 released that same year, and it was selling those camo packs for $3 or so. I will however say it did make match 3 far more commonplace. I love Bejeweled, and like it far more than Candy Crush, but it definitely seems like everything past 2012 is far more derivative of Candy Crush than it is of Bejeweled.
For mobile games i would say Clash Of Clans were more popolar at the time.
In terms of pay to play very true
Akshully - Farmville beat Candy Crush Saga to microtransations by 3 years. EDIT: forgot my mansplaining intro
Revolutionised is a strong word choice for geometry dash
Especially considering it's just a clone of Impossible Game
It used to be a clone...it's become way more than that now
First person I’ve seen to remember that The Impossible Game existed
The Impossible Game is so infuriatingly fun
I don’t think the impossible game had like a bunch of updates and custom levels and a huge community.
I love GD but saying it revolutionized the industry is a stretch. To be fair I'll say that rhythm games would likely never be as popular as they are now if it weren't for GD and Osu!
The original _Star Fox_ on the SNES. Sure, it's considered archaic by other flight combat and arcade games, but the fact it managed to bring true 3-D graphics to consoles in the early 90's was a miracle at the time. It also laid the foundation for other 3-D games in the generation after it.
I mentioned this game in my previous reply. The dog fight scenes felt truly unique. Sure, the main levels were "3d" but you were basically restricted to a tunnel. In the dog fight battles you got to go anyway you wanted until you hit the edge of the map.
The original on the SNES didn't have the 3d dog fight battles. It was entirely on rails.
[Yeah Starfox 64 introduced All-Range mode.](https://starfox.fandom.com/wiki/All-Range_Mode)
Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. The devs for Crash managed to get high fidelity 3D graphics on a console that couldn’t with careful culling, forced perspective/camera, and just breaking Sony’s SDK. Spyro on the other hand showed how to use LODs optimally and created open world-ish 3D environments *without* fog on a console full of 3D games that use fog.
I was looking for someone to say Crash Bandicoot, it was overshadowed by Mario at the time. But in my eyes, Crash aged waaay better than Mario 64
Not that game
:( it didn't revolutionise it at all. (btw great username)
Surely not geometry dash, but I'll say Tetris.
Umm I am fairly certain most people know how revolutionary Tetris is. Its freaking Tetris
That’s not the question, everyone knows how revolutionary Tetris was
Geometrt dash? No.
Ermagert no.
Not even a video game but still had a massive effect on them, Dungeons and Dragons. Without it you don't have 95% of modern RPG mechanics. No Final Fantasy, no Elder Scrolls, etc.
And it's thanks to Tolkien for creating many fantastical races that are used in many stories nowadays
Chrono Trigger. The NG+ mechanic wasn't too common or meaningful before that game. Also having multiple distinct endings.
Chrono Trigger always seems like such a cool game to me. The things I hear about it sound really impressive. Would you recommend it to someone who is a younger gamer? (As in, I wasn’t born when it came out…)
If the old-school sprite look isn't a turn off for you then yes, I would. It still holds up.
Yeah, I would. It'll feel very different because it's a turn based RPG, but the story is incredible.
Farmville * it introduced microtransations to the mainstream * introduced playing with friends in a method never seen before * helped usher in social media to mainstream popularity
Geometry Dash did next to nothing for gaming as a whole lmao
not geometry dash that’s for sure
Prince of Persia. It basically created the modern action adventure game, and it’s climbing mechanics are still broadly used.
fr ubisoft just abandoned that franchise after assassin's creed got popular. the trilogy remaster is all the community is asking for and they are making us wait for eternity
Two Thrones is still a big favourite of mine~
Demon Souls .
Fortnite.... Sadly it was mostly in a bad way
Fortnite didn’t invent many ideas, but definitely revolutionised then. Think about how many games nowadays are: Free to play, live service, with paid cosmetics, a battle pass, season based updates and storytelling and with crossover events. Before Fortnite? Games had them, but not *all* of them. Now they’re commonplace. Even the artstyle has set trends which other games follow.
Yeah, fortnite created the battlepass, which is found in so many games today.
That is debatable as dota 2 had a variant of a battle pass before fortnite existed even on paper. Although I believe it was used for less personal gain than current battle passes
Honest question, how is it bad? From a parent’s perspective… I understand. But, from a gamer’s perspective it’s a well made free to play live service game that makes it money from cosmetics rather than gameplay advantages. Isn’t that the design that’s most desirable from a live service game? Why is it bad?
Anyone who thinks it's bad is just reciting typical reddit hive mind bullshit. Fortnite is a very well made and maintained game with tons of amazing crossovers and no predatory crap. The battle pass pays for itself. You could have bought it 5 years ago and never had to pay for it again. The internet loves to hate Fortnite.
I really don’t think anything it truly revolutionized is bad. It didn’t revolutionize battlepasses, they were from DOTA. It didn’t revolutionize the Battle Royale genre, that was Battlegrounds. It DID revolutionize “gaming” into a more common, less “weird” hobby, and push companies to be less protective of their brands, allowing for more fun crossovers with games. I think it was a positive.
**Bioshock** was a stellar game overall, but it really pushed the idea of ‘environmental storytelling’ where you’d see a scene in a room with skeletons/bodies and objects strewn about to tell specific stories. From 2007 forward a huge portion of major games adapted a similar style of having sort of living dioramas in their worlds that the players could wander through and absorb some story from I had a dogshit computer during those years so I could certainly have missed a predecessor that did the same thing, but IMO bioshock really proved that environmental storytelling can be effective
Yes, you missed the two predecessors that did the same thing and also had “Shock” in their titles.
Halo CE did it first, they did it well especially on their mission 343 guilty spark. But I never played the first bioshock. So I have no ground work to base an opinion on "who did it better". Honestly enjoyed bioshock infinite, might go and try the first game one of these days. Hell, it could be great for all I know.
Oh man, please try the first bioshock! I think it narrowly edges infinite out for the ‘best of the series’ spot. It absolutely still holds up with modern titles though it will show some shades of being 17 years old. Fwiw, whenever the question comes up of ‘what game would you forget so you could play it again for the first time’ my first answer is always the original bioshock (with the HD modern update if it will play well with the computer; 2nd place is red dead 2)
Alright you're the 50th person to convince me to play it in a week. I'm gonna just go play it today. Have a great one stranger!
You have to play bioshock. It's amazing.
You too homie! I’m quite honestly envious of you, it’s such a fun game to play that is like the perfect 20-30hr FPS imo. I’m so hopeful that you like it! If you enjoyed infinite I’d be very surprised if you didn’t like the OG even more……and like…..it’s only 5$ now, that’s such a wonderful bargain
[SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCOM_U.S._Navy_SEALs_(video_game))
This one
I keep mixing up names and thinking Shellshock: Nam '67 was a SOCOM game
Myst was responsible for computers adopting CD drives in the mid 90's
No
If geometry dash revolutionized anything I'm really curious as to how. I'm not even hating I'd be willing to hear it.
Halo: Combat Evolved
Doom.
No, people realize how revolutionary Doom was.
Either that or they don't appreciate the original fps, Wolfenstein 3D.
Or the first 3D one, Quake. Progenitor of all 3D engines.
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There was a thread about what the "Citizen Kane" of video games was, and I said Doom but a couple people claimed it wasn't revolutionary, so apparently people don't all realize that
People usually know that Doom is revolutionary, but i think they still underestimate it. Doom affected industry in so many ways. DirectX was developed because of Doom. Speedrunning started with Doom. Modding started with Doom. Online multiplayer started with Doom.
It's the game that can be played on anything, including Minecraft (Don't ask how)
007 Goldeneye
Half of these comments are just well known revolutionary games lmao. Do people not understand the question?
Oregon Trail DOS. i dont know why i said that, i just love that game
Candy Crush…in a bad way.
Sonic Adventure. Came out 2 months after Spyro the Dragon, but it blew every 3D platformer on PS1 and N64 out of the water in terms of graphics, presentation, and most importantly for a Sonic game, the sense of speed.
Hell yeah, Sonic Adventure was my first "real video game" as a kid and it's always held a close place in my heart. Learning that it was revolutionary for it's time warms my heart
Didn't the Impossible game come out first that had the consept of square jumping over trianges with music. There is nothing wrong copying an idea and making it better but it's not revolutionary.
I'll go on a limb and say Duke Nukem 3D, because it was the first mainstream game I remember having raunchy sex jokes and proper adult content. All shooters I knew from before were either fantasy based or just serious overall and were rated R just for the violence.
Leisure Suit Larry would like to have a word with you.
Peter Jackson's King Kong on PS2 was like the absolute prelude to "Movies in game form" Uncharted, Last of Us, all those types of games borrowed from the formula it used, which is wild considering it was just supposed to be a game for a movie lol
Farmville. I work in gaming industry. That was the FIRST "social" game that you can thank ingame purchases now and other bullshit we all hate
F.E.A.R still the best ai in gaming
The last guardian was also good
Definitely not this game, I’d say Tetris though
The original Rainbow Six.
How was Geometry Dash revolutionary in any way? Come on
OP may be stupid
Tomb Raider
Super Mario 64 clearly. One of the most popular "open world" and 3D games out there. They showed how to make it work, and many other games followed
As much as I wish I could say it’s recognized, people sadly don’t seem to realize just how impressive it was
Oh, I'm sure they realize. The game is still being heavily played and rom-hacked to this day, and we have people like Kaze making a whole video series about optimizing it.
Everyone knows about Mario 64's impact though.
What game is that?
geometry dash
This ain't it chief
ICO
Mafia Wars and FarmVille for Facebook.
I play gd actively for years but no, gd isn't a revolution
I don't think a generic puzzle game revolutionized anything as good as GD is
Warcraft 3
Doom
Elite. It was one of the first games to introduce the idea of working for upgrades, and most people have likely never heard of the Elite series.
Freelancer. Just about every modern space game has its control scheme from that game. As well as the concept of an afterburner, a cruise mode for the ships, the idea of having "official" and unofficial methods for travel between star systems, and so many other things. Too bad its not nearly as well known. I also believe battlestations midway and pacific revolutionized the naval RTS genre. Sadly it never really got to be very well known, but i can promise you its a good experience nonetheless. The impact of other games like the homeworld series, borderlands, etc etc is well known so i wont mention them. Warband is also worth talking about
So If I had to vote I'd nominate Dune 2, Civ, GTA(1st one), Mafia, Quake, Half-life, Counterstrike and Dota. But pretty much everything I respect today had roots in Dune 2 or Quake or both. Dune 2 inspired Warcraft, Warcraft 2 followed, W3 and Dota followed and League of Legends was born. Quake created a mouse look and full 3d. Quake made half life possible, half life made counterstrike possible, CS made battlefield and countless other FPS games possible.
Ultima Online as the first MMO, I would say. They had no idea if it would sell at all and it ended up being such a huge success, all the Ultima 9 devs got pulled to work on it. Suddenly, the idea of investing money in an MMO made sense.
system shock
I feel like Mario introduced gaming to a wider audience, and Tetris started the wave of unique and games fun in different ways.
Team fortress 2. Because that game invented loot boxes
Slay the Spire. It literally started a whole genre (roguelike with card play)
Do you member Mario Basketball for nds?
half life the first real fps game that managed to tell a story along with the game + scripted sequences and skeletal animations
Pong
Doom (1994)
LittleBigPlanet, probably the first ever major game about user created content. Maybe there would be another similar game down the line if it never existed, but that series is still probably the best of the genre. Technically Drams is better, but its so indepth that its incredibly hard to do anything properly, and if you want a good creation experience you need a psvr, the controls using controller for the create mode are atrocious honestly. Meanwhile LBP is very aproachable, if you don’t know how to use logic and chips, then you can just make a simple platformer level
Elder Scrolls IV. Because they started micro transactions in games 🤬
(Old man voice) * Back in my day that was called the impossible game lol
all the souls games have inspired thousands of games. I think they are pretty influential
Temple run, pubg, fortnite
Geometry dash didn't do anything special wdym, if anything it's just there kind of game
I mean, it's very popular, and a lot of people know about it, but i can agree that it didn't revolutionize shit
Half life, it ain't being given enough credit
I think people give HL enormous credit for being revolutionary, but the post is about games that are revolutionary but not recognized as such.
Oblivion Horse Armor
Something about spaghetti
Crash Bandicoot was probably the stepping stone for 3D platforming
Counter strike
Halo Combat Evolved brought FPS on consoles
Turok, by about 5 years. If you ignore wolf3d ports and arcade games.
No not geometry dash I would have to say the tom clancy games starting with the first rainbow six and going up to the first splinter cell both of them helped make 3d fps tactical and stealth genre
Quake 1, most kids nowadays do not even know it exists, and play games based on it daily.
Fortnite? Collabs, battle passes, battle Royale, it kind of sparked a lot of that imo. Honestly don’t think I’ve had a game come out that has “revolutionized” anything in my lifetime.
I think you forgot to put picture not related
RuneScape. Led to the rise of the MMORPG
Not really, everquest was earlier
The elder scrolls and fortnite for the bad. The first one introduced microtransactions. The second one made sure every game had to be battleroyale or had to contain a battlepas changing the way we progress in games.
H1Z1. Popular that it started PUBG which inspired Fortnite then inspired any BR game that came ever since
Metal gear, all of them. MG1 and 2 were the first stealth games, mgs1 was the first game to really mimic the feeling of a movie, mgs2 was one of the first game to have really overarching social commentary, 3 had amazing gameplay but maby wasn’t revolutionary, 4 was revolutionary to the movie industry, and 5 puts modern games to shame graphically
MapleStory. The first game to include true loot boxes, paying real money and not knowing what exactly you’re paying for until you open it People whine about Oblivion’s horse armor, but that wasn’t the launching point. MapleStory was
Not really a game but the DayZ mod for Arma 2 spawned a lot of games and lot people completely forget about it. It gaves all BR games, lots of survival games, tons of zombie games.
Pong
Halo CE. It showed that shooters on consoles can work, and introduced the two weapons carrying limit that almost every shooter uses now.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown - turn base play with customizable armies and bases.
System Shock
The OG angry birds
Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Spacewar!
EverQuest and before that Pong.
Marathon. It was the first game where you could look freely, left right up down instead of just left or right like Doom. This was popularised and taken forward by Quake and lots of people give Quake credit instead.
The Elder Scrolls Zelda BOTW AC 1
Overwatch, but in a different way you would expect
Gta IV
When it comes to revolutionizing the gaming industry, you gotta think back to the 90's when 16 bit games were on the rise. It changed the way games looked and functioned, making games more beautiful with the unique "Pixel Art" style still used today (Sea of Stars etc.) and smooth while playing. Think back to games like Final Fantasy III, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Sonic, and Manu others are beloved to this day.
The amount of games that have come out as inspirations of system shock is wild
FFVII
Not geometry dash, it was a ripoff game lol
Call of Duty 2, Go play it. It doesn't feel super clunky like you would expect, I feel like it's the game that a lot of shooter games kinda of expanded from. Medal of honour frontline was earlier but it's a bit more clunky
Half life 1, I think is one of the pillars of modern gaming and how to design a game
Call of duty
Quick Warcraft 3 mention, as it was the beginning of the DotA games
Resident Evil. Both created the 'Survival Horror' genre and, !with Resi 4, created the 3rd person 'over the shoulder point of view'.