What is the greatest or most influential video game series

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:52 am

weirdobeardo wrote:

What happened to the Metal Gear series?

Metal Gear is one of my favorites...as is Socom all the Socom's were good but due to all the online cheater's, the gaming world is starting to suffer!

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:16 am

In terms of influence , I have to throw-in Dune .

Dune, and Dune 2 in particular, were both forerunners of many games, and prompted other games in similar styles, some better, many not so good.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:29 pm

laoghaire wrote:

i played and enjoyed the entire myst - riven series. i think this was a big development phase for sound, graphics and immersion play.

i've yet to find something that compares to it, everything is violent.

I wish they still made point and click adventure games.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:31 am

Castle wolfenstien and doom were foremost in fps. No one can deny the command and conquer series including the renegade fps game and the new renegade-x.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:53 am

What, no Leisure Suit Larry? Old school games I remember and liked Drug Wars, Space Quest and/or Kings Quest. Next Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, then Doom. For those that like Halo, which is made by Bungee Software, they released a game called Marathon in the mid 90's, which I believe is exactly what the Halo series was based on.

I think another game changer was the whole "Sims". I think they really started off the whole create your own world/city etc style game, early reality before reality was cool. I remember wasting a lot of time on that game as a kid.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:52 am

Crash Bandicoot was the first game i got when i first bought the PS1 !
Awesome Series.

Wink

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:41 am

How could i forget Super Mario Kart on the SNES, i spent many hours of my mis-spent childhood playing that game Laughing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Kart

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:48 pm

chefjoshuasmith wrote:

What, no Leisure Suit Larry? Old school games I remember and liked Drug Wars, Space Quest and/or Kings Quest. Next Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, then Doom. For those that like Halo, which is made by Bungee Software, they released a game called Marathon in the mid 90's, which I believe is exactly what the Halo series was based on.

I think another game changer was the whole "Sims". I think they really started off the whole create your own world/city etc style game, early reality before reality was cool. I remember wasting a lot of time on that game as a kid.

good one. i feel like some of those games like drug wars were just indie games with other influences. they may be responsible for games like gta, but i doubt it. king's quest is good. i actually just started playing 6 again. but i think that myst may have come before.

you guys are all coming up with ones i regret not posting. im wondering how full the other option would be at this point...sorry.

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:27 pm

What???

No Monkey Island?

Sacrilege!!! Monkey Island is the best.

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:07 am

mario brothers!!! *sings the do do do do dodododo do dodo do dodododo do do*

with out them I'd never know if i jumped on a turtle they pop right out of their shell!! FIRST GO!!! it changed hunting tactics for island nations forever!! redefined their culture!

Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 11:24 pm

What, no love for 8-bit Mega Man games Sad

??? For me, that was my favourite franchise of all time, so much happy memories.... I think I beat Mega Man 2 at the tender age of 7-8 years old and I'd pop it in my NES anytime just to relive once again those memories... But the most influential in general gaming I think would be Mario, Zelda (for which I voted) and Street Fighter 2 (pacino said it was a beat em up (Final Fight, street of Rage), but he's wrong it's a fighting game ! Laughing

) I really miss that ''Golden Age of Gaming'' ... Now most of what we got nowadays are stupid Halo wannabe sci-fi shooters, sports and racing games, especially on Xbox consoles, that's one of the many reasons why I never owned one and never will...

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How could i forget Super Mario Kart on the SNES, i spent many hours of my mis-spent childhood playing that game Laughing

Indeed it is, in fact I think that Snes may be the best consoles of all time and may be never detroned because of such masterpieces... Ebay is in fact calling me to buy it !

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 11:46 pm

Of the ones listed I would have to go with Doom. It changed the way people looked at gaming.

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 1:34 pm

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 7:24 am

GTA all the way is the best video game serie...the old ones are classic.. Laughing

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:47 pm

Metal Gear Solid Series. I didn't even have to think, lol.