OldBoy

I did this in movie thread, but thought apropos of here too. As I'm going through the remake of RE2, i wonder and think the Resident Evil series as a game series probably revolutionized or start the horror survival genre. at least the first. i know there have many sequels and incarnations with various gameplay spread through almost all of them, but i think the first in series was heralded as a game that changed the genre going forward.

I think maybe Halo, even though FPS has been around much longer, but somehow (with story, style, play) that revolutionized games as well...

Dan

Dan

guys, I know I'm right about Peggle 2, but the rest of y'all have to have some suggestions.

OldBoy

I think Metroid (NES). I know there were side scrollers before it, but after the incarnations of this franchise it seemed everything was compared. And then the term Metroidvania style or something like that. All seem to get compared from its onset...

fujishig

I dunno where to start, there are way too many (or maybe I'm misinterpreting this thread)

Platformer:
Super Mario Bros: savior of gaming, the basis of the modern platformer.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Super Mario 64: the 3d platformer

Roguelikes:
Nethack: sure Rogue is the original and where the name comes from, but Nethack is the first I remember playing. Roguelikes are like all the rage now, but the modern lineage is definitely due to:
Dark Souls: the modern roguelike. Punishingly difficult.

RPGs:
Dragon Quest 1: the birth of the JRPG.

FPS:
I'd say Goldeneye was the first really popular console FPS, paving the way for Halo and the like. But obviously FPS's go further back on PC, to Wolfenstein and Doom.

Fighting games:
Street Fighter 2 spawned an industry


I mean you could go on and on. GTA3 and the open world. Sim City, the Sims, Minecraft, Warcraft 2 to Starcraft, Diablo to Diablo 2. MMORPGs from Ultima Online to Everquest to World of Warcraft.

Decker

Kingdom Hearts 3

robin2099

This is way too open ended of a question and kind of a nonsensical one. The reason being is that you could interpret it a couple of ways. You could say a game was revolutionary, or you could mention games that built off of it and thus became revolutionary. For instance Double Dragon is pretty much considered the first side scrolling beat em up, but Final Fight set the standard that the genre followed, and Konami improved upon it and set a new standard when they started doing four player and six player cabinets and everyone followed suit(unless you include Gauntlet which had four players first.).Doom was the game that inspired and created all first person shooters, but Half Life became the template that FPS games followed, and then Halo upped it to the point that it became the standard bearer. Metroid did the exploration game first, but the genre didn't really take off until Symphony of the Night came out. Metal Gear Solid popularized stealth games in America, but you could make a very strong argument that Splinter Cell had more of an impact as the genre moved forward. Street Fighter 2 created the fighting craze , but Mortal Kombat popularized the violent fighting game genre, and Virtua Fighter and Tekken popularized 3-D fighting.

mattysemo247

Tomb Raider (2013) & God of War (2018)

Both games rebooted the franchises and changed the look and gameplay from the games that came before them.

RichC2

I just read the title as basically "Influential games, and the contributions to their genre"

Halo popularized regenerating health in FPS games, even though it had regenerating shields + underlying health, the core concept still caught on like crazy from there even though it didn't originate it.