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#1 quick_hurry
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I have picked 5 games that I think have forever changed gaming and listed them here,here they are (In no particular order):

Super Mario World

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Grand Theft Auto III

Wolfenstein 3D

Half-Life

I didn't post my reasons for choosing these games as to leave it to your discussion.

Feedback Appreciated.

Thx.

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#2 chocolate1325
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I would say 5 games that changed gaming were

Super Mario 64

Super Mario Bros

Street Fighter 2

The Legend of Zelda

Goldeneye

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#3 wolverine4262
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Super mario 64 LoZ:OOT Goldeneye Halo Kotor
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#4 Onizuka36
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For me, I would choose The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Street Fighter II, Wolfenstein 3D, and Ultima Online.
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#5 JetLagz28
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Dune 2

Super Mario Brothers

The Legend of Zelda

Wolfenstien 3D

Mario 64

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#6 deathtarget04
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I would say 5 games that changed gaming were

Super Mario 64

Super Mario Bros

Street Fighter 2

The Legend of Zelda

Goldeneye

chocolate1325

pretty much what i was gonna say.

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#8 Riverwolf007
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pac-man

super mario 64

GTA 3

pong

doom

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#9 shoryuken_
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Super Mario Bros. 1

Pong

Super Mario 64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Wii Sports because of "teh casualz!"

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#10 Salt_The_Fries
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Wolfenstein 3Dquick_hurry
Not at all, not in the slightest. Popularized the genre? Sure! But it was already overshadowed and surpassed before it was even released... Here's my wall of text about Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss and less so about System Shock 1: "It was only a superficial revolution for those who missed true technical achievement that happened two months before Wolfenstein 3D, overshadowed it and surpassed it in every way possible, and I'll explain why: While Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom had no real 3-D environment, Ultima Underworld was trully 3-D, you could run, jump, fly, levitate, and even swim in water, you had a fully 3-D environment. Best of all was the mouse movement, made moving smooth and easy. Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom were really 2-1/2 D games (no ability to move in a up-down fashion), Ultima Undeworld had also much better (and eerier) graphics than what id had released at the time. Unlike earlier first-person RPGs like Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, the player can move in every direction and the graphics are updated continually. The dungeon also is not made entirely of corridors and rooms arranged in a rectangular fashion but has a lot of variety: slopes, stairs, bridges and more. "Ultima Underworld" featured not only true 3D VGA graphics which were revolutionary for its time and even surpassed id's "Doom" in many ways but, yet more revolutionary, used them to render believable, realistic environments. Despite of the graphics' visible age, the actual "dungeon simulation" part still works perfectly fine, colouring is dark and sufficiently naturalistic and, most important, level design always goes hand in hand with technical aspects. As with its in-official successor "System Shock" (and probably to an even stronger degree), rooms and corridors always serve a distinct purpose - one notices a fishing rod next to a small pond, it is owned by a goblin who lives not too far off, when one enters a small alcove filled with some jewelry and heaps of rotten cheese one is attacked by a rat, most NPCs have their own rooms and/or sleeping places etc. etc. "Ultima Underworld"s graphics were thus not only technically noticeable, but also the how and why of their usage was way ahead of its time. It single-handedly and directly inspired The Elder Scrolls series that followed later (including Morrowind, Oblivion, and earlier: Arena and Daggerfall), and FPS/RPG hybrid games such as System Shock 1 (done by the same people) and 2 (done by part of the same people), Deus Ex, etc. The game was non-linear; The player character may carry light sources to extend the line of sight, with some, like lanterns, providing more light than others; An automap fills in according to what the player has seen above a certain brightness, with the additional feature of allowing the player to write notes on it; Some weapons possess different types of attacks depending on where the cursor is held; when held near the bottom of the screen, the attack might be a jab, while the middle produces a slash - something that The Elder Scrolls series copied directly. Intelligent AI: enemies sometimes try to escape when near death.Occasionally, the game's rudimentary stealth system can be used to avoid combat. The player may also cast spells, done by selecting an appropriate combination of "runestones". The conversations have multiple dialogue choices To aid orientation, some great set-pieces are scattered throughout the game, differently textured walls indicate different parts of the dungeons, banners are used to mark inhabited areas (if the inhabitants are friendly, at least) and a simple, but effective colour scheme is used throughout the game. With all its technical limitations, "Underworld" employs a gradual colour "shift" from black to red as the player approaches the games' central core. This is hinted at right from the beginning when the player looks through a window down into the inner chasm of this "Stygian Abyss" (in a separate screen) and notices a faint red glow at the bottom. This red glow will get more and more close to the player as he/she looks through similar windows on deeper levels, heightening his/her expectation, until from level 6 onwards more and more lava regions have to be tackled. In level 8, most everything has gone red. Such a stringent dramatic use of colouring is always welcome and far from being self-evident even in modern games. For a game from back then, it's just marvellous. And development of Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss led to its spiritual successor, System Shock that pushed the envelope in its respectable genre, FPS/RPG hybrid even more, retaining full 3D environment, adding physics, telling the whole story without interruption of gameplay via audio logs (exactly what was done in Dead Space 14 years later, magnificent influence of the game, isn't it?), prototype of WSAD-like controls (SZXC to be precise), ability to lean left and lean right (something which was used 5 years after in another game of these same authors: Thief: The Dark Project), customizable difficulty of puzzles, combat, gameplay, etc., RPG and puzzle elements in FPP shooter game, and so on, on and on, I could go on for like forever what this game meant to history of games. It influenced Half-Life, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, BioShock, Dead Space, etc. Of course, I can't deny that Wolfenstein and Doom were much much more popular, but that has nothing to do with the gaming revolution itself, because I proved that id software games were outdated and surpassed in every way possible at (or even before) their release date, but sadly not everyone knows this. Similar things happen to the music, but that's another story. Ok, that's more or less it. It was a combination of my own thoughts and some found info."
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#11 jim_bojones
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1. Demons Souls 2. inFamous 3. Uncharted 2 4. Resistance 2 5. Killzone 2
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#12 shoryuken_
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1. Demons Souls 2. inFamous 3. Uncharted 2 4. Resistance 2 5. Killzone 2jim_bojones

That's quite a diverse list you have there. :roll:

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1. Demons Souls 2. inFamous 3. Uncharted 2 4. Resistance 2 5. Killzone 2jim_bojones
was the topic 5 games that finally turned the ps3 from a running gag in sw into an actual game system after only a 2 year wait?

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#14 CaptainHarley
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I would say 5 games that changed gaming were

Super Mario 64

Super Mario Bros

Street Fighter 2

The Legend of Zelda

Goldeneye

chocolate1325

this is pretty solid, though i dont know about goldeneye.

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#15 monson21502
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halo

gears of war

forza

left 4 dead

crackdown

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#16 jim_bojones
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[QUOTE="monson21502"]

halo

gears of war

forza

left 4 dead

crackdown

just No. Read OP please.
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#17 tucker1103
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5. Super Mario Bros.

4. Final Fantasy

3. Resident Evil

2. Halo: Combat Evolved

1. Grand Theft Auto 3

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#18 wolverine4262
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[QUOTE="jim_bojones"][QUOTE="monson21502"]

halo

gears of war

forza

left 4 dead

crackdown

just No. Read OP please.

LMAO! I see that you are going to fit in just fine here...
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#19 nintendoboy16
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Super Mario Bros. Prince of Persia (original) Goldeneye Zelda Can't think of anything else...
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#20 shoryuken_
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C'mon nobody else put Pong? That game started it all!

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#22 T_0_D
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My five would be:

1. Pong: Obviously.
2. Legend of Zelda:Really took gaming to the next level as far as public conciousness. Every adventure game that followed owes something to LoZ.
3. Wii Sports:People that I never thought would pick up a controller and play a video game have played this game.
4. Everquest Online: Predecessor to WoW and the first real online MMO that I can remember.
5. Wolfenstein: Started it all for shooters as far as I am concerned.

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#23 egalsim
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Dune 2 (father of all modern day rts's)

Pitfall (years before mario and one of the original platform games)

Ultima Online (I think it was the original MMORPG)

Doom (wasn't the first, but introduced 3D environments and you could look all around, but had 2d sprites)

Pong (first commercial video game)

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#24 michael582
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Super Mario Bros

Super Mario 64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Final Fantasy VII

Halo

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#25 monson21502
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[QUOTE="jim_bojones"][QUOTE="monson21502"]

halo

gears of war

forza

left 4 dead

crackdown

just No. Read OP please.

halo. started online gaming on consoles gears of war. cover system, curb stomp, bad ass forza. custom car, great online for a boring genra left 4 dead . gets the team together great Al never the same crack down. open the door for non gta sandbox games like imfamous and prototype and many more.
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#26 medicine_freak
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Fallout 1 : Introduced truely RPG experience.

GTA III: The jump from 2D to 3D was a huge triumph for Sand Boxes.

Starcraft: Brood Wars: Introduced personalities to RTS.

Final Fantasy 7: It really is really the game that everyone associates when they hear the acronym "JRPG".

Half-Life = The first truly immersive FPS experience I ever played, and I think most scripted FPSs used a lot from that model.

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#27 monson21502
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also xbox live changed gaming for ever. thank you so much ms for forcing old fashioned sony and nintendo tomake games with online modes.

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#28 shoryuken_
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halo. started online gaming on consoles gears of war. cover system, curb stomp, bad ass forza. custom car, great online for a boring genra left 4 dead . gets the team together great Al never the same crack down. open the door for non gta sandbox games like imfamous and prototype and many more. now what kid?monson21502

Dreamcast had online on consoles before Halo was even conceived.

Gears of War: Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell had cover systems I think..

Forza: You could customize in NFS Underground if I remember correctly..

Left 4 Dead: Good game, but there have been many team based shooters before.

Crackdown: Idk what that even is LOL

Now what kid?

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#29 Meowmixxvi
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My five would be:

1. Pong: Obviously.
2. Legend of Zelda:Really took gaming to the next level as far as public conciousness. Every adventure game that followed owes something to LoZ.
3. Wii Sports:People that I never thought would pick up a controller and play a video game have played this game.
4. Everquest Online: Predecessor to WoW and the first real online MMO that I can remember.
5. Wolfenstein: Started it all for shooters as far as I am concerned.

T_0_D

agreed! just add mario

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#30 dark-warmachine
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The Legend of Zelda

Street Fighter 2

Resident Evil

Grand Theft Auto 3

Kill.Switch/Gears of War

Prince of Persia (truly unique) tho it's combat system don't compare to NG and DMC3

Wolfenstein/Metal Gear

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#31 egalsim
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I forgot to mention Wing Commander, that game brought the cinematic experience to video games and it was an ok space shooter to boot.

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#32 sonic_spark
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Super Mario 64/ Ocarina of Time (Control in a 3d environment)
Goldeneye (Console Shooter)
Legend of Zelda NES (No linear path, Open Exploration)
Wii Sports (Casual Gaming, Motion Controls)
Street Fighter II (The core formula for fighting games).

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#33 rockzo
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1. Super Mario Bros-Changed the way games looked and played forever.

2. Final Fantasy VII- Same as above, Was the first game that made a game feel and look more cinematic. First game that felt like it was more then a game.

3. Half Life 2 saga. Perfected what Final Fantasy VII did and made it into a seamless real time experince.

4. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time- One of the most rich and deep experince ever to see the light of day on a console.

5. TES III Morrowind- Took the idea of what a RPG is supposed to be and throws you into one of the largest and indepth worlds ever created.

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#34 XBebop
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1. Super Mario Bros: Has directly influenced hundreds upon hundreds of games. Possibly thousands.

2. Ultima Underworld: Every 3D RPG and FPS can trace its roots back to this game.

3. The Legend of Zelda: Every adventure game afterward had to have looked to LoZ for inspiration.

4. Ultima Online: The first MMO, 'nuff said.

5. Grand Theft Auto 3: Has spawned 3 sequels that have each sold gangbusters. Also, many sandbox games may not exist.

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#35 cametall
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Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Doom
Halo
Final Fantasy VII

Someone said Wii Sports, which is a good one too.

EDIT: yay GlitchSpot!

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#36 rsoxguy12
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Super Mario 64

Legend of Zelda: OoT

Final Fantasy VII

Halo 2

Grand Theft Auto

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#37 Lethalhazard
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I'd agree with that list. Metroid Prime changed gaming for me, personally :P. Overall, I think the games you listed were probably the most industry changing. Fit in Goldeneye though :P.
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#38 Solid_Tango
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1)-MGS1 2)Shadow of the collosus 3) Halo ( online wise) 4)-MGS3 5) -Little big planet
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#39 nintendoboy16
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Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Doom
Halo
Final Fantasy VII

Someone said Wii Sports, which is a good one too.

cametall

What did Wii Sports even do?

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1)-MGS1 2)Shadow of the collosus 3) Halo ( online wise) 4)-MGS3 5) -Little big planetSolid_Tango

PC games had superior online long before Halo was even created. (CounterStrike)

SoTC didn't really cause anything groundbreaking IMO. It was a good game, but it definitely started getting repetitive towards the end.

LBP: level editor thing was cool. I love Sackboy :P

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#41 shoryuken_
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What did Wii Sports even do?

nintendoboy16

It started this whole casual movement, which has been a big shift in the gaming industry during the past few years. It also oversold Super Mario Bros. 1, which used to be the highest selling game of all time.

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#42 gingerdivid
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For some reason, a lot of people are saying Goldeneye as their only fps.

That's a dodgy pick.

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#43 Helghan_Pride
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1. Pong

2. Wolfenstein 3D

3. Mario 64

4. MGS 1

5. Gran Turismo

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#44 shoryuken_
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Tetris is a good one I think..

Also Diablo I and Warcraft I started Battle.net..that was a big breakthrough for online gaming.

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mrs packman

wonderboy in monsterland

super mario 3

ocarina of time

final fantasy 7

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#46 roddollente
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Super Mario Bros.

Tetris

Wolfenstein 3D

Legend of Zelda

Pepsiman :D

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#47 DarkLink77
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Here's some (five isn't enough):

Doom (The FPS)

Super Mario Bros. (Duh)

Super Mario 64 (A "how-to" on 3D gaming)

Ultima Online (1st MMO)

Quake (Other online stuff)

Goldeneye (FPS on a console? RIDICULOUS!)

Final Fantasy VII (Every JRPG to come after owes it a measure of success)

Half-Life (Changed FPS forver)

StarCraft (Arguably the best RTS ever made)

The Legend of Zelda

Pong

Pac Man

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#48 Alpha-Male22
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Don't know about general gaming, but 5 games that changed me as a gamer include:

-Shadow of the Colossus (Nothing needs to be said for this game. I can't start describing it and I'm sure you all know about the game. If not, shame on you)

-Grand Theft Auto 3 (Entered the next generation with the PS2 and was overwhelmed with the world of GTA. Being a fan of GTA 1 and seeing the game go where it went was beautiful)

-Halo Combat Evolved (First major online game I played-- ridiculously addictive and competitive. Oh yeah, and the game was just AWESOME)

-Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (First online console game, was/am addicted with it)

-Dark Cloud 2 (Awe-inspiring use of music and artistic scenery. Like a mature fairy tale come to life)

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pong (the mother of all games) doom asteroid starcraft halo (revolutionized online gaming on consoles)
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#50 gamecubepad
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I would say 5 games that changed gaming were

Super Mario 64

Super Mario Bros

Street Fighter 2

The Legend of Zelda

Goldeneye

chocolate1325

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