In any medium of entertainment, there are works that do more than make a splash with their quality. Thanks to the way they changed up how they present consumers with a story, provided a new method of interacting with the material presented, or otherwise found ways to take games forward, these eleven titles are some of the most influential video games that changed the industry forever.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
How do composers make the iconic music tracks from games that we love? And just what makes them so memorable?
Twitter is blowing up right now
All games coming to PlayStation
Next Xbox will have steam
Next Xbox niche and only for “gamers who want it” (it’s a really powerful pc or a steam deck type portable, or both)
YouTuber Potomy has revealed new details about the new Bloodborne mod and that it is now in a playable state for Minecraft.
Pokemon? Nah... phenomenon, don't get me wrong, but it hardly influenced game design or anything. Just a mega popular JRPG, mostly because it appealed to kids (including me).
I'm surprised Uncharted 2 isn't listed on here. I feel like it revolutionized story telling in games.
Might have just been when I grew up but I'm surprised WoW isn't on here
i'm not going to jump through 11 pages. is demon souls on there? it should be. it started the "souls games".
What about the original Doom.. surely that one game kick started the whole First Person genre. And the first ever Tomb Raider, which is the Granddaddy of third person games.. Uncharted, Last Of Us.. and finally, the first Gran Turismo which opened up detailed, customisable racing games with a myriad of cars.