But this list is pretty selective in its gaming game history. I'm an old geezer, and i am missing A LOT of old titles that could be seen as important in games history. Populous? Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder? The Sentinel? Wizzbal? Sensible Soccer/Kick off 2? MGS? Wing Commander? Descent? Elite? Ultima? I could go on. These are all games that made a mark in gaming history and have been in top 10's 20-30 years back.Before the internet there was only magazine's and i bought a ton of those. Never did i see Oregon's Trail this high in a top 10-20-50-100 list.
Yeah. That one really sticks out. Some strange omissions, but an entertaining list nevertheless.
The list looked ok until this random pick.
lol no one gives a fuck about ROTTR compared to TLOU bar a dozensofus.gif group of people (congrats on being part of this elite and incredibly small group of people). The game also came out over 3 years and it's held on an incredibly high standard. The game is one of the games last gen and to some it is the best game last generation on all platforms.IDK I think TLOU is good and all, but it just has some good dialogue and story. Even comparing with something like ROTTR, Tomb Raider has way, way, way better gameplay and exploration elements. I dont think TLOU will be that well remembered a few years from now, maybe some people and magazines will forget about it.
NFL 2K5 is flat-out a better game than BioShock. So is Tecmo Super Bowl. That's two, count 'em, two NFL games that are better than BioShock.
I know that people here sometimes have a hard time wrapping their heads around the high quality of great sports games, but that doesn't make them bad games.
I'm not much for sports gaming at all and can definitely understand putting some on the 'most influential' list... but what makes Madden 2k5 better than all the other sports games? What was it about that year in particular that made it stand out, when there's been over 25 years worth of Maddens?
What a dumb ass list
where is Half Life?
Starcraft?
Street Fighter 2?
Honestly that's one of the best top 10s I've seen. Not going to comment on the full 50 but it made me really happy to see The Oregon Trail in there.
Who said anything about Madden? NFL 2K5 isn't a Madden title, different developer.
The Oregon Trail was a literal trailblazer, and its first incarnation was in 1971. The Carmen Sandiego series didn't appear until fourteen years later.
Also, for posterity and to keep up with the general trend of this thread: No Horizon: Zero Dawn, no Breath of the Wild, no FFVII remake and no God of War XI = shit list.
edit: Actually reading the synopsis on Mortal Kombat shows that it's on the list not because of its actual gameplay, but because of the controversy it stirred and how it supposedly paved the way for more "Mature" games.
I'm not much for sports gaming at all and can definitely understand putting some on the 'most influential' list... but what makes Madden 2k5 better than all the other sports games? What was it about that year in particular that made it stand out, when there's been over 25 years worth of Maddens?
This is probably the worst top x video game list i have ever seen.
ESPN NFL 2K5 did a few things that other games didn't do.
First, in terms of in-game mechanics, it had the best ever seen in a football game. It's hard to explain if you're not a huge football fan, but stuff like the receivers dragging their feet to stay in-bounds on sideline catches so that you could run certain routes (like out routes) effectively for pretty much the first time in a video game was HUGE as far as making for a real sim version of video football. There were tons of these mechanics that made it pretty much the most advanced sim ever seen at that time by a surprising margin. Madden took a lot of what 2K5 did and put that into future Madden games, in fact.
It had first-person QB'ing, which was another innovation.
It had the strongest presentation so far in terms of commentary and looking like an NFL game.
It also had the crib that you could upgrade and decorate, use to take on the teams of B- and C-list celebrities, acquire and listen to songs from the extensive soundtrack, etc. It was actually a pretty sweet diversion.
And finally, it was so good, so creative, and so diverse for a sim football game (and for only twenty dollars!) that Madden had to pay for exclusivity rights to making NFL games to kill the 2K football series. That's how great it was.
As far as this list, three sports games come to mind as worthy of consideration for a top fifty list:
- ESPN NFL 2K5
- Tecmo Super Bowl
- NBA Jam
Also these type of lists always have way too much Zelda, like an unwritten law that you include lots of Zelda high up even if the list makers haven't played a single minute, like its sacrosanct and you'll lose face if you don't boringly include the token 2-3 Zelda games in the top 10
This can't be serious.
I was born in 88 so I'm not too young based on what Wikipedia says. But I am from the UK, and that is not the game we had on our Apple machines in school. We had text adventures, but not that. I'm still surprised that despite having been on the internet and following gaming things all my life, I have no recollection of this ever being mentioned.I don't know, maybe you are just young? Or you don't know about game history much? It's not the articles fault that you haven't heard of Oregon Trail, it's on you.
You guys are really going to say Half Life 2 which went on to directly influencing how the Call of Duty series were made, which is the biggest console game franchise that isn't F2P, is less influential than Half Life 1? That is absurd.
Do you have any specific reasons you believe otherwise?