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Jotamide
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Guitar Hero/Rock Band, Minecraft, and Angry Birds.
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What are this gen's pop-culture classics?
- Thread starter guek
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'Gaming pop culture' would appear to imply something specific to the 'core' audience.
In which case, people will be talking about Portal in ten years. Ten years isn't very long though. It's already been five pretty much.
This is basically the gaming equivalent of Indiana Jones, and it will be just as popular 10 years from now.
Lawl
You're lumping Uncharted with WoW and CoD, get real dude :b
Hes talking about an entirely different subset of pop culture, though.
Yep.
Gaming pop culture?
I'm not sure how that exists just personally, but my answer probably still stands for gaming pop culture too.
Throw in Gears, WoW, MAYBE Portal and GTA 4.
If we're talking about this generation's impact on pop culture, the list (in no particular order) is:
> Angry Birds
> Call of Duty
> World of Warcraft
> Wii Sports
> Guitar Hero/Rock Band
> Minecraft
I understand the OP is speaking more specifically about what video game culture will remember about this generation 10 years from now, but I think that's harder to say. Portal, Uncharted and Dark Souls are good answers, but I think gaming culture definitely will remember the games I listed above because of their wide-ranging impact.
> Angry Birds
> Call of Duty
> World of Warcraft
> Wii Sports
> Guitar Hero/Rock Band
> Minecraft
I understand the OP is speaking more specifically about what video game culture will remember about this generation 10 years from now, but I think that's harder to say. Portal, Uncharted and Dark Souls are good answers, but I think gaming culture definitely will remember the games I listed above because of their wide-ranging impact.
Dance Inferno
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The thread isn't called, "Which games sold the most this gen?" Uncharted's set pieces have become the de facto standard for action games this gen.
This gen, my picks for stuff that will stand the test of time are Portal 2 (for storytelling and humour) Super Mario Galaxy and it's sequel (for reminding everyone what Nintendo can still do when they have a mind to) Dark Souls and Xenoblade (for refusing to let JRPGs die after a pile of crap efforts). Also Fallout 3/New Vegas (for introducing a new generation to the parody of Americana that is the wasteland), Street Fighter 4 (for rebooting a whole genre),The Walking Dead (for being better than it had a right to be and showing that child characters don't have to be annoying escort missions), maybe Skyrim (for added 'verticality' , and generally proving that the single player adventure isn't dead yet, and an epic ad that made a D&D inspired dungeon crawl make everyone want to be an epic hero via the medium of horned helmets and axes).
Special mention to the Etrian Odyssey games- it's a series I think will keep growing gradually as the depth of its mechanics becomes more well-known. I think each has built steadily on the last without losing sight of its core appeal, quite a rare thing these days.
The shooter franchises I can see being bettered as the online matches are refined each time, and the same for 2D Mario, they blend into each other a bit. I don't see Uncharted or Gears being hailed as anything special once everyone is tired of crouching behind walls for 80% of an action game, but, y'know, opinions etc.
In terms of influencing pop culture outside games, Xbox joining Playstation and Nintendo as common shorthand for gaming, plus CoD and Angry Birds.
Special mention to the Etrian Odyssey games- it's a series I think will keep growing gradually as the depth of its mechanics becomes more well-known. I think each has built steadily on the last without losing sight of its core appeal, quite a rare thing these days.
The shooter franchises I can see being bettered as the online matches are refined each time, and the same for 2D Mario, they blend into each other a bit. I don't see Uncharted or Gears being hailed as anything special once everyone is tired of crouching behind walls for 80% of an action game, but, y'know, opinions etc.
In terms of influencing pop culture outside games, Xbox joining Playstation and Nintendo as common shorthand for gaming, plus CoD and Angry Birds.