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Top 20 Most Influential things to happen to the Video Game Industry
2008-09-28, 4:21 PM #1
http://www.screwattack.com/node/10487#1

I think they were pretty much spot on.
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2008-09-28, 7:36 PM #2
Especially the part about Bawls. First time I ever had it was at a PC gaming joint.
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2008-09-28, 8:00 PM #3
I think they should have mentioned Emulators somewhere in there. At least for me and a few friends, it's helped me rediscover games I played when i was kid, and even some gems that I've missed.
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2008-09-28, 8:14 PM #4
But they never shaped the industry...

It's a decent list, but it isn't exactly short.
2008-09-28, 9:31 PM #5
,,, eSports? I'm not following.
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2008-09-29, 2:13 AM #6
DDR beat Final Fantasy?

Wouldn't have guessed that, but eSports?

Otherwise, it looks pretty accurate.
2008-09-29, 2:57 AM #7
I had a voodoo3 3000.. I was so amazed by JK in hardware acceleration mode
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2008-09-29, 6:25 AM #8
Originally posted by Connection Problem:
But they never shaped the industry...

It's a decent list, but it isn't exactly short.



thats a good point, I overlooked that :-p
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2008-09-29, 6:34 AM #9
I've never heard of bawls...
I also question the depth of influence they've attributed to goldeneye, especially given the rest of the influences in that list.
Apart from that, it's a decent list.
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2008-09-29, 1:05 PM #10
Goldeneye was hugely influential. Go play it again and compare it to a modern fps. And Goldeneye is 11, eleven years old.
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2008-09-29, 1:20 PM #11
It wasn't all that different from other fps' at the time...
That's why I question the influence, goldeneye gets all this credit but most of what it had was already around.
And I'd rather not play it again, didn't like it that much in the first place (that's the controllers fault though, not the game)
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2008-09-29, 1:45 PM #12
I don't remember any other FPS on console being anything near to goldeneye. It was very influential.
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2008-09-29, 1:56 PM #13
Goldeneye is the predecessor of all the realistic shooters. Games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Counter-strike, etc are based on the concepts Goldeneye introduced.
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2008-09-29, 3:03 PM #14
Originally posted by Z@NARDI:
I don't remember any other FPS on console being anything near to goldeneye. It was very influential.

Yeah, other FPS games for consoles. PC shooters had most of the same elements (other than realism or stealth) for some time before Goldeneye.

I would rank Quake as being significantly more influential than Goldeneye.
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2008-09-29, 3:43 PM #15
Goldeneye invented the console FPS genre. Goldeneye controls are used in all of them now. Just because you hate console FPSs doesn't mean Goldeneye wasn't influential.
2008-09-29, 3:46 PM #16
Originally posted by Kieran Horn:
Goldeneye is the predecessor of all the realistic shooters. Games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Counter-strike, etc are based on the concepts Goldeneye introduced.


I like how you think those games are realistic.
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