A game where you pay attention to what the Action Icon says? Or just the Z-targeting?
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Well, Ocarina of Time was almost 20 years ago. Are we sure this hasn't already happened?
edited 1st May '16 8:49:02 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
If it counts, my vote would go to Demon's Souls
We've had several games about that influential already.
Grand Theft Auto 3 comes to mind as far as open world games go.
Do you mean a game that people will consistently act like it was the best thing since the end of WW 2 and will thus whine about the following games in its series not being as good?
While i think he went over board with the skyward sword hate, and while half of his criticisms can be applied to dark souls, a game which he likes, i agree with egoraptor that Oot is the most overrated game ever made.
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Yeah, pretty much on that first point.
Yeah, pretty much too.
Grand Theft Auto 3 also comes to mind when I think of game that is at least as influential as Oo T.
Resident Evil 4 is also a strong contender, for better or for worse.
Would that it were so simple.
Different context entirely; Ocarina of Time was released when 3D gaming was still young. It's much harder to be groundbreaking now, and the kind of creative environment of the early to mid-Nineties will probably never be recreated. At a glance, though...Grand Theft Auto III — it basically video games in the public consciousness, for better or for worse, in the turn of the millennium.
edited 1st May '16 9:24:18 PM by CrimsonZephyr
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I don't want to make judgements on whether game X was more or less influential than game Y, but here are some recent heavy hitters:
Neverwinter Nights, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3 for starting insanely dedicated modding communities.
EVE Online for making "mainstream" news due to the sheer scale of intrigues and destruction in it.
I guess there's also Undertale, which plays a lot with established video game mechanics and conventions. The only thing that's missing so far is having a lot of other games follow its lead.
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Stealth complaint thread, implying that most games are not as good as a particular one that the OP likes. No thanks.
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Will there ever be another game (made by anyone in particular, mind you) that will be as revolutionary and groundbreaking, both gameplay and presentation-wise, as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? I think that deep down, something on this level is what many gamers want, and the wait for something on that level is driving some insane.
I think of all the games in recent memory (Seventh and Eighth Generation specifically), Minecraft comes close to that, at least.
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