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Reply #35 on: March 01, 2009, 06:10:22 PM

They couldn't even decide whether the list was best games or most influential games, even though those are totally different things.

IMO Super Mario Brothers is the most influential game of all time. Not only did it spawn the platforming genre but it was also the first huge game to move away from the single-screen arcade formula to a broadly scoped game full of different levels and a real start-to-finish progression. There were earlier games like Jungle Hunt and Zaxxon that did the same sort of thing but Jungle Hunt takes 10 minutes to beat all the way through. The Super Mario formula of go through a few levels, fight a boss, go on to the next set of levels with different assets and layouts is still the formula console games use today.

Before that games were mostly confined to a single screen or a small set of screens and the point was less beating them and more getting high scores and beating them multiple times.

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Reply #36 on: March 01, 2009, 07:17:29 PM

The absence of double dragon depresses me. I think it preludes the addition of Street of Rage etc which me and my cousins really love to play when we were kids. And once we reached our teen years, we still run it on emulator and played it, one with keyboard and the other with gamepad. Beat'em up always felt great in teamplay.

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Reply #37 on: March 01, 2009, 07:42:26 PM

Did Double Dragon come out before Renegade? Renegade was not nearly as popular but it was nearly the same game and in some ways a lot cooler. But yeah, Double Dragon should be on the list. It was the originator of a huge genre.

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Reply #38 on: March 01, 2009, 10:48:59 PM

Did Double Dragon come out before Renegade? Renegade was not nearly as popular but it was nearly the same game and in some ways a lot cooler. But yeah, Double Dragon should be on the list. It was the originator of a huge genre.

I'm almost 100% positive that Renegade was prior to Double Dragon.

Another one of the biggest titles I really think they dropped the ball on (along with about 45 others) is the lack of the original Metal Gear. There were just way too many original ideas in that game that have been seen in other games for it to not make the list.

IMO Super Mario Brothers is the most influential game of all time. Not only did it spawn the platforming genre but it was also the first huge game to move away from the single-screen arcade formula to a broadly scoped game full of different levels and a real start-to-finish progression. There were earlier games like Jungle Hunt and Zaxxon that did the same sort of thing but Jungle Hunt takes 10 minutes to beat all the way through. The Super Mario formula of go through a few levels, fight a boss, go on to the next set of levels with different assets and layouts is still the formula console games use today.

Before that games were mostly confined to a single screen or a small set of screens and the point was less beating them and more getting high scores and beating them multiple times.

I agree as I can't think of a single more influential game overall. Definitely can't think of any game that is specifically better then Mario Bros when it comes to "their initial impact and lasting legacy" which was the supposed criteria here.
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Reply #39 on: March 02, 2009, 06:08:02 AM

Was there a date range for this or something?

The ranked games are from the "publishers who still give us free shit" date range, I think.

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Reply #40 on: March 06, 2009, 08:45:06 PM

console games

This is where they went wrong.


Anyway, didn't we already solve this problem? We had a huge thread of lists of the best games evar, the data went into a huge schild super database.... and then iirc it never came out. If it did come out, someone wake that thread up.

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Reply #41 on: March 08, 2009, 10:09:44 PM

That's a bad list. Even for console games. Especially for console games.

EDIT: scrubbing the stupid off. IT WON'T COME OUT OH GOD IT WON'T COME OUT

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Reply #42 on: March 08, 2009, 11:36:53 PM

console games

This is where they went wrong.


Anyway, didn't we already solve this problem? We had a huge thread of lists of the best games evar, the data went into a huge schild super database.... and then iirc it never came out. If it did come out, someone wake that thread up.
I have the list and have parsed some of it, but it is, indeed, a huge fucking list. I should put it together on the wiki when I'm feeling spreadsheety. Maybe I will.
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Reply #43 on: March 09, 2009, 10:02:19 AM

Why the hell is something as subjective as "influential" even allowed in a *record* book?

A record would be number of copies sold or something quantitive, not qualitative.

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Reply #44 on: March 10, 2009, 09:05:20 PM

Why the hell is something as subjective as "influential" even allowed in a *record* book?

A record would be number of copies sold or something quantitive, not qualitative.

Not seen a Guinness Book of WRs recently?
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