Yeah, the Souls games are probably very important to you, but for now they're just helping a few indie games get made. Even though I'm not a fan of the series, I do like this too. Just finished my review of Spelunky (which you were right, it is great) which was surprisingly unforgiving the way DS was and worked well for it.
I didn't really like Oblivion either. Fallout 3 was great though.
Yeah, I hated Braid. Dead Space is a little influential, but I don't think that much. Though what it did with the user interface was cool, not too many games are trying that now. Mass Effect could be, but for now, it's just a really, really awesome sci-fy epic.
Haha. My favorite would probably be MLB Power Pros.
Halo 2 was definitely the inspiration, but MW turned it from being what gamers like to play to what people like to play which was huge.
Sorry, but that argument against Gears doesn't hold up well. Say that Gears didn't exist and something else introduced it. Okay, but what if it was on PS3 only and everyone needed a PS3 to play it? Or if it came out a year later and Mass Effect/Uncharted didn't have cover? Or if it wasn't as popular and cover didn't catch on? You see how different gaming would be? Important means how it changed everything. You want a game more important than everything you listed? ET for the Atari 2600. It's important for all the wrong reasons, but you can't deny how it changed everything.
Shadow/Ico and Halo are the only ones of your choices I'd actually consider important and Shadow would be for very different reasons. Kingdom Hearts was just a Square/Disney mash up, it didn't change how developers make games or influence any games really. If I were to pick the important games of last gen, it would be Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3, Resident Evil 4, Knights of the Old Republic, and Devil May Cry.
Games that made developers rethink how to make games or cause an industry wide shift are arguably more important than what we consider masterpieces. If a masterpiece does come out, but only a few people play it and it doesn't change anything in the industry, it's not important. It's that simple.
Yeah, but I took it more as a big exclusive for the PS3 when the system didn't have many exclusives. It was kind of cool seeing a game that cinematic, but I thought Mass Effect pulled off the cinematics much better, it just felt like another shooter with much better voice acting and graphics than we were used to. I never really felt anything was trying to imitate Uncharted 1 like they did with Uncharted 2.
Yeah, but the difference is Uncharted 1 didn't have the setpieces 2 had. Look at how Dead Space 2, Mass Effect 3, and Tomb Raider imitated those when their predecessors didn't and you'll see Uncharted 2's influence the original didn't have.
Same here. I love Gears and think cover based shooting has its place, but every now and then I want to sprint at super fast speeds and leap 100 feet in the air while in a firefight as well.
You'd like Gears. It's a ton of fun.
