The 20 Most Innovative Games Ever Made

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Garamond said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's missing Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Ocarina of Time (invented Z-targetting), Mario 64 (invented camera controls), ya know, like, innovations that have become industry standards.

Also, the list is a joke.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved on a list of most innovative games? The game has "RETRO" in the title becauseThe game is 2-D. It follows Smash TV, Robotron, and Asteroids. I love all these games, but Geometry Wars is not innovative by any stretch of the imagination. It's a very solid tribute to a classic arcade genre. It's possible to really love a game without blindly hailing it as innovative when it clearly isn't. (cough cough FF7)

Not that I disgaree with the list being a joke, but Mario 64 is number ten on the list. Personally I'm overly biased for it and would put it higher simply because it more or less helped define what 3D platformer gaming really is. At least, I think it did.

The list is pretty bad, like day old sushi or the Los Angeles Clippers.

I read the whole list, and saw Mario 64 in there, but then I guess I got so mad I forgot it was there.

coolbeans said:

Also (while already stated) KOTOR was the first to make morality choices and the outcome affected the game much more greater than in Bioshock.

Edit: Not the first sorry but they did put choices and morality at a greater scale then Bioshock did.

 Ancient Domains of Mystery (an ASCII Roguelike) had morality at a much greater scale than either of those back in 1994, and it wasn't the first either.