The 40 Games in 40 Years that Changed the World

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Scoobes said:

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Boutros said:
But Half-Life didn't really invent anything new either. It simply mastered every aspect of what it tried to do much like Uncharted 2.

And if Half-Life made the list then why not Call of Duty 4?

Half-Life influenced the games industry in terms of story, or rather how to tell a story in a FPS. People actually stopped to talk to you, give you directions and open doors for you. Most games still relied upon cut scenes whereas Half-Life stuck to the First-Person perspective and allowed the story to unfold in real-time with you in complete control. Look at other single-player FPS games before it and then single-player games afterwards. It had a huge influence on every campaign mode in every FPS after it... even Call of Duty 4 .

It's also the game that helped introduced Counterstrike to the world and made Valve the company they are today. Without the success of Half-Life, Steam wouldn't exist and Valve wouldn't be the influential company they are now.

Although Call of Duty has clearly had a much greater impact on the actual world than Half Life. Half Life was only a precurser, and much less world changing than its predecessor Goldeneye 007.

In what ways?

Goldeneye 007 and Call of Duty brought legions of people into gaming, and into enjoying the FPS genre; these two games made an impact on the world outside of the gaming fanbase which changed the overall appeal and image of gaming. The change that Half Life caused was localized to people who were not only gamers, but already FPS fans.