What was YOUR most influential game of the previous gen?

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SupBambiKing said:
Negative or positive?

Negative : Obviously Call of Duty MW 1 cause it turned everything into casualism and had so much influence on former good studios so they turned their former good franchises into "We need to get the attention of the CoD people cause they are bigger than our fanbase which supported us since the beginning"*cough* Capcom *cough*

Positive : Uncharted 2
Showed the world there is another way and that you can actually do something that isn't all about Online Multiplayer Auto Aim Casual Shooters and Bro Dudes in this Gen.
You could tell stories and get people excited with your games with pushing the industry forward into a completely new direction.
Had the same effect on many studios as Call of Duty with influencing other studios but in a good way this time.

You can't place the blame fully on Activision just because their franchise started to sell boat-loads. The overall crappy economy that tanked during the gen was more to blame for the action-QTE craze that ruined some franchises. Every publisher just wanted to make some money off of the people that bought COD, and unfortunately, some franchises suffered.