Spindel said:
It is THE game that made FPS:es a thing. It has easly recognizable protagonist and antagonists. And I would say that with Doom 2016 and Eternal it got back with a vengence. I mean what was your reason for CoD to be on the list? Continuity? What continuity? That they just rehash the same reskinned game over and over every year. In general I have no real opinions about your list except for the CoD entry. Also you could argue about what you mean with ”top franchise”. If sales numbers are the only important thing yeah CoD might fit, but if we talk about impact and driving gaming forward CoD ahould not be on that list. |
It's literally explained
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Based on
- Influence to the industry
- Popularity
- Continuity
- Revenue
- Impact Worldwide
- Diversity
- Status Quo
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I respect Doom. Although it wasn't the first FPS, it definitely influenced the industry in many ways. However, this list isn't based solely on impact to the industry. Cuz if that was the case I'm going to have to include like Pong or something. We have to account for other factors like how popular it is, how valuable, how relevant is it today. Pick a complete random person in the world. Would they know Doom? Or Call of Duty. More people would know Call of Duty. Unfortunately Doom is not well known in Asia or amongst casual gamers for example. This is also why Metroid won't be on the list.
I'm not a fan of Call of Duty either, but I don't think you understand how difficult it is to reach that level of success, expand, and maintain it. Doom wasn't able to do it.
There are games like Subway Surfers (the most downloaded game ever) but it's not as impactful, poor revenue. AmongUS, insanely popular for like one year but faded away quickly and became a fad. The "top franchise" are ones that exceeds in all the points mentioned above.
Last edited by Shatts - on 17 July 2023
