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tooto123 on 01 December 2010

top selling games only



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SvennoJ on 01 December 2010

Games that will be remembered like tetris and pac-man, I guess maybe farmville, world of warcraft, possibly the sims. The sims will probably appear in facebook or other social networks at some point.

The Wii will be remembered for finally getting motion controls of the ground.

 

We all know doom and half-life but how many non-gamers have heard of them?

Games like half-life, uncharted, halo, gears of war are all evolutionary, there will have been bigger and better versions to remember in the meantime. Unless we just keep on numbering to Gears of war 12, Call of duty 26, half-life 3 if we're lucky :)

Personally I think shooting things in games will become less and less important as ways to interact with the virtual world increase. Still waiting on adventure games / rpgs where you can actually have a conversation with the characters, 20 more years might do it. (Although people said the same thing 20 years ago)

At least this generation (and the next) will be remembered as the shooter era.



yo_john117 on 01 December 2010

Mass Effect, Halo, God of War, GTA.



tooto123 on 02 December 2010

world of warcraft for sure



Conegamer on 02 December 2010

Hmm...probably the Galaxy games, Assassin's creed, Wii Sports, GTA, Halo, Monster Hunter and (hopefully!) The Last Story. They'll probably be more but these are my favs.

Also, who reckons that in 2035 Nintendo and/or Mario will still be going to celebrate his 50th birthday? Or do we reckon the gaming medium will be dead by then?

Hmm...



 

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Hapimeses on 02 December 2010

Super Rub'a'Dub. Really, it's that awesome; especially the devil duck. If not that, then maybe a new IP that defines the era. Probably Wii Sports, depressingly.



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Metallicube on 02 December 2010

Wii Sports

Wii Fit

Call of Duty/Modern Warfare

Guitar Hero

Halo

Minecraft

World of Warcraft



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Scoobes on 02 December 2010
SvennoJ said:

Games that will be remembered like tetris and pac-man, I guess maybe farmville, world of warcraft, possibly the sims. The sims will probably appear in facebook or other social networks at some point.

The Wii will be remembered for finally getting motion controls of the ground.

 

We all know doom and half-life but how many non-gamers have heard of them?

Games like half-life, uncharted, halo, gears of war are all evolutionary, there will have been bigger and better versions to remember in the meantime. Unless we just keep on numbering to Gears of war 12, Call of duty 26, half-life 3 if we're lucky :)

Personally I think shooting things in games will become less and less important as ways to interact with the virtual world increase. Still waiting on adventure games / rpgs where you can actually have a conversation with the characters, 20 more years might do it. (Although people said the same thing 20 years ago)

At least this generation (and the next) will be remembered as the shooter era.

I think you'd be suprised how many people have heard of Doom. It's infamous as it was partly blamed in the media for some of the school shootings and it has a film staring The Rock :P




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Immortal on 02 December 2010
RageBot said:
Immortal said:

1) Let's stick to video games for now, all right, :P? Honestly, just look at Super Mario Bros., pretty much the only other instance something like this has happened, it's phenomenonal, even now, like a quarter of a century later.

2) Honestly, if you're speaking of impact, Wii Sports pretty much turned the entire market around. It turned a console that was likely to sell 10m into a "you see, I was right, it only sold 100m LT, take that, Nintendo fanboy!" It most likely added more gamers to the market than the entire shooter genre. Also, please consider Sports Champions and Kinect Sports, high-profile attempts by competitors to try to save some market share for themselves. Move and Kinect would not have had a sports game as (one of) their killer apps had it not been for this monster right here.

3) I thought I might have on that one, xD. Could you please explain it then?


1. I actually think that it's good to diverse the discussion, because games are just another form of entertainment, and a lot of times it goes by similar trends as music.
About SMB - It isn't remembered just because it sold well (check Duck Hunt), this one, single game, created so many of the basic fundementals of today's game design that it pretty much created modern gaming, withour SMB gaming just wouldn't exist, so it is remembered not only for how it was as a game (and a damn fine one I might add, played it for the first time this year XD), but because it is a landmark in gaming history.

2. But, again, I didn't say that Wii Sports didn't have an impact, because it did, I say that:
a: We really can't tell what will be five years from now, how can we say what will happen in twenty? We don't even know if the market that the Wii created will still be around five years from now.
b: We still don't know how many units Kinect and Move will sell, so far they can be a short term trend that will end before next christmas.
c: CoDs impact was on an existing market, and had a very big impact on it, from that aspect, it had an effect on online multiplayer gaming to the extent of SM64 on 3D gaming, it got a lot of things right, and a lot of companies just strated creating ripoffs of it.

3. Okay, I just wanna say first that it's nice to have a rational conversation with someone on the internet, doesn't happen a lot :P

What I said that the things that were considered "one of a kind", and are still remembered, are either remembered for being very influencial (like SMB in gaming), involving pepole emotionally (like Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd in music) or, simply because they sold a lot (like Titanic in cinema).

In relation to our discussion, if Wii Sports or CoD4 will be remembered as "one of a kind", it will be either because of influence, or simply because of selling a lot, but if you take a game like MGS4 for example, it didn't sell that much, but I know enough grown men who cried at certain points while playing this game, this is the sort of "one of a kind" emotional impact I was talking about, that pepole can be talking about years from now.

I hope I made everything clearer now :)

1) I doubt that the industry hasn't been around for long enough to be compared to other forms of entertainment so we really can't argue for or against such a comparison. Anyway, I'm not arguing that people will remember WS forever because it sold well. Motion controls I'd say are quite undeniably the most significant development in video games in a few generations and Wii Sports will most likely always be remembered as the game that started it all. A landmark in gaming history, as you said.

2) a - Well, yeah, obviously not, we're just making ridiculous, unrealistic predictions here. What the heck else is this site for, :P?

b - We don't, but just getting competitors to make such a move is quite the impact honestly.

c - It may have done so, but you compared it to SM64, a game which in itself is never considered the biggest thing since sliced bread. None of the new gamers from this generation know what the game was like, even if they know it existed. On the other hand, Super Mario Bros. always rings a bell, if only a faint one. If you give somebody who's never played video games before a controller, tell them that the d-pad is for moving around and open Super Mario Bros., if nothing else they'll know to approach the ?-block from below, not above.

3) Thanks, :D.

Anyway, with your "for selling a lot" point, aren't you basically saying that WS will be remembered? It makes sense, too, since if 100m people played a game that was quite a new experience at a time, it will most likely be remembered more than a game that sold 20m and was a great experience. Besides, MGS would have to rely on a pretty tiny base to be remembered and most likely would not be very remembered at all even if it emotionally connected with almost all of its audience.

 

...I can't believe we're seriously arguing something as subjective as "will be remembered" this thoroughly.



 

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