Why does it qualify as one of the most influential games of the decade?

I didn't at all and I think many others aswell.  You could say that a game like dark souls is going from point A to B and kill sometimes an insane boss but people don't because going from point A to point B is an adventure aswell, the game is not full with NPC's but it has some and they make the game better, in SOTC going from A to point B was more annoying than fun

So hey,

I have a topic regarding SotC. Pretty much the title but I want to give more information.

I was never owner of a Playstation. I have played a few games when I visited friends but mostly grew up with Nintendo.

So there were quite a lot of games I never layed hands on and SotC is one of them.

But it gets so much hype. I have seen many people here, on reddit and on my twitter praising the game to the heavens and celebrating another remaster of it.

So... why?

What I have seen of this game so far was a lot of empty landscapes that you traverse with a horse to kill a few bosses.

Is that the whole game or is there something i am missing? Or something i dont understand?

I am curious to know what you guys love so much about this game when it seems pretty shallow to me.

Citations needed.

(SPOILERS) You are supposed to feel bad. If you didn't, you didn't just experience the game in a different way, you experienced it in a way that wasn't how it was supposed to be. They gave each colossus distinct voices and sounds of pain and agony when you hit them, made their death scenes really tragic with sad music, and made your character become more and more corrupted by the end for a reason. It's because that's the story - it's about a demon whose body was split into 16 parts and he/she's bargaining you to restore his/her power by making you destroy the 16 colossi who are keeping his/her evil spirit sealed away. That's why every time you stab a colossus, they spill out black blood, because that's Dormin's spirit leaving their body and eventually joining yours (it's what happens with the tentacles after every battle). That's also why you become him at the end, because you were completely possessed. The colossi are supposed to be protectors of this forgotten land, and you're destroying them one by one.

And here we go again...

This is such a shallow thought. Is any game automatically bad if it gives you a single goal? Does it automatically negate a good atmosphere, a good story, a good soundtrack, good mechanics and good level and enemy design? No, of course it doesn't, but some people just can't seem to understand that. The whole point of this game is to feel alone, isolated in a desolate land and the lack of anything to do other than kill the colossi isn't just something that helps set the mood as you focus your thoughts on this one task and what it means, it's something that has a very clear narrative purpose when you really begin to understand the story. But then again, you're judging the game before you even play it, so I'm not sure what I'm trying to achieve here. You're choosing ignorance.

That doesn't back up your claim. IGN makes no statement that SotC has been an influential game, but they call it one of the most important games of the PS2 generation regardless, yet provide no explanation for that claim. There's no justification for IGN's statement because it is known that SotC didn't sell much, so if the game had never existed, it wouldn't have affected PS2 sales at all.

CNN put SotC on a list of best and most influential games, but say nothing about SotC being influential. They call it "the high-tech equivalent of an art house film."

And that is exactly what I've said in this thread: The importance of SotC is greatly overrated and any justification for it leads down the path of "It is art." IGN's blurb is outright delusional with its claim that SotC was one of the most important games of the PS2 generation.