Metroid Prime's control scheme was different to any FPS I've ever played, and it made that game awesome to boot.
Games that broke the mold.
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I'm also going to age myself:
Burn Cycle.
A revolutionary title in 3D graphics for the time. Utilized live action actors and blue screens all the way back in 1994. Very ground breaking considering it was extremely unique in the market at that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn:Cycle
Burn Cycle.
A revolutionary title in 3D graphics for the time. Utilized live action actors and blue screens all the way back in 1994. Very ground breaking considering it was extremely unique in the market at that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn:Cycle
I find it intriguing that so may of the games listed are so recent... or maybe I am a little too old, crotchety and taking the term breaking the mold too seriously. What comes to my rather odd little mind is-
Quake- the first FPS that I recall that allowed for large group online play... of course that may be because it came out when I was in college and had access to a white hot LAN
Guitar Hero series- I HATE them but they definitely changed the concept of "game"
Myst- it played a huge role is driving the adoption of CD-ROM and it was a pretty original game
Dune- the first resource based real time strategy game I remember playing... talk about paving the way for a whole genre
WoW- another game I love to hate but though it wasn't original it was the catalyst for this MMORPG invasion
Quake- the first FPS that I recall that allowed for large group online play... of course that may be because it came out when I was in college and had access to a white hot LAN
Guitar Hero series- I HATE them but they definitely changed the concept of "game"
Myst- it played a huge role is driving the adoption of CD-ROM and it was a pretty original game
Dune- the first resource based real time strategy game I remember playing... talk about paving the way for a whole genre
WoW- another game I love to hate but though it wasn't original it was the catalyst for this MMORPG invasion
So no one mentioned Jet Set Radio?
I'm hoping Little Big Planet will be the next one on the list.
It'd like to mention Sanitarium whilst we're at it. Artistically, when was the last time you had a story about a girl at a creepy fair ground, bugman fighting to save his race, a man trying to regain his sanity in a sanitarium, kids being possessed by a killer alien flower and totum god fighting another god all in the same story? And still with top-notch artistic visuals.
I'm hoping Little Big Planet will be the next one on the list.
You got a point there. I don't understand people listing games like Morrowind and Mass Effect. What's so un-cliched about these games in any artistic sense (please bare in mind this is not saying these games are by all means bad games)?
It'd like to mention Sanitarium whilst we're at it. Artistically, when was the last time you had a story about a girl at a creepy fair ground, bugman fighting to save his race, a man trying to regain his sanity in a sanitarium, kids being possessed by a killer alien flower and totum god fighting another god all in the same story? And still with top-notch artistic visuals.
Fable could have done it, but it was crappy, quite linear and lacked sufficient content. However, Fable 2 will almost certainly make up for that.
This will sound mad, but from my experience.
Singstar
This game more than any other seemed to draw women into daring to go near a playstation2.
Of course, after doing that, it's then possible to try to draw them in with other 'gateway' games, like Buzz, or cutesy platformers.
I'm just saying, if you can get them to have some small interest in what you like to do, it helps.
Nowadays at a get together, there's girls actually excited at the sight of the black cables in my bag, because there's a chance for karaoke, heh.
You know I really didn't want this to sound quite so 'serial killer' creepy as it does, re-reading it, all I meant was...it's great to have some games which can entice the (mainly female) non gamers to have a go, by removing the main barrier to non gamers, the controllers.
Buzz does a similar thing with its pub quiz machine style, press RED for the RED Answer, you can't get that mixed up with X to jump, square to shoot, O to run, etc.
Singstar
This game more than any other seemed to draw women into daring to go near a playstation2.
Of course, after doing that, it's then possible to try to draw them in with other 'gateway' games, like Buzz, or cutesy platformers.
I'm just saying, if you can get them to have some small interest in what you like to do, it helps.
Nowadays at a get together, there's girls actually excited at the sight of the black cables in my bag, because there's a chance for karaoke, heh.
You know I really didn't want this to sound quite so 'serial killer' creepy as it does, re-reading it, all I meant was...it's great to have some games which can entice the (mainly female) non gamers to have a go, by removing the main barrier to non gamers, the controllers.
Buzz does a similar thing with its pub quiz machine style, press RED for the RED Answer, you can't get that mixed up with X to jump, square to shoot, O to run, etc.