The most original game you have ever seen

[Avarith]

Toss up between Portal and Mirror's Edge.

I think when talking about Originality, its important for the game to be stable and well good, Mirrors Edge was not this, but very original in gameplay respects and definetly a step in the right direction.

What exactly do you mean by "stable and well good?"

Well when you play the game I often found the AI a bit silly and the lack of any interesting story annoying. In a game based on innovation I believe personally that you would need a good story to get people to buy into the new gameplay style. oh and the gunplay was like facerape from a head crab

I can have an original idea right now. Sure, the graphics are awful and no-one's heard of it, but it's still original.

It is true originality is the idea, but that does not make it a good game, though the question was about originality so anything will do, yeah mirrors edge had flaws, but played like a time attack/race is were it shined, I always tried to play the game for speed and intensity not for the story or fights. Maybe it is just me, I had fun. I love stories but a game should be fun metal gear was story based but for a lot of story lovers it was not fun, but that can start a new can of worms what is more important fun or story.

 

[DeManix]

Flower.

 

[SamFancyPants252]

I've never played it but I'll have to say Okami

 

[blinkgun96]

*thinks to self* I have friends who's working on a Steampunk RPG, does that count.

Portal?

I disagree with you, only because I've seen age old Digipen demos of games with similar game mechanics, and because Portal itself is a Valve'd up version of one of them.

 

[akapellah21]

Eternal Darkness blew my mind away. I thought it destroyed my Gamecube, at one point

 

[C117]

Eufloria. Some kind of wierd mix between space-sim, RTS and gardening.

 

[esperandote]

Loco Roco
Echochrome
Patapon

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Trauma center.

 

[Mister Awesome]

borderlands has a pretty original plot and very original gameplay

 

[Bebus]

Eternal Darkness blew my mind away. I thought it destroyed my Gamecube, at one point

Same! One of the insanity effects went on for so long I thought it was real!

 

[Steambroom]

REZ HD.

 

[supagama]

pong. it started it all

 

[Sjakie]

Uplink
Darwinia
Portal

Introversion makes the best original games i know. Try them out if you will. go introversion [http://www.introversion.co.uk/]
Uplink has you play as a 'hacker' And Darwinia is just .... just. Well you need to play it to understand it.
Tron was actually original too, but it was rather tame for a fps-styled game.

 

[Nickthequick]

Paper Mario? Can't really get more original than that.

Or Okami.