Probably the most important video game of all time.

Probably the most important video game of all time.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nah, that'd be either the original Super Mario Bros, or something like Metal Gear Solid or FFVII that changed the way a lot of people saw video games, for better or for worse.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > metal gear solid
      more cutscenes than gameplay per se
      >final fantasy vii
      boring rpg compared to previous games
      if these games changed the perception of the players, well they did a terrible job. From that point on, the games went from being games to being animated movies where you occasionally touch the joypad.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That’s the point. They put gameplay and storytelling in a difference balance.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        FF7 has a ton of gameplay, moron. 8 is the borderline movie game

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      this, anyone who says anything other than super mario bros is delusional

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Snoy, nobody gave a frick about MGS or FFVII

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Back to Ganker, zoomhomosexual.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        how can one person be this objectively wrong

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They are poopy cutscene games aged like rust water

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            whether that's true or not it's irrelevant to the topic

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its definitely up there, idk if I'd say its the "top" one. These are also very influential .
      Particularly you hear a lot of stories from developers that start with "I remember playing super mario bros on the NES..."

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FF VII
      >most important video game of all time

      You can't make this shit up

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's bullshit but it's a more viable candidate for the title than SM64

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's bullshit but it's a more viable candidate for the title than SM64

        there is no "most important game of all time". even if there were, it wouldn't be either of those pieces of dogshit.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you're right, but if it was between the two of them, it wouldn't be SM64

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          of course, it is not possible to determine the single most important game of all time. 99% of any threads are like this do you understand why you are participating in threads at all lol

          i would name counter strike the half life mod as the most important. why? you cannot name any single player game as they may introduced new features, but the taste is different for everybody.

          why counter strike?

          because, in a time of doubt and uncertainty, this game boosted internet + multiplayer games into the sky and above, the time as we know it now. do you remember the gaming is not a crime song? end of the 90s and early 2000s was a time of hard decisions, of paving the future. in my central european country, multiplayer gaming like CS was a main force behind developing and selling internet accesses. without cs back then nothing would have come this far as today. you have to look beyond simple mechanic upgrades

          naming ff7 is just trolling, you cannot take it seriously - even if you would consider one of the worst parts of ff as the best.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It wouldn't be my pick, but FF7's release marked the moment that video games stopped being niche.
        With FF7 video games were now a part of modern culture to the same degree that movies and television were.
        Obviously there were popular games before FF7 but you'll never hear anyone talk about Pong or Space Invaders the way they talk about The Godfather or The Twilight Zone.
        As previously mentioned it's also a hallmark of the relationship between gameplay and story shifting to be more balanced instead of leaning heavily in favor of gameplay.
        Essentially you can take all of the differences between modern and retro games, both good and bad, and if you trace them back far enough you end up at Final Fantasy VII. It's a very important game.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FFVII
      >important
      kek, lmao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >, or something like Metal Gear Solid or FFVII
      Kek, could you be any more transparent

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        definitely
        he could have said super mario 64

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >FFVII
        >important
        kek, lmao

        >FF VII
        >most important video game of all time

        You can't make this shit up

        holy samehomosexual

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          kek, lmao, kekko, you can't kek this make up.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >makes a completely reasonable, logical post
      >tendies start screaming because he didn't say he would die for god miyamoto
      This board is like Ganker dialed up to eleven in regard to brand loyalty.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        that's because this place is mostly populated by people over 30, and you should never underestimate how much brand loyalty intensifies as your nostalgia and yearning for your familiar childhood comforts deepens, especially among jaded manchildren with nothing else to cling to

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the original super mario bros hasn't influenced any games. not a single one is like that first game, and the second game was just a reskinned doki panic.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you have to be a special kind of contrarian moron to deny SMB the recognition it deserves for its influence on the platformer genre

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            what are some games it influenced then, pal

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              every 2d sidescrolling platformer which came after it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                except no, it didn't influence anything really. nothing takes after Mario.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                prove it, homosexual

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                can't prove a non-existence. they teach you this in theological courses, it's why some spiritualities are faith based, there's nothing other than faith.

                and on the science side of things, the burdon of proof is on you. asking me to disprove something you asserted without evidence, is as easy as dismissing it without evidence.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Overrated

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Important, yes. Most important? Nah... It wouldn't exist if not for Pong or Donkey Kong.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    False words, knave.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's not even the most important Mario game

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    That would be DOOM

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yes.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >>>Ganker is the bait board, OP.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    hate on it all you want
    but it's very fun to play online right now.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Windows Vista

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Explain the appeal. Do you help other players out getting stars?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        stuff like 100 coins or 8 red coins splitting up is pretty nice, yeah sure. the appeal is
        1. people to hangout with and chit chat with
        2. co-oping the game, obviously
        3. opting to do the stars you enjoy doing-
        leaving the ones you don't to someone else who might.
        4. it's not just vanilla, it's custom/romhacks, and it's all kinds of mods you can enjoy-
        stuff like challenges, the ground is lava, or enhancements like new moves, or alternate character models to play as. ect

        it doesn't get much better than launching the game and clicking two or three times and being in a game of Mario 64 with other people. it has the appeal of playing SM64, and the same appeal as any other online game you can think of, I'm sure you enjoyed a few different games online, no?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >people to hang out with
          If this were the case you'd be playing pso not a bastardised Mario 64.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I like good games.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sorry, but that's a pathetic sounding excuse for this crap. You are taking a perfectly fine single player game, which you could be playing perfectly well by yourself, and adding multiplayer bullshit to it, not to actually do anything interesting with it, but to make the game a lame 'social hub' where each person goes around doing random bullshit and can't even come up with actually interesting gameplay modes to enhance the experience, and playing that just as an excuse to shoot shit with randoms because you don't have anything better to do.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                except there's tons of new gameplay modes, fricking cracker

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                There's playable rom hacks and new modes you braindead moron, much more than you could ever do in pso mind you. Do you have fun pressing 1 attack button all day and collecting loot with slightly higher numbers? Not a surprise you drooling moron.

                Stick to pso.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ocarina of Time was more important to be perfectly honest.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      if mario 64 there would have been no ocarina either. the point is that Mario 64 was the main source of inspiration for future 3d games.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you argue like that without Mario Bros there would have been no Mario 64 so by your own logic Mario 64 cannot be more important.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Mario 64 doesn't owe anything to the first SMB

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Except everything.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    what can be said is that Mario 64 triumphed where others failed even Crash bandicoot, the main competition, I consider it as a game of four directions (forward, back, left and right). while Mario 64 is a 360° game that feels pleasant to play.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >while Mario 64 is a 360° game that feels pleasant to play
      Even Nintendo themselves didn't understand this, considering the DS port that only had directional input support.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wouldn't say Crash failed. Different style of game, not necessarily worse

      >while Mario 64 is a 360° game that feels pleasant to play
      Even Nintendo themselves didn't understand this, considering the DS port that only had directional input support.

      To be fair it did have analog control but you had to use the touch screen since DS had no analog stick/nub/circle pad

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >To be fair it did have analog control but you had to use the touch scree
        How is that being fair? Even death is preferable to using touch controls for a platformer.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Those touch screen controls were so difficult to use.

          Weird thing is on these forums I've heard DS being the best version of the game. Whole it does get brownie points for copying a superior 3d platformer like Sonic adventur3 by adding more characters the controls are just too many for me.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mario 64 will forever humble me. It was probably the hardest game I have ever played. I was young and never played anything like it before. It was legit extremely difficult to progress for me in that game. That's why I will never make fun of people that don't have a lot of experience with video games and attempt playing something.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I got all the stars, except for the one you earn by collecting all 100 coins in the clock tower. Tried so many times. Got so close.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That one was definitely the hardest. No idea how many attempts it took me.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love the fact games like this make anti-nintendo sisters seethe endlessly.
    They're probably like "anytime now, people will forget about Nintendo! trust me!" and it just doesn't happen, and they continue to grow older and bitter. Poetry.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who are you talking to?

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How so? The N64 flopped. This and Nintendo would be forgotten if not for the Wii's casuals saving them and their sinking ship. Nintendo was getting bullied out of gaming and this was the beginning of the downtrend.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It was easily the best controlling 3D game of 1996 and showed everyone how to make a 3D platformer.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sorry honey but Sonic Adventure was the first game to show us how a 3d platformer was made. Nintendo even copied SA with their release of Mario 64 ds trying to shoehorn in multiple characters.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This.
        But being "the most important video game of all time" can only be in OP's brainless head.

        Sorry honey but Sonic Adventure was the first game to show us how a 3d platformer was made. Nintendo even copied SA with their release of Mario 64 ds trying to shoehorn in multiple characters.

        Go back to >>>Ganker the adults are talking here.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why should I go to Ganker? I'm not delusional to think a collectathon is a GOAT game.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Tendies get bullied on Ganker especially now that people are starting to realise that supporting Breath of the Wild has fricked them. Copypasta dungeons, forever.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Tendies
              Go back to your containment, Gankerermin filth.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Gankerermin filth
                I cannot be contained, tendiebro!

                I. AM. CRINGE. ..and I am free.
                (seriously though, it's fricking video games, calm down lol)

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The dev team knocked this one right out of the park, but can anyone consider Galaxy the natural follow-up to it?
        blue skies>starry nights

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      fricking zoomers I swear

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The N64 flopped.
      You're confusing it with the GameCube anon. N64 may not be as good as SNES or PS1 but it sold very well

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I always knew that controller was made for 3 handed people!

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >important
    not really a word applied to vidya

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me to poop on.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      No triumph, hahaha

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No this was the most important game of all time dumb dumb

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sonic Adventure is way better.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I agree, though I would say SM64 is more important. SA1 was definitely important for Sonic and for SEGA, though

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd say Shadow of the Colossus; since before that games weren't considered a legitimate artform.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      your opinion is as bad as that game

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's ultimately just polished OOT and OOT was literally Mario 64 with swordplay

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      don't make me say it

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >games weren't considered a legitimate artform
      Considering how "le ART" started the downfall of the entire medium that'd make this by far the most damaging video game of all time.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    People always say it's the N64 James Bond.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Most important game of all time next to Doom, that is.
    As doom was one of the first defining 3D game experiences.

    Other than that, games like Crash Bandic**t and Spyro the gaygon can go frick themselves because neither have ever or will ever be as cool and as influential as SM64 and Doom.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Putting aside all the petty Ganker-tier console rivalry, Crash Bandicoot is a lot more impressive than SM64 on a technical level because of how much borderline hacking of the PS1's hardware Naughty Dog did to make it. The Ars Technica interview with Andy Gavin is pretty neat.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The most important video game of all time is Virtua Racing
    While 3D video games existed before it even without hyper expensive arcade cabinets in home computer games like Alpha Waves and Hunter, it was always seen as an alternative rather than the future.
    When Virtua Racing released in '92 it was a first glimpse at the future. Someday this would be it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Namco's Winning Run 1988 has been there and done that already.

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wrong.

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can you elaborate? I know it holds a lot of significance for people who had N64s as kids, but that's what it feels like, a console's flagship title which its fans rally around as a counterpoint to the fans of Other Console. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything it did which had as significant an impact on the platformer genre as Super Mario Bros did.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Revolutioned how to move and design games in 3D.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        In which ways?

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    *ruins jrpgs forever*
    pssh nothing PERSONAl kid

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    This coming out in 1996 is nothing compared to SMB in 1985. Look at what gaming was before 1985.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Street Fighter 2

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    pac man, space invaders or donkey kong. without their mainstream success in the 80s who knows what home consoles would look like, if they'd be common, or if theyd even be here

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mario 64 did a good job of being a platformer game that was actually playable, yeah. Then its genre got real sparse pretty quick into the 6th generation and everything just became an over-the-shoulder shooter or FPS anyway, so who even knows how important it was.

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Compared to tetris, space invaders, doom, Lords of Midnight, Combat, Star wars, csgo, Battlezone, defender, pac man, quake, unreal tounament, ms flight sim, wolfstein, the hobbit, knight lore, or a thousand other games? No. Its a thing for bing bing wahopoists that no one else cares about much and was neither original or special or even particularly well liked in its time.

    https://www.wikihow.com/Leave-a-Cult

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Probably the most important video game of all time.
    Nah that'd be Pong since without it we'd not be chatting here and there'd be no here.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably Mario 3 considering it spawned Doom and the rest of the games Doom spawned

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >if it’s not a direct clone there’s no influence
    truly ivy league-level discourse from the level-headed commenters that peruse Ganker

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Make a vague comment
      >feel superior
      Busy day, huh sport?

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