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The BAFTAs dares to ask the internet: 'What is the most influential videogame of all time?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] RowRowRowYourBot 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

While I would love to agree there’s no way that was the most influential game and I played 1-7

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you play any games past ultima? It pioneered a laundry list of features that game are still using.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes I have but I’d be interested to hear what they innovated as Im not sure what exactly Ultima I created for the first time.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, pretty much everything in Ultima was either innovated or popularized there. It came out in 1980, there really wasn't a lot before it with any kind of complexity.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you think specifically because I can't think of anything they did first with Ultima I?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mostly the open world.

III was a bit more influential with:

  • tiled graphics
  • party combat (Wizardry also had it)
  • time travel

But each game from the Ultima series was additive, and Ultima also pulled from Akalabeth, so it's hard to pick a specific game to be "most influential." Is it Ultima I because it started the series that largely standardized CRPGs? Or is it Akalabeth because its success led to Ultima?

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 1 day ago

And that's why I had a problem with this from the start as Ultima 1 really wasn't that ground breaking compared to others but by 4 you have an unspoken karmic system that tracks level advancement that blew my mind as a kid once I realized that was a thing.

Ultima absolutely pushed significant boundaries but I have a hard time saying it was more influential than tetris.