which game is doing history for the moment ?

[Weasel Fierce]

Originally Posted by BigD

I don't doubt it but it's too political and woke for its own good and any game that focuses on revenge (rather than parental love in the first one) but also requires you to empathise with the main character is going to lead to quite a harrowing game IMHO!

What are you talking about, there's nothing political in that game. Did I miss the "calculate the optimal tax deduction" DLC?

[Thorham]

Starcraft
Diablo 2

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Starcraft
Diablo 2

Yes, those games made history but they aren't new.

[kriz]

Elden Ring is a big one now, looks real cool also.. Also check https://store.steampowered.com/searc...ter=topsellers for latest big games people are playing..

[Anubis]

Apparently in that new big game, people get ban for wearing/getting underwear?!

Must be some special underwear.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/el...from-the-game/

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by kriz

Elden Ring is a big one now, looks real cool also.. Also check https://store.steampowered.com/searc...ter=topsellers for latest big games people are playing..

elden ring is perhaps the best exemple and i think about red dead redemption 2 too. Those 2 will perhaps stay in history.

[acidbottle]

Zelda: BOTW for sure, one of the best games ever made with a very broad audience.

Been very few standout games for me in the past decade, I even struggled to get back into Witcher 3 after while.

CP2077 made history for all the wrong reasons, turned out good but the boat had sailed, same with No Mans Sky.

i'll add Death Stranding to the list to, its a bit marmite, but phenomenal nonetheless.

[defor]

It is too soon to judge if your criterion is "games made in 2019-2021". A game must be given a time to build "a cult following". In order to "do the history" you must ensure that something similar will not be achieved for some period of time. Otherwise some better, nicer, more complex variation will overshadow the original.
From my perspective of the player mainly interested in Japanese productions, I see the strong impact on the industry by these (relatively) recent games:
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Persona 5.
If you'd allow me to look further back I can easily pick almost half of Nintendo's IPs: Animal Crossing, Wii Sports, Smash Bros, ...
A few years back, Dark Souls made a history (technically it should have been Demon's Souls but that game was locked to PS3 only) -- that game spawned the whole genre on its own.
I also would like to mention Fortnite which had (and is still having) a phenomenal influence on the whole gaming industry either directly by its game design, or indirectly by Epic's Unreal Engine.

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

CP2077 made history for all the wrong reasons, turned out good but the boat had sailed, same with No Mans Sky.

I'm pretty sure that people from the future will look on the silly mass-hysteria surrounding these games (and some other instances of unwarranted review bombing) and just shake their heads at the silliness of it all.



CP2077 was always pretty decent on PC, from day one, but it's overall not that groundbreaking a game to "make history", at least history of real gaming, not some Twitter drama. NMS on the other hand is innovative and fresh enough to warrant a mention, surely one of the most important games of the last decade.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by dreadnought

I'm pretty sure that people from the future will look on the silly mass-hysteria surrounding these games (and some other instances of unwarranted review bombing) and just shake their heads at the silliness of it all.

You are making the assumption that people from the future are going to be better people than we are. Is that a trend we've been following lately?

[fxgogo]

Originally Posted by BigD

I don't doubt it but it's too political and woke for its own good and any game that focuses on revenge (rather than parental love in the first one) but also requires you to empathise with the main character is going to lead to quite a harrowing game IMHO!

For me, it was one of the first games that really messed with my loyalties to a character and it really challenged me. I ended up not empathetic towards the main character myself. It was harrowing for sure. Can’t wait for the series.

[rare_j]

The first one had a powerful ending for sure, made my blood run cold.
I didn't enjoy the parts however that had the player character pitted against other survivors who seemed all too willing to offer themselves up as cannon fodder to provide yet another tedious firefight section of gameplay. They should have stuck to having the zombies as enemies, those parts were much better.
I decided to avoid the second one though, just seemed all too grim.

[Tigerskunk]

Elden Ring

[gimbal]

Why so many votes for Elden Ring. It's a very good game, another winner in the line of FromSoft soulsies. Probably the favorite of many fans. But it's not exactly moving mountains, it's the usual trend of minor optimisations over the previous games. It takes the best parts of Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro and puts them to good use.

No, not a historic moment for me. Yet another good FromSoft game, I hope that they can keep the trend going but I'll be curious to see if they ever do a giant mech shooting game again just for funsies. That would be a historic moment.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by turrican3

Yes, those games made history but they aren't new.

Didn't read your original post

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Didn't read your original post

For one time that it isn't me.

[BastyCDGS]

I think "Red Dead Redemption 2" could doing history! I played this really amazing game just a few weeks ago. Incredible!

The game also supports modding and there is already plenty of fan made content available.

[Mixel]

No Man's Sky. Elden Ring.. TLOU2.. A bunch of the games mentioned as making history in the OP are just "older concepts with better presentation" - you don't have to have an entirely new concept or reinvent the wheel to make a historically important game.

I really think it's just a matter of nostalgia though, depending entirely on what you're exposed to, like, and see as important. Ask most people if they Turrican is a historically important game and they'll say "what's Turrican? It looks like a metroid clone?" lol.

PT was years ago now but that caused huge ripples - and that wasn't even a full game.

[BeamCoder]

Valheim

Non-202x games but I still think are new:
Social deduction games like Among Us, Dread Hunger(mixed rating on steam but somehow popular on china)
Battle Royale games like PUBG(PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Apex Legends, Fornite, Fall Guys, etc.

Kind of old genre but did make history:
MOBA games: DOTA 2(Defense of the Ancients), LoL(League of Legends), etc.

[TCD]

Core Keeper is my contender this year.