What game is the Citizen Kane of gaming?

[Migraine Box]

 

[ArgonianVoter]

Spyro: A Heroes Tail.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Tetris.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Pong

 

[BradeRunna]

Deus Ex. It's one of those love it or hate it games.

 

[BullfrogBill]

I hope the list of candidates for the Citizen Kane of gaming is absolute dogshit on purpose to be ironic. The Citizen Kane of gaming would be an older game that's generally considered a masterpiece, perhaps even overrated by some, that has influenced tons of other video games that came after it for years.

The candidates should be

• Doom
• the first Legend of Zelda
• Super Metroid
• Mario 64
• Half-Life
• Deus Ex
• Castlevania Symphony of the Night
• Shenmue

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Detroit Become Human clearly.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

 

[Kane Lives]

Imagine not nominating the messiah himself.

 

["Controlled Demolition"]

I hope the list of candidates for the Citizen Kane of gaming is absolute dogshit on purpose to be ironic. The Citizen Kane of gaming would be an older game that's generally considered a masterpiece, perhaps even overrated by some, that has influenced tons of other video games that came after it for years.

The candidates should be

• Doom
• the first Legend of Zelda
• Super Metroid
• Mario 64
• Half-Life
• Deus Ex
• Castlevania Symphony of the Night
• Shenmue

Yes, it would be a game that has changed the art of game-making forever. Zelda 1, Super Metroid, Deus Ex, Castlevania nor Shenmue really do that, but DOOM, Mario 64 and Half-Life are all genre-defining, if not game-changing. DOOM (maybe the original Wolfenstein?) birthed the FPS as we know it today, Mario 64 ushered in the 3D platformer and influenced loads of games outside of that, and Half-Life + Half-Life 2 first developed shooters into something more in addition to using environmental and in-game storytelling to tell a story, with its sequel influencing storytelling a second time (physics puzzles be damned).
My pick would be the original Half-Life, because it's been so transformative to video games as a whole, just like Citizen Kane has transformed the language of moviemaking. No longer would every shooter be just a screen of exposition, shoot, then another screen of exposition once you win (as was the case with DOOM, Quake, even Duke Nukem).

 

[DeadwastePrime]

revolution 60, clearly

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA V?

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

>Pedantic
>Overblown impact
>People trying to pretend they are smart talking about it
>Nobody plays it or it's descendants anymore
Secret of Monkey Island, change my mind. Point and click is dead and has been dead for decades yet everyone still talks about it but rarely plays it.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

A lot of people don't seem to understand what the phrase "the Citizen Kane of ___" is supposed to convey, judging by people saying overrated, rarely viewed etc. We can't appreciate Citizen Kane because we have seen what came after it, so the influence it had on every movie that came after it is invisible to us. Calling something "the Citizen Kane" of something means it completely changed how things were made from that point forward, and it changed the standard that everything would be judged by from then on. It doesn't mean that it's still considered the greatest, it means it shifted the paradigm completely and influenced everything that came after it.

With that being said, a candidate that completely changed what a video game could be and how other games that came after it would be judged (regardless of how playable it is today), would be a game like Super Mario 64. Minecraft would be another example that completely changed what a video game could be with it's influence still felt across the board over a decade later.

Last of Us was a decent game, but it didn't change the way games are made or influence an entire generation of games. Bioshock Infinite wasn't even a good game, and definitely didn't change the dynamics of how games are made. Shadow of the Colossus was a fresh approach to gaming, but that would be more analogous to an art house film that didn't have much influence and wasn't really enjoyed by many people even when it came out (in movie terms, it would be more like Koyaanisqatsi than Citizen Kane). Deus Ex was a good game, but not exactly paradigm shifting. Dark Souls I never played, but they're fighting games so I'm not sure how much they changed the future of video game development other than "make fighting game really hard". So from the options on the poll probably only Portal would really qualify.

 

[Ocean's 9/11]

WWE Crush Hour, because Kane is a citizen in that game and it has guncars so its more cooler than wrestling.

 

[redbeardeded]

>Citizen Kane of X
Do you mean what's most overrated?

 

[Jason Wynn]

Gotta say Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

 

[FatalTater]

Are there any games that have a big chunk of it taken up with a storyline about a singer that you always speed through as fast as possible because, though it is plot relevant, it drags down the rest of it?

But yeah, Zelda games, DOOM... I know I'll think of the perfect answer for this question while I'm out weeding the garden and forget to post it when I get back inside.

 

[Mikoyan]

Are there any games that have a big chunk of it taken up with a storyline about a singer that you always speed through as fast as possible because, though it is plot relevant, it drags down the rest of it?

Technically Goodbye Volcano High fits that description, the trouble is the singer in question is the protagonist.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Are there any games that have a big chunk of it taken up with a storyline about a singer that you always speed through as fast as possible because, though it is plot relevant, it drags down the rest of it?

L.A. Noir.