re: You can only name one. Greatest game of all time

I think some of you are confusing "greatest game of all time" with "my favorite game of all time."

There's a difference

Misspelled it, but seriously, name games that Half Life 2 has influenced? Now I'll list games that were influenced by Mario and Zelda. Pretty much all of them except for Tower Defense. There's not a game made in this day and age where Mario and/or Zelda weren't a huge influence on.

Your opinion is stupid to say the least.

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But Mario and Zelda invented level design. Yes, HL2 is a great game, but it's no where in the ballpark as influential as these two franchises. Hell, Half Life probably wouldn't make the Top 20 of influential franchises.

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Dude IDGAF about who changed the industry TBH.

Talking greatest game.

You will always been influenced by something.

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Half Life probably wouldn't make the Top 20 of influential franchises.

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HL1? I would think that game would make a Top 20, but again we aren't talking about influential. I'm speaking to greatest game, using totally different metrics to rate.

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'm ok with you calling it the greatest game, but Freaux was clearly talking about the most influential that only comes across once in a generation. You trying to put HL2 in that conversation is laughable at best. It has no place in that conversation whatsoever.

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I think it is up for debate.

IDK about laughable. It has influence in FPS story telling. The modding community that spawned from it alone made spin offs which are still some of the top game 10-15yrs later.

Edt: Also when I responded to Frex, it was a joke.

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Deus Ex.

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Deus Ex and Thief's sequels have made ppl forget how good the originals were.

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I mean how do you really separate the 2 sometimes? Hard to look past personal bias when based around preference of art.

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I feel words like "greatest" places more emphasis on objective qualities. Objectively speaking, Super Mario Bros is a timeless classic. It paved the way for the modern video game and is just as fun to play today as it was in the 80s.

Then I look at a game like KOTOR. KOTOR does frick all to advance the western RPG genre, has a broken combat system, and can barely run efficiently on modern PCs without tweaking, but it's probably my favorite video game of all time because I love Star Wars and I love the story, characters, and setting.

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Then I look at a game like KOTOR. KOTOR does frick all to advance the western RPG genre, has a broken combat system, and can barely run efficiently on modern PCs without tweaking, but it's probably my favorite video game of all time because I love Star Wars and I love the story, characters, and setting.

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That issue is just the old engine, its not supported by drivers now. Wouldn't hold it against the game.

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It was made for Windows xp

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Yea, its not a knock.

Just launch in compatibility mode. The game is great, love it.

Civilization II

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I never played the first Deus Ex sequel (I know it got meh reviews) but I really enjoyed Human Revolution.

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Play however you want as long as it's stealth.