Portal was less shooty half life. But mobile and flashgames are huge and despite not (rightfully) considered real games, they are the most popular games.
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kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Portal though?
Also: mobile games? Flash games? FarmVille left a helluva mark.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
I think FarmVille might genuinely be the “correct” answer for this question, but it was never going to win a popular vote contest like this.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Picking farmville as the most influential video game of all time like picking an old pewdiepie video as the most influential movie of all time.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
I mean, it’s not like that at all though? Even setting aside the popularisation of the free-to-play model and its monetisation - which has defined mobile games (an industry dwarfing all other types of games in revenue by the way), FarmVille was the first innovator in terms of really invasive big data analysis of customer behaviour to maximise profit and retention. The way Zynga did player data analysis (back in 2009 I might add) literally set the tone for all modern internet. There are plenty of articles about the influence of FarmVille, here’s one.. There is another one here.