The top 20 most influential video games of all time in the BAFTA poll are as follows:
- Shenmue
- Doom
- Super Mario Bros.
- Half-Life
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Minecraft
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Super Mario 64
- Half-Life 2
- The Sims
- Tetris
- Tomb Raider
- Pong
- Metal Gear Solid
- World of Warcraft
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Final Fantasy VII
- Dark Souls
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Skyrim
- Grand Theft Auto
I’ve never heard of this game.
The absurd mix of some legitimate and appropriate choices, some completely unqualified recent releases that haven’t even had time to exert an influence and a winner that is completely bizarre and out of left field is absolutely something else.
Shenmue? Really?
Fully deserved in my opinion.
Also why is KCD2 and BG3 on the list? That must be a mistake.
I think it was an open vote at first so KCD2 might have been an effect of brigading for a marketing effort. Capitalism is why we can’t have nice things, again.
Could also be explained be recency bias.
You’re right, some people probably thought „most influential” = best and that was the best game they played recently. What this game could influence when it just came out - who knows ;)
This is the dumbest list I’ve ever seen. Are they intentionally messing with people? How is a game that just came out “most influential”? What did Minecraft influence other than half-baked clones? Shenmue provided the blueprint for open world games and, what, Ocarina of Time didn’t?
BAFTA continuing their streak of being on my black-list for being total nonsense.
Yeah I feel like games like Wasteland, Daggerfall, and fuck it even asteroid would be better. This is more like most popular retro games list.
