This is a list about the games that have such an impact, that they can only be described as life changing. These are the games that once you're done playing them you have to sit their and rethink how you view video games as a whole. While they may not be the best games ever, they are certainly games that go where no other game would venture. These are games that will change your life.
The millions of players currently playing this game will tell you that it has changed their lives, and their social experiences, in more ways than you could imagine.
The original Shenmue showed us that you can indeed make a videogame about mundane life, and have it be interesting. Before that, video games were all about having fun and fighting dragons. Shenmue taught us that asking about sailors was just as much fun as landing an ultra combo.
Is it ok to have a game focused specifically on minigames? Is it also in a sense meta? I don't know, but man did it change my life.
Once you play bayonetta you will ask yourself "why do action games need to be tied down with the basic concepts of gravity and physics?" It will make you want more out of your video games, and that's always a good thing.
After you've played this game, you will walk away thinking about it. Thinking about how it got made, why it got made, and if it should have ever been made at all.
This game will make you think about storytelling, and whether or not the criminal justice system can allow transforming spiritual mediums.
Should an indie game be this good? This deep? This fascinating? Hell if a small team of people can pull this off as a side project, why am I not making video games?!
It changed korea man. It changed korea.
