What games are considered “ahead of their time?”

deus ex

Are you forgetting that this game came out before you were born?

I know it's trendy to not act like OoT was groundbreaking, but an open world of that scale without using procedural generation was insane for 1998

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>FF6
>great battle system
only on Zig Forums you'd hear something this retarded.

>bringing Celes onto the Floating Continent
BAKA you leave her behind so she joins you at the climax and is available for the escape sequence.

being "ahead of its time" and aging well are two very different things
ff6 isn't either of these things, though

I'm 32 retard

God damn was this game deep. I remember when it came out and there was just nothing like it. Such a great vibe for early 2000’s PC gaming.

I’m going to nominate Morrowind. One of the first games that gave me the sense of exploring a world.

Romancing SaGa 2

Because you have no argument :^)

I highly doubt it. If that was truly the case, you wouldn’t have been old enough to appreciate it when it came out in ‘94. It was groundbreaking.

games that are ahead of their time actually tend to not age very well

Master of Magic
Daggerfall
Alpha Centauri
Dune 2
Dwarf Fortress (and still is)

>when it came out in ‘94. It was groundbreaking.
>zoomer thinks turn-based jrpgs were invented in the mid 1990s
alright the thread is already dead

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>groundbreaking
>same as the previous installments

Please tell me of another contemporary RPG that had a more innovative battle system.

I’ll wait.

FF2 with its skill system

FF5

I bet DQV must have been very novel to play back in 1992 with its monster catching and marriage system, it certainly puts FFIV to shame. I wonder how popular it could have been if it got a SNES release.

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It's the exact same battle system as 4 and 5. And the "battle system" is just a traditional turn-based system with a bar that fills up for your turns. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's nothing special to it.

This was the first game to use the ATB system moron(s).

Chrono Trigger

>ATB system
yeah japan absolutely blew everyone's minds with the ATB system. Light years ahead of just taking turns. We haven't seen a technological jump of this magnitude since LMFAO

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No that was FFIV dingus.
Incidentally ATB is shit.

That was FF4. Also calling the ATB system groundbreaking is a joke because it's a fucking terrible system and actually even worse than the standard turn-based shit that preceded it.

>What games are considered “ahead of their time?”
Tetris
Deus Ex

Quake

Honestly I think Pikmin has aged pretty well

>I wonder how popular it could have been if it got a SNES release.

Dragon Warrior: 500,000 units (Note: Given away with Nintendo Power subscription)
Dragon Warrior II: 150,000 units.
Dragon Warrior III: 100,000 units
Dragon Warrior IV: 80,000 units.

I'd say pic related. Name another RPG with that complexity and depht on a console back then. You can't.

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Still looks good too. In fact, most GCN games still look fine nearly 20 years later

Pity the combat was so weird

what the fuck happened to square? oh yeah, they became squareenix and haven’t made a good game in 20 years

>It's the exact same battle system as 4
No it isn't.

Are you kidding? That’s considered one of the weakest entries in the series lmao

By who?

No game had a story as detailed and characters as fleshed out as FFVI when it released you wannabe boom-boom

Ultima Underworld
Ultima 7

If it's on a technical standpoint I would say gta 4. the rage-engine is still being used 11 years later in rdr2

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It's literally just the FF6 system except it came earlier. It's also just a better game in virtually every way.

No it's not, people would sooner put II/VIII/XIII/XV.

Final Fantasy 4 was ahead of its time.
Final Fantasy 6 was just "Final Fantasy 4 but better", which means it was of its time since it came out after 4.

Pokemon

Ah yes "FFVI" was "ahead of its time" because of the characters. Character writing was invented in 1994 and had never been seen in media before

ff5 has worse characters, music, world, and grahpics

Pretty obvious.

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No, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within happened.

Any game that has solid controls and mechanics will age whell.
2d game will age better but even 3d games will age well if the controls and mechanics are good.
JRPGs in general usually have simple mechanics and use pre rendered backgrounds on the PS1 or are 2d so many of them do age well.

PC RPGs had had elaborate stories for like a decade before FF6 came out. FF6's story was only the first story game for millions of babies who had never seen an RPG before.

Live A Live easily has the most innovative turn based system from that time period.

Doom , every modern fps try to copy it,link to the past ,not one game as succeed in replicating it,thief almost introduced a bundle of mechanic that would but ass creed to shame.