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[Hookshot]

Famitsu asked Herman Hulst "If you had to pick one title that has been particularly important in the growth of PlayStation over the past 30 years, which one would it be?" and he though it was Uncharted 2 which wouldn't be my pick.

The boring answer is Final Fantasy 7, the more modern answer will probably be GTA 6, but what do you think? Do you think that growth is the most important metric when choosing your answer? Do you think it was a Sony published game? Do you have multiple games for multiple reasons?

 

[Moses85]

 

[Gaiff]

Gran Turismo, Metal Gear, FF VII.

 

[Radical_3d]

The most important doesn’t mean that its importance had a positive impact. In that sense probably Concord has been their more important game. With the potential to course correct the whole division, and hopefully kick out that Hermen moron.

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

First party: The Last Guardian

Third Party: So many to choose from.

 

[Gojiira]

Boring answer is FF7? Why? It was a huge win for early Playstation. The most important though is Metal Gear Solid. Of any game, on any platform, period. Its almost singlehandedly responsible for bringing in quality voice over work, cinematic storytelling etc. It never gets the credit it deserves in that regard. And without it I doubt Playstation would have followed in its footsteps.

 

[NomenNescio]

Part II.

 

[Zathalus]

Grab Turismo would be my suggestion. It really helped popularise the PS1 back in the 90s.

 

[Artistic]

From what I played, maybe the Last of Us.

 

[Schmick]

Important to Sony or the gaming industry?

For Sony probably Ridge Racer for PSX.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Boring or not, FFVII and Uncharted 2 are key to Playstation's dominance. I would add the original GOW, on a lower tier.

 

[Little Mac]

Astro Bot

 

[PauloRoberto]

His answer makes sense... Uncharted II was the first game to show how playstation trademark (in this case, PS3) was still alive, kicking and could turn around the horrible PS3 design decisions (and in fact, did).

 

[Big Baller]

GTA3

 

[tmlDan]

GoW 2018, turned a few million seller into an over 20 million seller

Was a huge risk and did something no game has ever done before in its genre, successfully

 

[Bartski]

Bloodborne is the correct answer

 

[T8SC]

Hard to choose just 1, but I'd purely go PS1 games as those are the ones that got the Playstation brand off the ground.

So:

• Final Fantasy VII
• Gran Turismo
• Metal Gear Solid
• Tekken
• Crash Bandicoot
• Tomb Raider II

 

[ManaByte]

Metal Gear Solid or FFViI

Hilarious how MGS almost didn’t even come to the US.

 

[Lorianus]

FF7 was the first true AAA production with it's outrageous budget, one can see it as a blessing or a curse from today's standpoint.

 

[Hrk69]

Final Fantasy VII (1997) and Metal Gear Solid as a very close second place

 

[Punished Miku]

I think Hulst got it right. Not my choice personally, never played it. But it seems to be the blueprint for the signature "Sony game" style they've been iterating on since. His answer makes perfect sense.

 

[RaduN]

Metal Gear Solid without a shadow of a doubt.

 

[Frostt]

These 4 among few others helped cemented the PlayStation into what it is today

Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII

 

[Punished Miku]

These 4 among few others helped cemented the PlayStation into what it is today

Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII

Helped cement the PS into what it was maybe up to PS3.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

PS1 made such an impact on pop culture that even boomers were interested in Gran Turismo and Tomb Raider. FF VII might have been a bit too abstract for their tastes, but still huge in gaming culturally along with Colin McRae Rally and Crash Bandicoot and Crash Team Racing.

 

[onQ123]

Gran Turismo easily but Ape Escape & Crash Bandicoot 2 are also embedded in my mind for Analog stick controls and Rumble

 

[Mr Hyde]

For me personally it's Demons Souls. It changed my entire taste in games and made me a lifelong fan of Souls-likes, which is my favorite genre to this day. Groundbreaking experience. I'm forever grateful to Sony for producing this absolute stone cold classic.

For Sony and PlayStation I'd say Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo. Both game changers in their respective genre and catapulted the brand into the mainstream and 100 million consoles sold.

 

[onQ123]

Jumping Flash deserve a little love because it was my 1st holy $#!+ moment with 3D gaming

Wipeout , Jet Moto & Battle Arena Toshinden shouldn't be forgotten either.

 

[Efren is G.O.A.T.]

FF7 for sure.

 

[bender]

Metal Gear Solid or God of War if we limit it to first party. Both sent the snowball down the hill for what would become Sony's development and sales focus.

 

[Chiggs]

Final Fantasy VII turned an already formidable platform into an unstoppable force. I still remember my "Ultra 64" bros getting depressed by the bad news in 1995...and then when the game came out in 1997, they were a mess.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Took their first party exclusives to another level.

 

[fallingdove]

Bloodborne is the correct answer

Demons Souls is the correct answer. Without it, Soulsborne wouldn’t have been popularized and Bloodborne wouldn’t exist.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

 

[LordOcidax]

Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy VII. And that’s a fact.

 

[Drake]

Uncharted 2 was pretty important as it was the game that really put ND on the map. It's one of my favorite games ever, so I'm a bit biased. Do I think it's the most important PlayStation game going all the way back to 1994? Probably not.

FF 7 has a strong case.
Demon Souls as that was the game that started an entire genre.
Resident Evil
Maybe even something like GTA 3.

It's tough to nail down just one.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

PS1 era: Gran Turismo
PS2 era: God of War:
PS3: Uncharted 2 / The Last of Us. These games shaped PlayStation into what it is today (for better or worse).

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Can we safely say the answer to this question is from the PS1+2 era? Fantastic time for this hobby.

 

[WoJ]

Concord, easily.

 

[reinking]

Gran Turismo and God of War are Sony's biggest franchises. I would go with those. However, I do not think Sony would have gotten where they have without having titles like Tekken, Twisted Metal and quirky titles like PaRappa the Rapper. Plus, the way they used third-party support to build loyalty to their consoles.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

It'd have to be something on the PS1 - Sony was making shit like Gran Turismo. That completely changed the genre and was one of the many things Sony was pushing onto the market that solidified them as a major player in the space, and that helped gaming as a whole become mainstream. The last really important game they put out like that would probably be the original God of War.

While I really put no value on anything Hermen says and frankly hated the game, I do agree that Uncharted 2 was important... but to nowhere near the extent that their previous games were, at least as far as industry-wide impact goes. It did cement Sony's direction creatively, as a "presentation first, gameplay need not apply" publisher, for all the good and bad that entails.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Final Fantasy VII. It really changed the way people looked at JRPGs.

 

[ByWatterson]

The correct answer is Grand Theft Auto 3.

 

[FunkMiller]

If you were around when Final Fantasy 7 came out, you'll know that the correct answer to this question is Final Fantasy 7.

MGS close second.

 

[ExtendEmbraceExtinguish]

Exclusive: GT
3rd party: GTA/ff7/Ea support (Dreamcast era).

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

The Last of Us part 1 and 2. ( i know i will get a lot of downvotes but i dont care)

 

[Kenneth Haight]

GTA3

Correct answer. This game changed the way all other developers approached open worlds.

It seems very quaint now looking back on it and it sounds a bit douchey but “you had to be there”

When I played this game in my friends PS2 it was like nothing I’d ever played before. Playing the remaster recently and it’s still good fun but the mechanics are quite clearly dated by modern standards. I’d say this is one of the most important for the industry as a whole and Sony even though it wasn’t first party.

 

[Team Andromeda]

MGS 2

 

[SweetTooth]

The most important doesn’t mean that its importance had a positive impact. In that sense probably Concord has been their more important game. With the potential to course correct the whole division, and hopefully kick out that Hermen moron.

Course correct the division from what? Their most successful era ever?

Weird post

 

[amigastar]

The Last of Us part 1 and 2. ( i know i will get a lot of downvotes but i dont care)

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