The 90s can be considered an important era for the world gaming village. With the launch of many big games, publishers have made many leaps in terms of technology, design as well as the way the story is built. Even more and more games with 3D graphics appeared and became pioneers, having a profound influence in many genres later. For example, some of the games below.
Final Fantasy 7
Plot is always an important part of any game. However, it was not until the 90s that this element was really focused on by many games. Final Fantasy 7 may not be the first game in the series to focus on story, but it can certainly be considered the best story game ever from this famous franchise.
Not impressed by the gameplay, the main success of Final Fantasy 7 comes from integrating deep and human messages throughout its game. Thanks to this success, Final Fantasy sequels always bring excitement and prolong the development cycle of this franchise until Final Fantasy 16 this year.
EverQuest
It would not be an exaggeration to say that EverQuest has opened a new era for today’s popular MMORPG series. Not the first game of this genre, but with improvements in its design such as quests and character building, EverQuest itself has set a new standard for the MMORPG series.
In addition, EverQuest has proven that a subscription-based model with regular content can work. This was later followed by the most successful MMORPG in history, World of Warcraft, and achieved unimaginable success.
Pokémon Red & Blue
Pokémon Red & Blue has taken the world by storm since its first launch. Not only opening the development of later Pokémon games, the game is also attracted by their social and interactive elements.
At that time, in Pokémon Red & Blue, gamers could link their GameBoys together to fight and this made the game incredibly popular. And today, interaction between players has become one of the must-have features of nearly any game.