First Intelligent Game Ever?

[wayfarer]

Does anybody have any idea when games started to get intelligent? I'd imagine somewhere between the early to mid nineties? Can anyoen recall the first game that came out that was targeted for a mature, intelligent audience?

 

[ForceStealer]

 

[Cthulhu]

Does anybody have any idea when games started to get intelligent? I'd imagine somewhere between the early to mid nineties? Can anyoen recall the first game that came out that was targeted for a mature, intelligent audience?

stfu, Pong was intelligent.

I think the FF games (and others from Japan that weren't plain arcade games) were pretty intelligent, with each one, at least since the first, having a pretty large story. And that one's been around since '86, with similar games being published both before and after.

 

[Sheva Alomar]

 

[tangerine]

stfu, Pong was intelligent.

I think the FF games (and others from Japan that weren't plain arcade games) were pretty intelligent, with each one, at least since the first, having a pretty large story. And that one's been around since '86, with similar games being published both before and after.

If you actually think about the final fantasy games and pay close attention while you play, nearly everything contradicts itself and is illogical. (Even by the games' definition of logic with magic and all that.) The first final fantasy had four people who just randomly show up at the beginning, being the destined heroes in possession of the magical crystals, and yet they're all level 1 and pathetically weak. The story itself was completely idiotic what with the time loop and Garland somehow surviving from the beginning of the game only to become stronger because he traveled 2000 years into the past thanks to some fiends so that he could send them into the future so that they could send him into the past so that he could send them into the future.......... etc.

 

[Alex]

Brilliant.

 

[firehahahahahaha]

 

[Megatron]

Can anyoen recall the first game that came out that was targeted for a mature, intelligent audience?

Maybe not THE first, but pretty damn close.

 

[Cthulhu]

Maybe not THE first, but pretty damn close.

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack (1985), which is a descendant of Rogue (1980).

Ergo, this.

Rogue, or its precursor / related game dnd seem to be the first ones with some story though. Not sure if they'd have an intelligent story, but then, what's intelligent? Where do you draw the line between a 'story-driven' game and an 'intelligent' game? People could consider Spacewar intelligent for it being the first popular(ish) game and the people behind it pushing the boundaries of computer technology.

So, I'd say define 'an intelligent game' first, before asking which one it is. You wouldn't ask 'what's the question to the answer of life, the universe, and everything?' before asking 'what's the answer to life, the universe, and everything?', right?

 

[Megatron]

Eh, I intentionally named Nethack as it's literally light years beyond its predecessors, and has a level of interactivity that nothing before had even come close to. As they say, "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything".

 

[muchmoxie]

Spoiler

wat

 

[Cthulhu]

Eh, I intentionally named Nethack as it's literally light years beyond its predecessors, and has a level of interactivity that nothing before had even come close to. As they say, "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything".

I just read up on that, and it looks awesome, . It also happens to be the oldest game still under active development, and there's still stuff in there that people haven't discovered yet.

 

[Tetsujin]

'what's the answer to life, the universe, and everything?'

42.

 

[Makoeyes987]

I think its obvious the first intelligent game ever made was Final Fantasy VII. Before that, games were shallow, insipid and dull. It wasn't until FFVII revolutionized the video game industry that games actually had depth and story. Before that we only had games like Zelda, and Mario, and things that had zero plot and development.

 

[ForceStealer]

Pretty much, we haven't had an intelligent game since either.

 

[Alex]

I think its obvious the first intelligent game ever made was Final Fantasy VII. Before that, games were shallow, insipid and dull. It wasn't until FFVII revolutionized the video game industry that games actually had depth and story. Before that we only had games like Zelda, and Mario, and things that had zero plot and development.

I see whats going on here.

 

[Cthulhu]

I think its obvious the first intelligent game ever made was Final Fantasy VII. Before that, games were shallow, insipid and dull. It wasn't until FFVII revolutionized the video game industry that games actually had depth and story. Before that we only had games like Zelda, and Mario, and things that had zero plot and development.

Nigger, no you. FFVI was before VII, and it had at least an equal amount of story and shit, imho.

 

[ForceStealer]

I don't think he was serious, Yop.

 

[Cthulhu]

I think he was, hiding his personal insecurities and failure and blackness behind FFVII references all the time.

 

[Super Mario]

The most intelligent game evar would be battletoads or bible black: the official game of the hentai.

 

[Alex]

Bible Black, lawl

 

[Interslicery]

The most intelligent game evar would be battletoads or bible black: the official game of the hentai.

Fail.

The hentai was based off the game noob.

 

[Super Mario]

BAWWWWWWWWWWW CRY MOAR.


the adaptation of the hentai complete with explosions, pyrotechnics in the distance and guitar solos is in order, not the bland original game which quite frankly is non existent to any of us. In other words, mentioning a game that shit nobody cares about is equivalent to this fail you speak of.

 

[Cthulhu]

Now you mention it, Battletoads is far more epic in terms of story and underlying meanings than any other game I've ever played. I mean, it's got a love myriagon, how intelligent can you get?

 

[Megatron]

I think its obvious the first intelligent game ever made was Final Fantasy VII. Before that, games were shallow, insipid and dull. It wasn't until FFVII revolutionized the video game industry that games actually had depth and story. Before that we only had games like Zelda, and Mario, and things that had zero plot and development.