Can /v/ name all 50 or are you AAA normies?
>>747052371Downwell but no Touhou? Get fucked.
>>747052371>Hades and Cuphead>Indie???
Yume NikkiCave StoryCorpse PartyI don't care to keep going
>>747052371Is that supposed to be Commander Video on the bike? I feel like bit.trip gets overlooked a lot these days
>>747052371>50 indie games that changed the world >Reimu is nowhere to be seenInto the trash it goes
>>747052371>indie games I like
>>747052532Journey and Ori were published by sony and microsoft. This shit is retarded.
>>747052371Is Milhouse an indie?
>>747052532When will people learn that games with over a million dollars in budget aren't indie games.
>>747052371Ori is not an indie game
Hideous artstyle
>>747052675Milhouse is a symptom character.
>fezLolThe only change that made to the world was show everyone what a gigantic flaming faggot phil fish is
>>747052756suck my dickchoke on it
>>747052371>I wanna be the guy not present>La Mulana isn't there eitherIt's shit.
>>747052371Maybe I'm blind but I don't see Cave Story anywhere and that game really did change the world, (or at least the games industry).
>>747052371>poop colored book>read the title as “India Games” at first
>>747052371>all westoidal slop>half of if it shit no one has ever even heard ofyour nails are fucking disgusting btw
>>747053115>>747052449>muh jap shit>muh Touhouclearly hasn't changed the world, so doesn't count
>>747052371castle crasher blue knight guyshovel knightguacamemele guylimbo guyalien hominid?cupheadhotline miami guythat game with the autistic dev that canceled his sequel over online dramasuper meat boyori and the triple A indie budgetthe skeleton guy from that earthbound cloneplague doctor from that gritty rpg game with a hand drawn art style with lots of shadowsspelunky?that Sony sand game that's triple a indie gamethe octopus guy where you control his tentacles amogus?the spiky head guy that did a collab DLC with Bloodstained ladyFURY guy?Hades guy?the black cube guy from that speed running rhythim platforming game, i thinkthat 'cozy' packaging 'game' with lots of pastel colors?Faith from mirror's edge??? idkhow bad did I do?
>>747053629>Faith from mirror's edgeAnon, that's DICE. The Battlefield devs, owned by EA. That's about as far from indie as it gets.
>>747052371Cuphead, Spelunky, ?, Hotline Miami, Journey, ?, ??, Fez, Undertale, Overcooked?, ?, Gris, Isaac, ?, Octodad, Rogue Legacy, ?, ?LEFT:?, Limbo, ??, Super Meat BoyRIGHT:Guacamelee!, ? (is that supposed to be cave story?)Among Us, Hypnospace Outlaw, ??, Shovel Knight, Tunic, ?, Thomas Was Alone?, Castle Crashers?, Ori, Blasphemous, ?, ?
>>747052371Really stretching the definitions of "indie" and "changed the world".
Reverse image searched, its a recent reddit post.https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/1w9dpg1/this_book_is_one_of_the_best_gifts_i_have_ever/
>>747052532Should have slapped dave the diver and excrement33 on it for good measure.Reminder that Bastion was the original sin of this. Praised as indie darling while published by Warner Brothers.
>>747052371No FNAF?
>>747052371Why isn't Doom on that cover? Or Wolfenstein 3d?And Star Citizen made more money than all of those other indie games combined.
>>747052371why isnt terraria on the cover?majority of those games were shit and forgotten
>>747052371>Nepobabbies circlejerk
>>747052371I have no idea why like half of these games are included and a few being indie in the first place is questionable at best. Games like Binding of Isaac and Amogus I can understand, never got into either of them but they made a pretty large splash. But why are games like Journey, Gris and Octodad here? Can't see Five Nights at Freddie's represented either and that was THE streamerbait game that kickstarted the whole trend.
>>747052371half of those arent even indies, 90% aren't even goodindie somehow became the word for low budget games with LGBTQI+ aura
>>747052371>no Minecraft Steve on the front cover
>>747054837>meaning of words change and this scares meUnc slept in school
>>747054859>game from small indie company called Microsoft
>>747054982>game from small indie company called Microsoft
>>747055072Correct. Neither should be there.
>>747052371Cuphead, Spelunky, Shovel Knight DLC, ???, Journey, ???, ??????, Fez, Undertale, ???, Hotline Miami, Octodad, ???, ??????, Gungeon, Bjork??, Isaac, Steampunk Digsomething, Rogue Legacy, ??????, Limbo, ???, Lucha something I don't remember the name, ???Rain World??, Meat Bot, Among Us, ???, ???, ???Finger, Shovel Knight, Tunic, ???, ???, Castle CrushersHades, ???, Ori and the White Forest, Blasphemous, ???, ???, That one 2D roguelike that Terraria collabed with
Who's the guy with a red-and-white cap next to the Quacamelee guy?IUt's that and the cycling guy on the other side that I don't recognize.Of course, I don't know most of these characters by name, since I haven't played even half of those games, and I don't think something like Limbo is all that special.
>>747052371Where the fuck is Hollow KnightWhere the fuck is OMORI and LISA>>747054982>>747055072>Notch was working for Microsoft when he launched Minecraftretards
>>747053564Touhou has more influence then every single western indie slop combined.
>>747054837westoidal kikes are trying to co-opt the indie label that japan actually changed the world with
>>747055492>I don't think something like Limbo is all that special.Limbo is the best game on there.
>>747052532You aren't entitled to that label just because you irrationally hate corporations.
>>747055784I prefer Shovel Knight but I guess people who like games like Another World will have to take what they can get, since Limbo is more in line with cinematic platformers than more traditional ones
>Cuphead>Spelunky>Darkest Dungeon>Hotline Miami>Journey>Fez>Undertale>Overcooked>Steamworld>Her Story>Lonely Mountains>Enter The Gungeon>Gris>Binding of Isaac>Steamworld>Octodad>Rogue Legacy>Limbo>Super Meat Boy>Downwell>Shovel Knight>Hades>Unpacking>Tunic>Ori>Blasphemous>Thomas Was Alone>Guacamelee>Olli Olli>Hypnospace Outlaw>??Devil Daggers??>Among Us>Castle Crashers>Dead Cells
>>747055562Hahahaha, no.
>>747055909There's probably >Geometry Warsunder the thumb, but that's from Microsoft/PGR4 studio.>Coffee TalkCould be the coffee cup.
>>747052371>Journey >Cuphead>Octodad>Castle Crashers>Indie????
>>747056121And my last one:>Oxenfree
>>747053629Wait, that's meant to be Faith? That aint fucking indie either
>>747055549>Where the fuck is OMORI>where the fuck is a game that came out last year and changed the universe in the 1 year out of 50+ years of history of the medium
>>747054982Kill yourself zoomer
>>747052371>grisThe only legacy of this game is no one recognizing her character in steam sale art.
>>747055903Love cinematic platformers.
>>747055492>Who's the guy with a red-and-white cap next to the Quacamelee guy?Oli Oli i think
>>747052371>Westoid gamesNauseating.
>>747052692Budget has nothing to do with it.Doom was indieHalf life 2 was indieStar citizen is indieIN DE PEN DANTAs in,: no publisher involved, funding it.That is the ONLY requirement
>>747052371Disco Elysium is top right-ish, it's the telephone beneath the lamp pole segment
>>747052371Pretty sure I see: Obra Dinn, Cuphead, Fez, Sans Undertale, Spelunky, Turnip Boy, Darkest Dungeon, Hotline Miami, Journey, Into the Breach, Happy Wheels?, Gungeon, Gris, Isaac, Steamworld Dig, Octodad, Rogue Legacy, Hyperlight Drifter, Her Story, Crossy Road?, Limbo, Guacamelee, Hypnospace Outlaw, Downwell, Meat Boy, Amogus, Shovel Knight, Castle Crashers, Tunic, Unpacking, Hades, Ori, Blasphemous, Dead Cells. So that's like 2/3rds if my guesses are right.Still an insanely limited lineup that is recency biased to shit and includes games that were published by large companies while ignoring that FNAF & Minecraft began totally indie, not to mention completely ignoring the Japanese indie scene when Cave Story, Yume Nikki & Touhou absolutely had more impact than a vast majority of those. Also maybe the book was written a couple years ago but if it came out now and didn't have Balatro or Lethal Company it'd be wrong even within a modern context.
>>747052692You are unbelievably stupid.>>747056498I'd say it's more that the studio retains both autonomy and control of the IP. If a company foots the bill on publishing for a cut but the studio keeps those first two things it's still indie.
>>747052371>no quote in the cover art despite cave story being one of the most influential indie games everwho made this shit?
>>747052371I dont see Captain Viridian on this cover. What is this gay faggotry
>>747052371ww2 changed the worldthe black death changed the worldthe most recent toba eruption (probably) changed the worldthe most that videogames have changed are men into pretend women
Found the official full list if you want to check your work or see how bad some of these choices are:80 Days, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Among Us, Axiom Verge, Before Your Eyes, Blasphemous, Braid, Broken Age, Castle Crashers, Cave Story, Celeste, Coffee Talk, Cuphead, Darkest Dungeon, Dead Cells, Dear Esther, Disco Elysium, Don’t Starve, Downwell, Enter the Gungeon, Fez, GRIS, Gone Home, Guacamelee, Hades, Her Story, Hollow Knight, Hotline Miami, Hyper Light Drifter, Hypnospace Outlaw, Into the Breach, Journey, Knights and Bikes, Limbo, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Minecraft, Monument Valley, Night in the Woods, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, OlliOlli, Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, Outer Wilds, Overcooked, Oxenfree, Return of the Obra Dinn, Risk of Rain, Rogue Legacy, Sea of Stars, Shovel Knight, Slay the Spire, Spelunky, Stardew Valley, Steamworld Dig, Stories Untold, Super Meat Boy, Terraria, That Dragon, Cancer, The Binding of Isaac, The Stanley Parable, Thomas Was Alone, Tunic, Undertale, Unpacking, Vampire Survivors, Velocity, What Remains of Edith Finch.To me it seems like they figured out which devs were willing to do interviews and share concept art and worked backwards from there.
>>747057228>Broken AgeLol>To me it seems like they figured out which devs were willing to do interviews and share concept art and worked backwards from there.That's how things like these tend to go, yeah. It's not about what's objectively most popular or influential, it's about who they can get a hold of (and are okay with being featured).
>>747057228>Cave Story is actually on the list but Quote's not on the cover
>>747057000kikes.
>>747056578It's not Obra Dinn. Obra Dinn is not a steam boat.It's not Turnip Boy, it's Onion King from Overcooked.It's not Happy Wheels.It's prob not Crossy Road. The main char is a chicken.
>>747054009>shovel knight DLCThat's Plague doctor from Darkest Dungeon I think
>>747057228>66 games16 of these are honorable mentionsProbably the ones not on the cover.
>>747057228The only games that made a splash regarding how the indie scene or overall gaming scene were headed (for better OR worse) are Amnesia, Amogus, Braid, Cave Story, Celeste, Cuphead, Disco, Don't Starve, Gungeon, Gone Home, Hades, Hollow Knight, Hotline Miami, Journey, Limbo, Minecraft, Outer Wilds, Obra Dinn, Rogue Legacy, Shovel Knight, Slay the Spire, Spelunky, Stardew, Terraria, Isaac, Stanley Parable, Undertale, and Vampire Survivors. So less than 30 were good choices.
>>747052371The majority of these didn't change anything, they just had a lot of marketing/cult fanbase that wouldn't shut up.The ones that meaninguflly changed the industry are the ones that spawned dozens of low effort shitty clones. Eg. vampire survivors. I think amongus is the only world changing one there.(Note that "changed" doesn't mean "for the better")
>>747052371>no Touhou>no Minecraft>no Cave Story
>>747052371>No Alien HominidShit list.
>>747058424Nobody plays Touhou games, the "fans" only goon to the fan-art(porn)Minecraft is not an indie gameCave story is included in the book
>>747058429The fuck is Alien Hominid?
>>747052371>Indie that change the world>Clone of an old flash gamemany such cases with popular indies.
>>747058551NTA but lmao
>>747058490>Minecraft is not an indie gameRetard
>>747058594Enlightening.
>>747058603It's not. Maybe at the very beginning when it was just an Infiniminer -clone it was, but those times are long gone.
Why is Cuphead a bunny?
>>747056423Post those eastern indies if they're so great.
>>747058551Lurk moar.
>>747052371Indie means East Indies. I'm not a jeet, so I don't know any of that.
>>747058908The fact I can't tell what it is without lurking your personal subreddit says it's not influental enough to be on the list. Vaguepost all you want, but you already lost this argument.
Oh yeah, Dead Cells is totally relevant to gaming culture and the world itself
>>747056423Mentally ill weeb
>>747056423Note David Bowie was a fag.
>>747052371What did meatboy inspire or accomplish
>>747058968I got an outie not an indie
>>747057228Why Into the Breach and not Faster than Light? That's way more influential game from the same dev.
>>747059210 Humanity started eating meat after they played it.
>>747052371I was just thinking wow it's crazy they put fucking Fez on this and Papers Please isn't here, but it's under his thumb.
>>747059112They just say yes to every collab it seems. Probabably more influential that way than the original fotm game.
>>747058902Cave Story and Touhou are more world changing than 90% of that cover.Yume Nikki would be welcome as well.
>>747059342>Cave Story>not about the greatest shmup developer ever
>>747059224And why Return to Obra Din and not Paper's Please? That one spawned its own subgenre of job simulators while I've never seen another Obra Din -like.
>>747052371>No Cave Story on the cover>>747057228>But it's apparently on the list90% of the games on this list just straight up would not have been made without the initial legwork Cave Story put in. That's quite retarded.
>>747052371>indie games that changed the worldonly about 3 are remembered by most people.
>>747059446What initial legwork? What doors did it open?
>>747052371omikron?
>>747052371Where the FUARK is my boi
>>747059568Real unc hours
>>747059068Hahahahaha you could've just googled it anon.If it helps one of the devs other games is on the book cover, you dumb little zoomiebrat ;^)
>>747059491It invented the concept of indie games
>>747053629>Faith from mirror's edge??? idkGris
>>747058551found the zoomerbut honestly, it's a shit game and not even indie
>>747059446>The single most important indie is not on the fucking coverIt's like talking about philosophy and not starting with the Greeks. Sasuga retards
>>747059835shill me on this game
>>747059491westoidal kike retard or clueless zoomer faggot, call it
>>747059446Yeah it's like making a list of the most influential bands of all time and not including the Beatles on the cover, or the most influential painters of all time and not including Picasso. Say what you want about them personally, they're just so influential excluding them from cover art is naturally going to look retarded.
>>747059657Why would I google a game that's so influential, hmm? Why are you still vagueposting instead of simply saying why do you think it should be there?
>>747059624That's Daddy to you, my little tray of sticky buns ;)
>>747059812Patently false. Indie games have existed since at least 1990's.
>>747059967Here's a hint dearest roody-poo: it was posted not far above your post
>>747059842I'm not a zoomer, I'm just perplexed why this anon is so obsessed over some old game I have no memory of. This is like someone shitting their pants over Braid.
>>747055942Where do you think you are?
>>747059491It proved that non-browser-based games developed by an individual could be distributed diugitally and be a success while also receiving critical praise equivalent to a release made by a major studio. Cave Story wasn't the first attempt at this but it was the first one that was broadly successful and was an inflection point.
>>747059904Meds, grampa. Now.
>>747052371>No Five Nights at Freddy'sYou can't have a conversation about influential indies without mentioning the biggest indie horror game of the last decade.
>>747059897Simple platformer with very pretty background art. Other side of the coin of Celeste.
>>747060215But the game itself isn't influential, just its reception.
>>747056498>Doom was indieID Software cut ties with Apogee Software and released it on their own after making 12 games with them. It's like calling Steam indie because they aren't publishing through Sierra anymore which makes my next point about HL2 being indie.Star Citizen isn't out yet and never will be and basically you're retarded.
>>747060409Indie doesn't mean amateur.
>>747060409>trying to make a point>doesn't know the fucking difference between Steam and Valve
>>747060449/v/oyim are so retarded they will look you dead in the eyes and tell you Skyrim is an indie game because Bethesda self published it.>>747060452Ok I'll take that L.
>>747060552As long as it's independent i don't care about the team's scale or veterancy or budget. We have other words for those. Indie is just a simple independent or not independent. Otherwise it is a useless word with no meaning.
>>747060409NTA but>ID Software cut ties with Apogee Software and released it on their own after making 12 games with themHow was that not independent then? Those 12 games that Apogee published and presumably own aren't indie but id making a new game after ending that working relationship and releasing it themselves with ownership of the IP is fundamentally independent game development. Doom became a huge IP that eventually fell under a corporate umbrella but that doesn't affect the standing of the original release; same reason Minecraft should also count.Valve is a messy example since not long after Steam began they basically became a platform-holding entity on par with the console makers so it'd be like calling Mario or God of War indie and so I won't argue that one.
>>747060552>zoomspeak buzzword soup slop postMight as well not post at all.
Help me out anons.Cuphead, Spelunky, Darkest Dungeon, Hotline Miami, ?, Journey, Before Your Eyes, Into the Breach80 Days, Fez, Undertale, OvercookedLonely Mountains, Gungeon, Gone Home, Gris, Isaac, SteamWorld Dig, Octodad, Rogue Legacy, Hyper Light Drifter, Stardew Valley, Her Story, That Dragon CancerLEFT:Oxenfree, Limbo, Coffee TalkDownwell, Super Meat BoyRIGHT:Guacamelee!, OlliOlliAmong Us, ?, Hypnospace Outlaw, Slay the SpireAxiom Verge, Shovel Knight, Tunic, Stories Untold, Thomas Was Alone, Castle Crashers, Edith FinchHades, Unpacking, Ori, Blasphemous, ?, Knights and Bikes, Vampire Survivors?, Dead Cells
>>747057228Into the Breach and not FTL is just retarded
>>747060895I legitimately thought the whip & bats were part of Dead Cells because of the Castlevania DLC
>>747060895The pocket watch next to Blasphemous is from Obra Dinn.
>>747060895Streetlamp+phone on the right side towards the top is Disco Elysium
>>747061112Nice. Fuck. How did I forget about the watch?I saw the gun and thought it was from some shooter.
>>747060292so kike it is, figures,.into the oven you go, hymie
>>747061037Feels like the writers just went with whatever games the devs wanted to tall about. Who wants to talk about their biggest hit from 10-20 years ago when they have a more recent title to reminiscent about?
>>747060895might be Hell Clock
>>747059967I told you the name you double nigger lmao. What you want me to give you a synopsis too?
>>747060895>>747061112And the thing between Hotline Miami and Journey is the weapons from Sea of Stars.
>>747060449yes it does. that's LITERALLY the definition of it, fuck off you stupid fucking heeb
>>747061225What a dumb design.
>>747061271This might be the worst choice on the list.>One of several games that are just "devs who liked this classic taking a swing at something similar">Everything good about it is either aesthetic or something done many times before in RPGs>Most notoriety it ever had was releasing with The Completionist as an NPC months before his charity scandal broke
>>747061170I think that's the IV line from pic related.
>>747061251"It's game from *genre* that's remembered because of *x*" would suffice. I don't want Google AI's answer, I'm intetested in (You)r personal take.
What's this though? Faster Than Light?
>>747061278https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indiePlease learn to read.
>>747061375Oh youre right my bad
>>747061470Velocity. A random Euroshmup that was one of the earlier indies that got a Playstation Mini release.
>>747061470>>747061629>Same studio as PowerWash Simulator, a prime example of both the [Occupation] Simulator trend and the "co-op game as an excuse to talk to friends on Discord" trend>Go with a shmup they made nobody remembers
>>747057228>That Dragon, CancerYour assumption has to be correct just because of this one. Complete meme "game" that people only know about because it was regarded as being in such bad taste.
>>747052371Wheres E33
>>747061789Not influential enough.
>>747061865But it invented turn based combat, nonsensical stories, and ugly UE5 asset swaps! Also, parrying!
>>747052371The only 3 I'd agree on having a big impact beyond just being good games are Isaac, Among Us and Undertale, all 3 of them lead to massive amounts of copycats trying to get their audience.Things like Guacamelee, Tunic, Blasphemous among others are just good games, nothing that deserve the "changed the world" title.
>>747052371>Doesn’t have Cave Story on the frontAbsolute trash
Why isn't GTAVI on there? It has more Indies working on it than any other title.
>>747052371>Fez>indie>changed the worldahahahahahahahahahahahhhhhahahahh
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