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But "influential" keeps being tossed around too, which implies that a certain game is better simply because many of the games that came after followed its formula. Which is just downright silly. That's like saying "This game was great to play because it INFLUENCED GAMES I PLAYED LATER." [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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All of this is BS anyway because Dune 2 got crushed in two straight rounds, and it was extremely influential.

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I'll say again that this can easily be ascribed to the fact that almost nobody played it. I was playing games on the PC from back when they only had text games, and never met anyone who played Dune 2 besides two video store clerks. I remember when it came out it got some good reviews and some bad ones, and lots of stores didn't stock it or buy many copies. This one was in and out of the public eye like lightning.