Peter Molyneux has offered his thoughts on the most revolutionary games of the past 20 years.

Speaking at the BAFTA event a few days ago, Peter Molyneux - creative director of Microsoft Game Studios, head of Lionhead, and Officer of the Order of the British Empire - gave his picks for the most revolutionary games that we've seen in the last two decades, as well as the reasons why.

According to That VideoGame Blog, the decisions themselves came about because of Molyneux's belief that "The best innovations come from challenging the foundation stones of conventional wisdom," which seems fairly in-line with the titles he's made in the past.

First up was Dune 2, generally hailed as one the very first RTS games. This was chosen for moving games away from twitch-gaming, allowing a variety of different strategies, and, uh, for having innovative multiplayer, apparently. Revolutionary thinking on Molyneux's part, there, as the Dune games didn't have multiplayer until Dune 2000.

Super Mario 64 was second, with designer Shigeru Miyamoto referred to as a "true genius of the industry." This was down to moving the platforming genre to 3D, in addition to providing one of the first 3D open-world environments.

Tomb Raider was third, this time for creating an enduring protagonist that wasn't a muscular man. And because it has boobs.

Halo was fourth, both for the innovations it made and for making the first-person shooter a big genre on consoles.

And finally, World of Warcraft, for keeping gamers playing by showing them what they can get their hands on if they stay around awhile longer - with Molyneux using the example of the mount, which for a long time could only be gained at level 40, to prove his point.

Largely good points, I admit. I'm not sure I'd agree, but I think most people would have a hard time arguing that these games wre certainly revolutionary.

Speaking of Molyneux and revolutionary gaming, the man recently confirmed that Fable 3 will feature support for Microsoft's Project Natal - which should surprise no-one, being that Lionhead is the company behind the headlining Milo & Kate demonstration.