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Games that changed the industry:
Half Life.
Diablo II.
Operation Flashpoint.
Freelancer.
Eve Online.
Games that are thought to've changed the industry, but really didn't:
Sonic.
Pac Man.
Quake.
Doom.
Counter Strike.
HALO.
Battlefield 1942.
Oddworld.
Starcraft.
Very few games (as you can see) set any kind of standards for future games. Some of them weren't even the first of their kind, they were just so revolutionary that they changed the direction of that genre. But most other games didn't revolutionise anything, they merely made certain platforms and genres more popular.
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IMO this list does not make sence at... what did diablo 2 had to make such a turning point? Same goes for operation flashpoint. I had such great expectations of that game and it turned out to be just another war game... yay...
And don't think I say this becouse im and oddworld fan, but I think oddworld should be in the top list. Maybe it hasnt made a turning point in they way of playing, but the quality of the movie's, the music, the backgrounds in AO and AE, the character designs and the story are rare to be now a days in the gameing industry. Along with Oddworld id say FF is also a turning point (and thats just something I see, I hate FF more then anything mostly becouse they just milked that game to the drop and they just keep on making new games... its like twelf games with the same story :S. Non the less the first part was a turning point, the story was good, the characters where nicely discribed and all had their own problems, and the graphics where good quality back then.