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Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons
dustrider writes "The latest silver screen to silicon crossover is the Walk of Game, a Walk of Fame style display for the Gaming Industry.
You can vote in two categories, "Game/Character" and "Lifetime Achievement", until the end of October.
The top four Game/Character and the top two lifetime achievers will be the happy recipients of 24"x24" brushed steel stars at Metreon in SF."
Finally, that message makes sense.
As long as Angelina Jolie wins.
no word of a dikatana plaque in the bathrooms? shame...
.. we have a case of Game Over in the Vote Now! level.
its dead, jim!
yup. site already slashdotted or b0rken.
I can't get the vote screen to show up at all. Anyone else having this problem?
Wow - seems that the voting apparatus went down even before the story was publicly posted here. Is their server in Florida?
Three Squirrels
One thing I've always wondered about these 'walks of fame' is if they ever run out of room to place stars. It seems inevitable to me for this to happen eventually. What do they do in this case? Do they make room somewhere else or do they rip out old stars?
OLPC Australia
Sid Meier better win...
Since these types of things always have to have some predictions, my two cents are: Mario and Sonic, and John Carmack and Shigeru Miyamoto.
Topic: I really can't think of anyone else who have have had greater impact. Discuss.
Bel, the mostly sane.. "Of course I can't see anything! I'm standing on the shoulders of idiots." -- Me
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Here is an entertaining article on the event, along with a close-up of what the stars might look like.
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...only you have to insert quarters into a coin slot to advance through each segment of the sidewalk.
Great. Another war of the fanboys. Just what we needed.
I wonder if they'll demand a recount if their favorite game doesn't win...
Is teh funnest race car game evar.
The risk-reward concept and aftertouch feature really bring something to driving games that's always been missing.
It's all about slamming head-on into oncoming traffic at 200mph, not simulating the experience of driving to work in a Toyota Corolla.
So I nominate Burnout 3 because I have tunnel vision and acknowledge no game other than the one I happen to be playing ATM.
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They used to have "The Way Things Work", a big walk-through mechanical demo and a theater with a boring presentation. That didn't work. So they converted that theater to show anime, and that didn't work. Now it's mostly used for meetings.
Then they had Portal One, which is a video game arcade with really good interior decoration. It's modelled after Moebius' Airtight Garage series in Heavy Metal back in the 1970s. Nobody got this. Their giant custom multiplayer game became dated, their simulator ride didn't get much traffic, and now their big attractions are virtual bowling and retro games.
Between these two non-attractions is a little-used suspended walkway about 100m long. That's now the Walk of Game.
Being an avid (rabid?) pc gamer I can say that the majority of this list will probably associated with consoles characters and titles, which is a shame some of the best games ever were pc titles and probably won't even get a mention. Heres a list of memorable characters from PC I liked:
Gordon Freeman (luckiest HEV suit owner in the world)
Shodan (creepiest little girl voiced AI villian ever)
Minsc & Boo (....yeah)
Groove Champion(C'mon you guys have to have played Interstate 76)
Bob (Gonna put my foot up satan's ass thats what im gonna do)
Jim Raynor (probably working on killing his 3rd Overmind)
Farnham (Ogden mixes a mean Black Mushroom but I can't have that cause it makes me sick now the secret is...moderation is the key)
Max Payne (Currently working on more analogies and similes)
meh too lazy to continue this quickly getting obscure character list....
I vote for Lara Croft for two lifetime achievements.
that no one has mentioned Cloud yet.
Cloud is ALWAYS the winner in video-game contests. Never forget that.
I'd really like to see Ron Gilbert get some recognition, but it won't happen. SCUMM made graphic adventure games FUN and Monkey Island 2 belongs in my top 5 for best game ever on any system. Going on to make Total Annihilation is a definite plus.
Unfortunately, though he was instrumental in starting LucasArt's line of graphic adventure games, he hasn't done anything recently of note and nobody plays adventure games anymore, so he won't be remembered. In a sad way of looking at it, its Carmack's fault that nobody plays adventure games anymore because first person shooters took over the took PC game genre spot from adventure games.
The about and main pages work but none of the buttons leading to registration of voting work. Anyone else having this problem?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Is this supposed to appeal to the Engrish crowd?
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I've heard they are already working on a plaque for Duke Nukem.
No word on when it's done.
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John Romero!
Being that the Metreon is a "Sony Entertainment Center", lets hope the results of these awards aren't influenced by Sony-developed or Sony-exclusive titles.
Since the voting doesn't seem to be working at the moment (and the rest of the site is lacking details), does anyone know the specifics of the "Lifetime Achievement" award? Is that going to a company, or a certain developer/creator, or a game series?
Yuzo Kushiro really deserves something for his outstanding work. Anyone who has knowingly played a game for which he wrote the soundtrack would understand.
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Sheesh,
I defy you to prove that Burnout 3 is not the greatest racing game of all time, or even be able to say it and pass a lie detector test.
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Bruce
As Develop magazine says... Jeff Minter, Peter Molyneux and that French guy :-) I imagine they have already given an award to Shigsy.
A cool start. It's nice to see game developers getting some recognition for a change. (Of course, I'm a game developer, so my reasons might be a bit obivous. ;)
But, it seems there's a bit of bias here. Focusing on game characters instead of games seems a bit unusual. What about exceptional games that didn't have strong characters? Consider the Ultima games, for example; the main character, the Avatar, was an archetype that was supposed to represent the player. Sure, there were character that were fleshed out, but they were intended to play a supporting role. Even in modern games you have games such as DOOM 3 which don't have strong, central characters by design. By focusing on game characters instead of games, they're really limiting which games will get recognition.
Plus, it seems a bit biased toward modern games. The page isn't working for me so I can't see the nominees, but let's assume Pac-Man is running against Lara Croft. Honestly, who's going to vote for Pac-Man over Lara Croft besides a few of us ultra-hard-core dinosaur gamers? But, ignoring boobies for a moment, the little yellow circle's game was probably played by more people and had a bigger impact on the industry as a whole.
My thoughts,
Brian "Psychochild" Green
MMO developer's blog
Wip3out: weapons. faster. cooler tracks. cooler vehicles. better soundtrack. fatalities (less fun perhaps, but I still prefer it that way).
Burnout 3: crash mode. more tracks. more game modes.
Burnout 3 is IMO the best non-futuristic racer of all time. But I'd say wip3out (and probably also wipeout fusion) is better.
Hooray for popularity contests, judged by people who've never even talked to the people being judged!
Let's be honest with ourselves. None of us have worked with, for example, Miyamoto. Most of us don't even know what it means to be a game's 'Producer', which is all he's credited with in games, the last several years. None of us have watched him design games. None of us can say with certainty that he's actually the legend that he's sold to us as being. For all we know (and this is actually quite likely), he just has a really bright assistant, and Miyamoto's taking the glory because it's extremely good PR for Nintendo to have a Superstar.
Honestly, the results of this little exercise will be just as meaningless as the Walk of Fame it's modelled on... (Bob Barker has a star, but Robert Redford doesn't?)
Any other old Quarantine fans on /.?
:->
Nothing compares to driving a magnetic taxi with a goddamned gatling-cannon on the roof.
I do hope that the voters consider some of the seminal characters in interactive fiction - such as David Braben's Commander Jameson from the 1984 classic Elite.
If it had not been for visionaries such as DB and Iain Bell, the genre would not have had such scope to develop.
For those who have not yet had the pleasure, a link to the free port, Elite, The New Kind, is included.
http://www.noodan.com/page.php?id=902