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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."
no word of a dikatana plaque in the bathrooms? shame...
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
No, the obvious winners would be Tetris, Mario, Zelda, and Vice City.
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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.
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Don't forget the earlier games- my vote's for elite.
Or games that start with a single low-tech city that gradually expands an empire and advances in a tech-tree. I believe that's straight from an Avalon Hill board game.
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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.
I remember when you had to roll dice. Two sets of doubles, however, and you went straight to jail.
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And dodge barrels thrown by Steve Ballmer, er wait I mean Donkey Kong.
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I believe it was 3 sets of doubles.
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I vote for Lara Croft for two lifetime achievements.
Since I am now downloading a 61Megabyte "patch" to a PC game (over dialup) in a vain hope that this will make it actually work without crashing every hour, I wouldn't be surprised if console characters get voted higher. Their games actually work and they sell several times as many copies.
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.
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.
Diablo definately revolutionized the D&D style games to be a lot more fun.
The startegy style battles were true to the D&D genre, but not very fun for the average person.
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Agreed -> fps deserves to be played using mouse-keyboard, not thumbstick. Definately takes some getting used to.
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John Romero!
I didn't say that he directly copied AH, just that he didn't invent the genre.
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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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I do like the higher resolution of PC games for some genres, but have yet to find a decent controller for the PC. Perhaps I will have to get a USB to Playstation adapter; the dual shock is not a bad controller.
BTW I'm up to 93% of the patch downloaded now :-) only the equivalent of Super Mario 64 left to download...
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
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why get an adapter?
The image is a dream, the beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
That's a pretty daft thing to say.
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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
Because nintendo patented the idea of D-pads that actually work, Sony worked around the patent, and PC manufacturers don't even bother, so mostly they just get diagonals :-/ but who knows, maybe the logitech one is better.