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The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005
jkdove writes "GamerGod rolls out their list of "The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005". From the article: "Our list draws from a wide slice of the gaming community. A respected game designer is on the list, but so is a political figure, a game player, a man with an agenda, and even a modder. Each person was selected for their ability to grab and hold the headlines with their design, deeds, or words; and for their contribution to twelve months of gaming headlines, news, scandals, sensations, and entertainment.""
Sadly, no matter how absolutely ridiculous, I have a feeling the US Congress will make the list for 2006.
Bam. Why aren't more video game figures on more publicly visible lists? Mario makes everything Nintendo manufactures, but we can't have visionary entertainment creators here? Metal Gear is way more ground breaking than most stuff Bruckheimer ever did...
All the world's a stage, all the people but players.
Some of the most amazing visuals will come from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion & Neverwinter Night 2 this year and their people get no mention? Hmm...
I am exploring the outer limits of slacking and procrastinating on my companies latest game engine...
and I want the 30 seconds I just wasted skimming through that list back.
Slashdot really needs to do a story on just how worthless game journalism is these days...
I'll save you the trouble.
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By including Jack Thompsonas the number one most interesting person in gaming, it makes a dangerous assumption that to be associated with doesn't mean you are in it. No matter how important, ridiculous, or inflammatory his actions might be, I still find it hard to characaterize him as "in gaming".
There were a tremendous number of people on the list that I'd never heard of, which suggests a fair amount of creativity when picking names. Where's John Carmack, who's building rockets? What about Bono, who's helping back elevation? Then there's Gabe Newell, who's work with Steam is slowly changing how game publishing is done.
Perhaps girls who lick PSPs are more interesting, but somehow less important than the above.
This is a list of the 10 most interesting people in computer gaming. There's a whole big industry outside of computer gaming.
Since when does headline grabbing equal interesting? Why do we need a list giving attention grabbing whores MORE attention?
How about some people who have moved the media forward? Will Wright, Old Grandma Hardcore and Brenda Braithwaite from that list look like they qualify. Who else? If you answer Carmack I may harm you.
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Can I just say it's about time that new article count under Games was updated?
The reviewer does an inadequate job of describing the Leroy video. They're heading into basically a pit of death to get an item that Leroy needs, while Leroy himself is Away From Keyboard. So the crew spends a lot of time planning strategy, discussing timing, pulling out calculators to determine survival rates, and generally creating a rock solid, well-discussed, intricate plan of attack... That Leroy promptly ignores and charges in.
And they all get slaughtered. Not just killed, slaughtered. They get mauled like puppies in a lion's den. The plan falls apart completely, and so do they. Not only are there no survivors, they didn't take any of the millions of attackers out with them. It is a complete blow out.
To top it all off, over voice chat comes this little wimpering voice saying "It's... It's not my fault."
Perfect.
The ______ Agenda
Jack Thompson is not just entertaining.
He represents pretty much everything I don't like about US infotainment.
BOOM Headshot!!!
Or was that 2004..
10. They always leave something essential out- to-rub-games-on-her-butt/ (from TFA)
9. They do it on purpose to generate "buzz"
8. Even David Letterman doesn't hit the mark everytime
7. Should be titled "9 things that didn't win and the one that did"
6. They include URL's like this: http://www.joystiq.com/2005/12/12/psp-licker-vows
5. 9 times out of 10 you don't agree with their number one pick
4. 47.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot
3. Jack Thompson will argue that top ten list are terrorist training for suicide bombers (counting backwards like a bomb timer)
2. The woman sitting next to me on the bus read "suicide bomber" on my laptop and is notifying the police
1. People love arbitrary catagorizing. We're all winners! Uh, no the police have surrounded the bus...
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I would be much more interested to read about ten people who had created and actually released genuinely good games.
To me, the Leeroy Jenkins video is something like a George Bush clip show on Letterman. Everytime I play with some idiot in a pick up group, I now laugh a little bit thinking that this idiot might be the next Leeroy Jenkins; just like everytime George gets on his soap box, I think how entertaining this will be on Letterman or Jon Stewart tonight.
Let's do this! Geeeeeeoooooooooooooorrrrrge Bush!
'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it...
wtf am I in that list.
Or maybe I wasn't interesting enough in 2005, ah well, maybe this year.
Ah, but you know their names. To me, that's part of the phrase "interesting". If you never heard of the girl licking the PSP photo, it's likely that's not really interesting. Gabe and Carmack, even if you disagree with their points of view, might be considered quite interesting. Gabe's certainly made a bunch of people upset when he lied about HL2's release, and made even more mad when he linked Steam to HL2, but it's hard to argue that his actions haven't affected a large number of gamers, publishers, and hardware makers over the last few years. Carmack's in a similar boat, upsetting some people and evoking worship from others. Plus he makes serious rockets in his spare time.
To me, those things are interesting.
First of all that list is way too short. If you want to credit people that have benefited the industry in 2005, AND include people from all related areas, it should be a top-100. Second, the most innovative game I played in 2005 was Fahrenheit, aka Indigo Prophecy, and David Cage should be on that list for making it. How many new games that were completely different from what came before did you see in 2005?
Yea, I agree. This list isn't what I was expecting. I was hoping this was a list of the "most interesting people in gaming", being the people who play games. For example, Leeroy, FPS Doug, Fatal1ty and maybe some members of the CPL Counter Strike teams or other popular E-Sports teams. I don't really think a Top Ten list for gaming should have the names of Politicians, Lawyers or ESRB Executives. While these people may have done alot this year in "gaming", it's kind of lame IMHO.
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#1 Leeroy Jenkins
It seems to me like the XBox has some years on 360. I think the XBox 360 is the true little brother ;)
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He was also profiled over the summer in the national media
google cache of CNN story
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I'd absolutely love to see someone shoot FPS Doug's head. Every gaming forum on the web - you'll see that douchebag in an animated gif. I really hope someone does kill him.
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I find it funny that without the least interesting (number 10) of the list three other more interesting (numbers 8, 7, and 1) would either not have happened, or would be significantly less interesting. While the 'Hot Coffee' mod might not have been terribly interesting on its own, the fact that it spawned this much attention surely must warrant a higher spot than number 10.
Left a word out of the subject, perhaps the addition of the word "least" makes a little more sense.
2. I can't think of anything less interesting than this topic, although it did get me to reply...
Keep Passing the Open Windows...
It's a little known fact that Stanley "Tookie" Williams was a GENIUS with Ms. Pac Man. I'm not sure how he didn't make the list. He staunchly refused to play regular Pac Man. STAUNCHLY.
He was the inspiration for "Pac Man Fever."
I HATE JACK THOMPSON
Interesting ppl my 455.
Its more like happenings in "local" gaming in 2005.
My favorite pick of the bunch. That is why I don't play MMORPGs. I would be just like the Leroy guy.
Maybe #11 should be the guys behind The Pirate Bay.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
What about Fatal1ty (John Wendel) truly the first big-time pro gamer to make serious (100k+) dough on the circuit for the past few years and also this years national champion? Dude - he is like the Michael Jordan of gaming!
Horns are really just a broken halo.
Grandma gamer? PSP licker? Dumbass politician?
Fucking bullshit.
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It encapsulates exactly what people have been complaining about in regards to gaming journalism lately.
#9 is typical pandering to adolescent fanboys. I have to admit that the PSP licking picture is kind of hot, but that doesn't make the girl an interesting person in the least.
#6 and #5 are masturbation over things that haven't happened yet. Chances are both Spore and whatever MMORPG SOE is thinking of doing will be ridiculously overhyped and then mostly ignored when they come out, just like nearly every other big-name game lately. The only way my point could be more obvious is if #6 had been Peter Molyneux.
#2 is Leeroy Jenkins. Do I have to explain this one?
At least they managed to get #1 right, though Jack Thompson is interesting in much the same way as genital warts are.
Rob
The Hot Coffee mod, licking the PSP, and Jack Thompson's hard-on for GTA had nothing to do with console/portable gaming?
I can't even think of one interesting person in gaming.
"GamerGod rolls out their list of "The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005". Is this really a list? Have we deteriorated as a society to the point where someone actually has interest in gaming beyond playing the games themselves, and that there are people of interest in this realm? If this title headed up an empty list, or even fictional gaming characters that have affected the industry, I would have found it amusing. But it doesn't. Instead, why not go for it all: "Mathis's Top 10 Most Righteous Outcomes"? "Tyra's Top 10 Words of Wisdom"? "Top 10 Perfect Matches on TV's 'Wife Swap'"?