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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.
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.
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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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.
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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...
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?
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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Of which half of the list will be duplicates...
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.