kain_kusanagi said:
So it should be a mile long and include everyone's interpretation of what's important? Why can't it just be a quick look at where it started, where we are now, and a few interesting tidbits in-between? I'm a huge Sega fan so if I made the timeline I would have had more than the Dreamcast on it, but even as a Sega fan I have to admit that for such a short snapshot of the history of gaming Sega, as well as Final Fantasy, are blips. Halo is a blip too, but NatGeo readers probably know what Halo is while they probably think Final Fantasy is that Disney animated concert thing they never saw. If you had to reduce the history of gaming from 1947 to 2013 down to a handful of landmarks that the average none gamer might be able to put into perspective I doubt it would look the same as one made from a hardcore gamer. NatGeo's timeline doesn't insult gaming or gamers. It just uses widely recognizable stuff to illustrate what's been going on in gaming for the past 66 years. |
If I had to reduce gaming history to a short list of landmarks, I would not have included Kinect, and mention either Gameboy, Wii, or Playstations entrance into gaming instead.
Kinect really doesn't belong, and various medium sized landmarks overshadow large scale ones. Like where is the crash of 83? Rise of Nintendo (especially their dominance over handhelds, and Tetris starting it all)? Where is Solitaire!?
LOL, I think some of the events on that list, plain suck.
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