It's because it's a bad job. The list puts a greater focus on what is hip now instead of what had the greatest influence. Kinect and Halo are on the list because in today's market they are the cool things. Any logical person would know the Wii deserves a mention more than Kinect yet today Wii is "lame" so it's excluded. To a lesser extent this applies to Halo. The fourth game just came out so it's pretty hip. However many games before it were more important to the FPS genre. It can be credited with being an amazing game but other FPSs deserve the spot way more. Heck Call of Duty deserves the spot more just based off its sales.

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There's tons missing but summing up all of in one timeline would make this picture longer than longcat.

starcraft basically made the Professional gaming scene. it also sold in stores shelves for over a decade, heck i could probably go out and still find new copies in stores. I dont know a single other gmame that has done that

And less than many games after it, even in the same genre. No, it really doesn't, it's just one game of many. If any FPS game deserves this place, it should be Golden Eye, since it was revolutionary. Halo is not bigger or more important than CoD4: Modern Warfare.

I think you have a problem kain.  I use to get annoyed by it, then upset with you, but I think you suffer from some deep delusion.  It's fine to like a game, but it is not the jewel encrusted golden gift from the treasure vaults of Xerxes you seem obsessed with convincing everyone it is.  

List is fail because it does not mention handhelds or Sega and barely mentions Sony.

Halo? Angry Birds? Kinect? Ok...How about...Eyetoy? Goldeneye? Doom? Tetris? The Gameboy? Guitar hero? DDR? All games or hardware that either launched a new idea or had a large impact on the industry during it's time.

More a list of "things people like to talk about: video game edition" rather than an evolution list.

There are many like us who have noticed.

OT: This time-line is very meh.

You get annoyed that someone openly enjoys one of the best game series of all time that is one of the most popular franchises of all time as well as one of the best selling?

If you don't like it, that's fine, but what I don't like is the disrespect it gets. There are plenty of games that I don't like but I don't disrespect them or those who play them. I'll say what I like and don't like and defend my opinion, but I'd never say anyone was wrong for liking what they like. Especially if I'm in the minority like those who dislike Halo.

But none of that is why I was aggravated with people's responses to this timeline. All it's getting is "My fav game isn't on it so it fails". It's not a book on the history of video games, it's a short overview.