Smithsonian announces games to be in new "The Art of Video Games" Exibit - Polidicks

[QUOTE=The Party Spy;29638826]No Half-Life :sigh: But at least I don't see any Call of Dutys. CoD 1 and 2 were classic though.[/QUOTE] How would you consider HL a work of art? it wasnt exactly a game industry changer, just a good game.

[i]Why the fuck is Battlefield 1943 not on the god damn list?![/i]

[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;29652995][i]Why the fuck is Battlefield 1943 not on the god damn list?![/i][/QUOTE] 1942 should be on before 1943. :colbert:

I'm surprised no GTA games are on the list.

I would think this was for art direction more than gameplay.

Where are games like Amnesia and Silent Hill 2? Evoking fear in a game is in my mind one of the most powerful things any media has ever done because of the psychology of it all and the challenge of completely immersing someone in a fictional world. And it's been completely ignored! [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] Otherwise it's a pretty solid list I have to say.

Shame there's no I Wanna Be The Guy, that would be awesome. Or Super Meat Boy.

[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;29639978]Half life and Half life 2 created an atmosphere that beat every other game, and a FUCKING EXPERIMENTAL TESTING PLATFORM BEAT THEM. [editline]5th May 2011[/editline] And have you even fucking heard the half life soundtrack? It could beat 700 shades of shit out of portal. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvypOazP54U[/media] think of Nova Prospekt, it shows nothing of what happens to the people who are sent there, leaving it up to your imagination to decide what happens. What's worse is that the atmosphere and music of the place is designed to bring out the darkest and most sinister thoughts of what happens to the people there. In portal all you do is just walk around shooting portals and listening to hateful speech from glados.[/QUOTE] Its a bit difficult to just say that Half-Life had the best atmosphere of any game. I played half-life and half-life 2, I have to say that they weren't that interesting. Not enough was done with the setting and not enough of the background was explored. Sure they were revolutionary or whatever, but to say they were the most atmospheric games ever is just naive. Its the same with Bioshock, the whole background to Rapture wasn't used as much as I'd expected. I wanted them to really explore the world and learn about how fucked up the place is. [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Shoe Phone;29643583]So Brutal Legend and Minecraft got in but not HL1/2? I'm disappointed.[/QUOTE] To be fair, minecraft has some pretty distinctive aesthetics and can look amazing.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;29648704]A list without Half Life is instantly invalid. :colbert: And WoW is on it? what the hell, that game is hideous. Even more invalid now.[/QUOTE] Why do people get mad about WoW being in these kinds of lists? It's one of the most popular video games to this day and the fact that it's been so popular for so long just reinforces that it deserves it's place in an exhibit.

No idea why metroid prime 2 : echoes is in the list. Metroid prime was infinitely greater. Same with Halo 2 - Halo : CE was better.

Banjo-Tooie would've been a good entry.

No Black and White? I suppose Fable is a nice alternative though.

[QUOTE=Instant Mix;29656118]No idea why metroid prime 2 : echoes is in the list. Metroid prime was infinitely greater. Same with Halo 2 - Halo : CE was better.[/QUOTE] Why would you put any of the modern Metroid games on there anyway? If I were to choose a Metroid series game I'd pick Super Metroid.

[QUOTE=Earthen;29655936]Its a bit difficult to just say that Half-Life had the best atmosphere of any game. I played half-life and half-life 2, I have to say that they weren't that interesting. Not enough was done with the setting and not enough of the background was explored. Sure they were revolutionary or whatever, but to say they were the most atmospheric games ever is just naive. Its the same with Bioshock, the whole background to Rapture wasn't used as much as I'd expected. I wanted them to really explore the world and learn about how fucked up the place is. [editline]6th May 2011[/editline] To be fair, minecraft has some pretty distinctive aesthetics and can look amazing.[/QUOTE] I do agree with you that the Half-Life series is not respected for its atmosphere, it got its place in history for the gameplay. It was the FPS first game where you never left the player's perspective (or at least the first good one, I'm not too knowledgeable on games in the late 90's). Furthermore, the story was central to it, instead of the shooters of the day where the gameplay was everything. However, Half-Life 2 expanded on this for a new generation of games, where realism was the key. Its focus on the background characters was revolutionary. I don't know how many times I stopped to listen to the idle mumblings of some oppressed citizen or depressed rebel. Each game set the stage for the rest to follow. I also disagree with Bioshock, which took the lessons of Half-Life and applied them in the most spectacular way I've seen yet. It has the rich story, the little background characters' quirks like in Half-Life 2, and you never leave the story. There was never a shortage on the history of Rapture or its citizens. On top of that is the fact that Bioshock bashes the hell out of Ayn Rand, and in Bioshock 2 it bashes the Collectivists, which I know we all love.

'the fuck is Deus Ex?

[QUOTE=Fables;29665322]'the fuck is Deus Ex?[/QUOTE] Good question. Really, they need a whole new building for this. Maybe another wing on the National Art Gallery for interactive media.

What makes a game artistic actually?

[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;29637257]Where's Half-Life?[/QUOTE] I was wondering this too. Half Life was the most amazing game of its time, Its npc's AI and reactions to its environment and other Npcs amazed people and its still being played today. And the gameplay and its story was magnificent. Something feels fishy about this. Eh, maybe because its and old game, still deserves to be up there though imo.

Mass Effect 2 yeaaaaaaah

[QUOTE=geoface;29652889]How would you consider HL a work of art? it wasnt exactly a game industry changer, just a good game.[/QUOTE] lol

"StarFox Assault" exCUSE me?

Where is Big rigs? :colbert: [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43cTeuvUFA[/media]

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[QUOTE=Demolitions2;29708543]"StarFox Assault" exCUSE me?[/QUOTE] I never really got the hate about it. I honestly loved it despite the short length.

Where the fuck is X-Com or Mortal Kombat?! Street Fighter isn't on there either. This smithsonian needs to get it's priorities straight. You need to go after the older titles. And I mean MUCH older. No Mortal Kombat? No Half-Life? NO DEUS EX?! This list sucks.

Where the fuck is the original Half-Life? Unacceptable. [QUOTE=Mysterious;29711028]Where the fuck is X-Com or Mortal Kombat?! Street Fighter isn't on there either. This smithsonian needs to get it's priorities straight. You need to go after the older titles. And I mean MUCH older. No Mortal Kombat? No Half-Life? NO DEUS EX?! This list sucks.[/QUOTE] They need to hire us.

Deux Ex should have been on that list, but the list is quite silly and meaningless of which games are the best at representing the art of video games.

Half Life... WHERE THE FUCK IS HALF LIFE SOMEBODY MESSAGE THESE PEOPLE GOD DAMNIT

I'm sorry, why the fuck is Half-Life not in the list?

Id definitely swap out Doom 2 for 1. Doom 1 was incredibly ground breaking at the time, but Doom 2, while it was pretty good, only added a few extra things and changing the graphics around so there were less bright bases and more brown bricks.