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| Topic | 2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees |
| adjl 03/21/24 8:32:02 AM #29: | darkknight109 posted...
Honestly, Minecraft - a.k.a. the best-selling video game in history - taking six attempts to get in is crazy. That's pretty ridiculous. I don't really hesitate to call Minecraft the most influential game ever, given that it's possible to credit its success for the entire indie market (also popularizing sandboxes, survival crafting, and procedural generation, all of which have been huge since its launch). It should have been almost automatic. darkknight109 posted... Also, WTF is Barbie Fashion Designer doing in there? I can understand pretty much every other inductee except that one. I balked at that one on the first pass, but looking at the blurb, it made more sense. It was one of the first games to be marketed specifically to girls, after decades of gaming being an overt sausage-fest, and it saw enough success to cement "for girls" as a worthwhile market to invest in. It couldn't possibly matter less for the kinds of games you and I play, but I can understand calling it a significant part of gaming history for the market it opened up. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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