Probably One Must Fall 2097
what video game deserves to be in a museum?
Submitted 8 months ago by Abraxas@feddit.uk to games@lemmy.world
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SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I loved it and played against my little brother on one keyboard constantly, that was fun!
Too bad that the follow-up game went through developer hell, took ages and looked and played like shit :-(
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Terraria, a monument to indie games and the craft itself, gave tons of free content and still does, unlike the popular pay for expansion models on a half finished buggy game of their contemporaries
BunScientist@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
for a more “traditional paint” like experience, Gris is just gorgeous to look at
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the Strong Museum of Play which contains the video game hall of fame
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dwarf Fortress, obviously.
FatTony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“It’s the best game you’re not playing.”
tatann@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Anthem
(For history purpose, just like there are museums for the Holocaust or the WTC)
Bosht@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I still mourne over what that game could have been.
tatann@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Meh, I mean the gameplay is nice but Bioware hasn’t been able to write a good game for more than a decade, I don’t expect anything from them anymore
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
All of them.
Art is art is art.
otp@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not every single piece of art goes into a museum
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 months ago
All glory to Hareraiser!
christian@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I clicked your link not expecting to watch more than thirty seconds but watched the full thing, that was a great lecture.
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The Binding of Issac. Hands down my favourite game and a work of pure dedication.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Black and White
Bosht@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh my god I forgot about this one!! I would love to see something similar in today’s market or even an HD remake of the original.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If only, but I did find a way to play my old cd a while back. Can’t say it aged well. Game was actually quite wonky. Most of the “secret mechanics” are pretty hard to trigger
Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
RDR2
crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
All y’all be honest with yourself. The answer is the prestigious league of legends.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The ICO trilogy
Manzas@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Half-life, or any source game along with minecraft.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bioshock
Halo: Combat Evolved
Fallout New Vegas
Also, cynical answer is also whatever current mobile game is making a bazillion dollars right now because ✨capitalism✨
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
One that comes to mind is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Doom, Minecraft and Touhou
b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Tomb Raider.
tatann@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Isn’t the Louve pyramid already a reference to Tomb Raider ?
deaf_fish@midwest.social 8 months ago
Isn’t there an open source port of this?
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Well it’s certainly not Elden Ring, and it doesn’t matter how pretty the Thumbnail is. No DLSS or any of the other options is frankly just laughable.
Breezy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You must have never went underground in elder ring. It is the most beautiful thing ive seen in a game.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Ah yes, DLSS, the option to make your game look worse for better performance.
It’s not a necessity for a good looking game.
Abraxas@feddit.uk 8 months ago
you have the worst taste maybe imaginable in games that you’re ‘opinion’ is futile lol
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Do you think “art” only means “pretty pictures”?
Waryle@jlai.lu 8 months ago
What a bad take. Do you also think the Seven Samurai movie shouldn’t be in a museum because it’s not IMAX?
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And there’s no CGI.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
Objects in museums don’t have to be there because of the art, but also cultural/historical significance. Elden Ring and the rest of Fromsoft’s Soulsborne games definitely deserve to be in the video game museum.
x00z@lemmy.world 8 months ago
g00@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Also my first thought. Specifically the first one.
x00z@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
EA games deserve to be in a museum.
Because everyone needs to remember how a company can exploit their customer base with money grab schemes like loot boxes, pay to win junk and empty unplayable shells which need loads of expensive dlc’s to make it even a little playable.
There should also be an entire wing for never finished bug simulators.
The area with actual proper games would be tiny. But it should include the old age of empires 2, city skylines 1, Kerbal space program 1 and everything from Larian studios.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 8 months ago
Age 2 is actually in a museum now. Larian’s games are overhyped, and even KSP went bad the moment Squad sold out to Tencent.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve finished BG3 6 times now, had a lot of fun playing Divinity 2 and am now playing divinity 1 couch coop with a friend. Their games are actually properly built, with loads of well written storylines.
The reason why it became so over hyped is because people got angry at all the other studios because Larian actually delivered properly built games worth their money. Same with Schedule 1. The game is fun but should be average compared to other games. But it isn’t average, the rest is just complete money-grab bug simulator junk.
Saleh@feddit.org 8 months ago
There is video game museums already:
AnarchyLime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is also the National Videogame Museum in the US
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Dwarf fortress
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Zukial@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Limbo.
I really like the atmosphere. They created so much with such an minimalistic graphic style.
Factorio.
I don’t know where to start. Overall a great example that some people like to optimize and put way more effort into this game than their job. Zeitgeist?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The original Star Wars Battlefront games. The best offline multiplayer I’ve ever had in a video game.
Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I remember my little brother and I would be playing kashyyk and would wait for the wookies on the beach behind the barriers and he would always say “We have more customerrrss” shit was so damn hilarious
Vupware@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Elite dangerous. 1:1 replica of the Milky Way that is being actively colonized as we speak.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All of them. In the Museum of All Video Games
Strider@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly. There is no selection of which deserves it.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I came here to say this exact same thing. Videogames are an art form, and the history of that art should be preserved, both the successes and the failures. People should be able to look back on what was a hit and what was flop, on the ideas that worked and the ones that didn’t, on the well made games and the badly made games. All of it matters, all of it is part of the same story.
cosmo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This. All of them needs to be preserved.
Thoath@leminal.space 8 months ago
E.T. for Atari
zod000@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I still have my copy in my own little museum in my office with some of my favorite (or in this case most notorious) games. Does that count?
Thoath@leminal.space 8 months ago
Yes, however the Smithsonian also counts, which is also where a cart is…and the Henry Ford museum…and the museum of Failure:3
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hmm… Good question… They’ll have to be the kind of videogame that was the first to do something, or set the standard for something, or has had a huge, long lasting cultural impact that can still be felt today.
So in that hypothetical museum I’d nominate:
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most of these I get, but idk about hollow knight unless it’s a part of the “Metroid/Castlevania” exhibit. It’s a good game but idk if it’s quite “museum” status.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It would be part of the Metroidvania section, because it’s probably one of the best modern takes on it, and it has and currently is spawning quite a number of copy-cats.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
On the home-gamer gameplay side, this is a solid list. On the technology side, I think there’s even more that makes sense for a curated museum tour. There were big leaps made in arcade tech through the 80’s and 90’s that were pushing all manner of graphics and sound, head-and-shoulders above the previous generation.
Sega’s “super scaler” boards come to mind, allowing for games like Hang-on, Outrun, and After Burner. Digitized sound samples started with Sinistar and Tempest. Dragon’s Lair amazed everyone with an interactive LaserDisc experience. There were also notable forays into AR with Time Traveler, and VR with Virutality. Lastly, we have the fully-enclosed and immersive cockpit of early Battletech simulators.
pcrazee@feddit.org 8 months ago
Could make a museum for Doom alone. With all the systems it run on.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I would actually include both the original Castlevania and Metroid then follow it up with Symphony of the Night. Show the original Castlevania game to establish the series, then show Metroid which has the exploration and backtracking with new abilities. Then show SOTN, which shows the combination of the two (effectively establishing the entire Metroidvania genre). Then show a game like Hollow Knight or Ori and the Blind Forest, which goes on to embody the genre several decades after it has been established.
Zelda is a good one, and I’d follow it up with something like Okami, which follows the same dungeon formula in a radically different setting and art style. Again, showing the genre’s establishment, then showing how it can be adapted.
For Final Fantasy, I’d also include FFX, which follows a very similar turn-based playstyle. Maybe include a Dragon Quest game somewhere in there too, as that series tends to stick to the same basic gameplay formula. Then I’d take it in a different direction and show something like Bravely Default, which is still technically turn-based, but also has additional elements layered on top.
I’d chase Super Mario 64 with something like A Hat In Time. Again, showing the establishment of the 3D platformer, then showing the elements in use elsewhere.
You have Ultima on here, which I agree with. But I’d probably break the display for it into two different halves: For the RPG half, I would include some more tabletop-inspired games here too, as the early game devs were largely tabletop game fans who were simply adapting their favorite games into digital settings. Games like Fallout 1/2, or Baldurs Gate.
For Ultima’s one-point-perspective dungeon-crawling, following it up with something like Persona Q or SMT: Strange Journey could be impactful to show how it was adapted to more modern games.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think some representative of mobile gaming should be on this list (as much as I hate them). Probably either Candy Crush or Angry Birds.
There should also be a motion gamer entry somewhere on here like Wii Sports or something.
And maybe a casual gamer entry…like the Sims maybe (the first one).
Relatedly, I think we’re still waiting for a VR or AR game that anyone gives a real shit about.