Top 10 Milestones in Gaming


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Cannot really disagree with anything, when they first said 3D i thought they meant... 3D... But no >.<

Very retro and pretty good video (Y)

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Cannot really disagree with anything, when they first said 3D i thought they meant... 3D... But no >.<

Very retro and pretty good video (Y)

hahaha I think the 'New 3D' is still too new to be a milestone. :laugh:

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too console centric for my tastes.

i didn't take notes or anything, but there were points when i was like "quake" or "mouse" or w/e. :p

(Sort of) this.

Few things that stuck out to me: What the **** at the jump from the Game Boy to iPhone? Really? The Game Boy paved the way for the iPhone? Really Shane? What a ######! :laugh:

Could think of a few better examples to put on that list. Evolution from dialing in to each others modems to connecting to servers? Home broadband? Pioneering work Carmack did with 3D engines? But the guys over at Gametrailers are very console centric.

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A few seemed lower than expected, a couple others a bit higher, but couldn't really disagree with most of them. Interesting watch none the less.

By the way if that video's not working I just watched it here.

EDIT: Yeah it's definitely very console centric like the others mentioned. If they had included PC gaming in any form I'd think something like Steam is a lot more deserving than Xbox Live.

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video was removed? should have been faster to comment on this one! hope it included the Avatar game, best movie game ever made :cool:

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9. It's way to early to call WII a milestone or any of the motion controllers

8. Analog stick and? the mouse does what the analog stick does and better how is it the reason behind the growth of the video game industry? all the best games came out on the PC; the PC built the games and all of the genres; mario 64? so you can now move in 3d congrats you caught up to the PC.

7. X-Box live really?

4. Optical Media, Sega? PCs? not the Playstation.

3. Giving all the credit of 3d to Nintendo and Sony :omg:

The problem with the list is a lot of the stuff isn't new it's just new for the consoles and that would be fine if they didn't then go and give them all the credit, and even ignoring that a lot of the stuff in this video is just wrong, it seems like the person who made it hasn't played on anything other than a PS, N64 and X-box.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/top-10-gt-countdown/701656

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The sega saturn did the analog stick before nintendo and sony did, remember nights into dreams? came bundled with that controller.

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The video was made in context to mainstream success, hence the lack of PC gaming. But I did see Doom in there

And yes, Wii AND Gameboy definitely has a reason to be there.

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9. It's way to early to call WII a milestone or any of the motion controllers

8. Analog stick and? the mouse does what the analog stick does and better how is it the reason behind the growth of the video game industry? all the best games came out on the PC; the PC built the games and all of the genres; mario 64? so you can now move in 3d congrats you caught up to the PC.

7. X-Box live really?

4. Optical Media, Sega? PCs? not the Playstation.

3. Giving all the credit of 3d to Nintendo and Sony :omg:

The problem with the list is a lot of the stuff isn't new it's just new for the consoles and that would be fine if they didn't then go and give them all the credit, and even ignoring that a lot of the stuff in this video is just wrong, it seems like the person who made it hasn't played on anything other than a PS, N64 and X-box.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/top-10-gt-countdown/701656

Difference is neither the mouse or optical media was designed for gaming.

And Xbox Live came before Steam.

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Either way, XBL still came first which is why it's a milestone

Lots of things came first but later iterations did it better.

Wolfenstein and Doom for example. :)

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Lots of things came first but later iterations did it better.

Wolfenstein and Doom for example. :)

Is it wrong I find Wolf3D lots more fun to play than Doom?

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Really? I wouldn't say so. It didn't take off until HL2.

Either way, XBL still came first which is why it's a milestone

steam came out to support hl2...

xbl didn't take off until after the 360.

steam was a success from hl2 forward. maybe just due to hl2 requiring it but nonetheless.

Lots of things came first but later iterations did it better.

Wolfenstein and Doom for example. :)

which is why quake came to mind.

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steam came out to support hl2...

xbl didn't take off until after the 360.

steam was a success from hl2 forward. maybe just due to hl2 requiring it but nonetheless.

which is why quake came to mind.

No, it didn't. It came out to patch Valve games, the first of which was CS 1.6. And in fact they even asked MS to team up for anti-piracy methods/DD and MS denied the invite to continue with XBL.

Seeing as you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, I'm not even going to bother going over this with you.

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No, it didn't. It came out to patch Valve games, the first of which was CS 1.6. And in fact they even asked MS to team up for anti-piracy methods/DD and MS denied the invite to continue with XBL.

Seeing as you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, I'm not even going to bother going over this with you.

strange iirc i first downloaded steam for cs 1.6 and upcoming css beta in 03. i played 1.6 prior to steam on won back in 02/03. but we all knew at the time it was to support hl2.

wether or not ms was involved i don;t know.

but really few people used sbl when it was on xbox OG. it really didn;t become big until the 360. deny it all you want if you really want to but w/e.

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Quite console-centric but generally holds up. A more PC centric list would also contain:

Mods and community content

Mouselook (Keyboard + Mouse)

GUI interface instead of text

Voice communication

'Massive' multiplayer

Digital Downloads and no media requirements

Online communities/Clans (HEAT/MSZone/WON)

High resolutions

Force feedback

XBL should only be credited with tracking/achievements.

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Difference is neither the mouse or optical media was designed for gaming.

And Xbox Live came before Steam.

Irrelevant, mice are still a lot better than analog sticks you can't have an analog stick on a list of milestones for been able to catch up to a mouse doesn't seem right that's one of my main gripes about the list they consider consoles catching up to the pc as a milestone in gaming rather than a milestone for consoles, and I'm not sure what your point is about optical media?

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It's not irrelevant because neither mice nor optical media was created for the purpose of gaming. The industry simply followed other media in that direction. Whereas services like Xbox Live was the reason competitors created Steam, PSN and Wii online.

It's like trying to give credit to the PC gaming scene for the modem and online gaming.

Same goes for a lot of the things Dashel mentions in his list. PC gaming gave birth to GUI's now? :laugh:

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