Deus Ex vs. Doom II vs. Unreal

[Jonas]

Well aren't you just a bundle of joy.

[chris the cynic]

A bundle of cells, thus a collection of things, thus a list, thus rubbish.

According to kdawg88's reasoning anyway.

[JizzyJeff]

It's a little odd that DX has been put into a group with these two games as they are on a completely different wavelength in terms of gameplay but 'ignorant plebs' is a suitable description.

To be fair, the games are split up into eras, not genres. But the early and late 90's should probably be split up.

[Jonas]

Actually they've been split into eras and genres, notice that each triad up for voting counts as a genre. It's just that the genres are really incredibly broad, presumably precisely to keep the amount of exhibited games manageable.

[JizzyJeff]

Ah, sorry, I didn't realize that each page was a genre. I found the whole thing not organized very intuitively.

[Kee715]

My apologies for the necropost, but.....





The winning games list is out:
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/a ... ggames.pdf



>Looking through list
>See that DOOM II beat Deus Ex & Unreal

Oh well, can't win 'em all I suppose.

>See Halo 2

What the....?

>See that it beat Psychonauts

[bobby 55]

Thanks for the update Kee. I suppose with the voting trend we can see 101 Games for Windows as best compilation of games.

[DaveW]

To be honest I don't mind any of those games winning, I love the original Dooms and Unreal and Deus ex. I probably like Unreal marginally more than Deus Ex actually.

[nerdenstein]

I've never played Unreal but I loved the DOOM series! I was brought up on that and Wolf3D as a kid.

[Jonas]

To be expected when you have to choose between DOOM and Deus Ex. Kind of arbitrary which one comes out on top, seeing how little they have in common.

[justanotherfan]

I'm not sure DX fits in a museum exhibition. While it's certainly on the list of the evolution of videogames, it's not particularly exemplary of anything but itself. Doom II captures a time better, with controversy and popularity and simplicity. DX is more of an outlier.

If it's a Smithsonian exhibit, it's sad to imagine schoolchildren in 2100 seeing a Doom II demo instead of Deus Ex, but they'll certainly understand more about what videogames were like.

[Mr_Cyberpunk]

I really don't know how they decided what games to put up for voting. But yeah it's a pretty erotic collection.

Fixed.. continue.