PSI and PSIV selected by The Smithsonian
The first Phantasy Star and Phantasy Star IV both share the honor of being part of The Smithsonian Museum's Art of Video Games exhibit.
PSI and PSIV, as art?
Although PSO is my personal favorite and I think it deserves recognition for what it pioneered in video games, I guess both those classic PS games were more influential to videogames as a whole.
http://kotaku.com/#!5799017/the-smit...-games-exhibit
What makes World of WarCraft more artistic than City of Heroes?
Interesting. Some of their selections for certain games are strange, if not questionable.
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Why so many Panzer Dragoon games? The 1st one was cool though. Surprised the PSO wasn't on there.
I can see the Panzer Dragoon games making it in. Though as good as Orta was, I was a bit surprised it made it in. Zwei and Saga were shoe ins for the series, though.
My biggest surprise omissions are.... (If Bard's Tale III made it in) where the heck is Ultima and Wizardry? Those two games, specifically, are the actual grandfathers of Turned-based RPGs, both for the 1st-person dungeon aspects and monster encounters, and the overhead map and travel. The games directly responsible for pretty much every major Japanese RPG in the game market, and they get left out.
Also, Monkey Island without Maniac Mansion (or at least Day of the Tentacle) is quite surprising.
Nice to see the newcomer Minecraft making it in. Yes, it was inspired by similar engines before it, but I guess the exact combination of game factors and it's popularity definitely helped.
PSO was a Pioneering game of course, but there's lots of omissions. Stuff that is used everywhere because of it. Like Jet Set Radio. Sonic Adventure gets in, but no 2D Sonic games. Hmm.
There are a few surprises in there as to why they could make it in, but quite a few of the selections I could see it happening. I was a little surprised to see Fallout 3 make it in over one of the earlier Elder Scrolls games. Though I'm completely not surprised by Fallout itself. I would've also included Baldur's Gate 2 (PC) (given their affinity to choosing improved sequels over the actual games of select innovation) given Baldur's gate was one of the games that not only sparked the new age of computer RPGs. It put the idea of capturing complex table top RPG aspects in a videogame when (up to that point) most were saying it was impossible to do without a live Dungeon Master. Involving actual character roleplay, and more of the non-combat statistics, into what was previously just a combat-mechanic genre.
Then again, maybe they were choosing Fallout, even though they technically weren't the first to get there.
PS 1 was well deserved, though. It broke a ton of conventions including the aspect of starting a brand new entire RPG series (Something that turned into its own universe) then prominently making a woman the first main hero. History cascades down from that point. (Interesting how PSO, sort of did the same thing with Red Ring Rico, even though you play whatever character you made).
Last edited by Akaimizu; May 11, 2011 at 03:20 PM.
I wish they would put PSIV on the iTunes app store instead of II. Maybe they will eventually.
YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy to see PSI and especially PSIV make it in!I would have been happy with just one classic Phantasy Star win, but two?! HEL YEH.
On a side note, I can't believe Final Fantasy VI didn't even get an honorable mention.Also, I am deeply disappointed the exhibit gives only the most threadbare attention to computer gaming. They're ignoring many great games, like King's Quest VI, Wing Commander IV, and many, many others.
Last edited by Deco_Bryl; May 13, 2011 at 03:44 AM.
Nor Dave Braben's Elite and Frontier games. Among the first games to provide an entire universe of content, in such tiny data space, using procedural created content. He also invented the first actual Curved Polygon model in videogames with Frontier. Nope. Not triangles, or squares. Bezier Curves. Truly inventive stuff right there.
Still, congrats to the ones that made it.
Awesome, Panzer Dragoon is my favourite series of all time, and the one I like the least is the one that is not in this list
Good choices on the Phantasy Star games too, the first one marked a precedent, and the fourth one was the pinacle of the series. Notice how neither Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy for the 8-16 bits are in the list, that is really an honour for Phantasy Star!
Hey, that's a great way of looking at it! Thanks!Originally Posted by landman
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