All of them.
what video game deserves to be in a museum?
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Rogue Warrior?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I said all of them, so yes.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shadow of the Colossus is the first that comes to mind. I’d probably toss in Final Fantasy VII, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and DOTA 2 because I’m addicted to it
Manzas@lemdro.id 1 day ago
Half-life, or any source game along with minecraft.
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
One that comes to mind is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
warmaster@lemmy.world 1 day ago
- Journey
- Shadow Of The Colossus
- Shenmue 1
- Half-Life 1 & 2
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 1 day 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 16 hours ago
You must have never went underground in elder ring. It is the most beautiful thing ive seen in a game.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Do you think “art” only means “pretty pictures”?
Waryle@jlai.lu 1 day 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 1 day ago
And there’s no CGI.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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 1 day ago
you have the worst taste maybe imaginable in games that you’re ‘opinion’ is futile lol
Zukial@lemmy.world 1 day 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?
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Spore, even if imperfect. Minecraft. Pong. Elden Ring. Rollercoaster Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 day ago
Spore should be in there bit not for a good reason.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 day 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
P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Black and White
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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
b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Tomb Raider.
tatann@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t the Louve pyramid already a reference to Tomb Raider ?
deaf_fish@midwest.social 1 day ago
Isn’t there an open source port of this?
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I think the better question is what about games deserves to be in a general history museum? The advent and changes of technology and the implementation is far more important than the examples of it in use. There are very few games on their own that would qualify as “culturally impactful” to the greater world by their sheer existence. (Mario, Pokemon, and Tetris immediately come to mind).
If we are talking about a “video game museum/exhibit” then the list broadens a lot, but it’s less about the “what” and more the “why” that needs focused.
Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
RDR2
Saleh@feddit.org 1 day ago
There is video game museums already:
AnarchyLime@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There is also the National Videogame Museum in the US
TwoHardCore@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Street Fighter, Mortal Combat, Sega Rally, Unreal and also Unreal Tournament
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If I had to be stuck in a timeloop, I might pick being in high-school, late night, losing untold hours to Unreal Tournament until the sun came up and/or I occasionally fell asleep at my computer. Or maybe the LAN parties from that same time.
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Doom, Minecraft and Touhou
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Dwarf Fortress is, in fact, in a museum.
duchess@feddit.org 1 day ago
Along with a bunch of others.
BunScientist@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
for a more “traditional paint” like experience, Gris is just gorgeous to look at
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Dwarf fortress
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
E.T. for Atari
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 day 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 1 day 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
Ashiette@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For me, it has got to be tetris. It is still thriving, even today. Anyone can understand the base concept and play it : it’s simple and enjoyable, anywhen. Plus, it runs on remotely anything.
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ocarina
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Also what’s the game in the screenshot?
Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 2 days ago
the game in the screenshot is Elden Ring.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My then-girlfriend-now-wife and I went to a temporary video game exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image. A lot of the mainstays you’d expect were there, particularly from the arcade era, including ground-breaking titles like Dragon’s Lair (which is fascinatingly beautiful and a bad video game at the same time). At one point, one of the signs mentioned moving on from vector graphics, which my wife had no idea what that meant, so I immediately looked around for an Asteroids machine. You don’t really get how one of those games looks unless you’re playing on the genuine article. That’s the kind of thing that probably ought to be in a museum most.
I recently went to Galloping Ghost in Illinois, which is now the world’s largest arcade. It’s got nearly every arcade game you can think of, and they do a good job fixing them up. They have an F-Zero AX machine. I’ve always wanted to play one of those. I went to Galloping Ghost two years in a row, and it was broken both times. Turns out they’re having trouble sourcing the displays. As you go around the place, most machines are working, but even only a year later, more of them had display problems. I imagine even just getting regular old CRTs is going to make this kind of thing way harder as time goes on, and a good CRT does affect how these old games look, because they were designed for them. This is the kind of burden I’d expect a museum to take on.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Half Life Dead Space Minecraft Terraria Stardew Valley
tatann@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anthem
(For history purpose, just like there are museums for the Holocaust or the WTC)
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still mourne over what that game could have been.
tatann@lemmy.world 1 day 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
throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Sexy Beach 3
Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Elite dangerous. 1:1 replica of the Milky Way that is being actively colonized as we speak.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 day 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✨