Poll: Most important man in gaming?

[MrJohnson]

People hate casual gamers for the same reason people who read intelligent books hate tripe like Twilight. It doesn't cater to the development and evolution of gaming as an activity or art form. I mean, if someone has only seen games on the Wii, then they'd probably be right in thinking games aren't art because aside from the Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games, the majority of them are moronic "games" that are nothing more than a collection of 5 or so minigames.

 

[Uzigawa]

People hate casual gamers for the same reason people who read intelligent books hate tripe like Twilight. It doesn't cater to the development and evolution of gaming as an activity or art form. I mean, if someone has only seen games on the Wii, then they'd probably be right in thinking games aren't art because aside from the Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games, the majority of them are moronic "games" that are nothing more than a collection of 5 or so minigames.

thank you, i feel that way, i just couldn't really pin it down

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

i'm sry i'm an actual gamer, if nintendo had died out at snes, you have no idea how happy i'd have been, that's where it should have ended, all nintendo is doing is catering to children, grandmas, and people who don't game, and right well shouldn't, casual gamers are the one thing i can't stand...at all.

Why? How do they affect you in any way?

the motion controls are becoming too popular among casual gamers, making real consoles want to do it, now all the games will be motion control, which sucks, like i do everything else, i don't wanna jump around, i just wanna sit down and play an rpg or shooter

Yes, because all conventional controllers are going to be discontinued once the motion controllers hit the market and all games currently in development that will be released from that point on are being modified so they only use them.

not saying that, but most games will try and use this cheap gimmick to try and attract more customers, which will be casual gamers, and the industry will slowly try to adapt to them to make more money, making hardcore gaming obsolete in later years to come

I'd be laughing quite loudly at this if I wasn't in public. I mean, it's like a really nerdy conspiracy theory.

 

[icyneesan]

Theres no way Shigeru Miyamoto can be the most important as it requires a joint effort with all the staff at Nintendo to make such quality content

I doubt there is a 'most important person in gaming' as good games almost always require multiple people working on 1 game

 

[Uzigawa]

i'm sry i'm an actual gamer, if nintendo had died out at snes, you have no idea how happy i'd have been, that's where it should have ended, all nintendo is doing is catering to children, grandmas, and people who don't game, and right well shouldn't, casual gamers are the one thing i can't stand...at all.

Why? How do they affect you in any way?

the motion controls are becoming too popular among casual gamers, making real consoles want to do it, now all the games will be motion control, which sucks, like i do everything else, i don't wanna jump around, i just wanna sit down and play an rpg or shooter

Yes, because all conventional controllers are going to be discontinued once the motion controllers hit the market and all games currently in development that will be released from that point on are being modified so they only use them.

not saying that, but most games will try and use this cheap gimmick to try and attract more customers, which will be casual gamers, and the industry will slowly try to adapt to them to make more money, making hardcore gaming obsolete in later years to come

I'd be laughing quite loudly at this if I wasn't in public. I mean, it's like a really nerdy conspiracy theory.

ya, less of a theory, more of a prediction of the eventual course of things to come, already beginning by the introduction of Kinect and Move, at least xbox tried to hide that they were copying wii, playstation just outright stole the idea, the process has already begun

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

i'm sry i'm an actual gamer, if nintendo had died out at snes, you have no idea how happy i'd have been, that's where it should have ended, all nintendo is doing is catering to children, grandmas, and people who don't game, and right well shouldn't, casual gamers are the one thing i can't stand...at all.

Why? How do they affect you in any way?

the motion controls are becoming too popular among casual gamers, making real consoles want to do it, now all the games will be motion control, which sucks, like i do everything else, i don't wanna jump around, i just wanna sit down and play an rpg or shooter

Yes, because all conventional controllers are going to be discontinued once the motion controllers hit the market and all games currently in development that will be released from that point on are being modified so they only use them.

not saying that, but most games will try and use this cheap gimmick to try and attract more customers, which will be casual gamers, and the industry will slowly try to adapt to them to make more money, making hardcore gaming obsolete in later years to come

I'd be laughing quite loudly at this if I wasn't in public. I mean, it's like a really nerdy conspiracy theory.

ya, less of a theory, more of a prediction of the eventual course of things to come, already beginning by the introduction of Kinect and Move, at least xbox tried to hide that they were copying wii, playstation just outright stole the idea, the process has already begun

So I guess you've missed all the developers saying that motion controls can't replace a traditional pad for many types of games and they have no plans of ever abandoning them, or how Sony and Microsoft are marketing their motion controllers as an alternate platform. Why would they ever abandon a proven formula that has made them billions of dollars and end up alienating their most loyal customers?

 

[Logic 0]

Mr.Miyamoto is the stan lee of gaming it probably wouldn't be here without him.

 

[Fappy]

If you had to say there was one then yes... I believe he's the most influential, and thus important man in the industry.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Without Nolan Bushnell there would never have been games you play at home in the first place, so I'd put him above Shiggy. Miyamoto's games may have saved the industry, but Bushnell got everything started.

Nolan Bushnell didn't do anything but steal Ralph Baer's idea. Ralph Baer is actually the one who got things started. I still think Miyamoto is more important though. Baer may have created home video games, but after Pong he didn't really do much. Miyamoto, on the other hand, has been making some of the greatest games of all time for about thirty years now. I guess you could argue that Baer is the most important though, since he was the pioneer of the concept,

OT: I can't believe that there are so many votes saying Miyamoto is unimportant. A lot of people on this site clearly don't know much about gaming history...

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

If you believe, as many do, that the ability to destroy a thing gives one power over it, the correct answer is Bobby Kotick.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Super Mario Brothers is the reason home consoles are sitting in our rooms today. Without that game, gaming might very well have become just a niche activity aimed solely at a relatively small market. Like D and D. The guy behind Super Mario Brothers- Mr. Miyamoto.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Super Mario Brothers is the reason home consoles are sitting in our rooms today. Without that game, gaming might very well have become just a niche activity aimed solely at a relatively small market. Like D and D. The guy behind Super Mario Brothers- Mr. Miyamoto.

This sums it up pretty well. This, and the fact that he's behind dozens of other classic games.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

You don't even give him credit for being, so to speak, the inventor of platform gaming. He was the one who revolutionized arcade games in 1980 or so with "Donkey Kong". That man made ground for home consoles and has invented the most recognized faces in gaming to date. Even with all the praise he gets i say it's still not enough.

 

[DSK-]

In my opinion, Von Neumann is the most important person. Without him and his architecture model (althought somewhat flawed) the likes of consoles and modern PC's wouldn't exist.

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

Nolan Bushnell didn't do anything but steal Ralph Baer's idea.

An idea that failed. Bushnell saw the potential in that idea and was able make it a successful one.

You're forgetting the most important thing that Bushnell did, though. He was the first person to see that the games that were being played by computer hobbyists on university mainframes were something that were commercially viable, that they were something you could sell, something that people who didn't even know that you could play a game on a computer would pay to play, and by creating Computer Space, he gave birth to an industry.

Baer may have had the idea for machines that play games a decade earlier, but Bushnell is the why the games industry exists, since he was responsible for the first videogame ever to be produced in quantity, marketed and sold to customers. He is the man responsible for the videogame's entry into the public consciousness.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

It took great ideas and initiative to come back from the crash, and Shiggy delivered. At the very least, he's the one who gave it some mainstream acceptance.

 

[Tartarga]

To me the person who thought of quality control was the most important person. Without that, there most likely wouldn't even be a gaming industry today.

 

[Mr. Doe]

John St. John (Duke Nukem) is the most important person in all of gaming history.

 

[DustyDrB]

Nintendo is nowhere without him. And I probably would have never gotten into gaming without him. My first memories playing a game: Zelda II.