[quote=“Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact”]Mr. Lowood and the four members of his committee — the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist — announced their list of the 10 most important video games of all time:
Even if i barelly agree (I definetly prefer Wolfenstein3D over Doom, for example) i think that Haiku could include open source alternatives of this games in the basic distribution (instead of usually “poor solitaires” & similar).
The problem with including games like Freeciv and Doom, etc. is the bloat!
Some of these games will come with a large amount of graphics that will simply make the distribution huge. Since I don’t often play games, I’d rather that my OS didn’t come with ANY (ok, maybe Minesweeper…).
In any case, I think this is the type of thing that a “distro” will end up putting together (like Pingwinek has done with a bunch of SDL games), and the official release will probably not be releasing anything more than what is in their repository.
I definitely think a few small games would be nice - Tetris even possibly would be welcome. You have to consider that whatever version is included with Haiku will end up becoming a branch of some other version - and won’t be full of bells and whistles.
I don’t like it that someone needs to preselect games for me to play. Just make sure ALL of these games do run under HAIKU and that there is a place to get them from… and please keep the OS image as clean as possible, just the OS, not even KDE/GNOME duplicated functionality, just HAIKU (and a lot of drivers, for missing drivers definitely stopped me from changing to Linux)
One of the most important games of all times sure was “The Secret of Monkey Island”. It was the first adventure game where figures where shown smaler, when going to the back of the scene. The grafics where so great at the time, magazines for computer games had to make a new scale for their game reviews.
Another one was Netack, which was the first game that people on a LAN could play together (as far as I remember, I wasn’t that much into runing away, screaming, because a dangerous “d” wanted to kill me ;-))
Hey! I like Solitaire. Its a good game. Yeah, a tad mindless, repetitive, and all that. But, a great time killer and ego booster when having a bad day.
I prefer building games rather than shooters, although, I have to admit, Serious Sam was fun, difficult to see some of the underground objects, but fun, nonetheless. I prefer such games as Sim City and Outpost - Outpost 2 lost some of its strategic builder value when it attempted to cater to the shooter crowd.
I also like Activision’s original Shanghai. Yeah, I know, mindless, repetitive, and … deja vu.
Regardless, the OS should be kept tight and small. Games are an add-on and should be available as a seperate disk, loader or location.
