A Different Kind of Wing Commander Canon
PeteyG followed a link at Slashdot that details how certain bodies are seeking to create a noble gaming canon. Their hope is that all game developers should know and understand what made each canon game great and incorporate a little bit of that into their future works.
"The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know." Games that are definitive and that any person who seriously considers themselves a gamer should be familiar with. Everything from Tic-Tac-Toe to Doom. Much like Jane Eyre or Heart of Darkness are part of literary canon, now it seems Wing Commander is part of gaming canon.The list is pretty much just a fun idea some guy had at the moment, but it's not the first time something like this has come up. Something like this won't ever be nailed down absolutely on some webpage somewhere, but instead will be defined by the collective beliefs of the gaming community. It's great to see that Wing Commander so often ranks on these list. Though Ultima did make the list, Ultima Online did not. As the GameSpy article we reported a few days back discussed, you don't really have MMORPGs like you do today without UO in there somewhere.
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