The most influential gaming man of all time is...

This massive circle jerk over steve jobs is getting incredibly tedious. People like everything he "touches" turns to gold. People also need to acknowledge that "he" didn't make the iPhone, a bunch of designers and and engineers did, he just oversaw it and passed what he liked.

I was hoping all this jobs worship would stop since he died but it looks like it's going to get worse before it diminishes. I can honestly not get my head around what the hell the people who compiled that list were thinking. Serious, Steve Jobs over Gabe Newell? SERIOUSLY? That's some incredibly illogical bullcrap there.

The creepiest thing about it all though is that you never seem to come across anything that shows a true recount of his worthy achievements, like what he did with Pixar, for example. People instead just make things up that they must wish he had a hand in and then worship him over it. He's a bloody glorified salesman, not this monolithic messiah

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I think the title is better deserved for Gabe Newell because of what he's done with Steam and Valve as a whole. Most games developers could only wish to be part of a development studio that churned out such highly polished and well made games.
 
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kylew said:
This massive circle jerk over steve jobs is getting incredibly tedious. People like everything he "touches" turns to gold. People also need to acknowledge that "he" didn't make the iPhone, a bunch of designers and and engineers did, he just oversaw it and passed what he liked.

I was hoping all this jobs worship would stop since he died but it looks like it's going to get worse before it diminishes. I can honestly not get my head around what the hell the people who compiled that list were thinking. Serious, Steve Jobs over Gabe Newell? SERIOUSLY? That's some incredibly illogical bullcrap there.
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Unfortunately, people who can make bucket loads of cash for shareholders are always heralded as "pioneers" and given far more prestige than they deserve. We need better variables to define success than money and power. Jobs ran a successful company that made nothing unique, not really. Just computers, things that play music, and phones. In fact quite unnecessary gadgets aimed at a high-end market of people who have more money than sense. But he made a lot of money - industry changing money = genius and hero. Shame he was a total git, and well known as total selfish weird, git.

Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth...
 
Steve Jobs, the most influential gaming man??? Seriously???

Like said before, he never even made the iphone etc, he just overlooked the plans and accepted them..
Heck, he didnt even make the games for Iphones etc.. Any person with two brains cells to do with java / flash can produce a game to run on iphone / ipad....
Its probably one of the easiest game programming languages to learn IMO.
And no apple product was made solely for Gaming Purposes....

If Steve Jobs is involved, Then out of Microsoft and Apple, The most influenced gaming man, (out of the two), i would choose Bill Gates....
Atleast PC's are designed for gaming, More than i can say for any apple product....
So wouldnt that make Bill Gates the most influential gaming man??? That puts Steve Jobs right out the "windows" hehe.
 
If there going for the posthumous vote then surely Dennis Ritchie should have been given it after all he was a key part of the development of Unix and the C programming language, which is the foundation for most development.

Dennis passed away around 7 days after Mr Jobs and you'd struggle to find any coverage of the mans life except for the really geeky corners of the net.
 
orderoftheflame said:
I'd put people like Carmack and Schafer before the lot of them (excluding Miyamoto).
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JObs was influential in other areas, but not gaming. Even those jokers at SOE like Torres were more influential, even if it was in the wrong way i.e by taking a licence to print money in the shape of a Starwars licence and then delivering pure fail of epic proportions !!
 
Total horse-**** - there is no way that Jobs and Zuckerberg belong on that list.

Jobs is only there due to the sympathy vote - as others have said, his ascension to sainthood since his death is now getting truly tedious. He was a visionary only in as much as he perfected a way to make overpriced gadgets look cool. I'd say Bill Gates has had far more influence on gaming, given that the PC was most people's platform of choice until the likes of the PlayStation and Xbox came along.

As for Zuckerberg ... when the history of gaming is written, I hardly think that any of the cavalcade of crap that passes for games on Facebook will feature - FarmVille one of the top 100 games of all time? Do me a favour :p

Any of the other names you've all suggested would be fine by me, but my choice would be David Braben. What he did with Elite on the BBC Micro had never been seen before and as a programming achievement, still staggers me to this day.
 
This is how it should actually look.

Gabe Newell > People who are part of the games industry > Many other people who play a slightly lesser part in the games industry > A dead frog > Steve jobs.

In that order
Bare in mind jobs is there as a sympathy vote.
 
I had to laugh.

Most ridiculous list ever.

As far as the iPhone goes...it wasn't exactly even the first mobile platform to play games on!
 
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Tute said:
Sorry, but Gabe wins this hands down. We have him to thank for the Source engine, a glut of brilliant games, and what about Steam? It's basically driving the PC gaming retail sector all on it's own - we can't rely on the high street stores to give a **** anymore after all.
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I just came in here to post the exact same thing.

Gabe Newell is a ******* gaming legend in my eyes, allways will be. ALTHOUGH, to call him the most "Influential gaming man of all time" at this stage is premature (he will be one day, just not yet) as there are people who have walked the path before him who have done more for the industry.

It is good that Gabe / Valve got the acknowledgement they deserve but for Gabe to come second to Jobs in a pole for "Influential gaming man of all time" is just wrong. At the moment, that goes to Miyamoto.

With their thinking, it may have well just gone to Bill Gates for Creating MS DOS and Windows which nearly all games run on.
 
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Purdy said:
Allowed us to buy games on our iphone/ipad which seem great ideas at the time and then never play them bar once, except angry birds.
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most of the games on iphone/ipad are all the same really, just miniature versions of other big games.
 
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