Khuutra on 28 January 2009
Please. Finest Hour and Big Red One were spinoffs shoehorned into the console experience, but their primary source was still the PC games. Halo did not spawn that franchise, though I have no doubt that it had a great deal to do with the fact that it appeared on consoles.
Point 2 conceded: Call of Duty 3 wasn't on the PC. I had forgotten. It does not change the fact that the series' start was on the PC and owed nothing to Halo.
One multiplayer mode does not a first-person shooter make, not when it's a third person stealth action game. That is a ridiculous statement.
All quotes from wikipedia. You have no credibility when it comes to shooters. To say that Halo didn't inspire more FPS to appear on consoles is ridiculous.
The goal posts at this point are so far back that I can barely see them. We have gone from:
.....hm.
Nevermind, then. The original point was as to whether or not Halo inspired a culture of shooters. I would hold that it didn't, not when a culture existed (in a smaller form) on the N64 and (to a smaller degree) on the Playstation, but that's no longer what we're talking about.
The point remains that Halo did not spawn those franchises. Yes, it is the chief reason they've been brought to consoles. I never contested that. But it did not spawn those series and it cannot hold claim to their existence.
blue-lady (starcraft?) makes a decent point in that Halo is the reason those PC games were brought to consoles, but the notion that it was in any way responsible for their original inception is erroneous and verifiable as false.
Your point that Halo stood as proof that first person shooters could work on consoles is just ridiculous.
