BMaker11 on 02 April 2009
| Khuutra said: Being tops in story and gameplay doesn't make a game influential. Halo is largely responsible for the surge of the FPS genre on consoles. Goldeneye set the gold standard, but Halo ran with it. I can't think, off-hand, of an entire genre on consoles which owes so much to Metal Gear. |
There were plenty of FPSs on consoles before Halo, it's just that nowadays as long as you stick a gun in someones hand and put it in the first person, the game will sell. It's more guaranteed success than it is attributing to Halo, IMO.
And because there were FPSs on consoles before Halo, I don't see how the genre owes itsself to it.
