WilliamWatts said:
leatherhat said:
Halo came into the world as the only decent game on xbox with mainstream and casual appeal. Since it had literally zero competition it became a huge hit. Other devs saw the sales numbers but none of the reasons why it sold well and started to churn out mediocre fps after mediocre fps to the detriment of all other genres (and the fps market which is flooded with crap). Halo also brought with it the success of console online, and while devs focused solely on that, strong single player modes and local multiplayer, console gamings bread and butter, fell to the wayside in favor of slapping in some deathmatch and ctf modes.
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A fine whine.
The FPS market is as big as it is because publishers have found a lot of success in making them. Less so those other genres which you believe have been crowded out by FPS games. Its not Halo's fault that the market changed the way it did, if anything it meant that something which would have happened anyway just happened sooner.
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Certainly there are other factors, but the majority of the blame can be laid at the feet of MS, Halo, live and the marketing of them. It changed gaming, for the negative.
