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WilliamWatts on 04 August 2010
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leatherhat said:
WilliamWatts said:
leatherhat said:


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.

Just as you can place the blame for the abundance of open world games on Rockstar, the abundance of 2D/3D platformers on Nintendo and you can place the abundance of car racing games on Sony. Only really you can't because there isn't an abundance of these any more as all the copies turned into relative or absolute failures. Since we're now a generation beyond the first Halo game the abundance of FPS games can only really be blamed on the fact that they are really popular and are the most consistantly successful genre on the HD consoles at present.

 


But then, aren't we agreeing on the same thing? No GTA3 no open world boom, no halo no crappy fps/ console online boom. And of course there's COD, which has been carrying on halos legacy of disaster.

Nope because those copy cats subsequently died down. The console shooter genre has grown substantially from having a single 5M franchise on consoles to having two 10M selling franchises and multiple 5M selling franchises. The shooter genre has grown inspite of Halo, and infact Halo has been surpassed.