Is it OK to feel Halo 1 is the best shooter this gen???

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Final-Fan said:

Reasonable said:

h2o1977 said:
Halo brought first person shooters to the masses......that is its impact on Gaming History.....

I'm always unsure about this claim really - what do you mean by masses?

Half Life on PC sold I believe at least 8 million by 2004 while Halo had sold around 5 million by 2005.  Halo definately brought FPS to console in a big way, no doubt about it, but I struggle that a title that sold less than other titles on PC somehow popularised the genre in general.  If over 8 million people bought Half Life wouldn't you say HL brought FPS to more of the masses?

I guess you could argue console players were more "general" than PC players but TBH the original Xbox mainly sold to people wanting a PC experience and not traditional console owners anyway - i.e. the same demographic as Half Life.

Ah hell it was sure fire popular but I always feel it gets overpraised for certain stuff that PC titles were exceeding, from sales to online support.

Goldeneye says hi. 

Goldeneye was both popular and a rare great FPS on console but due to timing and the console it was on it would never have had the impact of a Half Life in general or Halo on console.

Halo with MP and the emerging Live network paved the way for the huge growth in FPS/online (love it or hate it) on console instead of PC and set the path for 360/PS3 and where we are today.

Goldeneye by comparison was a bright gem that would have (IMHO) led to nothing much further regarding FPS/console titles, Nintento certainly were not (and only with Wii U may be) on a path that would have allowed Goldeneye to have a big legacy.  That's why Halo (rightly I'd argue) get's the accolades for popularizing the genre and in particular online on console and not Goldeneye.

On PC of course FPS, etc. was already well defined ahead of Goldeneye and only until relatively recently with the launch of 360 and the huge switch of consumer preference in US/UK in particular to console rather than PC for FPS/online has the legacy started primarily with Halo arrived.

It was a great game thought, influenual on others for sure, and popular with sales of over 8 million - but on a Nintendo platform it was always going to be an outlier for FPS/online than anything else - IMHO of course :)