Heavy Rain was turned down by Microsoft over child kidnapping story

[Zappykins]

OdinHades said:

Zappykins said:
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When Halo came out there had only ever been one successful shooter.  So ya, it was a tremendous risk.  To get it right they even bought the company, another huge risk.

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Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Half-Life, System Shock, System Shock 2, Heretic, Goldeneye, Turok, Perfect Dark, Duke Nukem 3D, Jedi Knight, Rainbow Six, Unreal, Team Fortress, Outcast, Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune, TimeSplitters, Counter-Strike, No One Lives Forever, Serious Sam, Tribes 2, Red Faction.

Which one of those are you referring to as the only one successful? The way I see it, FPS was already a very well established genre when Halo came out in 2001. Microsoft even didn't take any risks at all by changing Halo to a standard shooter. When Halo was announced for PC, it was about to become a totally different game, with a heavy focus on Multiplayer and changeable terrain thanks to a Voxel Engine. Microsoft scrapped all that and just brought a shooter. 

Don't get me wrong, Halo is a good game, but it doesn't have to do anything with risks. At all. Bungie was also cheap back then. They only released Marathon and Marathon II which nobody knew back then.

The only successful console FPS game was Golden Eye, and it wasn't like an earth shattering seller hit.

Many said a good FPS could never be done on a console.  Xbox was in some way influenced by the game Halo and visa versa.  Halo would not be what it is today if Microsoft had not bough and crafted it.  (Nor would Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.)

They bought Bungie in 2000. It was a tremendous gamble that work out really, really well for them.  But could have easily turn into the flop that was Ebay buying Skype (and losing nearly 2 billion.)

Now they have Ryse, TitanFall coming out - 3rd parties that they are helping make great games and taking the risk buy not buying the company.  (Like Gears of War.)

So they skipped Heavy Rain and maybe 6 million in sales.  Big deal, as I said, my PS3 lovin friend says its boring.  I tried it too, just kinda meh.