shikamaru317 said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Achievements - Agreed. I think they are by far the best thing Microsoft has brought to gaming 
Hard drives - Another incredibly important one, although considering the PS3 and Wii (I think) also had hard drives and were only a year later that may well have happened even without Microsoft.
Xbox Live -  I miss local multiplayer
Halo - I think COD Modern Warfare did a lot more for FPS than Halo did. Yeah, but Halo paved the way for CoD. Before Halo, FPS as a genre just didn't exist on consoles, Rare had attempted it with 007 and Perfect Dark and that was pretty much it.
Gears of War - Microsoft may have funded it, but it was Epic's game.
WRPGs - The only thing I can think of here is getting Mass Effect as an exclusive. I think 3rd party companies did much more for WRPGs than Microsoft by far. Them becoming bigger than JRPGs too is because of 3rd parties (many Japanese companies forgetting how to make good games) I think he's referring to the fact that WRPG's were mainly a PC only genre before developers started putting them on Xbox. For instance Elder Scrolls, Xbox was the first console to get an Elder Scrolls game. The original Xbox also got KOTOR and Fable, which PS2 didn't get. Xbox 360 was also the first console to get a Witcher game and a Mass Effect game.
Other stuff - Kinect not really an innovation, PS Eyetoy? I don't think PS Eye Toy can even be compared to Kinect. Kinect was definitely an innovation in many ways, it didn't really do much good for gaming itself, but it's voice commands are definitely innovative for turning on your system and navigating to aps like Netflix. |
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Cannot take you seriously when you bring up voice commands, kinect and innovation, something that is done with a 5 dollar mic..... really scrapping the bottom of the barrel in this thread, most MS brought to gaming was bad ideas, paywalls, timed DLC, timed exclusives, Parity clauses, underhanded practices. non of this existed before MS tried to buy there way to merket leader and failed.
