Mnementh said:
Nope, Rare never dominated FPS. 1997 (Goldeneye release year) had Quake II, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Hexen II, Shadow Warrior - all superior games in regards to used gameplay mechanics. You may also note that this list includes a lot of II, so more importantly all these mechanics were already developed before. Even Shadow Warrior is using the tech from Duke Nukem 3D. Perfect Dark came 2000, in the same year on PC the FPS made massive progress, while Perfect Dark basically is still gameplay wise a Quake like game. In 2000 though came games like Deus Ex and Counterstrike, which moved FPS in new territories. Genre-defining Half-Life already released in 1998. Don't get me wrong, Goldeneye and Perfect Dark are good games and Rare made good work. And certainly it was new to bring FPS to console. But if we look at the FPS genre as a whole, not only at the console side of things, then these games are good games, but not outstanding. Blizzard basically defined major templates for two genres with Warcraft/starcraft in RTS and with Diablo in action RPGs. Games today still work off the design choices made with Diablo and Starcraft. |
I don´t like Blizzard now equal like before; Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 were the best games before WOW. Overwatch and Hearthstone were good, but now blizzard was focused more in create well-addicted mechanics than on a good and fun game.
