no, Halo 1 was the first massivley popular FPS, not first true console FPS

Ever heard of Quake, Doom, Goldeneye, Turok, Duke Nukem? They were all massive. Goldeneye sold more then Halo. I certainly hope you worded that wrong or were being sarcastic.

does anyone even know what generic means? I dont think any of those games are generic. Especially The Darkness, Unreal, and Left 4 Dead. I think the original poster just didnt like something someone had to say about The Conduit.

Generic is Minesweeper and all the bejewaled clones.





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@Shadowblind

"Halo 1 was the first true Console FPS, which led to the all console FPS today, while 2/3 were anything but generic, due to its massive reforms to multiplayer, and huge amounts of content for players and friends."


I guess you obviously overlooked GoldenEye N64 which did far more for console FPS. If anything Halo just added more.

I always think of "generic" as meaning "strictly adhering to the constraints of the genre."

99% of games are generic, and 99.9% of FPS games are generic. The last time I played an FPS that did anything interesting with the genre was Portal.

well if you are using those standards than yes most games are generic it is difficult to have something completely fresh in any medium not just video games (look at movies for example),

however, I think The Conduit's story might be good since it looks like it will be based in some fact because many of our founding fathers were Free Masons and we all know of the crazy conspiracies that surround the Free Masons...if the story can be done right I think it will put The Conduit a step above a generic FPS

I think Halo's big contribution was popularizing the regenerative health concept, and making online FPS playing a big deal (for consoles). I love me some Quake 3 on Dreamcast, but it was more ahead of it's time than game changing.

Golden Eye and Turok I think were the big pushers for FPS on console though.


I see Halo as the Final Fantasy VII of the FPS genre. No, it wasn't the first, it wasn't the best but it did some things really well and got the gaming populous at large to take note, and make the genre popular for years.

I think "generic" is a misnomer in the conduit's case. Alot of people see it, are completely bored by it, search for a word to explain why and that is the best that comes to mind.

The conduit's problem as I highlighted earlier is that it's old. It belongs to a different era of FPS. The majority of developers and gamers have moved on to the current evolution of FPS and the Conduit is still playing like it's the early 2000s.

AHAHA. good one :P

Party Time.

A few of you are missing the point he is trying to make. He isn't bagging the games out, he is bagging out the people who have come up with the CRITERIA that MAGICALLY determine if a game is generic.

He found good games that based on those WEAK CRITERIA would make them generic games. The point being most people would agree that those games are not generic, yet they call Conduit generic because it has Aliens in it lol.