"Halo is the most influential shooter series since Doom" - EGM

so then whats the hype about pc shooters for?

It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. MADVLAD123

It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. MADVLAD123

exactly.

the design of the xbox's controller was instrumental in the gameplay, yet EGM will ignore this factoid....

halo singlehandidly brought the love of FPS to consoles...

I doubt it, more like other fps are influencing it. Halo 1 didn't even have dual weilding. Halo may be the most popular fps, but most fps have stayed true to their roots are completly original unlike halo.

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[QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. tango90101

exactly.

the design of the xbox's controller was instrumental in the gameplay, yet EGM will ignore this factoid....

halo singlehandidly brought the love of FPS to consoles...

Plus the controls were so perfect that almost every console FPS out there had a very similar control scheme to Halo's and anyone could get the hang of any FPS after playing Halo (console wise).

[QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. tango90101

exactly.

the design of the xbox's controller was instrumental in the gameplay, yet EGM will ignore this factoid....

halo singlehandidly brought the love of FPS to consoles...

True.

[QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

Opinion: "Halo is the most influential shooter series since Doom"

Fact: EGM said Halo is the most influential shooter series since Doom.

It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. MADVLAD123

It made FPS's my baby and made me fall in love with co-op play

Many games have copied Halos control scheme not to mention the shield system which is used in a lot of games was made popular in Halo.....wolverine4262

Looks like only other crappy console FPS's were influences by hAlowok7

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. rykaziel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

This has nothing to do with PC FPS, as the guys/gals over at EGM are console people through and through, just listen the their podcast. The GFW guys wouldn't agree with that, their sister magazine owned by Ziff Davis. PC FPS have their own feel.

Also, aren't you the poster who thought the PC wasn't capable of HD resolutions? lol.....

I blame the lack of any high profile PC games since HL2/WoWwok7

I :lol: at the title.

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[QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. ToScA-

exactly.

the design of the xbox's controller was instrumental in the gameplay, yet EGM will ignore this factoid....

halo singlehandidly brought the love of FPS to consoles...

True.

[QUOTE="rykaziel"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

[QUOTE="rykaziel"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

Influential. Not original or evolutionary. It took all those aspects of games and refined them and made them great. Just like GeOW taking the killswitch cover system and making it perfect.

how can it be the most influential when many of it's ideas were copied from other games and most of it's original ideas have never been copied? jack_russel

Haha, rubbish.

So many of Halos features have been copied into other console FPSs. You look at any modern console FPS and you can immediately see Halo influences. Halo may have taken ideas from other games, but they perfected the crude ideas they took.

No matter how much you hate the series, its influence to shooters is damn obvious to see.

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="rykaziel"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. Adrian_Cloud

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

[QUOTE="wolverine4262"]Many games have copied Halos control scheme not to mention the shield system which is used in a lot of games was made popular in Halo.....jack_russel

you drove/flew vehicles in Ts? grenade jump? (you couldn't even jump in TS, could you?)

.[QUOTE="ToScA-"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

[QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

exactly.

the design of the xbox's controller was instrumental in the gameplay, yet EGM will ignore this factoid....

halo singlehandidly brought the love of FPS to consoles...

True.

Walk up to a random guy on the street and ask: Which game out of this list do you know? List all those games plus Halo and the chances of the guy saying Halo is much greater than the rest. Simply because it was so influential.

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[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

Wow.

You don't have to be unique or innovative to be influential. Take the movies. Just about every kind of sty1e or angle or crane shot or this and that has been done but it doesn't mean someone can't come along and do it and influence people with their take on it.

Halo is inspired by other fps and games or bungie was rather just like Nirvana was inspired by the meat puppets and the beatles and etc...

One more reason why EGM is no longer a credible video game source.

[QUOTE="jack_russel"]how can it be the most influential when many of it's ideas were copied from other games and most of it's original ideas have never been copied? Raidea

Haha, rubbish.

So many of Halos features have been copied into other console FPSs. You look at any modern console FPS and you can immediately see Halo influences. Halo may have taken ideas from other games, but they perfected the crude ideas they took.

No matter how much you hate the series, its influence to shooters is damn obvious to see.

Well they're absolutely right, its the defining FPS of the 3D era in the mass market's eyes.

tomarlyn

Half Life has sold just as many copies as Halo. On the PC, Half Life is king. I don't see how people can claim halo is the biggest FPS ever, that's not true.

[QUOTE="Adrian_Cloud"][QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="rykaziel"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. jack_russel

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

how many games have moved to the same health system as halo? making "medi packs" almost obsolete...

how many games drove a vehicle using the camera? on a console...

how many games ushered in an era of online console gaming like the halo franchise did?

yes..influential...get used to it...;)

single handedly my ***. I can't belive you would just discredit goldeneye, perfect dark, turok, timesplitters, and red faction like that.jack_russel

No, he's pretty much right.

Look at the FPS landslide we are in at the moment on consoles, then look at the 7 million tag next to Halo 2 sales figures. It doesn't take a genius to put two and two together.

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[QUOTE="jack_russel"]how can it be the most influential when many of it's ideas were copied from other games and most of it's original ideas have never been copied? jack_russel

Haha, rubbish.

So many of Halos features have been copied into other console FPSs. You look at any modern console FPS and you can immediately see Halo influences. Halo may have taken ideas from other games, but they perfected the crude ideas they took.

No matter how much you hate the series, its influence to shooters is damn obvious to see.

the health system for starters.. no medipacks..;)

grenade jumps? fun stuff....

c'mon..i'm sure you can think of a few....

Im sorry, but halo really has been influential on fps (atleast on the console)... features like the shield system, co-op, vehicular combat, and importance of melee and grenades were pushed heavily by Halo and can be seen in many games available now and coming up....wolverine4262

I agree influental to the consoles, they should explicitly say that though.

Just another "Lets hide the PC behind the curtain so we can getmore money" which is running rampent this generation.

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="rykaziel"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="MADVLAD123"]It's true. It is influential. I mean look how it popularized console FPS's and how it revolutionized Console multiplayer. Plus it brought lots of new gamers into the console world. MADVLAD123

I don't remember Goldeneye having it's own Slurpee cups and Burger King meals. Face it, Halo is one of the most influential IP's ever. On any platform. That doesn't mean it's the best FPS series, just means it's the most influential.

Influential. Not original or evolutionary. It took all those aspects of games and refined them and made them great. Just like GeOW taking the killswitch cover system and making it perfect.

[QUOTE="jack_russel"][QUOTE="Raidea"]

[QUOTE="jack_russel"]how can it be the most influential when many of it's ideas were copied from other games and most of it's original ideas have never been copied? tango90101

Haha, rubbish.

So many of Halos features have been copied into other console FPSs. You look at any modern console FPS and you can immediately see Halo influences. Halo may have taken ideas from other games, but they perfected the crude ideas they took.

No matter how much you hate the series, its influence to shooters is damn obvious to see.

the health system for starters.. no medipacks..;)

grenade jumps? fun stuff....

c'mon..i'm sure you can think of a few....

Well, first time I saw a grenade jump was in Quake 2.

And first time I saw the lack of medipacks was in COD 2.

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]Well they're absolutely right, its the defining FPS of the 3D era in the mass market's eyes.

mismajor99

Half Life has sold just as many copies as Halo. On the PC, Half Life is king. I don't see how people can claim halo is the biggest FPS ever, that's not true.

I don't ever consider the PC base as mass market IMO. Half Life is arguably better, but the casual gamer (the mass market gamer) loves his console's and nothing creates as much hysteria as Halo. It also brought the FPS to the living like never before.

I don't remember anyone buying or upgrading a PC to get some Half Life, I know a lot of people that got an XBOX for Halo.