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Halo was a standout because of it brought multiplayer to console, wasn't it the first console game to have 16 players? The coop campaign was also really fun. M
by astar 13y ago
Halo was a standout because of it brought multiplayer to console, wasn't it the first console game to have 16 players? The coop campaign was also really fun.
Maybe the article-writer thinks that Halo made FPS too mainstream? Unlike Doom/Quake, it was cleaned up enough in a pretty blockbuster-wrapper to make it the new model of gaming to follow?
- DanBC 13y agoSaturn Bomberman had 10 players for multiplayer. I'm not quite sure I follow OPs point. Playstation had a bunch of thoroughly unfun uncute games.
- hnal943 13y agoAbsolutely. It was the PlayStation that first marketed itself as the system for hardcore gamers.
- shiftpgdn 13y agoGenesis does what Nintendon't. Sega was the system for 'hardcore' console gamers of the 90s. Just take a look at this ad: http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/G-32XPromoAd1.jpg http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/G-32XPromoAd1.jpg The gaming industry has /always marketed to that crowd, it's not something Microsoft invented.
- thenonsequitur 13y agoTangentially, have you seen bombermine? It's an online bomberman clone that generally has several hundred people playing simultaneously, a ton of fun. Obviously not a console game, but your Saturn Bomberman reference made me think of it.
- brudgers 13y agoIn 1996, my wife would call my pager Tuesday night because I hadn't come home from the office. We were playing Quake over the Novell on our CAD workstations. It's easier now, but there hasn't been a quantum change.
- laumars 13y ago> Halo was a standout because of it brought multiplayer to console I must have imagined all those hours spent online with my Dreamcast :p