gaming sucks now because its been westernized.

Halo ruined video games because now all games are tired shooting games. Seriously, think about it. How many shoooting games are there about alien invasions, World War II, or the Vietnam War? This is what made the 80s and 90s great because even every platformer game had its own unique ideas.

The fuck? Video games were created in America, you know. And Japanese characters like Sonic the Hedgehog were intentionally created for western audiences. And ever since the NES, there's always been a balance of western and eastern video games and influences within around the world. How do you "westernize" something that's had a major influence from the west during the entire course of its existence? Please, elaborate.

Western PC developers were great. They focused on making things simple, but added layers of depth for people who were really interested in taking it further. See shooter games in the 90s like TRIBES, modding communities of quake and unreal, etc. Not to mention there were simple yet extremely complex strategy games that had great difficulty scales for all sorts of gamers.

Western console developers have ALWAYS been a joke. Unless they were translating a game from japanese to english, ive never really enjoyed western developers. GTA games are only fun for so long then they become boring as hell. You mentioned how gaming was originally designed by western people, but the first consoles post crash of 1983 were not.

I'm not a fan of Halo at all, and I never have been. But I've never let its popularity get to me so much that I stupidly blame it for "ruining the video game market" when there's, in fact, more games to appeal to individual target audiences than ever. I'm astounded there are as many as three individual people who think this is the case, but then again, look where I'm posting.

Ever heard of Contra? Wolfenstein? Metal Slug? Rush'n Attack? Bionic Commando? Golgo 13? Real life war has always had an effect on video games, and that's retarded to credit it to Halo. And wars against aliens? Even a few of the games I mentioned with basis from real life wars have that, as well as Doom, Metroid (although maybe not literal war in that case), EarthBound, and many, many more. You would have to be retarded to think that the concept of games with those settings, or the overabundance of shooters in the entire history of video games, were a direct result of Halo.

I'm not a fan of Halo at all, and I never have been. But I've never let its popularity get to me so much that I stupidly blame it for "ruining the video game market" when there's, in fact, more games to appeal to individual target audiences than ever. I'm astounded there are as many as three individual people who think this is the case, but then again, look where I'm posting.

It's a standard plot point for all games? Oops, I guess in the midst of all the modern games I've been playing without that "standard," I hadn't noticed. My bad.

Pretty much every game I had for my NES involved aliens and shooting.

And you can't say Halo started some kind of FPS fad. I played Goldeneye, Unreal Tournament, Half Life and Quake III Arena long before Halo came out.

Or saving a "Princess".