What are the biggest historical mistakes committed by the video game industry?

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I've always said Halo was an FPS game for people who never played any real FPS games. Most of the big Halo players just vanished into whatever the latest Call of Duty is.

And it kind of sounds like Microsoft may be getting out of the console wars entirely. So it may be moot anyway.

What is the RPG equivalent of that? Pokémon? And this is coming from a big Pokémon fan, mind you, but your typical Pokémon player isn't going to transition into Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, etc.

Back to FPS games... eh I'm not a huge fan of them. I did have fun playing Borderlands 2 co-op with some online acquaintances on Steam a decade ago but solo? I can't get really invested. I tried Team Fortress 2 which is a beloved game and didn't like it.

I liked Goldeneye back in the day and Doom is pretty alright for a game that came out in 1994 already, but I don't worship it like many do. Wolfenstein 3D aged terribly.

CoDs and such never interested me. I own a Medal of Honor game for the GameCube since my brother got it back in the day. I tried playing it and meh. It also is rather frustrating how every single popular online co-op and multiplayer free to play game is a FPS of some kind: Fortnite, Warframe, Overwatch, etc.

I also hated the shooting missions and parts in Sleeping Dogs since that game has the best combat mechanics of any GTA-like game I've played.

Deus EX Human Revolution is a great game but you're kinda supposed to play stealthy instead of killing and shooting people dead. I just used the tranquilizer rifle for the most part. Sucks that you're forced to shoot bosses dead and can't just beat them with stealth, though.