What do you think of this screwed up alternate timeline?

[Deleted]

I got a better idea for an improved alternate timeline: The 60s never happened.

[Shelly]

Well, again, it might have been a regional difference, but your picture really is far too one-sided to fit with how things were here - the worst "nerd"-labels were already eviscerated by the time Halo came, for example. When I played, and now we're talking Quake 2 and similar a few years before Halo, the groups always encompassed just as many "jocks" as "nerds", if not more of the former, and usually a decent amount of girls that were otherwise rather uninterested in computers as well. I get what you are aiming at, and to an extent I certainly agree, but things we're also far from that black and white in practice.

Also, I'm not saying Halo didn't change anything - what I most definitely does not agree with, is the statement that without Halo, things would have remained as they were. Not a chance. Things were already set in motion - had Halo not come around, some other game would eventually have taken it's place, and accomplished if not the same, then similar things. Halo or bust just isn't realistic, at all.

The nerd label for the most part hasn't ever really meant anything outside of the movies.

However I still strongly contend that Halo was the game that really destroyed cliques and opened up American gaming bigger than it ever was before.

Anyway, I'm not saying it was totally clear cut but without Halo LAN parties would have been limited to just PCs, which as an entire platform were kind of on the way out until well, WoW dropped.

Remove HALO from the gaming sphere of the time then that leaves a big gap, just think HALO is the progenitor of the multiplayer console FPS. Without it being a success we wouldn't have Battlefield, Rainbow 6, Battlefront and possibly not even Overwatch.

Or imagine if HALO had dropped as the RTS for Macs it was first positioned as?

I don't even like the game (FPS games give me headaches and motion sickness unless it has like a cockpit UI.) But it's most definitely a keystone game that drove people to take a chance on a console that otherwise may not have survived given that each new console is sold below cost for months.

[ItachiZaku]

Does 9/11 happen?

I'd assume they wouldn't remove some random date on the calendar.

[Machismo]

Dear god.. As long as it's not those fat mexican cheerleaders.

Racist much?

[Sharein]

This fixation with Mass Effect can't possibly be healthy.

OP is probably autistic.

[Vivapin8]

The nerd label for the most part hasn't ever really meant anything outside of the movies.

However I still strongly contend that Halo was the game that really destroyed cliques and opened up American gaming bigger than it ever was before.

Anyway, I'm not saying it was totally clear cut but without Halo LAN parties would have been limited to just PCs, which as an entire platform were kind of on the way out until well, WoW dropped.

Remove HALO from the gaming sphere of the time then that leaves a big gap, just think HALO is the progenitor of the multiplayer console FPS. Without it being a success we wouldn't have Battlefield, Rainbow 6, Battlefront and possibly not even Overwatch.

Or imagine if HALO had dropped as the RTS for Macs it was first positioned as?

I don't even like the game (FPS games give me headaches and motion sickness unless it has like a cockpit UI.) But it's most definitely a keystone game that drove people to take a chance on a console that otherwise may not have survived given that each new console is sold below cost for months.

Maybee for you man, but all my friends and people i knew moved from doom to quake, to CS and later to BF1942 and the first MMO they played were Ultima and Ragnarock online...they never touched xbox/playstation etc

[notraakaakaa]

Cheerleaders would rule the world.

Save the cheerleader...Save the world..

[Amerrol]

This is some quality shit posting. Almost copypasta worthy.

[faithbane]

I'm... you just... what?

Totally this

meme it up.

[breadisfunny]

also the draenei are defeated and blood & night elves reign supreme.
alleria windrunner never gets turned into the abomination she is now. we also get cheerleader alleria.@Celista

[Antiganon]

The nerd label for the most part hasn't ever really meant anything outside of the movies.

However I still strongly contend that Halo was the game that really destroyed cliques and opened up American gaming bigger than it ever was before.

Anyway, I'm not saying it was totally clear cut but without Halo LAN parties would have been limited to just PCs, which as an entire platform were kind of on the way out until well, WoW dropped.

Remove HALO from the gaming sphere of the time then that leaves a big gap, just think HALO is the progenitor of the multiplayer console FPS. Without it being a success we wouldn't have Battlefield, Rainbow 6, Battlefront and possibly not even Overwatch.

Or imagine if HALO had dropped as the RTS for Macs it was first positioned as?

I don't even like the game (FPS games give me headaches and motion sickness unless it has like a cockpit UI.) But it's most definitely a keystone game that drove people to take a chance on a console that otherwise may not have survived given that each new console is sold below cost for months.

Its like you want to pretend that GoldenEye and Perfect Dark didnt happen, years before Halo.

[Allybeboba]

I think we are living in an alternative timeline right now.