Halo did provide the inspiration for many a game to come, and some have been brilliant, others.....not so much.
But then again as the OP stated it has taught the lesson that total unoriginality sells games.
It's kind of a mixed bag really. Gaming will have benefited in one aspect and faltered in another.
Halo has it's place, without it many other fantastic and not so fantastic games will have ceased to be.
That was really hard to type for someone who really doesn't like Halo. Yay for not being a douchebag!
But then again as the OP stated it has taught the lesson that total unoriginality sells games.
It's kind of a mixed bag really. Gaming will have benefited in one aspect and faltered in another.
Halo has it's place, without it many other fantastic and not so fantastic games will have ceased to be.
That was really hard to type for someone who really doesn't like Halo. Yay for not being a douchebag!