Last week I asked 7 questions to people here on the C-Blogs.

Questions:
How old are you?
What was the first FPS you played and how old were you when you played it?
Have you ever played/heard of Blake Stone or Rise of the Triad?
Which did you own first if at all: Xbox or PS2?
Do you wear baseball caps on a somewhat daily basis?
Yes or No: Would you consider yourself a fan of the Madden games?
Yes or No: Would you consider yourself a fan of the Halo series?

I received 54 responses and I had no idea how much data and information sifting I would be doing. If I was a wizard in excel then it would take me about 30 minutes. Too bad I'm a bastard.

Anyway, my original problem with Halo has been one of "what's so great about Halo that time stops for some people when they think about it?" The Halo games are good games - but in no way are they deserving of the unbelievable attention they get...

...unless...

you never experienced those games that did what Halo does now, years earlier. Hmmm.

As you probably remember, Halo was originally supposed to be a PC game. It looked really sweet and people were excited. However, somewhere along the way it got switched over to this new Microsoft console called the Xbox.

That right there is the only reason Halo is as successful as it is today.

Microsoft took what would have been a good PC game and brought it a console where there was nothing like that of it's kind or quality. It became what I would say was my generation's Goldeneye (except Goldeneye is so much better like zomg!!1).

That's why I asked in my survey if you had heard of or played Blake Stone or Rise of the Triad. These are some old school FPS's that are glorified versions of Wolfenstein 3d and Doom. Rise of the Triad was more ingenuitive because it was very gory and the enemies looked like people, not cartoon people. I was willing to wager that if you had played or at least heard of Blake Stone and RotT, then Halo was not going to be something that made you foam at the mouth or wait in line at midnight with a bunch of high schoolers so you could get home and play it until 6 in the morning.

Turns out I was right. Only 15% of people that responded that had heard of or played Blake Stone and RotT also considered themselves a fan of the Halo series.

Now a LOT of factors I think contribute to this and like I said before, I am not a wizard at excel so I can't really analyze this data in a timely fashion. I did notice that those whose first FPS was a newer game like Perfect Dark 64 or Goldeneye did tend to like Halo. Also, most people said that the first FPS they played was Wolfenstein 3d or Doom but those who played it at around age 8 as opposed to around age 13, were not Halo fans.

Anyway, there's a lot that can be taken from the results and I appreciate everyone that participated.