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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).
Posted by: Tupolev
The first well-known FPS was Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. The first actually well-known one was Doom in 1993. Contemporary to Doom was Bungie's first FPS, Pathways into Darkness, released for Macs. Which is what really put Bungie on the map, and got them to start work on Marathon, which was the first popular FPS to use fully 3D free look (and which applies some mind-blowingly awesome storytelling).
Halo wasn't insignificant by any means, but most of what it did in terms of developing the genre is solve the console control problem (with some help from the very FPS-optimized xbox controller), which allowed the modern console FPS boom to happen.
Marathon was actually 2.5D, it used a clever graphical trick to give you the 3D feel. Other than that very well said. Battle Zone could also be considered here.
[Edited on 01.03.2011 9:40 AM PST]