Quote Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack View Post
Unless you actually use the idea, the spoils of recognition are going to go to whoever implements it first. Otherwise you're akin to an old man in a nursing home complaining about how he thought up Google before anyone else, but didn't have the time to follow through on it. So yeah, Halo's still being COD-ified. Neat article, though.
I completely disagree.

First of all, COD was not the first game to use sprint. Gears of War uses sprint. Even Doom uses a run feature.

Second of all, "this game now has features that are used in this older game" is a really lame for anyone to not like a game. If the feature is put to good use, and the game is good, why should anybody care? If it were that big of a deal, all FPSes after Wolfenstein and Doom would never be played because they "ripped off."

Just because a game has similar features taken from other games doesn't mean it's going to be bad or unoriginal. People seem to forgot the original Halo had very unoriginal artistic inspiration from Aliens II. That doesn't mean it was a bad game.