SpaceKungFuMan
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What event in gaming history would you change if you had the chance? Some obvious ones are the closure of Troika, Interplay being bought out, or Oblivion getting such high scores, but there are lots of places where if something had gone differently, our hobby might not be in such a sorry place.
Personally, I would make MS cancel the xbox pre release. The xbox broke down the walls between console and PC games, thereby opening our smaller market up to consoletards who immediately began to exercise more market power than we did regarding traditional PC games. If the xbox had never come out, First Person real time combat might have stayed with shooters, Morrowind and Oblivion would never have been half as successful as they were, the abortion that is Kotor/JE/ME combat never would have existed, and PC RPGs in general probably would have just stayed more like what they were pre xbox.
Personally, I would make MS cancel the xbox pre release. The xbox broke down the walls between console and PC games, thereby opening our smaller market up to consoletards who immediately began to exercise more market power than we did regarding traditional PC games. If the xbox had never come out, First Person real time combat might have stayed with shooters, Morrowind and Oblivion would never have been half as successful as they were, the abortion that is Kotor/JE/ME combat never would have existed, and PC RPGs in general probably would have just stayed more like what they were pre xbox.