master chief owns Microsoft...secretly.

RROD

oh come on this is just too easy...

EDIT:

if i'm an Owl buddy... your a fvcking Protozoan

how about you learn how to write and then come back to me... i mean you write worse than the foreign people around here, and you say your from the UK?

and what did i say wrong? i said this is too easy, is it not? care to prove me wrong?

oh wait, it probably is too difficult for you and your 3 brain cells

I don't think anyone would disagree when i say this:

But halo pretty much created the xbox and kept it relevant.

bribery, dirty business practices, VISTA, IE, Windows Live Search, Zune and Too Human!

the greatest of em all....

S T U P I D X B O T S ! ! !

all the correct answers are in there ----->

Death of Red Rings.

the answer is simple. Halo saved the xbox franchise, gears of war 2 is a generic version of Halo.

Stupid fanboys. No lifers.

EDIT below: MY pS3 has died two times, I still don't bash it.

Microsoft Wouldn’t Be Microsoft Without...bill gates~

By game franchise, Halo. But Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft without Windows.

There's no denying that Halo has been instrumental in the success of MS entering and gaining a solid presence in the console world. I love the series, while it's never been my favourite, but I also think that the time has come for the formula to be heavily tweaked.

I don't mean Halo Wars style either but the FPS heartbeat of the franchise. While H3 was hyped and marketed further than ANY game ever I don't think I'm alone in feeling slightly underwhelmed by it-it's still a really good game but somehow didn't have the same feel as the first two games. This isn't because it was radically different as it wasn't, it was more of the same by and large and only the Forge feature innovated at all while all round they just made everything a bit more shiny.

So maybe after ODST(or maybe with that swansong from Bungie)the series will get a pretty big reboot. The landscape for FPS games is wildly different from when Halo landed on the first Xbox and the competition is more refined than the vanilla flavoured run and gun of MC and chums.

Something needs to be done to prevent MS's star from fading and keep Halo relevant in todays Killzone2 and Gears(TPS but y'know)enlightened world. I'm not saying bang in a cover system or new kinds of co-op but something to make it feel as feresh as it did when you first played the original.

I'm in no way bashing Halo3(any game after so much hype is gonna be questioned heavily isn't it?)as esp it's MP is tremendously entertaining even now but the SP definitely needs to find new mechanics and features to keep it's place at the head of the top shooter table. Lets hope ODST(why not still Recon?)can start this and Gearbox(why not?)can take it further and keep a famous franchise up ro date and gaining rather than ,losing fans.

Sorry for the length people but U do wonder what they'll do to freshen up the series post Bungie(while they'll also want to go out with a bang)and as MS most important IP I'm sure we'll see something sooner rather than later.

Where would we be without Microsoft?

Microsoft - Halo and Gears, Nintendo - Zelda and Mario, Sony - too many to list em all

i dont like fanboyism or whatever, but i thought of that and it just made me laugh....dont worry, i like you microsoft ;)

I really appreciate all that MS has done for the game industry, Ive never owned an xbox but their competition has made Sony advance pretty far, wish I could say the same for nintendo, but not advancing the industry further isnt really considered competition.

microsoft wouldnt be microsoft without paying for online 50 bucks for what exactly

Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft with out screwing there consumers over

Microsoft's image was tarnished years ago because of their shady business practice's and it would take a long time to turn that around. So far as iconic brands then it would have to be Halo. If you stood in a town centre with two life size carboard cutouts of Marcus Fenix and Master Chief and asked people to identify them or to link them to a brand then I would say more people would recongnise Master Chief as belonging to Microsoft.

yeah your right. stocks in stocks out.

Xbox LIVE :)

I am going to guess Halo and Xbox Live is what made Microsoft what they are today

we all knew it was halo

there are three things that define microsoft

1) halo

2) RROD

3) paying millions for exclusive DLC

Bribery and lack of own ideas.

...he listed some of the big games, then went on to mention one of the mega hits and it was FABLE. God that game was bad.

But it says something else that MS bought rather than created it. They they've yet to come close to it in-house.

They been makin some bad games lately.get some balls Microsoft

When I think of Microsoft I think of Windows first then Halo.

how about... WINDOWS!? they kinda wouldn't exist without it

windows. !!

MS would not be MS with out windows, and windows would not be windows without steve jobs. lol

money :P

and halo hehehe

The only reason that Crackdown was on the list of contenders was because it had the Halo 3 beta on it. I didn't even like the game. I just got it for the beta. And the easy achievements.

kinda goes without saying tbh. i mean i owned a psone and so of course bought a ps2 but i ended up buying an xbox just to play halo 2 with my mates online, i bought 2 other games for the system and that was it.

i got bored of halo 3 unfortunately but theres no doubt that the halo franchise got the xbox to where it is, however i dunno how relevent halo is anymore since there are so many other better, more interesting games now coming out exclusive to ms's console that i do wonder how many ppl will buy odst... time will tell, but even being dlc i'd be surprised if it gets near halo3's sale figures.

oh yeh and of course windows is whats made ms, really the title should have been 'xbox wouldn't be xbox without...' Infact out of the 3 nintendo is the only company who just deals with gaming.

I wonder what the 360 fans will do when Microsoft come out with they new system and discontinue the 360 like they have a history of doing.
Unlike Sony who still supports the last generation console...

guys you are missing the point, TGR are going on about games for the Xbox 1 and 360, not Microsoft as a whole then yeah duh it will be Windows

Sony to kick around and steal exclusives and market share from. :-D

1000 degrees just for stating the obvious; these articles are a damn shame! Yesterday Sony with God of War and now Microsoft with Halo. Thanks for stating the obvious... but Sony is not Sony because of God of War, Sony is Sony because of Sony pictures, Columbia pictures, Blu-ray, mp3's and all those other good stuff. If your article was solemnly about Sony Computer Entertainment, then i would agree, slightly, but its still a stupid article. Back on subject, Microsoft is Microsoft because of windows, Microsoft Game Studios. Again, as for your article regarding Sony being Sony for God of War, that is definitely wrong. PS2 had a bunch of other outstanding exclusives which is what made Sony Computer Entertainment who they are. Talking about Microsoft Game Studios, they are who they are because they are the world renowned Windows creators. If nobody knew about Windows, Microsoft would have probably died out 2 years after its launch. Uhh,Fail...