Halo: Reach: made $200 million

[hollowleviathan]

I played the first one and then thought that: "nah, not my game".

That's exactly how I felt. Like the Zero Punctuation said (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/v...n/8-Halo-3), it's a mediocre game that is hyped up way too much.

On topic, of course Amnesia is a niche game that isn't perfectly situated to be people's first introduction to gaming, like Halo was on the Xbox, so it's not going to have that breakaway success. It's not possible.

A more apt comparison is to Minecraft, a niche game released inauspiciously that still broke records. How can Amnesia model success after that model? Is it possible? It's a single player only, with the mod-friendly bonus. But the replay value is mostly dependent on new stories being developed, not multiplayer, so what we really have is a Little Big Planet replay, with Minecraft release model.

Honestly, I think such a story-driven, austere gameplay game like this, which renders gamers so powerless can only get modest success in this early stage of videogame history.

Doesn't stop me from telling everyone I know to play it .