It was revolutionary and changed a lot in game design on a significant number of fronts. It just aged poorly as others iterated and replaced its aspects. Halo has aged well mainly because (like most Bungie titles) it still feels like a modern title due to how tight, responsive, smooth, and intuitive the player’s interaction with the world is — mainly the controls and weapons.
I thought the halo ce was generally very well received. Is the hate for it a lemmy generation thing?
Alotta half-life and older shooter fans blame the modern console shooter style on halo.
It is and it’s certainly a better game than HL.
It’s not hard to be honest, time wasn’t kind to HL 1.
It was revolutionary and changed a lot in game design on a significant number of fronts. It just aged poorly as others iterated and replaced its aspects. Halo has aged well mainly because (like most Bungie titles) it still feels like a modern title due to how tight, responsive, smooth, and intuitive the player’s interaction with the world is — mainly the controls and weapons.
So was a whole bunch of other FPS tripe that glorified USian militarism.