/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10685535
I mean this is true. Halo influenced the industry. All in the worst ways possible.
>>10685571
>2 weapon limit, life regeneration,
Yeah, those are negatives. You already had games that had 2-3 weapon limits before it, but based on the specific genre they were aiming at (see: Rainbow Six or Counter Strike) rather than the entire genre as a whole.
Everything else you mentioned isn't true either. At most it popularized the FPS genre for people who's experience of it was limited to something like Goldeneye up to that point and never touched a PC FPS or even the more rarer stuff like Alien Resurrection on PS1 or Timesplitters on PS2 in 2000.
>multiplayer, level design in shooters
good shitpost though. Halo 2 didn't create matchmaking, but it popularized it killing the community creating aspect of multiplayer games.
All that said, I won't say Halo CE is a bad game, but it's not groundbreaking whatsoever. Great ambience and music, but that's because they had a talented composer named Martin O'Donnell who really carried it.

>>10201779
Generic, but it was a good type of generic. Sort of like Crysis, in that it was really eye popping for 2001 what could be ran on a console. There was only a slew of shooters on consoles at the time and vehicle combat for an FPS was almost non-existent. I enjoyed it a lot, especially fucking around with the indestructible vehicles. But still, it was pretty generic in terms of level design, felt sluggish comparatively to PC FPS's, and the 2 weapon limit and regen (b-but muh health underneath shield) influenced the genre in all the wrong ways.

>>9730004
>master piece
No. Look, I like Halo 1, but I won't say its a masterpiece.

>>7982346
It's been 20 years, why do XBOX HUEG jokes still make me laugh?

>>7965820
It was treated as an absolute joke with contant ribbing on the fuckhuge controllers.