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Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:23:49 2023 No.10364039 [Reply] [Original]

Why was Halo CE critically acclaimed when it came out?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:26:37 2023 No.10364041 Because it was fun you dingus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:27:44 2023 No.10364046 >>10364039 Probably, because of asthectic and pseudo-open world sections, its design felt outdated on pc

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:27:46 2023 No.10364047 Tight gameplay Good level design Good visual Good performance

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:30:12 2023 No.10364052 >>10364047 best local multiplayer since goldeneye. high skill ceiling for a console shooter. fun campaign with good AI for when you weren't playing with friends >>10364047 the level design is awful

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:31:45 2023 No.10364058 >>10364039 best local multiplayer since goldeneye. high skill ceiling for a console shooter. fun campaign with good AI for when you weren't playing with friends >>10364047 # the level design is awful

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:41:37 2023 No.10364075
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>>10364039
Beautiful and colorful (unlike all the shitty sequels), huge maps, fun vehicles (unlike the sequels which make them death traps), fun physics and generally didn't take itself too seriously (unlike the sequels)

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:47:54 2023 No.10364082

It was a great game. Original Xbox had a lot of those. It was a pioneer of shooters in general with two weapons and recharging shield. I remember when cod copied it and cod fags made a big deal. I should know, I was a cod and halo fag. I remember the hype leading up to Halo 2. Phenomenal

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 04:59:03 2023 No.10364105 >>10364039 well realized setting/fiction with competent gameplay that in a few areas was relatively cutting edge. Combine this with iconic music and you have a classic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 05:03:32 2023 No.10364113 fun selection of enemies like in doom

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 05:05:44 2023 No.10364118 There was nothing (and still isn't) like Halo back then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 05:17:55 2023 No.10364135 >>10364039 star wars space science fiction aliens astronaut

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 05:37:07 2023 No.10364181

>>10364039
>Orchestral music made it feel majestic and wasn't the sort of pumping techno soundtrack you expected for a sci-fi game
>Enemies are organized into a rogue's gallery of multiple different species, plus the flood appears halfway as a plot twist to contrast the crystal-jihad feel of the covenant and the US military humans
>AI is actually fairly smart, uses cover and grenades properly, charges when out of ammo, flees without a leader
>Heroic difficulty was just right for most people in singleplayer
>Weapons all feel different without needing to be realistic or have ten brands of sniper rifle manufacturer, a few standouts like the needler are very fun
>Ripoff ringworld meant yoy weren't just on a one-terrain planet
>Probably one of the best arena shooters for couch play with a decent amount of customization

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 05:39:37 2023 No.10364190 because you could jump really high and drive future humvee filled with npcs that had psychopathic accuracy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 06:07:27 2023 No.10364239 >>10364039 This is the type of thing where there are literally dozens of videos, hundreds of articles, all better composed than what a random guy on 4chan will respond with. No one should be spoon-feeding this lazy retard. Throw rocks at him instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 06:18:38 2023 No.10364269 https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10342306/ https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10314104/ https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10306079/ https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10279531/ When will you be satisfied, OP?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 16:13:09 2023 No.10365120 first playable console shooter in the dual analog era

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 16:20:57 2023 No.10365142

>>10364039
I think one factor a lot of people forget in CE is how easy it is to tell at a glance what you're looking at. Every enemy type has distinct behaviors and a distinct shape; the health elites have is communicated through color. Every weapon is shaped differently and has a function you can figure out just by looking at it. Bullet speed and tracking is calculated to be possible to dodge.
In most modern games everything blends together because of "muh realism" but halo wisely gives the aliens purple ships and goofy looking color coded armor for the sake of clarity.
honestly it looks timeless compared to the shitty remaster.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 17:27:41 2023 No.10365348 >>10365142 The CE remaster gives you Elites that move around as if they're a man in a costume like the Predator and the Marines all look like they're in Iraq. Keyes also looks like Bill Clinton and Cortana is completely dead-eyed.

>>	sage Mon Oct 30 19:55:56 2023 No.10365757 What is the most spammed thread on /vr/? Is it: - Why was Halo lauded? - RE4 ruined Resident Evil - Ocarina of Time is overrated - (box art) What am I in for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 20:58:36 2023 No.10365942 >>10365757 >- Ocarina of Time is overrated Haven't seen this one in a while. The Zelda seether just spams in Zelda threads now it seems

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:00:31 2023 No.10365949 >>10365942 Never mind he has the 'why do OoT characters look bad' thread going on

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:01:40 2023 No.10365952

>>10364239
Most anons who comment on threads like this just want an excuse to briefly relive the hype that they experienced back when they played the game as kids. I personally have fond memories of playing Halo CE online with one of my best friends when it was released for PC.

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:23:47 2023 No.10366003

why is Halo giving you so much trouble???

what was there like FPS in 2001???
Perfect Dark on an old generation console?
TimeSplitter on AliasingStation 2 and its crappy pad?
Quake 3 on Dreamcast??

And the PC??
how much did it cost at the time? $1000? $1500?

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:38:00 2023 No.10366028

>>10364039
Computers had not yet been embraced by the masses, so a fun FPS shooter that you could easily play by just hooking up a console to your tv was perfect.
HALO is often refered to as Baby's first FPS, which it really was for a lot of people.
its pretty much what Goldeneye did on N64 but for the generation that came after that.

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:45:30 2023 No.10366048

impeccable presentation, a memorable epic soundtrack, a gripping plot, solid gameplay, large maps, vehicles, pretty visuals for the time and integrated network play. It put the available PC shooters of the time to shame and that's why it gets so much flak from CS players. It also made the PS2 look like a fucking joke.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 21:46:31 2023 No.10366056 2 words: wort wort wort

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 22:18:20 2023 No.10366151 >>10365757 agreed

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 22:50:45 2023 No.10366220 >>10364039 It was pretty good. First popular console shooter that controlled and played well and still holds up against modern games today.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 23:00:34 2023 No.10366251 >>10364039 XBOX hype. >>10364075 >colorful lmao

Anonymous Tue Oct 31 00:26:13 2023 No.10366460

>>10366003
You could game at the high end pretty easily back then by shopping around. You'd just look out for an office or family PC that had a good motherboard/processor and slap a GPU in there.
It was actually much more accessible than it is now price-wise unless you were going to insist on getting a gaming prebuilt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 14:22:57 2023 No.10367835 Shilled for Xbox and also a casualfag fps built for spiritual zoomers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 14:27:35 2023 No.10367848 File: 3.89 MB, 200x200, mcmahon whatever.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10364039 Anon Can't Use a Search Engine: the Thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 14:55:04 2023 No.10367904 >>10366251 >colour blind

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 15:08:14 2023 No.10367917 >>10364039 It brought fps to the retard masses that did not have computers and internet. And here we are.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 15:15:37 2023 No.10367925 >>10365757 People being mindbroken by Sonic Adventure in various ways is also up there

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 15:19:25 2023 No.10367930 because it saved us from the shitfest that was Half-Life

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 15:48:04 2023 No.10367972 >>10364039 because it was a good game. next

Anonymous Tue Oct 31 15:59:00 2023 No.10367982

>>10364039
Near perfect controls compared to everything that came before (and first to use both analog sticks well)

Dual Wielding

Local networking allowing many players to play against each other at the same time.

Aesthetic and physics that allowed for fun unexpected situations or conclusions to battle interactions (hilarious goofy shit happening in a serious setting where the stakes could be felt because of the serious setting, graphics and music).

Strategy and mastery (great maps and the ability to do head shots every time, but only if you were genuinely good at playing it).

Great pacing and perfect speed sweet-spot for both advanced and novice gamers (anyone could play it and have fun, even if they died a lot).

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 17:07:11 2023 No.10368117 File: 166 KB, 1080x1603, hx0f9daxy8vb1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Xenial g*mers still haven't noticed how much of it was copy-pasted from Iain M. Banks because g#mers don't read

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 17:20:12 2023 No.10368142 >>10367917 still better than the scum who play exactly one MOBA every day and nothing else

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 17:24:45 2023 No.10368153 >>10368117 >sci-fi influences itself >this is NOT ALLOWED

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 17:42:02 2023 No.10368183 >>10367982 No DWing in Halo 1.

Anonymous Wed Nov 1 02:27:57 2023 No.10369092

>>10364046
On PC it was definitely something that was already done, however this was a console game so this was all brand new to that market (keep in mind that back then the PC and console markets were heavily segregated, very few younglings had the privilege of having access to both) and people were eating it up.
It also helped that there was a good game underlying all the cool beans thrown in your face, that alone kept the brand up high for years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 1 02:31:20 2023 No.10369101 >>10365757 You forgot the anti-N64 console war spammer, though now he's splitting it between here and regular /v/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 1 02:52:17 2023 No.10369160 File: 36 KB, 788x574, 1610348542055.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10364058 >the level design is awful

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 1 12:40:03 2023 No.10370096 >>10364039 It's a party game. It brought the LAN experience to consoles.

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