Why was Halo the most popular FPS on the market in the 2000s?
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Why was Halo the most popular FPS on the market in the 2000s?
Why was Halo the most popular FPS on the market in the 2000s?
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Counter strike was the most popular and always had more players. Halo was the most popular console shooter
it wasn't
It was unironically the best one. Nothing on anything else came close to it, the feel, gameplay, community, etc. HL2/CSS/Source was its own thing on PC a little after Halo 2 changed everything but realistically there's zero overlap between a guy who plays zombie panic source all day and a pro css player. All the tiers and elitism of PC gaming divided everyone up on their own platform. No one knows CSS pros in 2023, but people still know Ogre 1 and Ogre 2.
Because it was fun
Nobody killed it yet.
Counter Strike was more popular.
You had to be there. I was five when Halo 2 came out and it was the most mind blowing experience I ever had. It taught me what video games could be sadly they don't make them like they used to these days.
Because it wasn't Perfect Dark.
It was easy to cheese noob in multi-player, this allowed the mouth breathers that played it to feel powerful as they tried their hardest to destroy people who were trying to learn the game. I witnessed this often.
Halo had good marketing and advertising which is hard to come by. Literally the only reason the iPhone became so popular despite lacking basic features for years. People will always want to be a part of something which is made to seem larger than life.
This trailer I saw on TV was the sole reason I wanted to purchase Halo 2 without having played the first one and knowing anything about the series:
Marketing and gaming newbies.
Truth pilled
pleb-tier shooter fan bois on suicide watch.
Based on how these threads go, it seems to be the PC people who are on suicide watch.
DOOM primed the world for modern FPS games and has far greater cultural impact as a result; Occurrence matters more than you could ever appreciate.
>The Truth
the same reason goldeneye was in the previous decade, 4 player couch multiplayer
Golden Eye was legit though. Although your point checks out.
Why was Goldeneye so good yet Perfect Dark so bad?
Serious answer:
- Weaker music
- Single player missions far more tedious in general and have far more downtime
- Weapons with abusable secondary functions galore, why aim carefully with a rifle when tons of things aim for you
- Conversely, weapons like the shotgun that are absurdly shit unless used in specific ways, and fewer satisfying conventional guns/launchers that don't have other bullshit attached despite the large number of weapons overall
- No hit invincibility, so automatic weapons slaughter opponents
- Absurdly poor performance on its native system, the N64 could barely handled the game without being a slideshow and graphics that don't actually look as clean or convincing
- Perfect Dark mode can't prevent you from getting one hit kills with headshots every time, so you can't set up an actually 'Perfect' difficulty (where you can't afford to waste any excess shots) like in Goldeneye, even if this might solve the problem of having to take ages to slap stronger enemies to death
Like, it's really cool the specific things it tried to do, but more an interesting experiment and less an actually more refined game.
the Halo games were the first FPS'es I could actually finish thanks to the regenerating shields; in every FPS before it you had to rely on medkits that disappeared after you picked them up.
It was the only multi-player FPS available for consoles, you could connect multiple Xboxes together to play over LAN or VLAN (with a computer). People will act like there were other FPS games or online gaming on consoles before Halo 2 came out but nobody but the most shut-in of autistic virgins knew about them. Counter Strike was more popular but limited to computers and PC gaming wasn't as easily accessible to children as it is now. Finding games to play required zero effort from the player with matchmaking. No work aside from creating an account and plugging into your router. Steam was in its infancy, digital distribution might as well have been non-existent for most of America in 2004. It was the first time normalgays played video games against total strangers, and it had voice chat in game without using ventrilo. Unmoderated voice chat.
There are some weeb homosexuals still butthurt 20 years later being called a Black person while getting teabagged by some kid named Kyle. Watching gaming race to the bottom despite their toothless kvetching is almost worth it, their desire to stamp out the opinions of others has lead to a menagerie of total freakshows using the industry as their soapbox. It couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people. Also in 2004 anyone serious about Counter Strike switched to Source, the type of person who stayed on 1.6 was a third world macaco gutter urchin. Shooters worth playing died out within the decade.
Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament had online multiplayer on Dreamcast before the XBox even came out.
Your entire post is simply untrue. It wasn’t even the first Xbox Live FPS, Unreal Championship predates it. If you were actually alive back then you would know that Halo 1 did not have XBL support.
You will always be a zoomer
Notice I make the distinction between using VLAN with Halo 1 and then talking about Halo 2 in the next sentence.
>People will act like there were other FPS games or online gaming on consoles before Halo 2 came out but nobody but the most shut-in of autistic virgins knew about them.
You were already addressed by the post, I don't understand why you felt compelled to respond.
Because the way it integrated vehicles, including flying ones, made it the most fun. It also remained balanced, even with vehicles, while maintaining a frantic pace.
Because it was the best, still is too since modern games blow dicks.
Shooters were everyone dies in 1 hit suck, it just encourages shitty gameplay where you win only if you spot the other guy first.
In Halo you and the boys can hop in a Warthog to attack the other base, crouch across the map to steal a flag, assassinate the other teams sniper, guard a spot with dual weapons, hijack the opponents banshee so that your team has two all int the same match. It is a playground.
It was the first no-compromise actually good FPS with fun multiplayer that didn't cater to spastic Quake addicts.
ITT: newbies born in 2003 infesting this board after some moronic zoomer let sixth gen on the board killing one of the best retro gaming discussion platforms.
have a nice day.
>Halo has the balls to not pay lip-service to quake and just be an iconoclast FPS
>fanboys seethe
lmao.
CS was way bigger than Quake and UT in 2001
They're all good games. Why do these threads contain so much arguing?
People can't handle the fact that Halo 1 and 2 sold consoles for Microsoft. It's been two decades, they need to get over it.
Halo WAS the perfect blend of camper/twitchgod
No matter how alpha-omega you may have been at Unreal Tourney or Quake, you had to play smart.
No matter how good of a camper you were, you had to play smart.
>probably was the shields & regen that created this balance
All I know is that Halo 2 was the ultimate.
And once you got really good you started shottie-bulltrue, BXB(XBXBXBXB), BXR, double-shot.
It really had a good learning curve that separated noobs/mids/pros. Someone earlier mentioned noob-cheesed but they were probably the type of person who cried AHX when they got blasted out of the sword lunge.
>HAX
The vehicles
Weapon placements on maps
One of the best rocket launchers in gaming
Classic 5th gen style fun begging to be expanded upon, and 2 delivered with exceptional console netplay, and a story that can justify being up its own ass because it's the IP carrying the entire console
As someone who wasn't really into halo and only played at my friend's houses.... This is true
Well because it did FPS on console better than everyone else until COD4 Modern Warfare came out and the COD franchise eventually took the crown of top FPS franchise for console FPS. I figure this should be common knowledge by now.
Halo's prime was 1-3. ODST and Reach essentially even started the decline although we can brush these two off as being spinoffs anyways that weren't meant to be at the level of the mainline games. Although Reach to a much lesser extent. This was Bungie's master work here. Really all these Halo games were good though its unavoidable that the series did decline after 3 and never reached those heights again.
343's Halo is an abomination. They just never stopped dropping the ball on the franchise. So its why the series lost its popularity over many years.
PCgays really can't handle anything on consoles being liked/enjoyed can they?
Yes its annoying. As somebody who played console most of my life, but switched to PC in my 30s its pathetic when grown men behave this way. Halo had far more going for it than CS on all fronts. Besides raw numbers supposedly?
CS definitely appeals to the shut in, coder, geek segments more. While Halo appealed to just about everyone Ik PC or not.
Halo was one of the best multiplayer experiences I ever had because you could play with buds right beside you online, and people still did that.
I'd put it over even my days playing Brood War in the golden years 2001-2004. Which is saying a lot.
Current games are gay copies of far better games with puple haired dykes in them. Frick Zoomies and their gay ass games like Valorent that wouldn't have sold for 10 bucks in 2005.
I played on PC my whole life and CS and Quake never did anything for me. I played UT 99 until I got a copy of the first Halo: CE pc port. I never understood why so many, uh, hardcore PC gamers are so insecure about Halo. Nobody should try to be a stereotype.
There was a drought of games, especially FPSs and halo filled that gap. I was there. I saw it. I saw this exact effect on all my gamer friends. It's was JUST that.
And every single halo game (1 through 3) has been average. A solid 5/10. The people who say it was excellent palyed lan parties with their friends and are erroneously attributing those fun times to halos gameplay quality.
I just told you the entire story exactly as it is in reality. Anything different than this is nonsense.
Damn, I guess it is retro :^)