Boomer anons, what was Halo like at its peak in the 2000s?
Fun.
halo was never good
repeatedly losing xp in halo 3 because my internet was dogshit and i kept disconnecting from matches
>>720523660There was a moment, playing co-op on the couch with my best friend at 3 in the morning where life felt good.
>>720523889thats because you have no friends lol
>>720523660Shit
>>720523660Cultural phenomena like WoW. Everyone in school talked about Halo even the jocks. At least in the US it was the most popular shooter before Modern Warfae came out
I was only able to experience Halo online during its twilight years on the 360 but Halo 3 and Reach Online were so fucking good, Halo 4 was alright but it got old fast.Needless to say I am forever grateful to both Halo 3 and especially Halo Reach for forging the bonds I have with my two best friends
>>720524198Do you guys explore each others bodies
>>720523660It was the moment that dude bros and nerds shook hands and found common ground and even friendship. Unfortunately, (((they))) couldn't have that. Now the dude bros have moved on from vidya or play CoD/Fortnite while the nerds have turned into trannies.>wake me when you need me
stupid fucking snowbound veto this shit u assholes
massive amounts of fun, anyone with a 360 had halo, it wasnt even something you needed to askunlike cod (its main rival back in the day), halo was more fun as you had forge (sandbox mode) so you could do tons of custom lobbies and modes. it was more than "run and gun" like cod was.not to mention spawning tons of fanworks like machinima (while it didnt start with halo,it got a massive surge in popularity from it)it was truly an epic time to be a console gamer, no generation since then has captured that magic
>>720524265No we're not fagsWe like women
>>720523660For me, it was the Custom Forge maps and Custom Games that made Halo 3 memorable.It was honestly impressive how easy it was to get a Custom Games lobby set up without a server/match browser on console. You could just go play a couple of Big Team Battle matches, then literally invite every recent random player you played with, and then you'd have no trouble getting a full lobby of playing Duck Hunt.
>>720524353I would agree, 8th Gen really fumbled hard besides the Switch and 9th Gen is just awful overall.
>>720523820^thisDon't listen to anyone else>t. born 2001 halo first FPS babby
>>720523660Halo 2 was better. But all the poor kids had PS2s so they would never know. Halo 3 was most normies first Halo.
>>720525082The PS2 had kino on it I dont blame them
>>720525082PS2 was the better console with better and more games, GameCube and GBA were better too along with PC gaming. It's a shame that the OG Xbox was only know for the overrated Halo series since it had better games than it. Halo CE was mediocre, but it was the best Halo game.
>>720525876*known
What's that Plank? Plank says FPS games are for midwits with no inner monologue.
>>720525962whats a high brow thinking mans game then wise guy
>>720523660I played it at my friend's house. He had Xbox, I had Sony and nintendo. The Halo games were okay to play once, but after that it was pretty boring. He wound up coming over my house more. I remember playing a lot of smash and bloody roar and four swords. Also he touched my penis while we were playing crystal chronicles.I remembering having CE on my PC and getting board with it. I played Quake and Unreal more. Quake was good, Unreal was meh. Also remember being incredibly dissapointed with cod4. I had a 360 for awhile but i sold it and got a ps3. When orange box came out and I got into steam for tf2 and l4d and later played wow for awhile.
>>720526176>boardBored
>>720526176Can we grow old together
>>720526176>Also he touched my penisWhy did you feel the need to include this part?
>>720526368>all those video games>have to fixate on the penisWhat are you, gay or something?
>>720526176Why are you so allergic to kino boomer anon
>>720523660gay-LO
It was.... special...
>>720526153Visual Novels for starters. Nah just fucking with you, there are none.
>>720523660Friday nights with 14-16 player custom lobbies filled entirely by siblings, friends, and classmates, people I knew IRL but would never have hung out with otherwise, like >>720524342 alludes. It fostered the same silly, creative, magical aura as gmod (weaker tools but wider accessibility).
>>720525962Real talk, this is the most bizarre forced meme I've seen in a while.
It's really funny how time marches on and the games that arena FPS autists used to shit on are now looked back on fondly while shitting on current generation of shooters, not because time is a cylinder but because things are still getting worse and people re-evaluate things more.
>>720523889How do you feel about Quake?
>>720528312The thing isHalo is a genuinely good Arena FPS game.
>>720528312>the games that arena FPS autists used to shit on are now looked back on fondlyThey really aren't. It's more like Halo tards lamenting their poor decisions while not understanding they're the root issue.
I went to a walmart midnight launch for halo 3, the line wrapped around from electronics back to the hallmark cards. I remember being in the card section area and the employees were hyping up the line by handing out mt dew and homemade cupcakes with green frosting and a number 3 on them. When I finally got to the front there was chatter about making sure that anyone that bought the limited edition steel case to check their copies since they were reported to come loose and scratch the discs, some people were scattered around crouched on the floor opening them up to check. Shit was kino.
>>720526440I'm not the one talking about playing video games and then bringing up my penis out of nowhere.
>>720523660The fans were super annoying.
>>720526176So, are you gay?
>>720528914This. As a friendless, antisocial loser I also got angry about Halo fans and their huge cocks. I totally get you and your perspective.
>>720523889Just like Sonic
halo multiplayer was not that good. the campaigns are much better. the mp always existed in some kind of middle zone between fast stuff like cod and maybe hero shooters, and stuff like battlefield or something i don't know. its why people lament it being gone so much, because other games do one thing or the other.
>>720523940poorfag issue
>>720529461Using that image requires explaining your ideas. Instead you're just excreting your retarded midwit opinion like a neglected toddler.
>>720528312It's because we enjoyed them with our friends and we didn't give a shit about the gameplay faults back then. It was accessible and cheap. I'm old and teenage me back in 2007 never gave a flying fuck about "hurr durr it's not counterstrike or quake, Babby's first fps" whining.
everyone going over to a friends house to split screen halo was a hell of a time. I'm not sure kids nowadays do this anymore. I had a friend who took the lid off his xbox so that we could install a game to the hard drive, pop it out once the disk verified, and then LAN over two small tv's. When halo 3 came out everyone at school was talking about it, it was a huge deal at the time.
>>720523660This was the greatest trilogy of console shooters of all time. The industry was at its peak for console online FPS at this point. It has been all downhill since. Really is too bad COD eventually went on to mog the Halo franchise so hard. Basically worked MS/343 into forever changing Halo. They should have kept the formula intact even if it meant having to be a distant second to COD. By changing Halo they have done irreparable damage to the brand.
Halo's death feels so wrong. It doesn't seem like this series ever should have declined the way it did yet it did.
>>720531709Funny part about that is Halo already HAD the cod formula. Except it wasn't the cod formula because cod copied it from Halo 2. All they had to do was keep the same menu and matchmaking system and none of the gameplay differences would matter at all. Instead they hid people's stats, made it impossible to party up, and turned game chat off by default.
>>720528312I don't get why they ever hated it in the first place. They still had their PC's. Halo was a console FPS made to accommodate for those limitations. It carved out its own niche. It wasn't Bungie's fault people copied much of the gameplay mechanics (grenade + melee buttons, regenerating shiled/health, two weapon limit). Halo was a lot more of a team focused sort of shooter than what you would find out of Unreal or Quake. That is where Halo's strengths shined. Too bad FPS will never go back to this though because people would not appreciate a game like Halo 2 or 3 today. It would be too basic for them and they would litter it with shitty skittles colored weapon skins.
>>720523660There was pvp and it happened but was just kind of gay and existed like how it is now. There wasn't really any difference except that there's been a massive amount of skill bloat nowadays. Utter shitters could scrape by back in those days, now not so much, the mandatory skill level is just too high for cazzies to hack it anymore. I mean back in the day I could fucking play with my mom and hack it and have fun while doing it, that's just not possible anymore
>>720523982This is it.I remember the first time I ever felt so tired that my eyes started to glaze over and I could see but not really perceive what was going on, it was while playing halo 3 at 430AM at my friends house. His dad had to come in and tell us to go to sleep because we'd been playing for over 12 hours at that point.Good memories.
Halo 3 was the last shimmer before the sun set on western civilization. For one brief moment in 2007 everything aligned, The midnight launches, the Live action BELIEVE ads, the Xbox Live chatter that connected entire neighborhoods and schools.It was a shared cultural rite, the final time an entire generation moved in sync before the internet atomized cultures into a thousand disconnected feeds. The slogan "Finish the Fight" rang louder than its marketing roots even if it maybe didn't realize that it was aiming for something bigger than the frame of someone's chunky CRT or newfangled HD TV that transcended the screen.In hindsight it was luminous, the last flash of cohesion at the twilight of the Bush years, when the world was silently shifting into something colder and more fragmented. The last mass campfire where everyone gathered, played and believed in the same story. What came after was endless wars, financial collapse, the slow suffocation of culture under algorithms. But for a brief season, Halo 3 held back the night and in that glow you can see the last true heartbeat of a civilization that didn’t yet know it was fading.It's over.
>>720523660Somewhat unusual in that it made console LAN parties for a time
>>720533553I'm not reading all that
>>720533553Yeah, very poetic, to be more frank about it though, culture just died in the final years of the 00s. Smartphones became a thing, everyone had access to the internet at all times, and it destroyed us all. In the future, IF there is a future, they're going to look back at this time and point at the proliferation of easy internet access as where it all went wrong.
>>720523660It was special
I was 12 years old when Halo 3 came out and it felt like the second coming of Christ.
>>720533553It really was a one two punch of the increasing popularity of smart phones with the rise of social media at roughly the same time. Then add on the clearly manufactured and forced culture shift Cultural Marxism that suddenly showed up around 2013 and it's no wonder everything went to shit. Hell, the last point is only NOW starting to get slightly better as the wind slowly changes...12 years later. As for the rest I don't know how you can save it, there is too many third worlders and phone posters now online.
>>720535409Cut the submarine cables
>>720523660https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkGtVJVYps
It was one hell of a timehttps://files.catbox.moe/qfmv5o.mp4
>>720530167wow somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. you need a nap little fella!
I think halo 2 is the best in the series
>>720538485Not Halo Reach!?
>>720523660Everyone was calling eachother a nigger on Xbox LiveGolden age
>>720538536I always liked reach but 2 is on another level from the rest. The barbiter missions were always based. The anniversary edition is actually good too, unlike the shitass CE one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE
>>720538485This isn't controversial, it was bombastic and didn't try to balance dual wielding at all
>>720538629Yeah, none of the other games had this energy, it was peak rule of cool.
>>720523660Thinking about it now it was kind of similar to zoomers experience with minecraft except the game wasn't some bootleg java shit. It was so dominant and so much additional media was built off the back of it, you could just be a halo fan and it could have occupied significant amounts of your total media consumption, even the creative aspect of it was shared with forge and the crazy custom modes it spawned.If you were a teenager the universe rivalled starwars for the level of hype it could generate.
>>720523660Widely mocked as babby's first FPS. In retrospect, not a terrible game. Decent.
>>720538794i didn't know of a male human being who didn't like halo 3. maybe you were just a faggot and stuffed into lockers by us.
>>720538794nobody said that besides crusty PC boomers who hated all console FPS games because they were allergic to dual stick controls.
>>720538794Quakefags have a perennial chip on their shoulder about it for some reason, I guess they hoped the style of their FPS game would be the one to catch on, so they resent Halo for its role in making Quake irrelevant. Shame, wish they got more games in their style so they could be happy in their corner instead of mad as fuck all the time.
>>720523660Nobody's a boomer hereBoomers are 1946 - 1964
>>720538885>stuffed into lockersI wish the typical bullying happened to me, I just kept getting hit on and fondled by guys
>>720529461Its pretty obvious to everyone that you barely ever played halo multiplayer and your opinion on it is worthless. There are things that halo did that remain revolutionary and no FPS game has done since. The skill ceiling was also much higher than every FPS of that era and since.
>>720523660Imagine a time where it wasn't about skill based matchmaking determining who should statistically win, you just went in like every match was a party. Where the campaign, for all of its shifts in writing we don't look back on fondly in hindsight, was the epic conclusion to a trilogy that stuck the landing better than what Mass Effect 3 would fuck up several years later. Where it felt like the apex of shooter growth on consoles at the time before Call of Duty 4 completely took over with its direct sequel Modern Warfare 2 and people became obsessed with KDR. Where you'd actually have friends play split-screen multiplayer or couch co-op with you. Where Forge was a novel new idea (putting aside Map Maker for Timesplitters) and so many people were creating fun and ridiculous gamemodes or challenges and shit that they then shared personally, where even some snot-nosed teenager could fuck around a bit and make a hit new racing thing or the dawn of Grifball and so forth.Gone, like tears in the rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5HaVjJ56EEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBWu700g-ENo game has ever been made with the same aesthetic since.
>>720538885I literally called it "not a terrible game" and "decent" so you don't need to be such an insecure pussy about it.
It’s a conflicting memory. If you were growing up playing halo 1 and 2 they were amazing games compared to most of the other things you would have experienced or played even compared to “superior” games of the time. fans were going wild speculating about the origin of the flood and just about every other aspect of halo on the bungie forums in those days eager to know what the finale would be like. Many people including myself owned the 3 novels that came out by this time and basically were obsessed with the franchise.When halo 3 actually came out it was a decent game and had a fun online multiplayer mode many of us sunk 100s of hours into. Almost everyone had the game to play against online. The actual campaign though I remember feeling like it was a let down and something got lost in translation between halo 2 and 3 and it didn’t feel the same as the first two titles. I can’t tell you or explain why this was it just is my memory. it was a decent game but lacked some of the magic of the first two. Compared to any game today it’s amazing though. But it came out during the transitionary time where games were becoming more about graphics and being cinematic than the core gameplay and the mood and vibe and atmosphere of the game world. of the trilogy it’s my least favorite and to this day when I go back I feel like they somehow Pixar’d the game universe with whatever changes they made going into the 360 gen
>>720539142halo wasn't about skill based matchmaking? That's all ranked mode was, It was so focused on rank it might be the only FPS ive played where it was actually an accomplishment to kill a high rank player.
>>720524553>Duck HuntIt’s interesting how many hours I played without seeing a lot of the really popular game modes. I remember the various fat kid maps, smear the queer, that hurricane katrina or whatever one that spit debris at you that you had to dodge. Crazy to think messing around in forge inspired me to go to college to learn level design 8 years later.
>>720539352That's kind of the thing, Ranked was Ranked, you play specifically for the matchmaking versus other players your rank but back then that shit actually mattered. Technically there was MMR in Halo 2 and 3 for casual stuff, but unlike modern games that rubberband it at breakneck nightmare speeds to ensure you lose a bunch and then get a pity match every so often, it had its head on straight so you wouldn't even really notice it doing its job.
>>720539351The problem with Halo 3's campaign was that it was supposed to be part of Halo 2 to begin with. It was cut and made into its own game due how fucked up the development cycle of all three games was. Frankly it's a miracle they were as good as they were, in the years afterwards, games had better funding, larger teams, more time and still came out worse than Halo as a trilogy.
>>720528312The people who were shitting on halo for being baby's first FPS are now playing PC FPS games that are based on console shooters that are a million times more casual.
>>720539456Nah, I wouldn't say H3 is what we would've gotten. Yeah, they had shit like the Ark planned out, the Digsite maps show as much with the prototype of the Ark's unveiling at skybox scales of insane size in the H2 engine, but Truth as a character completely changed, and something about the way it all plays out didn't really line up with the abandoned concepts of 2's ending either. When they went from like 70 dudes to a larger number I'm not entirely sure about just to make sure 3's development went over more smoothly than 2's, they lost a couple key people like Staten and Jones for sabbatical/vacation, and apparently the story was "drafted by committee and presented to senior Bungie members"; a bunch of different folks effectively seemed to improvise their own conclusion. The fact that it worked at all is still impressive though.
>There is a timeline where Halo would've had the first fully successful live action movie instead of the mediocre straight to DVD releases we had and the Halo TV show.>There is also a timeline where the Halo TV show was a Spielberg creation.
>>720539767If you think about it, because of infinites, there's a 50/50 outcome for our timeline being good or being bad, which makes us the unfortunate sons of bitches who lost literally every coin toss.
>>720539767Remember the days of Halo making live action trailers with genuine effort and care, that didn't exactly match up with game content but got the mood across just right?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSLHcAyy90
>>720532571It was part of the wider issue of PC gaming dying at the time and the few PC gamers who remained becoming extra tribalistic as a result. One can't forget that the era just before Steam revolutionized things was absolutely dire for PC gaming. So PC gamers got extra salty when a genre that they had previously bragged so much about being "impossible" to properly do on consoles, got done properly on consoles. Halo is what really made FPS's a thing on consoles and with how the market worked at that point, that was basically the only genre PC had left except the much more niche RTS. It was similar to how angry Playstation partisans got when JRPG's started appearing on other consoles after having been near Sony exclusives for two generations, there was SO much seething when Square-Enix announced Final Fantasy 13 was going to be available on the 360.
>>720539920Still insane that Steam is what effectively saved PC gaming by becoming a distribution giant, I distinctly remember everybody hating it initially until it slowly improved over the years.
>>720523660Some of my first experiences being online with a headset. Shootan's not my genre, but it was fun and I had gone through the campaign of the original trilogy with a friend which was also fun. I think the shootan trend should have ended here little did I know this shit would be what people associate with gaming as a whole, my god I want to go back.
>>720539868I think this is (one of) the element(s) missing from the 343 games: Military fiction. Part of what made Halo fun in terms of aesthetics is this really gritty and grim depiction of humanity on its' last legs using ballistic weapons vs a force that glassed entire worlds. Master Chief is a super soldier to be sure, but you look at the regular marines and ODST and think to yourself "These dudes are our last hope for survival" and it is so good.
>>720523940I had to run a really long ethernet cable from the router by the computer in the hallway across into the living room for my first year or so of online play because my parents thought the wireless adapter for the 360 wasn't worth the cost (IIRC it was about the same as a new full-price game at the time), eventually they had enough and sprang for it. Good times.
>>720540381Cables are better anyway, never trust the air with your bits.
>>720539614>they lost a couple key people like StatenI always got the impression that he was the key mastermind behind Halo's narrative. 343 making a big deal of hiring him back a couple years ago and then firing him again before releasing anything because of Microsoft corporate cost-cutting niggardry was such bullshit.
it was awesome. just unfiltered shit talking. now you get people who are so passive aggressive they just don't do or say anything. it's tragic.
>>720540963Yeah, he apparently left for vacation during 3's development because he had tension with the team at the time, probably was pissy over how 2 turned out and cut so much but that's just conjecture. Without him development's described as directionless for the plot, so they just straight up had to improvise. If he had stuck onto 3, I can imagine the narrative would've been a lot closer to the old plans.Meanwhile 343 and Microsoft can just fuck themselves with a rusty rake, especially for how badly they screwed over their own talents and legacies. Staten "fixed" Infinite from being a Far Cry clone to what its final result became, but you can't fix stupidity and bad management.
>>720523660Slow boring fps for fat American kids
>>720540963>>720541092Wasn't he also scheduled to help with the movie before that all fell through?
>>720540963>343 making a big deal of hiring him back a couple years agBlizzard did the same thing with Metzen, it's a corporate good will farming strategy. "Look guys! We put this guy that made good things you liked back in charge! :)"
>>720523660some shitty console game
>>720523660We thought it was a shitty downgrade from FPS games that came before it (only 2 weapons at a time and some shield regen hide behind the corner gameplay, are you kidding me?). We laughed at the "Halo kids" who were going berserk over playing their very first shooter which was way worse than many shooters that came before it.I distinctly remember a period of time when /v/ would shit on Xbox 360 kids playing "Gears of Gaylo." That was a while ago now.I still think Halo is ass and never played more than like half of the first game before I couldn't stand it anymore. It was so much shittier than other shooters I had already played.
>>720523660Metroid Prime games were better
>>720541804What are the good shooters I missed out on prior to Halo?
>>720523660fuck off zoomer
>>720530416Halo hasnt had split screen couch multiplayer at launch since Reach, every single Halo after is missing it or takes decades to get it added back in because 343 devs are friendless losers who dont like working with each other.Same goes for most FPS games, when fucking COD Black Cocks 7 is celebrated for having multiplayer campaign you barely scratch the surface of how much damage "playing videogames at your friend's house" has suffered along the years as developers focused more and more on online and specifically online competitive match making to try to take market share off CSGO, LoL and other games like that.>>720532381Bungie didnt want to keep going, Microsoft has more money than brains and Activision took a pot shot at both while they were discussing their issues going forward and they never recovered from that. Bungie cant make good games anymore because they lost themselves making Destiny, Microsoft only cares if the line goes green or not or if the numbers are big enough and 343 wasnt built to make good Halo games, just to keep the IP rights intact.
>>720523660It was a cultural phenomenon.... for normalfags and dudebros. Just about everything wrong with the gaming industry today has its origins rooted in the success of the Halo franchise and Microsoft's endeavors in video gaming. Rampant DLC, focus on multiplayer, style over substance graphics, story, gameplay. Overhyped marketing, rampant consumerism, it all began with Halo's success.
>>720523889He asked for boomer opinions not faggots.
really fun 2, 3, odst and reach multiplayer were superb, then the planet died again.
>>720541092>If he had stuck onto 3, I can imagine the narrative would've been a lot closer to the old plans.IIRC Staten did come back before Halo 3 finished and helped out with the story, but late enough that the core plot was already set in stone.
Sometimes I pretend to be masterchief in my house and I run around with two imaginary smgs on my hands
>>720545139>style over substance graphicsWhat the fuck is this even supposed to mean?
>>720545139>Rampant DLCNo Halo game has EVER had a DLC. Not one, not even the spinoffs. I suppose Infinite's cosmetics might count, but that's a stretch.
>>720547296i bounced off reach MP. never liked it really. idk why.
>>720523660Halo? More like Gaylo lmao.
>>720523660It was a monolith. 1 was popular because it had this grand design and saved the Xbox. 2 was beyond popular because it expanded the universe and in the era before at your fingertips 24/7 youtube it was very moving world, the universe and the space operaness of it. It was beyond popular because Halo 2 was in the era of the first console (normie) multiplayer games. It was one of them. So it kept people coming back for more and at the time was the HEIGHT of fun young men activities. 3, in all honesty, was a microcosm of the LotR movies and their cultural impact. Everyone was waiting with baited breath for the finale. The art as a whole was highbrow and distinctly Euro-ethnic, and we couldn't imagine how that wouldn't last. It stuck the landing. This was the ERA right before game after game would in some part be disappointing Goyslop. It was made by a Valve-esque company. A team of 50-100 White men. It is just a videogame to consume, but everyone had fun and it lightened the difficulty of the human experience at the time. The multiplayer might as well have been legendary. Ranked matched for people who wanted to cut their teeth for skill. 16 player custom games that would be full of 14 year old boys having immense fun. All the while RvB and Arby and the Chief were a cultural phenomenon at the START, the very near start, of Youtube. Anyone younger than 18 would come home from school most days out of the week and hop on to play with their friends for hours.Just like LotR, things quite like it won't come about again until we get out of this dark age the West is in. While BG3 is very kikeish, it had some of the hype after its release because of how it's such a game you can impress your own psyche upon it while fulfilling one of the most central human archetypes, the Hero. Helldivers 2 is close as well, today. Shocker these games revolve around justice, honor, and fighting evil.
>>720547629your foot in mouth, madam
>>720547828>A map pack for Halo 2You had to buy that on disc, you couldn't download it at the time, faggot
>>720547884cool, they made DLC you had to go and physically buy a key for. still DLC, fucktard.Do you also think switch 2 has physical copies of games?
>>720548087>DLC you had to go and physically buy a key for. still DLCWords mean things, it was not doWnLoAdAbLe, and it sure as shit wasn't rampant. You might as well complain about expansion packs as a practice, but that one didn't even start with Microsoft if you want to go for that angle. Halo CE is probably fucking older than you if you're this stupid.
>>720547629I remember Halo 3 having DLC map packs. You're fucking retarded lmao.
>>720547629Halo 2 and 3 had map pack dlc which split the playerbase into separate playlists for those with the dlc and those without. It was pretty shitty
>>720538973what an odd gay fantasy to write out
>thread immediately goes to shit after 6 AMWhy is this?
The launch of Halo 3 was simultaneously the beginning of the end and the last hurrah of the old gaming world.
>>720523660Forge mode private lobby with white trash trailer gangsters at 10:30 AM
