mrbubblesort@kbin.social 1 year ago
Halo. I picked up the collection in the summer steam sale for $10 and it was just ... boring. I guess that's to be expected for a 20+ year old game, the genre has innovated and improved a lot since then.
Halo is one of my favorite games of all time, and I played the shit out of the first one when it came out. It was absolutely game changing for console shooters. Before that, I hada SNES (skipped N64 era). It absolutely blew my mind.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it really held up. If you played it back then, the nostalgia still hits hard and that’s fun. But if you play it for the first time now, it just won’t hit the same, unfortunately.
Having just played through the MCC recently the first halo is a bit dated, but 2 and 3 are some great campaigns. Reach and odst have decent stories, but the campaign is more average. The biggest surprise to me was how much worse 4 is than I remember. I knew it was disappointing, but playing it back to back with the others really makes it obvious.
I had played all the games before though.
Strafer@artemis.camp 1 year ago
I felt this a bit too. I never played it back in the day so I was playing it fresh as each game released as part of the PC master collection. Playing Halo 1 without nostalgia googles is rough as that campaign has not aged well. It’s starts decent but then reusing the same levels made the second half a mediocre slog.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yep, same here. I found it really strange when the running was much slower than other games too