Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoThe reality is that Halo has never really been anything more than a mediocre fps when compared to what had already been coming out for years on PC.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The first few were really good on console. I played the first one on PC as well and there was definitely something missing with mouse and keyboard controls.
You have to remember that most FPS on consoles were pretty terrible back then (e.g. Medal of Honor series), and there was a lot of experimentation to try and find a control scheme that didn’t completely suck, along with just the right amount of aim assist. Other devs were still wrestling with that into the Xbox 360 era. Sony put so much effort and money into Killzone, and it wasn’t anywhere near as good as Halo.
Plus, split screen co-op made it very popular. It’s one of the few games to keep that into the modern era as well.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
As someone who was busy playing Battlefield 2, I beg to differ.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Halo predates BF2 by nearly four years.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh, then Battlefield 1942 then. People here were saying 2005 so I went with the one I knew from 2005.