There has been no one on the internet more actively and consistently extolling the good qualities of Halo CE than me over the last 10 years. No one.
This is for everyone who has posted in the last 15 pages.
- 343 was not forthcoming with us.
- People who are mad are naive.
- People who are mad at those who are mad are, frankly, assholes.
The people who are upset had hope. They really wanted the xbox experience with shot lead, etc. Many of them, including myself, have been lanning Halo CE for the last 10+ years. I still have two big ass CRT televisions in my small condo for this game. It's a pain in the ass dealing with CRTs and craigslist for used boxes and ebay. I have four xboxes and 16 controllers. I do it all for this game and most of my good friends feel the same way. I have a good friend who said he would be pissed if they even removed the lip in the Hang em high trench. He made Maptacular, one of the best H1 vids if not the very best h1 vid of all time.
We love this game. Not like "oh ya I used to have fun with this game with friends sometimes" WE. LOVE. THIS. GAME.
Every detail is important. We love every detail about the experience and 343 said it would be "just as we remembered it." So a lot of people got really hopeful that that would be true. 343 never mentioned HPC, not once, they said "just as you remembered it." That misled a lot of these people. Halo PC is a fundamentally different game as far as mechanics and even visuals are concerned. For relatively casual players, those difference are negligible. For the people who can name every spawn point in Priz off the top of their head like I and hundreds of other people can, these differences are HUGE. So when people say "back to OG boxes" they're not babies, they're going back to what they LOVE. They CAN see this game is different from just a few seconds of gameplay. I know I could. It was immediately obvious.
I happen to work for a software company. I know how they work. I knew as soon as I thought about it that they would probably just be using Halo PC. You can go back through my posts to the week of the announcement. I said it would probably be Halo PC. "Man, I'm tired of being right!" is a quote that comes to mind. I called this months ago and totally saw it coming. So those who chose to believe they were going to get the true xbox h1 experience were a little naive but I have nothing but sympathy for them because I understand how they feel. It feels like losing an oddball game by 1 second. It's heartbreaking.
All you people who havent played lots of timed h1 2v2s simply don't get it - and you're being assholes for calling them babies and wondering why they're not happy. This very likely is not going to be what we fell in love with. It'll be close, and it'll be fun, but it's not what we were told it would be. It's not "just as we remember it."
I may have seen this coming, and I will probably play it a ton and have plenty of fun with it, but this is not going to be the same Halo CE experience that I've been praising for a decade of my life. That said, it will likely still be the single best Halo experience that's ever been on Xbox live. I'm not really happy today, but I will play the hell out of the game. I will buy MCC readily. I will also continue to LAN Halo CE on the original hardware.
