What's the appeal of Halo?

I just started MCC with CE and game plays like an 2004 shovelware that's forgotten in time but how the fuck it created a massive franchise? Was consolebabies really blind to not see how bad this game is or does it get actually good?

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What is it you find bad about it?

Empty map design with nothing to do in it. Lack of player handholding that doesn't tell me what I need to do. Bullet sponge enemies that force you to use grenades in order to kill them. Lack of good weapon options with pistol being most powerful weapon for now.

It was the first multiplayer FPS for the general public. The American masses did not experience Doom, Quake or other shooters in the 90s, Those were just for a niche of "nerds". So the same boom that happened with those on PC, now was happening on the Xbox.

How is making grenades a good option a bad thing.

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There are no other FPSs that have good PvE combat.

Replayed CE and 2 a few days ago, and I thought they held up okay.
In saying that, I started Halo 3 for the first time and think it's pretty shit so far, so perhaps my nostalgia goggles are blinding me to CE and 2.

Conslle players had Goldeneye on N64 and Quake 3 on Dreamcast, Timesplitters was a popular PS2 launch title, FPS games were known.

>Lack of player handholding

>Empty map design with nothing to do in it.
You're probably supposed to be in a vehicle for those parts.
>Lack of player handholding that doesn't tell me what I need to do.
If you listen to your comms they tell you exactly what to do. Up to you to remember and follow that without a waypoint.
>Bullet sponge enemies that force you to use grenades in order to kill them.
Not all weapons are good against all enemies (except the pistol, but ammo for that can be limited).
I guess you mean the elites, in which case yes, you use grenades, or the pistol, or the sniper rifle, or the needler for easy kills. Plasma rifle or assualt rifle works fine too, but you might need a melee strike to finish them off.

Yes, they were known by those who had an N64 or a Dreamcast instead of the more popular options at the time. Halo reached an entirely new audience, due to the way Xbox was marketed. This was the rise of the brogamer. The fratboy jock who was into sports now started playing on a console, bringing the 10 year olds who wanted to be mature with him. This audience had no idea of the history of video games.

You're obviously a zoomer who just doesn't remember how much of a gamechanger Halo was on release

No I've been playing through all of them of legendary and 3 is worse campaign wise, it's incredibly easy and fast to go through and doesn't feel as organic.

2>CE>3>>>>>

Halo was never good, it's just that Zig Forums lately started pretending like it was

ZOOM ZOOM WHY CANT I BUILD WERES THE CIRCLE

but Halo's impact was overall negative

How is Halo Wars 2?

Yeah gone were the days of Quake, Half Life, Doom and came the days of Halo and CoD.

Zoom Eternal and Zoom 2016 are better.

if you cant tell hes trolling after that then youre just retarded

Halo is the only reason the FPS genre is even relevant lmao stay mad retard.

Go back and play your brain dead games

>Proceeds to make $1 billion dollars for Microsoft

Sure bud

Nah, Halo 3 is just the worst game in the series. People only like it because they are literal zoomers and Halo 3 was their first Halo. Halo 2 is superior in every way

I don't work at Microsoft so I don't care.

Holy fuck zoom zoom

Halo 3 truly is the most overrated halo game, Halo 5 has more positive aspects to it honestly.

>being this much of a corporate cocksuckers
fucking hell

The people playing Halo and CoD were never the audience of Quake or Doom, and Half-Life was killed by Valve not Halo.

Ok flat earther, keep denying for facts.

>quake
>doom
>half life

lets not pretend these were even remotely good games please

>People in this thread liking Halo 2 missions
>People in this thread shitting on Halo 3s line up of stellar missions

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they were (though hl kind of sucked)

If you think they were then your nostalgia is just speaking. The new Call of Duty games have more soul than those lmao.

It's still pretty much replayable even in this day. It aged far better than any other shooter.

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What games do you play? I bet you they all contribute negatively more than any Halo game.