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Just count yourself lucky you missed out on experiencing the ridicule and rejection of that one person that turns up at a college party in the early 2000's with a PS2 and timesplitters.
Well deserved ridicule at that.
I mean the PS2 was amazing but it was a garbage multiplayer system compared to the gamecube and xbox.
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There's protections for permanent staff. But the fact that they are firing them in this way means that every single one of them is a contractor and they have no legal rights to compensation and are at the whims of the company that can cancel that contract and see them out the door that day.
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Everyone was invited, the jocks needed the dorks to set the LAN up.
I'm not sure when you played Halo but in 2001 it was far, far ahead of any console FPS game and compared to PC shooters it was right up there with them. It was the first FPS game to match PC FPS games. Unless you were heavily into PC FPS games and the slow speed turned you off it? It had issues, the Flood were boring to fight and going backwards through all the levels showed the game was obviously rushed but I really can't see how a FPS fan couldn't enjoy the opening half of the game. The combat loop is extremely satisfying and holds up. I mean if you don't enjoy FPS games, fine but don't go telling me timesplitters, Resistance and Killzone are better. Then you get to Halo 3 and Reach which are just an absolute blast and still hold up.
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Well from that I'll make two assumptions. The first level is on a space station and full of narrow grey corridors and acts as a tutorial. It's kind of set up to be bland and boring because on the second stage when you step out on to the Ring for the first time and see the vast lush environment in front of you, the contrast is meant to heighten that reveal and show you that this is something that really couldn't have been made on any other console at the time.
Second I'm guessing as a playstation fan, a timesplitters player and a non PC gamer that the dual stick controls at the time were totally alien to you and you really didn't get on with them. I had PC friends that took a long time to get to grips with it and I was only in tune with it because I played Quake 2 and Alien Resurrection this way (and medal of honour but you had to really dig into the menu to find the dual stick controls).
Honestly the social side of Halo was only really in colleges. The vast majority of people wouldn't have played much Halo. It's a damn fine single player game and that's what grabbed most people. The social side of it came after and was a bonus. Just check out reviews at the time, here's the eurogamer review which was famously one of the lowest rated for the game at the time (and I happened to think was right on the money about it):
Halo is one of the biggest killer apps and launch titles ever. I mean at the time XBox was launch it was seen as a joke going up against Nintendo and Sony. Everyone thought it was going to flop hard and nobody was interested in any of the launch games. Halo came from no where and surprised everyone with how good it was. It was a game so good that people bought an xbox just to play it.
We literally wouldn't have XBox if it wasn't for Halo being such a good game.
Oh and lets not forget the co-op mode that let you play the entire campaign with a friend, a feature that was only really reserved for online play on PCs at the time but could now be enjoyed on the couch. It became a common feature but it was Halo that kicked that all off.
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Ape Escape used the dual analogue like no other game. Timesplitters was dual analogue but it played a lot more like goldeneye than a modern PC shooter which was what Halo resembled. Again dual analogue controls were very new and it took a while for people to get used to them. Famously IGN called the controls in Alien Resurrection on PS1 terrible even though they were exactly the same as modern dual analogue controls.
One thing to remember about Halo and it's controls is that it might not have been the first game to use dual analogue controls on a console but it was the first game to make them work. On earlier games FPS in dual analogue were very unwieldy and it was very hard to aim accurately. It's why Goldeneye and it's predecessors like Timesplitters had insane amounts of auto aim. If you are stopping to aim in those games and not letting the auto aim do the aiming then you were playing them wrong. Analogue sticks are terrible compared to a mouse when it comes to accurate aiming and control. Halo on the other hand added slight subtle auto aim and target tracking to the controls that made dual analogue work on a console. Every game you play since has had this to make them playable on console and it was all down to Halo.
I did like Timesplitters 2 and played it a lot in 4 player on Gamecube but the single player was pretty bad. Multiplayer was fun but it felt a bit dated, being closer to Goldeneye than more modern shooters. Halo came out a whole year before TS2.
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