You know what. I think that's it for me. They finally, after all this time, all these fuckups... Have finally broken me. I don't care anymore. Halo is dead. It has been zombified, castrated, beaten, raped, hung by it's entrails and it's corpse paraded through the city. But today it died.

A "from the ground up complete remake" of Halo and they're such fucking retarded hacks that they can't even make the game feel like Halo without borrowing code from 25 fucking years ago, from people with more talent in their pinkies than they do an entire studio. It's not just pathetic it's fucking sad. And it tells me everything I need to know: The captain is asleep at the wheel and not a single fucking person on the bridge even knows how the ship works.

I'm going to hook up my original Xbox to a CRT this weekend, and play Halo CE. Maybe I'll go on and play Halo 2. I'm going to drink a little, smoke a little, and firmly cement in my mind that these are things of the past that belong there. My memories of these games are memories of my childhood, and as we all know you can never go back... You can only visit.

Fuck you 343, one final time. Burn in hell for what you've done.

>>723267894
Couple things.
1. You were younger then, and the technology was new.
3d graphics were a revolution; an actual 3 dimensional space you could interact with. They then put a scary thing in it. That's enough for anyone to be kinda spooked in 1999. Couple this with naturally uncanny animations and you've got a recipe for something nobody has ever seen before.
2. Imagination is scarier than reality.
The graphical fidelity is bad and therefore a lot is left to the imagination. Young minds especially can cook up some crazy high tension and make things much scarier than they really are. Couple this with point 1 and yeah you're going to be terrified.
3. The devs actually knew what they were doing.
They took inspiration directly from Japanese horror films at the time. The game isn't a FNAF jumpscare hallway it's genuine tension.

That's it really.