Was Halo considered impressive for 2001? The god rays through the pine trees in Halo 1 is still better looking than the same effect pulled off today. It’s ridiculous.

For anyone who isn’t aware, load up Halo 1, go to level “Halo”, and move Chief and the camera while looking at the sun through a tree. It was an insane attention to detail in 2001 and still looks amazing.

Halo 1 and 2 have better vehicles than the embarrassing piece of shit buggy in HL2

t. person who first played the Halo games in the MCC

>>714157080 (OP)
>Was Halo considered impressive for 2001?
Absolutely, it's practically the only reason the original Xbox sold at all. Halo became a huge IP as a result. Though most of its popularity didn't stem from how the graphics looked, but it was definitely up there as one of the better looking games for the time, hardware was just getting to the point where you could make 3D look good.

inb4 quakefag, by the way.

Just realized that the majority of modern /v/ users weren't even born when Halo CE came out.

>>714157747
Grim. I remember when I opened up my Xbox that year with a copy of Halo CE, my brother stabbed my hand with a pair of scissors, still have the scar.

>>714157747
People who played Halo as their first FPS are like 30+ too

>>714157626
>inb4 quakefag, by the way.

On a technical level, what made Halo 1 so special?

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything!

>>714157747
I was 1

>>714157080 (OP)
The impressive thing about Halo was it made playing an FPS on a gamepad not feel like shit.

>>714157923
Vehicles. Graphics.

>>714157923
I was impressed by how it handled checkpoints freely instead of rigidly and the quick reloading when you died instead of previous games of the era where it was all manual and you'd have to load for 20+ seconds
Some of those old games returned you to the title screen on death too

>>714157080 (OP)
it was basically a seventh gen game that came out in 2001.

>>714157080 (OP)
The idea of an FPS game with drivable vehicles blew my mind at the time, and I took what I could get back then. Operation Flashpoint, Battlefield 1942, Halo CE, it was exciting.