anyone with similar experiences?

Yeah. I saw spoilers about the Fallout TV show. It made me lose my whole interest in Fallout

>>715816229 (OP)
idk if you can lose nostalgia. I feel like if something made a significant enough of an effect on you that it gave you nostalgia for said thing, then you will generally look back on it with love.

>>715816229 (OP)
Do you enjoy it though? I tend to think the influence of nostalgia on the enjoyment of a game is overblown.

I've been playing a bunch of Halo 3 recently and I still like it over most shooters I play. It just feels right. It feels like a video game.

>>715817178
this, I don't understand OP's sentiment

played through mcc a few times on legendary and was thinking on getting the cheevos. laso is gay as fuck. I dont like how on harder difficulties most of your arsenal is uselsss

>>715816229 (OP)
i never had nostalgia for halo, i had the weird phenonmenon of playing through CE once (until the maw) and really enjoyed it but upon playing a second time really loathed it most of the time, and that was in co op too
>>715816672
it took until a terrible tv show for you to lose interest in modern fallout?

>>715816229 (OP)
I realized that after playing multiple FPS games that weren't Halo or COD or COD stand-ins. Halo feels like a gimped Half-Life, hope that changes with UE5.

>>715816229 (OP)
>>715820183
i don't think it's a loss of nostalgia per se, but rather you just realized the games you enjoyed a lot when you were younger weren't as good as you once thought.
I have the same thing routinely happen, games can still be good but have huge flaws, it's all personal preference at the end of the day. I had the same thing happen to me after playing HL2 enough times

>>715817178
>>715818419
when i first replayed halo 3 i was blown away by nostalgia, but now i just play it like i am playing stellaris or any other modern game you think of.
to compare it, I booted my xbox 360 and played a minecraft world that had been untouched since 2015 and the feeling was completely different to playing halo now.

>>715820793
That just sounds like you've gone from Halo 3 being a memory to just being a part of your life again. You aren't going to be nostalgic for something you do regularly. Nostalgia only exists for a time that has passed.

>>715816229 (OP)
Personally I lost the nostalgia when I played Halo 3's multiplayer again recently and lobbies always had multiple 10,000 hour sweatlords just ruining it for everyone else. The game itself is as good as I remember it but the community that powered it all is dead and is never coming back.

>>715820747
It made me realized the campaigns need more exploration, puzzle-solving, and proper boss fights. They also need to make giant battles (Scarabs) a stable along with timed Warthog Runs at the end of each game. Add new aliens, alien robots, and Flood forms to change things up. Give us new weapons, vehicles, and grenades, and in future games, new alien factions to really change things up while making Master Chief faster, stronger, and more badass. The Halo series needs a proper upgrade.

>>715820183
Halo campaign's definitely pull a lot from Half Life. Especially Halo 3.

The multiplayer is unique. The movement and physics feel closer to a platformer than the other arena style shooters of the era. Especially with how inertia works when you try to strafe and counters trade.

>>715821308
Custom games browser is good, also sticking to queuing for every playlist in social games helps a lot.

You might also want to look into Halo 3 Sunrise which brings back Matchmaking and the Social features like persistent lobbies and veto for the 360 version of Halo 3.

>>715821362
You just described Halo Infinite, minus the Flood. Congrats you've just remade the Halo Reclaimer trilogy.

Halo was made in a specific time pulling from and contributing to the culture and media of that time. I think try to future fit Halo in a culture divorced from it is basically what led to the 343 trilogy.

>>715821362
>They also need to make giant battles (Scarabs) a stable along with timed Warthog Runs at the end of each game
i really found those to be quite the drag. Scarab fights were okay, they usually give you enough options and the sense of scale in co op was cool in 3. The warthog run is annoying though. The controls always felt just a little too inprecise and the allure wore off epsecially by 3. There is no puzzle to solve, its just a linear driving sequence
>The Halo series needs a proper upgrade.
I really think we should let it rest at this point, after Reach there really was no where to go unless they wanted to expand upon the world post 3 without Chief. But of course Microsoft and 343 couldn't imagine a game without his resurrected corpse so here we are
>>715821445
the movement was always good but I always found the shooting very piss poor in 3

>>715821752
I think the shooting is fine. Part of the game is knowing the right weapon for the job and if you don't have the right weapon it can be a grind. Though Bungie made the strange decision to not have the center if the screen be where the guns shoot. Focusing my aim towards the bottom of the reticle is more accurate than aiming dead center.

For example, on the H3 Battle Rifle, it's most accurate at the top of the bottom line of the reticle.

>>715822018
>I think the shooting is fine
i dont liek the lack of feedback, can never tell how much of the slow moving burst hit my target. The projectile speed always felt anemic too and along with the slow movement made it felt disjointed. The other halo games never had this problem imo.
>For example, on the H3 Battle Rifle, it's most accurate at the top of the bottom line of the reticle.
oh that might explain a lot

>>715821748
Infinite was decent, you could tell if those dumb bells weren't incompetent and was able to get their shit together, it could have been the game, that includes the wildlife. Halo Studios and the third parties they're working with now has a chance to fix their mistakes with the Halo remakes and Halo 7. They better not fuck it up. Halo, as a series, can' really survive on its own. It's time has passed, it has to be Halo but it has to incorporate some older and modern shooter elements to survive and be considered "Halo" of a new era.

>>715822207
narratively, Halo needs a reboot. Cortana going mad, dying, returning, and then turning into the villain was so fucking dumb that routinely block it out of my mind

>>715816229 (OP)
What exactly did you play? Campaign or Multiplayer?

>>715816229 (OP)
All I ever wanted was a faster pace Halo 3 with a much better netcode. Why was this too much to ask for with this shit company?

>>715816229 (OP)
i did this recently with DOOM when they updated my steam version to this newfangled collection and i wound up playing a ton of it.

>>715816229 (OP)
I replayed The Force Unleashed and was immensely disappointed. I did play the janky PC port instead of the console version though, so that might have affected my experience

>>715824263
I really don't know why 343 were so stuck on Cortana. They couldn't just give us the good old villain who wants to take over the galaxy storyline and Master Chief must stop them plot? Chief and Cortana was cringy in Halo 4, it was cringy in Halo 5, and it was cringy in Halo Infinite. I hope they got the Cortana plot out of their system now.

>>715821445
>The movement and physics feel closer to a platformer than the other arena style shooters of the era.
Good point but yet Metroid Prime did this a thousand times better at least. Perhaps OP is right. Maybe Halo was never as good as we (as in fans of Halo) thought it was.

Halo should have played more like a Metroid Prime game but with actual guns instead of the gun arm.

>>715828543
I really don't know, it always felt like Nintendo FPS games were closer to the real thing, which is probably why most (including myself) likes them more. Halo felt like Microsoft stepping in to try to hurt/ruin the genre. Now it's Halo that needs to get with the times. The Switch 2 has gyro and mouse controls, the Steam Deck has gyro and trackpads. Halo needs to be made similar to a PC shooter going forward, especially from a campaign standpoint. I agree with everything you said.

>>715821308
I've never had nostalgia for a game I suck at.

>>715829259
Yeah and before Prime we had games like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Turok on the N64 with Turok being especially platform heavy. Its too bad that franchise didn't carry over in a good way for the GC as exclusive because I am sure the GC could have had a much better Turok game perhaps if Nintendo had more control or even ownership of the franchise.

When I think back on it Halo kind of got away with being what it was due to Nintendo not fully going in with the FPS on consoles trend that they kind of started with the N64. This allowed Halo to pick up from where the N64 kind of left off. Allowed for people to play an FPS series that at the time controlled even better than those Nintendo FPS shooters and offered plenty of couch co-op and multiplayer for friends to enjoy through splitscreen + LAN. Then shortly after Halo CE you had H2+3 which introduced many to online gaming. Again the games were simple enough for a ton to get into.

And then COD4 released and soon enough that core dudebro FPS fanbase moved on primarily to COD games especially by MW2.

So yeah Halo and MS benefited big time from Nintendo relaxing or not taking the FPS genre more seriously. Nintendo could have easily had this market on lock had they only had the foresight and history would look way different today.

>>715821748
The worst two aspects of Infinite are its story and the lack of variety in settings. Fix those and you have a pretty decent SP FPS.

>>715829259
I don't know if I'd say Halo 1-Reach were Microsoft trying to ruin FPS's. It was Bungie taking your average, more competitive FPS games, and focusing on more social elements. Custom game modifiers, the long kill time, the persistent lobbies, and Forge were all taking aspects of competitive shooters and making it a social gaming experience.

Metroid Prime was decidely much more single player focused experience. MP2 and 3 had multiplayer but it was more of an afterthought than a core pillar of the experience.

>>715830302
I agree, after going through Turok, I couldn't go back to Halo, I became more critical of the franchise from a gameplay standpoint and then made comparisons with Half-Life. I saw what Half-Life did and it gained its own unique identity. Halo has the identity party down packed but it stripped itself of the good FPS elements making it feel like an FPS for people that never played one. FPS before and during its era had already did everything Halo did but better. Halo was too casual and when another franchise more casual came, it was over for Halo. Doom 2016 also killed the era of COD shooters so Halo was lost post-Halo 5 stuck not knowing where to go and you can see this through Halo Infinite's development trainwreck. While I don't really see much of a future in Halo's multiplayer, I can see the campaign making a comeback by doing what Doom 2016 did, Half-Life did, and Metroid Prime did. Take classic FPS elements such as exploration, puzzles, and boss fights, add Halo trilogy to it, have some controversial elements (sprint, slide, clamber, upgrades), go all out. Don't be afraid to move on from old factions but keep Halo's famous gameplay sandbox which includes the enemies similar to Doom's dance.

>>715830593
>Metroid Prime was decidely much more single player focused experience
This is why I see the future of the Halo series getting a huge benefit from the splitting off of the campaign and multiplayer into their own separate games. It would allow for Halo to have a proper singleplayer without time being taken away from it for multiplayer.

very correct halo list don't @ me
halo 2>halo3=halo odst>combat evolved>>>>>trash>>>>>>halo 4

>>715816229 (OP)
It was the opposite. Tried playing it again, got bored and uninstalled. Multiplayer was just dead.