>>718349234 (OP)
because it actually innovated with ai, objectives, level design, multiplayer etc
gaylo is just a dumbed down arena shooter for consolefags
>>718349234 (OP)
Halo is worse than things preceding it. Shields are cancer with health underneath suck. Those shields later turned into regenerating health you see in CoD.
>>718349234 (OP)
I've seen PClards complain about GE007 all the time, the funniest one is "Me and my friends tried playing it but everything was so shit we stopped 10mins and and went back to Quake."
>>718349234 (OP)
"babby's first" was appended to Halo because it dumbed down FPS gameplay and forced FPS devs for a decade+ to follow in its footsteps, not merely because it was the first FPS a lot of people played as kids. Goldeneye 007 was also the first full-3D FPS that used mostly real-life weaponry in a real-life setting, which earns it more accolades then condescension.
I don't even remember so much insecure tryhard angst centered around Halo when it came out, maybe I was not in the spaces where it was common at that time. It feels more like something that emerged later when people needed to establish their Gamer Street Cred
>>718349234 (OP)
It doesn't have regenerating shields, it doesn't baby you with constant checkpoints, and it expects you to read the mission briefings so you know what you're supposed to do.