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Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Halo: Combat Evolved. I get what all the hype was about. This is a good game!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I experienced the whole original trilogy last year with a friend on coop. I get it now. Why so many people love Halo.

    Btw, Halo 2 and 3 are much better than the first one. If you already liked that, you're in for a treat.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wasn't very patient with that one at the time, somehow managed to get it running on my PC though and had my mind blown. Such a good game, basically everything is fantastic apart from that library level.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You know, having just played the Library level, I get the feeling that it was thematically necessary to drive home the scale of the cosmic horror you’re facing. It needs to be exhausting, overwhelming, unending…

    I tried it on PC in 2004 and all I got was a slide show.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can you even imagine how good that felt on an original Xbox?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Incredible, I’m sure. Especially for people who weren’t playing on PC before - it generally stands up to Half-Life in a lot of ways, including the enemy movement and maybe even AI, but the cutscenes have that more traditional cinematic look. I love the constant immersion of Half-Life, but this feels like watching an awesome sci-fi action movie, like Aliens. There’s enough survival horror and cosmic horror vibes as well to keep you going.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Consoles really didn't have many good FPS until then. I'd say the Timesplitters series was a standout, as was Medal of Honor: Frontline.

    Both of those felt kind of on rails compared to Halo though. Wide open areas, three way battles, vehicles...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, the vehicles and battlefield chaos are really well executed. It feels genuinely grandiose today, so it must have been mind blowing at the time. I can also tell the campaign is meant to teach you how to play multiplayer, which other games would go on to do in the years to come.

    There’s a lot of Battlefield 3 in there. Or the other way around, more appropriately.

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