Halo has a story?
At the time of the original's release, I was sure that it was the best story I had ever seen in a first person game on a console. It was cinematic and absorbing in a way that no previous game had been. Maybe that was just the honeymoon and it doesn't hold up. I'm looking forward to finding out with the Master Chief Collection next week.
Regardless, Halo 4's story was a convoluted mess with way too many sci-fi tropes to be entertaining.
I thought you were describing Half-Life there for a sec until you said console, makes me wonder how many kids would have attached to Half-Life instead of Halo if they just had access to a PC. Halo is solid but it always seemed like a descendant of generic and over militarized games like Doom. I cant blame the guy for having a simpler take on halo 4 with the whole all story thing, not a lot of interesting stuff there in my opinion (but hey some people didn't have a PC in 1995 so I understand if you don't see where i'm coming from).
I was in high school in 1995 and I built a PC specifically to play Half-Life. It was a great gaming experience. There was nothing else like it at the time either. You're right - Half-Life is the reason I qualified my Halo statement with "console". After Halo was released, it felt like a better overall package to me in terms of story and accessibility, but I recognize that the format of a cinematic shooter was established more or less by Half-Life.
In terms of multiplayer, it was easier for me to get a group of friends together to play a few rounds of Halo than it was Half-Life after college. They're both great games. Halo just left the more lasting impression on me.
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