- Mai R0f1C0pt3r
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"What's up baby, how are you doin'? I hate the sound of my own voice and I been invited here to distract my self from the fact that I wrote all of this garbage."
Posted by: X El BaZzA X
Posted by: Mai R0f1C0pt3r
Posted by: RC Clone
Posted by: Mai R0f1C0pt3r
Everything you just said is countered by the fact that Halo CE did exactly that. It satisfied the Competitive players and Casuals and was great for competition.
The gaming industry ten years ago isn't comparable to the one today. Xbox Live was just an idea and MLG wasn't in existence. There was less of a divide between casual and competitive players, so they were both satisfied. Now there's Kinect. The top played game has a five hour campaign and is barely different from its predecessors, but people still bought it in record numbers. While this was going on, core gamers railed against it. That divide didn't exist then.
There was no big casual-competitive war at the time of Halo CE because the idea of casual gaming was barely even there outside of Nintendo.
Halo CE had the advantage of not needing online matchmaking because it hadn't been invented yet. As a result the multiplayer was legendary. No lag, no stupidity: just the fun of shooting people in the face. Halo 2 invented matchmaking. It had no competition.
Posted by: X El BaZzA X
Halo 2 did too. It was the most played game on the Original Xbox.
It was far better than every other original Xbox game, but what does that really say? Halo carried the original Xbox. Is that a testament to the quality of Halo or the mediocrity of the other Xbox games?Halo CE was the second most bought game for the original Xbox. I'm fairly sure it was down to how good Halo was, and not how mediocre the other games were.
They were quality games, but what established competition did they have to deal with? Did Splinter Cell ever come close to the Halo series in terms of sales? Halo CE and Halo 2 blew everything out of the water because they were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, but when technology changes as fast as it does today there's just not time to make a revolution that quickly.