Admittedly, the ENTIRE reason I give Halo flak in the first place is because I was a child of Doom and Unreal; and I’ve always had an axe to grind about how Halo not only slowed down, but simplified multiplayer gameplay. Beyond that, I hold Halo responsible for giving CoD and Battlefield a blueprint to explosive popularity, further burying arena shooters-- so if I’m slagging CoD and Battlefield, Halo’s never far behind because I see it mechanically closer-related to CoD than Quake or Unreal.
tl;dr super-strong bias and a distaste for human-focused sci-fi. I’m never comfortable when an alien race is presented as genocidally-minded, it feels like projection of the Amerikan condition to me.
Admittedly, the ENTIRE reason I give Halo flak in the first place is because I was a child of Doom and Unreal; and I’ve always had an axe to grind about how Halo not only slowed down, but simplified multiplayer gameplay. Beyond that, I hold Halo responsible for giving CoD and Battlefield a blueprint to explosive popularity, further burying arena shooters-- so if I’m slagging CoD and Battlefield, Halo’s never far behind because I see it mechanically closer-related to CoD than Quake or Unreal.
tl;dr super-strong bias and a distaste for human-focused sci-fi. I’m never comfortable when an alien race is presented as genocidally-minded, it feels like projection of the Amerikan condition to me.