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Halo Reach remains a masterpiece of dread - and the greatest prequel story of all time (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I take it you were not a console gamer when it came out?

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Correct. PC gamer. It's probably why it was very mid for me as a FPS.

[–] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Really it did a few major things for fps

  • regenerating health, allowing for a smoother difficulty curve and easier time balancing for devs
  • online multiplayer
  • A-B tested a bunch of controls for console shooter control schemes going forward

Until halo right-stick to turn, ads to aim on screen was a common control mechanism.

As soon as it released regenerating health, the control scheme and online multiplayer became a must-have for AAA fps. For PC it's basically just regenerating health, which was has proved to be a mixed blessing.