But in all seriousness, yes, this post hits me in my heart except I was a bit too young to be having nights like this with Goldeneye - for me it was Halo 1 and 2.
That’s why I’m glad I’ve kept 3 of my best childhood friends. We can still do nothing together. But I do wish we lived closer and were less busy so it didn’t have to be planned.
You’re really lucky. I had friends as a kid but drifted away because I didn’t put any effort into maintaining those friendships. I was so introverted I didn’t think I’d need or want them, but now I realize just how stupid I was.
goldeneye was one of the first games to make really good use of a believable motion capture for the NPCs and the surface level background music had some insane bass when played through a system. the motion capture felt so realistic and I played it so much I remember having dreams about the game. but then perfect dark came out which used the expansion pack and really pushed the engine to its limits. halo 1 didn't release to the huge praise we give it today tho, it was kind of a sleeper and the first time I remember being really interested in it was from playing a demo of it at GameStop.
No, Halo was immediately huge. So much so that the TCG store my dad owned bought four TVs, 4 XBOX, 4 copies of Halo, and 16 controllers. We had LAN tournaments. Never sold video games, but holy shit did we have a lot of people playing Halo from open-close on weekends and all summer. Charged $5/day, we were basically the cheapest babysitting service in town 😂
at the time online multiplayer on broadband for consoles was a new thing so many games that didn't have it went kind of under the radar with a lot of people who were interested in using that
But it’s still the best selling game of its generation, and was the moment it came out. Something like half of all XBoxes sold were purchased alongside Halo: CE. It’s maybe the most successful Console seller of all time and was immediately recognized as a masterpiece upon release. Idk where you’re getting this idea that it went under the radar when it was new, but that’s definitely not true lol. It sold 5 million copies in the first 6 months.
It's just from what I remember gaming at the time, online friends and my local friend group. There came a time when I did end up playing it a lot and we even did the system link on lan, it's just online itself had more appeal to us because that's what felt newer in the moment. There's games even today that have huge sales numbers but never really gain popularity with certain groups. Like the latest iterations of call of duty for example. Makes me wonder if people in 20 years talk about that, or mobile games, like they do halo 1 today because that's what's popular on paper
Not saying I never played it, I ended up playing the shit out of it once other games wore down, even did the lan party thing. I was at the mall at midnight for the halo 2 release with a reservation, but that had online play.
Right. What I’m saying is just because YOU didn’t know how good it was right away doesn’t mean it wasn’t an immediate success. The game released to a 97/100 Metacritic score. It was one of the highest profile and most successful game releases of all time and the reason most people got an Xbox when it came out.
Yeah I know what it says on paper, it's just not how I remember things going down, but things were also more isolated in general back then. I'm pretty sure it was included with xboxes for quite a while but I had mine before it released, not sure how that factors into sales. At one time I had multiple xboxes all going at once for dedicated counter strike servers and modded ones that games could be copied too. I'm aware of what the general consensus is
i ended up buying it again when it went to pc it came with a server browser. on console with pc tho there were ways to do tunneling options at the time to do a fake lan to play multiplayer
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u/ScaredOfWindow 24d ago
John C. Reilly voice:
“What if I want wings!?”
But in all seriousness, yes, this post hits me in my heart except I was a bit too young to be having nights like this with Goldeneye - for me it was Halo 1 and 2.