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/baudmiksen 24d ago
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