Were there people who considered the Halo series to be a bad version of Unreal Tournament and/or Quake back then? What’s your stance on this?
Yeah. The addition of regenerative health has long been seen as something that ‘killed’ the FPS genre (despite it now being bigger than it ever was before) to a lot of diehard Quake fans, which is something they blame Halo for. I personally love what Halo has done to FPSes. It gave them new life and introduced tons of new mechanics that shook up the meta.