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priteshmodi on 09 April 2010
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I disagree. I've been playing FPS since I was 4 starting with Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and the like (Blood, Blood 2, Heretic, Duke Nukem, etc.) and I was thoroughly blown away the first time I played Halo:CE. It did a few new things and a lot of existing things right.

It maintained FPS staples at the time (lots of great and unique weapons, 1 man army aesthetic, included scripting making you feel like a part of something bigger going on borrowed from Half Life) and threw in some great twists (two weapons at a time, multiple grenade types with simple access, amazing vehicle segments, excellent AI, good variation in enemy types, melee dynamically fitting in with gun combat). Its control sensitivity was also designed around the slower handling console thumbsticks. The player didn't move at an extremely fast pace and neither did the enemies unlike many PC shooters at the time so it worked well with the limitation of the controller. A lot of games still released don't quite get this right on consoles.

As others have said, the PC version of Halo had quite a few technical problems. In addition to that, they didn't change the way the game flowed. They kept the console-centric design of motion so PC players (myself included) found it a sub-par experience with the mouse and keyboard.

Goldeneye I've only ever played once and enjoyed it when I did so I can't comment on how great or bad it is with my limited exposure.

As for newer generations of gamers liking things that you personally don't care for... does it really affect you? Because it shouldn't. If you love all those older games that much then you can still go back and play them over and over despite all the new stuff that's being released on PC that doesn't interest you.

With the exception of Killzone 2 and Halo on consoles, there aren't any console FPS games that I care for much in terms of gameplay. I do all the rest of my FPS gaming on PC. Why? It's just what I was exposed to first so I got accusomted to it most and I find it more comfortable and more fun. Everyone around me at my age seems to be into all the newer stuff. They've just been more exposed to the Modern Warfare kind of thing. Their first experiences have been with it and so they enjoy it as it's new and exciting for them. It all depends on how your tastes first developed. You enjoyed the older games? More power to you as you've gotten to enjoy gaming for a longer time and have a greater scope of the gaming landscape.