when h2 first dropped...nikkas HATED IT....it was before the patch fixed a lot of shyt...but a lot of it had to do with how much the overall game changed...the meta-game from CE was gone....lack of weapons/powerups being affected by grenades, spawn system, too easy to shoot, etc...
h1 is halo in its purest form...
Yup. Trust, I been following MLG since Melee was in there, I saw every complaint about H2. Thing is, so many more people played H2 in-depth than they EVER did H1. I remember seeing dudes claim they put in 300+ hours in H1 multi, but you ask them how to backpack reload and they had 0 idea. I didn't play Halo until 2(that's when I got a xbox), but I learned about 1 just because I wanted to see the differences in the games, and what I learned was just
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nikkas HATED the sword off top. People complained ranking up was too hard. The rocket launcher was an insta-kill if you melee'd nikkas on the head. The pistol was destroyed. nikkas hated dual-wielding, SMG starts, and the melee thrust. Hearing all the complains I had to get on XBC. I wasn't terrible but since I couldn't really play CE online, I never bothered to really learn the nade-spots for weapons and such. I always had the knowledge, but the execution was a whole new realm. Lots of nikkas never even had the knowledge of CE.