Whatever argument you had was lost when saying "Halo set the standard". Let me remind WHY Halo was so popular and how it wasn't a standard, but PART of the standard.
It was the first real online shooter for a console and it worked really well. It was the consoles first way friends could get together and play capture the flag, deathmatch and other fun things. Was it the first online shooter for console? No but it was the first one to get popular. Halo's only thing was recharging shields but I don't think that's what made it popular when the best thing was being able to play with your friend perhaps online to top it off? Nothing in the game was done differently you had guns, you shot at people, sometimes it was in hallways and sometimes it was out in blocky terrain, many games did this.
People on PC were enjoying many games that were online prior to that, do we brag about those games saying how they revolutionized gaming and how they were the best thing since super sliced bread? Not to the extend many Halo fans praise the game to be. It's a old game and if all you want to do is relive the glory days of how Halo was then find a forum where that's what people talk about, which brings me to why there's so many "haters" of Halo.
Not everyone played Halo like you did perhaps, maybe many people who did play it had other games they enjoyed more on another platform. Games other people felt were better and while Halo was the only game you might have had/aside from Halo 2, other platforms had many different games. Halo was a BIG shooter on the xbox, there were many other big games on other platforms so that's why people "hate on it".
Halo fans keep bringing it up like it was the best game ever, it was a good game, as there were many others at the time but it's ALWAYS brought up and the people who were playing something else were sick of hearing about it then and they're sick of it now. What if PC fans just brought up Half Life all the time and just said it's so much better than Halo, or PS2 fans brought up Socom and said how much it kicked halos ass? It'd make you a "hater" too wouldn't it?
Short ver:
Halo was great for people because it was one of the first online games for consoles that worked really well. While other platforms had their own games they enjoyed at the time, BUT, the only thing that's ever brought up is "Halo was revolutionary" but there's no reason WHY. Recharging shields? That's just like recharging your armor in Half Life 2.
Was it good? Yes, was there other great games at the time, YES. Do we bring them up? Not as much as Halo, and it gets annoying.
