Are you reffering to the graphical butchering that occurred in the gearbox port? I grew up playing CE on the PC so if wasn't until years later that I found out how much I was missing graphically compared to the original.
I originally only had CE on the Xbox, and I later played CE on the PC. I always remembered the Xbox graphics being better and I chalked it up to a nostalgic view of one of my favourite games.
I've been a huge Halo fan and played all the games and it was only last month I learned that the gearbox port genuinely butchered the graphics.