I don't quite get why people hate Halo
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Well, I played games like TF2 before I played Halo, so my expectations were high as TF2 I think set a good example to lead by.
Halo let me down in all aspects, cookie-cutter single player, fairly bland and derivative multi-player. I didn't think it had variety at all. All the game types blended into one long, boring fest of shoot, kill with no where near enough variety to keep my attention for long.
Halo was average. But the thing that makes me hate it even more is when people claim it to be the "best game series ever!" that sort of statement makes me want to slap the speaker's controller out of their hands and ram it up their arse....
Halo is by no means bad...it just never had the right to be so popular. And best game series ever? Puh-lease. Nearly every game I own I'd pick over Halo.
Halo let me down in all aspects, cookie-cutter single player, fairly bland and derivative multi-player. I didn't think it had variety at all. All the game types blended into one long, boring fest of shoot, kill with no where near enough variety to keep my attention for long.
Halo was average. But the thing that makes me hate it even more is when people claim it to be the "best game series ever!" that sort of statement makes me want to slap the speaker's controller out of their hands and ram it up their arse....
Halo is by no means bad...it just never had the right to be so popular. And best game series ever? Puh-lease. Nearly every game I own I'd pick over Halo.
Eh, as a whole FPS's aren't my thing. Unless something more otherworldly than spiffy guns can attract my attention, then you haven't sold me.
Bioshock's use of inventive plasmids? THAT got my attention and kept me playing through, and it actually scared me during several points.
Mass Effect had a great story and writing, and the strategic use of biotics hooked me in and made me a total fanboy of the series.
Halo? Eeeeeeeeh... Nothing really pulled me in. I was somewhat intrigued in 2 at playing as the Arbiter to get a look at the Covenant structure, but other than that nothing really pulled me in. This is probably more of a personal preference.
I don't HATE Halo, by any stretch of the imagination. I dislike it, I don't bother with it, I leave it be and let the cussing ten-year-olds on XBL have it.
Bioshock's use of inventive plasmids? THAT got my attention and kept me playing through, and it actually scared me during several points.
Mass Effect had a great story and writing, and the strategic use of biotics hooked me in and made me a total fanboy of the series.
Halo? Eeeeeeeeh... Nothing really pulled me in. I was somewhat intrigued in 2 at playing as the Arbiter to get a look at the Covenant structure, but other than that nothing really pulled me in. This is probably more of a personal preference.
I don't HATE Halo, by any stretch of the imagination. I dislike it, I don't bother with it, I leave it be and let the cussing ten-year-olds on XBL have it.
Halo was a decent game, an incremental step above Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. But it was hailed as the second coming of shooter Jesus. Every frat house in the country bought an Xbox just for this game. Other game developers took notice and started making games that did nothing but appeal to 18 to 24-year-old men's basic primal instincts. And the entire industry got dumbed down as a result.
So I don't hate Halo on its own merits, I hate what it did to gaming.
So I don't hate Halo on its own merits, I hate what it did to gaming.
I'm apathetic about Halo games. I enjoy them, but they don't blow me away. I love the universe though, and a few of the novels are very good.
<spoiler= Rage>Because people got wtfpwnt too damn much in the game so they immediately thought "This game has ruined the FPS genre"
Which it has not...
People just loves to hate a game they didn't do too damn good in.
As for gameplay, it's awesome. No weapon is the same as the other and all got fulfilling jobs and tactics.
Jumping 10 feet upwards, strong vehicle section, a big variety of game styles and foremost of all, a huge community.
How is that not fun? To anyone?
I find myself asking the same thing, OP.
Which it has not...
People just loves to hate a game they didn't do too damn good in.
As for gameplay, it's awesome. No weapon is the same as the other and all got fulfilling jobs and tactics.
Jumping 10 feet upwards, strong vehicle section, a big variety of game styles and foremost of all, a huge community.
How is that not fun? To anyone?
I find myself asking the same thing, OP.
because the majority of the population of the world are idiots who are unable to think for themselves and hate halo because its 'cool' to hate halo or because their friends do.
Two words. PERSONAL OPINION. If one person hates it then another does just to follow the crowd. If you were a true fan you'd not listen to the opinion of others and have it #1 in your book. ACII is #1 in mine. Not many people I know are like that. It's all MW2 at my school. (God-damn shut up)
The industry was full of copycat ripoffs long before Halo came along - Halo just dragged it back from the exclusively multiplayer bog of copycat ripoffs brought about by Quake 3 (which wasn't even all that good - give me UT any day).James_Sunderland said:
The single player was fine if you took out some of the huge-ass back-track levels and the Library.
EDIT: Jesus, I already said all this a month ago. I need to be more careful of what I read.
aside from the story being a samey ripoff of enough sci-fi generalizations to make it onto my list of "Most generic games of all time" list... i mean the gameplay is fine, the multiplayer is fine... but it's just not THAT great... the reason it's so popular is simply because it was the ONLY acceptably made console shooter when it came out... and still is better than alot of the others that have followed it... but really, when people try and defend it's sorry excuse for a story by saying you hafta read the books to get into it... well my response... it's a game, if it's story has to be backed up by a series of novels written outside the game itself to have a good story line. that means it doesn't have a good story... after all the novels may be great, but they aren't in the game itself therefor the game itself has a pathetically loose story with little imaginative dialog and even less meat to it than most others made before it...
i mean that goes for ANY game, if i hafta read a novel or a series of them in order to "get" the story or to get into it, why the hell should i bother with the game? if the books make it worthwhile maybe i should save my pennies and just get the books instead y'know?
anyhow i'm ranting and i'm dead tired.
but there you have it.
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i mean that goes for ANY game, if i hafta read a novel or a series of them in order to "get" the story or to get into it, why the hell should i bother with the game? if the books make it worthwhile maybe i should save my pennies and just get the books instead y'know?
anyhow i'm ranting and i'm dead tired.
but there you have it.
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It's simply 'reactionary' hatred. People tend to hate anything that gets overly popular. There were people who hated Halo before it was even released because it was getting so much hype. The same goes for just about anything else that gets huge - you'll find groups of haters for things like Harry Potter, Twilight and Avatar; people that even refuse to watch these things because they already hate them. And it's not even 'hate' per se, it's usually always an exagerated way of people saying 'this just isn't for me' but they forget to be eloquent about it.
Like for me, personally, on an average day I would say I 'hate' Halo. But I don't really. I've played and enjoyed all of the games. The only problem I have with them is that they are really not as good as most people make them out to be. The first game had a cliched sci-fi plot, FPS gameplay that had been done a million times before and was way too short, with no replayability (when you have other games to move on to) and limited multiplayer. Yet there are legions of fans who claim it was innovative. Yes, it's graphics were good, but what do you expect from the launch game of what was the most powerful games console at the time? Also, there were comtemporary PC games that already looked as good or better. Yes, it was a good FPS on a console at a time when consoles were reknowned for having few FPS games, but it wasn't a breakthrough for that - Goldeneye and Red Faction, among others, had paved the way. When Halo 2 added online gaming to the series, fans started championing the multiplayer as the thing about Halo that stood above all other games, and yet for me Unreal Tournament 2004, which was released 8 months earlier, was everything that Halo 2's multiplayer was and more. UT2004 had more of everything to start with and was the kind of game where you could play a new map for free every time you played it, instead of having to pay for a few new ones every 6 months. The single player in Halo 2 was again short and the plot disappointing, but I enjoyed the gameplay, especially playing co-op with a friend, but I didn't touch the game after that.
In summation, I see why people like it, but it's just not my bag. Perhaps it's because when it comes to single player experiences I prefer the 100+ hours of plot than an RPG can give, and for multi-player I like games that are endlessly moddable like Unreal Tournament. I may say I 'hate' Halo but I'm just being flippant - I don't think it's a bad game, but I do think it's way overhyped. At least I gave it a fair chance though - I bet there are a lot of people out there who say they hate it but have never played it. I put that down to the reactionary hatred for things that happens when they reach an above average level of popularity. It's like another thread I commented on on here, where people were discussing which movies they 'refuse' to watch, and a lot of people were refusing to watch Avatar because they were sick of hearing people going on about it. Ever stop to think that everyone is going on about it because it's worth seeing? It's like that. Don't say you hate Halo because so many people go on about how brilliant it is - play it first, then say what you hate about it when you can back up your statement!
Like for me, personally, on an average day I would say I 'hate' Halo. But I don't really. I've played and enjoyed all of the games. The only problem I have with them is that they are really not as good as most people make them out to be. The first game had a cliched sci-fi plot, FPS gameplay that had been done a million times before and was way too short, with no replayability (when you have other games to move on to) and limited multiplayer. Yet there are legions of fans who claim it was innovative. Yes, it's graphics were good, but what do you expect from the launch game of what was the most powerful games console at the time? Also, there were comtemporary PC games that already looked as good or better. Yes, it was a good FPS on a console at a time when consoles were reknowned for having few FPS games, but it wasn't a breakthrough for that - Goldeneye and Red Faction, among others, had paved the way. When Halo 2 added online gaming to the series, fans started championing the multiplayer as the thing about Halo that stood above all other games, and yet for me Unreal Tournament 2004, which was released 8 months earlier, was everything that Halo 2's multiplayer was and more. UT2004 had more of everything to start with and was the kind of game where you could play a new map for free every time you played it, instead of having to pay for a few new ones every 6 months. The single player in Halo 2 was again short and the plot disappointing, but I enjoyed the gameplay, especially playing co-op with a friend, but I didn't touch the game after that.
In summation, I see why people like it, but it's just not my bag. Perhaps it's because when it comes to single player experiences I prefer the 100+ hours of plot than an RPG can give, and for multi-player I like games that are endlessly moddable like Unreal Tournament. I may say I 'hate' Halo but I'm just being flippant - I don't think it's a bad game, but I do think it's way overhyped. At least I gave it a fair chance though - I bet there are a lot of people out there who say they hate it but have never played it. I put that down to the reactionary hatred for things that happens when they reach an above average level of popularity. It's like another thread I commented on on here, where people were discussing which movies they 'refuse' to watch, and a lot of people were refusing to watch Avatar because they were sick of hearing people going on about it. Ever stop to think that everyone is going on about it because it's worth seeing? It's like that. Don't say you hate Halo because so many people go on about how brilliant it is - play it first, then say what you hate about it when you can back up your statement!
I don't hate "Halo". The first one was bloody brilliant and remains one of the best PC games to date. But then all was lost.