Is Red vs Blue the best thing about Halo?

[Proverbial Jon]

There are your problems right there.

You have no right to condemn a game that you have only played 10 minutes of. In fact when I first played Halo, the first 10 minutes confused me and I may have even felt the same as you about it, thinking it was rubbish. But I gave it a chance and now the whole series is one of my favourite.

Plus, it's easy to resent a game you're not very good at. Again, playing it more and giving it a chance can help you out no end. I'd be able to accept your arguments a lot easier if you'd played at least one Halo game all the way through and had some constructive criticisms.

10 minutes is more than enough to time to get the jist of how Halo works. It's not exactly a complex game.

If the first 10 minutes of a movie suck - nobody is going to fault you for walking out.
If the first 10 bites of a steak make you nauseous - nobody is going to fault you for sending your steak back.

Can we PLEASE stop using the "LOL U NOT LIEK GAEM CUZ U SUCK AT IT N00B" argument?

Woah, ok I get your point, but I was only trying to give another side to the argument.

I understand not everyone can like the same sorts of games, but that doesn't mean the game itself is bad. I hate RTS games, but I don't go mouthing off that all RTS games are worthless.

My point is that there is a lot more to find in Halo than just what is probably to most, a mediocre shooter. I like games set in space, so forgive me for enjoying the very few titles that give me that setting.

Also, I don't refer to people as noobs, I'm not an online gamer and I'm certainly not that good at Halo either... I'm only in it for the story and setting. Sorry if I offended anyone.

 

[Beastialman]

My experience with RvB. Terribly stupid users, some elists members, a huge lack of grammar from a huge amount of the users. Mods who ride one joke and everyone else who kisses up to it (example "Hobbie" as replacement for "first" on a comic).

Also the CGI they added looks horrid and their artist only knows how to do a single style kick when animating.

Edit: Let's also not forgot the thing that I did on their that made them look incompetent. So they had this group feature where people could be part of a group with leaders, pitures, journals, and their own little forum. It was all fine and dandy, but it had been in BETA for a while now (longer than things should be in BETA for). My friend has his group taken over (basically the guy phished a link that made him a mod of the group without the admins knowing), sucks for him but it gets worse. He figured out the exploit and reported it to a mod, they did nothing (literally no response from them). So he enlisted me (and my like of mindless disruption of a website feature) to take over a group with a high amount of mods and people who actually pay to use the side. Needless to say, RT didn't liked that, after I declared victory over the Furry Group, some small private group, and the main target "FinchLynch's Thunderdome."

So about a day later they took down the group features and it took them two months to put them back up. Their lazy solution was to make a pop up window that said "You're about to make this person admin. Are you sure you want to do this?" Also they made it slower to kick users by doing the same thing, and made it so when you kicked some one from the group they stay kicked until an admin invites them back in.

Yup lazy and incompetent describe their website.

 

[Danial]

Any good the single player of Halo has done, having to deal with people in the multiplayer has totally ruined.

And yeah I still prefer the RvB stuff, even when they directly affect halo, Look at Griffball and the Horse maps they help you find.

 

[SilverUchiha]

Yes. Halo is essentially worthless without Red Vs. Blue. And for Halo-fans who dislike this comment, I don't care. That my opinion. Live with it.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I played Halo once, for about ten minutes. I thought it was terrible. Then a while later a friend of mine turned me on to Red vs Blue. Although I think Halo sucks, I do apprecaite it's creation because without it I would have never been able to enjoy a great and hilrious 8 seasons. (9 starting soon)

I would rather play Halo as one of the characters from Red V Blue. The storyline is better, the dialogue is better, the characters are better and the voice acting is top notch. None of these things can actually be said about Halo.

If there was a Red vs Blue campaign in Halo Reach, I would likely go buy an Xbox.

Are you trolling?

Play the game for more than ten minutes, then maybe I will take your opinion more seriously.

Also, yeah, RVB is awesome.

No, this is the Escapist. Where you always need to back up your opinions with experience, unless you're talking about Halo or Call of Duty.

Also....As much as I love Halo, I think RVB could still be the best thing to come out of it. Not because Halo is bad, it's great, but because RVB is so awesome. Speaking of which, does anyone know when season 9 is starting?

 

[SilverUchiha]

I played Halo once, for about ten minutes. I thought it was terrible. Then a while later a friend of mine turned me on to Red vs Blue. Although I think Halo sucks, I do apprecaite it's creation because without it I would have never been able to enjoy a great and hilrious 8 seasons. (9 starting soon)

I would rather play Halo as one of the characters from Red V Blue. The storyline is better, the dialogue is better, the characters are better and the voice acting is top notch. None of these things can actually be said about Halo.

If there was a Red vs Blue campaign in Halo Reach, I would likely go buy an Xbox.

Are you trolling?

Play the game for more than ten minutes, then maybe I will take your opinion more seriously.

Also, yeah, RVB is awesome.

I've played at least several rounds of multiplayer in all three of the main games and I beat the entire first game... I concur with the OP that Halo isn't really fun at all.

 

[WanderingFool]

There are your problems right there.

You have no right to condemn a game that you have only played 10 minutes of. In fact when I first played Halo, the first 10 minutes confused me and I may have even felt the same as you about it, thinking it was rubbish. But I gave it a chance and now the whole series is one of my favourite.

Plus, it's easy to resent a game you're not very good at. Again, playing it more and giving it a chance can help you out no end. I'd be able to accept your arguments a lot easier if you'd played at least one Halo game all the way through and had some constructive criticisms.

10 minutes is more than enough to time to get the jist of how Halo works. It's not exactly a complex game.

If the first 10 minutes of a movie suck - nobody is going to fault you for walking out.
If the first 10 bites of a steak make you nauseous - nobody is going to fault you for sending your steak back.

Can we PLEASE stop using the "LOL U NOT LIEK GAEM CUZ U SUCK AT IT N00B" argument?

It's funny you should mention that, given that I've seen quite a number of films that sucked for the first 10min and then turned into pure, unadulterated win thereafter. Then again, I've seen a lot of bad films that never improved. It's a pride thing though I'm sure - seeing things through to the end. Particularly if I paid money to enjoy it.

The only film I've ever walked out on was [a href=http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/internet-high-five.jpg]The New World[/a], and that was at the 2hr mark.

And with regards to the "LOL U NOT LIEK GAEM CUZ U SUCK AT IT N00B" argument, if the shoe fits...

OT: This whole thread seems incredibly absurd, given how successful the Halo franchise has been. Yes, RvB is funny and awesome. Is it more awesome than Halo itself? Well that's a personal opinion... isn't it?

How about this - would RvB exist without Halo?

There was only one film that I walked out on, and this was oh, roughly a thrid of the way through, maybe halfway. That movie was Scott Pilgrim, and for the life of me, I cant say for sure why I hated it, but I did. Nothing in that movie did I like.

 

[Slavik_91]

I used to like it cuz it was full of lulz comedy, but now most of it was replaced by boring and physically impossible action moves.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I could go on to say that just about every control mechanic in Console FPSs was created by Bungie for Halo, but then I would be wasting my breath on a troll, so this will suffice,

To answer your question: No, RvB is not the best thing about Halo.

 

[Sun Flash]

No, this is the Escapist. Where you always need to back up your opinions with experience, unless you're talking about Halo or Call of Duty.

Also....As much as I love Halo, I think RVB could still be the best thing to come out of it. Not because Halo is bad, it's great, but because RVB is so awesome. Speaking of which, does anyone know when season 9 is starting?

QFT.

re: Season 9 - Burnie's started writing the script and I don't know exactly but they've either begun, are are just about to begin shooting. Although RT says they like to have a couple of episodes as a buffer if something comes up mid production.

So I'd say May-ish at the earliest. Although the guys'll be doing a a few conventions in the coming months where they might make an announcement.

reading that back makes me sound like a stalker. I promise I'm not.


[sub]I gave that life up a long time ago.[/sub]

 

[KrabbiPatty]

From what little I've seen of RvB: no. No it isn't.

I'm not the hugest Halo fan, I'll admit I have never even played it online, but I do like the series and honestly if anyone genuinely thinks playing a game for 10 minutes or hating a game because you suck at it is somehow a problem WITH THE GAME then you need to have your fucking head examined. And likewise if you feel the need to walk out on a movie in the first ten minutes because you hate it. That's not having high standards, or being a n00b, that's just being a childish prick. A whiny childish prick. Which I can scientifically prove is 800% worse than the most childish of normal childish pricks.

Off topic rant: I didn't walk out on Scott Pilgrim but I hated that movie. Though really I mainly hated the Ramona character...I didn't like her the first time when I saw the character when she was called "Daria", and I don't like her now that she's a hipster icon because "OOH OOH SOMEONE WROTE A COMIC WITH VIDEO GAME STUFF IN IT OOOOH!"

My God, hipsters, put down the PBR and indie music CDs and find someone amongst your feckless kind who knows how to write a comic, PLEASE! Because Scott Pilgrim, both the comic and movie, was AT LEAST as bad as the Holocaust.

And I'm a Jew, just to put that into perspective.

 

[Awexsome]

RvB is one of the many great things to come out Halo, in fact, it really is in my eyes the defining series that represents Machinima.

Also yes, OP be trollin.

 

[snappydog]

It seems as if people are talking about RvB as if it's a canonical offshoot of Halo... it didn't exactly 'come out' of it. Still, I think RvB's hilarious, but the games are good. Yeah, they're not great, but they're brilliant for pure 'I feel like shooting some aliens'.

 

[SFR]

I'm surprised people still bash Halo so much. I thought people would be looking at CoD now, because it's popular. Let's face it, people hate things other people like. IT MAKES YOU COOL OR SOMETHING. Seriously, Halo was always criticized for being generic. Now it's one of the only original shooters out right now. As an FPS, it's CONSIDERABLY different than all of these military shooters that cloud the market. One major thing I really like about Halo: the jumping. It's not sluggish or sticky. You hit the button and you jump.

So, no RvB isn't the only good thing to come out of Halo in my opinion. Halo was a great thing to come out of Halo. I love RvB, but calling the franchise it comes from boring because you played for a lousy ten minutes doesn't cut it. You should have just left that little tid bit out.

And holy hell, those complaining about Monty's animations in RvB... Wow, just wow. People someone how manage to bash EVERY possible thing out there. No matter how great it is. Someone has to dislike it just to be different. Do you people have any idea how long it took Monty to do that stuff? And how great it looks given what he had to work with? Boring? Seriously... You actually find it boring? What the hell excites you then? Planet collisions?

Wow, that was a lot of questions.

 

[Sun Flash]

Scott Pilgrim, both the comic and movie, was AT LEAST as bad as the Holocaust.

And I'm a Jew, just to put that into perspective.

Spoiler: BOOM

That is all.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

eh i have seen about 9-10 episodes of red vs blue, i don't care for it really, the voice actors aggravate me if anything.

but halo itself? i actually really enjoy it, the story in the games isn't there that much, and it never flaunts itself for it, although the halo books are among my top ten favorite books of all time so i can't completely denounce the story.