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Poll: every one say they hate halo.
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Love halo
started at 3 and worked my way down the3 trilogy
just don't get why every one thinks only college douchebags
play halo or gears and I hardly play shooters ( more of a rpg guy )
and I FREAKIN LOVE HALO
started at 3 and worked my way down the3 trilogy
just don't get why every one thinks only college douchebags
play halo or gears and I hardly play shooters ( more of a rpg guy )
and I FREAKIN LOVE HALO
Mr.Wiggles said:
Irridium said:
reg42 said:
GAH!Furburt said:
OT:......Please shut up about people having opinions different from yours. I see way too much of shit around the escapist. It's really fucking annoying.
EDIT: Oh sweet Jesus, it's spreading!
I love the Halo series. Haven't played any of them for over a year because I don't own an XBox, but yeah, they were cool. I wasn't a great person to play with because I kept getting lost in the scenery rather than killing all the threats and moving on.
I don't like the multiplayer much, unless it's with my friends. Everyone online is a prepubescent little shit who call hacks when I kill them, teabag when they kill me, and insult my mother at all times. EVEN WHEN THEY'RE ON MY OWN TEAM.
...but that's hardly the game's fault.
I don't like the multiplayer much, unless it's with my friends. Everyone online is a prepubescent little shit who call hacks when I kill them, teabag when they kill me, and insult my mother at all times. EVEN WHEN THEY'RE ON MY OWN TEAM.
...but that's hardly the game's fault.
I've looked through these 2 pages for responses, and while the vast majority cite the reason as personal opinion/average quality/its generic, I don't feel this constitutes enough of a critical response to something which recieves such hate.
Now, something a few people pointed out is that their friends over-hyped it, so I'm willing to take the combination of these two factors, over-blown fanfare and decent but not knock-out quality, to be the cause of the 'hate'. But, as far as critical responses go, Halo and its sequels haven't been done justice.
This is both due to the massive fanfare and its subsequent backlash. If people stayed away from these two camps Halo 2, 3 etc. etc. might have been better.
Personally, I enjoy them, though I don't think they're the best games out there, and could do with a few improvements, the number one in my opinion being team play, very rarely do you get a team that co-operates well, this is a big issue for a co-operative game.
Now, something a few people pointed out is that their friends over-hyped it, so I'm willing to take the combination of these two factors, over-blown fanfare and decent but not knock-out quality, to be the cause of the 'hate'. But, as far as critical responses go, Halo and its sequels haven't been done justice.
This is both due to the massive fanfare and its subsequent backlash. If people stayed away from these two camps Halo 2, 3 etc. etc. might have been better.
Personally, I enjoy them, though I don't think they're the best games out there, and could do with a few improvements, the number one in my opinion being team play, very rarely do you get a team that co-operates well, this is a big issue for a co-operative game.
I don't hate Halo, but I do dislike it and many FPS's, including CoD, because for all I can see them for the whole idea is just that to win you have to get from point A to point B killing everything in the way, and I can't find any reason why I should be interested in games like that. I tried to like them because it's what everybody seems to be into, but my philosophy that the story is the most important thing in games kept me from really enjoying the games. I ended up just sighing as I shot my way through level after level with a story that felt like it was haphazardly slapped together at the last moment. Add onto that the fact that I can't really remember a single thing from any of the stories of any of the FPS's I've played or seen and it leaves me with the feeling that the entire FPS genre is just for gamers who like to blow stuff up.
To address the fact that everyone loves it for the multiplayer: It seems that this is all people ever praise the games for and I find that really bad because it means the single player mode has nothing memorable to it, even to those who enjoy it. I may have been listening to Zero Punctuation for too long, or it may be the types of games I do play, but I have the opinion that a game should be able to stand up on its own in the single player game without needing to rely on a multiplayer, no matter how good it is, to bring new fans to the series and old fans back to the series.
To address the fact that everyone loves it for the multiplayer: It seems that this is all people ever praise the games for and I find that really bad because it means the single player mode has nothing memorable to it, even to those who enjoy it. I may have been listening to Zero Punctuation for too long, or it may be the types of games I do play, but I have the opinion that a game should be able to stand up on its own in the single player game without needing to rely on a multiplayer, no matter how good it is, to bring new fans to the series and old fans back to the series.
To be quite frank;
Gameplay was dull and put me off. But the worst thing for me is the goddamn fking fanbase it spawned, bunch of annoying prks. And that is pirmarily wy I hate it
Gameplay was dull and put me off. But the worst thing for me is the goddamn fking fanbase it spawned, bunch of annoying prks. And that is pirmarily wy I hate it
I personally like it. I don't know why people hate it even if it is unoriginal. The best card games are unoriginal, and no one hates them...
Also, if you really don't like something, just don't play it. It helps no one if you go around spilling bile on other peoples fun
Also, if you really don't like something, just don't play it. It helps no one if you go around spilling bile on other peoples fun
I'd disagree right there, depending on what you mean by story, the plot is certainly not the most important aspect in books, films or games. However, story is important insofar as it is engaging, and I think that is what you're getting at. Early games, Pac-Man, Tetris and even continuing long-term series such as Mario, need little to no plot in order to create an enjoyable game.Darkstorm091 said:
However, if by story we mean an engaging element, that is essential, whether it is found in gameplay (the above examples), dialogue (mass effect series?), character development (every rpg ever?).
In Halo, the story is okay, I would say, but nothing special. The action and gameplay need to carry this game, then. So far as the AI is interesting to battle, I'd say Halo is a success, especially on Legendary difficulty. The game isn't unfair (taking away shield, health, increasing damage etc.), but makes its AI super-effective. At this level I'd say Halo is engaging.
While that might be the case now, would you have said the same thing when the original one came out? I feel that when it came out it was a genre defining game, and a breath of fresh air from what was out at the time. After that it just snowballed into popularity, and quality fell by the wayside.Furburt said:
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Furburt said:
Oh god, it's spreading!Irridium said:
OT: I rather like Halo. It's just my opinion. I enjoy playing it, why shouldn't I?
Triscut900 said:
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Now I know Jim Carrey is good an all guy's but really?reg42 said:
Anyway i've only ever played Halo with amigos and I own a PS3 so I may be a bit unfair upon it...And I guess I agree with these guys on what they were saying