Poll: How do you view the Halo series?
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by standards i mean the cookie cutter characters, the uninspired dark graphics, the badly written story, regenerating health, and the decent controls(which in all honestly isn't a bad thing)... oh and of course the fact that it can turn out mediocrity in exchange for piles of money...stika said:
I really liked Combat Evolved, 10/10. Halo 2 got on my nerves (noes mah assult rifle!) and Halo 3, which i own, i can't face playing on single player. I preferred the simpler times with slow moving enemies, meaty weapons, cumbersome AI and dark colouring. Halo 3 is too fast paced and colourful for my weary old brain.
A game so popular it calapsed in on itself and became one of the most hated games ever. It's deserving of neither title.
I liked Halo CE. Halo 2 was good, but lacking in gameplay. Halo 3 sucked except for the custom game multiplayer. Have not played Halo Wars, but I want to. And I want ODST and Reach.
On the whole, the games are good, but not great. I am a fan of the books, as unrealistic as they are.
On the whole, the games are good, but not great. I am a fan of the books, as unrealistic as they are.
yes I own Turok and Goldeneye but here's the thing those games showed that FPS' can work on consoles but never gave the genre any kind of standard to work off of and the genre was still up in the air at the time. here's the thing I think if Halo wasn't popular the genre would have been able to refine itself and even if another game like Halo were to come along I don't think it would receive the same kind of attention that Halo would because with enough time the genre would evolve enough to the point that something as simple and cliche and Halo would just be forgotten within a year...orannis62 said:
maybe we have different views of "fanboy". I like Halo, but it's not the greatest game ever conceived.rapidfire21 said:
yes, but the books aren't about multiplayer and mediocre gameplay. They aren't about any of the Halo games either.TheDoctor455 said:
enjoying the Halo universe doesn't make you a...oh. well maybe it does.
It was great when they first came out, but that was because it was still pretty new. Now I still believe that Halo 2 had the most memorable moments.
Its OK now. Thats it. Now its just been copied and reused so that you see some aspects of it almost anywhere, an in some cases done better so its gone down the list for everyone. I used to think it was godly. But that was also just before Halo 3 came out.
Will I play Reach? Most likely. Will I buy sequels after it? Only if it resolves that goddamn cliffhanger at the end of Halo 3 instead of this prequel bullshit.
Don't get me wrong I like the prequels/other perspectives, its just, tie off your main plot before you backtrack.
Its OK now. Thats it. Now its just been copied and reused so that you see some aspects of it almost anywhere, an in some cases done better so its gone down the list for everyone. I used to think it was godly. But that was also just before Halo 3 came out.
Will I play Reach? Most likely. Will I buy sequels after it? Only if it resolves that goddamn cliffhanger at the end of Halo 3 instead of this prequel bullshit.
Don't get me wrong I like the prequels/other perspectives, its just, tie off your main plot before you backtrack.
Halo to me is a true Doom clone, minus the fun.
Space marine in green power armor with spaceman helmet, check. Mix of standard human bullet weapons and energy weapons, check. Hideous enemy monsters, check. You being the last hope for doomed humanity, check. Invasion of earth, check.
Nothing really much Halo does differently than Doom, besides limit what you can carry and reward you with more health if you go and hide for a while.
Biggest difference is I have played through Doom several times and I couldn't force myself to finish Halo even once.
Space marine in green power armor with spaceman helmet, check. Mix of standard human bullet weapons and energy weapons, check. Hideous enemy monsters, check. You being the last hope for doomed humanity, check. Invasion of earth, check.
Nothing really much Halo does differently than Doom, besides limit what you can carry and reward you with more health if you go and hide for a while.
Biggest difference is I have played through Doom several times and I couldn't force myself to finish Halo even once.
Not unique or polished? Show me another console FPS from the times that was as well done. Along with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and a few others (all a few years before), it proved the viability of FPSs on consoles.LordNue said:
As far as PC FPSs at the time, you're right, Halo was generic, but that's not the point: Halo was a console FPS, it wasn't even ported to the PC for two years. The effect it had was almost solely on the consoles, but that doesn't lessen it's impact (or that of my other examples).
I still like the first Halo the best because it has the best story- feels more like a B Sci-Fi movie that I think really fits the plot they're trying to keep up with.
Overall I would say that the games are good, but they just didn't change enough for Halo 3 besides the engine in my mind
Overall I would say that the games are good, but they just didn't change enough for Halo 3 besides the engine in my mind
Has Doom ever put you in the shoes of the demons? In case you don't know, for around half of Halo 2, we were given The Arbiter, one of the Elites, as our protagonist, and it gave a good deal more insight into the Covenant and showed that they weren't all evil. Sure, the Prophets (ones at the top) were all bat-shit crazy, and the Brutes, their lapdogs (by the end of Halo 2, at least) were very...well, brutal, but eventually, after finding out the truth, all of the Elites and some of the Grunts and Hunters rebelled and left the Covenant.demoman_chaos said:
Tell me, did anything like that happen in Doom?