Poll: What's Your Opinion of the Halo Series?

[Braedan]

1 was a masterpiece. 2 was crap. 3 was a good game. ODST was a fun diversion. Reach was.... dumb.

 

[Korten12]

One of the things Ive always really disliked about Halo is how reliant the story is on the books. I havnt read them myself but Ive been told the books really characterize Master chief well but hes hardly characterized at all in the games. Thats created a character that I really dislike in the games and paradoxically it makes it so I dont care enough about Halo to pick up the books. To me master chief is a violent adreneline junky with no discipline who has no place standing next to "real" soldiers. As an ex-soldier thats something that I really really really hate so the very character presence harms my experience in the game

Bungie didn't want to characterize MC in the games because while he did speak in cutscenes, they wanted to allow players to put themselves into his feet hence the no speaking in gameplay and lack of characterization.

Luckily in Halo 4, 343i decided to bring more of the characterization from the books into the game. He even speaks now in cutscenes.

Also if you got "violent adreneline junky" from the games... Then I got no idea if you even payed attention. Hell even if you don't read the books, just from how he spoke and acted in cutscenes showed that he had discipline, gameplay though can't reflect that.

 

[SadisticFire]

I thought the Halo series was pretty cool when I first got into it, but I think it's starting to go beyond how long it should've lived at Halo 3. I do miss when I had a working copy of Halo Custom Edition, that was fun while it lasted, and it should do that with some more of their games in my opinion.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

I love it!! Played them all, Reach is my absolute favourite.
And also, I never played multiplayer.

 

[kingthrall]

I am tired of Halo, why not bring back the other classics like Myth, Omni or Marathon. Of course Bungie isnt even doing this new one so its just yet another evident example of milking products.

Oh and Halo was made for PC before consoles so it makes no sense the last voting option even though consoles are indeed inferior.

 

[Azurian]

Overall to me Halo has been a meh to boring game series I get more fun out of other shooters. I have played 1 a bit of 2,3 and ODST and I never really been taken in by the games. I thought it was just me and I was missing out on something great. But I have come to the realization I just don't like Halo and those driving controls always piss me off who thought driving with analog stick was a good idea?

 

[StBishop]

I had alot of fun with it. it got me into FPS's mainly because while it stole alot from James Cameron, it did it very well. Also the old LAN parties with my friends were some of the best times i had with multiplayer. Its hard to beat sneaking up on one of your friends with the energy sword and saying "pssst, behind you" and having 7 screens pull a 180 and one of them goes black.

What did it steal from James Cameron? You said that as if we all know exactly what you're talking about, but I've never heard that before.

Care to clarify?

It's been a while since I've played either but the motion tracker thing in Halo works like the similarly named device in Aliens, but then again I think aesthetically that's how actual radar looks (blinking dots on a circle) anyway. I might also add that I guess the Elites with their armor on sorta kinda look like Xenomorphs. Also space marines but then again it's not like James Cameron invented space marines.

If I didn't know that Halo didn't come out 8 years before, I'd also say that some of the vehicles kind of look like the ones in Avatar, and the color palette is kind of similar (one side is murky green vs while the other is colorful with bright blues and purples).

James Cameron made the Alien movies? I thought that was Ridley Scott. (A quick IMDB check confirmed this).

And the fact that Avatar is similar to Halo is sort of the opposite of Halo being derivative. It actually suggests that Avatar is derivative.

Radar is usually displayed in a similar way to the way it is in Halo, especially in film, I dare say that Alien (which is irrelevant because Cameron didn't make them) borrowed it from earlier films.

So basically there's no answer (yet) to my question of "How did Halo rip off Cameron?", correct?

 

[Gatx]

James Cameron made the Alien movies? I thought that was Ridley Scott. (A quick IMDB check confirmed this).

And the fact that Avatar is similar to Halo is sort of the opposite of Halo being derivative. It actually suggests that Avatar is derivative.

Radar is usually displayed in a similar way to the way it is in Halo, especially in film, I dare say that Alien (which is irrelevant because Cameron didn't make them) borrowed it from earlier films.

So basically there's no answer (yet) to my question of "How did Halo rip off Cameron?", correct?

Well no, see, James Cameron directed Aliens, the sequel, which is where you get the marines, rather than the first where it's more straight horror vibe. I think the motion tracker might've had more screen time too. Anyway directing Aliens is one of the things he's most famous for (along with Terminator 2 and Titanic) so I just gave my best guess that that was what the guy who made the statement was referring to. Other than that I can think of nothing else from anything James Cameron's worked that could have possibly influenced anything in Halo.

EDIT: And yeah I did mention that Halo came out before Avatar, I was just pointing out possible reasons for the guy's statement.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I'm a big fan of Halo, and I actually think the series has got consistently better each game (with the exception of Wars, and I don't count Anniversary as a new game). ODST and Reach are my two favorites.

 

[James Mann]

Loved 1, 2, Reach and ODST, Enjoyed 3 mostly for Forge and forge-built maps but still had a decent campaign and multiplayer to go with it, Enjoyed Wars not as much as the others, or as much as a PC RTS but a valient effort in both bringing the series to a new genre and bringing a different genre to console.

All around, Bravo A-.

 

[StBishop]

James Cameron made the Alien movies? I thought that was Ridley Scott. (A quick IMDB check confirmed this).

And the fact that Avatar is similar to Halo is sort of the opposite of Halo being derivative. It actually suggests that Avatar is derivative.

Radar is usually displayed in a similar way to the way it is in Halo, especially in film, I dare say that Alien (which is irrelevant because Cameron didn't make them) borrowed it from earlier films.

So basically there's no answer (yet) to my question of "How did Halo rip off Cameron?", correct?

Well no, see, James Cameron directed Aliens, the sequel, which is where you get the marines, rather than the first where it's more straight horror vibe. I think the motion tracker might've had more screen time too. Anyway directing Aliens is one of the things he's most famous for (along with Terminator 2 and Titanic) so I just gave my best guess that that was what the guy who made the statement was referring to. Other than that I can think of nothing else from anything James Cameron's worked that could have possibly influenced anything in Halo.

EDIT: And yeah I did mention that Halo came out before Avatar, I was just pointing out possible reasons for the guy's statement.

Huh, you'd think they'd want to keep the same bloke making it to maintain the feel.

(To be honest, I didn't know Cameron directed Terminator either.)

Regardless, the Spartans are almost wholesale ripped from WH40K's Spehs Mahrins. I'm not trying to say it's an original concept, I just didn't see the connection to James Cameron.

 

[Korten12]

James Cameron made the Alien movies? I thought that was Ridley Scott. (A quick IMDB check confirmed this).

And the fact that Avatar is similar to Halo is sort of the opposite of Halo being derivative. It actually suggests that Avatar is derivative.

Radar is usually displayed in a similar way to the way it is in Halo, especially in film, I dare say that Alien (which is irrelevant because Cameron didn't make them) borrowed it from earlier films.

So basically there's no answer (yet) to my question of "How did Halo rip off Cameron?", correct?

Well no, see, James Cameron directed Aliens, the sequel, which is where you get the marines, rather than the first where it's more straight horror vibe. I think the motion tracker might've had more screen time too. Anyway directing Aliens is one of the things he's most famous for (along with Terminator 2 and Titanic) so I just gave my best guess that that was what the guy who made the statement was referring to. Other than that I can think of nothing else from anything James Cameron's worked that could have possibly influenced anything in Halo.

EDIT: And yeah I did mention that Halo came out before Avatar, I was just pointing out possible reasons for the guy's statement.

Huh, you'd think they'd want to keep the same bloke making it to maintain the feel.

(To be honest, I didn't know Cameron directed Terminator either.)

Regardless, the Spartans are almost wholesale ripped from WH40K's Spehs Mahrins. I'm not trying to say it's an original concept, I just didn't see the connection to James Cameron.

The marines in Halo are very akin to the Marines in Aliens, they even spout some lines from the movie just slightly altered. Johnson is one large reference to Al Apone from the movie to his looks and personality, various veichles in Halo are very similar to Aliens and lastly some scenes through out the main trilogy are very similar to Aliens. Bungie even admitted to being heavily inspired by Aliens.

 

[StBishop]

Huh, you'd think they'd want to keep the same bloke making it to maintain the feel.

(To be honest, I didn't know Cameron directed Terminator either.)

Regardless, the Spartans are almost wholesale ripped from WH40K's Spehs Mahrins. I'm not trying to say it's an original concept, I just didn't see the connection to James Cameron.

The marines in Halo are very akin to the Marines in Aliens, they even spout some lines from the movie just slightly altered. Johnson is one large reference to Al Apone from the movie to his looks and personality, various veichles in Halo are very similar to Aliens and lastly some scenes through out the main trilogy are very similar to Aliens. Bungie even admitted to being heavily inspired by Aliens.

Huh, there you go. That's what I was looking for.

Turns out there is a widely known connection.

Awesome.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

HALO for me brings friends together.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

No opinion. I can't really have one either since I've got a PC and a PS3, so I can't really play them.
Have been interested in it and would love to play them but I don't think it's worth getting a whole new console for.

 

[Fappy]

It's the FF7 of FPS.

Yes, it's the game that popped a LOT of cherries for console gamers who had never played a FPS online, but that's about it.

Mediocre main series, with a crappy RTS, and mediocre anime movie thing.

Wow, I never thought of it this way. So true.

I liked the ride, but I got off at Reach. I don't like the direction the franchise is headed and I've been tired of the FPS genre since 07'.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I'll go with "I don't like it". I have the first on PC and had Halo 2 on Xbox (sold it). They were ok, rather generic shooter games, but with the insane hype from them, it brought them from "ok" to "bad". The first one is one of the worst games I ever played just because the Library level made me go "this is stupid" and quit playing it completely. So far, only other game to do that is Super Smash Bros Brawl.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I think I have the first two, but I've never played them. I do love RvB tho!

 

[BroJing]

I hated 1-3 for one simple reason, you get all the way though each of them and then boom 3-4 levels of running through Flood-infested terrain which is always the same corridor always fighting the same fucking Flood zombies. So fricking dull.

Not to mention that Master Chief is the most boring generic space marine in the history of generic space marines.

ODST though I really liked, the feeling of being a bit more helpless and the creepiness of the abandoned city at night were really good mood setters. I really liked being able to ambush covenant patrols and take out sentries to wipe out a sleeping group.

Reach was pretty good too, yeah the 'lets have a noble death contest' got boring but otherwise quite cool.

Really liked Halo Wars

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I've only played 3, ODST and Reach. While they were alright, I wouldn't call them good games and I shall never play them again.

It had really dull characters that I couldn't connect with.