So NOW it's cool?

[Vitor Goncalves]

You have to have someone to hate, CoD players hate Halo, PS3 hates Xbox 360, and EVERYONE hates the Wii.

Is that why everyone is playing with the Wii? people now seem to do what they hate.

 

[Z4N5H1N]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at. Halo you need to be a certain kind of gamer to do well. Assholes, especially in early school (middle/high school) hate everyone who's good at things they aren't. Why do you think smart people get picked on? The bullies don't like them, because they get good grades and the bully doesn't. Same concept for video games. Bully is bad at Halo, therefore Halo sucks. Bully is good at CoD, therefore CoD is awesome.

I can't tell if you're trolling or are just bad at FPS. Halo is not any harder than CoD. You do not need to be "a certain type of gamer" to be good at Halo, unless the "certain type of gamer" you're referring to is the type who has played a lot of Halo. Similarly, to be good at CoD, you have to play a lot of CoD. It's called practice, and it works for most things in life you want to get better at.

 

[Judgement101]

You have to have someone to hate, CoD players hate Halo, PS3 hates Xbox 360, and EVERYONE hates the Wii.

Is that why everyone is playing with the Wii? people now seem to do what they hate.

You're the kind of person who made me not visit this site in 3 months. Seriously, no one gets the joking sense of it. Apparently everyone has to argue with things that aren't even a major deal.

 

[TheTaco007]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at. Halo you need to be a certain kind of gamer to do well. Assholes, especially in early school (middle/high school) hate everyone who's good at things they aren't. Why do you think smart people get picked on? The bullies don't like them, because they get good grades and the bully doesn't. Same concept for video games. Bully is bad at Halo, therefore Halo sucks. Bully is good at CoD, therefore CoD is awesome.

I can't tell if you're trolling or are just bad at FPS. Halo is not any harder than CoD. You do not need to be "a certain type of gamer" to be good at Halo, unless the "certain type of gamer" you're referring to is the type who has played a lot of Halo. Similarly, to be good at CoD, you have to play a lot of CoD. It's called practice, and it works for most things in life you want to get better at.

I didn't say it was harder, just different. It's more of a niche game. It requires a different set of skills, but it's not necessarily more difficult.

 

[Watchmacallit]

Whoa. Halo? Harder than CoD? The sniper rifle doesn't even have recoil. I mean, come on. Its a simple game. Also, Halo is one of the easiest games to pick up. Shoot at head while walking towards the guy and then melee...Or find a sword or sniper rifle...

Also, and this goes for the OP as well. For the last 10 years the cool kids have been playing games. Halo, Need for Speed, CoD. 20 years ago I'm sure kids would have gotten bullied but I was born in 91 and never got crap for playing games, I got crap for other reasons.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

You have to have someone to hate, CoD players hate Halo, PS3 hates Xbox 360, and EVERYONE hates the Wii.

Is that why everyone is playing with the Wii? people now seem to do what they hate.

You're the kind of person who made me not visit this site in 3 months. Seriously, no one gets the joking sense of it. Apparently everyone has to argue with things that aren't even a major deal.

When so many around here love to hate evrything that is popular and successful without any other reason then the fact it is popular and successful, to the point that even if I initially hated that said thing I actually start to feel sorry for it and liking it. Thats why I couldnt get your "joke", cause usually that is quite serious around here. I am sorry if that sounded personal.

 

[Z4N5H1N]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at. Halo you need to be a certain kind of gamer to do well. Assholes, especially in early school (middle/high school) hate everyone who's good at things they aren't. Why do you think smart people get picked on? The bullies don't like them, because they get good grades and the bully doesn't. Same concept for video games. Bully is bad at Halo, therefore Halo sucks. Bully is good at CoD, therefore CoD is awesome.

I can't tell if you're trolling or are just bad at FPS. Halo is not any harder than CoD. You do not need to be "a certain type of gamer" to be good at Halo, unless the "certain type of gamer" you're referring to is the type who has played a lot of Halo. Similarly, to be good at CoD, you have to play a lot of CoD. It's called practice, and it works for most things in life you want to get better at.

I didn't say it was harder, just different. It's more of a niche game. It requires a different set of skills, but it's not necessarily more difficult.

What you said is that anyone can be good at CoD, but implied that the same was not true of Halo. You're simply wrong, that's all there is to it. Anyone can be good at either of these games with a reasonable amount of practice. For that matter, anyone can be good at virtually any video game with a reasonable amount of practice. There is no rare genetic trait required to be able to drive a Warthog around Blood Gulch and shoot guys with different colour armor than yours.

Your post reads like that of someone who is trying to convince himself he's different or special because he's passably good at Halo, whereas CoD players are average mooks. Again, this is simply not true; you're the same average mook as all those millions of Black Ops players, you're just a fanboy of a different franchise within the same very narrow genre.

 

[TheTaco007]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at. Halo you need to be a certain kind of gamer to do well. Assholes, especially in early school (middle/high school) hate everyone who's good at things they aren't. Why do you think smart people get picked on? The bullies don't like them, because they get good grades and the bully doesn't. Same concept for video games. Bully is bad at Halo, therefore Halo sucks. Bully is good at CoD, therefore CoD is awesome.

I can't tell if you're trolling or are just bad at FPS. Halo is not any harder than CoD. You do not need to be "a certain type of gamer" to be good at Halo, unless the "certain type of gamer" you're referring to is the type who has played a lot of Halo. Similarly, to be good at CoD, you have to play a lot of CoD. It's called practice, and it works for most things in life you want to get better at.

I didn't say it was harder, just different. It's more of a niche game. It requires a different set of skills, but it's not necessarily more difficult.

What you said is that anyone can be good at CoD, but implied that the same was not true of Halo. You're simply wrong, that's all there is to it. Anyone can be good at either of these games with a reasonable amount of practice. For that matter, anyone can be good at virtually any video game with a reasonable amount of practice. There is no rare genetic trait required to be able to drive a Warthog around Blood Gulch and shoot guys with different colour armor than yours.

Your post reads like that of someone who is trying to convince himself he's different or special because he's passably good at Halo, whereas CoD players are average mooks. Again, this is simply not true; you're the same average mook as all those millions of Black Ops players, you're just a fanboy of a different franchise within the same very narrow genre.

Stop trolling.
I'm not a fanboy, in fact I'm kind of mad at the developers for both games, because they didn't live up to the hype.

Anyone can be good at CoD because CoD is exactly like 90% of all other shooters out there. (Though this is probably because everything else in that 90% is a CoD ripoff) The point is that you don't need to spend as much time playing/practicing to be good at that game, because it A: Caters towards noobs (not Black Ops as much as MW2, but it still does.) and B: is highly connection based. (If you find yourself winning every gun-fight in the game, it's not NECESSARILY because you're better than everyone else in your game, but it's probably because you're host.)
Halo, on the otherhand is a much more "out of the box" game. 2 shots doesn't kill anyone, and you need to be able to stay on target longer because of this. There's arguably more strategy involved, because you need to be able to tell when to melee, when to throw a grenade, and when to retreat all while in the middle of a gun fight. (In CoD you'd normally be dead or have killed the other guy before you could make these decisions.) Armor abilities and reticle bloom have also drastically changed the game in terms of strategy. You need to know how to deal with each armor ability, and how to pick yours. Bloom makes keeping on target harder, especially at range, and it means that you really have to pick the right weapon for your combat range. (While the pistol is good at close range, and even though it has a scope, a DMR is better suited for long range combat.)