The real reason Halo was/is so popular
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Maybe you described it better than I did, but that's what I was trying to say. When the marines believed in me (as the Master Chief) I realized that I WAS an unstoppable war machine, but they weren't. When they went into battle I was SURE they were going to die unless I did something about it. I wanted to fight FOR them not out of vengeance but rather out of responsibility and compassion, because since I was so much more powerful I felt the need to use that power to help the weak marines that believed in me so much.Eclectic Dreck said:
Does that make any sense?
there is no crazy secret as to why halo got popular. It was probably the first console FPS that even came close to a PC FPS. That got a lot of people playing, and once the first gets popular, the sequel is obviously popular too. Now console RTS games are so much better, and have surpassed halo by far. Hence why halo 3 isnt considered as a really amazing game.
It is because it was the only FPS exclusives on the original Xbox and it just gain undeserved popularity from there and everyone that bought an Xbox (I didn't) bought the only exclusive worth buying: Halo and loved it because there was no other game on the god damn Xbox, the sequels got popularity just because popularity got built on from the first Halo.
Halo is fun and accessible. I've seen so many people, with absolutely no experience of games, able to pick it up and enjoy it. They love its simplicity. Get them to play a more technical shooter or any one where you die in a few hits, and they HATE it, even if I tell them its a much better game. The Spartan gives the gamer a sense of power and can mask a newcomers gaming inadequacies aswell, which makes for a more enjoyable experience. Alot of my friends have got into gaming because of Halo.
I don't own Halo 3 but i enjoy playing it because after 3 months of not playing it, Within 6 minutes i can be wooping intergalactic ass
It really is fun, addictive and something that you shouldn't get mad at because its all in good fun.
It really is fun, addictive and something that you shouldn't get mad at because its all in good fun.
indeed i don't see why someone has to make a thread on this subject =/Extravaganza said:
don't hate people..geez
I liked it mostly because I've been with Bungie since "Pathways Into Darkness" back in the day, and I liked how there were more than a few winking overlaps into the Marathon universe with the Halo franchise. Oh, and sticking plasma grenades onto grunts when they ran past me. That helped, too.
The only reason its popular is because it was the first console game to do the FPS game right. Consoles don't really require much intellect, you just buy it, and thats it. No need to get some graphic cards, processors, or any other things. You just buy it, and play it. Its simple. Stupid as hell, but simple. And today's mass media market usually goes for simple. Giving the player an option of having a really good PC and having a much better time when playing your games, is a bit weighed down when the player is uninformed, thinks PCs cost tons of money, also thinks that they can just play the console counter-part and get the same amount of fun, and hates doing research just to find out that their first reason for buying a console is stupid.
it was one of the first F-P-S on a console. was it not for halo we might not have games like CoD4, GoW, Bioshock, or Killzone