Why does everyone hate Halo 3?

[Hookman]

Its not a bad game. Its just...meh. Theres no other word to describe it. ITS MEH! Its OK but its really just the same thing as the other halo games.Plus it was overhyped to hell and back which just made it more dissapointing that it was a bland remake of halo 2.

 

[Woe Is You]

JRPGs had stories that were often complex, dark, and interesting like the good books they should have been.

Good books? Complex and interesting? What?

I can come up with a total of 5 RPGs that had truly interesting plots. One of them is Final Fantasy VI (VII loses simply because of its half-assed translation). The second is Panzer Dragoon Saga. The third is Baldur's Gate 2. Final Fantasy Tactics. The last is Planescape: Torment. I was going to list more Bioware games, but I realized that everything they've done since NWN has had the same basic plot.

The rest? I remember playing games like Star Ocean 2, Wild Arms, Xenogears, Vandal Hearts, Septerra Core and a whole bunch of others. Now that I know better, these games have all sorts of problems with events jumping erratically from place to place, writers not knowing the meaning of the word "pacing" and awful awful translations (It are sick!).

"We lost some of our games when the FPS became big, We coped, we have good games to play still, Quit playing chicken little and have your fun."

You're really assuming here that we'd have less copycat games if we didn't have Halo. Does it really matter what genre the most copied game is? You'll always have cop-outs. You can look at the current state of MMORPGs: WoW eclipses all and very few even try to do something different, because they want WoW's subscribers. There are some wise companies out there (CCP, Jagex), but those are few and far between.

 

[Bocca]

I don't hate Halo 3 its just, average and nothing else. Halo 1 was revolutionary, amazing stuff and in my opinion the very best of the series. Halo 2 sucked and Halo 3 was average, of course thats just my opinion and I'm talking about the campaign.

 

[TerraMGP]

JRPGs had stories that were often complex, dark, and interesting like the good books they should have been.

Good books? Complex and interesting? What?

I can come up with a total of 5 RPGs that had truly interesting plots. One of them is Final Fantasy VI (VII loses simply because of its half-assed translation). The second is Panzer Dragoon Saga. The third is Baldur's Gate 2. Final Fantasy Tactics. The last is Planescape: Torment. I was going to list more Bioware games, but I realized that everything they've done since NWN has had the same basic plot.

The rest? I remember playing games like Star Ocean 2, Wild Arms, Xenogears, Vandal Hearts, Septerra Core and a whole bunch of others. Now that I know better, these games have all sorts of problems with events jumping erratically from place to place, writers not knowing the meaning of the word "pacing" and awful awful translations (It are sick!).

"We lost some of our games when the FPS became big, We coped, we have good games to play still, Quit playing chicken little and have your fun."

You're really assuming here that we'd have less copycat games if we didn't have Halo. Does it really matter what genre the most copied game is? You'll always have cop-outs. You can look at the current state of MMORPGs: WoW eclipses all and very few even try to do something different, because they want WoW's subscribers. There are some wise companies out there (CCP, Jagex), but those are few and far between.

The Fallout games, The massive Shin megami tensai set of games including series such as Persona, Nocturne and Digital Devil saga, FF9 if you give it half a chance. There are plenty of other good RPGs out there, granted not everyone may enjoy them but frankly not everyone else loves the silmarillion and its my favorite book.

 

[anNIALLator]

This is a topic I can't get my head around. I absolutely loved Halo 3. A game doesn't have to be really innovative (in my opinion, it was) to be good, and ok, it's not the best game in the world, but it is a great one. People argue that COD4 had better multiplayer, but I think that the beauty of Halo 3 comes from the wide variety of games you can play, coupled with forge. You can have a really serious competitive game, or you can just have a mess about game with low gravity, 300% speed and gravity hammers, or a game of Grifball. Also, there's the crazy magic bullet stuff that you get in Halo like the warthog flying through the air and hitting the guy just as he jumps etc. In what other game do you get hilarious stuff like that?

 

[Senock]

I thought that like Time Splitters was the first decent console FPS, or was that just the playstation 2's first good FPS.

 

[GenHellspawn]

It's called Hype Aversion: The more popular something is, the more likely people will hate it.
Personally, I think it's a pretty good console shooter, and not much else.

 

[Shotgunbunny]

To console gamers I'm sure it's freaking amazing, but on PC we had everything that Halo had to offer and more like 10 years before it.

 

[Nivag the Owl]

Why don't people get that people state their opinions? I personally think it's a bad game. What gave anyone the impression I was speaking on behalf of the world?

I don't like it because the entire concept bores me to no end, which is the whole space-marine vs alien BLAH BLAH BLAH someone please come up with something original. Granted some things can be repetitive without infurating me but this it definitely not one of them.

 

[Seydaman]

Some people like average.

just like my little brother likes shitty

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Halo 3 was an average shooter. The online was very expansive in terms of features which was why it got such good reviews. The game was in no way bad but it didn't have anything that other games hadn't already done before.

...and Team Fortress kicks Halo's ass.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

I don't hate Halo 3, I just dont see why its well... needed. Halo was great Halo 2 and 3 just felt like tacked on cash-ins.

A bit like the newer Star-Wars films.

 

[Hyper-space]

Its generic, nothing new, nothing special, just......another fps

 

[Not Good]

The main problem with Halo is that It's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid] been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(video_game)] done [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)] before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)].

That's only to name a few, but the thing is, Halo is unoriginal, and doesn't really provide anything to the games industry, or the FPS. Nonetheless, the games are pretty good, but no where near the best.

To paraphrase the Bible: "Nothing is original, everything that is has already been"

 

[Alphavillain]

It's just an irritatingly hyped cut and paste shooter that is even more irritating because it has inspired dozens of other cut and paste shooters since the franchise first appeared.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

The game was in no way bad....

Having seen its art design, I would have to disagree. They should send the art designer back to Devry and get their money back.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Halo 3's pretty much a fine game. Why does every game need to be original and bring a million new ideas? It's solid. It's fun. Sadly, bashing it has become something of an "in" thing with internet indie folk but I don't feel a need to hate it because everyone on teh intarwebz thinks it sucks. I'm not saying it's without flaws, but no way does it deserve the hatred it gets.
The "Why does everyone hate Halo 3 threads" are annoying, but so are the "HALO IS SO OVERRATED" ones that are equally as common. I don't believe Halo deserves half the criticism it gets, and half of it seems to be this wave of nu-Yahtzees parroting each other. Sure, it's not especially innovative, but it excels at what it does and its solidly designed fun. Yes, fun. Which is more than can be said of the majority of games.

 

[asinann]

Because I hate Halo, and for that matter almost every fps game that's ever come out.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

Because the Halo series are sub-par shooters that brought in an element that, much like the 'casual' gamers now, dropped the level of work that people put into games by drawing in people with lower standards. Halo 1-3 have rather bland weapons, poor story, annoying gameplay curves and the only real feature is the multiplayer which again only served to hurt the industry as a whole.

I guess what I'm saying is that its a sub par game and if you enjoy it you are entitled to, but youd best not bash 'casual gamers' as you most likely belong to a subset that came into gaming later and ruined alot of it for those of us who have been doing it for ages.

I would probably be annoyed by the claim that I contributed to ruining the industry by buying a game. But since it's you're group that seems to be so crushed by a shooter's popularity, I can wear the title proudly.

 

[Heroic One]

The new maps are terrible, it's glitchy, laggy (for me anyway), and story mode is painfully dull. Give me Halo 2 anyday.