Why does everyone hate Halo?

[nipsen]

Because it's popular. Like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Apple, and well, you name it and they hate it!

Haters gonna hate.

..still - there are popular things that are not solely sold on image and PR blurbs over substance.

 

[repeating integers]

- It's often blamed for "making hte FPS genre go downhill". I think this one deserves special mention. When ignorant fans say "Halo innovated stuff for the FPS genre!", haters will quickly point out other games that did said "innovation" before Halo. When the haters are hating, they'll bring up Halo's innovations as having made the genre go downhill and cite that as a reason for their hatred (or as it always comes across, smug dismissal). This is the single biggest pile of bollocks I've seen on the internet.

Why is saying that we don't like the direction Halo has taken the genre invalid? Do you deny that video games have something of a herd mentality where a feature that worked on popular game X is often copied into many other popular games? If you deny that then I'd be very interested to hear your arguments why. If you don't deny that then how is saying I don't like the direction Halo has taken the genre invalid? I don't like regening health as a major feature, it can work with certain game mechanics but in general I feel it hurts the flow of a game in general is my view invalid?

Your view isn't invalid. I think you misread that bit of my post slightly - it's the double standard, or hypocrisy, or whatever you want to call it of some "haters" that gets me.

Other, similarly irritating double standards include hating on CoD for releasing games too quickly, then wondering why it's taking more than a year and a half for Half-Life 2 episode 3 to come out (and labelling it "the new DNF"); getting annoyed that Bungie is only making the Halo games and no other franchises, then getting annoyed at Valve for working on franchises that aren't Half-Life (thus, in their eyes, delaying episode 3); and hating on the Halo franchise for having contained 6 games (far too many, apparently) when the Half-Life franchise contains at least that number as well.

Yes, the Half-Life fanbase is my least favourite fanbase on Earth, what was your first clue?

 

[punkrocker27]

Because it's easily accessible fun. So maybe it doesn't deserve all of its praise and reknown. Does Portal, for that matter? This is all just subjective stuff.