Why does everyone hate Halo?
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People (quite reasonably) perceive it as being over-rated and they start resenting it for being far more popular than it deserves to be. People keep saying it just gets hated on because it's popular and the haters think hating on popular things makes them cool. This may be the case for many but it IS rational to feel antipathy for something that is more popular than it deserves to be and is crowding out things that genuinely deserve to be more popular.
Edit: For the record, I think the Halo games are respectably good.
Edit: For the record, I think the Halo games are respectably good.
This line here I think also sums up a lot of PC gamer annoyance toward Halo. Its not that it is a bad game but it often feels like since it was on a console its been graded on a curve. I will agree that many of the things Halo has done have been revolutionary for a console but too often Halo is talked about as revolutionary without that ever important modifier.Hamster at Dawn said:
I don't hate halo, I see it for what it is. Which is a passing fad that is almost run its course.
But I think the reason a lot of people in general hate on it is because it totes itself around as something new, fresh, and innovative when it is none of these things. And the fanboys who don't realize this only add to the hate.
But I think the reason a lot of people in general hate on it is because it totes itself around as something new, fresh, and innovative when it is none of these things. And the fanboys who don't realize this only add to the hate.
Well, I hate Halo mostly because it's a console shooter. And yes, I've played it. A good bunch on multiplayer, and the campaign in Reach on Hardcore, no big deal. Console + Shooter = No go, in my opinion. Also hate it because I think the gameplay is the most boring of any shooter I have ever played, seriously. There's almost less point to the missions than in CoD. It doesn't exactly present a good story either.
I think the halo games are pretty dull as games go, they're alright but nothing special and i wouldn't really play them by choice. However at 3 am while completely drunk with 3 other friends, then they really shine lol, never found a better game for times like those =p
I was raised playing co-operative halo:CE and halo 2 with my dad, so it will always hold a special part of my heart (which makes me fearful Microsoft are going to dig up reach's corpse and desecrate it)
I often see people on this site hate halo and one of the common things that pop up regularly that master chief is boring and something springs to mind:
So the guy from conduit, the guy from doom, soap and roach and mason from call of duty franchise (I don't know the names of the other PCs from other CoD games) and to a lesser degree Gordon freeman - aren't these people pretty much the same as master chief; silent most of the time and either dull and blank to allow players to project themselves easier or blank one dimensional characters?
If you ask me, the other characters make up for master chief's boring-ness. I like contana's sass (I think there's a joke about her figure I should be making here...) I like sergent Johnson's classic sergeant personality and also his interpretation of Regret's message in the halo 2 and the arbiter...actually no, the arbiter was just as bad as chief.
I often see people on this site hate halo and one of the common things that pop up regularly that master chief is boring and something springs to mind:
So the guy from conduit, the guy from doom, soap and roach and mason from call of duty franchise (I don't know the names of the other PCs from other CoD games) and to a lesser degree Gordon freeman - aren't these people pretty much the same as master chief; silent most of the time and either dull and blank to allow players to project themselves easier or blank one dimensional characters?
If you ask me, the other characters make up for master chief's boring-ness. I like contana's sass (I think there's a joke about her figure I should be making here...) I like sergent Johnson's classic sergeant personality and also his interpretation of Regret's message in the halo 2 and the arbiter...actually no, the arbiter was just as bad as chief.
Oh ho ho ho. I don't HATE Halo no no no. You don't understand...I loathe it with every fabric of my being. 
But in all seriousness it just doesn't look all that interesting. And since I can't hate what I haven't played I guess I don't hate Halo. I just don't find it interesting enough to play.
But in all seriousness it just doesn't look all that interesting. And since I can't hate what I haven't played I guess I don't hate Halo. I just don't find it interesting enough to play.
Personally, I don't hate Halo, but I do see a reason...
Halo CE was pretty damn good, especially for the time it was released. I don't remember it getting a lot of hate back then, due to less hype and it being... well, good.
Enter Halo 2. I wouldn't call it worse than CE, but it wasn't really better. All that revolutionary stuff had worn off by this point, and it was just another generic FPS. Nothing really separated it from the other shooters of the time. But, because it was Halo, it went around getting 10/10 rankings instead of the 8/10 or 9/10 it deserved. This = people mad.
From that point, it just went downhill. Games weren't bad, just over hyped.
Halo CE was pretty damn good, especially for the time it was released. I don't remember it getting a lot of hate back then, due to less hype and it being... well, good.
Enter Halo 2. I wouldn't call it worse than CE, but it wasn't really better. All that revolutionary stuff had worn off by this point, and it was just another generic FPS. Nothing really separated it from the other shooters of the time. But, because it was Halo, it went around getting 10/10 rankings instead of the 8/10 or 9/10 it deserved. This = people mad.
From that point, it just went downhill. Games weren't bad, just over hyped.
I can't say I hate halo, it's just not for me.
Nothing to do with its popularity, the reasons include (having only played 1, half of 2, and 3)
-Excessively repetitive level design.
-Loose and floaty controls and jumping which works for a controller, but I prefer the precision of a mouse and keyboard
-Extremely bland characters and story. Sure, I bet the books elaborate on it, but if you don't give me incentive to read the books in the first place what's the point? They should be a good companion piece, not a thing for fanboys to go "BUT IF YOU READED THE BOOKZ YOUDE GET IT."
-And I'm just not a big multiplayer FPS fan, which is where the bread and butter of the game appears to be.
Nothing to do with its popularity, the reasons include (having only played 1, half of 2, and 3)
-Excessively repetitive level design.
-Loose and floaty controls and jumping which works for a controller, but I prefer the precision of a mouse and keyboard
-Extremely bland characters and story. Sure, I bet the books elaborate on it, but if you don't give me incentive to read the books in the first place what's the point? They should be a good companion piece, not a thing for fanboys to go "BUT IF YOU READED THE BOOKZ YOUDE GET IT."
-And I'm just not a big multiplayer FPS fan, which is where the bread and butter of the game appears to be.
Halo in its self is pretty bland and generic as far as shooters go. Yes, it was good at Combat Evolved, but never evolved (heh, see what I did there?) beyond that really. I do enjoy playing Halo 3 on legenderay co-op for laughs and all. But the Halo series is just not that good.
One may say that it's not the game people are ripping and hating, it's the fanbase.
One may say that it's not the game people are ripping and hating, it's the fanbase.
Well going by that Master Chief is like Gordon Freeman not the other way around just saying but silent protagonists have been around since Doom and MC is one of those unfortunate basterdized half casts between the two.Christopher N said:
OT: They are competent games but nothing special which that is the main problem. Lots of people herald them as bringing lots of innovation when they really didn't bring a lot of innovation at all. They only brought innovation to consoles which is still a good thing but Halo has really only added one thing to the market which is popularising health regen. Whether or not you think that is a good thing is up to you.
"Everyone" doesn't hate Halo. But people do hate it for the same reason that people hate Call of Duty, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and anything else that is popular.
1. Person hears about amazing new thing
2. Person checks it out and it doesn't live up to the hype to him
3. Since many people like it, they must be the moronic masses
4. Declare game total shit instead of just mediocre
5. Rant online
6. ???
7. Forever Alone
I thought Halo was a solid console FPS, but the environment wasn't for me. The colours, sounds, guns, and story all sort of put me to sleep. Halo's type of Sci-Fi with calming purple tones just never did it for me.
1. Person hears about amazing new thing
2. Person checks it out and it doesn't live up to the hype to him
3. Since many people like it, they must be the moronic masses
4. Declare game total shit instead of just mediocre
5. Rant online
6. ???
7. Forever Alone
I thought Halo was a solid console FPS, but the environment wasn't for me. The colours, sounds, guns, and story all sort of put me to sleep. Halo's type of Sci-Fi with calming purple tones just never did it for me.
Not everyone hates Halo i've got a mate who's a halo fanatic...though in my opinion the Halo games aren't bad but they're not great either
Hm. Because latest installments have shit instead of singlepleyer. Yep, you know there are people who appreciate campaign in shooters. And SP campaign in Halo 3 or ODST or Reach - is shit. Always reminded me of Unreal, but even more silly.
I don't hate Halo. I just don't think it is as good as some of the other, more thought out first person shooters that exist. I think a lot of Halo has relied on the polish more than the substance.