Why does everyone hate Halo?
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I like Halo,the games are fun and the like though apart from forge and the jetpack,it all plays the same
I despise quoting Yahtzee on anything (because it makes me look like a tool), but in this one instance, I think he put it rather succinctly:
"The only thing special about Halo is the degree in which it's stuck up its own ass."
It isn't bad, it's just mediocre. I thought that back in 2002 when I first played Halo: CE, and the game has not really moved significantly beyond that.
"The only thing special about Halo is the degree in which it's stuck up its own ass."
It isn't bad, it's just mediocre. I thought that back in 2002 when I first played Halo: CE, and the game has not really moved significantly beyond that.
Mainly because it's the 360's most popular and best-selling exclusive franchise.
But hell, I'd be lying if I didn't say I enjoyed Halo.
But hell, I'd be lying if I didn't say I enjoyed Halo.
Because the Nobel maps still don't show up on standard matchmaking. Now they are about to release the Defiance maps. I also don't like how much armor and armor effects cost...and my connection fails a lot more often than I'd like for it to which sucks.
Otherwise I like the series.
Otherwise I like the series.
1. No, I don't go against popular things to be "cool." EVER. That's just flat out stupidpletschee said:
2. I actually played more than 5 minutes...
My reasoning for hating it is the same reason I hate every first person shooter. Because it's a First Person Shooter. I don't like that play style, I haven't since GoldenEye 007 on N64. That's the ONLY one I EVER liked, until I tried the demo to Bulletstorm, but I'm still not really convinced and I only sort of like it, but that's mostly because of the gratuitous...everything.
Once upon time, there were gamers. And then there were Halo fanboys that bought Xbaw to play Halo. Huge amount of polls and topics arised from gamer forums where Halo fanboys compared anything and everything to Halo and Master Chief. Huge shitstorm. Everybody feels bad. Teabagging. Decent game ruined by faggots, forever.
And they never left.
And they never left.
I don't exactly hate Halo, but it could be better. I like games with just a little bit of substance, and not all flair and fancy guns and convoluted stories. I got lost when someone tried to explain the Flood to me, and decided Halo could exist and I would just ignore it. And for the love of pete, WHY did they have to make a female computer program with the hots for the Main Character?! That's just fucking creepy!
Single Player:
1 - I played until the library level then quit because how stupid it was.
2 - Beat it and it had zero replay value. Plus, "the battle comes to earth" my ass. Comes to earth for 5 minutes, then you're back in space.
Multiplayer:
Boring. Your same old generic FPS where you get two weapons, vehicles, regeneratinghealth shields, etc.
1 - I played until the library level then quit because how stupid it was.
2 - Beat it and it had zero replay value. Plus, "the battle comes to earth" my ass. Comes to earth for 5 minutes, then you're back in space.
Multiplayer:
Boring. Your same old generic FPS where you get two weapons, vehicles, regenerating
I wouldnt say I Hate it, but i just find the gameplay a bit, well, straitforward. While i know the gameplay is linier and I have no objection to that, the level design just made it blindingly obvious. Graphics and sound where good and I cant find fault there and the storyline hooked me enough to make me want to keep playing, but overall... Halo just dosn't make me feel good in my happy places
People don't really hate Halo. As a species the one thing we hate the most is other people. The most PC reason to hate someone is to hate something they like. Halo is one of the popular series in the last decade; thus it is easiest to hate other people for liking Halo.
I dunno, not on the Escapist, at least. I see so much more Halo hate than CoD. I also see people actually say nice things about CoD in threads that aren't about CoD; whereas I only ever see someone say something nice about Halo in a "Why do you hate Halo?" thread.Casual Shinji said:
I like Halo because it was the first FPS series I ever played and I genuinely liked its story and characters. Oh shit, I guess I'm a fanboy! The worst kind of person in the world: someone who likes something a lot. Label them fanboys and tell them what they like is stupid because you don't like it.
Since Black Ops was released, there's probably been a couple of anti-CoD threads every week. Sometimes they're disguised with someone starting a thread like "I'm tired of killing Russians and terrorists in every game". I've seen two or three of them on the front page quite often.SEPECAT said:
Mind you, every time someone starts a thread like "Worst Plots In Video Games", it's usually race between someone saying "Halo" and some Halo Fan saying "I'll punch the first person who says 'Halo' in the face".
The Valve fanboys at least wait until someone inevitably says "Half-Life" before launching their assault
Also, every time there's a thread about the best games or plots, Halo is one of the most frequently named games. Praise for the game is all over the place.
I think Halo is seriously over hyped, I played Halo 3 all the way through and thought it was OK. ODST I stopped player after the first mission, Reach I finished the first 4 levels and thought the gameplay was much better than 3 but the game still wasn't that great to me. I can sort of see why some people love it and some people hate it, Personally I don't think it's a bad game but neither is it a good game. The story was boring and the game overall just felt really childish.
I have played Halo before and the reason I don't like it is because it's bland. It's not bad, but it's not great either. It does very little to immerse me into the experience. I just feel like an unwelcome guest in Master Chief's head. There nothing that happens in the game that stands out to me. While CoD: Modern Warfare, for example, knocks me on my ass when a nuclear bomb blew up in my face and I pulled my broken body out from the twisted wreckage of an airplane. When I look around I see nothing but absolute carnage, and the sun is blotted out from the sky. As I try to walk, I fall to my knees, and began to crawl before the ultimately radiation kills me. This kind of impact is what Halo lacks.
The single-player campaign is also too short. I'm one of those people who does not like to play multi-player games, so a game has to stand out, in my eyes, more on the single player content before I would even touch multi-player. It falls flat on it's face in single player mode. The story is unimpressive. The vehicles handle worse than the ones in Battlefield: Bad Company, and that's saying something. If you really think about it Cortana is the superior character. She can take over the weapons system of an entire city without anyone setting foot in it. She can remotely hack into any system she wants without trying, and could probably win the war just by herself. When it comes down to it, Master Chief is just a meat head grunt that is risking his life for no apparent reason. This begs the question: why does she need Master Chief at all?
I do have to admit though that I did have some entertainment when I kept running over my co-op partner in campaign mode. The first few times it was by accident and then I started doing it to piss him off. I admit it was awesome when I did manage to squeeze a GHOST into a building through a small door (challenging but not impossible) and kill everything inside. However, when you get down to it Halo is about space marines fighting aliens. It was been done before. It was not the first nor will it be the last. I have seen games that have done a better job at this genre such as Mass Effect.
tl;dr: watch Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review of Halo 3: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8-Halo-3 This sums up my feelings.
The single-player campaign is also too short. I'm one of those people who does not like to play multi-player games, so a game has to stand out, in my eyes, more on the single player content before I would even touch multi-player. It falls flat on it's face in single player mode. The story is unimpressive. The vehicles handle worse than the ones in Battlefield: Bad Company, and that's saying something. If you really think about it Cortana is the superior character. She can take over the weapons system of an entire city without anyone setting foot in it. She can remotely hack into any system she wants without trying, and could probably win the war just by herself. When it comes down to it, Master Chief is just a meat head grunt that is risking his life for no apparent reason. This begs the question: why does she need Master Chief at all?
I do have to admit though that I did have some entertainment when I kept running over my co-op partner in campaign mode. The first few times it was by accident and then I started doing it to piss him off. I admit it was awesome when I did manage to squeeze a GHOST into a building through a small door (challenging but not impossible) and kill everything inside. However, when you get down to it Halo is about space marines fighting aliens. It was been done before. It was not the first nor will it be the last. I have seen games that have done a better job at this genre such as Mass Effect.
tl;dr: watch Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review of Halo 3: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8-Halo-3 This sums up my feelings.
Not even close. I played the single player of Halo 1-3. I didn't like the story or the way it played at Halo: CE. My friends kept telling me to just give it another chance. I played Halo 2, the multiplayer is pretty fun, but I still find the single player lacking and not really worth the time or effort. It just wasn't entertaining to me. Once again, I was told to not be close minded and give Halo 3 a chance. So I did. The multiplayer got worse, imho, and the single player jumped dozens of sharks. I can only recount one thing that happened that I actually liked. Around that point I decided I was done with the series no matter what my friends tell me, as they caused me to blow about $180.pletschee said:
So, as it turns out, people can just not like a game because it's not for them. It isn't someone trying to go against what's popular. It isn't that they just suck at the game. It is that the game just isn't entertaining to them.
Is that so hard to understand?