Zero Punctuation: Halo 3

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Chaingang

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I love to hear all these people complaining about the singleplayer. While I realize that it could have been better, I do believe the overall focus of this game was the multiplayer. Bungie could have taken the time to make the game eat thunder and shit lightning, but they didn't. I really do believe they balanced it out with the secret skulls. There is so much more you can do with them. While, no, they dont change the gameplay that much, you have to remember that any good game is "on rails" to some degree. If not, then there is no story. And this complaint of the AI and difficulty dropping tremendously can be assuaged by simply playing a higher difficulty (coupled with skulls, this can be enhanced even further).

Now onto the multiplayer. As I read someone else's post, I am forced to agree that any Halo game is a middle ground for all players. At one time or another, everyone has played a Halo game. This is what makes the online great. Even if youre horrible, you can still have fun because you know how to play. The simple controls also contribute to the online. Its damn near universal: R-trigger = shoot; L-trigger = grenade. Everything from there is unnecessary. Its common sense. What real problem is there with the online that hasnt been a user (meaning gamer) error? Not a damn one.

Overall, I think most of the people bashing the game are either hating on it because they want to be seen as different, or they prefer a "more realistic" game, such as COD4. This being a favorite game, I am biased, but I can honestly say I have problems with it (i.e., weapon power [or lack thereof], lack of armors, no perks to certain armor types). While something big is made of all the little things, some little things can be overlooked.

After saying all this, Im sure we can all agree on one thing: Two Worlds is the worst game ever made. Ever.



(Please forgive the lack of apostrophes. I hate using them when typing.)
 

cowbell40

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The criticisms about the campaign he has are valid, although I suspect they are influenced more by his dislike of anything as mainstream as Halo. However, I really don't think it's fair to omit the multiplayer portion of it. Sure, the campaign isn't great. I really could care less when the matchmaking is so solid.
 

jak1165

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This is really the one review I disagreed with Yahtzee on. I like Halo. I enjoy playing with buddies and talking shit to people I dont know on XBL and generally having a good time. Its not a 10/10 game by any stretch.

But no shit the story's not going to make a whole lot of sense if, 10 seconds into the review you go "Oh man, the story sucks I have NOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOO idea whats going on. Oh, P.S....I didnt play the 1st two

Brilliant piece of insight. Honestly, this is such a fucking dumb statement I can't even attempt to qualify it with even a lame analogy
 

Nomanslander

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just felt like sharing this...=)

http://defaultprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/halflife2.jpg

WorldCritic said:
Why are people still posting here?
because we enjoy hating halo that much...;D
 

Blatherscythe

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Personally Halo 3's campaign was too rushed. Enemy AI was too good at times and your allies AI sucked, weapons were cheap and the multiplayer while somewhat good with forge and such, is completly infested with asshole snipers and missle launcher using fags.
 

Kurtrabba

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my problem with halo is that it offers no gameplay elements that are now or original and worse yet the story (that you dont get from the game) is great but people think the name/faceless space marine thing is good for a main charecter but i say NO YOU FOOL it makes me hate master chef I dont care about him in game any way and mutiplayer is just full of dickwads
 

elichan7

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HALO 3 IS MAIN STREAM CRAP, i may be the only person with an xbox who refuses to buy this game out of pure hatred for how much worse the halo series got after 1
 

Tddawg25

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Agree with this to the fullest, Halo 3 is definitely not perfect its Multiplayer is good but its Single Player Campaign is lacking a lot.
 

Redingold

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beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.
How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
 

beddo

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Redingold said:
beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.
How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
How about the fact that a massive alien army from another dimension had taken over and built a giant Citadel in the middle of the city but a 10 minute drive out there's a backwater village that was hit by a zombie plague which the invading forces just seem to ignore.
 

Lukeje

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beddo said:
Redingold said:
beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.
How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
How about the fact that a massive alien army from another dimension had taken over and built a giant Citadel in the middle of the city but a 10 minute drive out there's a backwater village that was hit by a zombie plague which the invading forces just seem to ignore.
How do you mean? The invading army turned the townsfolk of Ravenholme into Zombies using their rockets filled with headcrabs.
 

Redingold

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beddo said:
Redingold said:
beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.
How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
How about the fact that a massive alien army from another dimension had taken over and built a giant Citadel in the middle of the city but a 10 minute drive out there's a backwater village that was hit by a zombie plague which the invading forces just seem to ignore.
They caused the zombie outbreak, because it was easier than wiping out the town using actual troops.
 

DarkPanda XIII

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Redingold said:
beddo said:
Redingold said:
beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.

How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
How about the fact that a massive alien army from another dimension had taken over and built a giant Citadel in the middle of the city but a 10 minute drive out there's a backwater village that was hit by a zombie plague which the invading forces just seem to ignore.
They caused the zombie outbreak, because it was easier than wiping out the town using actual troops.
Really when it comes down to it, inconsistencies can be based upon not telling the viewer and letting them eventually figure out the crap, or because people forgot to mention it. The issue comes down to the fact that whether you did it on purpose or not. A rather irritating inconsistency would be God of War, in which (SPOILER) Zeus was helping out Kratos a few tims, knowing what the outcome was to be in the first game, then in the second, he was going to destroy Kratos. Why the hell did he help him in the first place if he was going to kill him in the next?
 

beddo

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Redingold said:
beddo said:
Redingold said:
beddo said:
I don't get how Yahtzee complain about not knowing the back story and complains about it suggesting it's somehow inconsistent.

Yet when talking about Half-Life 2 he makes no such complaint about the fact the back story is involved. Neither does he mention the wild inconsistencies between this supposedly mass infiltrated world of oppressive and intelligent aliens which somehow the player manages to escape only to end up in some bizarre zombie infested town before going on to rule over a colony of giant insects.
How on Earth could the story of Half-Life 2 be inconsistent? You freaking walked through it all! What inconsistencies were there?
How about the fact that a massive alien army from another dimension had taken over and built a giant Citadel in the middle of the city but a 10 minute drive out there's a backwater village that was hit by a zombie plague which the invading forces just seem to ignore.
They caused the zombie outbreak, because it was easier than wiping out the town using actual troops.
That just doesn't make sense that a military might that could so easily take over would need to resort to using biology from another universe.

Anyway, that's not really what I was referring to, I was saying that complaining about inconsistencies in Halo 2 because you don't know the back story is nonsense. The same parallels can be drawn with Half-Life 2.

The Combine came out of nowhere. The headcrabs from Xen seem to make an appearance purely beca\use they were in the first game(s). Gordon Freeman is just suddenly dropped in this world with no explanation but everyone just seems to know who he is. I get that it's meant to be mysterious and believe there's some big goings on with time and inter-dimensional travel with the G-Man but I think it's all just posture, pretending to be like that because they haven't figured it out yet. Much like the series Lost, they're just clasping at straws.

Don't get me wrong, I like Half-Life 2, especially Episode 2 but I don't think its story matches even the low expectations of Halo 2's.
 

daxterx2005

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I like how Bungie said They were done with Halo after this title.
Now here it is 2009, and we have what 5 Halo games with a 6th on the way?
Way to go originality.
Why try when the fanboys will continue to re-buy the same stuff over and over.

inb4BAW
 

brunothepig

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So, I finally played Halo (1) a while back at a lan party. And I thought Yahtzee was wrong!!! It was so much fun. Once I left, got home and started the single player, I quickly realised it was only fun with my friends. So, good for lan, and that's all. Not to say it's really bad or anything. As Yahtzee said, average. And I would much rather play Far Cry 2 or Crysis or COD 4 or even UT3. The campaign mode! Yeah.
 

David Bray

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I disagree with you greatly on this one. Whilst it isn't perfect and is certainly cashing in on standard formula, the space opera aspect is awesome. You do need to play the first one and even the second really.