Don't act like Rock band was innovative there are games with drums and singing already out there. The game I was leaning towards was Portal with the creative thinking and the nice simple two portals and creative thinking to stop eight or so auto guns when it would take Master Chief a few grenades and a toss in the guns general dirction.
Halo 3 Beats Out GTA IV, Portal, Wii Fit For Edge Innovation Award (Keep this mature)
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I really think that most game critics and reviewers today never played a game made that wasn't on a console before 1996. There were custom maps and mini-mods over ten years before Halo 3 was released. And if they're talking about the awesome gameplay of Halo multiplayer, we also had Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament.
I'm not a "this game sucks because I don't like it" type of dude. I know there are people that like Halo 3, and if they do, I'm glad they found something they enjoy. But calling it innovative for including things that have been a standard part of most PC and some console FPS's for quite some time is just kind of, well... lame.
I'm not a "this game sucks because I don't like it" type of dude. I know there are people that like Halo 3, and if they do, I'm glad they found something they enjoy. But calling it innovative for including things that have been a standard part of most PC and some console FPS's for quite some time is just kind of, well... lame.
Silly me, I thought I bought it to see how the trilogy ended. Sure multiplayers great, but I won't lie that I was more excited to see if they killed the Chief off (still kinda cheesed about the ending too).Tru3_Blu3 said:
Then again, apparently I'm dim witted.
Really, this entire thing stinks of trying to get the halo 3 fan boys to love their site. They give a popular title an award, someone notices, and suddenly the fan boys will defend their site too because of this award. Its better to leave it alone and say oh well, another stupid award for a game that doesn't deserve it. So long as you don't care, no one else will.
Wait, Halo 3 won the Interactive Innovation award? So it wasn't just a general award for innovation, at least I think so.
All the things Halo 3 did have been done before but Halo 3 brought all these good ideas together and executed them really well. Not only did they add Forge, they let you play in Forge with a whole party of friends and then let you share your creation with all the other thousands of players. They gave you the ability to create almost any game type so you could play the game exactly as you wanted in a map that was exactly the way you wanted it to be. All this stuff can be shared on bungie.net and all your stats are automatically tracked. Hell, you can download files from bungie.net onto your xbox, something which Microsoft is now trying to implement for Marketplace.
The award isn't just for innovation but for interactive innovation and Halo 3 is one of the most interactive experiences. They chose the game that they thought was the most innovative and I can see why they gave Halo 3 the award.
The award isn't just for innovation but for interactive innovation and Halo 3 is one of the most interactive experiences. They chose the game that they thought was the most innovative and I can see why they gave Halo 3 the award.
I dunno. Innovative? No. Setting the bar for the quality of the multiplayer service? Yes. And in fact that's what it was awarded for.
"Ultimately it is the integration and coherence of Halo 3's online content that makes the game stand apart. From its Theater mode to Forge, and the way a party playing through Live can seamlessly manoeuvre between them, here is an experience that demonstrates an unparalleled understanding of the potential for console online play. Outside of the game, Bungie.net has been engineered to become a remarkable resource for Halo 3 stats and communities, providing life for the game even when your Xbox 360 is switched off. Halo 3, just as Halo 2 did before it, presents a roadmap for the way online will be integrated in videogames in the coming years."
Which makes sense, but I still can't grasp how that's really innovation. It's adding in a couple new game types, and then just improving everything that everyone else has done so it's more shiny like, guv.
"Ultimately it is the integration and coherence of Halo 3's online content that makes the game stand apart. From its Theater mode to Forge, and the way a party playing through Live can seamlessly manoeuvre between them, here is an experience that demonstrates an unparalleled understanding of the potential for console online play. Outside of the game, Bungie.net has been engineered to become a remarkable resource for Halo 3 stats and communities, providing life for the game even when your Xbox 360 is switched off. Halo 3, just as Halo 2 did before it, presents a roadmap for the way online will be integrated in videogames in the coming years."
Which makes sense, but I still can't grasp how that's really innovation. It's adding in a couple new game types, and then just improving everything that everyone else has done so it's more shiny like, guv.
That's great and all, but that doesn't make the features innovative. People seem to be completely misunderstanding what the word innovative really is. It means something that hasn't been done before. While these features in Halo might have been expanded upon and polished very well, they certaintly didn't start with Halo 3, thus making Halo 3 not innovative.Tru3_Blu3 post=9.68158.620493 said:
I think that its a stupid decision to give it to Halo 3 also.
I don't think Edge knows what the word innovative actually means.
It doesn't mean your favorite game, it means brings something new and unseen before to a game. Halo 3 is a 3rd person shooter and there is nothing new about it.
There are a thousand other games that deserve it before Halo.
Edge have just shown how stupid they truly are... and how they too, have probably been bought by M$.
I don't think Edge knows what the word innovative actually means.
It doesn't mean your favorite game, it means brings something new and unseen before to a game. Halo 3 is a 3rd person shooter and there is nothing new about it.
There are a thousand other games that deserve it before Halo.
Edge have just shown how stupid they truly are... and how they too, have probably been bought by M$.
For it's multiplayer (ie. half the game). I liked Call of Duty 4's multiplayer better as well as it's single-player. I think Halo 3's biggest innovation was recordings and forge, and not much else.
Wait, so they're making fun of the award by complaining about the repetitive re-use of their own material?Trogd0r post=9.68158.620794 said:And this is how bungie responded to EDGE,
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/251427.html
They mention they are working on something big, which I like
possibly a full-blown map editor with AI/bots?
Discuss.