I'm tired of Halo haters.

[drummond13]

Here's the thing, I actually agree with Yahtzee for once on this one. Halo isn't bad, it's just mediocre. There's nothing about it that sets it apart for me. It's fun, kind of. The graphics are good, kind of. The story is interesting, kind of. But compared to many, many other shooters I've always felt that Halo just doesn't come close to measuring up.

If you like it, awesome. I agree, anyone who says Halo outright sucks is wrong, but they're overcompensating. I personally just get tired of all the hype that seems to surround each new installment. It would be as if movies like The Rock got numerous sequels and Oscar nominations.

 

[Woodsey]

"Bungie's masterpiece".

Look I see where you're coming from, but I'm getting bored of seeing threads like this where you say you're bored of people disliking a game and then go on to describe it as a great game, therefore destroying all of your credibility. You're saying you're bored of it because you disagree with them.

You should be bored of it because no one gives a crap who does like Halo and who doesn't.

You're doing exactly the same thing but in reverse positions (i.e. you likey not hatey).

 

[blaze338]

I'm tired of Halo fan boys
Halo haters
Halo threads
Halo ad's
Halo rings
"Halo" by Machine Head
MLG Halo players
Halo Electronics
and people who say Halo is over rated

[small] Here's hoping one day people will shut the fuck up about Halo and either enjoy it or don't talk about it[/small]

Halo by Machine Head is an amazing song, how can you get tired of it?

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I agree. I love the Halo franchise.
The storyline isn't entirely ridiculous for sci fi, the action is still engaging, and most of all while the game doesnt get into the gritty realism or depth of games like Killzone 2 or Modern Warfare, what it does serve up in spades is FUN.

Halo isn't a CHORE to play. It isn't so deep that I have to be in the right "mood" to play.
It is simply "fun". It's the Super Mario Brothers of shooters in my opinion... it might not be pushing the limits of it's genre, but what it does, it does right, it's design is ALWAYS solid, and you can usually rely upon it for it's quality and delivery. The action flows well, interspersed with "holy shit!" moments where it doesn't just suck you out of the gameplay to watch a bad ass trailer... much of the time you are right there IN the bad ass moment.

I'm reminded of Halo 2 where one of the greatest "Awesome"-illiciting yells I've ever had in a video game was when I'm in the city and suddenly that Scarab comes walking down the street and instead of pooping myself and trying to hide, I realize I can jump down onto it and commense to alien ass kicking... I FELT like a supersoldier... never once in Halo did I feel the 'fear' of being a soldier in a war.. instead I felt like Master Chief would have felt.. DETERMINATION. His character would not cringe at such a situation, So why should I? I felt invincible, not because my video game avatar WAS invincible, but because you are given all the right ELEMENTS of immersion to FEEL like SOMEONE WHO ACTS INVINCIBLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO BELIEVE THEY ARE INVINCIBLE.

Playing with Master Chief made me FEEL like a Hero. Few games, no matter how good, make me feel that way, the notable exceptions being Modern Warfare and Crackdown.

Honestly, it's just the society we live in. It's Popular to hate "Popular" things these days. If it's a "popular" or "cool" movie, people will rag on it. Being Counter-CULTURE is the "in" thing. It's why people hate the Xbox when it is actually a decent gaming machine, it's why people hate the PS3 even though it's arguably the best console ever made, why people hate the DS for selling enough units to buy a third world country, why people hate Fall Out Boy, and anything else that has the audacity to be popular.

It's just "cool" to hate on things now even if those very same people secretly like those things. How many Xbox haters would turn down a free Xbox and gaming library? I'd wager not many.

Honestly, it's just that this whole "non-conformist" bullshit has gone waay too far.

 

[Monshroud]

I think some people hate on Halo just to get a reaction out of people. They know there are a few million people out there who really love the series and when they go "Halo SuX!" and see a bunch of people get their panties in a bunch over it, they get a laugh over it.

I think if the fanboy's could calm down a bit every time one of the haters spews some bile then some of this BS would die down a bit.

Same goes with the PS3 Vs 360 haters.

 

[Croaker42]

Meh...................

I honestly dont care. "Oh no someone hates a game I enjoy." I guess the answer is to get buthurt about it. Right?

I loved Halo for what it was at its pinical (That happened around Halo 2) Halo one was an extreamly innovative game that brought us new levels of bad ass and Halo 2 was a doorway not multiplayer bliss. I think disrespecting that is more fail then I can sum up.
It deserves respect however every one is entilted to their own opinion. (Welcome to the internet.) Now if you feel truely buthurt over someones opinion on the internet its time to take a setp back and maby disconnect your ISP.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I'm tired of Halo fan boys
Halo haters
Halo threads
Halo ad's
Halo rings
"Halo" by Machine Head
MLG Halo players
Halo Electronics
and people who say Halo is over rated

[small] Here's hoping one day people will shut the fuck up about Halo and either enjoy it or don't talk about it[/small]

Halo by Machine Head is an amazing song, how can you get tired of it?

I'm not but it's the only thing with Halo I could think of
I now realise I should have chose Beyonce's- Halo
Mainly my post was saying, I'm sick and tired of people talking about any form Halo

 

[xxD1ehardxo]

Yeah people tend to hate Halo because its a popular title and a successfull game. Plus its the internet. People like attention so they feel cool to be hating on Halo.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

I'm just tired of people not. letting. Halo. die.

Jesus wept, either you like it or you don't, stop making threads telling us which.

 

[tk1989]

Meh, i never hated the game, but I never was its biggest fan. I never really got dragged in by the campaign; I really enjoyed playing through certain sections of the Halo 1 campaign, some parts of which were brilliant, exciting, and most of all really fun. I also loved lanning it up with the game; few things can compare to 16 people playing halo against eachother! But I did have many gripes with the game. What was with the flood? I know there are some people who were fans of the flood, but i never enjoyed replaying through the flood missions; I find constantly re-spawning repetitive bad guys a bore, especially in this case.

Now, my real problem with the Halo franchise was to do with Halo 2 and 3. I found that the storyline kinda went haywire; the campaign wasn't nearly as fun as in Halo 1; I really hated the arbiter missions... Online play was brilliant in Halo 2, and although i never really played Halo 3 online im sure its in a similar position, but I found Lan play in Halo 2 couldn't replicate that of Halo 1.

Its not that i found any of the games bad, buts its more that i found many of the elements of the games (especially the later ones)mediocre at best. Much like many other "haters", I found the game was given an exceptional amount of praise when it really shouldn't have. Granted, its all down to opinion, and my opinion on the game should have no effect on how much you or anyone else enjoyed it or not. Its not that i found it a let down its just, in my opinion, no where near as good as its made out to be.

I'm sorry, but who argues that the game is bad because it isn't realistic?! I haven't heard that argument before...

 

[Slash Dementia]

I'm tired of Halo fan boys
Halo haters
Halo threads
Halo ad's
Halo rings
"Halo" by Machine Head
MLG Halo players
Halo Electronics
and people who say Halo is over rated

[small] Here's hoping one day people will shut the fuck up about Halo and either enjoy it or don't talk about it[/small]

Well said! I'm tired of all that too.
...but on topic, if you read/hear someone bashing Halo, then what? Who cares, let them bash it, praise it, and commit unspeakable acts upon the disc late at night, it's not something that everyone should jump in on and converse about... Let them be.

 

[Littaly]

I'm tired of Halo haters.
I'm tired of people who hate Halo haters.
I'm tired of paranoid Halo fans who defend their game even when nobody's said anything.
I'm tired of Halo haters who repeat the same "arguments" over and over again when nobody cared the first time around
I'm tired of people who think that it's still cool to hate Halo.
I'm tired of people who think people hate Halo because they think it's cool.
I'm tired of people who hate people who hate Halo because they think it's cool and are right

Can we just drop this whole discussion now? Please. There's a whole lake of games that some people love and others hate but they (thankfully) don't get the same amount of "discussion". Why are we so hung up on Halo? Drop it already.

 

[Jerich0]

"Bungie's masterpiece".

Look I see where you're coming from, but I'm getting bored of seeing threads like this where you say you're bored of people disliking a game and then go on to describe it as a great game, therefore destroying all of your credibility. You're saying you're bored of it because you disagree with them.

You should be bored of it because no one gives a crap who does like Halo and who doesn't.

You're doing exactly the same thing but in reverse positions (i.e. you likey not hatey).

well i mean, bungie doesn't really have aynthing else to compare to halo, right? so yeah, it's their masterpiece. their piece de resistance. their magnum opus, so to speak.

if you'll kindly read the rest of the post, you'll see that i put NOT my favorite game. in big bold letters. verily.

annnnnnd yeah, it's obviously a great game. there's the whole 'halo 3 has sold 8.1 million copies as of January 3, 2009' thing to prove it, you don't need to hear it from me.

 

[TelHybrid]

In regards to Halo, the only thing that annoys me more than people constantly trolling and flaming it, is people like the OP here constantly defending it. It's a game... it doesn't need defending.

Just shut the FUCK up about Halo hate/like everyone.

 

[ObnoxiousPotatoe]

How about we all shut up about the whole halo-fanboys vs. haters-thing and move on, how does that sound

 

[irishstormtrooper]

-snip-

Can we just drop this whole discussion now? Please. There's a whole lake of games that some people love and others hate but they (thankfully) don't get the same amount of "discussion". Why are we so hung up on Halo? Drop it already.

The reason there are so many Halo defense discussions is because there are a lot of "Halo is the worst game EVAR" discussions. If there were more people attacking, say, LittleBigPlanet, there would be more people talking about how good it is.

 

[Jerich0]

Yeah people tend to hate Halo because its a popular title and a successfull game. Plus its the internet. People like attention so they feel cool to be hating on Halo.

yes yes yes! this is my message to all escapists!

 

[TelHybrid]

Yeah people tend to hate Halo because its a popular title and a successfull game. Plus its the internet. People like attention so they feel cool to be hating on Halo.

yes yes yes! this is my message to all escapists!

...who cares?

You do realise the people hating Halo are purely doing it to get responses like yours. Just ignore them, and shut up about the subject. You're both as annoying as them.

 

[hclarke15]

i've talked with people who constantly say

Halo is boring, unrealistic, stupid, bad game, cod4 is so much better

meanwhile they try halo and go -30