Not really understanding the halo hate.

[gabe12301]

It doesn't take much to figure out that a lot of you hate halo and most of you are probably here to flame me...and I actually don't mind and will consider your opinion. *lowers flame shield* This is going to hurt.



It's not really a brown cover shooter as the environments are colorful, there's varied somewhat goofy weapons, and I rarely end up crouching behind rocks waiting for enemy heads to pop out of cover (unless i'm the ass camping on the edge of the map with the sniper rifle singing trololo in multiplayer)
It has regenerating shields rather than health (unless you're an elite) and actually uses health packs. Plus it doesn't try to ground itself in realism or pretend to, making the atmosphere almost comical.

It's one of the few big mainstream games that uses weapon pick ups rather than the "spawn with OP weapon every time system" in multiplayer.

It also has varied enemy types unlike most games that pit you against various assortments of men in camo and the occasional tank. You often have to vary your tactics to kill the different types with the exception of the grunts. (but those are made to be cannon fodder.)

The two last games have changed up the formula up thus keeping it from stagnation.

Halo 3 sucked.

I'm not even going to try to defend that one.

Another thing I don't understand is the whole halo anniversary thing.
I remember seeing Combat Evolved all the time in the "Which game would you like in HD?" threads. But now that it's announced all I see is "You greedy fucks! How dare you make something that we asked for?! RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE"

 

[dark-mortality]

Never tried a Halo game, but I have to agree with one thing: I watched the trailers... Yeah, they have colors, so I am happy

 

[Irridium]

People still hate Halo?

I thought all that moved to Call of Duty when that became popular.

 

[Braedan]

I love Halo. I dislike the shit plot of Halo 2 and the Mediocre/boring plot of Reach, but the games themselves are great.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

I think the hate is from Halo being a step toward he Call of Duty bubble. Halo did a major part in popularizing the two gun rule and regenerating health, alongside the CoDs from the era. And then, for whatever reason, when CoD 4 came out, a bubble was formed.

Now, I have nothing against either series, though if CoD and it's clones and related games start rereleasing the same games over and over, at least in effect, thus potentially holding back the medium, I will get angry.

 

[Woodsey]

I don't particularly like multiplayer anyway, whilst the singleplayer gameplay is rather dull and the writing just plain bad.

It is decidedly average or worse in every respect that I give a shit about (again, multiplayer is neither here nor there for me), and if something's decidedly average then I don't give a shit.

 

[DarkSeraphim02]

I've never really understood why anybody hates ANY game or genre really. If you don't like the game, fine, everybody has different tastes.
I'm not a big fan of first person shooters in general however I do own and actually enjoy some of them, Halo being among them.

I bet a good portion of Halo haters, and haters of any other popular FPS franchise, don't actually hate it, they just know someone who does so they say they do as well in order to fit in with their friends.

 

[Motiv_]

It's not just the "Halo Hate", it's anything, anywhere. Ever. There is nothing in the world that everyone likes, and there are some who will always loudly trumpet their opinion as if it's gospel, on both sides, usually with terrible spelling and grammar. If you enjoy Halo, great for you, keep playing it. I don't, so I won't.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Everyone's calling it a cash cow, especially since Halo Anniversary and the next three Halo games were announced.

I quite like Halo, personally.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

People still hate Halo?

I thought all that moved to Call of Duty when that became popular.

I know, right? I thought Halo 3 was the last hated game in the Halo series.

Hated by non-fans, that is... (Looks angrily at ODST and Halo:Wars)

ODST kicked ass! you take that back! YOU MONSTER!

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Haven't seen this thread in a while.

Regardless, kill it like the rest.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

I thought halo was quite good, but I seriously hate how many other fps games have copied features from it and made them the norm now.
At the risk of sounding a little fanboyish, I prefer fps games to either be more like Halflife or give up on pretending to have realism at all.

 

[brainslurper]

I love Halo. I dislike the shit plot of Halo 2 and the Mediocre/boring plot of Reach, but the games themselves are great.

The plot in reach was meh, but the part where you are driving a car down a road with scarabs falling from the sky all around you is probably the coolest thing I have seen in a game.

 

[brainslurper]

I thought halo was quite good, but I seriously hate how many other fps games have copied features from it and made them the norm now.
At the risk of sounding a little fanboyish, I prefer fps games to either be more like Halflife or give up on pretending to have realism at all.

The thing is, the regenerating health thing in halo made sense because you had a sheild, but when things like COD copy it, it makes no sense at all. Bullet wounds aren't just going to heal in a couple seconds if you just leave them there.

 

[isometry]

When I played Halo on xbox back in its day, I found it alright, but nothing special. Entertaining enough to plod through, but generally leaving me on the edge of boredom most of the time.

Half-life bored me too, and I'm not trying to be some hipster, I generally enjoy popular games and liked other FPSs around that time like Unreal Tournament and Battlefield 1942. One theory I have is that people who raved about Halo and Half-Life might not have played Goldeneye back in 1997.

 

[Netrigan]

The thing is, the regenerating health thing in halo made sense because you had a sheild, but when things like COD copy it, it makes no sense at all. Bullet wounds aren't just going to heal in a couple seconds if you just leave them there.

I wish people would give the "it made sense in Halo because it's a shield"... follow that logic and every single shooter would have to be a science fiction because health kits and regenerating health don't make sense. Hell, health kits don't make sense in Halo. Consuming a health kit don't magically heal your wounds... so it makes no sense at all and is therefore, following your logic, it's wrong.

Doesn't matter if there's a sci-fi explanation for it or not, it comes down to "is this fun?" If it is, then it matters not one bit if the mechanic has some in-game explanation or not. Many of the greatest games of all time make absolutely no sense... see virtually every game released on a console or PC. Almost all of them take massive liberties with reality to make them fun to play.

And the shield regeneration mechanic is extremely similar to the health regeneration system. You take damage, you hide until it goes away. Any regeneration system alters the way the game is played, allowing players to play more aggressively than a system that has a finite amount of health available to the player. Whether this is a good or bad thing is down to player preference.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I liked the first Halo. The second one was alright, but it changed too many things for me. Halo 3 was way too short. Haven't tried ODST, and Reach had a terrible story that made no sense while the gameplay was very similar yet different from all the others with too many new weapons.

It's a taste thing.