Poll: Did you enjoy the Halo series?

[Platinum117]

Fucking loved it, realised it had lost a lot of its original magic but still a a series me and my friends have grown up playing. Got pretty damn goodf at halo 2, loved it to bits, truly epic multiplayer.

I would not be surprised if i had logged over 2 months solid playtime in this series

 

[LogicNProportion]

DID I enjoy it? I still do, my dear.

I stopped doing Reach for a bit, but came back to it and started playing Invasion. Now, I'm fekkin loving this thing!

 

[Hazy]

Thus far, my opinion hasn't wavered: it's a decent, middle-of-the-road franchise with a surprisingly good soundtrack.

That isn't to say it's bad... it's just not very great.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Very much.

Not without its flaws but always enjoyable, with a decent story and interesting enough characters.

All it needed to do was keep me interested and playing, and that was exactly what it gave me.

 

[Okysho]

No real respect for the series until I watched Halo Legends. Sure I'd played through the campaign (theresacampaign.jpg lolol) so I get the story, it just wasn't that captivating untiL I watched legends

 

[yankeefan19]

I enjoyed the series as a whole. Halo 3 was a bit over-hyped, but I still enjoyed it heavily. Most of my love for Halo, however, probably stems from the fact that is was kind of my "gateway drug" into First Person Shooters.

 

[Cpu46]

I havent gotten to play ODST or Reach yet, and I cant really say for sure whether I'll like them or not. ODST looks meh, but Reach looks pretty fun.

I can recommend ODST, if at least for a rent. It balances the frantic missions with the quite calming yet tense exploration map really well. Firefight is probably the best mode to play with friends ever. Plus its got Firefly members as voice actors!

OT: I loved the series, overlooking most of the flaws because Halo CE was my first serious FPS ever and M rated game ever. I immediately delved into the expanded universe, being the only one of my friends to identify the covenant species with their actual names.

I love Halo but now that its out of Bungie's hands I will be cautious about the Microsoft produced games.

 

[Tupolev]

Very much so, though its first installment is by far the best.

Halo CE is hands down my favorite game of all time. It's narrative is simple, effective, and mind-blowingly well-executed; the campaign integrates sound, visuals, and gameplay in a brilliantly paced and told story with a solid introduction, an epic build-up, a terrifying reversal, and a very fitting resolution. It also has great gameplay, a very good multiplayer map selection, and extremely fun, if quirky, AI.





This having been said, while I very much enjoy the rest of the series, there are just so many missed opportunities and strange/odd design decisions everywhere. And while Bungie never wrote a fully functioning and complete narrative after Halo 1 (except for arguably ODST), at least the script writers still kind of knew what they were doing in Halo 2; I'm not sure the same could be said for the games after that.
Halo 3 Marine: "MA'AM, SQUAD LEADERS ARE REQUESTING A RALLY POINT. WHERE SHOULD THEY GO?"
Miranda Keyes: "TO WAR."
x.x
(Although, the Gravemind suffered far more than any other character in the transition from Halo 2 to Halo 3. He went from being an interesting triffid who speaks calmly in trochaic heptameter to just some dude who likes to scream random crap a lot while getting in the way of the interface.)

 

[SpireOfFire]

i played a little of halo 2, i played all of halo 3, i saw some of halo wars.

yes, i enjoyed it, but im not a big enough fan to say it was great or even better than average.

EDIT: i also played some of ODST. (ugh)

 

[Mcface]

ODST was pure shit.
the others are fun.

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

I was only a youngin' when the first one was released, but still played it. The Halo 2 was epic. Halo 3, on the other hand, meh. Big meh. ODST, better. And Reach, best in series.

 

[Nomanslander]

Honestly, I've bought just about every game in the series excluding Halo Wars, alway trying to give the series a chance that I might see what all the fuss is about, and every time I've been disappointed.

Halo just comes off as a bland shooter maybe worth a rental, and that's all.

Oh and...almost forgot....-_-

Seriously? Why do you people keep asking about this matter? Are you that insecure about your fandom? No wonder MovieBob got like 50 gazillion replies in that Halo mock vid he put out recently.

 

[Wintermoot]

not entirly Halo is a okay game but not OMG THIS SHIT IS TEH BEST SINCE ZELDA 6$ OMG LOLOL 1!1!!!! it,s okay but overrated and the doom space marine has more personality than Chief

 

[smithy_2045]

I got bored with Halo 3 pretty quickly, but Reach was fun.

Never played any of the others.

 

[Vrex360]

Yes, very much so. I loved the story because it felt like a sort of retelling of an epic Greek legend in a sci fi setting combined with the best bits of a good action piece and the quiet pensiveness of curiosity.

Plus, it has charm, nostalgia value and it's still a lot of fun to play, either with friends, online or alone. I could go on for days about why I love Halo but for now I am rather busy.

 

[Marowit]

I really enjoyed the first game. As for the series...no I didn't enjoy it. It was very generic to me, but that's probably be cause Halo basically started the console-FPS.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Yes. Yes I did. In all fairness though I prefered playing with my friends campaign-wise. As soon as I got Reach though I forgot they exsisted and was determined to Monument to all Your Sins. (legendary on solo)

On a lighter note, Halo still has the most variety in a multiplayer sense. Team Deathmatch followed by a bit of Oddball and then a custom game of invisible zombies.

 

[Saxm13]

Honestly, I've bought just about every game in the series excluding Halo Wars, alway trying to give the series a chance that I might see what all the fuss is about, and every time I've been disappointed.

Halo just comes off as a bland shooter maybe worth a rental, and that's all.

Oh and...almost forgot....-_-

Seriously? Why do you people keep asking about this matter? Are you that insecure about your fandom? No wonder MovieBob got like 50 gazillion replies in that Halo mock vid he put out recently.

Seriously, i'm just wondering whether people enjoyed the franchise as a whole as of now considering the massive change that is occurring in terms of devs.

Is it a crime to talk about video games on a video game site now?

 

[Lullabye]

yes. Overall I really enjoyed the series. Though, I stopped playing at Halo 3. So I can't say for sure.