Poll: How do you view the Halo series?

[Reep]

I enjoy it, i like concept of it which although may not be creative, it still interests me. The backstory is also what makes this for me, all the story about the Forerunner/Flood war, the first conflicts between humans and covenant, the relationship between forerunner and humans and the other stories outside the games, Eg Onyx.

 

[Xanadu84]

I don't like it. I'm hard to impress with a story, and it is a primitive power fantasy, not wild enough to be engaging, not sophisticated enough to be interesting. I find the level design to be boring, and the mechanics uninterested. I think of games on the PC, and Halo just doesn't compare in my mind. However, a lot of people have fun with it, and that's all that matters. So I look at Halo from an interesting perspective. I must acknowledge intellectually that it is a well designed game. But I just don't experience that, and it makes me wonder why.

 

[Soren91]

It's average, nothing more.

Halo Wars sucked though.

 

[Blatherscythe]

A series that ended 2 fucking games ago and was one of the first games to sacrifice story for multiplayer. In short, Microsofts "money cow".

 

[onikaze26]

above average, just really sick of hearing about it

 

[yankeefan19]

Total Fanboy. Read the books, love the story.

 

[Avatar Roku]

With confusion.
Everyone goes on and on about how it revolutionized FPS games. But it didn't. There was nothing unique about them at all.

*cough* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny]

To expand on that a bit, it was unique in that it was a very polished, well done console FPS. Although Goldeneye and others were as well, this brought them as close as, at the time, they had ever been to being like PC FPSs. Now, as I argued above, it would have happened with or without Halo, but still, it was the one we ended up getting, and I'm satisfied.

It wasn't unique. Please prove how it was.
It wasn't well done or polished. It was generic. Generic and easy. That isn't revolutionary.

Not unique or polished? Show me another console FPS from the times that was as well done. Along with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and a few others (all a few years before), it proved the viability of FPSs on consoles.

As far as PC FPSs at the time, you're right, Halo was generic, but that's not the point: Halo was a console FPS, it wasn't even ported to the PC for two years. The effect it had was almost solely on the consoles, but that doesn't lessen it's impact (or that of my other examples).

You're not proving it was. Just screaming SHOW ME ONE THAT WAS doesn't prove the one you're saying is.

But I am. Ok, I cite other examples, so it isn't totally unique, but the fact that it was a console FPS which worked well, in those days, was unique. Beyond that, it was the closest that console FPSs had, at that time, gotten to PC FPSs, which makes it unique even from the other examples. Do you want me to cite statistics? To my knowledge, there are none for this sort of thing. I'm just saying how I see it (incidentally, don't think I'm taking the "it's my opinion" cop-out, feel free to continue challenging me).

As I said above, if it had been a PC FPS first and foremost, it would not have been unique, but that's the heart of it: it wasn't a PC FPS, and the mere fact that a PC FPS could be called "average" by PC standards was quite unusual at the time.

 

[knight of zendikar]

I'm in love with it. I'm not a fanboy though. I've read all the books too.

Love all the books. they make you appreciate the game alot more

 

[Erana]

Goood memories...
*sighs*

 

[demoman_chaos]

Has Doom ever put you in the shoes of the demons? In case you don't know, for around half of Halo 2, we were given The Arbiter, one of the Elites, as our protagonist, and it gave a good deal more insight into the Covenant and showed that they weren't all evil. Sure, the Prophets (ones at the top) were all bat-shit crazy, and the Brutes, their lapdogs (by the end of Halo 2, at least) were very...well, brutal, but eventually, after finding out the truth, all of the Elites and some of the Grunts and Hunters rebelled and left the Covenant.

Tell me, did anything like that happen in Doom?

No, but there are plenty of mods that let you control the demons.

Did Halo stick you up against a giant robotic demon armed with a rocket launcher? I only could force myself up to about halfway on the first (no idea of anything beyond that partailly because the XBox is not my console of choice), but nothing like that there. How about a plasma cannon that fires an explosive ball of energy that damage all near-by enemies with a clever acronym for a name? Halo has BFG.
Point I am getting at is minus specifics, they are one in the same. No amount of fanboi ravings will change my opinion on Halo.

 

[thom_cat_]

Where's the option of "Xbox fags"?
Because that's all i see.
Nobody would play it on PC. its a console game. AN XBOX GAME.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I'm in love with it. I'm not a fanboy though. I've read all the books too.

"I'm not a fanboy."
Yes you are.
You admit to having read all of the books for a series that is known to toss out its story in favor of multiplayer and mediocre gameplay.

yes, but the books aren't about multiplayer and mediocre gameplay. They aren't about any of the Halo games either.

enjoying the Halo universe doesn't make you a...oh. well maybe it does.

Check and mate.

 

[Cpu46]

If Bungie hadn't rushed halo 2 and 3 to appease the rabid fans it could have been a wonderfull series instead of just being an ok series.

That being said
C.E was awesome
2 was so-so
3 was ok
Wars i never played
ODST was awesome

Im still looking forward to Reach since it is Bungies last game so they will probably give it their all.

 

[Candidus]

Love it. Halo (1-3 +ODST) is the best straight up FPS I've ever played, and I've played most of them. Read the books, etc etc.

I *hate* Halo Wars, the RTS. It managed to bring retro classic (dated, out-moded) C+C gameplay into collision with up-to-date graphics and... that's *all* it did.

 

[Icehearted]

I've only played the trilogy, and of those I thought the best was 2, which was really only good but not great. Hated the "ending" though.

 

[Deleric]

A series that receives too much attention. Negative and Positive.

 

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Like heavy metal, anime, classic rock, rap music, Mac vs PC, politicians, or any other fad or conflict in the history of humanity; Halo is an alright thing that has unbearable fans.