Poll: How do you view the Halo series?

[Gutkrusha]

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

I'm pretty much the same way. I own all of the books and the games, and still play them when I can. ODST in my opinion had probably the best campaign, and other than Halo 3 was the only one that made me care about the single player aspect of the games.

I'll be buying Halo:Reach when it comes out, too.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

I like 1 and 3, everything else was a pile of arse.

It's both the most overated and underated (due to all of the 'OMG I H8 HAL0') game series ever, it's nothing special or terrible, just average.

 

[I Resurection I]

I liked the Halo series, not my most favorite game but fun to play with friends every once and a while

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

They are good. I'll try state at least a paragraph on the ones I've played.

Halo Combat Evolved: This is the best Halo game in the whole series of what I've played. It brought a PC standard of FPS gaming to the consoles along with a few other titles like Timesplitters but Halo was part of it. The combination of regenerative and static health blended in perfectly with the game as it encouraged taking cover but not to the extent of attack and run back in the games now. That is a problem I will talk about later. The weapons were good there was a fair amount not too many that it became over saturated and not too little that you didn't have a choice. The weapons overall were fairly balanced except the Magnum for the campaign which for what it was was imba but still was good enough. Soundtrack was amazing and they even added in a special song from Myst those of you who have played both know what song I mean. The game did let down a bit on the levels as they had more than few filler levels by making you backtrack which I hate to have to do it. The story in t his was presented in a good way and had a good few twists but left massive plot holes the size of a super massive blackhole.

Halo 2: This game showed a drop in standard to the first game. It added dual wielding which is impossible by normal standards but since the Master Chief is biologicaly engineered to be better, faster, stronger, harder and has magical bullshit armor that now stops working after the shield disappears can make a bit of sense. They added in more weapons which in places made you spoiled for choice and personally I didn't know what weapon to go with as they are all so good. Unfortunately in this game they dropped the Assault Rifle for the Battle Rifle. Difference is Battle Rifle has less ammo is very crappy in this and fires in bursts instead of auto. Sound track continued to be good but game play dropped a bit. They still had filler levels in Halo2 which did keep the game going but made me feel like they ran out of ideas. In this game you also get to play as an Elite the Arbiter. Which is good change of pace and I enjoyed it. In this game which is it's best quality and I wish they had continued was that it had a good final boss. Story continues being average with massive plot holes with nothing explained to link games. Master Chief magically appears back on Earth with Johnson.

Halo 3: Worst game in the series by far. They added even more weapons and over saturated the game with weapons in my opinion. Story still average same problem with second pretty much fuck all links games you just magically are falling out of the sky. Crap final boss and crap final vehicle section. Difficulty toned down so much. Shield becomes even more imba with you only being able to take a very smal ammount of shots when it goes down. You don't get to play as Arbiter. Overall an alright game but dropped the standard of the series around the board except in multiplayer if your into whining kids and HAVE XBL which I do not nor do I want to having played it at a friends. Although I don't hate everyone on XBL so don't think I do I just don't like the people like that compared to the ones on the PC as on the PC I don't have to hear their voices so I can ignore text. How I feel about XBL and online communities in general is for a different thread.

 

[PandyBear]

I enjoy the games (although they seem to be lacking that little sparkle the Halo:CE had) i cant fault the soundtracks on any of the games (although the use of Breaking Benjamin and Incubus on Halo 2 was questionable at best)

Personally i prefer the books to the actual games. Just for the story, which the games really do lack in. After reading the books, you do kind of feel a sympathy for the spartans :/
Chief especially, for the amount of close friends he has lost and for his experiences during The Library on the first Halo. But hey, it's only fiction... so who cares right?

 

[Admiral Stukov]

I'm not touching those, because there is only room for a PC in my heart and if I can't play the whole series on my PC, then it's on the ignore-list.

 

[Kud]

Halo is fun.

It doesn't have a deep story, but Halo wasn't built for story play, its a multiplayer game.

And the multiplayer is AWESOME.

 

[tehroc]

Ok. Any version of Unreal Tournament is vastly superior in every way to Halo. Really Halo is like half a game compared to UT.

 

[ScarlettRage]

it ok i suppose. i never really got into it though.

 

[Gutkrusha]

They are good. I'll try state at least a paragraph on the ones I've played.


Halo 2:...They added in more weapons which in places made you spoiled for choice and personally I didn't know what weapon to go with as they are all so good. Unfortunately in this game they dropped the Assault Rifle for the Battle Rifle. Difference is Battle Rifle has less ammo is very crappy in this and fires in bursts instead of auto.

To touch on both points(I am by no means trying to defend the game. It had a lot of flaws.) There weren't many good weapons in Halo 2. The Carbine, Battle Rifle, Sniper Rifle(s), Rocket Launcher, and Sword were pretty much the only really 'well used' weapons. On the other point, The Battle Rifle was the replacement for the pistol, and was arguably the best weapon in the game. The SMG was the replacement for the Assault Rifle, and was probably one of the worst weapons in the game.

Story continues being average with massive plot holes with nothing explained to link games. Master Chief magically appears back on Earth with Johnson.

The Prophet had said he was going to 'The Ark' which you later find out is earth. as his ship is entering the atmosphere, The Master Chief jumps from the ship and basically does an in-atmosphere dive. How he survived is anyone's guess.

Halo 3:Story still average same problem with second pretty much fuck all links games you just magically are falling out of the sky.

See Above.

Shield becomes even more imba with you only being able to take a very smal ammount of shots when it goes down.

According to the canon behind the games, the armor under the shields is only very protective of key areas, the head, chest, groin, etc. Anyone, when filled with enough bullets, would die after only a few shots. The only modifications made to the Spartans was to their bone structure and muscle capabilities. Their internal organs and 'meaty' parts are still the same. They aren't bulletproof or resistant or anything. The plates on the spartan armor aren't just for show, that's pretty much the only place spartans are actually armored.

The knowledge of the armor is only there because i've read all of the books, so yeah.. But the points about the story are fairly easy to pick up on, because they're essentially forced down your throat. In my opinion, Halo has quite a good story, it was one of my favorite parts of the games. But that might also be because i've read the books.. In fact it probably is.

 

[Deofuta]

I Loved each one for different reasons.

Halo 1 - The only time Ive bought a console for one. game. Halo CE was drop dead amazing and stunningly gorgeous at the time. Truly what seemed to be a first in its class.

Halo 2 - The first time I bought an Xbox Live account was for this game. And I loved it so. Tack on the single player experience as a good bonus, I believe the multiplayer was where its at.

Halo 3 - Updating and threshing out the Multiplayer, adding the Forge, equipment, all these things were done before Halo, but I still found it to be quite a joy and spent many hours playing it.

Halo Wars - (At the Time) My favorite FPS series, coming out into my favorite game genre of all time!?!? Win Win! While it definitely had its moments, and it appears that the multiplayer has quite a hard core fan base, it was probably the least favorite of the series for me. Consoles did not, and probably never will, do an RTS proud.

Halo ODST - Great concept, but did not quite seem to jump fully into itself. I think that given more time it may have been great, but I found myself just repeating the same strategies I always had done in the other games, power Armour or no power Armour.

Whew, probably my longest post.

 

[oppp7]

Based on the amount of people it's influenced, I said it's great.
Gameplay-wise it's still pretty good, and the multiplayer is great, but the series has several flaws. 1. Forge. Why the hell can't we make custom areas with NPCs? 2. The storyline is pretty meh at points. 3. Increasing the difficulty normally just means the enemies kill you faster or die slower, normally meaning that you spend most of your time hiding behind a wall. 4. Most of my favorite matches are unplayable when they release maps.

 

[achilleas.k]

I'm not touching those, because there is only room for a PC in my heart and if I can't play the whole series on my PC, then it's on the ignore-list.

Well you should at least give the original a try. It's not like it's not a self contained story. When I played CE it was before Halo 2 came out and I had no idea there was a sequel planned so it's not really fair to say "I can't play them all so I'll just play NONE." At least you'll get to see what all the fuss is about. I bet it costs like $5 off eBay these days.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

They are good. I'll try state at least a paragraph on the ones I've played.


Halo 2:...They added in more weapons which in places made you spoiled for choice and personally I didn't know what weapon to go with as they are all so good. Unfortunately in this game they dropped the Assault Rifle for the Battle Rifle. Difference is Battle Rifle has less ammo is very crappy in this and fires in bursts instead of auto.

To touch on both points(I am by no means trying to defend the game. It had a lot of flaws.) There weren't many good weapons in Halo 2. The Carbine, Battle Rifle, Sniper Rifle(s), Rocket Launcher, and Sword were pretty much the only really 'well used' weapons. On the other point, The Battle Rifle was the replacement for the pistol, and was arguably the best weapon in the game. The SMG was the replacement for the Assault Rifle, and was probably one of the worst weapons in the game.

Story continues being average with massive plot holes with nothing explained to link games. Master Chief magically appears back on Earth with Johnson.

The Prophet had said he was going to 'The Ark' which you later find out is earth. as his ship is entering the atmosphere, The Master Chief jumps from the ship and basically does an in-atmosphere dive. How he survived is anyone's guess.

Halo 3:Story still average same problem with second pretty much fuck all links games you just magically are falling out of the sky.

See Above.

Shield becomes even more imba with you only being able to take a very smal ammount of shots when it goes down.

According to the canon behind the games, the armor under the shields is only very protective of key areas, the head, chest, groin, etc. Anyone, when filled with enough bullets, would die after only a few shots. The only modifications made to the Spartans was to their bone structure and muscle capabilities. Their internal organs and 'meaty' parts are still the same. They aren't bulletproof or resistant or anything. The plates on the spartan armor aren't just for show, that's pretty much the only place spartans are actually armored.

The knowledge of the armor is only there because i've read all of the books, so yeah.. But the points about the story are fairly easy to pick up on, because they're essentially forced down your throat. In my opinion, Halo has quite a good story, it was one of my favorite parts of the games. But that might also be because i've read the books.. In fact it probably is.

I have read the books also so I do know the back story I just wished it was shown in the game. Your point on the Battle Rifle I know it is good but it's poor ammo consumption and lack of ammo drops for it makes it a bad weapon atleast in my eyes. Although when you do it hit is powerful but you need to make every shot with that gun count or else you will not like it.

The first plot point you quoted was regarding Halo 1-2 which was not explained in the game at all. Only in Halo 3 can you make sense of it. Also on second plot point I do know that he jumped from the ship but how he got out of the ship without being seen and with no fight at all is pretty big plot point. Keeping in mind the biogenitc engineering to them the falling out of the sky is pretty piss poor way of him meeting up with them as they could of used the level as a tutorial with the Chief sneaking out of the ship via escape pod which would have linked the games much more fluidly.

I understand that you can't take many shots with the armor as it is not the best protection when the shield is down but amount you can take is sheer staggeringly small. I'd rather they kept Halo CE's health system than the full regenerative health as it makes more sense. I mean Marines take more punishment than you.

 

[Gutkrusha]

I have read the books also so I do know the back story I just wished it was shown in the game. Your point on the Battle Rifle I know it is good but it's poor ammo consumption and lack of ammo drops for it makes it a bad weapon atleast in my eyes. Although when you do it hit is powerful but you need to make every shot with that gun count or else you will not like it.

The first plot point you quoted was regarding Halo 1-2 which was not explained in the game at all. Only in Halo 3 can you make sense of it. Also on second plot point I do know that he jumped from the ship but how he got out of the ship without being seen and with no fight at all is pretty big plot point. Keeping in mind the biogenitc engineering to them the falling out of the sky is pretty piss poor way of him meeting up with them as they could of used the level as a tutorial with the Chief sneaking out of the ship via escape pod which would have linked the games much more fluidly.

I'm not sure what his modifications have to do with him falling out of the sky...But I do get your point. I think the reason they didn't do a tutorial mission was mainly because as the third game in the serious, it would be fairly pointless for someone to play it before the other two games. It might have been cool to escape from the ship, but not in halo 3, it should have been the last mission in Halo 2. Also, on the first bit, what do you mean about halo 1 and 2? Which plot point, exactly? If you mean after the end of Halo: Combat Evolved, The Master Chief pilots a Longsword Fighter out of the Pillar of Autumn and away from the Halo structure. If I misread, please tell me. (Of course that still doesn't say exactly how he gets back to earth..)

I understand that you can't take many shots with the armor as it is not the best protection when the shield is down but amount you can take is sheer staggeringly small. I'd rather they kept Halo CE's health system than the full regenerative health as it makes more sense. I mean Marines take more punishment than you.

I do agree here though. I really liked the Health + Shield part of the game.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

It's okay, not great, but not bad. Has some problem with repetition.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

It's great, although I haven't played Halo Wars properly. Bungie seem to have a legal obligation to put one wretched level in every game they release, though, for some reason.

 

[erbkaiser]

Overrated run-of-the-mill games.

But as they were the first actually playable FPSen on consoles, I suppose I should give them some slack.
Compared to the entire genre: Bad
Compared to the entire genre pre-Halo on consoles: Good.

So an 'OK' overall.

 

[AwesomeNinjaPowers]

Why is there no 'meh' option? Cause don't give a monkey's about the Halo series