A good, valid point at last!xLANKYx said:
There, now the rest of you get specific. I'm getting tired of the uninvolved, generic complaints.
Poll: Is Halo 3 essentially for Halo Fanboys?
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There, now the rest of you get specific. I'm getting tired of the uninvolved, generic complaints.
I hope I've never come across as saying that to play it is to love it... I know tastes vary, a lot. I can definitely respect that you don't like the slower pace of Halo, just as I don't like the pace of UT games.tiredinnuendo said:
I don't ever agree that personal preference for another title means that "GAyl0 sux an is for tards." I also don't think that opinions of those who haven't tried it at all are valid... anymore than my opinions on GTA are worth anything to anyone, having never played it myself. That's all.
-- Steve
I think not liking Halo is fair enough. You can't look at all the people who dislike it and say "Well, they're just idiots", even if some of the more vocal ones are. But on the same note, you can't look at the number of people who play any of the Halo games on a regular basis and say "Well, they're just idiots".
Yeah, the brutes didn't have anything that compared to "Wort wort wort!".xLANKYx said:
Joeshie, I'd just like to personally thank you for so eloquently summing up the exact reason Halo is so hated and loved. It is true, a vast number of the fans that hail Halo as the one of the best games in the first-person shooter genre are people who had never or rarely ever played an FPS before. Like you, I have been playing shooters since Wolfenstein3D and Doom on through Quake 3, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and all the way up to the latest fair including Halo 3. I loved the first game in the series. Halo was a marvelous game that showed just how good a console shooter could be. One could argue that this fact alone doomed it to mediocrity but that's another debate. The point is, as Joeshie said, when Halo is compared to other games in it's genre outside of the Xbox or, hell, console base, it just doesn't have that feel of polish or greatness that the best FPS's have. For me, it also doesn't help Halo 3's case that Bungie seems to have lost their touch. Let's face it, Halo 2 and 3 were really lacking in the story aspect of the game. The first, though admittedly not deep, did have an interesting and intriguing story that left your imagination wondering. It had a certain epic feel to it. The direction they took the story in the sequels destroyed any sense of wonder I had in the characters. I know the average person that loves Halo isn't playing it for the story mode, and in that regard the game is a shining example of console multi-player. Hell, it's still one of the few series that still has split-screen for God's sake. Still, one has to admit it's story lacks the oomph games like Half-Life and Bioshock have. Regardless, Halo 3 is a fun game and I still love playing it at LANs, I just feel it doesn't deserve the level of praise it seems to get.
On side note, I guess one of the main reasons I couldn't get into the Halo story was that it felt way too much like the Starship Troopers story, in every regard. No, I don't mean that crappy movie from the 90's I mean the novel the film was based on that was written in the late 40's early 50's if I'm remembering correctly. The "bugs" in the book are essentially the Covenant, right down to the conglomerate of alien species, some having highly advanced technology and most being bi-pedal, and traveling across the universe in vessels. If you've read it, you'll understand how hard-pressed one would be to argue that when Bungie thought up Halo they didn't get most of their ideas from the Starship Troopers book.
On side note, I guess one of the main reasons I couldn't get into the Halo story was that it felt way too much like the Starship Troopers story, in every regard. No, I don't mean that crappy movie from the 90's I mean the novel the film was based on that was written in the late 40's early 50's if I'm remembering correctly. The "bugs" in the book are essentially the Covenant, right down to the conglomerate of alien species, some having highly advanced technology and most being bi-pedal, and traveling across the universe in vessels. If you've read it, you'll understand how hard-pressed one would be to argue that when Bungie thought up Halo they didn't get most of their ideas from the Starship Troopers book.
I think the main reason Halo 3 was such a success was because of the ending of Halo 2. Annoying as it was, it was good as cliffhangers go, so people who got engrossed in the story of Halo 2 had to play the third one.
I consider the Halo series to be an introductory FPS, everything is solid and competant, bug-free, and 2&3 don't have any controller throwing moments. Once you feel comfortable with Halo, you can move up to Half-life.
I consider the Halo series to be an introductory FPS, everything is solid and competant, bug-free, and 2&3 don't have any controller throwing moments. Once you feel comfortable with Halo, you can move up to Half-life.
Halo 3 is a Fanboy game. Fact.
The first one i thought was really good, the plot didn't seem disjointed and the whole covenant/flood enemy was genuinly interesting. Halo 2 i was bored of by the time i got to the 2nd Halo. As for the 3rd, the plot was rubbish (the flood are on your side for like 2 minutes then suddenly your sworn enemies again and you're just supposed to sit there thinking 'wow didn't see that coming'.
One word, OVER-RATED.
The first one i thought was really good, the plot didn't seem disjointed and the whole covenant/flood enemy was genuinly interesting. Halo 2 i was bored of by the time i got to the 2nd Halo. As for the 3rd, the plot was rubbish (the flood are on your side for like 2 minutes then suddenly your sworn enemies again and you're just supposed to sit there thinking 'wow didn't see that coming'.
One word, OVER-RATED.
So by that logic everyone that played Halo 3 is a fanboy, amirite?Standby said:
That logic is flawed, I played Halo 3 yet I don't sing it's praises or defend it when I know there are better games out there than it, I agree it's overrated, but it's far from a game exclusively for "fanboys/girls"(let's not be discriminating here lol).
