Poll: what was wrong with halo?
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The Halo series always had a fantastic story (save for Halo 3) and balamced multiplayer. Bungie has managed to keep Halo's multiplayer fairly fresh by offering something new or tweaked with each game.
I will admit that making the sniper rifle an anti-vehicle weapon wasn't the best move.
I will admit that making the sniper rifle an anti-vehicle weapon wasn't the best move.
I personally love the Halo games. I've never really been able to get into fps's, except Timesplitters, but I got Halo from CE. I've had some great laughs playing with my friends on it and I enjoyed the story.
In the books Master Chief has a personality, a strong leader that cares about his team after realizing he can't solo everything, arrogant etc... its just in the game they tend not to give him a a massive personality.elvor0 said:
Also I like Halo, I find it fun, it brings a different sort of appeal to the table after playing realistic shooters like Battlefield and CoD also I find the campaign quite fun to do especially on Legendary. I haven't completed Half Life 2 yet but so far I find Halo more fun the Half Life.
People hate on Halo because they think the Singleplayer is important. It isn't. The important thing about Halo is the community it has spawned. No one outside of this community can ever truly enjoy Halo.
And just to clarify, I haven't played any Halo games except wombat devolved, cause I don't have an Xbox. So no, I don't understand Halo because I'm not part of the community.
And just to clarify, I haven't played any Halo games except wombat devolved, cause I don't have an Xbox. So no, I don't understand Halo because I'm not part of the community.
"People are always telling me why they hate halo but I want to know why"
Well... err... they've told you?
Anyway, its just very average. The epitome of it in fact. And its done the same as CoD, where people now regard that standard of writing as "good".
Well... err... they've told you?
Anyway, its just very average. The epitome of it in fact. And its done the same as CoD, where people now regard that standard of writing as "good".
Because Freeman is silent, and is meant to be a place-holder for you. The Master Chief is a character however, he's just exceptionally dull and generic.sravankb said:
I liked playing Halo, I especially liked the co-op split-screen. What I didn't like was how it "modernized" the FPS industry into regenerating health and other features which I consider to "dumbing down." It's good, but it's no quake 1 or 2.
I've mostly seen two reasons: fans (because apparently if stupid people like something that means it's automatically bad) and popularity (because apparently if a lot of people like something it's automatically bad). Both are terrible reasons fit for idiots. Outside of that there are reasons of preference, but I've even seen few of those that actually have real backing behind them. It's not a perfect series, but it's a great shooter series with a fantastic sci-fi war story, enjoyable multiplayer, and some of the greatest music ever written for a video game.
I played the first one on my PC and reached halfway only to find myself screaming at the monitor.
The second one was for vista, and the rest I didn't care because of the second.
This went by me almost unnoticed.
Perhaps because this turns to many xbox players it became so popular?
I'm a PC user exclusively, and.... I didn't enjoy halo 1.
The second one was for vista, and the rest I didn't care because of the second.
This went by me almost unnoticed.
Perhaps because this turns to many xbox players it became so popular?
I'm a PC user exclusively, and.... I didn't enjoy halo 1.
I honestly don't think there's anything here really hate worthy. Halo might not be the greatest thing since sliced bread but I doubt it's as bad as the incredibly angry haters would have you believe.
As it stands Halo is a solid series with good, well functioning gameplay, a well balanced online multiplayer component, a pretty cool and intriquete backstory, some freaking amazing music and it hits home for me due to nostalgia and charm and happy memories playing it.
I love Halo, it might not deserve to be hailed as the greatest endevour of human existence but it also deserves way more credit then it gets. We've already had the thread about how Halo doesn't do most of the things people blame it for so I won't repeat it, I'll just say that Halo is a game series that I love. The main trilogy in particular while not perfect is still a proud addition to my collection and all the content in Halo: Reach continues to keep me busy, forging, fire fighting, customizing and online playing like mad.
Just because it's a big AAA game doesn't mean it should be despised because of it.
As it stands Halo is a solid series with good, well functioning gameplay, a well balanced online multiplayer component, a pretty cool and intriquete backstory, some freaking amazing music and it hits home for me due to nostalgia and charm and happy memories playing it.
I love Halo, it might not deserve to be hailed as the greatest endevour of human existence but it also deserves way more credit then it gets. We've already had the thread about how Halo doesn't do most of the things people blame it for so I won't repeat it, I'll just say that Halo is a game series that I love. The main trilogy in particular while not perfect is still a proud addition to my collection and all the content in Halo: Reach continues to keep me busy, forging, fire fighting, customizing and online playing like mad.
Just because it's a big AAA game doesn't mean it should be despised because of it.
In my opinion, not much at all was wrong with Halo.
I don't want to start a fight here, but I'd say a lot of the people who "hate" Halo so much are the people who haven't even played it before.
I don't want to start a fight here, but I'd say a lot of the people who "hate" Halo so much are the people who haven't even played it before.
I hate "realistic" shooters that aren't Counter Strike, so I love Halo.
I consider Combat Evolved to be one of the last "Great" shooters and I very much enjoyed 2, 3, and Reach. I love the setting, the weapons, the fast paced gameplay, and the easy to control vehicles. If I had to choose between Halo and Unreal Tournament as a series it'd be a really tough call.
I consider Combat Evolved to be one of the last "Great" shooters and I very much enjoyed 2, 3, and Reach. I love the setting, the weapons, the fast paced gameplay, and the easy to control vehicles. If I had to choose between Halo and Unreal Tournament as a series it'd be a really tough call.
Halo is great, the singleplayer is a little meh, but was still action packed and at least exciting enough for a playthrough or two, it is a little easy, but the higher difficulties do offer quite a challenge.
The multiplayer is flat out awesome though, it's still the best 4-player splitscreen game since Goldeneye on the N64 in my mind. With tons of extras like theatre mode and Forge, theres something for everyone.. except those who suck at shooters in general or just plain don't like them at all.
The multiplayer is flat out awesome though, it's still the best 4-player splitscreen game since Goldeneye on the N64 in my mind. With tons of extras like theatre mode and Forge, theres something for everyone.. except those who suck at shooters in general or just plain don't like them at all.
Mm, I've read one of the books and he's a bit more fleshed out there, which is a shame, because they could've bought it over to the game and it would've made him interesting as a character. However really we're going by games and even with the books existing, the books shouldn't need to be there in order to give a personality to a video game character, all of it should be present in the game. I enjoy playing the games, but I just feel that if they gave him remnants of a character in the game they should've gone the whole hog and given him a proper persona. Although that may have been a life saver on his part, the rest of the characters in Halo are rubbish >< Ironically the only character I feel was actually decent in Halo was Cortana, who in universe was the ARTIFICIAL intelligence.ReaperzXIII said:
It was console exclusive (for a while).
Seriously, this is probably the biggest reason for all the complaints. PC gamers somehow got offended by being denied an fps and found every conceivable reason to hate it, despite it being no worse than any other fps around at the time (and much better than a large majority of them).
Now the series is stagnated and the online community is less than reputable, but I still believe most of the complaints stem from PC gamers being shut out.
Seriously, this is probably the biggest reason for all the complaints. PC gamers somehow got offended by being denied an fps and found every conceivable reason to hate it, despite it being no worse than any other fps around at the time (and much better than a large majority of them).
Now the series is stagnated and the online community is less than reputable, but I still believe most of the complaints stem from PC gamers being shut out.