Poll: Where's the Halo love?

[pompom8volt]

I know halo isn't very well liked around here, but i for one like halo. Is Halo the best game ever? certainly not, but it was a good game with a solid multiplayer. I'm generally an avid PC gamer (i refuse to you the phrase "hardcore") I still just don't get why people hate it so much.

So do you like or dislike halo? please state why.

USE.THE.SEARCH.BAR.

Good golly, we literally just got out of the "Halo sucks/Halo's cool, shutup!" phase!

There are plenty of other threads that are CLONES of this one!

Look at this, you already have fanboys on both sides throwing out baseless claims and accusations!

Use the fucking search bar next time. It really is there for a reason, y'know.

wow, some one's PMSing, and i don't see a ton of fan boys here. it's mainly a level headed conversation about the game. sheesh.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Poll needs more options. Halo 3 isn't "bad", but I certainly wouldn't describe it as "good" either.

Halo 2, on the other hand, is fan-fucking-tastic.

 

[RanD00M]

Its ok and nothing more.

 

[Agarth]

Halo 1 and 2 were good but 3 killed itself.

 

[Inco]

What i wanna know is why people seem to know that certain things are not liked here. Certain threads, like religion or certain popular games. Yet they still go and make a thread based on it.

I like Halo, all of em. Thats the most you can get from me.

 

[Daezd]

I know halo isn't very well liked around here, but i for one like halo. Is Halo the best game ever? certainly not, but it was a good game with a solid multiplayer. I'm generally an avid PC gamer (i refuse to you the phrase "hardcore") I still just don't get why people hate it so much.

So do you like or dislike halo? please state why.

USE.THE.SEARCH.BAR.

Good golly, we literally just got out of the "Halo sucks/Halo's cool, shutup!" phase!

There are plenty of other threads that are CLONES of this one!

Look at this, you already have fanboys on both sides throwing out baseless claims and accusations!

Use the fucking search bar next time. It really is there for a reason, y'know.

wow, some one's PMSing, and i don't see a ton of fan boys here. it's mainly a level headed conversation about the game. sheesh.

And it's all been done before. There is where my problem lies.

And yes, there is quite a bit of fanboyism going on here.

 

[JohnSmith]

The campaign was average although it had its moments and frankly the multiplayer experience at least on console is horrible and yes I do know that makes me a minority.

 

[wizzerd229]

*starts to say something about Halo for the PC being his favorite online Chatrooms, but decides not to after seeing the gun pointing at him* (it is really fun to rebuke some one with both bullets and words)

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I really like the Halo series. I like it because it was the first FPS for consoles to really break out of the shadow of it's PC only cousins. It wasn't another port of a PC shooter, it was giving the shooter experience to the console players in a fun and exciting way.

PC shooter fans hate it, and they really should. It's not for them. It's for those of us who prefer console games. That's really all there is to it. If it's not your thing then that's that and that's fine. And if it is your thing, well I'll see you in Firefight on Sept 22nd.

 

[jboking]

As a series I think Halo is great. It is by far not the best game out there, and if I were to speak of each of the games I would have to say Halo 1 & 2 were great Halo 3 was a letdown and Halo Wars was...shit tier. As a whole, the series deserves a bit of praise, especially for adding some elements to the FPS genre(even if some of us didn't want them *cough* regen health *cough*).

I'd say the love for it should end if you go to college and live in a dorm. Bro's exist, they play halo, a lot, and feel the need to spout their mouths about it and the industry when they know nothing about it. It's definitely rage worthy. It's kind of like the only bad point of Xbox live. Loudmouth community.

all-in-all, the series has earned more love than you see it being given on the internet, but less love than your typical bro gives it.

 

[Dr.Sean]

Halo: The very definition of nostalgia
Halo 2: Shameful Sequal
Halo 3: Meh it's alright.

 

[PurpleRain]

Good? Bad? Where's my option in that poll. Your poll is broken so I didn't vote.

Honestly, the game is alright. It is short and has some odd yet entertaining game mechanics. Though the story isn't very... well, good. You'll need to be up to date with all the books and games to understand Halo 3.

I heard the multiplayer is fun but I have never gotten so much into it to want to buy the game and get Live. Rent it and you'll be able to finish the story in one or two nights with a bottle of drink next to you.

 

[Flux289]

I personally think halo 1 was brilliant (still have it in my collection of xbox games), halo 2 didnt have a campaign as good as the first but it introduced multiplayer to the series, which is one of the best multiplayers in fps history (imo), halo 3 had a fun campaign especially with splitcreen and some friends, but halo 3 really excelled in its multiplayer, i think its the best multiplayer in the fps's this generation (tied with tf2), it has a huge variety of modes, lots of maps, the ability to create your own map layouts and then play them with your friends online and offline. Also halo 3 is the only good fps on the xbox360 with splitscreen online, if you have friends or siblings you play with, halo 3 gets a hell of a lot better, some of you may not like it because you and your friends never truly got in to playing halo 3 together.

I don't want to try sound like a halo fanboy but i think some people are giving this game too much hate without really giving it a proper chance or not having an open mind about it. And yes i know the halo online community is full of retards, but at least theres a mute option lol.

 

[Deleric]

It's a good game. Definitely not deserving of the messiah praise, but also not deserving of the following cynics who use the previously stated as an excuse for hating the game.

 

[Godhead]

It was OK, but the campaign didn't have much replayability and then it went down the shithole when Halo 2 was released, but Halo 3 made a climb that got it to a half-decent series.

 

[The_Echo]

It's good, but not great.

 

[JoeKickAzz]

bottom line...

Halo revolutionized FPS for ever, it had its run but now its time for some other game to do the same

Halo 1 had best campaign

Halo 2 had massive online play

Halo 3 was halo 2 with HD and forge and theater

 

[Axle_Bullitt_19]

I hate this game for the sole reason that microsoft bought it to kill Playstation. I hate to love this game. Like what ZP said in his gears reveiw it does enough good to be a solid title that you can't hate.

 

[bob-2000]

I like the game for it's attention to detail, and it's deep involving storyline, I think it has one of the deepest stroylones for a game of its sort

I didn't like the game because of it's generic environments and shallow storyline. I think it's because i was expecting it to be like BioShock or Half-Life and was let down. It wasn't a terrible game, it just wasn't good.

Shallow storyline are you kidding me the story line is so deep it should be considered an ocean.

Aliens bad, human soldiers good. Go shoot aliens, they do bad stuff.
Wow, that's so deep. I should put on waders.

As i've just commented someone else you are doing exactly what they did playing the game through not listening to the characters moaning about it being mediocore and then moving on, almost all of the named characters in the game have an entire life that bungie has created for them, and although it isn't portrayed well in the game itself bungie have never normally been good at showing heir story through games, the 3? novels that have been produced are good reads and help to explain the story deeper

You could make a book about pretty much anything, the mere fact that the game has a book about it is no proof. Besides, every character that i've ever seen has had a backstory, it's just a matter of how well characterized they are. Halo characters are relatively shallow and bland when compared to characters from other games (i.e BioShock, Half-Life 2, Mass Effect, ect.) and their backstory doesn't really play into the story at all in Halo.

So masterchiefs character is bland compared to Jack Ryans in Bioshock, how so would that be?

Jack Ryan is a person that has human relationships with people while Master Chief is a walking cliché with as much personality as a paperweight.