Poll: Where's the Halo love?

[Chunko]

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.

To me halo has always had a very epic quality to it which I've never felt from another game, its not the best game ever, but it is definately a 10 out of 10

10/10? I would say more of a 7/10, just because it got old after the first two. In fact, I really only liked it for forge.

I think you're being a bit too harsh, what didn't you like about it? I'll admit it was a little generic, but the writing was good, the graphics were good, the physics were good, the AI was good, the weapons were good, the gameplay was good, and the graphics were good. Whats wrong with the game?

Not to mention that the online matchmaking is probably the best ever.

 

[Darkblaven]

Forge is a fun thing... I've made many houses, airplanes, bases, zombie maps, towns, explosives houses, and airplane houses bases, made in a town with zombies.

Oh and btw: EVERYBODY GET INTO MY AIRPLANE MADE OF WALLS, THAT I STOLE FROM HOUSES, WE'LL FLY AWAY FROM THE FLAME WARS!!!

 

[Superbeast]

Halo 1 was a bit mediocre for me - extremely fun to play co-op but not so much in single-player. The multiplayer was OK. I was late getting an Xbox ang got Halo1 and 2 at the same time.

Halo 2 was alright to play single-player, a bit too easy on co-op and the mutiplayer was awesome.

Halo 3 was amazing to play co-op. I don't own a 360 (plan to change that real soon, and I'll be buying H3/ODST) but played it through in a night with a mate, and the new grenades/weapons and the powerups made the multiplayer so much fun.

Bear in mind I went straight from PS2 to Halo/2 on the Xbox, so colour me impressed with the gameplay and multi-player. The only thing I might criticise about all the multiplayers is the lack of "Bots", because on split-screen it can get boring when 2 players (the less-good ones) are fragged over and over and over again by the good players. A few AI bots on your team would mean more targets so the individual players stood more of a learning curve (and ability to turn bots off when you're good enough).

Never played online with any regularity so have (thankfully, by the sounds of it) dodged those XboxLive kiddies that cause such hatred.

Overall:

Good game, but excellent played multi-player/co-op, because it's quite fun and diverse and can be challenging at times but still good for a "gun-fest romp" as well.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I still have a lot of fun with Halo: CE and Halo 2.

 

[dportology]

the first one was really good cuz there werent any other games like it but then when they just re-released it 2 more times i hated it

 

[arcstone]

Not another one of these thread...

Do we really need any more halo threads?

 

[happysock]

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

Oh, they wrote books about it? Big whoop, every overblown load of crap has a book about it. You ever read the Terminator or Doom novels? How about Lois & Clark or Tomb Raider? Just because characters seem more complicated or involved in a book does not make them any better in the game/movie they came from.

I never said it did make them better in the game/movie that it came from. I don't even think that it covers masterchief in some of the books.

 

[aakibar]

Ok. first of i am a halo fan have always liked the series.

The Campaign is too short and linear. i cannot deal with a game being to short story wise.
soundtrack is good.
the split screen with friends is good as it is the only one with 4 person split screen now.
Online is amazing but laggy at times.
the people that play on the other hand are mostly eight year olds but there are some people that are good and nice who are rares.

in conclusion a good game that could be a lot better at times but serves its purpose

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

Its an average FPS, the only reason why it even did so good was because it was on the console. It wouldn't be able to hold a candle to most PC multi-player FPS games.

 

[MutatedJew]

As a friend of mine pointed out to me in a conversation we had earlier today, one of the biggest reasons why Halo 3 did so well was because of the veteran fans that has played through the series since Halo:CE. This doesn't mean that Halo 3 was good, it just has a good fanbase. Then again, that same fanbase also consists of some very unruly and dense people, so the overall opinion of this series can be very biased. People have different views as to when a storyline is "deep" or how well-developed the structure of a game can be. Things like that needs to be taken into consideration when asking questions such as the one this thread is about. Do I think the game is well thought out in terms of story? Not really. Then again, I've played games like Metal Gear Solid 1-4 and Deus Ex and thought they were interesting storylines. Was the game fun in the gameplay aspect? Yes. It was a little easy, but it still was fun.

Like I said, when it comes to asking certain questions in the gaming community, you'll need to think of the people it consists of before you consider their answers.

 

[valczir]

SNIP

So... pretty much your main reason for strongly disliking it is that

a) Microsoft made it (ergo, it must suck)

and

b) Its popular (so it double sucks)

I'm not horribly missing the gist of your rant am I?

Yeah, you kinda are (not entirely, but kinda). I hate it because it it's not a good shooter. It's not particularly bad, but it's not good, either. It's simply mediocre. Normally, what do you do with a mediocre game? You ignore it. You admit that it's okay, but you don't buy it, so you don't have to play it except for the random days when you go over to the one guy's house who thinks it's the best game to ever be released.

With Halo, its mediocrity is really up in your face, because it's everywhere. New games base all (okay, most) of their ideas on Halo. Every single one of your friends plays Halo. You can't avoid the ideas behind Halo, even if you manage to avoid Halo itself, because it's so very influential.

When you're forced to play a mediocre game the whole way through multiple times, your hatred for it grows. For me, at least, the same thing happens when I'm playing games that I -want- to like, but can't because too many features were taken from a game that I thought was boring. Oblivion, I am sure, will influence the Action RPG genre in the same way (and I care about that genre MUCH more than I care about the FPS genre - hence my -intense- hatred of Oblivion).

If it wasn't popular, I could avoid it, and therefor say, "Meh, it's okay. Wouldn't pay for it, myself, though." Because of the insane amount of popularity it has, it creates tendrils of its mediocrity (FREAKING REGENERATING HEALTH!) in other games in the same genre, which means I can't avoid it, which makes me say, "I want to go back in time and slaughter anyone involved in the original Halo project, then feast on their flesh in an ancient ritual of victory!" ... Which then makes me want to google ancient rituals of victory.

Seriously, though, people don't hate games that aren't popular. Not usually. They just avoid said games. But when a game gets enough attention to change a genre ... that can generate a lot of rage from the people who don't like the changes to the genre.

Summary: I hate Halo because it has changed the FPS genre in a way that I don't like.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Its a good game. Not a great game, but good. Are there better games? Yes. Are there worse? Absolutely. Just drop it already.

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