Popular games everyone loves but you cant understand how its so popular
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To be with the majority, Halo. I don't hate it, but I see wasted potential. Why don't the games tap into the rich backstory of the novels and comics? Just playing the games, you'd never know there's this deep backstory full of emotion. The games are just explosions and you play as a husk. Chief is better characterized in all but the games the series is based upon in the first place. I liked ODST and hope I'll like Reach, due to the squad mechanic, which means there's a little more character. I hate having to play as a shell who never speaks. For some, it's part of the immersion, for me, it breaks the immersion. If only the game writers took their jobs seriously.
Fable 2 is the most over hyped 4 hour long piece of crap I ever played. Yes I beat the game in four hours. For the last boss (the guy that shoots your face in at the beginning) I killed him with the first pistol ytou receive in the game (being that you don't need weapons when your unlimted magical abilities can destroy everything)
Generalizing much? I hate bright colours, I'm 14.captaincabbage said:
OT: 'part from the usuals e.g. Halo, MW2 the MDK games were so crap...
I even remember using the arrows not the analog and WTF?
I loved fable 2...IamSofaKingRaw said:
formay resons and the first one was good. Fable is one of 2 resons I got an Xbox 360 as I had 1 on the PC (other reson is Halo... you can guess how much I was dissapointed with that).
I know I'm going to get hate spammed but, I really didn't find the appeal of Fallout 3 much. Maybe New Vegas will be better.
It's so much a game I don't understand the popularity of but a perspective.
I just can't grasp the popularity of the first person perspective in gaming, most people tell me that they find it realistic but I don't see that it is.
The first person view doesn't offer depth perception, peripheral vision or spacial awareness.
Now it is true that the third person view can hardly be called realistic either but it does at least replicate the three things I posted above to a certain degree.
I just can't grasp the popularity of the first person perspective in gaming, most people tell me that they find it realistic but I don't see that it is.
The first person view doesn't offer depth perception, peripheral vision or spacial awareness.
Now it is true that the third person view can hardly be called realistic either but it does at least replicate the three things I posted above to a certain degree.
Accepted.joshthor said:
And I might revise my earlier to statement to "all computer role-playing games in general". Seriously, looking back at all the RPG's I played, I am hard-pressed to see what I liked about them. I blame sandbox games for showing me that moving around in an environment can be fun in and of itself. After that, left-sticking an avatar through a series of rooms and corridors just doesn't entertain.
I find the hatred towards Halo baffling, to be honest. I am certainly not a halo fanboy, but it is almost undoubtedly the most criticised game on the internets, for no discernible reason, perhaps bar MW2.DrEmo said:
The graphics are good, it was an innovative game will innovative ideas. The plot was great in the first one, though they murderised it to oblivion in 2 and 3, as it simply was overly complex and redundant, and frankly...a bit boring. Halo:CE did have a fantastic story though, presented, and in extended universe form.
The multiplayer was fun, and got progressively better from CE to 3, with 3 being one of the most balanced multiplayer games around in my opinion, even if I don't play it. It's something MW2 and many FPS's can't claim, a good balance, where as Halo3 can. It's well designed, good interface, great soundtrack and sound effects, immersive, and it was the game that revolutionised multiplayer, in terms of a flawless matchmaking system.
Even if I am not the biggest fan of the Halo series, I can't deny the impact it had on the gaming world, and also how well made and presented the game is. Even if they forgot the "fun" factor in the single player and it all got a bit ridiculous, the series as a whole stands out as clearly a "good" series, surely under almost any criterion you can push upon it.
This is the first time I have ever defended the Halo franchise, so don't mistake me for a halo fanboy at all; I just have never seen a criticism of the game that justifies the utter bile, spite and hatred that I see everywhere towards it. I can only surmise it is a "fad" thing; Halo was popular at first, then people realised this and rebelled against it. Same system with MW, first was popular, then it went to far and made a sequel, and people hate it (though there are a lot of reasonable gripes with that game, so it's perhaps not a perfect analogy!)
