The real reason Halo was/is so popular

[CaptainQuark]

Because it was an enjoyable game with tonnes of replayability and a good all round package, and can be considered responsible for the popularity of the first person genre on consoles, equal to, if not surpassing the influence of Goldeneye.

ya but know its only popular becuase the hardcore fanboys (you know who you are) are still playing it. they have gone into denial. they still belive there having fun.

no no, it's definitely because of those crazed 13-15 year old fanboys. in fact a recent post i read (maybe on joystiq) showed the average 360 user was younger than the average PS3 user
This seems a bit silly to me.

Ok, so it's all the 13-15 year olds fault is it? That Halo 1 is so popular? A game that was released in 2001, when they were 5-7? Yeah I bet they fucking loved the fuck out of it.

i'm sure the younger crowd liked it back then too. if i was that young and my parents only bought me one console i'd be pretty mad if it only had one decent game

 

[Alex_P]

Gordon Freeman can totally kick the Master Chief's ass at any of the following tasks:
- Constructing a seesaw out of a board and some bricks in order to get up a ledge that by all rights you should just be able to climb with your hands ("realistic physics" at work!).
- Willingly strapping yourself into the evil-future equivalent of an electric chair.
- Falling unconscious.
- Hoverboarding on a plank of wood.
Okay, that last one is actually kinda cool.

-- Alex

 

[DeusFps]

Gordon Freeman can totally kick the Master Chief's ass at any of the following tasks:
- Constructing a seesaw out of a board and some bricks in order to get up a ledge that by all rights you should just be able to climb with your hands ("realistic physics" at work!).
- Willingly strapping yourself into the evil-future equivalent of an electric chair.
- Falling unconscious.
- Hoverboarding on a plank of wood.
Okay, that last one is actually kinda cool.

-- Alex

All he needs to do is grav the gun out his hands and beat him stupid with the crowbar.

 

[ManBarrel]

Fun and relatively balanced multi, fairly good weapons, not awful vehicles, really promoted by MS on Live.

 

[Ago Iterum]

Gordon Freeman would kick his ass.

Why? Because he's in a better game?

Pwned.

 

[Alex_P]

All he needs to do is grav the gun out his hands and beat him stupid with the crowbar.

Yeah. Funny how the game never actually let you do that. "Realistic physics" ahoy!

Y'all are also horribly overstating the power of the crowbar, by the way. I recall it taking quite a lot of smacking to really kill anything bigger than your own head.

-- Alex

 

[DeusFps]

All he needs to do is grav the gun out his hands and beat him stupid with the crowbar.

Yeah. Funny how the game never actually let you do that. "Realistic physics" ahoy!

Y'all are also horribly overstating the power of the crowbar, by the way. I recall it taking quite a lot of smacking to really kill anything bigger than your own head.

-- Alex

No.

 

[Alex_P]

No.

Am I remembering wrong? How many whacks does it take to down one of those fancy white Combine guys (on, say, medium)? I honestly don't recall.

I do recall it taking at least four-five good hits to kill an eyehound or headcrab zombie in Half-Life 1.

-- Alex

 

[DeusFps]

No.

Am I remembering wrong? How many whacks does it take to down one of those fancy white Combine guys (on, say, medium)? I honestly don't recall.

I do recall it taking at least four-five good hits to kill an eyehound or headcrab zombie in Half-Life 1.

-- Alex

shhhh

 

[Irridium]

I thought that the only reason Halo is so popular is because the only reason people really bought the origional xbox was for Halo 1 and 2

After all, what else did the xbox have that was fun and exclusive, not much.

 

[Coolness]

Ask yourself: "if Halo didn't have multiplayer mode would it be able to hold its own with its single player mode and would it still be as popular?"

Not at all, that's 85% of the appeal of Halo for me at least.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

No.

Am I remembering wrong? How many whacks does it take to down one of those fancy white Combine guys (on, say, medium)? I honestly don't recall.

I do recall it taking at least four-five good hits to kill an eyehound or headcrab zombie in Half-Life 1.

-- Alex

Anyone who honestly believes that a scientist with a fancy hazard suit and a crowbar can defeat a highly trained transhuman supersoldier with power armor in melee combat is most certainly a terrible fanboy.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

granted, Halo can be a fun game, but theres a time when a game just needs to go ahead and die out.

Spot on. But remember, this is a Microsoft franchise and you know what they are like when it comes to hanging on to old ideas.

You're thinking of Nintendo.

 

[KissofKetchup]

Gordon Freeman would kick his ass.

Amen to that. All he'd need is his handy dandy crowbar too.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

Master Chief is just another cookie-cutter space marine. He is not special.

Except he's the original mold.

Please go and look up "Space Marine", and find the many, many reasons why you are wrong. Master Chief is nowhere near being the original space marine.

THANK you.

Of course, to a lot of the 15-year olds on these forums (and most of them playing games now), Halo had the first ever space marine they saw, and deny any other incarnations.

Aliens.
Warhammer.
Starship Troopers. (both the book AND the film)
Starcraft.
Doom.

Just read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine

I am 15, I like Halo, but I do aknowledge that it was done before Halo. I just think that Halo jumped on the idea and executed it well before everyone was sick of space marines. Same thing with early WWII games.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

one of the biggest reasons that Halo did so well was that Halo: Combat Evolved was really the first truly competent FPS on a console since Perfect Dark, and it was on the next generation console. Add to that, the graphics were top notch for the day for what a console could achieve, well beyond Perfect Dark. Also... LAN party anyone?

It wasn't as complex or in depth or advanced as the top end PC shooters, but what console game ever is beyond the best PC game? Or if it is, how long is it going to stay on top? Not very.

 

[Alex_P]

I thought that the only reason Halo is so popular is because the only reason people really bought the origional xbox was for Halo 1 and 2

After all, what else did the xbox have that was fun and exclusive, not much.

The original XBox had a pretty good quantity of fine games, though. Jade Empire, two KOTORS, two Jedi Knights, Soul Calibur 2, Beyond Good & Evil. Who cares if they were exclusives?

-- Alex

 

[Hamsterlad]

most people bought it for the multiplayer...and story telling?

 

[mattttherman3]

The reason Halo is so popular is because I keep buying the games. I never got into it until Halo 2 came out, but I have never touched a Halo book

 

[SargentToughie]

Folks... Allow me to state this in an objective in realistic manor

some people enjoy Halo, because they consider it fun to play with friends. Some people try to simply enjoy something they like, and die a little inside when they see something that they enjoy attacked so violently.

I am one of these people. Halo is a solid FPS for the 360, and is an absolute blast when you get three friends and two TVs...

In any case, I have no intention of defending Halo in this thread, for the same reasons that nobody wants to defend a man on death row... it's a lost cause if ever one exists.

But know this... People enjoy halo, and trying to take a psychological approach to figuring out why people enjoy it is the biggest dousche move that a person can make.