I played Halo for a while then I got a new game Called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare After I played that it raped Halo to me and I never went back
Why all the halo haters?
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You may want to get your facts straight. Perfect Dark and Goldeneye did very well in sales, and they predate Halo by a full console generation. Halo made the original Xbox sell, this is true. However, it's by no means the first console FPS to do well, or to be made well for its respective console.thatguy779 said:
Heck, going just on quality, the Timesplitters series was much, much better than Halo. Halo just had a wider appeal due to the fact that it is (for better or worse) baby's first FPS, and either introduced new people to the genre, or reintroduced people who had played Goldenye or Perfect Dark beforehand.
Good god, no. Perhaps early launch figures wouldn't have been impressive, but the PS2 won that round anyway. It may be true that Halo helped Xbox become a serious competitor with the Wii and PS2. It is in no way true that it is single handedly responsible for the birth of the Xbox or whatever.thatguy779 said:
In answer to you question, which as others have said gets asked way too often, it's beacause of opinion.
Hell, I for one (and I know many others) will never, ever endorse Halo's storyline and character, because I (we) find them incredibly weak. The only thing that game does better than most single player FPS is multiplayer, and you may as well buy Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 or something built to be a multiplayer game. I enjoy those games better than Halo's multiplayer, and I certainly don't care for Halo's single player. I think saying many people praise Halo for those elements is exaggerating.
I don't hate Halo. I hate Halo fanboys who worship it as the greatest game ever and can only respond to people criticising their game by questing their sexuality.
Halo is a decent game. Not great, but not terrible either. What it did to get the huge fan base I'm not sure.
Halo is a decent game. Not great, but not terrible either. What it did to get the huge fan base I'm not sure.
I'm a Halo fanboy, yet I'm perfectly capable of playing and enjoying different games and different genres. I just love Bungie.
I used to like it, but it wore off fast after Halo 3. The campaign was ok at the time, but it was such an anti-climax in my eyes, so much build up and hype for what is essentially a copy of the end of Halo:CE.
The MP is probably the only thing thats still keeping it in the spotlight, and even that gets tedious after a few weeks of being teamkilled and called a "fag", a "homo" and a "noob" just for picking up the sniper rifle.
The MP is probably the only thing thats still keeping it in the spotlight, and even that gets tedious after a few weeks of being teamkilled and called a "fag", a "homo" and a "noob" just for picking up the sniper rifle.
I kinda dislike (can't bring myself to hate a game ... I mean how idiotic do you have to be to hate a piece of plastic?) what Halo represents. The first one was okay, but as a story it fails, characters are annoying and cliched, setting was boring, weapons (apart from plasma grenades) were uninspired and dull.
No real additional play mechanics that added to the genre which made it a bit too much like every other shooter apart from the impressive graphics.
I dislike that the Halo brand became so powerful, another excuse for game developers to produce more dull FPSs to the gibbering hordes.
Halo was okay, Halo 1 might even have been a lightly recommended shooter for the console due to it's nature of being a decent multiplayer shooter.... but every Halo after that was unnecessary and far moire successful than it should have been if it weren't for the gibbering hordes.
No real additional play mechanics that added to the genre which made it a bit too much like every other shooter apart from the impressive graphics.
I dislike that the Halo brand became so powerful, another excuse for game developers to produce more dull FPSs to the gibbering hordes.
Halo was okay, Halo 1 might even have been a lightly recommended shooter for the console due to it's nature of being a decent multiplayer shooter.... but every Halo after that was unnecessary and far moire successful than it should have been if it weren't for the gibbering hordes.
It's just that Halo level design is so boring and amateur, and the best guns (human guns) are the ones we play the least.
As soon as Halo became such a huge franchise then all the nonconformists had to dislike it on the principle that because everyone likes it so it must be hated. I actually was the other way around, I got it for PC and simply didn't like it at all, it wasn't anything in particular, it was just that I never found it fun. However my opinion has changed somewhat due to playing it a lot on the xbox 360 in New Zealand with my friends who love it. One of the big arguments against Halo is that it's cliched and does nothing new but why would it want to? For me its simplicity and (already) tried and tested formula is what makes it such a good game. Even someone new to consoles (or PC gaming for that matter) can just pick it up and learn the basics of the game in very little time. And whether you play for the story or just for the gameplay it's a game you can very quickly get in to - the story is unoriginal at best but at the same time it is well written and due to the cliches it is pretty easy to follow, though if the story is not your thing then you can completely ignore it still enjoy the game without feeling like you've missed a fundamental part of the game. The thing that draws so many into the game - whether you just play games now and again or you're a hardcore gamer who plays day in day out - is also possibly the biggest drawback of the game to probably an equally large portion of "gamers" is that throughout the whole series Halo does absolutely nothing new.
As you can probably tell I like Halo quite a bit - though I have still never found a game the I genuinely cannot put down - but at the same time I can see it's flaws. I think a lot of the time Halo is hated on because it's not breaking any molds, and it arguably pretty repetitive and also there is a massive fan-base which of course means that people have to hate it purely for being popular. To me it's a good game that I can enjoy with friends, one that doesn't require much thought and one that although doing nothing new, does what it does well.
As you can probably tell I like Halo quite a bit - though I have still never found a game the I genuinely cannot put down - but at the same time I can see it's flaws. I think a lot of the time Halo is hated on because it's not breaking any molds, and it arguably pretty repetitive and also there is a massive fan-base which of course means that people have to hate it purely for being popular. To me it's a good game that I can enjoy with friends, one that doesn't require much thought and one that although doing nothing new, does what it does well.
i love it how most if not all the arguments being made for halo in the OP were saying its great because its the most popular game on XBOX LIVE. yes it might be great for the xbox people (i own an xbox 360 btw but i only play multiplayer on the pc) but i prefer more refined shooters that require a bit more skill then circle strafing and doesnt have an autoaim assist or what is commonly known on the pc as an aimbot.
as you can tell im a "halo hater" who has actually infact played halo both online and offline for a period of time.
p.s. whoever said that halo defined the fps i and cod i lol'd at because cod originally came out on pc and so has different feel to it completely because of that. also some of the features that halo has taken and has grown i personally think is crap (regenerating health really?)anyway can't wait to see if the battlefield series is going to be going back to its roots in its next game in terms of health bars medics and no redicuously overpowered weapons (im looking at the unpatched versions of the M60 in BFBC2)
as you can tell im a "halo hater" who has actually infact played halo both online and offline for a period of time.
p.s. whoever said that halo defined the fps i and cod i lol'd at because cod originally came out on pc and so has different feel to it completely because of that. also some of the features that halo has taken and has grown i personally think is crap (regenerating health really?)anyway can't wait to see if the battlefield series is going to be going back to its roots in its next game in terms of health bars medics and no redicuously overpowered weapons (im looking at the unpatched versions of the M60 in BFBC2)
Because people are cunts. That's really all there is to it. Trolls will troll, and people will decry something despite a COMPLETE inability to do ANYTHING better due to the mere fact that Yahtzee doesn't like it because people suck. There will always be pricks Who hate something just to hate it because they have nothing better to do.
Then again, some people just aren't particularly fond of it. Just like some people don't particularly like Chinese food. That's how you tell the difference between people and assholes. Some will say that they don't really like Chinese food, and some will declare a seething hatred for it, claiming it is nothing more than salty fried feline in beef sauce and make outrageous claims that aspects of the genre of Chinese food are leeching there way into other cuisine, ruining all food all together, and that somehow enjoying Chinese food makes you a homosexual.
Because a lot of people are cunts.
Then again, some people just aren't particularly fond of it. Just like some people don't particularly like Chinese food. That's how you tell the difference between people and assholes. Some will say that they don't really like Chinese food, and some will declare a seething hatred for it, claiming it is nothing more than salty fried feline in beef sauce and make outrageous claims that aspects of the genre of Chinese food are leeching there way into other cuisine, ruining all food all together, and that somehow enjoying Chinese food makes you a homosexual.
Because a lot of people are cunts.