Why does everyone hate Halo 3?

[Hyper-space]

Its generic, nothing new, nothing special, just......another fps

 

[Not Good]

The main problem with Halo is that It's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid] been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(video_game)] done [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)] before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)].

That's only to name a few, but the thing is, Halo is unoriginal, and doesn't really provide anything to the games industry, or the FPS. Nonetheless, the games are pretty good, but no where near the best.

To paraphrase the Bible: "Nothing is original, everything that is has already been"

 

[Alphavillain]

It's just an irritatingly hyped cut and paste shooter that is even more irritating because it has inspired dozens of other cut and paste shooters since the franchise first appeared.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

The game was in no way bad....

Having seen its art design, I would have to disagree. They should send the art designer back to Devry and get their money back.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Halo 3's pretty much a fine game. Why does every game need to be original and bring a million new ideas? It's solid. It's fun. Sadly, bashing it has become something of an "in" thing with internet indie folk but I don't feel a need to hate it because everyone on teh intarwebz thinks it sucks. I'm not saying it's without flaws, but no way does it deserve the hatred it gets.
The "Why does everyone hate Halo 3 threads" are annoying, but so are the "HALO IS SO OVERRATED" ones that are equally as common. I don't believe Halo deserves half the criticism it gets, and half of it seems to be this wave of nu-Yahtzees parroting each other. Sure, it's not especially innovative, but it excels at what it does and its solidly designed fun. Yes, fun. Which is more than can be said of the majority of games.

 

[asinann]

Because I hate Halo, and for that matter almost every fps game that's ever come out.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

Because the Halo series are sub-par shooters that brought in an element that, much like the 'casual' gamers now, dropped the level of work that people put into games by drawing in people with lower standards. Halo 1-3 have rather bland weapons, poor story, annoying gameplay curves and the only real feature is the multiplayer which again only served to hurt the industry as a whole.

I guess what I'm saying is that its a sub par game and if you enjoy it you are entitled to, but youd best not bash 'casual gamers' as you most likely belong to a subset that came into gaming later and ruined alot of it for those of us who have been doing it for ages.

I would probably be annoyed by the claim that I contributed to ruining the industry by buying a game. But since it's you're group that seems to be so crushed by a shooter's popularity, I can wear the title proudly.

 

[Heroic One]

The new maps are terrible, it's glitchy, laggy (for me anyway), and story mode is painfully dull. Give me Halo 2 anyday.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

It doesn't suck. It's just bland and unintuitive.

I wouldn't call it unituitive, not at all.

It is pretty bland though.

My beef with it is the fact the single player was heavily watered down to make room for multiplayer. A lot of people just don't like playing games online, as your level of enjoyment is then dependant to a large extent on other people. Other people who might be complete assholes. Halo 1 and Halo 2 had good single player, Halo 3s was painfully short.

 

[lukemdizzle]

People hate halo because people debate about why other people like Halo more than a year after it came out

Its a fun game so if you like it fine and if you don't don't make fun of people that do

 

[superbleeder12]

Personally, I don't like it because it was a rehash of the second one with a few more weapons, updated graphics, and some new maps. It just felt same-ish to me. I still have it, and I still play it. But it felt like a halo 2 mod.

 

[hem dazon 90]

it was good but Halo two was the jesus halo game

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

I wouldn't call it unituitive, not at all.

It is pretty bland though.

I agree, I hate the game but even I think the controls are incredibly intuitive. Hell, most FPSs modeled their control scheme after Halo (not that it was the first with that control scheme) due to its accessability.

 

[I Am The Party]

It got over-hyped, that was both it's downfall and it's salvation. It's got a massive fan-base but people who aren't in that fan base just regard it as another shooter, it'll be interesting to see how the series goes.

 

[jebussaves88]

I don't. i just hate the further discussion of a game that came out over a year ago. I've defended it enough. I like it, some dont for one or more of several reasons.

a) Genuine dislike or not clicking with it. Prefer different kinds of shooters, or anything but a shooter
b) See it as representing Microsofts over eagerness to make money
c) Are old school playstation owners who dislike it perhaps because it saved playstations new rival from eating dirt.
d) Were expecting more from a sequel to one of the most influential, groundbreaking and potentially best FPS's of the early part of the decade
e) Many were dissappointed with Halo 2, so Halo 3 isn't going to really change their minds, seeing as Halo 3 is more Halo 2 than Halo 1.
f) People don't feel it deserves all the attention it gets (which should be a lot less seeing as it has now been over a year) and get a bad taste in their mouth when they think of people placing it as number 1 gmae of all time in their living memory
g) People mistakingly think the multiplayer consists of 1.5 million 12 year olds, and them.

People like it because:
a) Mulitplayer is very good, so long as Halo floats your boat
b) They like the first halo, so why fix whats not broken? If you want something new and revolutionary (which admitedly, in my honest opinion, there hasn't been anything huge and infinitly better in some way since Halo 1) play something else.
c) The story may be no Fahrenheit/ Indigo Prophecy, but it holds together and I for one was satisfied enough.
d) They have come to terms with the fact that it is merely in the top ten Xbox games in most people's lists, rather than being a favourite, and even if some people do like it over Half Life 2, then that is their choice and they should respect it.

I like Halo 3. It's in my top ten, but I suppose the biggest reason people dislike it now is

h) People won't shut up about it on forums.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Because Halo 3 killed my father and raped my mother!

Sorry, I had to say it.
I think people dislike it because it's consider "mainstream." Gamers like to be exclusive and elite and everyone and their brother plays Halo 3, so its not exclusive at all.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

It doesn't suck. It's just bland and unintuitive.

I wouldn't call it unituitive, not at all.

It does't bring anything that hasn't been seen in literally hundreds of other games. I'll give you that the original was the pacesetter for console multiplayer games but this has been happening on the PC for a decade beforehand so it was bound to happen on the console at some point, this was just the one that was latched onto. that was Halo: CE anyway, Halo 3 brought nothing interesting at all. It was just like Halo 2 which was just like Halo: CE, which was less fun than other games of a similar time like FarCry and Half Life (or were they a few years after? Time merges into one horrific memory).

 

[cuddly_tomato]

It doesn't suck. It's just bland and unintuitive.

I wouldn't call it unituitive, not at all.

It does't bring anything that hasn't been seen in literally hundreds of other games. I'll give you that the original was the pacesetter for console multiplayer games but this has been happening on the PC for a decade beforehand so it was bound to happen on the console at some point, this was just the one that was latched onto. that was Halo: CE anyway, Halo 3 brought nothing interesting at all. It was just like Halo 2 which was just like Halo: CE, which was less fun than other games of a similar time like FarCry and Half Life (or were they a few years after? Time merges into one horrific memory).

Ahhh... That's not what we mean by intuitive. Sorry I know English isn't the first language of a lot of folks here. Intuitive is the fluidity and ease of the gaming experience. How well balanced the controls are, how 'natural' they feel to use them, how well they mesh with your reflexes, how much sense the information on the screen makes, how easy it is to interpret that data and adjust your gameplay accordingly. It would also apply to things like menu functions. Does the menu make sense? Is equipping armour or weapons handled simplistically and easily or is it frustrating as hell?

I think you probably mean innovative? That it brings nothing at all new to the genre but just upgrades what has gone before. In this case I agree entirely.

 

[Tattaglia]

Halo 3 is a gigantic distraction from close-to-perfect games that deserve attention. I blame the pew-pew-pew lasers and flying mobiles.

 

[TerraMGP]

Because the Halo series are sub-par shooters that brought in an element that, much like the 'casual' gamers now, dropped the level of work that people put into games by drawing in people with lower standards. Halo 1-3 have rather bland weapons, poor story, annoying gameplay curves and the only real feature is the multiplayer which again only served to hurt the industry as a whole.

I guess what I'm saying is that its a sub par game and if you enjoy it you are entitled to, but youd best not bash 'casual gamers' as you most likely belong to a subset that came into gaming later and ruined alot of it for those of us who have been doing it for ages.

I would probably be annoyed by the claim that I contributed to ruining the industry by buying a game. But since it's you're group that seems to be so crushed by a shooter's popularity, I can wear the title proudly.

All I am saying is that if you enjoy the games thats fine, but the frat shooters seem to make up alot of the people trying to paint themselves as 'hardcore' and putting it forward that things like the Wii are bad because it has fewer games for the shooter and 'hardcore' market. The new influx of games does what Halo did to us, so no room to complain.