The funny thing here is not the fact that there is yet another Halo 3 thread, but the fact people feel so strongly ABOUT the fact there is another Halo 3 thread.
The great thing about the internet is you don't have to involve yourself with something you don't want to. You don't have to click the link, and read the messages, and thus, you don't have to then complain about there being another thread on the topic.
Personally, I find the whole debacle rather amusing. The Halo series has always been about utilising some of the best stalwarts in FPS methodology (one could argue that the human weapon set of AR, Pistol, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Rocket Launcher is the same old same old BECAUSE its the same old same old) and doing it well. The games are as enjoyable as Resistance, Killzone, Soldier of Fortune, HL and CoD.
Personally, while I have played through and completed all Halo games, and will be buying ODST and Reach, I do not play them to death. Main reason is because of the amount of times I'll start playing something and get invited into a CoD: WaW multiplayer session instead. I go the flow of what my online friends are playing, and the last three games I completed were a cheap copy of the Darkness, Madworld and Castle Crashers.
Am I a Fanboy? Not really. I like what I like, dislike what I dislike (I liked Jericho for example, many hated it) and I'll agree with the topic starter, I personally cannot understand how you can be so blind as to hate something purely because it is the vogue to hate it. I hate Jordan, the hype over Jade Goody and people who live off the benefit system without even trying to find work, but if I was to rant and rave about them online, I'd be no better than the sensationalist tabloid press that seem to print 95% bullshit about 5% real fact about something.
Call it a trapping of age or maturity that I guess most people who have access to the internet lack, but the idea of haters and fanboys is far more hilarious than much of the opinionated tat they actually type. I enjoyed Yahtzee's review of Halo 3, doesn't mean I took it to heart and didn't buy the game and enjoy it as well, and as I have never played more than a demo of Resistance 2 (which the Sony rep at the time managed to make look boring and generic for me, more likely a falure of the presentation than anything to do with the game itself) I will hold opinion on the game itself until such a time as I am able to make one that is better informed.
Of course, as you the readers have no idea what I am actually like sat here typing this because I have nothing much better to do then I suppose there is nothing stopping me from typing "PS3 exclusive shooters generally suck and are nothing but copies of better 360 games (ref: Haze-lo, Gears of Resistance 2) and my opinion is te bestest because I say so, and I'm l33t rah!"
One last opinion to sign off with.
Fanboys and Haters; the blind arguing with the deaf.
I've been Tzatziki3301, finally on the Escapist forums after 3 years of 'cannot be bothered'.
