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[kiIIxthexIights]

Okay so i know this is PROBABLY going to get me thrown off the site, but whats with all the hype over halo? Theres nothing special about it, the story is retarded IMO, the guns are gay, and the things you shoot pretty much all look the same. Dont get me wrong, ive played some way worse games and halo is one of the better ones i would say, but why do people love it so much???

[ThaCrip]

i dont get why it's so popular either... to me is FAR FAR FAR overrated.... to me it's more or less "just another shooter" ... all the good shooters are on the pc anyways (for the most part) ... i aint played gears of war (even though i seen it before) and that game looks WAY better than halo does to me overall.

although i gotta admit generally speaking i prefer shooters on the pc since i hate using a analog stick to aim at stuff, im FAR better with mouse+keyboard.

i agree with a pretty good percentage of what you said (original poster) to the guns pretty much suck (generally speaking i hate non military type weapons in most games) the story is OK i guess and the main character sucks i think.

halo aint a bad game it just dont really stand out to me either... thats why i think it's more or less "just another shooter".... especially single player wise.

i think Counter-Strike Source (on pc) wipes the floor with halo when it comes to multiplayer! ... this is BY FAR my favorite multiplayer shooter... weapons are all great and feel nice it's just a unique game

[ferrari_rulz_02]

i agree that its not the best game. but when it was first released, it was awesome. it is quite a few years old now.

and there arnt a whole lot of games that can say they are as a 'complete' package like halo is

[grim_d]

QUOTE(kiIIxthexIights @ Mar 5 2007, 04:21 AM)

Okay so i know this is PROBABLY going to get me thrown off the site, but whats with all the hype over halo? Theres nothing special about it, the story is retarded IMO, the guns are gay, and the things you shoot pretty much all look the same. Dont get me wrong, ive played some way worse games and halo is one of the better ones i would say, but why do people love it so much???

it's just one of those age old unanswerable questions. don't worry, not everyone here likes halo.

[kiIIxthexIights]

hahaha okay cool. i was beginning to think i was messed up in the head or somthing for thinking that game is lame.

[grim_d]

halo one was fun on co-op, and local multiplayer was a hoot when you made your own rules with your buddys. The dawn of halo 2 spoiled all the that, the campaign was weak and with the coming of exploding vehicles ruined all the multiplayer fun i used to have with my mates. And the battle rifle & energy sword..well those are just annoying.

Ive never liked it online, the last thing i want to hear ever is some spotty adolescent teen screaming "I PWN J00 N00b" with his mouth full of cake down the mic at me.

ill buy halo 3..but if the campaign isnt good, i wont be happy.

[ferrari_rulz_02]

yeah it can be a very good game online. if you have some mates who arnt little teenie boppers, it can be an awesomely tense and exciting game

[grim_d]

QUOTE(ferrari_rulz_02 @ Mar 5 2007, 11:50 AM)

yeah it can be a very good game online. if you have some mates who arnt little teenie boppers, it can be an awesomely tense and exciting game

although i much prefer local multiplayer, what you say is true. I do acctually miss the days of playing with my  buddies, but it was more far the laughs but great all the same.

[Legendary Badass]

I'll tell you what the big deal is with it. Like some of you, I find the weapons hokey and the story weak. I got into it as a freshman in college because the dorm was rigged for mass system link for Halo 1, since everyone else was playing it I had to in order to be able to play anything on the LAN. If you play with serious people over a LAN, you can play some sweet custom made games like Tower of Power and Zombies. The weapons are not real, but they can still be fun to use. Also the controls are amazing. I really like how the grenades work without having to switch to them, the health system was also revolutionary. On Live, it's the only game that lets you form a party, and quickly get you into a game. You pretty much have to play Halo 3 if you are a Live Gold member, because that'll be the game everyone else is playing. Halo 3 will likely have games like Tower and Zombies as game defaults so that people can't cheat by shooting a gun as a zombie. And to clear something up, you have to be a hardcore nerd to read those novels, THEY ARE BASED ON A VIDEO GAME. All they are for is making money, they are not serious literature.

[KAGE360]

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And to clear something up, you have to be a hardcore nerd to read those novels, THEY ARE BASED ON A VIDEO GAME. All they are for is making money, they are not serious literature.

i have read all 3 and thought they were pretty good books.  all 3 were written by well known psy-fi writers and the books did a great job at expanding the universe while teasing the fans IMHO.  i have read better books in the past, but these werent horrible by any measure.

as for the "halo hype", some need to understand that at the xbox 1 launch, halo WAS a big deal.  look back over the last 5 years and you can clearly see how halo has influenced a lot of changes in the FPS genre.  limited weapon inventory, vehicles, recharging health, greater emphasis on story in FPS, etc.  

while other games also had some of these features (vehicles, and story) halo 1 put it all in a nice little package.  basically halo1 carried a lot of it's PC/MAC roots over to the console and the game benefitted from it.  the story grabbed people and the MP/co-op kept them playing long afterwords.  

halo 2 was a different beast.  it rode on the hype gathered from halo 1 and did improve on the mechanics in a lot of ways.  however the game also fell short in some other ways and i agree with the majority here that i much rather play halo1/2 over LAN then i would on LIVE because of the annoying little twits that swarm every corner of that game.  I'm hoping the new features they put into halo 3 will make it a more enjoyable experience over LIVE.  

basically they arent the "next coming" when it comes to games like some believe it to be, but they are very high quality titles for their genre.  you guys who are complaining about the weapons, controls, etc. are obviously not into this specific type of FPS so of course it wont appeal to you.  this isnt a military shooter, its a space shooter and for what it is i think there are few equal to it on consoles.  

hope that answers your question  

[gordita37]

The controls feel smooth to me. Smoother than mostly any other game, which makes it 100% better.

[SphtKr76]

Well if you look at it this way, the original Xbox never would have gotten off the ground without Halo:CE, IMO. So if the original Xbox doesn't fly, this forum is never created,modchips aren't produced-leaving us without the greatest pirated media player in existence, the 360 is never created,  and you never have the chance to come here and complain about the game  So yes, Halo is that good

[ThaCrip]

QUOTE(SphtKr76 @ Mar 5 2007, 02:05 PM)

Well if you look at it this way, the original Xbox never would have gotten off the ground without Halo:CE, IMO. So if the original Xbox doesn't fly, this forum is never created,modchips aren't produced-leaving us without the greatest pirated media player in existence, the 360 is never created,  and you never have the chance to come here and complain about the game  So yes, Halo is that good

well i will give it credit for boosting xbox sales in general... i will give it that much.... like it say for a console shooter it's probably one of the better ones although it aint nothing special on the PC, which the PC is what i use for playing shooters... PC's strength is shooters ... to bad most people tend to prefer consoles over pc's when it comes to games

but like i said before i flat out cant use a controller to play any game where aiming is a big factor... only exception for me is resident evil 4, that i can play (only on easy though) with a analog stick since it's a slow paced game and dont require lightning quick reaction time.

like i say it must be the overall multiplayer feel that made halo "so great" (for most people) ... cause it seems like most of my cousins play this crap... when i wished they all liked counter-strike like they did halo then i would have a MUCH better time

as usual though halo3 will sell bigtime just cause it's established it's name and when teenagers hear that name they cream in there pants lol

[ferrari_rulz_02]

QUOTE(ThaCrip @ Mar 6 2007, 07:25 AM)

but like i said before i flat out cant use a controller to play any game where aiming is a big factor... only exception for me is resident evil 4, that i can play (only on easy though) with a analog stick since it's a slow paced game and dont require lightning quick reaction time.

its just practise...once you get into a game, that will come to you

[Method2kh]

I love halo because of the dancing. I've never played any other FPS where you can dance so crazy on a corpse. It's sorta like Bungie WANTS you to taunt ppl.