FINALLY! Someone with some reason and honor! I salute this guy for seeing through the obvious bullshit, unlike most people. This actually made me smile.
It's sad how blind most of us are. Marketing shit and popularity OWNS most of us, no matter HOW bad or plain the product is. The halo series is a HUGE testament to that. But finally, here's a story of someone being smarter than that.
Examining this game FACTUALLY SHOWS that it is one of the lowest quality recent games ever designed. I'm not talking opinion. I'm talking measuring the actual contents offered for admissible evidence of depth or epicness. (Epic - Surpassing the usual or ordinary)
-The controllable interface
Walking, moving by vehicle, or firing ammo of varying speeds, powers and graphic-effects, and a couple of melee bops. That's literally ALL the substance involved.
It lacks even the simplest innovations like diving, contextual actions or a cover button. This is an observable and measurable trait of the game, and has nothing to do with opinion. These facts demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that it has little to no substance on this level.
-The story
...is incredibly depth-barren and ordinary. It also has no real meaningful or even brain-phasing moments. It consists almost entirely of an ordinary and idiot-accessible type of story recycled in cheesy movies: Combating alien monsters trying to kill society. Yet another variation.
Literally and factually, not much separates it from "Power Rangers" level material, other than higher quality voice acting. Everything is simple enough to be absorbed by most people who understand how to walk or talk. It is as "original" and "deep" as star 'gate','trek','wars' or anything else with combat-groups fighting aliens. It has a few measly backbones trying to add believability or depth, but they're flimsy and far between. About 5% of the story is backed, if that, and floats in about 95% unbelievable alien bs simply prompting you to pump more ammo. Again, when you look at these facts, you have to admit in all honesty, whether you like the game or not, that it has no substance or anything surpassing the ordinary on THIS level. It's the mental equivalent of a child's candy, having no real mental nutrition.
-The graphics/atmosphere
...Graphics are admittedly less important than how a game is layed out. However, they are responsible for a main part that no one discusses: The atmosphere. Because of that, there's simply no excuse for a game to look less than on-par today. Halo 3 doesn't look terrible, but most other recent next-gen games look a LOT better, having measurably more detailed textures, 3-D landscapes and objects in general. The fact that the game isn't other than ordinary in either control or story places EXTRA priority on atmosphere, where the game is measurably empty too. The fact that generally the stages are barren with mostly cold steel walls and almost no manned elements aside from weapons, vehicles and your own team makes it more barren. Where are the towns and citizens and building workers? Some of the light or particle based effects are beautiful, but in fact they are details and mostly handled by the graphics card. When looked at with an unbiased eye, the graphics are passable and balanced but don't really shine as exceptional. Measuring the graphics in proportion to other games would show lower res textures, blander pictures as a whole, and passable but not above par graphics.
When you consider these facts, whether opinion-wise you like the game or not, if you're being honest you have to admit that it never escapes or surpasses the ordinary. Ordinary controllable actions, ordinary vehicles, ordinary sci-fi ships, ordinary cliche'ed and depthless sci-fi story, etc.
Yet most of us STILL buy the hype and accept it as if it were some high quality masterpiece with depth. This is one more piece of the abundant evidence that most of us are as mindless as a herd of sheep and can't even see it because it's not obvious ENOUGH.
Hooray that there's an exception. It feels like hope.
you obviously have some serious anger management issues that really need to be worked out with probably lots of counseling...
it is perfectly fine to not like the Halo series (everyone has personal choice) but it was the biggest US entertainment release in history and thus definitely has way more merit than you attribute to the series, the game and the depth of story. i hated everything that has to do with the lord of the rings, but i am intelligent enough to respect that it did make a huge impact across the globe and that many absolutely love the trilogy. your arguments are quite baseless and just seem laced with hate and anger...i hope that you can move on while the rest of the world enjoys Halo...
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