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folks in the 360 forum are Halo Fanatics I'm assuming?
What makes Halo trigger the happiness inside your brain because without on line play I find it completely dull and boring. Is that what people love about the game or does the story at least attract some intrest for you?
 
There's alot more Halo haters here than you'd expect. Something about being a popular game just strikes a nerve in some of our users. :lol

I love the story though. Classic Sci-Fi story. The online multiplayer is what also makes the game what it is.
 
I like the game dont get me wrong, but I just believe that its too hyped up,and it doesn't deliever much of a difference from any other FPS out there.


Multiplayer is the shit as well.
I was just wondering why like half the topics are on halo when there are many other great games out there like Bioshock *Which won game of the year* haa
 
"I was just wondering why like half the topics are on halo when there are many other great games out there like Bioshock *Which won game of the year* haa"

I didn't watch the VGA. The fact it was on SpikeTV turned me off from it entirely... I don't trust 'em. I honestly like Halo 3 a lot more than BioShock, and I'm not a big Halo fan anyway.
 
captinCJP said:
folks in the 360 forum are Halo Fanatics I'm assuming?
What makes Halo trigger the happiness inside your brain because without on line play I find it completely dull and boring. Is that what people love about the game or does the story at least attract some intrest for you?
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I read all the books, so the story for me is interesting. Also, I found the campaign highly replayable even in single player due to all the achievements. Getting skulls, meta-game achievements, campaign achievements, and beating it on all difficulty levels required quite a few playthroughs, most of which were by myself or co-op with someone in the same room on the same 360.
 
I find co-op campaign one of the funnest aspects to Halo. Even before online co-op with 3, I would always go over my cousin's house and play campaign with him.

I find the story really interesting cause I've read all (well almost all) the books and I enjoyed them.
 
I don't hate Halo (though I'm sure everyone around here will call me a hater because I call it overhyped), but I think there are plenty of better FPS's out there.

It gets more attention than it deserves, IMO.
 
Halo is pretty mainstream, and while I know that makes a lot of people dislike it, that's the reason I like it. It's fun and could be considered hardcore, but IMO most hardcore fps fans play other games and look down on Halo. When I got into Halo, it was the first fps that I really liked, because it was easy to pick up and play and have fun with, even if you weren't good. Some shooters are a lot less newb friendly. Since Halo got me into fps games, I've played a lot more in that genre and while some are better than Halo, I still consider it my favorite franchise because it's what I started with.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
I don't hate Halo (though I'm sure everyone around here will call me a hater because I call it overhyped), but I think there are plenty of better FPS's out there.

It gets more attention than it deserves, IMO.
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I used to think that too. I was a big Counter Strike fan, as well as a Medal of Honor fan, and when Halo came out it felt like a worse version of Counter Strike. It kind of felt like MOH with a sci-fi twist, so I didn't really get what all the hype was about. However, several years later and exerting a lot of hindsight, I began to understand why Halo is revered so much. I'm gonna have to disagree with you Mai in that I don't think this is a very mainstream shooter. On the easier difficulties, yes, it is, but playing it on anything less than hard is not fun at all. It's not until you play the campaign on hard or legendary that you understand what separates it from every other shooter out there. For a first person shooter, it was surprisingly tactical. While most games had you follow one main path and shoot hordes of enemies before they shot you (ala Goldeneye) Halo actually had you traversing larger, more open areas. In addition to that you didn't just run and gun your way through levels, you actually had to take cover and use your surroundings to your advantage. You were often outnumbered, outgunned, or ambushed, and you had to think your way out of those situations. By the end of the game I entered rooms and systematically assessed the situation. I immediately looked for cover, fallback positions, number of enemies, types of enemies, and any turrets or cannons I could use. It was quite a neat experience to rely on these sort of skills more so than quick thumbs in an FPS.

Oddly enough, my roommate tried playing the game and didn't like it because he was used to the run and gun style of FPS. He had been trained over time to think that an FPS game had to be mindless and based solely off reaction time. He didn't expect enemy forces to jump around, run for cover, and provide cover fire for each other. For him, Halo was worse than other FPS games, because it was too hard.
 
stealth toilet said:
I used to think that too. I was a big Counter Strike fan, as well as a Medal of Honor fan, and when Halo came out it felt like a worse version of Counter Strike. It kind of felt like MOH with a sci-fi twist, so I didn't really get what all the hype was about. However, several years later and exerting a lot of hindsight, I began to understand why Halo is revered so much. I'm gonna have to disagree with you Mai in that I don't think this is a very mainstream shooter. On the easier difficulties, yes, it is, but playing it on anything less than hard is not fun at all. It's not until you play the campaign on hard or legendary that you understand what separates it from every other shooter out there. For a first person shooter, it was surprisingly tactical. While most games had you follow one main path and shoot hordes of enemies before they shot you (ala Goldeneye) Halo actually had you traversing larger, more open areas. In addition to that you didn't just run and gun your way through levels, you actually had to take cover and use your surroundings to your advantage. You were often outnumbered, outgunned, or ambushed, and you had to think your way out of those situations. By the end of the game I entered rooms and systematically assessed the situation. I immediately looked for cover, fallback positions, number of enemies, types of enemies, and any turrets or cannons I could use. It was quite a neat experience to rely on these sort of skills more so than quick thumbs in an FPS.

Oddly enough, my roommate tried playing the game and didn't like it because he was used to the run and gun style of FPS. He had been trained over time to think that an FPS game had to be mindless and based solely off reaction time. He didn't expect enemy forces to jump around, run for cover, and provide cover fire for each other. For him, Halo was worse than other FPS games, because it was too hard.
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Wow. Very nice post Stealth. You're right though. It's amazingly tactical when you play it right (on a hard difficulty).
 
captinCJP said:
I like the game dont get me wrong, but I just believe that its too hyped up,and it doesn't deliever much of a difference from any other FPS out there.


Multiplayer is the crap as well.
I was just wondering why like half the topics are on halo when there are many other great games out there like Bioshock *Which won game of the year* haa
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So, you're saying you like a crappy game?
 
Boom$ickle said:
So, you're saying you like a crappy game?
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yip I love crappy games * bioschock* sucked balls
Assassins creed I hate it
Gear of war * shouldn't exist*
If you play Prey or Saints row you should just kill yourself because its such a shitty game.

All my attention should be focused and directed to Halo 3.
I just threw all my games away and went and stole Halo 3 so now I can play the true mans game.
 
I don't like it, either. I mean, I don't hate it, but it's not that big.
 
captinCJP said:
yip I love crappy games * bioschock* sucked balls
Assassins creed I hate it
Gear of war * shouldn't exist*
If you play Prey or Saints row you should just kill yourself because its such a **** game.

All my attention should be focused and directed to Halo 3.
I just threw all my games away and went and stole Halo 3 so now I can play the true mans game.
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You can have your own opinion, but please tone it down, especially on the cursing. This is a community of friends, not your average internet forum. Respect others and cut the sarcasm. Thanks.
 
stealth toilet said:
I'm gonna have to disagree with you Mai in that I don't think this is a very mainstream shooter. On the easier difficulties, yes, it is, but playing it on anything less than hard is not fun at all. It's not until you play the campaign on hard or legendary that you understand what separates it from every other shooter out there. For a first person shooter, it was surprisingly tactical. While most games had you follow one main path and shoot hordes of enemies before they shot you (ala Goldeneye) Halo actually had you traversing larger, more open areas. In addition to that you didn't just run and gun your way through levels, you actually had to take cover and use your surroundings to your advantage. You were often outnumbered, outgunned, or ambushed, and you had to think your way out of those situations. By the end of the game I entered rooms and systematically assessed the situation. I immediately looked for cover, fallback positions, number of enemies, types of enemies, and any turrets or cannons I could use. It was quite a neat experience to rely on these sort of skills more so than quick thumbs in an FPS.

Oddly enough, my roommate tried playing the game and didn't like it because he was used to the run and gun style of FPS. He had been trained over time to think that an FPS game had to be mindless and based solely off reaction time. He didn't expect enemy forces to jump around, run for cover, and provide cover fire for each other. For him, Halo was worse than other FPS games, because it was too hard.
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Yeah, that's true. I played the first Halo on I think easy, so I guess that's where I was coming from with that. I didn't get into Heroic or Legendary until I played Halo 3, and yeah, when you play it on higher difficulties it really requires more strategy. ^_^ I think the reason why people might not enjoy Halo is because they just try to play it as a run & gun.

I read this on an IGN post and it's totally true. It was a CoD4 vs. Halo 3 topic.

This is what someone said,
Did we play the same game? Halo 3 and CoD4 were the exact same in regards to presentation. You were put in the beginning of a level and forced to walk through dramatic set pieces until you reached the end of the level, where you would be magically whisked to another level. Neither game gives you any sort of choice of where to go. Halo gives you more wide open areas and set numbers of enemies while CoD4 gives you more constrained corridors and unlimited enemies. I personally prefer the CoD method because it forces me to do something. Far to often in Halo the easiest way to proceed is hide in a corner and exploit the AI shooting them in the head while they don't react. CoD forces you to move forward instead of hanging back and playing it safe.
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And this was the reply that someone else said back.

If this is how most people of this board approach Halo, then maybe I see why they don't care for it as much. The beauty of Halo, for me and all my friends, has always been the number of ways you can accomplish a goal (speaking of SP here). We all replay the game a lot because we keep trying new things. In Halo 3 there are some spots where the different approaches should be more obvious, i.e. the Scarab battles. Take the first Scarab battle for instance. You could: use a ghost to shoot out its legs; get in a warthog and have a gunner do the shooting; give a marine a rocket launcher, put them on the back of you mongoose and use that as your weapon; rip off the missile pod launchers from the back way and take it from foot peaking out from cover now and again; grab a sniper rifle from a perch and snipe off all the troops on the Scarab before proceeding, maneuver a ghost onto the elevator on the back, lift it on top of the crane and boost off the crane through the air and land on top of the Scarab leaping out so that your Ghost crushes any enemies on the Scarab it falls on them.

The diversity of weapons really makes a difference too. The weapons you get in CoD don't offer much variety (especially given the constraints of the SP campaign), but the choices you make for weapons in Halo will drastically alter how you fight and approach each situation. Other choices come in the use of vehicles. Which vehicle do you take and why? One tactic I like to use for instance, is taking a fast vehicle like a ghost or mongoose, charging a Wraith tank at full speed and launch out at the last moment only to board the Wraith tank, beat out its drivers and then commandeer the tank for myself.
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I don't hate halo, but I don't particularly care for it either. the two shooters I've enjoyed immensely this year where Bioshock and The Darkness, both great 2K shooters that where done really well IMHO. Before that, the only two shooters that really seemed worth my time where Half Life 2 and Call of Duty (the first one), both immersive, expansive experiences with plenty of "wow" moments and challenging AI. I've found with halo that it follows that same formula that games like Will Rock and Serious Sam do and that's the "move to area, collect big weapon/trigger item, fight off hoard of monsters, move to next area and repeat" which ultimately just isn't my taste. As for the AI with halo, the harder difficulty you play on, the AI doesn't get smarter, just harder to kill and faster/stronger than you, not much of a "real" challenge nor does it "change" the game in any way.

but of course, that's just my $.02
 
captinCJP said:
yip I love crappy games * bioschock* sucked balls
Assassins creed I hate it
Gear of war * shouldn't exist*
If you play Prey or Saints row you should just kill yourself because its such a **** game.

All my attention should be focused and directed to Halo 3.
I just threw all my games away and went and stole Halo 3 so now I can play the true mans game.
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Im not going to respond with anything but to tell you that im going to pray for you.
 
i am not a xbox live player and i used to be a big fan of halo but i haven't been playing halo 3 as much as i thought i would. it's an amazing game and i've beat it a few times but halo just doesn't do it for me any more.
 
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