Okay, I've noticed a tendency, especially, for some reason, among British people, to hate Halo and the Halo franchise, often irrationally so. I simply do not understand, nor do I understand why I've observed more British people spewing hateful remarks about it than anyone else.
Halo: Combat Evolved was an excellent game. I still play it occassionally. The music was good, the gameplay was good, the story was interesting, the game was well-polished, and the controls were excellent. The level design was repetitive, but I never really cared. I never got tired of the levels because they were good, and backtracking just seems like something that makes sense. I loved going back through my favorite levels to fight more bad guys.
Halo 2 was a very good continuation. It expanded a lot of what you could do in the game, with new vehicles, weapons, and abilities, but the gameplay seemed less polished and balanced. The graphics were great for the time and hardware, especially compared to the first Halo. The art was good. The music was fantastic.
Halo 3 was an extremely good game that didn't quite live up to the hype, but let's face it, if you believed the hype you were a dumbass. In fact, if you believe the hype for anything and are disappointed when you get the game, you are a dumbass. Halo 3's gameplay was extremely well-polished. The story wasn't as strong, but the level design was excellent and the art was fantastic. The music was as usual great. Halo 3's multiplayer is the best FPS multiplayer I've ever played. It is certainly the most balanced. (Yeah, you can go on and on about Call of Duty's ranking system but I must be the only one who finds that pitting a newb with basic weaponry against veteran players with the best abilities and weaponry is unfair and incredibly unbalanced.)
So why do people hate Halo and its franchise? All three games have been very good. Halo 3's Forge option is incredibly fun, and it's always interesting to see what people come up with. The community is good. The only annoyances are the people who play multiplayer are usually either dumbfuck twelve-year-olds or assholes who have played hundreds and hundreds of hours and take the game way too seriously, but that's not too big of a problem for me. Halo 3 is not my favorite game, and it never will be, but it's still a very good game.
Also, why is it mostly British people who appear to vocalize their hatred the loudest? Am I just imagining it? I don't have anything against Britain (except for the terrible weather and ridiculous taxes) or its people, I'm just wondering.
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Halo is a competent shooter. Halo 2 and 3 expand a bit on the formula. It's a decent, well-made series and I had some fun playing it. To me, it just never stood out. In an age where a lot of great games were released, Halo was just pretty good.
Still, it managed to catch all the praise, drawing attention and success away from games that -in my opinion- deserved it more. That's what irked me about. That, and the great amount of douchebags playing it.
And on the topic of the game's community -- I don't buy that. I've jumped between Call of Duty 4 and Halo. The douchebag levels are on par with eachother. It just so happens that Halo has more children while Call of Duty tends to attract more crazy Republicans. It's more of an XBOX Live issue than a Halo issue.
Halo's just one of those games that is overrated by the mainstream and underrated by the pretentious hardcore. It did do a few revolutionary things.
Personally, when I shoot a halo gun, it doesn't feel like I'm really shooting. It kinda reminds me of pretending a banana is a raygun and shouting 'pew pew'!! The graphics are nice but some of the busier firefights dissolve into dayglo spaff everywhere.
Also I suck at it. But when I try to see what all the fuss is about multiplayer, there is only so many times I can hear 'noob' slung at me. I say 'Yes I'm a noob, I hardly play this game.' And yet they still call out 'noob' every five seconds.
Nice blog tho. Glad it didn't descend into 'OMG UK Suxxors Halo Roxxors you fag nooooooobs!!!'
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"It's not the game, It's the people who play it. Halo 3 is played by more douchebags per copy than any other game, barring Madden. The association with stupidity and low standard of play hurt Halos reputation more than anything."
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None of the games were excellent, they were mediocre at best, with nothing original to add to the industry except ruin and "mainstream"
Halo 3 was groundbreaking with its Forge, screenshot, film capture, and file-sharing features, so you can't really say that it didn't add anything original to the industry. The amount of customization in the game, from gametypes to maps, is something I've never seen before and haven't seen since. You can customize gameplay from everything from Grifball to Racetracks, Both of those gametypes were made from default gametypes by users. The gameplay is extremely well-polished, as well.
Also, @DAO-SKP:
One of your complaints is that Master Chief doesn't jump high enough? He weighs over a thousand pounds and can jump over the head of another person.
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i dont hate it. it just didnt do anything for me. i was into unreal tournament already. which was so much better.
Though I'd be just fine if he jumped like a normal damn person, or as you say someone jumping with a thousand pounds.
@Vexed - It didn't do any of those things first, all it did was be successful so people copied off of it, nothing more. Why should it get an ounce of credit.
Not to mention "standardizing" stick controls have basically left console fps in a rut, they're stuck with making slowed down games played on one horizontal plane (and consequently dragging down pc fps with it) at a time thanks to that, instead of evolving a set of better controls.
Congrats it made shitty controls the standard, good job there.
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