I used to play it quite a bit then stopped for a while and when i came back i could barely get a kill so i just gave up, ill probably get back into it when ODST drops.

I played a Halo game once. But it was with one of those guys, so I use the term 'played' pretty loosely. I don't know which one it was.

It's sad to read these kind of news , i'd finished campaign mode of halo 3 but i'd never try multiplayer mode (except on split screen).

My country don't have a stable connection to play online so i just ended up playing RPGs,rhythm games & local vs games instead and some PC games on LAN.
I always want to try out Horde mode or upcoming firefight mode with others :)

I <3 EPIC for putting bots in gears 2.

Halo gives you cavities.

Halo 3 is two years old? Jesus.

Um...I love Halo too, just not Halo 3.

@chronomitch: well, yeah... Halo wasn't the first. But, it's certainly the most popular. I don't think we have to go through a history of the FPS before saying that Halo has 1,000,000 players.

nope kicked that habit to the curb back in '07

I'm part of that milli. Granted, I just bought my 360 not too long ago, but oh well. I don't like many of the popular FPS series, but somehow Halo struck home with me. The sheer simplicity of it makes it so fun. Pre-ordering ODST soon, should be a good time. =D

I still need to get Annual though...bahh...

No, I don't.

halo 3 and cod4 appeal to different crowds, halo 3 i can just sit back and relax just having fun trying to be rambo.. and yeah i love halo, stop hating

I wish, but I only have a silver account and I'm saving money for The Beatles: Rock Band. I love Team SWAT and Grifball.

I recently picked it back up to prepare for ODST. So yes.... yes, I am one of those many people.

Oh snap! I spoke too soon.

:(

I will never understand the fascination with Halo online. It was cool back when it was like 'wow! we can play multiplayer FPS's on now consoles too!' - but that was so long ago and there have been so many much better console FPS's since then. Why would you stick with the floaty jumps, silly weapons, etc. To each his own I guess.

I'm still amazed at how people don't understand Halo's success. It was a good game that hit at just the right time and snowballed from there. Goldeneye did it, World of Warcraft did it and no amount of bitching is going to remove it from the culture's zeitgeist.

@Alex: the pistol is what made the first Halo fantastic. Yes, it was the most versatile weapon. And you almost always started with it. Of course, the shotgun was better at close range, the sniper rifle was better at super long ranges, and the rocket launcher was great if you got a drop on somebody, but what balanced the game was that a skilled player with the pistol could beat an unskilled player with anything else. And since everybody started with out, it was always even.

In Halo 2's multiplayer, my major complaint was that teams could monopolize the weapon spawns and dominate another team; not necessarily because they were more skilled, but because starting with just an SMG and/or Magnum meant you had no defense against somebody who was whoring the rockets or vehicles. Matches were way more lopsided than they were in Halo 1.

Still, like Arrested Developer said, the Halo series does stuff really well, and it came at just the right time with what it did. The multiplayer is all good, and I too am getting sick of the off-topic "Halo sucks" comments on any Halo-related articles. It's like all the Madden hate, and I don't even like those games. It's old people! Shut up already!

@cinco: I could barely make out what you just said. Punctuation and capitalization is key, friend. You may want to look into all of that before you start criticizing people's intelligence.

@Dexter345: The only situation in which the pistol is relatively useless against any other weapon is in extremely close quarters against a shotgun. In any other situation, a relatively mediocre player could dominate any other weapon against a person of equal skill. The thing dropped you in about 3 shots and was much easier to fire than a sniper rifle (also didn't expose your location).

And there was never any level where the sniper rifle had an upper hand. The pistol was always easier to handle and had the necessary reach deal with wherever your target was.

Once everyone learned that the pistol was the "go to" weapon, no one used anything else. So, I guess it was relatively balanced now that I think about it. That's only because everyone used the one weapon and made the game incredibly dull.

It isn't an issue of distribution. Yes, I understand everyone started with one. That wasn't my point. It's the fact that it was the only weapon anyone ever used most of the time.

If I can't convince you, then perhaps Bungie can. They're the ones with the play-testers and years of experience. They're the ones who have said countless times that the pistol was overpowered. They're the ones who have removed it from two games.

@Alex: All I know is, I used to dominate my friends in our Halo LAN parties, because it came down to skill more than weapon whoring. When Halo 2 came out, I got extremely frustrated with the way games went down. My roommate Tom would hold the rockets at its spawn and my other roommate Andy would hold the sniper rifle at its spawn. I would then spawn, they'd look at my screen to see where I was, and take me out without allowing me any sort of chance at survival.

Of course, playing on the Internet takes out part of the problem, but I still got into plenty of matches with teams who would never leave the rocket spawn. So the choices given to use were either to try to attack them and fail, allowing them to up their kills even more, or stay away from them in a stalemate, only it's not quite a stalemate because they had more kills to begin with because they whored the rockets so much.

It was definitely toned down a bit in Halo 3 (I think mostly through better level design), and I won't hesitate to say that 3's multiplayer is better than 2's, by far, but I definitely would hesitate if you asked me which I preferred between 1 and 3.

the halo 1 pistol was great but maybe a little to great because everyone who was a decent player used the pistol. whereas in halo 2 and 3 we have a set of weapons that all get used.

While I've never considered them to be bad games (except for Halo's poor multiplayer), I've never considered Halo or CoD to be anything more than average FPS game, if that. Nothing special.

Ahh...Halo one, When I could shoot people out of banshees with a pistol, and hear cursing fly like birds through the air. A good time. A better time.

@Bustaballs
What would be an above-average game then?

Great games do not die. Plain and simple.

Ahh halo, has anything done more damage to FPS multiplayer since CS?

Truly, halo3, by far the worst of the games, sitting uncompleted on my shelf, Has killed what little respect people had for XBL.

That a game with auto-aim built in can be considered great and the players skilled, is truly a sign of our times.

ok, so there were other games before it. Yeah we know. We aren't talking about that, we're talking about how 1/300 people in the US still play Halo 3 every day. Of which, I am 1, i usually fit in 1-2 matches a day still.