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The "I Just Don't Get It" Thread
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We were Halo trolling before you were born son.
Every possible criticism about Halo has been said before and argued before.The same result as always is sales don't lie, and Halo has sold millions. From an objective point of view it must be a good game.
don't you bring your fucking logic in here
What the fuck are you on, son?
Are you a little touched? Would you like to be? :winky:
Of course Halo's been critiqued. This is the thread to do it again. They're all very valid critisicms.
Sales don't lie... okay. So by this standard, Titanic is a perfect movie, Michael Jackson made some of the best music available today, and Bush deserves both of his terms in office. Opinions differ.
2v2 Blood Gulch CTF Hogs
Anything else, sucked. Except perhaps varying numbers of players. 2v4, 4v4, 8v8, 2v6 whatever.
But for that, and only that, I love that game.
Also I dislike Halo 2 because it destroyed 2v2 Blood Gulch CTF Hogs. Nobody played Halo online anymore after Halo 2 came out. And that ended nearly 4 years of ridiculous fun.
I don't really know the etiquette when it comes to that. Would it be wrong to talk about Lyndsay Lohan's snatch while slaying some dragon with guild buddies?
I stay away from mmos in general. The payment thing and I'm afraid I might get addicted. There's also an image issue. I'm trying to do less geeky things. An mmo is pretty goddamn geeky.
Unless it's WoW then apparently fucking everybody plays it.
since when do opinions have anything to do with it? stop being a twit
my "i just don't get it" games are 3d zeldas, and lord knows i've tried, i really have
Yeah.
Ok, one last thing on this.
Halo isn't a bad game. It's a good, well made shooter with flaws just like anything else. It's one of the first console shooters to actually get things 'right' (well, almost). It just doesn't stand above it's predecessors or have the kind of original and groundbreaking mythos like I keep hearing.
Sure it's fun to dick around with it and the multiplayer is definitely a blast if you haven't been spoiled by better multiplayer featured in PC games or subsequent console shooters.
When you get to the point where you're buying books and talking about the Master Chief like he's anything else but a mishmash of generic badass shooter persona... I just... as the thread title says, "Don't Get It (tm)".
Just as a personal thing, I would've preferred if Master Chief had no voice and was Gordon Freeman in a helmet instead of Doom Marine with a voice.
Now Naruto, I don't get it.
Probably because I don't watch the kids show.
Dragonball Z too, again because I don't watch the kids show.
I swear it's not an anime thing.
I don't care what your feelings are about the franchise and people but the books are a fun read, and anyone who has read them would agree with me.
Edit: I mean, "I hated Twilight Princess because I don't like Zelda, although I've never played the game."
Like it's been said, there are better books to waste my time on than some fanservice thing about a game that's just 'there'.
Hell, I wouldn't read a book about Metal Gear and I think that has a great story for a game.
Talk about how I'm supposed to like anime kids shows now and how you think I should die because I don't think having a super high power level is 'so cool'.
Come on. Move on.
Just look at pheezer.
Gamertag: Clorfhanger
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And I do as well.
But, for anything in general, try to make sure you've experienced the thing first before saying it sucks, and then insulting someone (say, me) for saying I liked it. After all, I've read the damn things.
Now, I'm sure we've all got something we don't get to post about.
Edit: I hate anime.
Now stop fucking trolling.
Just because I don't like something you like doesn't mean I'm insulting you by insulting Master Chief.
You are not Master Chief.
Quit throwing the word "troll" around just because you're on the internet.
Edit: Oh and you hate anime? How can you hate an entire art form? Obviously you won't like everything that's presented in it, but it's a rather wide spectrum.
I may 'not get' Dragonball, but I rather liked Ghost in the Shell.
Thank you for reminding me.
more of a guideline, actually
"no one gives a shit what you think about halo"
it's applicable to so many posts it would be like an effective way of cutting out a lot of stupid
Sorry dude. <3s for you.
It's just that, because you retired and have gone to the hall of fame every young rookie is just going to get compared to you. Especially if they wear the same uniform and play the same sport. If you know what I mean.
Just remember, like Babe Ruth, it's almost impossible for anyone to get out from under your shadow.
You're obviously not going to admit that you're wrong. Goodnight.
*Stretch*
Ahhhh
Ok. So anime.
Who gets anime?
I get some in the mail from time to time.
"how can you dismiss an art form without ever having tried it?"
ok stigma stop being a tool please
Let it go for fuck's sake.
Anyway guys, 7 am. I'm outta here.
See you tonight, hopefully by then some people have mellowed the fuck out.
I've seen christian fundamentalists who are less offended that I don't believe what they do.
Woooo.
At the same time, I don't get the appeal of games that try to immerse you in realism. Don't we play games to escape from reality? I'm much more content playing Serious Sam than I am playing one of the MoH games.
I think a better example is:
I mean, sure, you can not like military SF based on Halo, that's fine and dandy and I think most people can accept that. But expressing embarrassment that members of your community like books based on games is like expressing embarrassment that members of your community like playing video games. That's the thing that's gotten everybody's goats up, more than you just not liking the books. It's the kind of thinking we get from ignorant people who don't realize that video games aren't toys and keep reinforcing the stereotype of the geek in his parent's basement surrounded by action figures dreaming of Leia's gold bikini.
I can't decide if you're serious about this, or if you're (from an "objective" point of view) utterly retarded.
I missed the italics on must, which would have indicated sarcasm. Just like how Madden sells through the roof.
So yes, just to clarify, I wasnt in any way suggesting that in reality just because Halo sells well it is a superior product (even though in the games industry this is a pretty common trend, though games like Psychonauts slip through I would say that good games usually do sell very well).
In my opinion Halo is a good game. Not the greatest of all time, but definetly up there. Halo 2 is not. I cannot pass judgement on 3 yet.
I don't get the people that play Halo, I don't get the the new audience of TES, I don't get OB, and I don't get why gaming magazines are so goddamned beholden to advertising revenue.
Sustained. Interactive fiction is a game. Just not the genre I thought PW was.
See, I'm the exact opposite. I like the story of Halo, but hate the gameplay.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
Either way, I wish this forum had an ignore feature. I waste way too much time reading the same crap from the same people.