Why is Halo so critically acclaimed and popular?
ceforga
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I don't understand the hype behind this series nor the praise. I don't understand why critics find so special about it. Halo is a painfully average shooter, has mediocre gameplay, undeserved marketing hype from the media, generic and is absolutely nothing special.
Halo is completely generic and unispired, all you do in the game is shoot this and that and the repetitive level design gets on your nerves. The story is filled with every sci-fi cliche and it's so badly written, Master Chief is a bland character with no personality and is iconic for some reason. The multiplayer in these games are decent but it's inferior to Battlefield , Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty 4, and Tribes. Hell, the game barely did anything new or innovative. Halo is crap compared to most PC shooters.
Halo doesn't deserve the 10's and 9's its gotten from "professional" reviewers as the game seems more like a 5 or a 6, if they were going to give Halo a positive score it oughta be a 7 or a 8 but not a 9 and 10. Haze is just as unispired and generic as Halo but it recieved low scores and isn't as popular. Halo isn't bad but its not great either.
I think the reason its popular is because a lot of people and Halo fans haven't played any FPS before Halo. Considering most of its fanbase consists of frat boys and moronic college students.
They're even better console shooters than Halo on the N64 like Turok, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark. Halo belongs in the line of other average shooters like Resistance 1/2. Killzone 2, BioShock, Far Cry, and Crysis. Halo isn't a bad game but its not in the same league as Call of Duty, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Unreal Tournament, Tribes, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, Doom, No One Lives Forever, and most of all Half-Life. Halo is probably the most overrated game in existence and it's more overrated than GTAIV and Final Fantasy VII combined.
Whats so special about Halo?
Halo is completely generic and unispired, all you do in the game is shoot this and that and the repetitive level design gets on your nerves. The story is filled with every sci-fi cliche and it's so badly written, Master Chief is a bland character with no personality and is iconic for some reason. The multiplayer in these games are decent but it's inferior to Battlefield , Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty 4, and Tribes. Hell, the game barely did anything new or innovative. Halo is crap compared to most PC shooters.
Halo doesn't deserve the 10's and 9's its gotten from "professional" reviewers as the game seems more like a 5 or a 6, if they were going to give Halo a positive score it oughta be a 7 or a 8 but not a 9 and 10. Haze is just as unispired and generic as Halo but it recieved low scores and isn't as popular. Halo isn't bad but its not great either.
I think the reason its popular is because a lot of people and Halo fans haven't played any FPS before Halo. Considering most of its fanbase consists of frat boys and moronic college students.
They're even better console shooters than Halo on the N64 like Turok, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark. Halo belongs in the line of other average shooters like Resistance 1/2. Killzone 2, BioShock, Far Cry, and Crysis. Halo isn't a bad game but its not in the same league as Call of Duty, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Unreal Tournament, Tribes, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, Doom, No One Lives Forever, and most of all Half-Life. Halo is probably the most overrated game in existence and it's more overrated than GTAIV and Final Fantasy VII combined.
Whats so special about Halo?
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And I don't really like Halo games but I know there is a reason they are popular
What games do you enjoy that are critically acclaimed and popular? I'm sure it would be easy for any of us to question them in a similar way.
I also love the music and while the plot is full of holes (unless you read wikis and the books), Cortana, JOHNSON, even the Chief are all characters I care for.
That said, this thread is asinine.
So.
Fucking.
Awesome.
Replace "Halo" with anything that's popular and/or critically acclaimed. This is a tired, tired topic. And it being a platform exclusive certainly doesn't help things either. (Not saying that ceforga is console-war fanboy, but certainly there are many that are going to stake their opinion pro/con that are ...)
So, drop the thread?
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Other than that, Halo is a well made, simple shooter that is quick to learn, features both excellent COOP and MP, has attractive graphics, and a medley of extras that no other (or very few) shooters have. For example, the MP replay feature is unmatched, I would love to have that in other games.
I may not be a big fan of Halo, but I certainly understand its merits.
I was kinda hoping to do it after the franchise stopped (via bungie wanting to do something else) but it looks like that's never gonna happen :S
It's not like it can be modified or anything by the end user.
Surely everyone just walks around in a semi crouch starting into ironsights.
Every battle is the same.
Nothing interesting ever happens.
I'm embarrassed for you for making this post.
Some things are not meant to be understood.
(P.S.: The Halo games are probably still my favorite console shooter series. So, yeah, I'm one of those sheep too. Elite fist bumping? Hilarious.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLl3TTor5JE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7TqSGUDpkc
But you can take their chopping utensils!
We should hold a breakdancing competition between Halo and every other FPS? Who would win?
After all those eight years, I played Halo 1 first time (I didn`t had a decent pc until yesterday). My opinion: fun. Not the second coming of robot christ like everybody thinks and it feels very "generic" , but fun.
This thread is going to degenerate into a shitstorm in no time.
One problem is that a lot of younger gamers tend to fall into the marketing hype, and so they get all into the game, ignoring other games that they may enjoy more. Ther eare far better and more innovative shooters out there, as you mentioned Call of Duty series is definately one of them, but that series is also increadibly hyped up very popular as well, though i think it disserves it more than Halo. I don't enjoy Halo anymore for various reasons, but i've always been of the opinion that the game is horrendously overhyped, and that many of the "reviews" are written by uber fanboys or are getting kick backs from MS for giving perfect 10's to a game that stopped innovating a long time ago.
Its a decent game, but it's very, very basic for a shooter compared to a lot of other offerings, especially on the PC.
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Probably because it didn't wear out it's welcome in the few hours one plays it.
But then I realized that was way too much effort to go through for this thread.
in comparison to what? your favourite game?
bad trolling, man
edit: Let this thread die soon, no good can possibly come from it. Halo lovers/apologists and Halo haters are pretty dead set in their opinions.
Thank you!
There weren't any good games at the Xbox launch so that's what made Halo popular.
Um, what?
Maybe for you, but not for many others. I love tactical shooters like CoD, where the person doesnt have to rush to the sniper rifle in the map befor everyone else or what have you, rush to so and so vehicle. I mean Halo is fun online to mess around, but if i want to play a REAL tactical shooter, and not in a shooty childrens playground full of bright aliens and pink armour and silly tinny weapons i play CoD.
Did... did I just witness a hate crime?
That was a dumb post.
You know...I know this may surprise people...I know it is going to be incredibly and utterly shocking and will probably rock you to your very core.
But not everyone cares to or likes playing shooters on the PC. And even then there may be some people who just simply to honest enjoy the game. I know, I know...I'll give you time to pick your jaw up off the floor.
Fuck casual gamers, am I right.
.. Did you make an alt to agree with yourself? This isnt the WoW forums.
EDIT: I got the creation dates mixed up, but whatever.
Thats what Bejweled is for. :winky:
...It's funny how he's disagreeing with me and ignoring what I said at the same time.
hahahaahahah
oh god
seriously guys, don't feed the troll
Unfortunately, if you don't want to play "grenade wars", "grenade wars in narrow corridors" or "watch me pull a grenade the second you kill me", that throws out COD as well.
The Rainbow Six games--pretty much all of them, to varying degrees--blow COD out of the water when it comes 'REAL tactical shooter(s)', by your definition. There's no "kill me so I can automatically throw a grenade at you" option, for example.
tl;dr--no FPS is perfect.
EDIT: Also--"no good games at the Xbox launch". Watch, I can do it too:
There were no good games at the PS2 launch. That's the only reason why FFX was popular. Compared to other RPGs, it sucks
There were no good games at the Gamecube launch. That's the only reason why Super Smash Brothers Melee was popular. Compared to other fighting games, it's arcadey, shallow, and sucks.
Good grief....
Thats because your comment had nothing to do with what was being discussed saying "that was dumb" is far more "dumb" than anything i posted there. If you aren't even going to bother giving insight to a conversation, why bother even posting in it?