Why is halo good?

[PiKe]

Have never felt the need to play it and have never felt I'm missing out.

 

[da_mic_1530]

not a bad game, but my main problem falls with online MP, people have shields, so a full clip of machine gun fire still has to end with a bash. Or maybe I just suck

 

[Katoom]

not a bad game, but my main problem falls with online MP, people have shields, so a full clip of machine gun fire still has to end with a bash. Or maybe I just suck

Soften them up with a nade first, or use a BR

 

[Buffman]

not a bad game, but my main problem falls with online MP, people have shields, so a full clip of machine gun fire still has to end with a bash. Or maybe I just suck

Bolded for truth .

 

[Warbie]

Half life 2!

Depends what you want. The combat in HL2 is really very average . Everything else is superb, but combat wise it felt dated on day 1 and often bored me with its simplicity. In contrasd the first Halo on took me nearly a year to master and the later games in co-op, specifically ODST in Firefight, make the combat in the HL series look like pong.

Perhaps one day we'll get the polish and gameworld of HL mixed with the combat in Halo ...

 

[Doz007]

i agree with the single player being average in all but the 1st halo. Multiplayer on the other hand leads the way on consoles and is the shining light of xbox live in my opinion

 

[TheGamingGeneral]

I dont really get it either, I bought halo 3, and ODST and I actually did have Halo though never played it (long story). I never ''got it''.

 

[shifty_uk]

halo online doesnt compare to Q3 or UT in any way!! both are far superior online games

100%.

I haven't read the rest of the thread unfortunately but this post stands out.

I agree with the OP; I've been saying it for years, I have absolutely zero attraction to any of the Halo games. I even forced myself to play it(I bought and still have Halo 3) for a couple of weeks in an attempt to understand the fascination = nothing.

The gameplay is dull and incredibly slow paced. The maps are tediously big and boring. The vehicles, weapons and characters are just mediocre, immature and arcade-like. The vehicles bounce around like nothing else, too.

With regards to UT, I'm slightly biased as it's one of my all time favourites but it's a fast, brutal and more grown up. The weapons and characters are far more enjoyable, pretty to look at and use whilst the vehicle simulation/animation is by far more realistic. Overall, doesn't compare.

Crap to average game but you continue to buy into the brand.

 

[V4NT0M]

You are biased.

Some people like games like Q3, which personally I found spammy and tedious. I used to play UT a lot back in the days of 2004, never really got into 3. Great game though, but again totally different to Halo.

 

[lunarwolf]

I for one do not think Halo is good, I have never been able to play more than a couple of hours - just got bored. Not my type of shooter, if you like that type of arcade shooter then I agree the gameplay is sound.

PS I don't play FPS on consoles, some like that platform but I think PC is just much better for FPS. And halo was never all that on PC

 

[chris_uk333]

Halo WAS good, it's now tripe.

Halo will never be the same again.

 

[Nanoman]

Halo 1 was so unbelievably good that tbf it would have been hard for the rest of them to offer the same sort of originality and awesomeness. But still I just couldn’t like 3 as much as I tried, it was an absolute bore fest and is ridiculously over-rated.

 

[Strife212]

At the time of Halo 1 it was insane, best console FPS by miles.

 

[Morba]

You are biased.

Some people like games like Q3, which personally I found spammy and tedious. I used to play UT a lot back in the days of 2004, never really got into 3. Great game though, but again totally different to Halo.

playing random public DM games in almost any FPS and it will be spammy!

Onslaught mode was a bit bigger than DM/CTF, bit more Halo like, yet it was also crap

 

[Shamikebab]

Onslaught was nothing like Halo, except it had vehicles, which wern't as good as Halo's.


No Multiplayer shooter has balanced vehicles as well against fighting on foot imo.

 

[V4NT0M]

Onslaught was nothing like Halo, except it had vehicles, which wern't as good as Halo's.

UT 2004 vehicles were great The warthog is great however.

playing random public DM games in almost any FPS and it will be spammy!

But Q3 is like spam on crack.

 

[Kreeeee]

Spam in instagib and you're going to get thrashed.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Halo 3 has not changed or innovated a single area. It plays like Halo, looks like Halo 2 and sounds like ****. The soundtrack is good, I must say, but the weapons all sound rubbish, the campaign is short, the story is a weak piece of trash and the characters turned out to be a bunch of people that I really couldn't give two ****s about by the end of the campaign.

It's not as bad a game as Far Cry 2, I reserve a special kind of hatred for that, but what I will say is that Halo 3 is vastly overrated. I'll probably get flamed for this but whatever.

 

[Katoom]

I can't say I've honestly noticed how good/bad the guns sounds in Halo, (or any other game for that matter) that's not why I play it.
Sounds like you just didn't find 'that thing about it' that so many people have.
It's still busy on-line. Over 200,000 people on it last night. Not bad for 2+yr old, generic, yawnfest of a game.

 

[Shamikebab]

Halo 3 has not changed or innovated a single area.

The map editor is pretty innovative, as is the video editor, and the sharing of game modes and edited maps is pretty innovative.