Why is halo good?

The Craig said:
If your sig specifically said you played on xbox/pc, it would lead me to presume you haven't played ps3 games fully/properly (outside of demo in a shop/ played for a bit round a mates house) so yes your comments wouldn't really be as well grounded as someone who's fully played the game.
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Well thats rather silly isnt it. I've played through and finished MGS4 3 times, on various difficulties including European. I'm guessing my comments on that game would be more grounded than most. And thats coming from someone who doesnt own a PS3.
 
Psymonkee said:
Would I be correct in thinking it was the first game to offer auto health regen when out of combat?

If so then I hate it even more! :)
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I love that in halo
(Despite for some annoying reason they put it back in in ODST, well it did kinda fit well considering you're a human)

wannabedamned said:
Well thats rather silly isnt it. I've played through and finished MGS4 3 times, on various difficulties including European. I'm guessing my comments on that game would be more grounded than most. And thats coming from someone who doesnt own a PS3.
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Well thats not exactly likely though is it. I'm not saying he's definitely not played the game, I'm saying its unlikely he has judging by his sig saying pc/ps3.
 
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If you don't get it you never will.

Most of these 9/10 marks come from what the games had accomplished in their time periods. Halo 1 proved that FPS games could work well on a pad**, Halo 2 more or less single handedly made Xbox Live the success it is and Halo 3 built on the previous 2 games adding even more to the online experience with features like saved films and forge (even though imo it is the weakest title in the series so far). I'm not going to count ODST since that was originally mean't to be DLC/expansion pack so I don't really count it as one of the main series.

When people talk about how 'awesome' halo is they usually refer to the experience of playing 4 player split screen around a mates while they attended school/university, but of course this is now more or less none existant these days thanks to online play over the internet.

**And no Golden eye doesn't say hello because the controls on that game are no where near as smooth as Halo 1.
 
Goldeneye was very smooth if you chose the proper control scheme. C buttons to move/strafe, stick to aim... you could even have a very effective dual analogue control scheme if you used 2 pads.
 
wannabedamned said:
I suppose not. Sorry Craig :p
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Its cool, I often will argue pointless things
Alrik said:
If you don't get it you never will.

Most of these 9/10 marks come from what the games had accomplished in their time periods. Halo 1 proved that FPS games could work well on a pad**, Halo 2 more or less single handedly made Xbox Live the success it is and Halo 3 built on the previous 2 games adding even more to the online experience with features like saved films and forge (even though imo it is the weakest title in the series so far).
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I'd agree with this however I feel the reason that halo 2 multiplayer was better than halo 3 was due to the lack of competition (Everyone played halo 2 and that was about it), although the maps where also better on halo 2.
 
Kreeeee said:
Goldeneye was very smooth if you chose the proper control scheme. C buttons to move/strafe, stick to aim...
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:D Good good. This was the only real scheme to use!

For Halo, I have always found it a very fun game to play co-op, I've rarely played the campaign modes in solo.
It has a good story I think and the visuals, gameplay are fun enough to add some replayability.

From what I played of the Halo 3 multiplayer, it was very fun. Far different to the CoD4 style affair but no less fun. More fun in my eyes, flying about on ghosts is always the way forward.
 
For me the 1st Halo was an outstanding all round package. The 2 sequels have been all about the multiplayer :D

I can't get enough of it, so much depth that casual players don't even realise. A real skillful game imo, so much variety also.
 
Kreeeee said:
Grab BR, point, click? :p ;)
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;) Do you play Kreeeee?

the amount of people that come round whilst i'm having a game and comment on the kiddy colours and rubbish levels is crazy. They all play COD and are used to just pointing at whoever they see and getting a kill. Couldn't four-shot to save their lives :p
 
Goldfingers said:
I'm genuinely interested in this. To me it's always seemed like a generic, arcadey, fps with a substandard story. The multiplayer always seemed a bit like quake 3 arena or unreal tournament. It didn't seem to offer anything new that hadn't been done better on pc.

I've just had a play on halo odst and had the exact same feelings, I just don't get it :confused:

I don't mean to offend/start a fanboy war I just want to know why it's classed as 10/10 game? To me it's a 7/10 shooter, with an extremely robust multi player system.
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Same, I've never seen the fuss about them either.

I never had an original XBOX but got Halo 1 and 2 on the PC and never got past the first couple of levels on the first. I still went and got Halo 3 for the 360 but again boredom set in after the first couple of levels.

Unless I just didn't give Halo enough time seems to me Killzone on the Playstation is Sony's equivalent and that also is a bit of a bore but at least the graphics on that are superb
 
Doz007 said:
;) Do you play Kreeeee?

the amount of people that come round whilst i'm having a game and comment on the kiddy colours and rubbish levels is crazy. They all play COD and are used to just pointing at whoever they see and getting a kill. Couldn't four-shot to save their lives :p
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I've played hundreds of hours, yes.
 
We used to, especially during Halo 2, but we all got bored of Halo 3.

Each new Halo release ends up with us getting together (in person where possible) and playing it from start to finish in one sitting, and I imagine it will be the same for reach, but the excitement has certainly gone.

I'm personally looking forward to what Bungie do post Halo, they're fed up of always working on the same dry franchise and I'm sure they have some ideas that just wouldn't work in the Halo universe that they could try out.
 
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Tom84 said:
I never had an original XBOX but got Halo 1 and 2 on the PC and never got past the first couple of levels on the first. I still went and got Halo 3 for the 360 but again boredom set in after the first couple of levels.
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You bought the 3rd in a trilogy after playing only a few levels from the first? No wonder you were bored then.
 
For me, I genuinely have enjoyed the story (inc the off-shoot that is ODST). I don't play any of them in MP anymore but regularly play co-op/firefight still.

There is one thing about them that I love above everything else.....the warthogs (more importantly, the way they control/handle) lol whenever I'm playing other similar games that have vehicles in such as Borderlands, I'm constantly wishing that they handled the same as the warthogs instead of handling like ass and feeling like they were tacked on at the end! fish-tailing = win! :p lol
 
Goldfingers said:
I'm genuinely interested in this. To me it's always seemed like a generic, arcadey, fps with a substandard story. The multiplayer always seemed a bit like quake 3 arena or unreal tournament. It didn't seem to offer anything new that hadn't been done better on pc.
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I always thought it was a bit meh tbh, it didn't really bring anything new to the gaming world.

MW
 
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