Is Halo Over rated?

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I found Halo extraordinarily dull and uninspiring after all i'd heard about it from press and friends alike when I played it a few years back on the Xbox. In fact I really was confused. Was I missing something? More than any other game I have ever played I really couldn't begin to equate the glowing reviews with the experience I had. Dull and repetitive.

I have to say Oblivion was a bit of a let down too. Loved Morrowind but after you get past the great graphics Oblivion was too easy and there was simply too much going on. Run for 1 minute and you would find a village/camp/cave. In Morrowind you really had to work for the reward. Anyhow i've moved off topic...
 
Don't confuse over rated with over hyped.

With the fanboys and hype machine at maximum power, I will trust no rating but my own hands and eyes.

Also much of the reviews comment on having good online play. A novel thing on the console for it's time, but standard for the PC side.
 
I used to be into PCs alot more, now I primarily use it for just reading the news and graphic design and other business purposes. The beauty of the console is that you will NEVER be obsolete in any way. If it says it's for XBOX 360, it will just work. If it says it's for PC you're like oh ****, are my components up to par? How much mroe money do I have t spend on more memory and a video card and maybe a new CPU. With that do I need a new motherboard? More drive space? Are there unforseen incompatibilities? (Yes, they do crazy things). Plus you have to install, if you lose your CD Key you're ****, or if it gets used too many times. The console is simple. It provides quite good graphics and gameplay at a price point well below that of a comparable gaming PC. Some people prefer a controller, others prefer a keyboard and mouse. I now prefer the pad over the mouse and keyboard. Not sure why exactly, but I do.

I'm not a HUGE Halo fan, but it was a good series. I'm not entirely sure what elements you thought could have improved it, but I think they did an excellent job. The multiplayer is outstanding.
 
I didn't buy Halo3, but tried it out at a buddie's place. Seems pretty competent for a console FPS. The game is going to sell a TON of copies, probably becoming the highest grossing FPS on ANY platform. Hard to say it's overrated from a sales point of view.

Compared to PC shooters? I doesn't compare favorably, but then again - most Halo3 players have never played a PC shooter, so they don't understand the difference in control scheme, immersion, etc. If I'd never played a PC shooter I'd think that Halo 3 was pretty awesome.

So I guess the answer depends on your point of view, if you live in the console world (and lets face it... most gamers do) then Halo 3 is right up there with the best, so of course it's not overrated. If you live in marketing and sales land - Halo 3 is going to sell like CRAZY, so of course it's not overrated.

If you're one of the relatively few PC gamers out there with systems to run PC shooters at full glory... Halo 3 is going to be disappointing.

So for most of the people out there - H3 ftw.
 
There are not enough 360’s around to make it the highest grossing FPS of all time, it will be the highest grossing FPS for the consoles though. Besides a lot of all this is just hype, hype breeds a lot of short-term sales. It does not however assure long-term sales. I think it might sell about 6 million copies, maybe if it gets out on the PC soon enough it might hit more.
 


Think back to your first PC lan or the first time you played an FPS online on the PC. For me it was back around 1998 or so. I remember how awsome I thought it was and it was what got me hooked on PC's and is the reason I am on this site today. You must remember that PC gamers like us are a minority compared to the console crowd. If you walked up to someone in my old highschool 5 years ago and said hey are you a gamer they would have been like yea I have a ps2 and I play madden. Concoles are much simpler and cheaper to use. I still make the comment online on Halo 3 and say man I wish I had a mouse and keyboard and in every game I get the question..."why would you want that? It would be impossible to play an FPS with a mouse and keyboard." Most people relate video games with nintendo, playstation, and xbox. Not PC's.

Now back to my original statement/question. Do you remember your first experience of the multiplayer on the PC with a lan or online. Well for ALOT and I mean...A WHOLE LOT of people halo was the first real multiplayer experience on a console that was even relatively close to what it was on a PC for years before that. They recieved a small taste of what PC's offer only they didnt know it. They thought this was the first time it had been done and thus was the most amazing thing every made. There is no argument here and there is no other way to explain this. I promise you all I am right. For the majority of the people who love halo. They simply did not know about the PC gaming segment. So when you say that halo was nothing new and not innovative. Sure maybe for you it wasnt, but for about 5 million people it was and same goes for Xbox Live. Halo 2 was the first online game that many many people had the chance to experience. I know this is a sad fact, but it is fact none the less. Hope this helps.

Best,

3Ball
 
My first FPS experence was wolfeinstein 3d. Awesome game. Crazy hitler in his mech suit. Anyway. I find halo extremely boring for an FPS. I've even tried it for PC and still found it boring. It just doesn't do it for me.

Halo story wise reminds me of doom 1. Same scenes, hell invading mars, ect blah blah.

First multiplayer FPS experence? doom 2 over a 33.6K modem. =) over 10 or so floppy disks.
 
First Halo on Xbox was almost as good as GTA. Halo 2 was lame... Halo 3 is awesome I even wanna get a 360 just to play it. Please microsoft don't wait 485766372299484654728570239458730948.5 years before releasing it on pc.
 
ok for all you halo haters out there, halo is best we have for console shooters as far as a solid campaign and good multiplayer go. PC fps games like Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 kick halos ass. But playing games like that on a console just doesnt feel right. Its like playing halo on a pc, it doesnt feel right. When i played the original halo on xbox i loved it, but several years later i still loved playing it on the xbox, but i tried out the pc version just to check it out, I hated it. It didnt control well, and the experience felt very anti-climactic compared to how the game feels on the xbox. So if you judge halo based solely on your pc experience then shame on you. Halo pc sucked, and im sure halo 2 for pc sucks too. Halo just wasnt meant to be played on a pc. Sure, halo is a bit overrated, but that doesnt make it a bad game. More people play consoles than PC's. They dont know what they are missing out on which makes halo the best fps they have. Yeah yeah orange box comes out soon for just about everything, but it just wont feel right playing it on a console. Games geared for pc dont work all that well on consoles and games geared for consoles dont work all that well for PCs.
EX. Orange box for pc but also on consles/ Halo and Gears on xbox but also on pc as a side thought. Not sure how gears will play on a pc, but i dont think it would feel right.
 
Halo for the PC did feel right, but it just got boring after a few hours. I mean the flood, how much of the same thing can you keep doing before you get bored. It’s just the Console boys had no choice to keep playing. But once I got about two hours into the flood and felt like I had a bad case of dashavu I simply stopped playing, put the box to one side and played another game. Oh I think that other game was Battle Field 1942… Could have been Max Payne, still they where both better games.
 
I like Battlefield 2142, there is tons to do... Everyone i know has a 360 and loves Halo. I tend to fine it hard to control and hit a target. I'm quicker with a mouse and even my cousin had to agree when I had him playing Far Cry on a PC. He liked it much better and easier to control.

Console games are more relaxed and you can play play them on a 52" Plasma with friends. PC games you are sitting at a desk in front a monitor by your lonesome. It is almost an atmosphere change.
 
Well I think for a console game halo 3 is a pretty good game, but what makes me hate it with a vengence is the stupid fanboys!!!! i commented on a halo 3 video saying it didnt have that amazing graphics (after all i have seen the crysis beta running on full dx10) and i got flamed, called a noob etc That is what i hate. Not halo but what halo has spawned!!!!
 
Yes, Halo has and always be overrated. I rather play Duke Nukem 3D. No joke, I am not being hyperbolic here. Halo is the root of all evil trend of dumbing down PC games as more and more games are becoming cross platform, especially FPS games. The "consolization" of what intended to be great PC games. Consolization is what I call the restriction, limiting and non-free flowing, forced-linearization.

Sorry, I blame Halo for making me think GoW consolized, COD4 consolized, Lost Planet consolized, Timeshift consolized, UT3 consolized, etc. The only new FPS game that still have not fallen for that is TF2, and maybe Crysis. Although Valve almost made that deadly mistake by forcing server caps. Long live 3rd Party!

Borrowing the great words of WoW wisdom, L2keyboardmouse.
 
I faced a similar situation with Gears of War. Everyone says how cool it was with single player and mulitplayer, but i thought it was OK. Its just one of those things.
 
I admit I havent read this entire thread.. but to reply to the original poster:

The only good thing that came from Halo was Redvs.Blue (the video series). The game itself is moot.
 
Halo's alright for a console FPS game, and it did bring the gametype to the "masses". That being said, Halo pales in comparison to Half Life 2. HL2 has a much better storyline, much more interesting weapons, and with the modder community, tons of new things coming out for it all the time.

I do agree about the autoaim and large hitboxes being pretty weak on the console, but you're got to dummy controls down for them so that people can get a decent gaming experience with a gamepad. You don't have the precision that you do with a keyboard mouse.
 
Halo: Combat Evolved - was a good release for its time.

Halo 2: Simple, people wanted more of the amazing Halo 1 game..but better. The game was ok.

Halo 3: I haven't tried it... but again, when compared to other shooters on consoles, the game looked pretty descent.
 
I'm probably a bit biased and have a somewhat rose-tinted view of halo 1, since when i first played it on the xbox, i had just gotten off of a second hand n64 with goldeneye (man it was a new experience) but....
Halo 2 just seemed dull to me, i was bored within the first level, whereas halo 1 was awesome and i played through it many, many times (largely co-op, and frequently descending into team killing rampages)
 



Yes its been over rated since it came out as a clone of tribes and to this day is still a steaming pile of crap. sorry i find this game as dissapointing as oblivion got sucked in by all the hype and found out people are easy to entertain.
 
People who try to down halo have yet to see the competitive side of it. I really couldn't give a flying crap about its story line or campaign. Its funny how the game is rated based off of that by 90% of people. Kids freak and obsess over the game for its crappy story line, and care little about multiplayer.

Halo on xbox live is where it shines. People who try halo, who come from PC games really havn't touched on this. (above posts talking about how 'good' splitscreen is.)

People who have played xbox live and dislike it who come from PC games have been blinded by the thousands of kids who play live to "pwnz0rz d3m n33b5".

Halo is one of the very few console games that actually has complex skill depth to it.

People who constantly play other games such as gears and ramble about halo's "suckiness", are utterly terrible at the game. A good halo player can go into a game like gears, and after a week can be as good as everyone else. Where as someone from a shallow skill game like gears tries to come to halo, and will get mopped 50 to 0 in a 1v1.

Those people make up the excuses that the game sucks and is over-rated for reasons like "its so unrealistic how he jumps 10 feet in the air!".

Halo has a skill depth to the point where there are professional MLG players who make millions playing HALO. (ie Walshy)

Many people hate it because they are unable to handle aiming, shooting, and timing grenades, jumps, shots, melees and movement at the same time; quite frankly, because they get killed by those who can. The only other game that really can be compared to halo as far as skill goes with fps would be shadowrun. Shadowrun is one of the other few that has the jump aspect, prolonged rewareds for better aim (as in it matters if you miss 1 headshot in a fight), and where the more skilled player can win a fight starting shooting later or starting with lower health.

Halo is overrated for the wrong reasons: its campaign and storyline. Its underrated for its multiplayer gameplay, skill depth, and competitive side.

I suggest to those who dislike halo because of the boring campaign and standard xbox live kiddies, to look into the competitive side and mlg part of halo.

EDIT: Also, I frequently play both console and pc games. I'm only comparing halo to other console games.
 


If i just said "i just hate crysis cuz it sux!", I would be tore to shreds. For what reasons? How much of the game have you played? Have you even ever tried it? What are you comparing it to?

That is the same as some kid saying "the president sucks". When asked why, they say "because...", as they only go off of what they hear others say, and know nothing of their own reasons for that opinion.
 
im a retard, i tried to edit the double post and made this....

why do quick edit buttons need to be right next to quote buttons when your too tired to even see?
 
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