The H word

[Dark Scion Soldier]

Now I know quite a few of the people here hate Halo 3 with a passion and thinks it's overrated.. which would be correct.

But to truly hate a game you have to try all of it and I did. I have absolute confidence that if the campaign doesn't make you loathe Halo, then the multiplayer will.
  It's frustratelying hard, and you'll often wonder how your supposed to win, when you face much more experienced players..


Your thoughts on Halo?

[anomaly]

Keep playing, get better, and don't let losing a lot get you angry?
Just like any game, even BZ2.

[Nielk1]

I hate Halo. I mean, Halo 1 was good, as your generic FPS vs space marines, but it seems every other game now wants to be Halo, and Halo is only a mediocre game, so every other games wants to be mediocre?

[ScarleTomato]

psh, The turning point for me buying a 360 was forge on halo3. I was over at a friends and was completely engrossed for about seven hours before i looked at the clock and saw it was 3 in the morning. And if you're talking about H3 I have to disagree with the difficulty of the campaign. Single player Heroic presents an entertaining yet decidedly beatable challenge and legendary co-op is a damn good time.

For multiplayer, I can really only speak more from a standpoint of LAN parties. I don't ususally play matchmaking. I usually set up with some friends and we'll play L4D or H3.

[AHadley]

I played one of the old demos, it reminded me of the Minerva mod for HL2. Pretty. I didn't like it though, it seemed just like any other generic FPS to me. Don't get me wrong, I love a good FPS, I had a copy of Quake 2 a few years ago (as in three or four) and I wouldn't stop playing it on my laptop until the disk broke. I have always loved the Half-Life seires and am pissed off it doesn't work properly for me, I have a couple of Q3-based games... but Halo just seems like all the rest. I like innovative games. Things that seem new when you play them, rather than just the same old game with the same old missions... kill everybody here, destroy that objective, protect somebody important, kill somebody else, escape now they've caught you... hell, I've just described all the missions in every generic FPS.

[Warfreak]

Halo1 was ok... I liked the length of the Halo2 campaign (but didnt like Multiplayer due to the damn duel weld spamming)

Halo3 though was a BIG dissapointment. Campaign was too short, the difficulty went down, multiplayer went to hell due to every 3 year old playing on my team not knowing what teamwork is (-_-), Lack of new/innovative/fun multiplayer maps, REMOVAL of a BloodGulch like map, removal of the Brute variants of the Ghost and Plasma Rifle and the implemention of the other crappy vehicles/weapons, The Flood in all their retarded glory, the lack of map editing provided with Forge (fun to mess around in, but annoying to see people "release" a map when they only added a mega weapon that only they know how to grab)

Of course thats only my opinion. 

[cheesepuffly]

Its not fair to get pissed at the game for multiplayer. Level design or something like that yes. But not if your mad at players.

[AHadley]

Can't do that, it would be like hating 1.2 for the vets...

[Warfreak]

Don't skim my posts, read them, i specifically "flame" against the Halo3 Multiplayer maps.

[AHadley]

I wasn't saying you had, I was berating Cheesy

[cheesepuffly]

I was saying in general. Not to you specifically.

Never heard that word before, berating, now i know what that means. Thank you.

[AHadley]

lol, no problem XD

[Feared_1]

Halo 3 isn't much shorter. It has fewer missions but they're REALLY long missions. Halo 2 has a lot of missions, but they're short. Halo 3's campaign is structured like Halo 1's. Maybe people hate it because they're so similar.

[bigbadbogie]

Without a doubt, Halo 2 was the best of the 3.

It was the only one I could actually find to be worth it.

Halo 1 was good, but a bit tedious to play.

Halo 3 was just too different to the others to be any good as a series finale... but was still fun to play...

[Arbystrider]

I grew up with Halo 2, but now Halo 3 seems a lot better, better graphics, nice explosions, new aircraft!

Halo 2 was what I always regarded as "the berserker's Halo", because Thunderstorm + Legendary would mean that Elites could withstand a plasma stick, and SMGs were just plain crazy.

Halo 1 was somewhat easy, on Easy (lol). Sniper Rifle has Night mode.

Halo 3, only played it once for 30 minutes on a crappy 10" CRT. No commments.