A small rant about Halo

[Sparta]

Well then, I'm sorry I was a letdown.

Looks like you have something in common with the singleplayer campaign of Halo 2.

Hi-yoooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[Uriel]

The Simplicity is GREAT! It allows you to take the game into your own hands and forge situations.
People are are like "OMG IT'S A SIMPLE GAME WITH SIMPLE TACTICS OMG OMG IT SUCKS ASS!"
Stop being such a ****ing elitest.

I'll play DOOM if I want simplicity.

THE SIMPLE GAMEPLAY is what MAKES Halo, and it is what MAKES it fun.

It's like a movie; Transformers ****ing rocked, but it was so simple, and just a bunch of stuff blowing up. Same idea for Halo.

Or it's like a Uwe Boll movie, where you'd rather spend the day trying to bite your own ear than sit down and watch 5 minutes of it.

The COMBAT is AMAZING. Okay, it blows Half-Life 2 out of the water, it blows Bioshock out of the water in terms of combat (And in FPSes, you tend to be doing combat a lot of the time.) Half-Life 2 and Bioshock combat was horribly repetive and ****ing boring, it was the story that drove those games, and it's the combat that drives Halo.

No, it is not amazing. It is mediocre. No, it doesn't blow HL2 out of the water. It's about a 3rd of what HL2 is. Hl2 deathmatch has so much much more to offer. It's simple deathmatch, mixed with physics as a weapon. Bioshock's gameplay isn't great, but i'd rather play it over Halo 3/2/1. Maybe if they made it strictly for the PC it wouldn't be watered down. You're saying HL2 was repetitive and Halo isn't? Halo is infamous for utter crap level design. There's no denying it.

The Combine in Half-Life 2? Man, don't even get me started. They just kinda stand there, shoot at you and say some radio commands which will trigger more guys to come around the corner and shoot at you. MAYBE, they'll throw a grenade at you, that never happened to me much. Anything else is pretty much scripted.

I saw little or no difference in the AI. Watching Halo 3, there are a lot of "dumb AI" moments. I had LOTS of nades thrown at me, because I used my gravity gun to send them flying back.

The grunts in Halo? Oh man, they're awesome, I come sneaking around the corner, surprise some of those buggers and they run away screaming over to the elites. It really feels like I'm playing against an enemy who feels FEAR.

I'd rather play a game where I fear the enemy. If I wanted a game where the AI feared me, I'll go play Postal. Having an enemy run away from you is not good AI. If you like that, go play Rise of the Triad. They have even more advanced AI where the enemy plays dead!!!

The AI in Halo is amazing, don't use your brain while playing Halo. Just let go of it all, and go around guns-a-blazing, and it'll be fun. The way the AI responds just feels so real. Why? Because the AI has emotion.

I think not using your brain is a common attribute found among most Halo players.

And for the record Halo 2 sucked balls compared to Halo. Halo was, and always will be a great game.

And Halo sucked balls compared to nearly any PC FPS.

It's
not
that
good

 

[Sparta]

And Halo sucked balls compared to nearly any PC FPS.

It's
not
that
good

Nah i wouldn't say that at all. In terms of level design, sure, but the combat or more specifically, the elites, pretty much elevate the game above being just any other FPS to being a really good one.

 

[Uriel]

Nah i wouldn't say that at all. In terms of level design, sure, but the combat or more specifically, the elites, pretty much elevate the game above being just any other FPS to being a really good one.

Shhhh, goto sleep

 

[KagePrototype]

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