Why All The Halo Hate?

I hate the single player, the multiplayer, however, isn't too bad. I don't play it much anymore, maybe once every few weeks. The reason I don't really like it too much, is because I played games like the Time Splitters series, which is my fav, and those were a lot more fast paced, there was a lot better game types, a lot more weapons, and a lot of characters to play as.

The single player doesn't appeal to me because it's like the same thing throughout, i mean, the biggest variety is fighting grunts and brutes or fighting the flood. I mean, even Time Splitters 2 had stealth and stuff I could do. And Time Splitterrs had something MORE than just a campaign, the arcade mode, which was awesome.

But I think basically the real reason I don't like it is that the campaign doesnt have much variety, there isn't much different ways to go about things.

Im obsessed with halo 3! But I never played halo 1 or 2 but 3 is great!

Is the kind of thing that I hear a lot and I dunno it's all anyone ever talks about....I don't care what headshot you got with a BR and no I don't want to see it in instant replay over and over. It was good when halo 3 came out...I mean everyone was excited but the bar was set too high. In fact a lot of first person shooters really aren't that great...the supposed great shooters like CoD4 is built on old style creation of difficulty (the higher the difficulty the more people pile out of a small shack) and don't even include ragdolls and then there's Bioshock that isn't even really a shooter by any means. It's more of an action/adventure game with shooting tacked on.

I think the best shooter that came out during that time was Crysis. Period....yeah it was the next thing computer nuts want to max out the graphics on but....hey it's a good looking game even on medium detail. I can only imagine how amazing it'd be on full detail. The thing that was nice about it was it had intense moments of huge firefights that you almost feel the rush of air as a bullet wizzes by and the fact I wasn't done with the game after beating it. There's so many ways to tackle the missions especially the earlier levels. Halo 3 I really didn't feel like playing single player again except to see the Scarab blow up but course that got old quick too. Anyways...intense shooter goes to crysis...the first time u have a grenade blow up right above you on the roof of a shack you're standing under and have the screen black out and hear probably the most amazingly realistic explosion and after effects and then realize...holy sh!t roof fell in! Yeah...Crysis is way better.

Edit: main thing is....(if you can't figure out by reading) is that the reason for the halo hate is because there are better shooters out there. Halo is mediocre at best.

...the reason for the halo hate is because there are better shooters out there. Halo is mediocre at best.

xanisk89

That's a fair statement concerning Halo 3. I'm not sure if you meant to indict Halo 3 there or the entire series. When Halo: Combat Evolved came out, it was positively ground-breaking. I'd be interested to see a gamer come up with anything better that was released in 2001.

All the Halo hate comes from the PS3 fanboys trying to make it out as a bad game.leperphiliac

what are you talking about ?

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...the reason for the halo hate is because there are better shooters out there. Halo is mediocre at best.

Palantas

That's a fair statement concerning Halo 3. I'm not sure if you meant to indict Halo 3 there or the entire series. When Halo: Combat Evolved came out, it was positively ground-breaking. I'd be interested to see a gamer come up with anything better that was released in 2001.

QFT

All the Halo hate comes from the PS3 fanboys trying to make it out as a bad game.leperphiliac

exactly.

In my opinion, and again this is my opinion.
It's slower pace then most other FPS, large clunky slow guy, along with the lack of sprint make for sub par action.The fact that the single player story is very lack luster.
Generic basic FPS online games don't give much reason to play the game when you can play it with better options on other games.
Only reason I play it really is because I bought it, and want some of the gamer score it owes me :Alan1187

Completely agree with that.