Why are people always hating on Halo???
Because it sold cazilions-milions.
Because it's actually good.
Because, in a way, there is a sense of anti-america feeling in some minds, and Halo is US-culture, let's face it.
Because there are some people who are so attached to the "brand" thing that think a uber-success like Halo can threat their needs to have the best system/games.
Because it's from Microsoft and therefore => read first and third sentences.
Because it's a winner, and some people think they get more atention to themselfs by bashing a winner.
miiiguel
Wow.....just wow. Spot the fanboy, thinking it was extremely clever to bring politics into it. Let me tell you something mate, Hollywood and US studios in general account for most of the commercially available movies in the world, Alot of our television shows are US hit shows imported over- House, CSI, Buffy and Angel, Star Trek, Family Guy, South Park, ER, and god knows how many more!! The majority of the celebrity obsessed media follow American movie stars, creating a general interest among general people in American people and American media icons. Killzone, often touted as the Playstation 2s 'Halo Beater' was a game inspired by the US involvement in WWII against the Nazis, and it has far less vitriol aimed at it. Command and Conquer is another classic US war culture icon, with the GDI using almost exclusively US Armed Forces equipment, weaponry and Vehicles. Saying Halo is widely hated because it is somehow intrinsicly tied to US culture is like saying Call of Duty 4 is popular because you get to play in Multiplayer as Insurgents and kill American and British forces.....it's a horrible, sweeping, disgusting generalisation.
On a sidenote here, just to show how ridiculous the words you've said are, Captain America is one of the most popular comic lines in the world, if not the most.....and you don't get any more American than that.....your point is irrelevant and frankly hugely insulting to every single intelligent human out there that it is aimed at.
Also, and this is the most laughable thing about your rant, you're accusing gamers of rejecting a good game for being a good game!!! Are you out of your mind? Are you on Crystal Meth?! Are you doing some sort of mind altering chemical, or are you just that misguided as to think that gamers, people who spend hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars and pounds and Euros a year on this industry are deliberately hating on a game that is good, just to piss people off?!! This is the most ridiculous statement I think I've witnessed on this site.
Your post attempts to belittle and step on every intelligent criticism of Halo that has ever been given by any critic with what you've just said, and I fully, completely and totally reject your post as nothing more than the incoherent ramblings of someone who thinks he knows better than the people who happen to differ in opinion to yourself.
Let me ask you, what do you know of what others feel if you can miss the mark so heavily and completely? Halo, and I'll use your exact wording so you can understand it, 'can threat their needs to have the best system/games.' First off, it's 'threaten' and second off, you're posting that on an X-Box 360 forum. I own only the 360, it's already by many's opinions the superior games machine due largely to strong first party software and better programmed third party software. That's without counting Halo into the equation, the 360 was doing great without Halo, it's still doing great with new third party titles. (Infact, it's doing much better now that GTA 4 is out.)
I think you'll find the vast majority of people here own the 360 (Hence why they're posting on the 360 forum.), and alot of those players would have played Halo. Halo is a very divisive game, a 'Flawed Diamond' I think is the term a Freelance journalist writing for MSN.com's games section coined this week- a game so divisive that it can split people right down the middle into 'Love it' and 'Hate it.'
This is going to be a controversial opinion, but I feel it's one people share- but to my mind, this divisiveness makes Halo fall into the 'Flawed Diamond' category along with the likes of Bioshock and Assasin's Creed among others. Okay, maybe that's not the most popular opinion thats ever been expressed, but when you look at the sheer divisiveness of all of the above, it makes a little more sense. It's Halo's commercial success however, and not it's popular opinion that has managed to put it where it is today, in the top five in terms of 360 sales.
Maybe you weren't aiming that post in general here, but as a gamer, and as someone who knows what he likes and likes what he knows, I find your comments insulting to the core, because what you're doing is insulting the Gamers right to choose.....you talk as though this game has a right to be at the top of the pile, the top of everyone's list- but you've ommited the choice, the intrinsic reason why gamers are so interesting, their ability to choose what they like, and not only explain, but also fight the bit out as to why. No game is the be-all-and-end-all, there will always be people that dislike a game. Your opinion as to what you like does not give you the right to wholesale bash anyone whose opinion differs from yours, it's perfectly Okay to let people know what and why you like a game, but the second you bash the who because they've made a different informed decision, you shoot yourself in the foot, and make yourself look bad.
Just to close off, I think the sheer divisiveness of the topic is proof positive that not everyone agrees with the assumption that Halo is the fantastic, epic sage we're sometimes led to believe, but conversely, it's not the dredge through raw 5 year old sewerage that others seem to think. in the end, it is a divisive series, and that'll be the main adjective I'll apply to the series from this point forward.
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