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H.B.M.C. wrote: and limited the amount of weapons we could cary (hooray for arbitrary restrictions!).
Yes Because it makes since to be able to carry a pistol,rpg,shotgun, ak-47 and well you get my drift.
Know you guys may just say that this is stupid fanboyism speaking But it aint.
Halo was A GREAT GAME.
1: The story. It has on of the best storys around and is set inside an infinatly expandable universe
2: The game play set a standerd of all fps after it.
3: The Main character. He is the badassest main chracter ever(better then duke nukem)
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
H.B.M.C. wrote: and limited the amount of weapons we could cary (hooray for arbitrary restrictions!).
Yes Because it makes since to be able to carry a pistol,rpg,shotgun, ak-47 and well you get my drift.
Know you guys may just say that this is stupid fanboyism speaking But it aint.
Halo was A GREAT GAME.
1: The story. It has on of the best storys around and is set inside an infinatly expandable universe
2: The game play set a standerd of all fps after it.
3: The Main character. He is the badassest main chracter ever(better then duke nukem)
If you aren't being a fanboy then you are at least throwing out some poorly thought out points...Your spelling seems rushed as well.
I do agree that being able to carry dozens of weapons doesn't make sense. I personally like this mechanic.
The story is generic sci-fi fare. Interesting enough to make the game playable but I wouldn't call it great.
The gameplay set no standards as far as I can tell. FPS are still FPS and Halo didn't add anything particularly new.
What Halo did add was the co-op campaign, which was great and Halo 3 really expanded on this by adding 4 player co-op over any combination of Live/Split Screen/LAN. Co-Op is something that has been increasingly important in many games, so Halo certainly helped there. I think it was the first console FPS I played cooperatively. Of course PCFPS have had the market cornered on online/lan multiplayer for some time. Halo 2 showed CONSOLE online multiplayer could be a smashing success.
I do think the success of Halo helped with a resurgence in popularity of FPS on consoles. Note I'm not saying it made console FPS popular, but made it popular again. Goldeneye and particularly Perfect Dark were great successes on a console prior to Halo.
Also it takes more than a cool character to make a good game, let alone a decent game. And your opinion on Master Chief being cool is quite subjective.
Thanks for playing though.
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Are you kidding? Duke Nukem is way better than Master Chief. He doesn't need fancy MJOLNIR armour or genetic enhancements; he's got balls of steel and abs like rock. He's a womanising, muscular, badass manly man. Just listen to his one liners.
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and he's all out of gum.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I was just trolling with the duke nukem. I cant say anything bad about him or good sinece all i know about him is his name. But i still think halo is a great fps and will always. And ill admit i am objective.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
garret wrote:I was just trolling with the duke nukem.
I cant say anything bad about him or good sinece all i know about him is his name.
But i still think halo is a great fps and will always.
And ill admit i am objective.
I just hope you're spelling like this on purpose too.
Waagh! Lagduf Sons of Vulkan Cadian Mountain Division
garret wrote:I was just trolling with the duke nukem.
I cant say anything bad about him or good sinece all i know about him is his name.
But i still think halo is a great fps and will always.
And ill admit i am objective.
I just hope you're spelling like this on purpose too.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I think it may very well be the funnest/hardest halo game of them all. I'm sick of having to play on matchmaking in halo 3 all day because even legendary is a tad too easy. It's probably going to be a much more strategic game with a lot of dodging the enemy to get to the main objective, not just, "OK men, since we have the master chief, instead of sneaking around the 500 brutes lets go and blow up as many as we can with our Assault rifles and hope that even though we all die the master chief makes it through!"
Dracos wrote:Codex does not override rulebook. Specific rules (generally those found in codex tend to be more specific) override general rules in case of conflict.
orkishlyorkish wrote:I think it may very well be the funnest/hardest halo game of them all. I'm sick of having to play on matchmaking in halo 3 all day because even legendary is a tad too easy. It's probably going to be a much more strategic game with a lot of dodging the enemy to get to the main objective, not just, "OK men, since we have the master chief, instead of sneaking around the 500 brutes lets go and blow up as many as we can with our Assault rifles and hope that even though we all die the master chief makes it through!"
Did you ever try getting the skulls on Halo 3? Find the 'Iron' skull, turn it on, put the campaign on Legendary, and I bet you will be begging for matchmaking by the end of it.
As far as the Halo series goes, the first one was great. It got me hooked. I could have done without Halo 2. Halo 3 was a great ending to the video game series. The Halo universe is awesome as well. Sure it fits into the stereotypical 'scifi' genre, but hey, I like it.
Halo is a decent enough series. Great for some system link with friends, but I generally find the Xbox Live component to be a bit much. It can be fun for a while, but the morons you tend to play with get old. I must say, the amount that you can change maps and such through forge and different game types is really nice. My friends and I play a great variant of infection called 28 Days Later that features very fast zombies with no shields (survivors get rather limited weapons). It's awesome.
ODST? I don't know. I'll play it because someone I know will buy it. If I like it, I'll buy it once the price goes down. Like I do with any 360 game. Hence why I just now bought Fable 2 (which I love).
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Sanctjud wrote:It's not just lame... it's Twilight Blood Angels Nipples Lame.
Okay, I will assume that garret was just a wee lad when he was introduced to halo, probably 7. I personally thought that the first red faction kicked Halo's arse. I mean the ability to make holes in just about anything beats a limited cache of weapons and lack of a health bar. BTW Parker beats Master Chief.
Also, Kratos beats Master Chief, Duke Nukem beats Master Chief, and just about anyone with a gun or two fists can beat Master Chief.
The only thing Halo truly did for the FPS genre was make it look pretty.
feth any form of story or single player mode, just want the new fething maps allready
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.
garret wrote:1: The story. It has on of the best storys around and is set inside an infinatly expandable universe
2: The game play set a standerd of all fps after it.
3: The Main character. He is the badassest main chracter ever(better then duke nukem)
I'm sorry, but I had to step in here.
I like Halo, but everything you mentioned here has to be addressed because there was very little about Halo that wasn't Bungie rehashing what it did 10+ years earlier with a little FPS game for the Mac named Marathon(Marathon was about a Cyborg running around killing aliens that were wiping out humanity while having to listen to an AI, with many of the exact same play features, minus shields and vehicles). Bungie even acknowledged this within Halo by lacing Marathon references and laying groundwork supporting that Halo is in fact nothing but a Marathon prequel series(not only that, but there's evidence that the hero in Marathon is actualy Spartan 117).
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