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The One Most Overrated Game of All Time

Date: 2008-06-07

Author: Rafael Gamboa

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   Halo. Everyone is familiar with this gaming phenomenon, and everyone seems to have nothing but praise for this apparently revolutionary shooter. It sells as if it had been forged by a limited supply of solid God and was guaranteed to provide full-body orgasms lasting hours. Master Chief has been carried up the Mount Olympus of gaming by the critical community on a palanquin of perfect 10s to stand alongside other legends like Mario, Link, and Sonic.

Halo, in my infuriated opinion, is the most overrated and undeserving game series of all time.

   Maybe it's because when I heard that Microsoft was going to make a video game console, a significant portion of my soul turned black, never to regain its former luster. Maybe it's because every experience I've had playing Halo was with friends who were better than me only because they owned the game and not because they were gamers (which they inevitably weren't). Maybe it's because the game is more mainstream than greed and boy bands circa 1998, and my elitist games-as-art streak simply can't handle that. Maybe those are the reasons why I just can't seem to bask in the glory that is the Halo wet dream.

   Maybe.

   Or maybe it's because the game is more unbalanced than a cross-eyed toddler, offers no distinguishing features that separate it from the universes and capabilities of any other FPS, has a completely generic and unrewarding single player campaign, and boasts the most annoying and repulsive online community the world has ever seen.

   Halo 3 screenshot Let me address some of the backlash I can already hear coming:

   "Yeah, the single player isn't all that, but it's a multiplayer game and the multiplayer is teh awesome! XBOX Live roxors!"

   First off, if it's a multiplayer game, then why they hell did they bother with a single player campaign? Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer game that doesn't glue-stick in some hackneyed generic plot for you to slog through because it felt like it had to obey some arcane genre strictures. TF2 gives you a straight shoot-em-up multiplayer experience that is one of the most intense, well-balanced, and engrossing in a long, long time. There are things that annoy me about TF2, to be sure, but those are more personal preference issues and not issues of poor design on the part of the Valve team. So why didn't Bungie do something similar with Halo, since it obviously cared more about multiplayer than the single player campaign they put half the effort into?

   Secondly, if the single player is mediocre at best, then why the hell is the game getting perfect 10s?!?

   "Wat r u talking about? Halo has lotz of distinguishing featurez!"

   There's nothing innovative in Halo. Absolutely nothing. Anything that Halo feels proud of has been done before, and often better. Dual wielding? Goldeneye 007 did it in special circumstances, and Perfect Dark did it standard. Vehicles in multiplayer? Unreal Tournament, and those vehicles are cooler. Master Chief? The whole taciturn hero thing has been done many times before with more memorable and interesting characters (Gordan Freeman is the obvious example), and the only thing that keeps Master Chief from looking like every other space marine from Starcraft to Warhammer 40,000 is the fact that his power suit boasts a helmet with a cute little brim over the visor. Mixing up elements from previous distinguished games and then failing to improve these elements in any significant fashion does not make a game innovative.

   Halo 3 screenshot I mean, really, what about Halo is so new and different? Yes, Halo 3 allows you to record your multiplayer outings for future perusal and YouTube posting--which is quite nice, but it has nothing to do with gameplay. The Covenant weapons, though interesting designs, are never implemented in ways that are as interesting or as useful as the Maian and Skedar weapons in Perfect Dark. Heck, the human weapons don't match up well with that eight-year-old game. Perfect Dark even manages to outclass Halo's infamous sticky grenades, in that all manner of mines (timed, proxy, or remote) can be stuck onto a person for loads of fun.

   Oh, the weapons. This brings me to the problem of game balance, which for me was the fatal flaw in Halo. After having played for a couple of days, I came to realize that I wasn't losing so horrifically because I was a bad tactician or bad at shooters. I was losing for two reasons: 1) Somebody had a sniper rifle, and 2) bad respawns. Good lord, does this series have awful respawns! You don't even get a single measly second of invincibility to compensate for being placed right in death's merry path. I remember playing Halo 2, dying, and then remaining out of the game for the next twenty seconds as I died six times in a row without being able to take more than three steps. Of course, the respawns wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the goddamned sniper rifles.

   If you've ever played Halo, you know how good the sniper rifles are. They're supposed to be ineffective at close range, but we all know that's a fib. If you don't have a sniper rifle and someone else does, you're SOL until you get one for yourself. Unlike any other good FPS, any weapon that isn't a sniper rifle, sticky grenade, or beam sword is about as worthless as a mace made of toothpicks held together with old mayonnaise. Until you get your hands on any one of those three weapons, you might as well be running around furiously blowing bubbles. But at the very least, the sticky grenade and the beam sword have mitigating factors. Both can get guaranteed kills, but you have to get good at throwing to use the sticky grenades and you have to be up close and personal to use the sword.

   Halo 3 screenshot The sniper rifle has absolutely no mitigating factors. The fact that it has a four-bullet magazine never makes a difference, because in every other aspect the gun is perfect. In fact, it barely even resembles a sniper rifle. Sniper rifles are supposed to bestow the benefits of long range and precision accuracy in exchange for high recoil, low rates of fire, small magazines, longer reload times, and complete uselessness at short range and in tight spaces. Since most games can't replicate reality, some of these features are often represented abstractly. Sometimes you can't move and shoot at the same time, sometimes turning to look is much slower, etc.

   Halo's sniper rifle can be shot while running, jumping, or falling out of a vehicle from calamitous heights, and in any of those situations can be fired at full zoom without suffering any penalty to accuracy. You could be spinning like a top and the bullets you fire will still go directly to the spot your crosshairs were pointing at the moment you pulled the trigger. Not only that, but the bullets themselves can penetrate at least three helmeted heads and still have the momentum to traverse the entire real estate of the level without ever once changing trajectory. These bullets can also ricochet twice and still have enough killing power for a one-hit kill.

   The extreme deadliness of the sniper rifle is compounded by the extreme vulnerability of your power armor encased head. Halo is the only game I know of where you can get fragged by a flying traffic cone to the noggin. Or, for that matter, by getting bopped in the face by a flying corpse's knee. If Halo's physics engine and damage system had been placed in FIFA, half your team would be lying dead on the field before half-time because they all stupidly thought they could safely hit a ball with their head. Hell, maybe everybody would be dead by then, seeing as they don't even have the dubious benefit of Master Chief's helmet.

   In the course of three games, none of these egregious flaws have ever been addressed. The games are broken, and yet they still garner incredible critical acclaim. What the hell they see in the Halo series, I have no idea. All I know is that I'd much rather be shooting rebars from a crossbow in Half-Life 2, manhandling a Farsight in Perfect Dark, dual-wielding golden guns in GoldenEye 007, and absorbing the recoil from a .50 caliber sniper rifle in Rainbow Six for my one-hit kills, since they actually require skill, tactics, and battlefield awareness. The frat boys can have Halo, for all I care. I don't need overpowered weapons blowing away heads made of cotton candy to make myself feel more manly in a game.

- Rafael Gamboa



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On Sat, Jun 7, 2008, 06:26 PM Ken said:

I think the problem can be traced back to Microsoft HQ being built over an ancient temple and Bill Gates' pledging of his soul to dark forces.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:23 AM Lysithix said:

You dont suck at all, you are whining about the easiest game EVER, if you can't deal with a damn sniper rifle you can't strafe, sell your Xbox, gtfo the internet, and die a lonely death with your pokemon games.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:45 AM Jim said:

You dont suck at all, you are whining about the easiest game EVER
It's true, games without any sort of challenge are really fun...especially the bit where any beginner can pick up one of the better weapons and beat the hardcore gamers. Awesome replay factor right? :/

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:47 AM Anon said:

Lysithix seems to clearly prove the point about the horrid online community. I agree that is game is given way more credit than it ever will deserve, and I doubt that the problems Rafael mentioned will ever go away. But I have to give Halo one thing... it keeps the dregs of society away from the good online shooters.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:25 AM lolol WUT said:

halo CE revolutionized Console shooters as we know them now, and halo 2 revolutionized the online party and matchmaking system on Xbox live.  THATS why its so critically acclaimed.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:00 AM sodalis said:

I agree with your assessment of the sniper rifle. You failed to add the B-X-R. (Melee, cancel, fire) Insta-kill if deployed with full mag using the Battle Rifle.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:12 AM Shane said:

I dont play much Halo, but I think its not bad. I think your blatant hatred of Microsoft's console is odd. To completely deny the merit of any system is ungamer-like. Sega CD, that was a terrible console... add on thing, but I had one.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:17 AM This guy said:

you make several good points, including the one about you being elitist... but the sniper rifle isn't really all that--- if you hit some one while they're scoping the go back to normal zoom, - combinations of weapons can be very bad ass. - I haven't had the experience of (excessive) bad respawns except on CTF or bomb type games - and you always want to spawn near your own base then any way ....
i do like the single player campaign - I read a review about halo and i found i agreed with it- Its about pacing - You make progress without it feeling too easy -- i really enjoyed all of the vids - but come on -- these are not fair examples- bring me 500 vids of triple kill  sniper shots -- a LOT of ppl play this game - freak shit is going to happen --
Okay Xbox live is full of the lowest of the low--- no arguments there - but the matchmaking system is pretty good -- i never feel like the host is godzilla like with some games-
thanks for the good read...

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:34 AM \zx\ said:

well done fuck face im gonna come cut ur nigga face cos ur so shit and stupid  


On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:41 AM elfo said:

Halo - the most overrated shooter since the dawn of gaming. Seriously. What did it do well? [i]It was on a console[/i]. As far as gameplay goes, dozens of games had been doing exactly what Halo was doing for a decade on the PC.

I completely agree with the article.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:53 AM That guy said:

-You can change game settings before a multiplayer game to allow spawn protection, and most online games offer this anyway (your friends' fault for not turning it on)
-If you can't dodge sniper fire, learn to play properly. Running in a straight line isn't going to protect you
-Vehicles weren't introduced to the UT series until the 2004 version; the first Halo game was released in 2001.

Also, if you don't like the game, don't play it. You mentioned something about not liking some aspects of TF2 because of personal preference, and then claim that you don't like Halo because of some absolute, objective reasons - and yet people disagree with you. It's all personal preference when it comes to games. Stop being an elitist prick.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:56 AM That guy said:

Me again, forgot something:

The single player campaign for the original Halo game was amazing. The story line was excellent and the gameplay never got boring. You could finish the game, and then play it again on a harder difficulty, and it would still be exciting.

The later Halo editions improved on this. Playing the co-op campaign for Halo 3 on the hardest difficulty is really something.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:25 AM Anomie said:

While I am by no means a halo fan boy, I think that it really does do a few things right. There are some shortcomings, as with any game, and it obviously didnt deserve a 10, but it seems like you have some kind of vendetta against the game besides it being mediocre and overrated.

For starters, it has some of the most natural controls of a console FPS, which is hard to pull off. The auto aim is just powerful enough to keep you in control while not making the game a joke. One of my complaints with console FPSing is that no one can find an appropriate balance in auto aim sensitivity, and Halo now sets the standard for me.

Most importantly, for me, is that Halo has some of the most satisfying co op play in any game. The 4 player co op, combined with the ability to play on insane difficulty levels due to skull options, make for replayability, even if you only have a friend or two to play with. Nothing like taking a break with my brother and blasting some aliens.

Halo may not do anything completely new or exciting, but it takes the important elements from other FPSs and does them better. There is a reason that it is used as the bench mark for FPS console gaming, and that is because it is a well rounded game.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine, but it seems as if you take a certain satisfaction in being a "rebel", and are superior to us drones who cant think for ourselves. Maybe you should lighten up a little. Its only a game. Don't play it if you don't like it, but don't complain about balance and gameplay mechanics until you have played enough to actually be good at the game.

I understand that it can be frustrating playing against a veteran online community, and you feel completely powerless when you first jump in. The same is true for any game. You cant jump into Splintercell fo an hour, and then complain that the mercs are OP because you happen to be facing people who have been playing the game for years. You cant jump into World of Warcraft and expect to be on par with people who have been PVPing for years (even assuming equal gear etc). Hell, you cant even jump into Call of Duty 4 (one of the best balanced FPSs so far), and expect  to outclass the veterans.

Its the same case with Halo. You obviously dont like it, so you havent spent enough time playing to be good. Im sure you could be good at it if you cared to play it, but thats not the case. Thats perfectly fine. What is not fine is complaining about balance issues when you dont truely have the skill to determine if a weapon is overpowered, or if you just made a mistake.

I hope this doesnt come across as condescending or harsh, but the trend of new bloggers and reviewers attacking popular games is getting kind of tiresome. They feel it lends them credibility, as they arent blinded by the glitter and hype like the rest of us, but in all honesty it often leads them to be overly critical. We really only need one Yahtzee.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:27 AM Plank said:

So what frat are you bros in?

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:29 AM adam said:

Yeah, that's all great, but it's still a fun game.

Everything considered, i love Half-Life 2 and Counter Strike and Team Fortress and Unreal and all the other hallmark shooters and multiplayer games, but every now and then I like just playing a simple, fun, mindless game. And I don't know about your experiences with it, but it's always been fun for me, and I consider myself a pretty experienced player in FPS games.

It can be easy or difficult; the single player is rewarding, fun, and replayable; the multiplayer is exciting and just customizable and inviting enough that it makes playing with almost anyone a good time.

The thing is, I don't really give a crap which game innovated what first, and I don't mind that it didn't revolutionize first person gaming; I never played it for that reason.

It's like attacking a Die Hard movie because of a bad plot: we didn't come to the theater looking for an avant-garde, groundbreaking film. Some people just like explosions and punching sound effects every now and then. We still watch better movies afterwards; we just like a break now and then.

And there's nothing shameful in admitting that as long as you stop taking yourself so fucking seriously - cause it's just entertainment.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:43 AM james said:

this article is spot on. halo is a CRAP game. if you want awesome TF2, CoD4 or unreal, they are all much better than halo. jesus all weapons need have recoil, but apaprently in halo they DONT. wtf is up with that

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:53 AM Dapipminmonkey said:

Your slight rant about the sniper rifles seems to be a load of shit, you complained that your character is capable of running, jumping, falling all while holding/aiming/firing a sniper rifle?  Take in to account the back story on your character, he's a super soldier, not only wearing a kick ass, extremely sensitive armor, but also, Master Chief is genetically enhanced.  Don't you think that would be a completely legitimate answer as to why that's possible.

Furthermore, my friend who hardly games at all and had never played Halo 3 started playing as my guest a few months back.  We played one day a week for roughly 3 hours switching in and out with another friend.  Granted the first time he sucked balls, but after he played a short while he got better.  This actually happened quite fast after the third week he wasn't the lowest scorer in the game.  After the fifth week we were constantly taking the highest scores of the game.  Halo isn't that hard if you'd quit your bitching and actually try to play for a few moments.

As to Halo's campaign mode, for me, it's practice.  Set the difficulty to legendary, turn on some of the skulls and try to survive.  Going from that to half retarded 12 year olds isn't so bad.

Finally, Halo is an excellent game because you can simply pick it up and just play.  There's no complications to finding a simple game and fragging the hell out of it.  With Halo, i don't feel like I have to dedicate a few hours to it if I really want to play, if i want to play a single match, then that's all there is to it...

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:03 AM GoogleyMoogley said:

This comment contains no facts or real basis, that having been said.
Halo Blows, plain and simple, their is a cult following and as with many cult games they have and will stay alive much longer than they should.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:05 AM Kalga said:

This article is perfect. I agree with Every. Single. Word.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:20 AM Jon said:

I agree that the Halo series isn't quite as worthy of the position of one of the best FPS games ever made.
However i do understand the re-playability of it. You used TF2 to compare it to, but I personally find TF2 to be a complete pain to play, I really like it, and it's definately different compared to other FPS games, but whenever i hae played TF2 it's mostly just been a case of *spawn, run, die* for me. I may jsut suck at the game, but that's how it plays for me most of the time.
Your complaint about the sniper rifle is the thing I don't really udnerstand. Yes it is a good weapon in the game...but it is hard to use, considering how erratically a lot of players will move around, especially when they realise they are being watched. When you hurt someone who is scoped, they become unscoped. You have to be good to get a headshot every time.
If anything the msot over-powered and unbalanced weapon of the game has to be the plasma sword. Whenever someone has hold of it they instantly have control of the game.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:36 AM Maku said:

If I could give you a pat on the back, it'd be the best pat on the back you ever received. :D

Oh, and if you want to review a game with bad damn community, try Gunz: The Duel. *shudders* I get called a noob every three seconds.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:52 AM sam said:

i couldn't agree with this article more... the entire game is just bland, i don't understand what it revolutionised?
console multiplayer fps? did any of you play goldeneye 64?
halo is only popular because hordes of microsoft fanboys found that they had one exclusive game on the old xbox... and hyped it up something huge...
it's a conspiracy i tells ya

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:05 AM rob s said:

i only needed to read the title before i knew that you were wrong.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:09 AM dred said:

ok, i wanted to be on your side at first but...your wrong! YOU ARE A PANSY ASS GOOD FOR NOTHING DONT GIVE A SHIT DOUCHEBAG!!!!!
If you cant live with the fact that your new at a game and arnt good yet, you dont deserve to call yourself a gamer!!! Yah, i sucked at halo at first, but if you keep playing you get better!!Now im a god!!

P.S. While you suck at halo, and are getting better, its always fun to just mess around, try betraying!

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:18 AM Ephemeriis said:

I'll be honest with you, I enjoyed Halo's single-player storyline.  I've never done the multi-player.  But one of the main reasons I enjoyed the single-player is pure nostalgia.

I used to be a Mac gamer, back when that wasn't quite as oxymoronic as it is these days...  And I used to love the Marathon games.  And Halo plays just like a polished-up modern day remake of the Marathon games. 

Slight storyline modifications, sure...but not a whole lot.  Instead of playing an un-named cyborg security officer you're the Master Chief.  Instead of an AI named Durandal leading you around you've got an AI named Cortana.  Instead of the Pfhor you've got the Covenant. 

Dual-wielding?  Marathon had it.  Engaging storyline?  Marathon had it.  An enemy that corrupted your human friends and turned them into monsters to attack you?  Marathon had it.  Hell...Marathon Infinity even had a ring-shaped station that had to be detonated to keep an ancient evil from escaping its prison!

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:46 AM Jonathan said:

The whole premise of this article is flawed.

Yahtzee is the most overrated game of all time. You roll dice. That's it. $15 for a cup and five dice.

As for Halo, no matter how many flaws and shortcomings it has, you can't argue with success.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:28 AM Mark said:

Wait a minute...  Halo 3 has the worst online game experience?  I'm sorry but that's a bit off.  I have yet to play an online game that isn't full of idiots.  Halo 3's online community is horrible, no question there.  But what games are you guys playing that are free of 12 year olds telling you that you suck and that they did your mom?  Seriously.  I would like to play these games. 

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:40 AM jigga said:


On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:45 AM Raymond Bray said:

I have been saying Halo is overrated since the first one came out.The point is not that it sucks ,but that it truly is not revolutionary in any way. I.E. the overrated status. It only seems groundbreaking to people who hadnt seen this type of gameplay before. Being a PC gamer i had already played games with everything Halo has and more. UT was mentioned , but as someone pointed out that game didnt have vehicles untill after Halo. The game that really innovated the multiplayer battles with vehicles is Tribes 2. It is still more innovative than Halo even though its ancient by game standards and its still more fun. The console fanboys just dont know what they missed, so there happy with a mediocre game like Halo. Dont get me wrong i had a good time with the single player on Halo. They truely did a good job putting together a solid FPS. Its just that its not as great when you have seen and played everything it has to offer already. So once again the Halo doesnt suck. Its just overrated. They say ignorance is bliss

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:46 AM jigga said:

the halo series is the best, without a doubt. Your talk of bad respawns, is largely irrelevant except on a FEW maps (last resort enemies spawn behind you on the beach sometimes when your near the sniper) You say the sniper, sword, and sticky grenades are the only three useful weapons... sword SUCKS in halo 3, you forgot the battle rifle, shotgun, carbine, and also the assault rifle is plenty good

garbage review of h3

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:49 AM Chief said:

This article is completely true. In almost every single way. Everyone who flames this article should be named "the 8 year old fag who thinks they are the best player ever."

And guess why there is 8 year olds playing Halo 3? Bad parenting.

Back to the topic at hand, I quit Halo 3 after the the Heroic pack, but before the Legendary pack. Reason? There is no balance in the weapons. It just plain sucks, really.

Comparing with TF2, it takes A LOT more skill, and is BALANCED. Seriously. You have to counter one class with another.

But still, Halo 3 is all about the weapons, and since the weapons are not balanced, the game requires no skill.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 12:13 PM Rafael Gamboa said:

#1: I know how to strafe. Everybody knows how to strafe, especially people who grew up playing Goldeneye. Strafing is not the problem.

#2: I know how to get good at games. Everybody knows how to get good at games, and that's with practice. Practicing is not the problem. Obviously, you can practice the shit out of a game and become a master regardless of how good or how awful the game is.

The problem is that this game is relentlessly mediocre. It's not terrible, or nobody would play it. It's simply mediocre, and that mediocrity does not alleviate what I consider to be major game balance issues. To people who love to power game, a strict hierarchy of weapon deadliness fits perfectly with their method of playing, which is to simply collect the best weapons and items and then proceed to conquer. Sure, there is always room for skill, but the point is that somebody who has a sniper rifle has the cards stacked in his/her favor by a long shot.

Obviously, I'm not expecting a pistol to be as deadly as a sniper rifle. That's stupid. What I am expecting is for all the weapons to be effective in their own right. When two shots to the chest from a sniper rifle can do what thirty rounds to the chest from an assault rifle cannot, I would consider that a major balance issue.

"\zx\ said:

well done fuck face im gonna come cut ur nigga face cos ur so shit and stupid"

If your mastery of cutting faces is anything like your mastery of language, I'm not worried in the least.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 12:18 PM Lexx said:

WOW can you guess which comment posters are Xbox Fanboys? lol.
 I've thought the Halo series was overrated from the first one, i played through the game for many hours and it just felt like a chore but i kept playing it because of the high marks it was given by respected reviewers and i thought to myself "i must be missing something" or "it's going to get great in a second!" but alas no.

Halo is an adverage shooter at best with so many PC fps games (Single or online Multi) doing everything good it does better and they have been doing so for alot longer.
Edge magazine in the UK gave Halo and Halo 3 their highest mark 10/10 which they have only given out about 9 times in the last 15 years and i seriously considered stopping my subscription to the mag both times after playing these games and just KNEW they were payed off by Micro$oft to give those scores. NO WAY IN HELL is the Halo series worth even 10% of the hype it gets.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 12:41 PM Anonymous said:

You, sir, are a genius.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 12:47 PM Anonymous said:

hey in the end it's just a game...

what you're saying about the weapons is clearly a personal hatred of taking a head shot from 3 miles away, I'll admit the range on the thing is pretty extreme... but you're lack of understanding of master chief and his armour sort of labels you as someone who needs to do a bit more research...  Master Chief is a super human, in a suit in which he doesn't actually physically move, he thinks it; the suit moves for him, so why would he think he'd need wobble on his crosshairs??? he just thinks up down left right, squeeze trigger, no arm wobble involved...

and taking a round to the head kills master chief because the specs for that sniper rifle are insane, the bullets is like 15 cm long... even with his energy shields the shock would probably break his neck...

and the weapons are fairly balanced, admittedly there are the super weapons: sniper rifle, spartan laser, energy sword etc... the aim of slayer games is to control these weapons, each can be countered....

the sniper rifle is useless against someone with nerves of steel and a battle rifle at medium range, and blows moose testicles against something like a pair of SMG's or Spikers point blank... the infamous no scope head shot is most often more luck than skill... 

the Energy sword will teabag you in the face at close range: solution: don't get close, it's not that hard...  but even then I've beaten down an opponent sword lunging me after a few rounds to the head... it's just a way of tackling an opponent...

the weapons are there to counter each other... the classes that you boast of in TF2 I find restricting, I played it for a while and found the learning curve to be like running headlong into a wall... with spikes on... with Halo the weapons counter each other, meaning the classes are only who's good at using which weapons, I mean it's perfectly plausible for someone on Halo to practice constantly with a Pair of Magnums and just win almost constantly with them, until someone kills him from long range... so there's always a counter to the weapon you're using...

in the same way someone could practice on TF2 until the cows come home as a sniper... and then get raped by a heavy...  and the thing is that Heavy will almost always rape that sniper... in halo that sniper can be packing a shotgun as well, allowing him to fight back in a much fairer way rather than absorbing 500 rounds from a chaingun...  weapon choice is a skill too, so saying halo requires no skill is the same as saying that that heavy slapping around that poor sniper does require skill??? sort of an ant against an elephant really, I don't think it involves that much skill...

All in all halo wasn't revolutionary... it was by far one of the best CONSOLE shooters to be made, but it wasn't revolutionary it just took a lot of what made other games good and put it's own spin on them...

anyone can pick up halo and play it for a week and be acceptably good at it...  so theres no foul learning curve like with some other shooters...  it's not that amazing a game, but it is easy to pick up, with good controls, a physics engine that generates some hilarious outtakes (come on you have to admit you laughed when you got killed by a flying traffic cone???) and an online community that blows goats, but still for the few days I put up with the classes on TF2 no one spoke a word to me, at least on halo people are more vocal, even if it is only to question your parentage...

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:00 PM The Phantom Linker said:

Oh, so Co-Op was one of the defining features of the Halo series then? A feature that made single player a novel and entertaining experience. Where the heck was it for the PC users? Pulled out because they couldn't understand how to get it to work, despite the fact that the PC has been capable of handling Co-Op based campaigns since DOOM!

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:12 PM GrinMan said:

alright, I'm not the biggest Halo fan but I couldn't let one glaring error in your logic slide by.

You compared Halo to TF2. Yes, while both of these games are advertised for the online multi-player, but Halo couldn't be sold as just the online multi-player that TF2 is sold as. Imagine people spending 60 bucks on a game for their console, then realizing they had to spend another 60 just to be able to play it online. TF2 for the PC gives you free online play through Steam. I know it was also sold in The Orange Box but that came with other games that were single player (Portal, Half Life) so you weren't totally screwed if you bought the Orange Box and didn't have Xbox Live.

The backlash that microsoft would have received had they not put a single player campaign in Halo would have been horrible, so they were really just covering their own ass.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:26 PM Let me guess. said:

Your another team fortress cock sucker.  The games can't even be compared,  as they are complete opposites.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:29 PM James said:

I must admit, I don't see what your real issue is with Halo. Having gone through your article and considering what I know of FPS's, most of the points made seem a little weak.

I'll grant that Halo isn't for everyone, just as with any other game or activity in existence. That being said, it seems that your hatred of the game has less to do with the game itself and more to do with its popularity and public opinion. I can see where you're coming from, and yet I disagree with your points.

I've been playing FPS's since Goldeneye and Mission Impossible were big on the N64, recently I've spent a lot of time on Gears of War, Resistance, and Halo. I've found the following:

1. Halo has a significantly smoother feel to it. While I have nothing against either GoW or Resistance, Halo just plays smoother.

2. The multiplayer maps on Halo are significantly better than either of the others. They are all distinctive and unique when compared against others from the same game, something that I feel not many games can claim.

3. The single player campaign. Seriously. There's an actual storyline, one that is strong and well written. While I did enjoy the the plot of GoW, the fact is it seemed very choppy, the game more about playing than to have any real regard for the storyline. Indeed the story seemed like an afterthought at time, something the developers put in to make it a little longer and bigger.

These points having been addressed, I do enjoy aspects of GoW and Resistance that I miss in Halo, but not enough to claim them any better. I would agree that the ratings given to the game seem abnormally high, but it must be understood that the game is popular, an aspect of which is often understood in a rating system.

You mention sniper rifles in a rather derogatory fashion and I certainly agree. I find that when playing, my abilities with a sniper rifle are often incomparable to those I play with. The fact is, with one or two exceptions, every map in the game can be played with any other weapon against the sniper.

Ultimately I realize that this discourse is going to be labeled as the ramblings of yet another 'Halo frat boy'. The fact is, there seems to be a trend, at least on this article, in the amount of respect given by respondents. It would seem to me that for the most part, the 'frat boys' are the ones being respectful and clear in their responses, while those against Halo seem to lack the common curtsey's that I would hope you all actually had.

Also, if you actually played the game more than a few times, you 'd find that you'd get better at the game. This would prevent such ignorant and unnecessarily angry discourse.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 01:59 PM Siegfried said:

This guy isn't elitist, to do so, he would have to say he's better then everyone else, which he has done nothing to hint at that. He said that he doesn't like Halo and brings up the point that everything Halo has done has been done before, which is true, I haven't seen anyone refute that as of yet. I do agree about the sniper rifle and other weapons being unbalanced, and personally, that why I don't play the game.

p.s. Calling someone elitist and such is pretty damn elitist. Please refrain from being a hypocrite, you make the rest of humanity look bad.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:03 PM Kyle said:

Tampons are on aisle 6. Make sure to get the Ultra Absorbent ones. Sounds like you got a real gusher in your vagina area.

Also sounds like you are terrible at Halo and most FPS's in general. Please play more of them more often so that I can get easy kills.

I didn't even read your article in its entirety. Don't really have to.
I've heard it all before. Congrats that you escaped from whatever bridge you guarded, troll, but please just shut up. Whatever.

This sort of biased inaccurate swill belongs on some Sony fanboy's forum post. Please don't pass if off as editorial journalism.

Go back to your Unreal Tournament games against bots because I'm sure that's where you feel the most happy. Make sure to turn them on easy or n00b so that you get at least 3 kills.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:03 PM Ian said:

Right on brother.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:32 PM Rafael Gamboa said:

"Master Chief is a super human, in a suit in which he doesn't actually physically move, he thinks it; the suit moves for him, so why would he think he'd need wobble on his crosshairs??? he just thinks up down left right, squeeze trigger, no arm wobble involved...and taking a round to the head kills master chief because the specs for that sniper rifle are insane, the bullets is like 15 cm long... even with his energy shields the shock would probably break his neck..."

I'm sorry, but he can get killed by a flying traffic cone. You seriously can't tell me that a super suit that can absorb the immense shoulder-breaking recoil of such a god-gun is helpless against rubber. And let's assume its reasonable that the traffic cone somehow managed to get launched at Mach 2 from a barrel explosion, that still doesn't explain how someone's flying knee could kill someone in a super suit.

Also, you may have noticed that one of the videos I linked to shows someone getting killed by a headshot when the bullet clearly passed two feet from his head. How the hell did that bullet kill him if it didn't even touch him?

Some else here mentioned Gears of War and Resistance. Halo is, objectively, about as good as they are, all things considered. But none of them are masterpieces. They have their fans and their detractors. My big beef, apart from Halo having issues that rub me the wrong way, is that Halo has been called a masterpiece when those other two comparably competent shooters have not. It's simply not right.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:32 PM Cory said:

In my opinion, Halo is a decent shooter, but doesnt deserve to be up on the pedestal its on.  If only people would realize that...

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:33 PM mike said:

from the sound of it, it does not seem like you have played any other games other than just halo 3. the reason they did a single player is to finish the story arc that they did. bungie wanted to finish out the story that they started in halo 1. the big thing about halo was that in the first halo they made a console shooter really really work. that was what was such a big deal about the original. in halo 2 they had a really good matchmaking system that made it easy to find games and there was a reason it was xbox lives number 1 game since its release. the 3rd halo tried to take what was good about each of those respectively and make them better. not really sure why you have such a distain hatred of halo. but whatever to each his own

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:38 PM dob said:

    you obviously don't know what youre talking about... the sniper rifle is not as good as you are trying to play it up to be, and the rest of the weapons can easily beat it close range. the spawns are fine (unlike cod4) and you clearly just suck at using the controller.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:39 PM Cory said:

Me again. just thought id reply to Kyle's comment.

You, my friend, are the complete definition of a Halo Fanboy. I can understand that this article may have violated you and your fanboyism, but dont insult the guy when you havent even read the whole thing. Also, he said that he doesnt wanna be good at Halo because he doesnt really like it, so why bother? Also, dont criticize  him about being a Sony fanboy, because he clearly isnt as he mentions many Nintendo console video games. YOU are the one that needs to shut up, and stop trying to defend your little ALMIGHTY GOD THAT IS HALO and just go play it somemore, and leave us alone. thank you, and goodbye.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:44 PM Lord_Sloth said:

I love this article. It's oh so true.

PERFECT DARK 64 FTW!!!

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:48 PM Dan said:

Ignorance is bliss I guess ey Rafael. No the Halo series does not deserve perfect 10s (well besides the original) but it is a solid (contrary to your belief) balanced shooter. No offence you just sound like you are terrible at the game.

 Single Player in the first and third iterations in the series are brilliantly done. The game actually has a proper story with and a hell of a lot of lore if you know were to look.

Multiplayer also is great for the second and third halo game, actually requiring more skill then a game of COD4 or Gears of War.

But really the main reason why the series is so "Hyped" as you say, is because of the original game. It combined the great storytelling/Movie feel of Half-Life, with great fast paced action and threw in a host of things not seen in any FPS before it....

Like Health that recharge so you never get stuck in a certain spot because you just don't have enough health to get past the next room.

Or only having the ability to hold 2 weapons at once, introducing a smaller strategic element to the game "what weapon do I pick up? Will  I need this sniper rifle for the next area because its open, or will this assault rifle help more?"

Cohesively mixing fun vehicle game play within a FPS.

Numerous open levels which allow you to choose which direction to go instead of your completely linear Call of Duty style gameplay.

ALLIES, wow you have marines on your side helping you in your fights, sitting in the vehicles with you.

Immersive feel that your character is an actual hero, as you walk past marines and engineers/civis they spout comments to each other like "Wow its actually him" or "The cavalry has arrived"

Also the brilliantly mapped FPS controls for a console.

And it introduced Auto aim.

Those were just a few things off the top of my head but yeah, you get the idea.

Also if your having trouble being killed by the sniper rifle, you could always just, you know, shoot the person so they come out of zoom... because you like complain about it for half of your supposed (I guess) unbiased article which wasnt clearly influenced by you just plain being bad in a Halo match.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:57 PM Mounce said:

You pretty much said everything I would say, it is indeed overrated and I never enjoyed playing it because there is nothing special about it, it's an average every day shooter, nothing terrible but nothing better and it does nothing to improve itself over any other FPS. It's the exact same thing but merely overhyped with a horrible cliched Sci-fi plot and one of the most horrible character personalities ever, a dude who's a 1-man-army 1-line-using Face-hiding 'Super-Spartan-Soldier' its got overhyped and overrated written all over the game in every single way possible. Just to make as you said, those with heads made of cotton candy fly by such simplistic things. No one should be Wow'd so illogically, its humilating

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:57 PM dark said:

halo 3 suck

I agree with you

gears of war is better than halo3

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:09 PM Kyle said:

Hi Cory,

First off, what makes you think being called a Halo fanboy is a bad thing for me. Obviously I like the game and will defend it from people who make ridiculous arguments with poor points when he's trying to be professional.

And at no time did I criticize him for being a Sony fanboy. Don't tell me to read everything he's written and then not read my comment that you are responding too.

In fact all this really seems like a cheap and easy way to get site traffic. Who the fuck has even heard of Game Lemon anyways? Shit like this won't gain you constant traffic. All it does is start a whiny flame war. Why the fuck did the StumbleUpon Firefox add-on take me here? Damn my boredom

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:10 PM Xbot said:

I agree with this, halo is pretty generic.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:16 PM The Player True Gamer said:

this is  the biggest joke of a blog Ive ever read.

I could say the same thing with more evidence for every other fps out there. but guess what, halo did a lot of things first and best.

Matchmaking, first of its kind on XBL, and still the best (COD's mm is a joke, they just throw you in a room and split up the teams)

The controls were imagined by bungie and created to optimize performance on a gamepad.

Every shooter you play uses Halo's stick setup... unless its on the wii. and halo did it first.

The melee attack... ya, that was halo. Sure you could smack some1 with a wrench, but not until halo could you smack some1 with a rifle.

Seriously. dude needs to learn his videogame history.


BTW: the storyline in halo is very original, the only issue being that each game is predictable within the trilogy.

No other FPS has a story in which aliens try to destroy all life in the galaxy due to religion,and if you look into it has deep elements.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:38 PM Chacron said:

It seems like the writer of this blog played a halo game once; the arguments he makes are vague and moot; and do not specifically refer to any of the games in the trilogy - but it seems that the writers favourite game series of all time is metal gear solid - what a shock.

I find it sad that people let console allegiances get in front of their enjoyment of good games - Halo and Halo 3 were fantastic single-player games on so many levels, and if you can't see that you're nothing more than a blind fanboy.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:44 PM PENGUINKK said:

I just love all of the Halo fanboys rushing to post here. It's hilarious.

Anyway, I mostly agree with you. While I believe Halo 2 and 3 are completely overrated, I'll admit I enjoyed the first Halo. I don't remember the sniper rifle being that insane, and the weapons weren't that over-the-top. I believe it's the accessability and replayability of the series that has created this mass praise of the game. I don't agree with it all, but the original did help, if not start, this FPS boom, so you have to give it that at least.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:46 PM Cory said:

Kyle,

Dont tell me i didnt read your entire comment, because i did. And i understand that some of the points he made were pretty opinionated, but all in all he was right. Halo is a decent game, but it doesnt completely re-define the FPS genre like people seem to think it does.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:53 PM Lexx said:

OMFG i have to reiterate my line about "guess the Xbox Fanboys", OK fanboys you are missing the WHOLE point of this article that is that the Halo series IS NOT THE GOD OF FPS GAMES. While halo isn't the worst the whole point is that IT DOSEN'T DESERVE THE PEDESTAL IT'S BEEN PUT ON!!!

If you really believe that it's the be all and end all of FPS games then you really need to get the Xbox out your ass and play on something else because it's not. Yes it might be nice and polished to a certain extent but so it should be after the money that was spent on it but it's not original and it's not the best by a mile in either the single player game or the online multi. If you still think it is then you really are just retarded of have never played an online PC fps in which case you have no right to call yourselfs gamers.

Oh and to say it's "the best Console fps" is just BS from you trying to narrow the list of games, next you'll say "it's the best Xbox fps" then "the best Xbox fps released in 2007" etc..etc... Get over it fanboys it just doesn't stack up to the best of the rest.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 03:54 PM Jon said:

it sounds to me like you played the game one time with some friends online and got butthurt when playing shotty snipers on sandtrap or some shit. You obviously sucked and decided to BAWWWW about it on your only outlet available.

Halo is a great game, dont try to compare it to goldeneye because they both have guns, you couldnt duel wield in it unless you used the infinite ammo cheat anyways. YOU COULDNT EVEN FUCKING JUMP IN GOLDENEYE. Not to say it wasnt a fun game, it just isnt comparable to Halo.

IMO you are just some whiny loser trying to sound more intelligent than the rest of us "sheep" by having a different opinion than the mainstream. If the game truly, TRULY, sucked as much as you are making it out to, it would get more negative reviews than positive. I know this is true because there are a million and one other reviewers out there who would love to sound more intelligent then they are by giving this game a bad review, yet choose to stake their reputation by giving it ten out of ten.

tl:dr, OP is a whiny butthurt elitist faggot.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 04:02 PM Kyle said:

It may not re-define the FPS genre but it's overall mechanics are the best of any in it's field.

See how I just wrote that. In this comment. Not in the previous one. You might want to think about re-reading things a couple times before you respond to them. Also might want to consider proof reading your own comment. "I" is capitalized when used as a noun.

I suggest you just let it be. My fight is with the moron who started all of this. If he's letting people like you fight his battles for him. I've already won.

But back to the point of all of this, Halo is an incredible game that deserves most of its hype. It does alot of things right that most games struggle with.

Welcome to the minority people but the majority of us like the Halo series. Right now its an FPS world and Halo is King.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 04:18 PM Xbot said:

halo 1 was ok.
halo 2 sucked
halo 3 was terrible.

only 12 year olds that know nothing about FPS gaming can think halo is a decent FPS franchise.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 04:26 PM Harlequin said:

Hi there.

First off, I'd like to say that it was a reasonably well written review/criticism. It was coherent and I can see the gripes that you have with the game. However, I did notice a few flaws with your argument.

One of your points was the online community. Now, whilst undeniably having to play with idiots can spoil your experience, it is no fault of the game. There is (sadly) no anti-moron button for any online system; it's mostly a result of the massive popularity of Halo that so many people you find online are cretins, not the game itself.

Secondly, you criticise the Single Player campaign (partly in response to an imaginary question). Fair enough. It's by no means the most original story, and it has many shortcomings. As do many, many other games. The premise of the game's fiction is hashed and cliched but is still superior to a large amount of similar games. In addition, it's there as an option for the people who want to play it. If you enjoy (as I did) the Campaign, then you can play it. If not, then you can mess around in Multiplayer. It's no imposition on you.

Thirdly, since when does a game have to be innovative to be good? Is not not enough to simply be fun? First you criticise Halo for copying other games, and then you make a point of saying that other games had far better weapons than Halo. Not only is this a tad hypocritical, but it's also subjective. Personally, I prefer the weapon set of Halo to games such as CoD4 or UT3. It's a personal opinion. Sure, you can say that you didn't like it; but saying that a game is terrible because of this is generalising and, by implication, stating that your opinion is the only one that matters.

The rest of your argument seems to reside solely on the issues of spawning and sniper rifles, which seems to be rather particular. I concede that spawns can be a major issue. At times, they work reasonably well; at other times, they can prove infuriating. Annoying? Yes. Game breaking? No.

And the sniper? What can I say? Sounds to me that you're just playing in games with too much of a skill difference. Yes, if you're up against someone who's got several thousand games under his belt, chances are that he can anhialate you with a sniper rifle. The trick is to play the game in such a way as to bring it back under your terms; and whilst it's possible to no-scope people at close range, the reality is that unless they're running towards you in a straight line, it is incredibly hard.

And just to point out, Halo isn't intended to be realistic. The same criticisms you level at Halo's sniper rifle could also be leveled at UT's sniper. The fact of the matter is that Halo is an arcadey, fast-paced console shooter. It has no pretensions of being the best game ever; that is largely the opinion of the press, not that of Bungie. Yes, it has its flaws. But it also has its charms, and, for a large amount of people, is a great game.

Ultimately it boils down to subjective opinion. If you don't like it, fair enough. It isn't for everyone. Hey ho.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:07 PM Magioth said:

Its just a new generation of gamers that havent experienced real gaming.

Like how we are told about one religion as kids so we believe in that one religion.

They will realise how lame it is eventually.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:13 PM whatever said:

i'm sorry but i have to say this
you're fucking pathetic man, i mean, seriously, you might not like the game or even hate it but to say it's overrated is the dumbest thing i've ever heard
i don't like Ninja Gaiden for example but i know it's a good game, i hate Mario but i recognize that it is a good game.
i love Halo, and i recognize is a good game. the best of all time for me
its fun to play, it has the best storyline i've ever seen, the characters are simply awesome and funny
and the comunity might not be the best but there is no perfect comunity
and good dawn if it isn't fun to go and tea bag someone

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:14 PM Anon said:

 I really have to agree with everything this page has to say... Halo is one sided, poorly thought out, and at most... waves its dick in the face of other FANTASTIC Shoot-em up games.

also in my opinion,

Games without a decent plot.  Are not games.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:15 PM Jason said:

It takes guts to put an article on the internet saying "Halo isn't the top shit in the world  of awesome."  you'll take alot of hatred for saying such things.

However, I agree with you 100%.  I spent hundreds of hours playing multiplayer prefect dark on the old N64.  I loved the game.  many unique weapons, each with 2 functions.  punching allowed you to steal an enemy's weapon.   that is innovation.  

  I also never liked halo. mostly because the multiplayer came down to who could get to the big guns quickest.  Not owning the game and haveing memorized the levels and where the sniper rifle is means I stood no chance of ever winning.  that's not fun. 

 IN SHORT:   Only a fan of halo can truly enjoy halo.  and to them nothing can compare to its shear pwnage and they'll tell you so in multiplayer while T-bagging your corpse and insulting your mother.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:16 PM Teedo said:

lolwut what are you on? - yes it revolutionized online capabilities but that wasn't hard as it copied successful pc shooters, and if u had read the article, you would know that it had just copied the likes of perfect dark and goldeneye.

On a different note it's very fun to play, but no, definitely not deserving of the critical acclaim that it gets - i would say the metroid prime trilogy far out does the halo trilogy, shame nintendo didn't have the balls to market it at first, maybe poor old game cube could have done a little better :P

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:30 PM ferraridriver2b said:

the problem with halo is that there are people who go all racist and shout obscenities just because you are bashing a game. especially little kids on live, they just need to realize its a game

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:35 PM lungdart said:

I only played the first Halo regularly. And I thought it was awsome. Never had a problem with the sniper rifle, The pistol was off balance. But everyone had it as a starting weapon. not unfair at all.

And just in case everyone forgets, RIOTT (rise of the triads) was the first game to have dual wielding :P

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:37 PM mc2w said:

" halo CE revolutionized Console shooters as we know them now,..."

What the hell did it revolutionize? A series of crappy, boring, dull, uninovative games? After the release of Halo, 97% of console releases have been crappy first person shooters where, as you can guess, you go up against an alien force! (This data excludes movie tie-ins, since nobody would really consider those 'games', right?)

And to the person who said you can't argue with success, you obviously can. Success does NOT equal quality. For example: Halo. The game brings nothing new to the genre, yet it has unlimited success. How? Magic. Not quality.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:43 PM dgdsgag said:

thatz tru HALO is a stupid game but ther eis ONE even more stupid


Metal Gear Solid

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:45 PM UnsounderGnome said:

First of all, who gave Halo 3 a perfect score?  How can a game be over rated if everyone says it's not that good?  I prefer the Halo games to more "tactical" games because tactical often means camping.  I want to play a shooter, not hide and seek.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 05:59 PM ... said:

When you write 3 paragraphs bitching about the sniper rifle, we all know it's not the game your bitching about..

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:43 PM haloisgood said:

I fell like you are like every other pc gamer or person who can't play a game well so you complain about it. The game is fun and is not hard to pickup. The online matchmaking does a good job of matching players with similar abilities. I'd rather play with people I could potentially beat rather than get slaughtered (ex. say CS). Also, the sniper rigle is fine...heck can I recommend you try to get one. O and when you die six times in a row...pfft....get over it.
 

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:45 PM Chris said:

You say other shooters did what halo did before halo was even made. Those shooters didn't make it work well though. Sure, halo isn't the best of shooters, but it's fun and simple. I love the simplicity of halo because I can't split screen with my little brother on CoD4 because it's to complicated for him, but he can sure as hell lay down some competition in halo. And you must really suck if you're getting owned by a dude with a sniper rifle. Strafe and jump man...

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:50 PM Thomas Young said:

Your little rant actually amused me Gamboa. Considering the fact that every gun simply balances out the other. I have zero idea what it is your speaking about.

The Sniper, while it can be deadly in close range, can EASILY, be beaten. Unless you, like you probably are, rushing in, and pretty much allowing the entire team to target you.

Maybe if you played with a bit more brains, you'd know it's not smart to run toward a sniper, and the obvious second path is more likely to keep you alive. Because in Halo, there are about 3+ ways to get to a single area. If the sniper is by himself and you use strategy to flank him. Then you'll ultimately win.

Also, considering the fact that the Energy Sword/Grav Hammer are the most easiest weapons to counter. I've turned a significant portion of your rant void.  Unless you, of course, rush, and turn corners without paying attention. Also, you say that if you don't have a sniper you will lose.

You sir, can check just about every single Halo 3 service record, and I can guarantee you their top 2-3 weapons will not be a sniper rifle.  Mine actually end up being BR, Melee, AR, and THEN Sniper Rifle. Because honestly, like in ALL FPS', Sniping is the easiest method to victory. It keeps you far away, and if you have any skill, you can get a head shot. Or, you can play games such as CoD4 (not a hater) and simply shoot the guy in the leg for a single kill.

Also, your theory on the weakest heads in the land. Considering the fact that the projectile cones you spoke about were BLOWN, from fusion coils (you know, those little EXPLODING canisters), the velocity of it smacking into someones head, even that of a shielded man, can and will probably kill you. Because face it, the armor may protect him from getting shot, but it's not protecting him from getting a broken neck.

Also, to everyone in the comments who claims it's the first to get the better gun. Everyone knows that a POWER weapon, is meant to give a significant advantage, however, with what I told
Mr. Gamboa here, if you used your brain, you could easily defeat the wielder.

Also, it's roughly 500 years into the future, bullets may be ADVANCED, by then. However, you have no logic and seemingly think that.

Also, since you may want proof. The sniper rifle's bullet is an ANTI-TANK round. Here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14.5x114mm
Then look up the round used by the Halo Sniper Rifle and you'll get your explanation as to why an armor piercing Anti-Tank round can penetrate three armored heads.

You speak as if you attempt to employ logic into your little rant.
But in fact, you speak with nothing to back up your claims and no logistics to support your reasoning. You sir, have supplied the world with yet another, meaningless, and biased rant.

Congratulations on completing nothing. If you would like to continue this discussion, I entered my e-mail. Maybe next time you'll do some research before you spew nonsense and get every little Sony and Nintendo fan boy cheering for you.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:53 PM jimmy c said:

im dissapointed that an article like this hasnt come to light sooner, i agree with alot of what has been said (the main points anyway). Just shows the power of the Microsoft Marketing Machine. The majority of people just like what they are told to like, its a crowd mentality almost like fashions and music. cant wait for microsoft to die and their fackin xbox. OMG kill me what a controversial comment. well Fk off.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 06:58 PM Deith said:


halo got a meta of 94 and i feel it could be higher when u think about all the guns cars maps singleplayer multiplayer forge and theater, those last to being like totaly new and that inovation u were on about.

where as gta 4 got 98 and thats a really bad game on many levels

clearly u and everyone who agreyed with u r ps3 fan boys fueled by lack of good ps3 games hahaha

<--- xbox fanboy and proud of it

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:04 PM air1 said:

yea well it looks like over 8 million ppl dont agree with this guy. so as of today what beats halo than? didn't think so..

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:14 PM Trini said:

Ok dude, not tryin to pull you down or nothin, but, to me it seems like you're whining because you can't play the game well...Halo was never meant to be realistic, it's a science fictional game that boasts, (i would agree) some really weird things not based on reality....but I own all three Halos and at first, dying was a bitch for me, since no true gamer likes to lose....And i often thought to myself that the game was really slack, horrible and cheap. Then a few months later, i picked up myself and played it again, realizing that, "Hey it's just a game, and honestly it was a lot of fun to run and jump while shooting a Sniper Rifle with less recoil. Honestly you don't expect a game to always be as realistic as Call Of Duty or Battlefield....Sometimes you want an easy way out and still get a challenge out of it....That's what Halo is, a game that provides weapons that are cheap, (yes) but still great to use in difficult circumstances....I don't understand how you can say that Halo isn't tactical, because it is...If you play Halo as much as anyone else you would know that playing against really good snipers or just gamers in general, you have to think about what's your next move and not run in and get yourself killed. So Halo, to me, definitely deserved a 10 because it brought alt of things to the plate that really weren't exaggerated in other games, and the multiplayer is a great addition.....As for the story mode, I think it was a fantastic effort in terms of telling the story from both the Humans and Covenants aspect. We understood everything that was going on except for when the game ends and it starts again from a different part of the previous ending.....Don't hate on a game that made First person Shooters what it is today man....Because how i see it, most of the FPS that are out today or are still waiting to be released learned a good deal from Halo.....

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:52 PM PENGUINKK said:

"Games without a decent plot. Are not games."

I suppose you think Tetris, Super Mario Bros, sports games, racing games, puzzle games, ect. ect. are not games.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 07:58 PM Antihero20 said:

Yes the game is BROKEN, i find the game to be below mediocre at best

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:40 PM Deal With it said:

Deal with it, Halo series is critically acclaimed and you either hate it because you suck at it or your a sony/nintendo fanboy. Dont sit here and cry on the internet it isnt going to change anything.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:53 PM Viendin said:

Congratulations on being about 6 years late to hating on Halo for mediocre reasons.

The game is fun to play. It's not a low-quality game. It's easy to get into, and you can play it with friends, alone, or with people over the internet.

Hence, people enjoy it.

Why should you be so angry that people enjoy it and praise it? Is there some injustice done to you, some physical harm, done by IGN giving an enjoyable game a 10, when it may not be quite fully deserving a perfect score?

You're beating a beaten dead horse, in a city where people fucking love horses.

This just comes across trolling.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:55 PM Demos said:

"Also, you may have noticed that one of the videos I linked to shows someone getting killed by a headshot when the bullet clearly passed two feet from his head. How the hell did that bullet kill him if it didn't even touch him?"

Such a pro gamer would know should know about latency...

I'd also like to point out the ones who said something like "Whoever thinks Halo is the greatest is retarded and needs to play an FPS on PC" is the one who's retarded for basically saying that your opinion is fact.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:03 PM Wormdundee said:

Well the guy who wrote this should have at least attempted to bring up some semi-coherent arguments. I read some whining, and then bitching about the sniper rifle the whole rest of it.

Now, that's not to say I don't agree with his overall point, that being that the whole Halo series is indeed overrated. I was over at a friends house and someone had brought over Halo 3. Now I don't know what it was, and it hasn't been mentioned anywhere in the comments yet, but the whole 10 minutes we were playing all I was thinking was, "Damn, this game is SLOW".

It felt like I was plodding around through molasses or something. Within 10 minutes everybody who was playing decided to take it out because they couldn't stand the movement speed.

That's just one point. There are some others to say that it is overrated (NOT bad). I played through the single player on Halo 1/2 and the whole time I was really bored with the story. It was amazingly generic (seriously, I can't believe that guy who said that the story was incredibly original, that was hilarious) and the Master Chief is one of the most lifeless main characters in a game (he would go along well with Marcus Fenix, guy from Resistance, etc.).

The online multiplayer that I played on the PC was pretty good, but it wasn't crazy amazing or anything, pretty standard FPS multiplayer stuff. No, I haven't played Halo 3 online, and I have no desire to.

Overall, the series is pretty decent, but none of the games were deserving of a 10/10 (no, not even the first one whoever said that).

O by the way, someone mentioned way up in the comments about where they could find a game with a good online community. I recommend Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. I've been playing it a ton and I have yet to encounter any retarded 12 year olds spewing nonsense. I think they're scared of it because it's a much more tactical squad-based shooter than anything like Halo, Call of Duty, etc.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:03 PM B said:

Wow.  Most of the stuff I agree with but you really discredited your opinion piece by throwing PDZ in there.  When comparing a bad game to a good game, PDZ should be no where on the list. Perfect Dark Zero was on of the worst games ever for the 360.  Single player Campaign was a good effort but when it came to multiplayer, the controls we god awful and nothing about it was enjoyable.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:21 PM whatever said:

i love when people that's don't understand a shit about games go and start whining about the reviews that people with years of experience in the area gave to a game. if you don't like that's your problem.

you can go and tell the millions of people who have the game that it sucks and you problably get punched on the face by that

and Halo is tactical you assholes.

the problem with you is that you are so terribly bad that you can't even beat the rookies in the game

i'm getting sick and tired of this bullshit articles
DON'T LIKE, THEN GO FUCK YOURSELF, NO ONE IS GOING TO STOP PLAYING IT BECAUSE OF YOU

jeasus

get a life people

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:29 PM gjford said:

Dude! I Totally agree! Thats exactly what i tell everybody who asks me to play halo or why i dont have it. You are a smart person and i commend you for not holding back what you said.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:31 PM Skesku said:

MOTHERFUCKER

Halo is great! it maybe be terribly generic but maybe thats what i want, could it be that it's so good because it doesn't have several billion functions like other games i've played.
Alot of the time the best things in life are simple
Another thing i like is the whole engine thing the movement the weapons, it all works out nicely.
My geuss is that your complete shit at halo and you get your ass kicked by one of your friends alot of the time and you rarely win,
in my experiance people who suck at the game enjoy for a while then hate it cos they suck. but then get all giddy when they win once, then go back to hating it after they start sucking again.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:40 PM Cole said:

Wanna know what i think? who gives a shit. Obviously something is good about it if so many people play it each day. You pointed out all the things that weren't original, then you criticized about you never seeing anything like when you get "nubbed" in the head with a pylon. If you don't like it, don't play it. Don't try and convince people not to play it, it's their choice.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:45 PM HairyAsHell said:

Hahaha... this article is just one man's opinion and just look at all the Halo cocksuckers whine and bitch. I dont give a rat's ass about Halo but I think the article is a bit harsh. Then again, the media and critics already sucked too much of Halo's dick, so I guess it doesnt deserve any pity anymore. I'd rather play Gears over and over again.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:56 PM ehutch said:

in my opinion, halo is over rated undeserving a 10 score. my favorite multi-player  game at the moment is WARHAWK. i own both consoles before you attack. WARHAWK was only given an 8 score but is worthy of better. the game has a near perfect balance of weaponry and a complete scope of the battlefield  with planes, tanks, jeeps and  foot soldiers all able to hold their own against the other. it is a brilliant game which somehow escapes the attention it deserves. the game being a ps3 exclusive and also being released at a time when the console was not getting great press probably contributed. i cant help but think that if it were an xbox 360 exclusive, it would have garnered a 9+ score with the hype machine in full swing. if you havent played it, i suggest checking it out, its great.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:56 PM Caboose said:

You're complaining about a game that you don't even own?
Seriously? Get a fucking life.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 09:59 PM Daniel said:

I don't really play Halo much either, but this author is an idiot.

I think he just got merc'ed on with a sniper rifle and then cried the whole time writing this article.

also, battle rifle is way better than a sniper rifle.

This author is an idiot o.o

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:10 PM Vince said:

Okay, as a former(keep in mind, FORMER) fan of halo, I must say, I agree with the fact that halo is a terrible game, but not for the reasons you say.

I found the respawns fine. Yes, the sniper rifle is broken, but not as much as you say. The sniper rifle may not be realistic, but neither is a half ton super soldier with perfect accuracy, super strength, super speed, etc. The game's cartoony feel is what's really wrong with it. The utter lack of realism is where it hurts most.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the rocket launcher. Two barrels so that if your one-hit kill death machine somehow manages to miss, you have another to fire INSTANTLY, which they actually took a step backwards from halo one, where you had to wait a good two seconds before launching the second.

Let's address the sniper rifle's accuracy. Pretty much any weapon you find in the game can be fired at the hip with pin point accuracy. The sniper rifle isn't special because of it. Bungie never bothered to address lowered accuracy from running, jumping, or hurtling through the air at 150 kph. Hell, they even took gravitational damage out of the game entirely just so people could leap off a building, spraying wildly at their target over 500 yards away, and still manage to at least hit the fucker with no cost to his own personal well-being.

I'm pretty sure that Unreal Tournament's first instance of vehicles was in the 2004 edition, and halo 1 came out in 2001, but I believe, and I'm almost certain about this, that there have been games that have done it before.

But there you have it. My agreeing-yet-conflicting opinion. It's not the spawns or the rifle-it's the utter cartoon-style of it. When a game comes down to who can whore the better positions with better weapons(I.E. a team on high ground on the wall with a sniper rifle, rocket launcher, shotgun, and spartan laser, all with some hefty secondary should they run out of ammo) with no chance of being flushed out with proper tactile thinking, I'd sooner quit than play again.

Halo fanboys, go buy CoD 4 and be amazed at A. the higher framerate and better graphics, B. the customization yet balance between all the weapons, C. The varying-degree-intensity and well developed storlyine, and D. the fact that 4 dudes whoring superweapons in a single building can be sweeped out with a few well placed flashes, frags, and bullets.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:19 PM Vince said:

Now that I have maturely criticized, I must also add my immature, yet still quite accurate and true point(s).

-Aim assist is for pussies. Anyone who needs something like that when they already have the accuracy of a machine don't deserve to play shooters.

-The weapons are not that impressive or innovative compared to other weapons from the genre. There is not a single weapon that's very interesting or appealing to me. They all have preset defined borders between what they're supposed to be used for. There's no thought to how to use them, just what to use. I find it more interesting when a game makes it possible, but not smart or practical, to snipe with a weapon such as an SMG.

-The four types of grenades are nothing this world has never seen before.

-the only creative vehicle I find is the Wraith, because it's just a giant moving mortar.

-the spartan laser seems to be the ONLY superweapon with some sort of major drawback to it.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:21 PM whatever said:

hey vince go fuck yourself. the game is in the future you deep shit

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:27 PM joe said:

finally someone has the balls to actually print this in a internet site where everyone can read and not talk about it in a secure line. halo only got hype because it was a DECENT game on a crappy launch system(halo 1)and it seems all the annoying people migrate to this game and come together. halo sucks the mp sucks, the story sucks, halo is a poor man's perfect dark and golden eye.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:39 PM Licktenstein said:

Yes Halo has it's flaws, and yes it may be unbalanced, but it still remains to be one of the most enjoyable multiplayer shooters in the market. Though being completely owned by a sniper-rifle all day may suck, that doesn't mean every other weapon in the game is useless. Look at Halo 2, the #1 most effective tactic was plasma pistol + frag [or melee, or pistol, or swap to BR). If you're tired of the competitive game play because you want to bitch about how unbalanced it is, play something like infection, or any other non-frag-to-win game types.

As for the single player, or rather campaign seeing as it's been able to co-op since 1 and in 3 you can four play co-op, yeah it's not that great, except for Halo 1, it had an amazing storyline, and compelling characters.

So although that is just your opinion and this is just mine, hopefully you'll at least see that it's not 100% crap and come off of your high horse.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:42 PM Panther52799 said:

why is it that all the people whining about bad game ARE NOT making them to show us how to do it right??

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 10:55 PM banana said:

Too bad all the children are playing Call of Duty 4 now.

Enjoy your grenade spam and camping with sniper rifles.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:00 PM lordkertaz said:

After reading your article, I have to disagree.  You bring up very good points, but to some (like me), they just don't make too much of a difference.  Your main argument against multi-player is that the sniper rifle is overpowered.  Granted, due to my lack of consistent Xbox Live Gold, I haven't been able to play all that much, but I still disagree.  There are times when I have been shot almost instantly after spawning, but those times have not been very often.  I personally find that at least a small number of maps (mostly the small ones, with many rooms and pathways) can have a bit of strategy involved.  Though, to be completely honest, I may only be sayignt that because those are the maps in which I excel.

As for the single player, it can be misconstrued as generic by some people.  However, I highly doubt that those people have ever read any of the books about Halo.  After reading the books, the story has been a lot more interesting to me.  However, simply playing the game, it can seem generic to some.  I think the main problem with Halo's story is Bungie doesn't know how to convey it well enough within the confines of a video game.

Another point I should throw out there is the fact that, to me, the Halo series has a very arcadey feel.  It's not somethingt that should be expected to adhere to the physics of the real world.  It's a sci-fi game with an extremely powerful, fast and smart protagonist that went through intensive training since the age of six, who was then genetically enhanced and his ulte-powerful armor infused with a highly intelligent AI.  That doesn't really scream realism to me, and that's exactly the way I like it.

I implore you to argue with me, and try to put me down the way you would put down a fanboy or a frat boy, as I can promise you I am neither.  I simply have a different taste in games.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:02 PM Azuu said:

Lets be frank, (that means literal for all you 11yrolds) Halo didnt revolutionize the console gaming (that prize goes to goldeneye). While a good the game only revolutionized the XBOX! Since the Xbox was new and exciting for the little kiddies, they all got a console without any good games for it. Then once a game that was good enough to get the title of "good", it was put on a pedestal irregardless of flaws to be seen. I will say this now; I suck at shooters, I love shooters, but i have no true skill at shooters. If I can't beat the game on normal mode in a month-which generally happens-I lose interest in the game and move on. I beat halo, I was estatic to say the least. Then I played it on the hardest setting, I beat it then too.

A good game for beginners, but then i would like the beginners playing doom, duke3D, and quake, rather than this shithole of a game

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:16 PM Xbot said:

 ' ' Its just a new generation of gamers that havent experienced real gaming. ' '

Isnt the average age of people playing halo 3 online like 12 years old?

That explains alot.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:25 PM eman said:

Halo is a fun game and it is popular for a reason.  Videogames CAN be at but they don't have to be.  I thought halo 3's story was well done and engaging.  You hated it before you tried and and then nitpicked everything you could in order to justify your bias - basically so you could look down upon other gamers for enjoying something you prejudged as generic. 

You don't like halo, fine.  I never played halo before halo 3 and very quickly became a big fan of the series.  I dont see how it is overrated unless you are the type of person who tries to see fault in everything. 

basically what i'm getting at is you're a pretentious little bitch who needs to shut the fuck up before you make yourself look like even a bigger bitch than you already appear to be.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:27 PM eman said:

oh, and i missed the obvious one...

Oh, the weapons. This brings me to the problem of game balance, which for me was the fatal flaw in Halo. After having played for a couple of days, I came to realize that I wasn't losing so horrifically because I was a bad tactician or bad at shooters. I was losing for two reasons: 1) Somebody had a sniper rifle, and 2) bad respawns.

no, you are losing because you suck.  if you played a bit more, i imagine you would find yourself getting "luckier" more often, funny how that works. 

have your drowned in your tears yet, bitch?  soon... right?

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:35 PM J said:

Well put Rafael. I definitely agree. Halo is definitely one of the most overrated games ever made. Nothing new was ever introduced in those games over past shooters.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 11:40 PM Gman said:

LOLOLOLOL. this articule rules!

I agree.

several things tho

 - when the original halo came out, it was pretty far out, the A.I was nifty, and it stood out in alot of areas.

- Microsoft ownz alot of game rating sites/companies, im pretty sure that that Bill Gates is paying ign, gamespot, etc,  to review xbox games very highly and 2 bash ps3 games

- Perfect dark for n64 was awesome... i miss that game.... that and banjo kazooie!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:25 AM Kinjir0 said:

1) PC elitists, gtfo. consoles are nice to own, cheaper than pc's, and are much easier to just pick up and play. Halo added dual thumbsticks, and instant melee to fps's. Let's see you market mouse and keyboard controls to more than just pc gamers. They've tried, it failed.

2) The style of halo is cartoony on purpose. And they made minimal spray and no recoil on purpose. They COULD have made it more realistic, but simply CHOSE not to. 30 fps @ 680p sucks balls though.

3) The online community sucks. Play LAN, like Halo 1. So much better, no lag, no connection issues. LAN parties are just as fun on consoles as they are on pc.

4) There ARE better games (I gave up halo for COD, and I went back to CS:Source and UT on PC). But halo is easier to pick up, easier to play online, AND I don't have to pay $1k to have it look decent.

5) I had a ps2, and bought an xbox for halo. Totally worth it. I then bought a game cube, and  I recently got a 360. I'm planning on getting a PS3. I've played pc games for eight years now. I've had experience on every platform conceivable, yet I still like Halo.  Your "experienced" self seems to simply WANT to hate halo, only to be different, and yet SO the same.

6) You simply suck at developing a new strategy for halo. Sniper, boohooo, weapon imbalance, boohooo. Welcome to fucking shooters. This game plays different than tactical shooters, that's why they're marketed to DIFFERENT PEOPLE. Every thing, except for a well run spawn trap (which you will only see in CAL and MLG), can be countered effectively, you just didn't take the time to learn. Spawns tend to be really shitty, that is bungie's weak spot it seems.

7) Single player has gotten shitty. The first game was amazing. Not ground breaking, not a well written story, but a decent balance of everything it should have and be. Then, bungie shifted to multiplayer mode, and the campaign went to shit. Boohoo, it's generic. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD. Every story every written is a) boy meets girl, boy chases girl, boy fails, j/k love b) lonesome hero in post apocalypse/family killed/wronged, revenge/justice/survival, near death, success happy ending, or c) hero, fall from grace, recovery, journey, regained grace. THEY'RE ALL THE SAME. Goldeneye, GENERIC, GOW, GENERIC, COD, GENERIC. The story for a game I hold in high regard is half life, and it's subsequent sequels. EVERYTHING IS SUPER PREDICTABLE. I mean GOD fuckin' DAMMIT, Bioshock was so predictable it drove me nuts, but I LOVE that game.

more than 50% of your article is bitching about the sniper. you are not a gamer. you're the fucking scrub that lingers in the shadows and tourneys and arcades, grumbling about how (if it hadn't been for ____) he/she could have beaten everyone. you don't get this game, do not critique it. do not blog about it. do not even discuss it socially. evaluate your playtime and understanding of EVERY game before you continue to spout this ignorant bullshit on MY fucking internet. elsewise, you'll fade into obscurity, like the rest of the bitchy scrubs, which would mean YOU HAVE NO REASON TO LIVE, which is fucking fine by me.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:30 AM casey said:

Congratulations.  You are officially the first person I have ever heard successfully complain about the addition of a single player campaign.  I stopped reading after that, because I knew it could only go downhill from there.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:30 AM Shane said:

Why do people hate twelve year old gamers? Children make up a VERY small percentage of the people that play video games. Its not children playing that makes online play so vulgar. Its the anonymity of the internet. When I was twelve all those years ago, I rocked at games because I had alot of free time. I dont anymore, but I dont mind those who do.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:32 AM steve said:

I will say that I agree with you on certain aspects of your "review."  When Halo CE came out back in 2001, i refused to play it for almost 2 years because to me, it was over hyped and just not interesting.  Then when my friend said "we need one more player you're up" I was hooked. 
As was mentioned above, the controls are spot on perfect and intuitive, and the multiplayer aspect has endless amounts of fun attached to it.
Half the people you talk to will say that Halo is for multiplayer only, and the other half will say its for the story only.  Then 25% form each side will just like both...if that makes any sense.

I love the story of Halo, it's very indepth, and there's actually something to care about in a FPS.

I could say tons more, but, seeing as there's already 100+ comments here, and you've already made you opinion, and wont change it come hell or high water, I'll just leave with this:
too each their own.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:33 AM Thomas Young said:

To Vince, the guy who boasts COD4 > Halo.

I expected a biased fanboy to appear. Unbelievably you said exactly what everyone else says. REALISM, GRAPHICS, AND CUSTOMIZATION!

However, you seemingly forgot one VERY important fact.

After nowhere near extended hours of gameplay, COD4 becomes repetitive and bland. Sure, it's exciting at first. But once you play for a good 2-4 hours you soon realize that it becomes the same thing over and over.

It offers a unique, somewhat realistic experience, and has a arguably good balance system. But CoD4 has it's own flaws. Such as the Martyrdom, spawns, hit recognition (leg shots killing faster than head/torso shots) and no forced aiming.

However, I won't bash the game, because it is entertaining .But it is nowhere near the Halo killer fan boys perceive it to be. Halo, while as cartoony, and unimaginative, as you all claim, plays out completely different every single round of matchmaking. Simply due to the millions of different play styles and techniques. In CoD4, you can just about guarantee where everyone will hide, that a live grenade will drop out of someones ass, and that if you aren't using an Assault Rifle you will inevitably be screwed out of one or more kills.

Also, the sniping in that game is bugged. I've been killed and have killed people with shots to the leg, while a well placed round to the neck or head seemingly misses or only damages them.

Also, the option to throw grenades back is utterly useless.

Halo keeps it's throne as able to sustain itself for multiple hours without repetitiveness and becoming boring. CoD4, while fun, becomes emotionally deteriorating due to the fact that you automatically know what is going to happen...Every single game.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:48 AM phixional ninja said:

Best game ever?  I wouldn't say so (I still give that honor to Portal).  Most overrated game ever?  Hard to say, and I'm not sure how one would go about objectively proving such a claim.  Were the weapons unbalanced to a certain degree in the first two iterations of the series?  Undoubtedly.  Three shot pistol kills, sweep sniping and instant sword deployment are some examples that come to mind.

Regarding Halo 3 though, I would like to ask what problems people have with the weapon balancing.  I have yet to find a situation where I felt like I was being beaten because of weapons and not skill.  Somebody is dominating with the sniper?  Find cover, lob a couple nades, tag them with the battle rifle so they can't hit you, charge them in a ghost with the front making it hard for them to get a shot, find some strategy that works.

Every weapon has a mitigating factor, every strategy has a counter strategy.  Especially in Halo 3, there is almost never a situation where quick thinking and some creativity can't get you out alive.

I'm not contending that it is the greatest game ever, I'm just sick of the whining about weapons balance.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:48 AM RoyBoys said:

This was the GREATEST hate article ever to hit the internet. I agree in every way imaginable and also could add on more stuff that makes this game HORRIBLE! lol

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:54 AM Xbot said:

This game sucks so does gears of war, the story is so boring i couldnt play it for more then 30 minutes because of the lack of interest.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:57 AM Matt said:

If it is so overated, then why is it so popular?

Just because you don't like Halo does not mean it is overrated.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:06 AM Vorime said:

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 02:48 PM Dan said.. everything I wanted to say, I think. I love TF2. I love Half-Life. I love CoD. I love Perfect Dark. I -also- love Halo. You don't have to love one and hate the other. They're all great, for different reasons.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 12:30 AM Shane said:

Why do people hate twelve year old gamers? Children make up a VERY small percentage of the people that play video games. Its not children playing that makes online play so vulgar. Its the anonymity of the internet. When I was twelve all those years ago, I rocked at games because I had alot of free time. I dont anymore, but I dont mind those who do.

Agreed, again. Honestly, I think the children become vulgar because they're insulted by people who think being 3+ years older means they're better at everything, which not only provokes the child but also can teach them insults.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:11 AM darkside said:

First, I know Halo is not the best game ever made.

Second, despite it's flaws (which every game has - the second a perfect game is made, gaming and game design will be obsolete) Halo 3 is a FUN game to play.  That's the whole freaking point.  You play to have FUN.  If you don't have fun, play another game in which you do have fun. 


Third, your claim that the sniper is too powerful is way off base.  True, some of the physics (the bullet paths for example) are a bit unrealistic, but this is to be expected from any sci-fi game.  With a little experience, you can easily counter the sniper rifle with a well placed grenade or a battle rifle.  Here, as a prime example, my stats:

http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/CareerStats.aspx?player=Darkside05&social=true&map=0

I'm ranked 45 (out of 50), which puts me around the top 10% on there.  So yes, I play often, but look at the weapons that I kill the most with.  The battle rifle (mentioned above as a counter to the sniper), the assault rifle (the standard weapon on almost every map variant) and the melee (aka "rifle-butt") are my top 3.  In fact, the top 2 have more than double the kills the shotgun or sniper have.  If the sniper was so overpowered then you'd think I'd have to be incredible with it in order to be any good at the game at all.  It's just not true, and to perpetuate that is both slander and an extreme failure as a reviewer to not do enough proper research before writing your article.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:12 AM Xbot said:

COD4 is better then all 3 halos combined.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:17 AM darkside said:

And another note, for all the CoD4 fans out there.  The sniper in Cod4 is far more unbalanced than it is in halo.  I cannot count the times I've been unable to pinpoint the location of 2 or 3 enemy snipers who destroy you the instant your head pokes out.  At least in halo you either have only 1 or 2 snipers per map or everyone has a sniper (and thus an equal chance given the bullet rails given off by the sniper in halo).

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:24 AM Green Plaguer said:

amen

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:33 AM Jak said:

you know what, halo 1 isnt awesome, halo 2 is better, halo 3 pwnz0rz your 4ss so stfu

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:35 AM Mark said:

I don't think it's fair to bash Halo without bashing the other games you compare it to.  TF2's balance is sometimes out of whack.  The class distinctions in TF2 make it a very role-based game which make it hard to create a style that "suits" you.  The demoman is also ridiculously overpowered in that new people can easily cause massive damage using remote-detonated stickies.  One would think this would leave the demoman vulnerable in close-combat, but for his primary he has A CONTACT-GRENADE LAUNCHER.  Next, critical hits make the game very difficult for experienced players and prevent anyone from becoming incredibly powerful by giving newcomers a powerful chance-hit (which I suppose, suits you just fine.) 

However, TF2 IS FUN.

And, in the same light, just because you made petty contradictions to Halo doesn't change the fact that HALO IS FUN also.  Everything you brought up is a PERSONAL PREFERENCE, and not a DESIGN FLAW as you say it is.  A sniper rifle can be designed to have no recoil and easy reloading.  If you had a sniper rifle, wouldn't YOU want it to be that way?  And you quote the Farsight (from Perfect Dark) as being more acceptable, but I think that gun was more of a design flaw than the Halo sniper rifle considering it could SHOOT THROUGH WALLS, had THERMAL VISION TO SEE PEOPLE THROUGH WALLS, and not to mention WOULD FIND ENEMIES THAT WERE IN RANGE AUTOMATICALLY.  It also had a SIX round magazine and just as short reload time as the Halo sniper rifle, if not shorter.

If you really have that much of a dislike for sniper rifles, look for close-combat maps or games that disallow snipers.  They're out there, hosted by people just like you.  I would know because I hate sniper rifles with a passion too.

Oh, and play with friends.  That makes any FPS better.

And stop saying (game here) did it first.  No one really cares actually.  If someone said Halo did it first, then they'd be wrong, and you would have business disagreeing with them.  As long as a game is FUN, then it doesn't make a bit of difference.  I could say all FPS games ever ripped off Doom, but does that discredit them? Absolutely not.  I could say that all MMO's ripped off Everquest! THIS DOES NOT MAKE THEM BAD GAMES.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:36 AM teedle said:

i agree, halo is stupid, 2 was the worst, but they all suck

im cool with playin gmod, tf2, and other good games without those annoying 7 year olds and rednecks, call of duty 4 is actually getting just as bad as halo with the community...

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:38 AM Epic Fail is Epic said:

You have failed. And if you're going to compare one game to another, spell the names properly. It's Gordon, not "Gordan."

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:39 AM Nigger Faggot said:

The WoW community is far, far worse. FAIL.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:48 AM efoegrgrth said:

dude dont say fail, it makes you sound like a faggot

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:48 AM Bob said:

I hope you're only talking about Halo 3. Combat Evolved was amazing. Halo 2 is shit, and Halo 3 is still pretty good, though no CE.

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 02:27 AM ORB said:

Rafael, dude, you are a warrior poet!

I also think Halo series is overrated but due to a different reason. The graphics of Halo from beginning to end have been inferior from its generation. The game Halo had severely bad graphics and older games like Max Payne and RTCW look much better than it. Halo 2 was a bad game anyway, so lets not talk about it. And Halo3 has low polygon count, as low as it can be counted how many triangles are there in the screenshot. Halo 3 gfx were inferior to Turok. Which is fine really until the games are marketed on the basis of good graphics and on top of that all the fanboys will just never accept that the gfx are behind the generation. They will be stuck with the false claims Bungie made.

Gameplay wise Halo is good, shooting with shotgun is fun. The gunplay is good. Story is interesting. But really it has nothing 'better' that I will prefer it over other games, I mean I will play Halo as much as any average shooter.

The worst part: when it was found that Halo3 doesnt do even 720p HD, Bungie replied with a "Offense is the best defense" comment and all the fanboys got a major orgasm, and happily swallowed it.

However, in the end customers and reviewers realized their fault and you can clearly see that Halo3 got quite less number (none?) of "Game of the Year" awards. It got some stupid "best multiplayer" or watever. Really if the game was so awesome, y did not it get an GOTY award? if I say Bioshock got some awards,  halo3 didn't, does that make bioshcok better than halo3? I bet fanboys will start running 2wards me 2 kill me.

my few points in favour of your article.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 02:36 AM JollyOgre said:

So, um, my only question is....who the fuck cares what you have to say?  Its a game.  If i look at a game, and think, "Hey that looks like an awesome game," then I buy it, regardless of what you stupid internet fucks have to say.  If it rocks, i keep the fucking thing.  If it doesn't, then I take the stupid thing back.  Honestly the whole "Wah, wah, I dont like this game" is one of the sorriest excuses to get your name on the net.  The only reason im writing this is because im fuck tired, and thought Id point out your obvious capability to not be a douche.

/win

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 02:57 AM Cody said:

While I would certainly prefer Half-Life 2 over Halo any day, I don't hate it. I found the story interesting. The multiplayer is good for when I just want to throw grenades at people and have them go flying. It's a decent game, but that's just my opinion.

Of course, I've only played the first game. I don't have a computer good enough to play Halo 2 and Halo 3 probably won't reach the PC for another decade. Ah well.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 04:43 AM john said:

lolol WUT - U are a retard mate!! Halo revolutionised NOTHING!! It's a fucking Unreal Tournament rip-off and not even a shitbox game. Bet u didn't even know that Galo was MADE for a MAC!! Big surprise ay?? Well it's not!! Bungie was part of apple. But who cares Galo is CRAP I think everyone agrees besides galo fanboi's (and even u know it's shite). GREAT ARTICLE!!! At least someone isn't climbing in Microshites ass!!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 05:05 AM Poonoo said:

To answer your question, they were ignored because of this:

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/09/24/video_dean_and_nooch_demo_halo_3/

Watch the whole video and you will see the $800 bribe the reviewers got for the scores they gave it. I have no doubt the same thing happened with GTA4 and Smash Bros and will happen for MGS4. Every mega-hyped game will be overrated from now on because publishers will bribe them with swag which will work fine if they created enough hype. Smash Bros has had backlash. GTA4 has had backlash. Halo 3 has had backlash, and A LOT more so called "AAA" titles will have backlash, which is why anyone who takes reviews seriously is a mindless moron.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 05:50 AM CrossFire said:

i believe the game is over hyped, i said since day 1 that halo 3 wont be as good as the hype seems to suggest, and some features have been done before and better, but halo has brought some new features and the game is customizable to a high degree. Forge is a pain to use well but it works for its purpose and matchmaking when it was done in h2 was one of the key features of the game and was something truly new.

     I play in a 4v4 team on halo and attend lans, to say the game has no skill really is ignorant, the game is unbalanced and i admit that but when you play in a scrims on MLG rules and attend lans the game really does show a large skill gap between players, the gap is smaller in h3 and the game does have its issues like shot registering  and the poor beatdown system but overall its use as the main game for MLG and XL ( in the uk) so it has to be doing something right.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 05:59 AM FOR WE ARE MANY said:

It is true Halo series is THE MOST OVERRATED Video game series ever created, Kudos for the author of this article for the almost Telepathic representation of my true opinion and thoughts about the Halo franchise.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 06:44 AM sknight said:

I agree actually the game is over hyped and the bungie guys themselves for the 3rd one said it was just gonna be more or less the same with better graphics and new features. I liked the first one somewhat when i was playing with my friends locally something i miss about a lot of newer shooters where there is no split screen multiplayer or network as if the people i was playing with ever got obnoxious i could always do something about it. Thats not the case with the morons on Xbox live so usually my mic and headset is turned off when i feel like paying for Live.  and yeah the guns are unbalanced no matter who think so or not the human weapons tend to do far more damage shields or no shields than the alien weapons which i found a bit odd since it was suppose to be the alien weapons should bring shields down faster compared to actual damage from human weapons. The only exception is the alien "rail gun".  I also call BS on people defending the sniper rifle being fair. There is no recoil and i can't count the number of instant deaths ive had from someone running with it. And yeah shoot them and they zoom out  its still an instant kill because whats that oh damn they had a shotgun for their second weapon so don't give me crap about you should strife or im no good. and BY the WAY Duke Nukem 3d incorporated  a kick with the tilde key which was a melee attack without having to switch to it.

    Games become overhyped when a devote following starts believing their said game is the BEST GAME EVER this is true about many other games just look across the internet a few times to see the most popular game(s) that are over a year old normally

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 07:16 AM Seth said:

Lol there was a guy in my class that had a road cone throwen at his face and he almost died and had to go to hospital and was difigured after so i guess they didnt get that wrong in halo. and the cone was only throwen lightly.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 08:50 AM The Anti-Fanboy said:

Finally, some one speaks the truth! The Halo series as a whole is very, VERY overhyped. At best its a series of average shooters, loved by people who've never played a decent FPS in their life. I guess if you've never had icecream, vanilla might seem like the world's best flavor, but the truth is its just plain and boring. What pisses me off is these so-called "expert" journalists in gaming shower every Halo game with UNdo praise!? That shows how deep these "reviewers" are in Microsoft's pockets.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 09:17 AM ihadsexwithmasterchief said:

"limited supply of solid God"
what an idiot do you really expect anyone to take your dumb@$$ serious when you don't even use proper English. You my sir are a twat and suck at halo!!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 09:21 AM ice cold max said:

Halo sucks!

Quake 3 Arena FTW!

Then again, anyone who plays an FPS on a console and thinks they're actually playing properly is a retard.  It's practically impossible to get the accuracy attainable with a mouse and a (trained) hand on those stupid fiddly thumb joysticks.

Halo on PC was tolerable except for the fact that Master Chief wouldn't run fast enough.  But I really can't stand the current trend of games coming out on console AGES before they are released on PC.  I want to play games with a full keyboard and a mouse!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 09:38 AM The Anti-Fanboy said:

Give me a break, all of you 360 fanboy twats are crying about the author being a PS3 fanboy. How about calling everyone who likes Halo a 360 fanboy. F-off you worthless pukes! Halo sucks and you a-holes need to get over yourselves. Reading the comments on this article only serves to prove how stupid and insane Halo fans really have to be to think that game was worth the dirt under my feet.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 09:43 AM The Anti-Fanboy said:

"limited supply of solid God"
what an idiot do you really expect anyone to take your dumb@$$ serious when you don't even use proper English. You my sir are a twat and suck at halo!!

Shut the hell up you dumbass. How does a typo effect his argument? Only such a worthless human scum, such as yourself, would bother pointing something so insignificant. "Proper English", I you mean proper grammer, dumbf**k.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 10:13 AM Phil said:

You guys make me laught! Just to be clear, I totally agree with Raphael, Halo is the most overrated game of all time.

It's fun, no doubt about it, but so is all other good FPS. So the article is absolutly right, why is it the king? It got flaws so why rated a 10? Not to mention that we don't see the hero's damn face the entire trilogy. I personnaly can't like a "hero" that I can't recognize.

I did'nt red all the comments, sorry but I would spend all day on it. I laught seeing all Halo fanboys who tries to defend their precious exclusivity. Halo the best? Ha!!! Think again, call yourself a gamer when you'll have a better objectivity.

Cory and Kyle, your comments were a good exemple. Kyle, you might need some notions in respect and etiquette. It's one thing posting your opinion, but calling people moron just because they don't agree with you and, let's say it, you won't ever see the guy so you permit yourself to say whatever you want, is totally unrespectful. Your mother never told you that? When you'll have learned some of this, maybe your opinion could be noticed the way it should be, until then go back play your ALL KING GOD FREAKING Halo that has nothing extraordinay.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 10:17 AM DanteUY said:

Totally agree.

I wont write a novel here about how spot on your comments are or how much hate do I feel towards Halo. I dont need that. Besides the "frat boys", everyone knows Halo is overrated and incredibly undeserving all the prays it gets.

Halo i son eof the worst FPS around. I can name at least 10 games that are way better and arent even close to Halos Media´s scores.

Pisses me off.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 10:51 AM DarkerR said:

Ummm Everyones bitching about Halo not being revolutionary... I can prewtty much agree about the sequels (its hard to be innovative in a sequels) but the innovations from Halo:CE I remember are

1: Recharging shields so that each fight is started the same and you don't have to creep through the game quick saving every 2 seconds because you only have 3% life left. (nearly every action game copied them)

2: Only 2 weapon slots meaning that you have to choose your weapons not just carry every gun in the game in your pocket. (Again widely accepted across action games now)

3: Hierarchial AI, the enemies behaviour changed depending on how you attacked, finish off an Elite and the grunts were easy. (still hasn't been beaten as far as different AIs interact)

4: Different enemy types that required different techniques to beat.  Elites were like you, Jackals were a stationary shield, Hunters were a bitch (untill you figured them out) and Grunts were a joke, unless they got on a turret/threw a grenade... halfway through the whole dynamic changes abnd your fighting for your life against the flood.  Probably my least favourite enemy as they were most like enemies in regular FPS... just run at you regardless of your tactics (other games try but they don't interact in the same way)

4a: 3-way battles between you flood and Covenant

5: Large outdoor levels that transitioned inside without any loading

6: Adding physics to there vehicles... Tribes 2 may have done it first but they weren't much fun.  theres nothing better than that first valley when you get a Warthog in Halo CE

7: Checkpoints... so you don't have to creep along quick saving every 2 minutes (copied by most action games today)

8: Levels that were fully formed... that you could 'get out of' Everyone loved jumping on the top of silent cartogropher and looking around. 

9: 16 player system link on console... I know PC has been doing this for years, but I, maybe once, got three PCs together to play.  Being able to play split screen on halo meant just 2 or three boxes meant massive FPS fun at home... something I'd never experienced before

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 11:22 AM Hazel Blears MP said:

I totally agree with the article.  Halo3 was a complete flop for me.  I  played it once all the way through once and a bit of multi-player and then gave it to a mate how has just bought a 360.  To all thw whiney fanboys, Halo 3 does suck.  An overrated sequel which should no way scored 10.   A score of 8 to 8.5 would have been more realistic.  If Halo3 was so popular when why is it behind COD4 on the xbl stats.  Suck on that and smoke that bitches.  I win screw you and your mum as you don't have a answer.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 11:38 AM DarkerR said:

Because COD is based in something people relate to on the news or in the media so they think its relevent.  For me COD 4 had great atmosphere but the gameplay was pretty much identical to any FPS you'd like to mention...

And you wouldn't want to screw my mum, shes going through the menopause and you'd need way too much lube

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:00 PM Jesus said:

DON'T READ THIS YOU TWAT!

Every time I get around the Internet to look up some articles on gaming I always end up reading some crap like this. You know, there is almost no good game journalist to find on this whole freaking planet. Except from some older ones, though it makes me even more worried to think of them not getting anything more exciting to do with their lives than to write to people with no intellect about games. If there is something to write about games it should be that there is to many opportunities being wasted on making mainstream dumplings for this zombie-world to digest, instead of making new educational and very informative games. But back to your shitty article mister.

You know, when you hate something you got to know what it is you hate. Dan Burros didn't even know what he hated, he hated some part of himself. A totally confused member of the earth.

Well , let's blame the youth in this poor heart.
And you could do so yourself if you are smart.
Because you are incompetent in hiding your feelings to something that doesn't make sense.
It is maybe a result of your braincells not being packed so dense?
You really don't have anything clever to say.
Unless about the kids that hate speech spray.
But that is something we already know.
There is no need to address it like if it was John Doe.
I really don't think you played this game much.
Co's a sniper isn't that hard to clutch .
If this country where China, your stupid thoughts would mean jail.
God would then reincarnate to say that:
YOU FAIL!

Making this post very understandable takes to much time and words, and since you are interested in philosophy (oh, so you can read) I thought you might find the point(s). Also I took the notice of you being a womanizer. Just one good trick my fellow hunter, be more thought-through. Girls don't like silly wankers.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:12 PM bobby said:

disagree 100% but, can you say nintendo? if their is a sell-out game its every single game made by nintendo after 2000 with mario or zelda in the title!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 01:35 PM Stumbler McBobson said:

This looks like a poorly hidden Half-Life fanboy rant about how Halo sucks.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 03:28 PM Jarlex said:

Amen to that, I've always felt the same. Halo is just boring!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 03:58 PM Joesph said:

This article is wrong, Halo's single and multiplayer are the some of the most well executed features in all of video gaming. To start, halo's single player is one of the greatest ever written in a video game. It has great AI, good balance, and you really care about the characters. You say multiplayer is bad here this. They have a whole video gaming league dedicated for it. Teams like Final Boss, Str8 Rippin, and Team Carbon win about a million dollars a year just for playing Halo. Obviously if Raphael, you are a noob when it comes to halo. The only weapons that are good are snipe, sword, and stickies. BS, every heard of Rocket launcher, BR, Shotty,. You obviously really Suck at halo.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 04:00 PM Taylor said:

Well played, Sir Rafael!

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 04:05 PM Mr. Obvious said:

Who cares what this guy thinks. This is just a desperate attempt to get traffic...and it's working. Good job.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 04:21 PM Chris said:

I do agree with many of the points in the article, such as that Halo didn't do anything drastically different (other than recharging shields), but I don't think the game sucks; it's still a good game, and it did most things well. I will also agree that geting sniped in the head 3 or 4 spawns in a row is miserable and frustrating (though it can be partially remedied by switching to pistol and meleeing as you spawn so your head jerks forward, in Halo 1 at least). The sniper and sword are not the only weapons that deserve merit, though. The rocket launcher, the 3-shot-wonder-Halo 1 pistol (one of the most overpowered weapons I've ever seen, and you SPAWN with it), the lol-look-at-me-I-can-BXR-and-RRX Battle Rifle (pistol's not-so-ridiculous cousin with additional WTF-melee glitches), the I-can-snipe-you-with-this-Halo 1 shotgun, etc.

But seriously, if you will base nearly your entire argument on how the sniper is broken, consider this. You mentioned Perfect Dark. Now, don't get me wrong. I love Perfect Dark. It remains to this day one of my favorite games ever. But remember the FarSight XR-20? Held over a 100 rounds of ammo at once, was a one-hit kill, could shoot through walls, had X-Ray vision, and an auto-targeting system that locked onto the nearest player (with said X-Ray vision). You had the FarSight, you won. Just had to camp on the ammo and pick a guy off every 3 seconds. There ARE more broken weapons out there. Snipers in Halo, namely good ones, can, yes, get extremely aggravating when they continuously spawn camp you (even worse if they are prepubescent, hyperactive, foul-mouthed children, which is what muting is for), but honestly, it's not THAT BAD, and it certainly doesn't ruin the game.

Does Halo deserve straight 10's? No, in my opinion. It's a good game, but not THAT good. That said, it's also not a terrible game. It's reasonable to say that it's overrated, but unreasonable to say it sucks.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 05:24 PM gage said:

this guys just crying cause he cant play very well

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 06:00 PM Adam said:

You're obviously blinded by to things.

A) your unnecessary hatred towards Microsoft and belief that the company that owns the system matters rather than the game itself. How does Microsoft owning Xbox have ANYTHING to do with Halo being overrated? It doesn't.

B) Your lack of gaming skill.  Snipers really aren't overpowered. As said before, if you really can shoot through three heads, it's rare and probably glitchy.  If you don't run in a straight line, it's not that easy to hit, especially since the bullets have a speed, so you have to lead a target to hit it anyway.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 08:46 PM Haynix said:

A-FUCKING-MEN

Play PC FPS's like Crysis or Battlefield if you want a real game.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 08:48 PM Haynix said:

Halo : FPS
as
MTV : Music

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 09:23 PM Rick James said:

You say that there is nothing innovative about Halo, but isn't the sniper rifle with ultimate precision and no recoil innovative?

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 10:02 PM Rockhound said:

The sniper rifle is a 50 Cal. ARMOR PIERCING round. We have guns in the military that can shoot through tanks and split people in half. Bullets can penetrate and by nature that's what sniper rifles do. They're meant to penetrate, mainly for head shots and torso shots militarily speaking. And as for it being a God gun it's far from it. It depends on who uses it one, not everyones good at sniping and two you could easily wipe the floor with some a sniper if you've got a battle rifle given that you don't get sniped in the head or miss with your own shots. As for it being over hyped, I don't think they needed to take out it's own flavor of Mountain Dew either but its a fun game. The community is full off assholes I know, but that's why you can MUTE them. And not all of them are assholes anyway. I'm sure Half Life has a shit load of douche bags too and so far you seem like a big one. And Halo has great tactical opportunities if your intelligent enough to figure them out. if theres a sniper that kills you big fucking deal, you respawn and figure out how to take him out, there are plenty of ways to sneak up on him or take him out with a rifle or a well thrown frag and yes, a little bit of luck. It gives you plenty of opportunities to be creative and strategic as other games do. As for the traffic cone its called a glitch, a fuck up, ALL games have them. Honestly, tell me of the multitude of traffic cones that have killed you. What of the swarms of players deliberately  killing you with the orange cone of death hmm? If you don't like Halo whatever, don't play it. I have Half Life 2, i tried it on the pc and played with freinds cause it came with counter stike and that i love to play. But half life I don't like very much, nothing personal. And you know what I do about it. I don't play it and I don't bitch about it. So please stop giving your father reason for wishing that he had pulled out that night he boned your mom in a truck stop bathroom and stop being a sack tickling kid toucher.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 11:22 PM kevin said:

thank you thank you thank you, finally someone with some sense speaks on this horrid game, i was genuinley insulted as a gamer reading these biased generic reviews for what can only be described as a lack luster piece of garbage, this article is 100% right, halo has nothing to offer as far as FPS go, once again thank you

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008, 11:58 PM Godlyssone said:


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 12:04 AM Godlyssone said:

I find it funny that you attack the sniper rifle, Yea i understand 2 shots kill, and yea i understand it shoots fast and on the move, but would bet everything that i own that if i came at you with, hmm idk a pistol, and you had a sniper i would win 99% of the time, due to the simple fact that you think its the end all be all of wepons, its funny how you say praise perfect dark a few times in this artical when it has one of the most OP wepons ever invented, you know the one im talking about, Their sniper rifle, the one that shoots threw walls, the one that will 1 shot no mater what, also it self homes.... honestly before you start to talk to real hardcore gamers about how bad a game is, think about what your saying, ive played FPS all my life, and i have no problem with halo 3, learn  to play get good. Dont just say all halo 3 players are mainstream conformists and that they are the worst gaming community ever. your oppinion is biased and has no real facts, it is just you ranting about how bad you "THINK" a game is, not how bad it actually is... GG

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 12:58 AM Luke said:

Some of his points were good, but he ignored some pretty important game aspects. For one thing, the game DOES in fact have distinguishing features: the recharging shields. They improve gameplay by eliminating the need for health packs and make running/hiding an important part of strategy.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 03:50 AM RACSO said:

Rafeal U Suck. TF2 has shit graphics and the class system is crap.  Get over it u get sniped sometimes.  Halo 3 is not Overrated.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 04:07 AM RACSO said:

1 more thing about the sniper rifle

-Just because the enemy has a sniper rifle doesnt mena its game over, have u ever tried shooting someone in the head when shooting the sniper?  did u no that no scoping is very difficult (?), and that if u stay out of range of them beating u, u should win most of the time unless they no scope u in the head or twice in the body.

-Yes, it is very unrealistic to fire a sniper while running or falling out a plane with no recoil but did u notice that it is the same for every other weapon in halo?  did u stop to think that bungie chose to do this so the game is more fast paced, fun and easier to shoot someone. (alternatively can u just accept that maybe weapons in the feature have full recoil absorbtion, combined with the suit of the master cheif)

-This is what makes halo more fun than TF2.  You can no scope someone (because there are crosshairs and the sniper actually does damage when not scoped in).  Also while were on the subject of it being un realistic did u think about how the sniper does more damage when scoped in on tf2, does that make any sense? 

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 05:10 AM Moh said:

ive been playing video games since i was 6 years old for 21 years now .. i had almost every console you heard and not heard about .. ive played all kind of games rpgs , first person , survival horror , sports .. etc ,, i watched and played from donkey kong until metal gear solid 4 ,, but trust me you are right and im with you 100% halo is overrated and doesnt deserve to be a legend title in gaming because halo didnt come with a new idea or gave a development that we can call an evolution ,, ill give you an example of a legendary game ( Biohazard deserves to be a legendary game because it came up with new ideas and there is a new criteria in video games called survival horror thanks to bioharad and capcom of course ) ,, im here to say my opinion on halo and not xbox and microsoft fans ,, because i admire the work of xbox360 right now ,, thanks alot for listening

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 05:36 AM Leon said:

I personally HAAATE HATE Halo, just the site of it makes me want to puke rub my nails together relentlessly. I don't know why, I just don't like it. But not for the reason you stated.

The reason you gave were very biased, and most likely because you just sucked at Halo.

I still hate Halo, I just can't stand it. It reminds me of terrible times.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 07:46 AM Jackie said:

Yeah I guess all of you who hate it, get owned. 
Like some one said in the in the first couple comments, its and easy game and if you get owned when you play it, DON'T PLAY IT ANYMORE!!!  STOP BITCHING AND WHINING ABOUT IT!!!

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 09:11 AM makebabyjesuscry said:

I love how grown up you sound, with your whole "this game is so bad, I am so cool cause hating popular games is the cool thing to do and everyone hear knows im an outlaw that tells it like it is, cause i dont like halo" You know what, grow the fuck up, seriously.  I understand some people genuinely don't enjoy Halo, that's cool, but it's just so sad when people, like you, act so childish about the popularity of a games to I don't know, make a name for yourselves or something.  You are not a gamer, you like many pretend to be gamers, but are truly posers that think because you have a few games under your belt that range to the N64 you know what the fuck you're talking about. I have some news for you; real gamers play games for fun, competition, and to escape reality, not to hate on good dames because they are popular. It's people like you who really just want to be cool with young minded internet people and give a poorly thought out opinion on a widely popular game; because it's the cool thing to do.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 01:29 PM andy j said:

if you're complaining about being beaten by noobs, consider that the ranking system and gamertag system are designed so that anybody can have multipul accounts; and therefore appear as a beginner even though they are a serious gamer.

if you're complaing about the spaws, learn the levels more, almost everyspawn has a good weapon, and the ones that dont are usually in some way off corner where peopl cant spawn kill.

if you're complaining about the people who play it, RANK THE FUCK UP and play with the good gamers. every game has noobs and nonsupporting fanbase. get over it.

if you;re complaining about the weapons not shooting one million shiny particles and killing an enemy through walls, go play time splitters. the weapons in halo fit it perfectly. they are simple and effective without being overly-exaggerated power weapons. you're probably the team-killing retard that walks around with a flame-thrower the whole time.

the one thing that i do agree with you on: halo is extremely over-rated. well, not so much over-rated, but WAAAAAAAY to popular. back in the halo 2 days, games were fun. but now there are so many glitches that noobs can instantly own elit gamers. i hate the fact that ive been playing for three years but cant reach a certain level b/c people like to show off their tricks instead of keeping them a secret. now everybody has to "cheat" just to keep up with the rest of the gamer population.

but in the end, its all about fun. and im good enough at halo to have fun all day on it. you may be different. maybe you just suck at halo. just because you own at TF2 doesn't mean you can play every FPS and own. if you hate halo; fine. i dont care. but dont call it a shitty game. just go back to steam and play your wonderful team fortress with all of your 35-year-old virgin friends.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 01:31 PM jigga said:

halo 1 for was cool but 2 and 3 can lick ballzack

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 06:04 PM Johnny said:

Sounds to me like your one of the ninfagdo freaks... xbox/microsoft will always be the best at making games, end of story, die cuz no one cares about your worthless life.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 10:29 PM NO AWP said:

Counter-Strike 1.6 is STILL the best MPFPS EVER.

microsoft has YET to make a good game, OR EVEN A GOOD FLIGHT SIM. its true, so stop masterchiefing to your moms picture johnny.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 11:25 PM gostrooper said:

i can point out plenty of ACTUAL reasons of why you suck at halo:
1. u blame the game for ur defeat.
2. u said u play with people that are good at halo, try some noobs, that should be on level for ya.
3. the single player mode exist for 2 reasons, A) its a kick ass story with a bunch of cool cut scenes, B) it prepares you for the multiplayer onslaught.
4. halo IS balanced, have some one sniping from a window? lob gernades and shoot rockets into that window when they are not looking or reloading, trust me a rocket will kill a sniper.
5. the vehicles in halo are designed to be used in a team like fashion. for example, have a chopper clear out all other vehicles and have a warthog with a chain gun take care of the infantry while a guy gets the flag, teamwork is a killer in halo
6. again, teamwork, its a killer.
7. the shields mean you have about 15 seconds to take cover before you die. the overshields mean you can walk up to some one thats about ten feet away and beat them down while they are unloading on you. shields do not = superman
8. there is a reason that bungie gives a mute option, use it
9.if ya dont like the shields and radar and laser swords, use the SWAT variant of the game, its just like rainbow six or COD, but on a ringworld
10. if you go to forge and look at how many spawns there are, there is hardly a chance of you gettin spawn-raped. so maybe you should stop playing on the same tv

other things that are lies within this page
Master Chief is not just another fancey guy in a suit with a gun.
if you know the story, then you know that Master Chief is part of a military program that aims for SQUADS of these super soldiers, not just one guy that can do whatever the hell he feels like. And the armor, it is truly unique, mainly because the icon of the armor, the helmet, is modeled after a paintball helmet. Just about anyone with a life/brainstem would know this.

So to me, your problem is that your a faggot that lives in a basement and you havent stepped out of that basement since the last pokemon convention.
So dont say halo is stupid because you get assraped because ur a n00blet that hasnt played the story.
go back to playing your fag games

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 11:45 PM jonathan woot! said:

halo sucks, if yhou like halo you suck, shut the fuck up and go play a real FPS like CS:S or TF2

Bottom line is if you play halo you ARE A FAGGOT

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 12:32 AM tony b said:

I love you and everyone who argree's with you, I've felt this way since the first Halo.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 01:45 AM wes said:

wow. you must really suck if you have that much of a grudge against one weapon. The sniper, on most maps, doesn't spawn too often and most people choose and alternative, a weapon the single-handedly changed how we play our favorite game...the Battle Rifle. 4 shots, one kill if your good with headshots and bxr in halo 2. the sniper is not god.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 10:41 AM stop smoking said:

Agreed, the sniper isn't that amazing, and it gives away an enemy's position so you can either hide or sneak up on them.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 01:36 PM Xbot said:

halo 3 was the worst dissapointment since the nintendo wii, its really terrible and overated i gave it a 4/10 that how much that game sucks in all areas, theres nothing good about the game NOTHING!

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 03:43 PM Mickey Freeman said:

Halo 3 is a great game.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 06:08 PM anon said:

I love how the author of this article only responds to those comments which have no real weight.  And as for all of the posters saying a variation of "lul all jooz who barsh dis artical r teh macrosoft fanboi"....the irony is delicious. 

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 06:10 PM anon said:

And as for you, NO AWP...microsoft didn't make Halo.  You're dumb, and your internet privileges are hereby revoked.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 09:00 PM Master M. said:

Do you really have to disrespect fraternities by relating them to halo? I realize that halo is an overrated piece of shit, but don't disrespect fraternities in the process.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 12:58 AM spongekill said:

I think you just really suck at Halo.. that's what I get from this article more than anything else: you're a sore loser and got your ass handed to you and couldn't take it, so you decided to bitch about it on the internet, since god knows no one in real life wants to hear it.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 01:18 AM anonymous said:

the problem is you're complaining about a video game. of course its not going to be realistic because it's a video game. if you're arguing about the lack of reality in the game then you might want to talk about the aliens,plasma grenades, space travel, etc. if you want reality go outside.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 02:02 AM Arc Voldar said:

while I know that my comment wont be seen by many in the tomes of the complaints and praises of this article i feel that like everyone else i must put my two cents in.

now i have taken both philosophy classes and english classes and could tell you right off the bat, your arguement sucked. lets start with this hole armor business. there have been claims that there should be recoil. the counter point to this is that the armor, like the story suggests is superb and that he would not get recoil. your counter point to this is that a flying traffic cone killed you. while this is funny and annoying it still is within the realm of possibility. the helmet is less protected than the rest of the body (anyone that looks at the armor could tell you this). if you want to throw a little bit of actual physics and chemistry into this mix i could tell you that anything that you intend to actually see through will be less hard than most things you cant see through. if you want to go by story, the shielding is concentrated mostly around the larfe parts of the body, aka the chest. the head is a small enough object that a shield around it, that was generated by it, when it has to fit a head and give a HUD, and hold an AI, and relay commands from the brain to the rest of the armor is very hard so it would have a light shield at best.

the claims against any weapon in Halo are nullified. as stated im sure by countless people above here, the weapons balence each other out. it is merely how proficient  you are with each weapon and where you are in relation to your target, IF that is your only target. sniper rifle, while good i agree, has no radar while scoped, cannot be scoped under fire and sucks at medium range against anyone with an smg or someone that can strafe.

the single player i found to be quite good actually, i enjoyed the plot more than anything else.

the multiplayer.....i liked it, yes there are people that seem to have the brain of a monkey on there, but that is what i would expect from any game that got so insanely popular. you hailed TF2 as a good FPS yet what was this medic rampage i heard about after a lot of medic achievements came out? sounds like it had a lot of annoying monkey-brained people too

you say that games have done what halo has done before. i wonder....have they put them all, everything that people shout about halo, the singleplayer, the weapons, the maps, the multi-man-ness, the co op, the replay-ability, etc. everything into one other game? i would like to know which game if so. yes


you could say im a fan boy, throw away my testimony as though it were trash, say i dont know what i am talking about but that wouldnt get rid of anything. In the end ill still be playing halo because your essay here couldnt convince anyone to leave halo. which if that is not your point, then i still see no point to your essay other than to blow off steam and make a few people angry, which if it is, congrats you win.


P.S. to jonathan woot!- i dont understand how my choice of gaming would make me either a piece of wood (real term for faggot), a cigarette (brittish term for it) or a homosexual (the mentally and socially challenged term for a faggot). Especially that last one seeing as how the closest thing to a naked body in Halo is Cortana which is an AI in the form of a woman.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 02:04 AM Arc Voldar said:

P.P.S. one more thing i forgot to mention....your vids? the ones where things that are incredulous happen? its a game, not perfect it messes up occasionally. get over it

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 04:00 AM TheFreakyBrit said:

I love your point about the sniper rifle, that is if i wanted to play a game that bores me to death every time the 'realism' gets in the way of having FUN. If you seriously want to use the realism argument to diss a game then possibly every game from here to tetris could be falmed this way. Here's a clue, in real life random coloured blocks don't fall from the sky. Halo is just FUN, I'm not saying its the best game ever and it doesn't deserve perfect scores by any means, but it is hilariously fun to get drunk and play a 6 hour halo 3 marathon and still be able to hit things in your inebrieated state.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 05:03 AM Xbot said:

halo 3 a 4 hour game i will pass.

there are countless FPS that are far better then halo.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 05:13 AM Asa said:

oh god were to start.... halo 1 and 2 were good games no they did not bring anything new to the table but it did everything well the story  was good and it made you want to keep playing . now we get to the peace of shit they call halo 3 i know that your in "power armor and that he's a super whatever" but you jump like 30 feet in the air and the game play is what i don't like it felt to fast not controlled like in 1 and 2 i thought that i was playing unreal and not halo. the story mode  on halo 3 was to short you can beat it in a good 8hrs of play time. the online  blow harder the hurricane Katrina(what still to soon)if i have to hear one more 12 year old tell me that he is going to fuck my mother or yell nigger in the mic for 5 mins because he thinks its funny i going to find them and choke the with their play and charge kit wire. but im getting off point halo 3 sucks and i treaded that shit in as soon as CALL OF DUTY 4 came out. 

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 07:35 AM dkg said:

SO TRUE !

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 09:40 AM I HAVE NO NAME! said:

I'd agree with pretty much everything that you've said in your article. Halo is vastly overrated in everything except it's multiplayer, which always proves entertaining if you don't care at all about winning at Halo (which I don't.) Other than that, forget Halo. Other FPS do multiplayer much better.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 04:47 PM Adam said:

Dude your speculating too much. Just play and have fun.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 04:51 PM SwampFox said:

One thing that hasn't really been looked at is that video games are aimed at teenagers. Many people think halo is a great game, because it's one of the funner ones of their generations. Sure, more "revolutionary" games have come out, but they're old and today's teenagers haven't (and probably never will) play them, chances are, today's older gamers still won't go back and play those games again.

I also haven't seen mentioned halo's re-chargeable shield. I hadn't seen that done in any other game, and that aspect of halo makes it more fun in multiplayer, you can get in multiple firefights without gradually having less and less health.

Some other things, kids on XBL are annoying. lrn2mute. The whole multiplayer experience is all about controlling the power weapons-being able to do that is the skill part of the game. If you are really miffed about the unbalance weapons, play MLG.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 05:19 PM Kerbyninja said:

Finally someone with the back bone to stand up stick it to the man! (or the game in this instance)

Thanks for the read!

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, 05:47 PM joe said:

some of you need to stop defending halo like you have stock invested in microsoft or bungie. none of you helped make it so quit acting like you put blood, sweat and tears into this game. and as for that Arc Voldar jackass i love how you point out  that you took an english and philosophy class yet you forgot to mention that that you either failed those classes miserably or you dropped out after the first day. cause anyone reading that can see you didn't do good in either of those classes. why don't you try increasing your IQ to above room temperature before you throw out things like that. and as the famous Monty ( ryan reynolds) once said, saying halo 1 is the greatest fps of all time is like saying your the smartest kid with down syndrome. halo 2 and 3 are even worse, all glitching and little kids yelling and being obnoxious. halo sucks.. thank god it's over let's hope they keep that door locked forever and lose the key in bill gates's bum.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 12:56 AM Anon said:

I dare you to find, one, ONE damn game, that will get a group of gamers from all over the planet, from all degrees of hard core-edness, from all sorts of genres, into one room to play a game of team slayer.

And yeah, I play it. I enjoy, and I do so for the same damn reason I love those stupid Sci-Fi Original movies like Frankenfish. BECAUSE IT'S FUN.

Blather on about, "UNORIGINAL, CRAPPY MAPS, BLAND TEXTURES, CRAPPY GRAPHICS THE GAMEPLAY SUCKS BLAH BLAH BLAH," all you want. Nobody cares about some random asshole on the internet, and I don't say that to be a dick, I say that because you sound like some butthurt gaming fan that can't take the fact that some people like a game that YOU DON'T!

Seriously motherfucker? Shut the hell up. If we like the god damn game, then we like it. And hell, if it's been getting such good ratings, such clamor, maybe the guys at bungie KNOW what the fuck they're doing, hmm?

Oh, and don't bother expecting a reply from me if you have a retort- I'm just a Stumbler who thinks you're blowing shit out of your ass on a site I would never have gone to if I didn't have the Stumble button.

Sincerly,
Some motherfucker who plays game for FUN and doesn't put a bug up his own ass when a game he doesn't like/play/sucks at gets good scores and lots of fanfare from the gaming world.

OH! I almost forgot! JESUS CHRIST. STOP TALKING ABOUT "REALISTIC FIREFIGHTS/PHYSICS/SHIT LIKE THAT." It's a motherfucking VIDEO GAME. A motherfucking SCIENCE FICTION video game, set in the motherfucking FUTURE. IT'S NOT FUCKING REAL. CHRIST.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 12:59 AM Anon said:

One more thing: "joe." The guy who wrote before me.

LEARN TO ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER.
You sound like a complete moron, and worse yet, some ill-informed 13 year old who thinks that by trying to make someone else's perfectly legitimate argument sound stupid, you can make your own sound intelligent, despite the fact that you don't even understand basic capitalization, grammar, or (get this!) SPELLING.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 03:47 AM T-Diz said:

Halo isn't that great... Half Life 2 dominates it from EVERY aspect. The first Halo got big because all the kids who got an Xbox bought it because it was the best title on the system. Which doesn't say much... It was a great system far superior to ps2 and gamecube as far as hardware goes, but it didn't get shit for titles. So the guys who bought an xbox instead of a ps2 or a decent video card for their pc fell in love with halo and halo 2. Which because only an idiot would want an xbox over a video card, that spawned the HORRIBLE online community. And the fact that the game is idiot proof... I mean you log in, select your game type and BAM it finds you a game. If you think Halo is awesome then do yourself a favor, buy any video card that costs more than 50 dollars and enjoy the orange box or the counter strike:source bundle. Please, educate yourselves in the ways of gaming. This guy did a pretty good job of tearing Halo fans apart. Next I'd like to see someone tear WoW a new one. But that probably won't be necessary once Warhammer: Age of Reckoning comes out.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 06:19 PM Craze said:

    Whomever wrote this article obviously has some obsession with disliking a game that has popularized gaming,  I being a self-pronounced "gamer" am happy that a game such as Halo is picked up by more than just the average gamer, how is attracting more players bad.  I love sharing the experience of gaming with people other than elitist gamers.   Who cares if they're some college students or some 12 year olds, please tell me one game where you don't encounter 12 year olds and college students online.  Who cares who is playing, apparently you, because apparently only "gamers" can play video games, only athletes can play sports, only chefs can cook.  Don't even try to go pick up a basketball because I'm sure a basketball player will come and shove it in you're face that you are not allowed to play because you're not a basketball player.  What a horribly ignorant and elitist view to have, not wanting someone to enjoy something because you think it encroaches on your lifestyle.

    And it's completely absurd of you to say you don't like a game because you're experience with it consisted of you getting your ass kicked.  EVERY new game I play for the first couple times online I get my ass handed to me, and do I get mad, of course I do, but do I berate the game, no I keep playing until I improve.  Which brings me to another one of your "points"  you rant about not being able to win because of the god-like sniper, what a load of bull.  What a fitting weapon for you to criticize too because it seems as though your tight-ass, elite mindset causes you to rag on a weapon that you probably abuse in other games.  Anyone who has played Halo for more than 5 games can tell you that the sniper isn't even the best weapon, it is clearly the battle rifle.  And even so anyone without their eyes-crossed and minimal effort can take down someone with either the sniper or the battle rifle, with almost any weapon.  And the sword, what a horrible weapon in Halo 3, in Halo 2 it was quite powerful but they fixed that in Halo 2, it is much slower and you can't hack down people like you used to, it has been completely re-balanced.  And lastly in the weapons department, they sticky,  I can't believe someone would have the audacity to try and criticize the plasma grenade,  you have to be a horrible gamer and you pick up Halo, let alone any FPS and not strafe.  If you walk straight towards someone like a blubbering retard firing every bullet in your clip a smart player is going to obliterate you with a grenade to your face, but if you played tactically you would find that avoiding being stuck is disgustingly easy.  I could rant about how defeatable the sniper/sticky/sword actually is but I feel as though I don't have to because you, having a limited knowledge of the game, are one to make quick judgments on little to no information, so you had no right to make those points in the first place.  It's ignorant of you to make an assumption like that when you're not even experienced with the game.

    Let me also address the single-player while I'm at it.  I'm sorry if you didn't like a games story line, that's your problem and your opinion, but to me I like the storyline, and I like the way the game plays out, but I also respect that fact that some people won't like it.  Saying it's a "weak" part of the game is absurd though, there's plenty of games with shit story, like (I can't wait to be harassed for this one) Mario, where is the story of flying around in outer space or spraying dirt off of stuff.  Now do I recognize that the game is fun and people like it, yes, but will any Nintendo Fan admit to me that the game has a story for a First-Grader, I think not.  Another thing to point out about the story-mode, you can play it co-op, which is quite fun, and only adds to the experience that I, and tens of thousands of people, enjoy.  Has the author ever played the story, I don't know, but from the looks of it, I think not.  I mean why would someone play a game let alone a system that turns his soul black.

    I come to the defense of this game, not because "Hal0 Rul3z 4 Lyf3"  but because it is a game that I have come to enjoy and the author of this article has made a biased and ignorant point.  Halo may not be my favorite game, but I do play it frequently and feel as though it does not deserve the harassment of this absurd person:

"Halo, in my infuriated opinion, is the most overrated and undeserving game series of all time. "

I will admit there is a bit, and I when I say "a bit" I mean a minuscule amount of overrating, but nothing to call it undeserving, it is a great game and if you can't recognize that even though you don't like it you are horrible undeserving of the privilege to be able to write articles for any media.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 07:05 PM anti-troll said:

You are clearly trolling which makes you lame, that is all.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 08:26 PM Mexifry16 said:

Halo like any game has it's flaws but I think the reason its so popular is simply the "fun" factor. I was listening to some reviewers talk about why they give games good scores and they kinda came to this realization that much of the time they play a game and give it a score long before they have any reason or evidence to give it such. They get an emotional trigger that says "hey I'm really enjoying myself here" and when it comes time to write a review they sit down and say gee why did I like this game so much? and then come up with reasons. Halo whatever you may say has the fun factor. It's by no means the best shooter ever made but it's fun to play.

Secondly the story is not all that bad. having the whole religious zealot element to the covenant adds something i haven't seen often if at all. Of course I admit I'm not exactly a huge sci-fi fanatic but  the story was compelling. Of course when you point out any one thing there was games that did it better but really it's the total accumulation of good solid game mechanics that make it an outstanding game.


lastly i also hate Microsoft because they are pirates and it's all about money not the consumers for them. Yet at the same time they often make quality products. i will never by a mac and so I'm stuck with windows, but still windows xp is a quality os. The xbox and the and xbox live are quality products and services but microsoft themselves do so many things i disagree with. it's difficult for me as a gamer to hate their products when very often they are so good.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 09:18 PM joe said:

jeeze AM Anon i didn't realize i was going to be critiqued for my spelling and punctuation. maybe if i was getting a grade or something i would put effort into that but i was simply stating that if your going to say in the first sentence that you took a english and philosophy class maybe you should be shit hot with your spelling and statements. and as for your english this is your first sentence when you wrote something to me "  LEARN TO ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER" yeah because that's proper english haha jackass... learn to speak yourself before you critique someone. haha i'm sorry for talking about your butt buddy and it's sweet that you come to his rescue. but you contradicted yourself by making fun of me, because your making fun of me for the same thing i was making fun of him for. now if you want later on you can show me on the doll where your father touched you and we'll get through this.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 11:20 PM DJ Reactor said:

I agree. You do not need skill to play Halo, but it's not necessarily about having skill to play the game. It's about having fun. Half the population on any game will be pissed because they keep dying, but that's what makes it fun for the other half.

It's how it almost always is. In any case, I do agree with you. Halo is a game for anybody to have fun because they can one-hit somebody in the toe, and laugh about it. Hell, maybe jeer that person because "lulz i 1hitd un u died!"

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 12:37 AM zero-kill said:

Let's not forget that the game was supposed to be first person, from the very start. It wasn't until the dev team thought that adding a multiplayer aspect to the game would be super cool (yes intended use of a stupid phrase). Halo 1 had a great story line, Halo 2 did as well. I don't know of the 3rd version because I can't afford a next-gen console just yet, got a Wii, but that's the extent.

I could care less about multiplayer, and I will admit that I suck at most first person shooters, with the exception of Time Crisis, and that's only because you get to hold a gun vs. a controller.

I will agree that the franchise is overly popular and the community is vulgar, but that's to be expected. Whining about something being popular is stupid, because it's going to stay popular and your article will be ridiculed and you will be made fun of because you don't bandwagon like everyone else. Gamers should wholly just keep their minds in their heads and not let their ideas flow into their fingers for use at typing these darn blogs/comments.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 05:37 AM Nouvel_Homme said:

I MOSTLY agree with you.  I think it is a highly overrated game which truly has done NOTHING revolutionary as it is touted as having done.  I'm no stranger to annoying friends who talk about nothing but Halo and play nothing but Halo and it gets on my nerves when I try and introduce them to a truly innovative game (of any genre) and it's turned down as crap.  It annoys me that this game continues to rule the FPS game nowadays even though there are multitudes of FPS games which are more realistic (i.e. Counterstrike...to a degree), more innovative (i.e. COD4 is pretty clever in its implementation of many game elements), and just more fun in general (i.e. pretty much any other FPS in my opinion).

However, I believe someone earlier said it the best in that it's like when we go see terrible action movies, not because we think they will actually be any good, but because they are easy to understand and entertaining on an almost subconscious level.  Halo is not challenging even after a small amount of play time, so it is easy to pick up at any time.  It is not particularly interesting or clever (in storyline, game play elements, or really anything), yet it is often good to take a break from games that truly challenge us and are worth while. 

I mean, "Howard the Duck" has its place in movies not because it is good, but because occasionally, we need to laugh at the blunders of our society.

PS.  I'm sure you stopped reading these comments after the first 100 angry Fanboy comments, and I'm sure anybody who is commenting angrily hasn't read any of the comments either, so I suppose this whole comment is really just a feeble attempt at putting a decent opinion on a good subject instead of just contributing to everybody calling each other fags all day.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 05:40 AM Nouvel_Homme said:

And by "blunders of our society" I mean the making of "Howard the Duck".

and by that whole comment I mean I personally occasionally enjoy playing bad/overrated video games (like HALO) just for the fun of seeing how bad they really are.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 09:53 AM AL said:

If Halo had come out on PC instead of being a console release, it would have been greeted with a resounding MEH. It is generic to the extreme, it's gameplay is slow paced with the aforementioned overpowered weapons. The only thing I ever enjoyed about halo was the fact you could go through the campaign with a friend in co-op mode.

When it comes to multiplayer, Halo tries to be a balls to the walls action shooter in the vein of UT and Quake3, with a clear hierarchy of weapons. No careful rock/paper/scissors balancing of different weapons for different playstyles and situations, Halo has some weapons that are undeniably better than others, which in itself isnt a bad thing, except that the pace of halo online is so incredibly slow. You move... like... this... one... step... at... a... time.... The master chief moves like his power armour is full of treacle. UT and Quake3 share a lot of similarities with Halo online, but they are FAST and exciting, and demand you do more than camp on a good vantage point with an overpowered weapon.

I find playing Halo online like driving a 10 year old Fiat Punto on an autobahn. Sure, you could theoretically go mental and drive at the speed of light, but your crappy punto's never gonna get you past 70 anyways.

Halo is somewhere between mediocre and good, but it doesn't deserve anything like the acclaim and hype it has. HL2, CS, TF2, COD1, COD2, COD4, Timesplitters, UT, Quake3 and many other games I can't be bothered to write down cos it would take all day are > halo.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 02:09 PM Morgan said:

Sounds like someone's a little bitter. Maybe you just need to get better. It's okay. We all have to start somewhere.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 04:48 PM Mildcorma said:

It is a fucking fantastic game for your average 20 year old at college.  If you are a gaming elitist then YOU are the minority.  It may be an average game to people that spend thousands on a-spec pc's and about as much on flashy games (usually mmorpgs, they have depth! dont make me laugh), but to everyone else who just wants a casual easy to learn online gaming experience, Halo is it.  Alot of its appeal comes from the fact you can enjoy it with FRIENDS, in youer living room with some BEERS.  Probably a few things you don't and never will have ;)

I hope your rant made you feel better, its an awful lot of effort on your behalf to write something that over 80% of halo players wont actually read, lol xD

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, 07:08 PM I am Anonymous said:

I agree with the article. I don't have the game but I've seen the youtube vids etc. The single player IS crap, unlike Bioshock and Half-Life. But, like someone else said, at least it keeps the Retards away from the good games.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, 12:04 AM Eric said:

I hate Halo, absolutely hate it but I LOVE my XBox and 360.  I have never been able to figure out the hype about this game, it is any other shooter on the market for the most part.

I bought Halo 1 and 2 and tried desperately to enjoy myself and end up trading it in within a week, 2 weeks tops.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, 12:53 AM Cherry said:

Has no one mentioned teh Forge or the amazingly complicated and varied gametypes one can create with map settings? Yes, the community has its retards, but so does every community. The dedication and (shall i say?) genius of many of the map and gametype community is just astounding.

Think of it in terms of Starcraft. Completely different type of game, granted, but the principle is the same. Storyline was boring and no one really cared about it much. Default multiplayer was fun for a while, but unless you had "the micro" you were screwed. Use Map setting was the holy grail of Starcraft in many players eyes. Countless hours of turret D and mass attack.

Now with Halo you can make insane gametypes (think zombies with hammers, 300% movement, 1 shot kill, humans have BR and mongooses), as well as insane maps (anyone played on the millenium falcon or one of the resident evil maps?). The amazing thing about halo multiplayer is, you can do whatever the hell you want, assuming you have a group of friends to play with that aren't looking down their noses at MS all the time.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, 01:28 AM Theotus said:

Fucking finally someone else who has the same opinion. After three years of gaming retail, it's exceedingly refreshing.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, 03:06 AM Yancy said:

Even if you accept the premise that every aspect of Halo is a re-hash of a concept in a previous game (not so), a game doesn't require an original gimmick to be revolutionary or even good. 

If a game takes ideas from other games and implements them better and more cohesively than the games that spawned the ideas (as is the case with the Halo series), it is still revolutionary.  Vehicles, as you've said, are not original to the Halo series.  They are, however, exponentially better implemented in the Halo series than in a majority of the other games out there, especially considering Halo: CE's 2001 release date.  The same is true of dual-wielding in Halo 2.  It's been done before, but Halo 2 does it exceptionally well. 

The sniper rifle is far from perfect.  Granted.  However, given the fact that you provide Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and UT as alternatives, you can't seriously expect us to believe that you enjoy balance in gameplay.  The sniper is far from perfect, and a skilled player can avoid and take out a sniper with just about any of the spawn weapons.

No games have perfect spawns.  Given the whole threat system and the speed of Halo's gameplay, spawns are as fair and egalitarian as possible.  I'm sure you could pull up a video of a spawn trap or two on YouTube, but the fact is that spawns are set up to keep a player as far out of danger as possible, and they do that pretty damn well.

I could go through each of your remaining arguments, but the fact is that Halo garners such good reviews because it is a good game.  10 does not equal a perfect game, because there is no such thing as a perfect game.  10 represents a very well-made game, and Halo is just that.

Oh, and all of the "zOMG, Goldineye is teh best game EVAR!!!11!!" fanboys haven't played it in the past 5+ years.  Plain and simple.  It was great for its time, yes, but not so much by today's standards.  I'm not talking about graphics, I'm talking about gameplay.  It's a pain to play nowadays.  You're lying to yourself if you say otherwise, and you know it.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, 07:25 AM Gausie said:

Does it count that I enjoyed the game? A lot?

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 06:23 AM Kal Zekdor said:

I agree with some of your statements. Halo is somewhat overrated, and multiplayer can be unbalanced sometimes, but there was absolutely nothing wrong with single player.

The story was good, if not original, enemy and level designs were immersive and detailed, and the weapon designs were interesting (if not their functions). But, mostly, you overlooked one detail, the AI. Not only will enemies use cover intelligently, they will work together to bring you down. On legendary, you begin to fear elites, as they're not only stronger than you are, they're almost as smart (tactically, anyway). Sure, there was an occasional cubbyhole in the maps which allowed you to snipe with impunity, but often you were outgunned and on the run (apart from the occasional tank sequence). Enemies will intelligently use vehicles, turrets, and terrain. Snipe the guy in the turret and you better be damn sure no one's there to take his place. Take your eyes off an elite for too long, and you'll find him bashing the back of your skull open. Single player is a challenging and rewarding experience, no matter how you feel about multiplayer.

As for multiplayer, there are few redeeming qualities. For instance, melee attacks, especially assassinations from behind. These mean positioning is everything; if you can sneak up behind your opponent, you can kill them no matter what weapon they have, no matter how good a shot they are. The matchmaking service in Halo 2 was somewhat original for it's time, though it has become widespread today. And I have known no other game with such customzibility of it's game rules out of the box. Halo 3 allows for literally hundreds of distinct variations of play.

Are the games in the Halo series some of the best of all time? Of course not. HL2's single player is better, COD4's multiplayer is more balanced, UT's multiplayer is just plain more fun. But it's a good, solid, all-around game, and while overrated, it's not by much. I'd give the series overall an 8/10.

One last parting note; no matter how bad the Halo xBox Live community gets, they will never, never be as bad as the asshats who play Counter-Strike.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 06:55 PM TheGabe said:

I concur!
But it's the fanboys. I blame the fanboys.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 09:30 PM CONRAD SLIMAK said:


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 09:39 PM CONRAD SLIMAK said:

well i think you cansucks my bals
cus ill give you three distiguishing features
1. you find a massive killer weapons which can kill everything and you have to destroy it (cliche)+ you are a super soldier (cliche) in the far future with flying spaceships that have cool guns (cliche)+ you fighting cool ass aliens which are far more advanced (cliche)+ the have a badass like hierarchy religioun ( cliche)= your a super soldier and humanities last hope, to destroy and ancient weapon in space against some bad ass religous aliens which have a hierarchy, yor badass super soldier skills keep you alive while everyone dies and the ring is destryed (DIFFRENT)

2. i hae never seen such a great mix of picking up guns, the variety of vehicles, and the oldschool multiplayer mode in my life

3. on xboxlive people who cant play write bad reviews about the game bashing it cus there useless at every aspect of the game

YOU CAN SUCK MY FAT HAIRY BALLS YOU SNIPER NOOB

i think your mom spanked you so much when you were little that you started t enjoy it thats why really fun things suck for you and things eeryone hates.

also if halo is so overated why are people still playing halo2 i mean seriously. there are almost always ten thousand users playing halo at any given moment

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, 03:24 PM Shizzy said:

I still love it :/

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, 03:59 PM FireFrenzy said:

Yahtzee would approve... and i do too...

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, 05:26 PM You're an idiot said:

Defining characteristic?  Two words.

Halo Shield.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, 08:15 PM Thursdaymarch said:

Halo has very little of a learning curve, its easy to pick up and play, and people want that instant gratification in multiplayer. They want to feel like winners and Halo does just that. Otherwise, this game fucking sucks and lacks the kind of innovation many gamers look for.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, 10:09 PM Guy said:

I agree with this article. Halo didn't really do anything special, but it sold a lot. Halo was made to be sold, it wasn't made because some people wanted to make a game that was innovative, new, and creative. It was because someone wanted money. The same can be said about boy bands.

Halo is the boy band of gaming.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008, 05:02 AM Chris said:

I humbly and without any hesitation agree. Halo is one of the most overrated games ever and not deserving of all the hype and/or time devoted to it.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 10:45 AM dbl0sevenboy said:

I don't know why game designers keep trying, but the best first-person shooter, System Shock 2, has already been made.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008, 06:52 AM Darthziggy said:

Hey, where'd you get those fancy screenshots? Someone did a nice job with those.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, 08:19 AM Max said:

LOL, Bryan :) I get the credit for the one with the giant lovable gun though :)))

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, 10:26 PM Darthziggy said:

Hey, whatever it takes to get some good feedback. As much as we had a minor fanboy flamewar going on, we also had some really great reactions and opinions shared. Bravo, audience!

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 05:34 AM Chris said:

I agree completely. Let the fan boys have their game and we'll stick to the ones which actually have a point

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008, 10:25 PM deimos said:

halo was a par game.

on the other hand name one good FPS that came out around the same time or within a year of its release.  i dare you.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 12:21 AM cheif captain said:

LOL looks to me like a lot of die-hard HALO fans just came to talk crap because it is their game and their life and without it they have nothing. There are so many more and better FPS's out there like; Half life 2, COD 4, CS, etc....You HALO fans just don't want to wake up to reality and realize that there are better games. Im not saying HALO is bad. Its fun every once in a while but it's just lacking. But seriously open your eyes because HALO is not that different from pretty much and other mediocre FPS. The only thing is it looks a bit different.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008, 02:59 PM Gyb said:

Halo is fun, really. I agree...

Though only what I complain about it, it's a complete rip-off, when you bought the game, then you have to pay again for online-playing...No wonder Bungie splited from Microsoft, they just couldn't stand the profit-intended way of "Ball" Gates...

Why do they even make the single-player campaign? I really love Halo 1 story but after that it's just get predictable! And not to mention the-same-old-gameplay-with-better-graphics...I conclude that they were not really serious on the single-player, while they focused on the multi-player and the dead-line...

But, it is...because of you, fan boys, who wanted it as it is, the developer exists because of you. If there are people who are to blame because some veteran PC gamers bash your favourite game, it is yourselves!

Story's not original, see Wikipedia for Marathon games...

"it taeks skillz, n00bz"

No...Try Counter-Strike...It is more worth it, just pay about $20 and nothing else, as far as I know, even if Valve charges you for your account in the future you can still play in a cracked server, if you are walking the path of shooter mastery...Even if you come out at the top, you still have amateur and professional leagues, and of course, international tournaments.

The article is also...sounded like a hatred one...about half of the text is a rant about the sniper rifle...

It's a great game, I will give it a 8.5 out of 10, but giving a perfect score is just absurd.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008, 04:42 PM j ni said:

you dont like halo because you suck at it. get over it. you suck.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 10:57 PM Dragoon_Jett said:

I agree Halo is way to overrated, but you named a lot of old FPS games, and I think you are dwelling on the past, Halo is not a BAD game but there is a lot of better FPS out there.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008, 02:03 AM Vshooo said:

Most of what I wanted to say has already been said, but one comment really stood out.

Halo truly is the most natural FPS I've ever played on a console (note the word console - I love PC FPSs, but you can't compare the two).  Once you custom set your controls and boost your sensitivity, you actually feel like the character you're playing.  Every movement seems perfectly natural and the view reacts in the exact way you would expect it to - far more so than any other FPS on any other console.

In addition, the weapons are much more balanced than they would at first appear - each weapon has a specific situation in which it is better than every other weapon in the game, and when you get good enough the strategy revolves around picking your fights based on your weapons rather than trying to kill as many people as you can.  To use the sniper rifle as an example, the only time a sniper should ever be able to kill you is when he gets the drop on you with a headshot, or combos with a secondary.  Other than that, there's no excuse for getting sniped.  The same goes for any weapon - there's using a weapon, and then there's using it strategically, and knowing how takes the kind of experience gained only from a significant amount of time playing the game (which you obviously didn't put in).

But I mean hey, everyone who's anyone knows that halo's an unbalanced, overrated, piss-poor frat-boy imitation of REAL fps's, right?

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008, 05:49 AM Dust Monkey said:

Do you know how much of a dumb ass you just made yourself look like?! If you can make a better game I'll buy it.

P.S. Vshooo (the comment directly above), SPOT ON

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008, 08:20 AM John said:

Bad move to proclaim your hatred of Halo on the internet.

I wish you would have said "Halo 3" instead of "Halo."  "Halo" is Halo 1, the first game to come out.  Halo was ground breaking because it was so far ahead of previously released games in virtually every aspect. 

Halo 2 was decent graphics, but many other FPS games had similar or better features.  Halo three was even less of a step up than 2 was from 1.  It's graphics are nice, but they are not the best.

What happened in each one was the learning curve for top level playing got higher and higher.  You would have to play exponentially many more years of Halo 3 than Halo 1 in order to achieve a status of "unable to become more skilled."  Thus, Halo 3 is much tougher on novices than Halo 1.

Perhaps most impressive thing about the Halo series is its lack of cheats, exploits, and glitches.  It's really amazing how few there are with so much content and so many million people playing this game series.  Bungie pre-fixed almost all of them.  As an avid gamer, I must say Halo is the most impressive game series I have seen in regard to stability.  Imagine playing an EA game that never glitched, crashed, lagged, timed out, or have unit, storyline, or campaign issues?

Halo 1 was more amazing for its time than 2 and 3 have been, but 2 and 3 are still great games with interesting content and cannot be simply discounted because of a less-than methodical balance investigation.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 01:26 AM Jizmak said:

About damn time someone spoke the truth.
I'm sick of all these halo fanboys thinking that game is the game that trumps all. Fuck them and Fuck Halo.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 09:57 AM aj said:

Sounds like someone just couldn't play the game and decided to take their rage out on the internet again.

Obviously you can name certain aspects of the game that are better represented in an other game, but the point is HALO takes all those aspects and COMBINES them in the same experience.

If you really have to qq about the sniper rifle you have OBVIOUSLY never played Counter Strike. Seriously quit calling yourself a gamer. Until you can man up and deal with the fact that there are people better than you, then you wont like any game.


By the way, the single player was awesome you can go S. myD .

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 11:51 AM TKEGameboy said:

This post is a large amount of false. I'd like to preface my response with this statement. If anything, I am a Nintendo fanboy as opposed to an Xbox fanboy, that being said, let me begin...Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 all sold extremely well. In fact, the argument could be made that Halo is the only reason the Xbox survived. Halo 2, my favorite game in the series, is probably the best competetitive FPS game ever released. Halo 3 was a step back from Halo 2, but is still by all regards an amazing game. Sure, the storyline from the Halo series isn't the most creative or involving story ever created, but it isn't THAT terrible. There are games that do certain portions of gameplay better than Halo, but Halo has combined these things into a cohesive, loveable package. The spawning may be aggravating at times, but it makes me wonder... have you ever played Call of Duty 4, or the new release, Call of Duty: World at War? Neither game has a good spawn system! In fact, Cod: WaW has the worst spawn system I've seen in a recent FPS game. COD 4 is better, but you still have the ability to spawn on grenades, which, in all honesty, I've never had happen to me even with all the time I've spent playing the Halo series, and, trust me on this one, I've played more than you. Much, much more than you. The sniper rifle is probably the msot powerful weapon in the game if used correctly, but it isn't overpowered or unbalanced. It isn't that difficult to take out a sniper if you know what you're doing. However, as is obvious, you don't have a clue what you're doing because you haven't given the game a fighting chance. And yes, I am a Halo FAN, but don't give me this crap about not playing other FPS games. I own and play CS. I obsessed over Half Life 2 for months (superb game, by all means). I made the switch to COD 4 (which is much better than Halo 3 in some respects). And I adore TF 2 (even with all the BS issues it has with it. Yes, I'm saying TF 2 is not all its cracked up to be.) I've played them all, but yet, the game that always keeps me coming back is Halo. Why? Is it the story? No. Is it the online community? No! (It sucks, but the online community is NOT the fault of Halo. Most XBL games have communities that are just as bad, if not worse). What keeps me coming back IS the replayability. I can continuously play Halo, and it still is fun. Its probably the competative aspects that I enjoy. Sure, COD 4 could, and did, provide that same experience for me, but that game has quite a few problems of its own. (Three primary grenades on Wetworks (the ship) anyone? Or how about sniping a person four times in the head while they aren't moving only to realize an invisible wall is protecting them...but not you) My point is, Halo may be a faulty game in some respects, but it DOES deserve the accolades it recieves. And to those who laud Goldeneye 64 still...I agree, go try playing it now. The game was absolutely amazing for its time, but its nearly impossible to play when compared to FPS games nowadays.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 11:52 AM TKEGameboy said:

Sorry about the wall of text, I didn't notice my rant was getting as long as it was...

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 12:19 PM Delivix said:

/agree with the O.P. Halo is a run of the mill mediocre fps. It's by no means a terrible game but it certainly does not deserve all of the plaudits that have been showered upon the series since release. From looking at some of the dissenting replys to this article I think the authors critique of the x-box live community being mainly composed of insuferable immature fan-boys seems to be fairly accurate.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008, 09:01 AM dude said:

Halo is the best game ever!!

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009, 08:48 PM Brianna said:

this is the best analysis and comparison I have read in a long time. I think Halo is so "great" because of the commercialism in it, like getting a helmet when you buy a special edition of the game. and the whole "Red vs. Blue" series. it's not hard to pick up and any noob can make a kill when playing with friends. There is no necessity to know the back story (not that there is much of one) and its just like any other FPS.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009, 03:34 AM dood said:

is this where all the outcast gamers who dont like halo go...? halo isnt necessarily revultionary but its hella fun thats y ppl love it...and it takes skill to snipe sum1 in the head..if u hit them in the chest they start jumping and runnin around its impossible to hit...ive played and i find it just as easy to kill sum1 with an assault rifle as a sniper

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009, 09:00 AM Veritas said:

Before anyone accuses me of being a Microsoft fanboy, I was a big fan of the Nintendo 64, GameCube and I love my PlayStation 2.

Halo wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best. I like Halo because it has a really good backstory, and reading about the Forerunners fight against the flood in Halo 3 (terminals) was sad. I also really liked the music and before anyone goes 'Music? WTF does that have to do with Halo you fag? HALO SUXXORZ!!!!1!!!!eleven!!!!' I just wish to say that the music in Halo really gave it more emotion.

I never play Halo online, why? I don't have Xbox Live, and probably won't for a while. So I won't have to put up with the turds that you complain about online.

I don't think Halo is the best game ever, but it was the game that got me gaming more frequently and boradened my gaming horizon from just RPG's. To me, the best game is Devil May Cry 3 for the PLAYSTION 2, (ZOMG, a Halo fan which automatically seems to equal Xbox/Microsoft fan listing their opinion as the best game as a PlayStation 2 game? Impossible!)

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 12:23 PM Mike said:

Why don't you all stop being pansies? There hasn't been a good game made since the end of the 16 bit era of consoles.

All of you are orgasming about graphics, consoles, power, companies, etc, but you're forgetting a very powerful component in ANY game: GAMEPLAY. I've yet to play a 3D video game with solid/fun gameplay, and likely never will. I stopped being a gamer because all these games are about anymore are the fancy graphics and the sounds and the shit. Yea, you guys love the shit.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009, 03:03 PM Owen said:

well, even if you think that way, I think the sales speak for themselves. Don't like it? Don't fucking buy it then. Douche

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 11:10 PM AssultTank said:

I'm going to have to take Halo's side in this one...
Halo 3 is the first shooter that has made me want to come back to it since 2007 when I had to give up Star Wars Battlefront 2.(ps2 version)
It may not be "revolutionary", but it is a solid game with great controls.
The weapons, in my experience, are pretty balanced with a counter for everything readily available.
I also haven't had too many problems with spawns, sure you can spawn right in front of someone who will kill you instantly, but that happens in every shooter I have ever played.

Like some people have said, and I'll join them in saying it, Halo 3 is a great game, but it is not my favorite. That spot belongs to Perfect World.(OMG A MMORPG!)(OMG A MMORPG PLAYER WHO LIKES SHOOTERS TOO!!!)
Now I will really blow your minds... My second favorite game is Tetris.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 08:43 AM yourmom said:

TF2 is TERRIBLY unbalanced, learn what you're talking about.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 09:01 PM Andrew said:

The reason why Halo revolutionized FPS was because of their controls. Before Halo, FPS' had only one analog stick, which would only allow you to move the character around, and not the gun. What Halo did was use dual analog sticks so you can move around the character while moving your gun around at the same time. What Halo also did was only allow the player to have two weapons, which only a few games made you do, and Halo made this into another standard for FPS'. Finally, what Halo also revoluntionized was the health system. Before in Golden Eye, you had a set amount of health, and it essentially limited your time playing, and if you had a tiny amount of health left, you would surely die first because of that flaw. So what Halo did was give you sheilds, and if you lost health it would eventually regenerate which would leave you with full health. You can argue that Halo is imbalanced but for this feature, it means that the skillfull players will live longer and win more fights then opposed to the player the player who just respawned winning because he had more health then the opposing player. What is also noteworthy is that almost every other game post-Halo now uses a regenerative health system, and some may argue this is not realistic, but then why do games such as COD4 use a regnerative health system.
What Halo 2 did was essentially improve the multiplayer. It introduced a party system so you can always be in the same lobby with your friends and never be seperated, and with this Bungie has set the standard for the party/lobby system and it its now what every other developer strives to do.
What Halo 3 did was to improve on everything from the first two games, and make it a more enjoyable experience. They improved the controls, improved the campaign and they also improved their mutiplayer by adding in additional features, improved party system (ability to mute people with ease, the veto ability, and also Bungie promoting community maps, pictures, videos and gametypes)
Your argument for weapons was also horribly biased. You stated : before: "There are things that annoy me about TF2, to be sure, but those are more personal preference issues..." First off, you just completly contradicted your self, because you said that TF2 is a great game, even though of your personal preferences. Your whole argument is based off your personal perfences (super biased) such as bad respawns to your heart felt hatred to the sniper rifle.
Anyways, on to the weapons. You stated that the only 3 weapons you need to succed in Halo are the sword, sniper rifle and the plasma grenade. This is wrong in so many ways. The sword, first of all has no been redesigned in terms of gameplay so that it is not as powerful. The lunge ability's range has been decreased, you cannot use it for the first second after taking it out, and it is only effective in CLOSE range combat, and only that. You also state that the sword is a gauranteed kill, which is also wrong. When you lunge, there is a chance that you will miss and you can also counter the sword with another sword, or by taking it out from a medium to long range distance. Your argument for the sniper rifle is also very poor. One of your main arguments is that the sniper rifle is that it has no recoil. It does, and it is the most significant recoil in the game. You also said that the sniper rifle was imbalanced because you could run or jump and still fire. You can do this in TF2, COD 4 and in countless other games as well. You also stated that while firing while falling/running you recieved no penalty, such as the bullet being affected by strong winds or by losing momentum, it is first of all very hard to have this happen in a multiplayer game, not to mention this happening over the internet. If this was implemented, you would be complaining about this because your bullets would never hit anybody, even though it would be fair in your eyes, so by having it hit exactly where you fire is one of the only ways to make sure the game is fair. You also state that the sniper rifle is a one hit kill weapon even after a ricochet, but thats only if the bullet hits your head, other wise it takes 2, sometimes 3 sniper bullets to kill you. You also compare the Halo 3 sniper rifle to the far sight in Perfect Dark, but the fact of the matter is that the farsight is more more imblanced then the Halo 3 sniper rifle because it was a multi bullet clipped sniper with heat vision scope that could shoot through any amount of walls anywhere on the level, while still maintaining a one hit kill, so which weapon is more imbalanced now.
Another one of your arguments is that Halo 3 is the only game in which a traffic cone can kill you, but the fact is, I can kill you with a penny if it is travelling fast enough, and in Halo 3 this happens, a traffic cone travelled fast enough to kill somebody so your argument about that is also flawed. It also proves how Halo 3 is a better FPS for using a relastic physics engine.
Finally, any other complaint about the sniper rifle and for anyother thing, know that this game takes place in the year 2552, so there would have obviously been some weapon technology advances during this time so that there would be less recoil with higher rate of fire as well, so take that into account as well.
Finally, I would like to critique you.
Before reviewing something, or overstating your title, please back up your arguments with better evidence, and also, please, please before reviewing anygame, play it to completiton so that your review is not biased of your 5-minute dying fest and also make sure that you know everything about you are arguing so you do not make a huge fool out of your self.
Finally, the 10/10 scores, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE GAME IS PERFECT. Getting a 10/10 is usually the editors choice, or it has greatly exceeded expectations, so please know that a 10/10 is not a perfect, but only a game that has surpassed expectations or has changed a genre.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 05:44 PM derek said:

Great article, very well written and quite humorous. I laughed out loud every paragraph. I'm not very familiar with Halo(I've only played it twice)but your critiques point out some glaringly obvious negatives about its gameplay. Personally, I think its popularity comes down to one thing: obsessive marketing and hype. The amount of money MS throws at this game is obscene. They should invest more money in making the 360 more reliable instead!

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 04:37 AM AntiHalo said:

wow nicely said derek. I agree MS should have invest more money in making the 360 more reliable rather than marketing this crap game !! weapons without recoil is just stupid and for those who said its actually fun you guys are fucking casual gamers.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009, 04:49 AM Rob said:

I must say, this article and just about everyone in it is as fail as can be. The writer is clearly biased as all hell against the Xbox, which he clearly states in the second paragraph. But I have to say, aside from all of the biased bullshit, and his clear lack of research into the story, I must say the people that disgust me the most are the ones who agree with him.

Yes, you can stand there and cheer because you are one of the few 'Rebels' fighting against the Halo craze... But really, you are just a whiny douche. The worst part is that some of these fans are providing well thought out counter-arguments to the original poster, and instead of reading and considering these counters you instantly brand them as a frat boy or a little kid. Wow, you know the two biggest archetypes in online FPSs. People must think you're brilliant, huh?

I do agree that Halo 3 was over-rated. But the original had an amazing single player, and the second had an amazing multiplayer. That's what made them so good. Halo 2's matchmaking system was bar-none, the best on the original Xbox.  Not because it was Halo. Not because it was The Master Chief. Simply because it was well designed. And I suppose i'll end this with a very much overused ending message. If you don't like it... Don't play it.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 07:07 PM Dan said:

Firstly, Halo is overrated. This is a given. Every game has it's flaws and therefore no game should ever have 10/10.

Secondly, the weapons are unbalanced. For example, the sniper rifle is overpowered and the magnum is usless to players who haven't spend time practising. But these weapons give less skilled players a chance to even the odds. If you choose to play with friends this can be a very good thing

Thirdly, yes, most people who play online seem to be whiny 12 year olds. This could be due to the pick up and play controls and extremely short learning curve.

I can't see how this means Halo is a bad game though. I used to play doom with my friends on a regular basis. I spent countless nights killing them on goldeneye. For years I constantly fragged them on unreal tournement along with other games that have been mentioned so far. I now play many games over Xbox live, PSN and  steam, Halo being one of them, not because it is Halo but because it is a really fun game to play with a few friends.

One of the reasons used for Halo being crap is the bad community. The N64 lacked online capabilities so there was no horde of insulting teens waiting in each match. But if goldeneye was released on the Wii or any other console now, you would be teabagged and called gay before you could reload.

I'd just like to clarify that I am in no way a fanboy. I'm not saying Halo is the best game ever, or the worst. I'm just explaining why I think that it doesn't deserve as much hate as it receives. And finaly, I have to extend Rob's "very much overused ending message". If you don't like it... Don't play it... And definatly don't complain about it. It isn't going to cause a worldwide realisation that your beliefs are correct, it will just piss people off and cause flame wars.

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On Tue, May 5, 2009, 02:40 AM LOLOLOL said:

It's so popular because it COMBINES all of these things. Nothing is original. You have to think of it like molecular science. You can build amazing, amazing things with the same source material as other amazing, amazing things. This is how the world works.

On Fri, May 29, 2009, 05:58 PM Shuriken said:

The article screams fanboy. If you think Halo has nothing new, you're absolutely right. It's combining all of the things that made games great is what makes it awesome. Besides, the single-player mode is great. The plotline is interesting and new, unlike Goldeneye.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 12:54 AM dan said:

I could go on and on with the flaws in your logic, but since you seemed to focus on the sniper rifle, I'll focus on guns too.

I'm only going to make one point, don't bitch about snipers, first off, if you CAN'T do anything about 'bad spawns' then why do the same 2-3 players get the snipers, and get to the spots EVERY time, why don't they EVER get stuck with 'bad spawns'.

Besides, you seem to like Perfect Dark, you mentioned it twice.  You think snipers are bad, I have one word for you.

FARSIGHT,

good game sir, I believe I win the point.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 04:29 PM Josh said:

Seems to me that you just dislike snipers. Yeah, they're irritating no matter what game you're playing.

Play better.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 01:12 AM Truth Be Told said:

You're a fucking idiot.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 04:16 AM nope said:

1 essay wont convince 10s of millions of fans that ur right. Have fun with perfect dark

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 04:37 AM Seegs said:

Maybe it's just a game that you're bad at?  I'm no pro but it's fun to play with the buddies.  The campaign may not of been that original (Goldeneye copied a movie for the most part), but it was epic and all the little nuances like a full score, excellent voice dialogue, and just bad ass action sequences made it an awesome experience. 

I can understand that the online play can be frustrating, but you can always play split screen with some buddies on a map without sniper rifles or whatever else irks you.  That is, if you actually know anyone to have over.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 04:37 AM Seegs said:

Maybe it's just a game that you're bad at?  I'm no pro but it's fun to play with the buddies.  The campaign may not of been that original (Goldeneye copied a movie for the most part), but it was epic and all the little nuances like a full score, excellent voice dialogue, and just bad ass action sequences made it an awesome experience. 

I can understand that the online play can be frustrating, but you can always play split screen with some buddies on a map without sniper rifles or whatever else irks you.  That is, if you actually know anyone to have over.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 05:49 AM Kill Volume said:

I agree the sniper is overpowered but HOW THE HELL can you mention the farsight after saying that!? The farsight can no only shoot through AND see through any amount of walls - it has a goddamn tracking system so you dont even need to find your enemies!

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 02:19 AM ZangeTSM said:

you say the game needs balance? i can agree to that to some extent But if you say it needs balance then so does Call of Duty 4, people say is way better then Halo 3, only because they know the minute they start playing they can get the M16,one shot kill basically, MP5, arguably one of the best SMGs in the game, and you can get kills easily with them. but in Halo 3 everyone starts with the same weapons no matter the rank no matter the team.

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 02:25 AM ZangeTSM said:

oh and one more thing it 2552 obviously the shit should be better, i mean come on when was the Barrett 50 Cal made, 1989 thats a one hit kill the the chest

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009, 05:48 PM Pinky19 said:

The entire article was you complaining that someone killed you with something in halo. And you think its easier to kill with a sniper than a sword? pfft. Try playing against people who don't suck. An smg can kill a sword guy. A pistol can kill a sniper. A Battle Rifle can kill... everything.

You say that Halo's sniper is pathetic and too easy, but that the Farsight isn't? Its a one hit kill with AUTO TARGET. WHAT THE FUCK.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009, 08:29 AM TomMcV said:

1 thing that makes Halo damn sweet: co-op campaign mode.

Any game that allows two mates to sit in the same room should be praised.  I did it on my mates xbox with Halo 3, and am currently doing it with ResEvil5 on my PS. 

MORE GAMES WITH SPLIT SCREEN CO-OP PLEASE!

(Burn Zombie Burn is a fun two player experience if anyone cares).

But re: Multiplayer... Killzone2 all the way.  (Although I have no point of comparison).

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009, 11:21 PM Pulse said:

This seems quite over thought and a tad bit severe. Obviously you don't like halo (or Microsoft for that matter). But apparently certain people out there do, or else it wouldn't be as popular as it is now.
So maybe in your opinion Halo is a poor, ill-crafted game. And I agree that it does recycle many different features from other games. But the point is, it brings them together in what I believe is quite a fun game.
And that is the thing, people enjoy it... regardless if it's not a top quality, or extremely innovative game. It's fun.
I think that as far as the online, social aspect of the game, yeah... you're going to find some really idiotic people. But Halo is great for hosting parties with friends, so there's always that alternative.
And also, I quite enjoy the Campaign.
I think that in the end the majority of this blog comes from a personal vendetta against Microsoft and a disgust for international success of a game that isn't 100% original. But in the end, not all people are die-hard gamers... and its about how FUN or ENJOYABLE a game is. And in that case... Halo succeeds.

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009, 04:03 AM Lyndsay said:

I hate Halo almost as much as I hate its retarded fanbase. I've yet to meet an intelligent, normal fan of the game. The community is awful. They're either pricks who think being good at some retarded FPS game matters in life or thirteen year old boys spewing swear words they probably don't even understand.

However, you article could have used some more fleshing out and such to avoid retards who think they're intelligent to come in an critique it. At the end you basically just ranted about weapon imbalances and skill...something in which people with ACTUAL lives don't care about anyway.

I mean who honestly brags in real life that they are 'oh so pro at Gaylo?'

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010, 08:05 AM Tom said:

Okay, I know this is an old article but people keep saying that Halo added the melee attack with weapons, and that is so untrue.  The original Day of Defeat 3.0 beta had melee attacks with almost every weapon.  So yeah, Halo is a bland, generic shooter. The only thing nifty about it was it was on a console and Goldeneye and Perfect Dark are still way better in my book.

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010, 04:32 PM john said:

Gaylo would be fun if it weren't for all the five year old kids on xbox live

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010, 10:39 AM Jack Olson said:

Dude screw you Halo is awesome! You list all these different things that the other games have but do all of it have it in one game? And the graphics in half those games are terrible and Halo has Great graphics. You can list all these terrible things about halo but you haven't made a game that sold 170 million dollars worth of copies in the first 24 hours of release which also broke a world record! So screw you go suck on your blanket and breastfeed your sister!

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010, 11:05 PM Rozza said:

Seems some people still won't let this person have his opinion on the game, you're right about the sniper rifle though, I swear it's been used in almost every fps ever and the majority of action movies, it's such an overrated cowards gun and i hate it, even more so because it's used constantly on multiplayer and bummed by 99% of the gaming community (yes it is for cowards, very far away with a one-shot weapon but fair enough if you want to use it and like it, i'm not stopping you i'm just showing my opinion), putting that aside I also agree on your opinion about the campaign and multiplayer, however there are some funny side to multiplayer but it's usually people screaming about dying since they don't know it's just a game for fun.

Halo is definately top 3 most overrated game/franchise ever, most probably #1.

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010, 04:44 AM seraph said:

You don't win any points for being convincing. If nothing else you've proven yourself a terrible debater, someone who only sees things 2 dimensionally in a 3 dimensional world. I'm sorry that I don't fit into the frat boy demographic of those who enjoy Halo. In existing as I do, it must infuriate the self righteous side of you that believes in absolutes. As for making a case for the game itself, I cannot. I obviously am not on the same level of gaming god-hood as you and therefore cannot hope to persuade you into seeing the merits of this game. I will simply say that it is an enjoyable game. You can dissect a cake into it's baser ingredients and say that salt, baking soda, and raw eggs (among other things) are disgusting on their own. However the cake, when fully realized, is still as unexpectedly good as ever. So no, in this case, I do not think the cake is a lie.  

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010, 12:10 PM Ardent said:

I play this game because it's fun. In Halo what ever I play I NEVER have to worry about stuff. I play Modern Warfare 2 all the time because I don't have an Xbox, but when I did (the original) I never worried about my kdr, or get the next attachment or getting killstreaks or things for my callsign. In Halo you can run around, die, kill drive around smash a jeep into a pile of fusion cores and blow up half the map without worry. Also, in Halo 2 you could make your own game type, invite your friends to a private match and play for hours. You call Halo unrealistic and unoriginal. Who the fuck cares? It's a game! I don't care if you can dual wield in Perfect Dark, it didn't have the multiplayer community halo has. I like the storyline. Bottom line is Halo is fun and that's why people continue to praise it.

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