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Halo 3 Screenshot

Originally posted by: x1v
I doubt Halo 3 will even come close to Gears of War.
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Well...Woot for Unreal Engine 3!

If only Bungie could have an engine as powerful as that...
 
Interesting how everyone hates halo (or gives a meh to it) just to hate it.
Halo 1 = awesome, great campaign, epic
Halo 2 = LOLZ TBAG U!!!!1!1!!1! (or, in other words, sucks)
Just because it's a popular game doesn't mean everyone has to be against it... (you know who you are)
Some people hate it. Others are jumping on the hater bandwagon.
 
Yea well, for the record I started this hater bandwagon. Oh and that armor looks more plastic than Doom3. I've never been one to complain about plastic looking armor either, but when you blow the image up that big it is pretty hard to miss it.
 
Originally posted by: djmihow
(Ponders about why people think Halo is a great game when it offers nothing impressive.)
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When you understand the mind of a console fanboi, you will see.

It also explains why Elder Scrolls 4 was given a gameplay lobotomy and prettier graphics.
 
Consolers enjoy Halo because they never really got a decent FPS unless you include Goldeneye for the N64. Sure, Halo doesn't really compare to any PC FPS, but for the console it offered a lot where there was originally very little. I personally don't like Halo, because I've always been a PC FPS'er and I have the mentality of what a shooter should be like and consoles usually don't match up or they make us pay for goodies. Also consoles don't let us use keyboards and mice typically and it's just weird using a controller after being a keyboarder for so long.
 
The game was always pretty-ish, but there was really nothing special to Halo. The one thing I will give a nod to is that it was the first game that I know of that had the "you can only carry 2 weapons" format, which I enjoy.

But the characters/enemies are unimaginative (IMHO), the gameplay was bland. It was just too...normal!

Big props to GoW for being a unique style of gameplay and having (what appears at least) to be a nice array of uniquely designed non-stereotypical enemies.
 
Am I the only one who has seen this before? It was in one of my gaming magazines a couple months back.

Oh and I like how Master Chief is now just a moving army man figure... nothing but plastic. And the textures behind him don't even look raised... we've had bump mapping for a while now WTF?
 
The biggest thing that'll sell that game is the pure hype. Halo 2 had people camping outside of stores like it was Christmas...so will Halo 3 even if it's the exact same game with even shinier graphics...
 
Well I have always enjoyed Halo for the PC (still do in fact). I have never played it on X-box and have no desire to do so, but fun is fun as far as I am concerned, regardless of who made the game or how pretty/ugly it looks.

Oh, and I do not really see the point of this image. It's not like I have not seen a high-res picture of MC before. These pictures just look like they were captured from the high-res teaser trailer from a while back.
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
That screenshot goes on to prove that games are only getting shinier.
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QFT I know plenty of old school games (System Shock 2, FreeSpace 2, System Shock, Planet's Edge, etc) that kick the crap out of Halo in everything but the graphics department. However, I do have to admit that playing Halo with other people is extremely fun. Campaign sucked though (typical humans-shoot-aliens crap, and the humans don't do anything BUT shoot aliens). Then again, I take pleasure in the more traditional adventure genre that requires thought (I've beaten all of the myst games, and have several pages of notes for each taken ingame) .

The only decent way to play the Halo campaign is Co-Op on legnedary, so that it requires near military tactics and your enemies can actually aim. You have to think on the fly and exploit terrain, and you actually have to TAKE COVER!!! (ZOMG :shocked: ). I will never understand how people get continued pleasure from mind nummingly running down corridors and gunning down everything in sight. It can be fun, but as the monotonous levels drag on with the EXACT SAME EMEMIES DYING THE EXACT SAME WAY FOR HOURS ON END it gets rather boring.
 
Originally posted by: irishScott
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
That screenshot goes on to prove that games are only getting shinier.
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QFT I know plenty of old school games (System Shock 2, FreeSpace 2, System Shock, Planet's Edge, etc) that kick the crap out of Halo in everything but the graphics department. However, I do have to admit that playing Halo with other people is extremely fun. Campaign sucked though (typical humans-shoot-aliens crap, and the humans don't do anything BUT shoot aliens). Then again, I take pleasure in the more traditional adventure genre that requires thought (I've beaten all of the myst games, and have several pages of notes for each taken ingame) .

The only decent way to play the Halo campaign is Co-Op on legnedary, so that it requires near military tactics and your enemies can actually aim. You have to think on the fly and exploit terrain, and you actually have to TAKE COVER!!! (ZOMG :shocked: ). I will never understand how people get continued pleasure from mind nummingly running down corridors and gunning down everything in sight. It can be fun, but as the monotonous levels drag on with the EXACT SAME EMEMIES DYING THE EXACT SAME WAY FOR HOURS ON END it gets rather boring.
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Don't forget fighting in a room that looks exactly like the last 10 rooms you came from, to the point where you can tell where you are going and where you came from. Seriously, I don't even understand why the game got the ratings it did. Had any other game did something similar, it would have quickly been pounded into the ground.
 
I loved Halo: Combat Evolved, it was almost perfect.

I actually did like Halo 2, but the damn Jackal Snipers ruined everything for me. And the Legendary mode wasn't as "Legendary" as the original's Legendary mode.

Halo 3 ... well I don't know. It ain't released. I'll have to wait. One thing is for sure though is that I don't own any consoles, and if I have to play a First-Person-Shooter then I will surely wait for a PC version.

I remember when I first tried Perfect Dark: Zero, now THAT was a HUGE disappointment for me, even though I wasn't really hyped about it.
 
Halo is not a bad game. It's just not as good as other games. It was a good game to play while waiting for Half-Life 2 (or waiting for the funds to get it in my case 😛 ) But, it did kinda reek of console-ness (for lack of a better term) suck as being able to hold down the space bar and still be jumping. That really annoyed me. Multiplayer was a fun time if you get a good team together and actullay work as one. Overall, I'm not a Halo-hater as much as I hate all the attention it gets. That and how every lamer does nothing but talk about it (especially in my school) has kinda ruined it for me.
 
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