I think Halo is great in terms of the feel of the shooting, game mechanics and so on, but all the stuff that's been released so far from Halo 3 (MP) has left me utterly unimpressed. Mostly it looks like a higher res version of Halo 1 MP.
I'm sure it'll be fun and all, but I just cant get excited about it, plus beyond having some solid gameplay then Halo does nothing for me anymore.
Hopefully the single player stuff will be more interesting.
I might be the only one out there who feels this way, but I still think Halo and Halo 2 sucked.
I never cared much for Halo.
I played 10 minutes of Halo and turned it off and never played it again. Never played Halo 2 but it looked pretty much the same. Consoles and good FPS games just doesn't compute for me 
played both halo 1 and halo 2 and it was worth it.
Quote from FletchI might be the only one out there who feels this way, but I still think Halo and Halo 2 sucked.
Amen to that
Not a fan of Halo either 
I loved Halo 
I didn't either, but a FPS has got to be really special for me to like it. Plus points for not being realistic, at least.
Quote from FletchI might be the only one out there who feels this way, but I still think Halo and Halo 2 sucked.
god bless you
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That made me laff.
buut after watching the video I thought it was pretty interesting - I always like seeing stuff like this - anyone know of actual full length documentaries out there?
i enjoyed halo 1 single player, i don't remember if i play/have halo 2 or not, which goes to say something about your product if you cant tell 2 apart. the mp was pretty fun if you play it with other people, but i can't stand playing anything on a split screen. the main thing that always bugged me about halo was the levels, they were just giant death match arenas with no practical purpose to anything. they're pretty versions of those "my first map!" maps. even in single player. it just lacks variation, there are those cement/metal/glass things all over and then grass and rock. depending on which environment you're in, it always looks exactly the same. blah blah blah, i can't put my thoughts into coherent words once again.
Never been a big fan of FPS on consoles and I'm afraid I never will be. I've gotten less opposed to the idea, but I've only played Halo on PC. I finished it and enjoyed it for the most part.
I tried to get through Halo 2 two times but had to stop from pain. I don't know, it just bored me to death. Even the nice twist of playing an Elite couldn't keep me going.
I've never played it in multiplayer, so I can't really tell.
The footage I've seen of Halo 3 so far is quite underwhelming to me. I can't get excited about swapping teleporters for jump pads err excuse me I mean "man cannoning" in 2007. The visuals also look pretty weak to me.
I'm somehow sure they will make it an enjoyable experience for the masses though.
I need to stop making so many line breaks when writing.
I never really understood what people saw in the Halo games, but then again I have never been a fan of FPS on consoles.
I can't imagine anybody is all that impressed by what has been shown of Halo 3. They keep saying "what we've shown is ugly - the game will look much better!", then releasing some new media like this documentary that really doesn't show any improvement at all. Some parts of the environment are so low poly it hurts, and most of it just looks like a UT2004 mod. Things like there being no splashes when a ragdoll falls into a river just looks completely ridiculous in this day and age. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume some of the more obvious shortcomings will be fixed before release, but I can't see them doing enough to make this as "wow!" a game for the 360 as the original game was for the Xbox.
That said, I really enjoyed playing through Halo 1 and 2, particularly in coop. I've no doubt I'll enjoy Halo 3 as well, regardless of how big or small an improvement over the originals it ends up being.
Bleh. Halo is uninspiring, boring and uses an over-done concept.
(Kill aliens, proceed to next room, kill more, proceed to next room, fmv, kill aliens, fly in vehicle, kill more aliens...etc etc)
It does look like it plays solid but I too have the feeling Im looking at UT2004 with a few small model changes.
Same type of gameplay, theme, levels and visuals polycount wise.
They kind of act like having teleporters and jumppads and all that are revolutionary.
Im sure itll be fun though, I just dont always get whats so damn special about Halo.
I've never been particularly impressed by Halo, but I think a large part of its popularity is that it was a very solid FPS that brought well-balanced vehicle mechanics and the feeling of an open world to consoles.
The reason I'd imagine a lot of people here don't find it too impressive is because as PC gamers we'd seen most of the stuff offered by Halo long before the mainstream console public did, thus explaining why we find its popularity baffling.
Of course, it's not like it's a bad game at all and it's perfectly feasible for many PC gamers to enjoy it. It's just that on consoles it stood out a lot more amongst its peers, while on the PC it was a bit more like everything else (and Halo 3 probably will be too).
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