Halo 3: Official

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Originally Posted by Advocate

I always had fun playing Halo(series) multi. Lan or Live. Until the glitches were discovered and every 8 yr old snot nosed brat started to use it. But then again if you know how to over come that ... the game is still fun.

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The best way to overcome the glitches is to wait one or two more weeks for the patch instead of letting your live cancel.

imo.

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Originally Posted by Brand X

See this is where I know you A) don't know anything about Halo, and B) that you have put enough time into the game to make a worthwhile decision about the level design, or gameplay balance for that matter.

Halo is far more balanced, and really meant to be played as a 4 vs 4 game. Which is why 90% of the game types in Halo are 4 vs 4 game types. Not only that, some of the most fun to be had on the small to mid sized maps are in 2 vs 2 games.

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I've never owned a Halo game, I'll be honest. So I'm not going to make believe I've picked it apart. But some of the weapons really seem crummy, and I have very little fun on 2v2 matches with friends when I play (which is most of my experience with the game. I've played big matches online and LAN, too, but not as much). I'm not professing to be an expert, here, but I have played the game enough to feel it out and know it doesn't appeal to me.

Should also be noted, that I'm not the kind of guy that will sit around playing a FPS online for hours on end. I like the genre a lot, they're some of my favorite games, but online I usually play for maybe 45 minutes at a clip. So the fact that Halo's one-player is shit really rubs me the wrong way, too.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I've never owned a Halo game, I'll be honest. So I'm not going to make believe I've picked it apart.

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Well we have, and we're telling you that you're wrong.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I've never owned a Halo game, I'll be honest. So I'm not going to make believe I've picked it apart.

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Then quit fronting like you know anything about the level design in the game, or the "tired new school conventions" that the game has. The reason I was able to comment on Prey's multiplayer gameplay is because I actually put time into it, and I realized after you got past the awesome gravity feature, the game was just a shallow deathmatch shooter that really brings nothing new (multiplayer wise) to the table.

You on the other hand, having barely put any time into the game you are so adamantly against have no business trying to front like you know anything about it how it's supposed to play, or the quality of the levels in the game.

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Originally Posted by Brand X

Then quit fronting like you know anything about the level design in the game, or the "tired new school conventions" that the game has. The reason I was able to comment on Prey's multiplayer gameplay is because I actually put time into it, and I realized after you got past the awesome gravity feature, the game was just a shallow deathmatch shooter that really brings nothing new (multiplayer wise) to the table.

You on the other hand, having barely put any time into the game you are so adamantly against have no business trying to front like you know anything about it.

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I've put many hours into the game, but not as much as you have, obviously. And I'm not fronting like I know any more than I do about it.

By "tired new school conventions" I wasn't trying to slam it, I was just saying that adhering to a school of design, be it old or new, is still embracing convention. It's dumb to call one more tired than the other, when they're both as common. I wasn't actually slamming new school design as much as saying that your barbs at things like health kits are misplaced.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

And I'm not fronting like I know any more than I do about it.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

And lol at Halo balance.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It's not that its bad, it's just half assed cliche generica, with uninspired levels compensated for by high player counts. In a word: disposable.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I meant that the weapons aren't especially balanced more than the game itself.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

The level design is shit, but if you throw enough people in there it'll be action packed. The levels in Halo don't work at all for low player counts.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I've never owned a Halo game, I'll be honest.

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word.

So I can't have an opinion if the copies of the game I played weren't my own, now? If you pull this "I played it more, therefore my opinion counts" bullshit, then no one can ever argue that they disliked a game unless they somehow played it as much as someone who did despite not liking it. I've played enough FPS to know what I like and enough Halo to know I don't like it.

And explain how I'm wrong about the half-assed cliche generica comment.

Again, it's a perfectly servicable game that bores the shit out of me.

Frontacuga ftl.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

And explain how I'm wrong about the half-assed cliche generica comment.

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It's a trick... because it's an opinion! :chick:

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

So I can't have an opinion if the copies of the game I played weren't my own, now? If you pull this "I played it more, therefore my opinion counts" bullshit

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It's not that I've played it more, it's just blatantly obvious that when you say things like "The levels in Halo don't work at all for low player counts", you haven't put enough time into the game to even realize that nearly all the maps aren't meant for large numbers, let alone to get a handle of the levels to have a valid opinion about the design.

It's fine to not like a game, it's fine to say the games boring, but to have almost a page long discussion about level design and the like, to only say that "the levels aren't designed for small numbers" really shows that your knowledge about what you were discussing is at an absolute minimum.