Explain to me why Halo is so popular

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I have played the first Halo a few times when it was still in prime, and I didn't see ANYTHING good about it. Story was stupid (from my understanding, a ship finds a special planet that is being invaded by aliens, or something), not many characters, no variation of monsters (fighting a million monster X in one level, a million and five Y monsters in the other), physics were very silly... online wasn't anything special either...

I already reserved my copy of Halo 3 but I'm just wondering why it's so overhyped
 
graphics in the first were amazing for its time, and the gameplay was decent too :p

other than that, I have no idea...
 
It's over-hyped because people reserve and buy copies when they don't actually like the game.
 
randy5554 said:
It's over-hyped because people reserve and buy copies when they don't actually like the game.
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yeah.... right...

and only reason I reserved it is because I sold some games to gamestop and had some money left after I used some of the money to buy Bioshock
 
Because of Online and Multi-player I would say.

I wasn't that into the game at all really, but playing online and with my friends made the game a lot of fun for me. Look at Warhawk on the PS3? Alone it would have been a really good game but not lasting a long time...now with its great online aspect it becomes a great game that one can play forever and never get bored really.

So, I would say the Online stuff is really what made Halo great. That and it is the X360s most hyped game, so it gets a ton of press and they put a shitload of time and money into it......
 
I like the multiplayer aspect, but I live in a dorm so that probably adds to the fun of it.
 
Tylerdurdened said:
I have played the first Halo a few times when it was still in prime, and I didn't see ANYTHING good about it. Story was stupid (from my understanding, a ship finds a special planet that is being invaded by aliens, or something), not many characters, no variation of monsters (fighting a million monster X in one level, a million and five Y monsters in the other), physics were very silly... online wasn't anything special either...

I already reserved my copy of Halo 3 but I'm just wondering why it's so overhyped
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if you didn't see anything good in it why did you keep playing it and why are you getting halo3? You obviously don't care about the story at all based on your lack of knowledge on it. The story is alot deeper than that and there is alot of backstory to the first game. I love halo's plot (at least the first one, the second one kind of goes no where).

Maybe there are not many characters, but the ones you encounter are memorable in my mind.

The physics give Halo a different feel to other games, I love the springy physics, makes for some interesting moments. I love the huge open ended levels in the single player, which always present you with many ways to fight. I love the AI, every fight is different from the next, even fights you have to re do if you die.

I love the fights in halo, and I find the combat to be very addictive. Also it's multiplayer is very deep if you get into it and is likely the most competitive shooter for consoles.

The original Halo is my favourite shooter, and I probably sound like a fanboy, but I've played half-life, etc... and find none of them as good as halo. (the only other game to hook me for so long would be Tribes 1)
 
In spite of the fact that I chose an Xbox over the PS2....and now have a 360, I still don't understand the Halo craze. I bought and played both Halo and Halo 2..thought they were good games and pretty fun...but nowhere near the top of my list of favorite games.
 
Tylerdurdened said:
yeah.... right...

and only reason I reserved it is because I sold some games to gamestop and had some money left after I used some of the money to buy Bioshock
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But it doesn't change the fact you are buying a game you do not understand. :eek: Why are you asking us? You're the one who pre-ordered a game you do not comprehend. Maybe its time to look in the mirror for an explanation. People enjoy it. To what degree is irrelevant. It is simply enjoyable. Shut up and have fun with it. Halo IS fun. YOU know this. YOU are buying it. Say "Hi" to the hype-machine for me.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6176418.html
 
Because it's the only game that justified the purchase of a Xbox all those years ago. Thank god my dad talked me into buying a PS2. "Son, with the Xbox, you have to buy a seperate remote and receiver to play DVDs for $30, and i'm not spending that extra $30." Wow... I can't believe I remember that. My first game for PS2 was GTA 3 too. Couldn't get that on Xbox at the time. That game was awesome.

Sorry for all that random stuff. I don't know why Halo's popular. It didn't really expand upon anything that even Goldeneye had done. You can't argue the superiority of Goldeneye. lol
 
it was the first game to really get casual gamers to play online...

I agree the game sucks though haha... but i think that's why

i don't plan to get halo 3.. i'm getting eternal sonata instead..
 
zamardii said:
Because it's the only game that justified the purchase of a Xbox all those years ago. Thank god my dad talked me into buying a PS2. "Son, with the Xbox, you have to buy a seperate remote and receiver to play DVDs for $30, and i'm not spending that extra $30." Wow... I can't believe I remember that. My first game for PS2 was GTA 3 too. Couldn't get that on Xbox at the time. That game was awesome.

Sorry for all that random stuff. I don't know why Halo's popular. It didn't really expand upon anything that even Goldeneye had done. You can't argue the superiority of Goldeneye. lol
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I think people get really nostalgic with Goldeneye. it doesn't really hold up well these days, but it was groundbreaking for its time because it was the first decent console FPS. It's fun to play sure, but I'd choose to play Halo over Goldeneye any day. Halo has much better controls, much better AI, a lot better multiplayer, better level design, etc... (all IMO of course).
 
FooAtari said:
Marketing.
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exactly, it was a good release for a "console" but for any PC gamers, it was nothign new and rather lacked over all.


for consoles it hit it's market well as not many good FPS were out for consoles and MS marketed the hell out of it!


for PC, it is crap, for console it is good.


for 360 the new halo i will admit looks dam F****'n amzing and i am sure i will buy it.
 
Maybe its because its the only FPS at the time that actually good on console?
 
the Halo Series is utter shit as far as im concerned but it was the marketing and the fact it was first above average fps on a console, oh and one of the first fps games with rag doll physics, console only gamers didnt know what hit em! If only UT1/Unreal was launched/marketed in a big way for consoles before halo, halo would have suffered massively. The game would have died of death if it came out on the pc first as it was originally intended, i remember the screenshots on my voodoo 5 box lol. i think im gonna stick to ut3 this crimbo, ill try halo3 on rental. What annoys me is the serie3s is only above average yet every brainwashed sucker/billgates infectected mofo is gonna buy it even if its shit lol
 
I remember seeing a mate playing Halo 2 online and thinking its was craptacular compared to UT2004, but hey... he thought it was amazing...

until he came round mine and saw UT2004...

Halo3 will be the poor mans UT3 !
 
Timing.

I think that the Halo/Halo2 are very overrated. As others have said, they made it very easy for the casual console player to get into FPS's. Multiplayer was done right as well. So really they didnt do anything groundbreaking or anything that PC gamers had not experienced before. Then again, they didnt do anything wrong either. What you ended up with was a solid FPS experience on console that hit at the absolute perfect time. The rest is history.
 
16 player system link with my closest friends every weekend.

First game to offer that (besides pc's of course) in which we only need 4 xbox's for 16 people instead of 16 pc's for a lan.

Thats what did it for me.

I've read the books as well and i'm hooked on the story.
 
FooAtari said:
Marketing.
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Correct. The first Halo was a great game, but not half as great as everyone made it out to be. The average gamer couldn't play online (didn't support live), and many of the people I know who never touched FPS games before sucked at it compared to say Goldeneye.

Goldeneye was the game that set the standard for FPS games on consoles, not Halo.

I enjoyed Halo a lot until the flood parts. They were way too annoying. To be completely honest though, looking back on it, Halo really wasn't as great as I thought it was. It was just hyped up so much I couldn't be let down. It lived up to the hype, but there are plenty of other FPS games that were equally as good (maybe better) for the PC.

And playing Halo on the PC was much better than on the Xbox.
 
I always thought the single player story was pretty decent. Nothing too fancy or unique, mind you, but a decently told narrative. IMHO the multiplayer was boring as shit :)
 
I thought Halo stood out simply because there wasn't anything worth playing on the original Xbox at the time. From there on, everything was fueled by word of mouth from fans and marketing.
 
Because the average american doesnt have a strong enough pc to play computer FPS's and realize how much halo sucks by comparison?
 
Multiplayer online without the stigma of being a computer nerd/geek.

Slow enough that little twitch timing came into play. So it leveled the playing field for many gamers.
 
I'm not a huge halo fan, but I think the first one was good and the second one added online multi player which at the time was a big deal for consoles.

The game had some good features, it had co-op single player, it had vehicles that you could drive or man the gun, it had sticky grenades which were fun, and it had lan support/third party multiplayer.
 
Halo was the best multiplayer console FPS experience since Goldeneye. Nuff said.

Goldeneye single player isn't nearly as good as Halo's either, anyone who can't see the merits of that is blinded by "Yankee Hater-itis", otherwise known as "Its popular so I'm going to find ways to hate it Syndrome".

Halo 2 didn't do much for the single player, but it vastly improved the multiplayer which is what made it so good. Halo 3 looks to stick to its guns in the multiplayer, while delivering a much better and more grandiose single player experience.


I can't say I ever really like Halo. I have played them, but its not my style of FPS, and I don't like console FPS controls. However, I can easily see what makes Halo a great game.
 
Erasmus354 said:
Goldeneye single player isn't nearly as good as Halo's either, anyone who can't see the merits of that is blinded by "Yankee Hater-itis", otherwise known as "Its popular so I'm going to find ways to hate it Syndrome".
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It goes both ways, there are first time Yankee fans who had never been anywhere near the east coast (ie. bandwagon fans). These type of fans root whoever is doing well and then gloat to everyone else. I'm sorry but Halo is fueled by fanboys who hype it enough that it becomes just as important as eating and sleeping.
 
To the OP... you can't explain it, it just is. Why are any number of things particularly popular even though you don't rate them? It's just the way life goes. Take baseball and hockey for instance. They bore the crap out of me, I can't fathom why anyone would want to watch them either live or on tv - yet millions do.

Halo? Well for me, the music, story and the indescribable feeling it gave me put the game into a ranking shared by others like Half Life 2, Thief, Deus Ex and more. Disagree? It just doesn't matter because everyone is different. You don't need to understand it, I advise you stop trying.
 
The same reasons Counter Strike was so popular.

Fun.

Add to that, a good story, epic soundtrack, space marines, aliens, good weapons, art direction, and one being the first console game to really take all the good from FPSs and put them into one game.

For every Halo hater, there are 50,000 gamers pre ordering copies. Halo is a target because it is so popular but that label doesn't mean it should be enjoyed the same by every human on the face of the planet.

Why is the Aliens or Predator movie franchises are so popular? All they are, are just alien movies right ? *rolleyes*
 
CodeX said:
Because the average american doesnt have a strong enough pc to play computer FPS's and realize how much halo sucks by comparison?
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You read my mind CodeX. I think the people who never really played FPS and/or where never die-hard FPS fans really got bit by this one. They thought this was such a change in game design and a real novelty - but it wasn't. It eventually went into the market machine oven and is now considered some marvelous achievement. People say 'Halo' now like it's an instant panty droper...
 
Master Blaster said:
You read my mind CodeX. I think the people who never really played FPS and/or never die-hard FPS fans really got bit by this one. They thought this was such a change in game design and a real novelty - but it isn't. It eventually went into the market machine oven and is now considered some marvelous achievement. People say 'Halo' now like it's an instant panty droper...
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even after playing some of the PC's best FPS's, I still prefer Halo. The gameplay/story/music/characters immersed me more than any other game. And the great multiplayer keeps me coming back for more (it's tough for anything to beat 4v4 Halo on LAN IMO).
 
Basically HALO was the first taste of fps multiplay that most console guys have had... Something that PC gamers have had for YEARS.

This is why I'm not impressed with HALO.
FPS games with a controller is sacrilege.
4 person or whatever multiplayer is retarded.
 
Regular Daddy said:
FPS games with a controller is sacrilege.
4 person or whatever multiplayer is retarded.
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Yeah... I have been playing PC FPS since Wolfenstein and I didn't have any fun with it at all. Oh wait, I did.

Nothing worse than dismissing a game just because it controls differently or bits of it have been done before. It's elitism at best and just plain stupid at worst. Oh, and it was up to 16 player multiplayer. Just so you know.

[Edit - To clarify this, no issue at all with anyone that played it and doesn't like it.]
 
I have played most well know PC PFS games since Wolfenstien. While I am not a huge fan of Halo, I did enjoyed it and can easily see where its appeal comes from. Its mutliplayer was well setup and fun. Plus, the story felt epic and was enjoyable. I can't think of a FPS on a console that did this well before Halo. Infact I can't think of many PC games that did this well before Halo. (Half Life 1 is one that comes to mind). Games like DukeNukem 3d's had fun story lines to play through, but they don't draw you in.

This is one of the reason BioShock was reviewed so well. The story captures your attention and keeps it throughout the game. You feel like you are there with the character, not just a spectator.
 
I thought it was boring and average, and if that game came out on PC and PC only I feel it would have been quickly forgotten as being nothing more than a by the book FPS that did nothing special.

I'll never really get the appeal of it - I played all of Halo 1 single player, and played some Halo 2 MP, and it just seemed so... vanilla and basic compared to what's out there on the PC when it comes to FPS's. Master Chief is one of the most boring protagonists ever, imo.

I guess I've been spoiled with the Unreal Tourney series, but I feel UT 3 will stomp the shit out of Halo, and that I'm not going to miss anything by not playing it when I look at the, imo, superior lineup of FPS's in store for the PC.
 
Don't forget the horrendous level designs in Halo's campaign. I mean my god, did Bungie just created one room and C/P it to complete the level or what. The Library is literally, the worst level design I've ever seen in a game.
 
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