5punk

The Bioshock demo was impressive, but I haven't played a demo of Halo 3, so am disinclined to make a fanboyish judgement based on an utter lack of any real knowledge.

Halo was good in it's day, but I got bored with Halo 2 very quickly.

I don't think the 360 is the ideal platform for any of those three titles, being shooters they belong on the PC. I bought mine for Forza 2, as driving games, as well as GTA-style games work well on it.

The halo 3 beta felt like learning a half new game, or like a classic you go back to and rediscover the keys and ai flaws in. The flamethrower is now in, finally, and there is also a molotov style grenade from the brutes to provide more fire based stuff. I hope they allow you to pick up more than 2 of each grenade, sometimes having lots of stickies to throw around is great fun, I'd sacrifice variety for quantity on occasion.

A 'serious' fps doesn't seem to work well for me on a console, css or beef would annoy(even more), but the arcadey style of shields and being able to jump around whilst headshotting people gives a pace that I feel fits.

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I personally thought Halo was a bit shit.


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HereComesPete wrote: QFT, hard. Halo 2 was fucking ace and you started a debate with

buzzmong wrote: ...except Halo 2 was rubbish.

Right... but your 'debating' for Halo 3 starts with..

HereComesPete wrote: mountain dew have made a new drink for launch day!

Certainly both compelling points

You're just jealous because you're not involved.


Nyah! Nyah!


/14 year old.

Thats my generic ignorant fanboy part! I wasn't aware that all points made on 5punk had to be well considered rebuttals! Such as the one or even RO-BO with its own well considered point-

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I personally thought Halo was a bit shit.


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If your read further on, you will see that I don't think halo 2 is some sort of uber game which can do no wrong. Me, DoT and vibrospazz were having a mass debate thankyouverymuch.

Its a pity mountain dew has too much caffeine in it to buy it here, it is a tasty drink, despite the colour being more the dew of fairy liquid.

Duke of Ted wrote:a game having a weak story doesnt make it rubbish, i dont remember much of a plot in the first Halo.

Probably even more of a sign that it weren't great. I'm not keen on the Halos', I must say the first was ground breaking back in 2002 in terms of graphics... but graphics are only 1 part of the piece and wasn't good enough all round to keep my attention for long.

I will go on record as saying that if Halo hadn't been a console game it would have only gotten 7.5's and 8's out of 10. I have no love for Halo (1, 2 or 3) multiplay, and thus I don't really give a shit about any Halo game.

Are there Nazis in Halo?

I thought halo 1 was a complete pile of shit, and thus never bothered with Halo 2 and couldn't give a crap about Halo 3 either.

deject wrote:I will go on record as saying that if Halo hadn't been a console game it would have only gotten 7.5's and 8's out of 10. I have no love for Halo (1, 2 or 3) multiplay, and thus I don't really give a shit about any Halo game.

Quoted For TRUTH.

Never played any of them, won't play this one either I imagine.

Jesus what versions of Halo's 1 and 2 have you guys been playing? I still play Halo and Halo 2. Knock the difficulty up to hardest and try and complete it, or even better get a mate round and complete the games in coop mode for added lols.

Graphically the games both look dated but are still some of the prettiest/largest games you can get on the box without having to put up with horrible loading screens.

I've never played Halo 2 on xbox live as I don't like online console shooters, thats what the pc is for. System link multiplayer is just brilliant tho, 16 people all darting about in a level the size of a postage stamp with rocket launchers is just fantastic.

I can't wait to play either game but for totally different reasons. Bioshock as it's Bioshock and needs no further introduction and Halo 3 for coop play and the end of a brilliant series of games.

deject wrote:I will go on record as saying that if Halo hadn't been a console game it would have only gotten 7.5's and 8's out of 10.

They're fairly bland, repetitive FPS games, only thing they do have going for them is that they're made for consoles.

I played Halo 1 through long ago, it was fun, but that was it.

Nothing special certainly.

I'm with Chicken on this one. One of my fave FPS memories is being round a mate's house with loads of beers and Halo Co-op start to finish. Silent Cartographer is one of my favourite maps. Same with Halo 2, he was driving the tank, I was sat on the side and we were both hammered.

As a standalone though, yes it did Good Things for console FPSings but it was no Half Life 2/System Shock 2/infinite other FPSs

Crysis will be shit though.

tandino wrote:As a standalone though, yes it did Good Things for console FPSings but it was no Half Life 2/System Shock 2/infinite other FPSs

exactly. The reason the Halo series is so popular these days is the multiplayer. The single player is a decent game in all respects, with a great level of polish, but it just not anything too special. The co-op helps out surely, and it's a very rare treat these days.

deject wrote:The co-op helps out surely, and it's a very rare treat these days.

QFT

Gunslinger42 wrote:I thought halo 1 was a complete pile of shit, and thus never bothered with Halo 2 and couldn't give a crap about Halo 3 either.

The point I was trying to make before I was attacked by rabid fan boys

Ooh, I've got the urge to go on YouTube now and say that Halo is shit in all the recent videos.

Roman Totale wrote:


The point I was trying to make before I was attacked by rabid fan boys

Ooh, I've got the urge to go on YouTube now and say that Halo is shit in all the recent videos.

You should definitely do it mate. I'll help if you want. I love invoking the wrath of fanboys.

/makes a note to beat people on the 1st Sept......