Originally Posted By DAR I don't own and XBox 360 or PS3 or Wii for that matter, I won't buy one of these systems until I get a hi-def tv. I played Halo 2 once at my friends house. I thought it was a cool little game but nothing special. Now with Halo 3 on sale this thing is being hyped up beyond belief. What makes it so special?
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I'll be interested to hear this myself... I've tried several FPS games, and I just don't see the appeal. To each his/her own, I guess.
Originally Posted By DAR With the exception of the graphics, it seems no different than Doom, Half-Life, Quake or my personal favorites the Medal of Honor series.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I went to Wal-Mart last night... I go everynight searching for CARS (the movie diecast toys). There was a line of twenty os so folks when I got there at about 11:30, and after I finished walking my doggy Dim Sum, the line had grown threefold. They all looked like gamers. Hehe.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut Dar: The WWII series games (Wolfenstein, COD, MOH, etc) are all better than halo. I played halo before and just didnt really care about the game. Sure you shoot stuff up and it looks good but there is no story to really grab you. Its just one of those mindless games that sells alot. Its the games with good stories that seem to falter unless of course you want to read a whole bunch of crap in FF.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP According to the article I read in Wired, but no personal experience, Halo 2 was a breakthrough in networked gaming.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I guess its that whole playing online thing. I just dont get that. Maybe thats why I hate games like WoW and such.
Originally Posted By ecdc I can't believe I'm the first Halo defender It's hard to explain, really. There's games with better graphics (Gears of War), games with better weapons (Unreal Tournament), games with better storylines, etc. But Halo mixes everything together really well. Plus, I've only played first person shooter (though Gears is third-person, not that huge of a difference) and so it's what I love. I've had too many tests and homework this week to get it yet, but I will. The online thing is huge, too. You'd be surprised at how well it works - I was skeptical at first. But I can jump in with a bunch of friends and we can go battle a bunch of other people. It's really amazing. And yes, my wife mocks me incessantly when I sit on my couch with a headset on to talk to my friends online while we play.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I love FPS, I just cant get into halo. Of course I didnt like GOW or UT. I did like C&C Renegade which was wither FP or TP.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger I've played Halo 1 for a few hours, and I found it to have a pretty good storyline for an FPS.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x When the first Halo came out for the XBox, ex-dh and I played all the time. It was one thing we both enjoyed doing together in the living room. We kicked alien tooshy. I loved that game. I tried playing Halo 2, but I didn't like it as much as the original (much like other sequal games, like Shenmu 2, and Crazy Taxi 2). since ex and I have obviously split, I haven't played many video games (any, in fact). But I miss Halo.
Originally Posted By Elderp I played Halo2 at a friend's house, basically it was me constantly getting killed. Not the funnest thing ever but I enjoy hanging out with my friends so at least I laughed a lot.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Man, if Carmen Sandiego came with a few weapons, you'd have the most perfect educational/entertainment game in the history of the world (part one)! Remind me to tell y'all some stories about GoldenEye 64 and other FPS I've had with my friends. But since this is a Halo thread, my friends and I have been playing Halo 2 every now and then when we hang out. I don't have an X-Box or a 360 though, nor do I really want one. Anyway, we would always do team multiplayer before we eventually decided to do the team games of Everyone vs. 5BR. I wasn't quite as victorious as I hoped I would be since most of the time it was 2-on-1, and sometimes 3/4/5+ on one. Nevertheless it was fun since my corpse(s) spent more time in the game than my actual character. I'm also a lousy shot and my friends will mock me when I'm looking at the sky or the ground shooting away. Once in a while, I would get a few shots in with my trusty sniper rifle or rocket launcher, but I would inexplicably fail with the other weapons. It was a challenge for my friends at times though. I would usually get the overshield, and even if I didn't have it, they would still go through rounds and rounds of ammunition before I finally died. The common question would always be "HOW did you get out of that one?". In other words it was like using an uzi to bring down a fly. The most commonly used levels that we used in Halo 2 were... -The large open space with the tanks -The really small level with the rocket launcher on the tree bridge and the overshield in the creek. -The apocalyptic-type Grand Canyonesque level with the jeep -The outdoor level with that giant turbine thing that has no purpose. I'd like to see a Pac-Man FPS...Eat lead Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde and Sue!
