Metroid Single Player >>>> Halo Single Player

I don't get how a game that uses old music, hace one gun with 4 different types of energy, and you walk around just to find things and get power-ups but you never keep them, beats a game that had great AI, great Campaign, great level design, "but teh same!" not entirely, a great stoyline, and revonlutionized a genre.DuDisNow

i can see what your saying. metroid prime's strengths are not the ai, or the weapons. it was it's amospheric presentation, and it's exploration.

[QUOTE="DuDisNow"]I don't get how a game that uses old music, hace one gun with 4 different types of energy, and you walk around just to find things and get power-ups but you never keep them, beats a game that had great AI, great Campaign, great level design, "but teh same!" not entirely, a great stoyline, and revonlutionized a genre.depresedmichfan

i can see what your saying. metroid prime's strengths are not the ai, or the weapons. it was it's amospheric presentation, and it's exploration.

[QUOTE="PapaJohn24"]Read the review for Halo: Combat Evolved. The series does not 'focus' on Multiplayer. That's a misconception. There are too many people who know nothing about the series, but who gladly jump on the bandwagon to play Xbox Live. Sure, it's great for business, but they don't know what they are missing. And it doesn't help that the competition claims that Halo is only Multiplayer, when infact, Halo: Combat Evolved, six years later, is still yet to be surpased by any FPS in the singleplayer department. And yes, I own Far Cry, and Doom 3, and Half-Life 2. depresedmichfan

thank you! people don't realize this!

Storytelling-wise, perhaps, but even a game like F.E.A.R. destroys Halo when it comes to the gunplay department.

I liked the epic setting and scope of the first Halo (along with its fabulous art design), but its gameplay was truly nothing special, and still isn't. By console standards, maybe, but that's the most I'll give it.

Not for gameplay and level design? What part of gameplay are you refering to? The way Halo changed the FPS weapon loadout? or the way Halo changed the FSP health system? Or the amazing AI that the covent possess? No two battles ever play out the same in Halo because of the AI. Isnt that something that Bioshock was proud of itself for 6 years after Halo:CE?evilross

Ok, I'll admit that Halo contributed a lot to how FPSes today are played on consoles (except for the health system; it totally gimped FPSes to be little more than arcade run-throughs). But Halo's level design, the cornerstone of what makes a good FPS a good FPS, was terrible.

I just dont agree with the atmopshere is great argument of Prime. The world seems like its there to be a puzzle, not the other way around. And there isnt much meat on the bones of the story, just enough to motivate you forward.evilross

I agree, the world of Prime does seem to be built as a puzzle. Yet that is also part of its genius, because it forces you to interact with the world, and contextually everything still fits (although the presence of so many morphball tubes is a little contrived). In most games, the world is only there to be seen, but not touched. Even in BioShock, you can't really interact with the world at all, other than flipping a few switches. In Metroid Prime, you change the world to suit you. Granted, it's rigid and linear in the way you do this, but it leaves a great impression because while the method is always linear, it still takes effort to recognize the puzzles, and they are always hidden contextually (rather than, for example, Resident Evil where placing a gem in a door or moving a statue one foot to the right will solve the puzzle). If it weren't for the clearly arcadey way save points are located in levels and the way enemies and containers drop powerups and respawn spontaneously, I'd say it would be even more atmospheric than BioShock. As it is, it's only slightly less so.

I don't get how a game that uses old music, hace one gun with 4 different types of energy, and you walk around just to find things and get power-ups but you never keep them, beats a game that had great AI, great Campaign, great level design, "but teh same!" not entirely, a great stoyline, and revonlutionized a genre.DuDisNow

:lol: Kids these days..

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It deserves credit for its backstory and artwork, but not for its gameplay or level design

Not for gameplay and level design? What part of gameplay are you refering to? The way Halo changed the FPS weapon loadout? or the way Halo changed the FSP health system? Or the amazing AI that the covent possess? No two battles ever play out the same in Halo because of the AI. Isnt that something that Bioshock was proud of itself for 6 years after Halo:CE?

And I have played Prime 1 and 2, for Gamecube (I still own one by the way) Prime 1 was very fun, and a refreshing way to bring the series to modern standards, but its not a FPS, and if you classify it as such, then it would be a very weak FPS. Prime 2 got old very fast for me, I couldn't get into the story after playing through Prime 1.

I just dont agree with the atmopshere is great argument of Prime. The world seems like its there to be a puzzle, not the other way around. And there isnt much meat on the bones of the story, just enough to motivate you forward.

Not saying Prime 1 want a fantasic game, it was. But its not on the same level as Halo, and not really even in the same gaming group (FPS)

DuDisNow

well ive never played any of the newer metroid games so i couldnt tell you. but i dont think metroid has MP.....:|sonofabear17

It's OK, niether has anyone else in this thread. But no, it doesn't have multiplayer, leading one to the obvious and logical conclusion that it's a better SP experience.

I don't get how a game that uses old music, hace one gun with 4 different types of energy, and you walk around just to find things and get power-ups but you never keep them, beats a game that had great AI, great Campaign, great level design, "but teh same!" not entirely, a great stoyline, and revonlutionized a genre.DuDisNow

How many of you actually played the Metroid Prime 2 MP and aren't just going off the reaction of other people?coreygames

I don't really care what anyone thinks, I thought Halo CE had a far better SP, especially with vehicles and Co-op.

As for Halo 2 SP, it was far inferior yet still good.

I rarely try to pit these two against each other, but I was seriously way more impressed with Metroid Prime over Halo, and it had way more to do than just because of nostalgia. In any event, I think both games are good, and it's a travesty fanboys all around seem to enjoy comparing the two, despite the differences in gameplay.

Meh... What do I care? I have em both, so I enjoy both worlds :)

Dude, it's obvious that 8.5 >>>>>>>>>>>>> 9.4dimar19

a while back it was dead even

Halo = Metroid Prime

How many of you actually played the Metroid Prime 2 MP and aren't just going off the reaction of other people?coreygames

i've played it... no redeeming qualities.

[QUOTE="coreygames"]How many of you actually played the Metroid Prime 2 MP and aren't just going off the reaction of other people?depresedmichfan

i've played it... no redeeming qualities.

i agree

good job i'll be playing both though

I hate to say it. But MP2 multiplayer was so bland and uninventive, that Retro didn't even want multiplayer in MP3. I think most people hated the multiplayer in MP2. AvIdGaMeR444

*although Halo 2's single player wasn't as good. Halo 1 > metroid single player however.Ninja-Vox

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[QUOTE="Ninja-Vox"]*although Halo 2's single player wasn't as good. Halo 1 > metroid single player however.-Beowulf

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i'm about to start a campaign on halo ce legondary. i am doing it because right now i'm not really sure which single player i like, it's been so long since i played halo ce (i recently beat metroid prime, so it's still fresh in my mind). when i finish campaign i will tell you guys what i think is better. not that you guys would care about my opinion, i'm mostly doing it for myself. btw i've never beat the game on legondary by myself so i reserve the right to switch it to heroic lol.