People Buying Halo 3...Are you actually gonna "Finish the Fight"

[QUOTE="GarchomPro"][QUOTE="-Beowulf"]

I buy Halo soley for the Single Player experience.

The incredible multiplayer is just a great bonus for me, and being very good at it doesn't hurt :D

_MURS_

:lol:

If anything thats single player....all you do is hold down shoot....thats why I hate all FPS

At least online is a little bit more than that and is actually challenging.....

...what the heck?

You can't shoot and spray and expect to get anywhere is you are playing on Herioc or Legendary.

Plus the 2 weapom dynamic makes for some interesting encounters.

Not too mention the "Warhawk" gameplay dynamic in the single player.

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

This is the quintessential Halo basher. In his first sentence he establishes the fact that he has never finished or even started Halo's single player story, then, in the next sentence, goes on to tell us how Generic Halo's story is.

Buying Halo 3 mainly for the single player, btw.

The first thing im doing is either playing campaign to get warmed up for multiplayer or messing around with Forge.

Yep, I'm buying Halo 3 to finish the fight.

Why is the story incredibly generic by the way? You said you haven't played it so....

Yep, I'm buying Halo 3 to finish the fight.

Why is the story incredibly generic by the way? You said you haven't played it so....

FrozenLiquid

"aliens are taking over!!! Shoot them until they die and be a hero"

If the TC "never started the fight", why is he commenting on the story?

But ya, I always play the sp first on the hardest difficulty, then play mp.

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

somehow i doubt the fight will actually be finished at the end of Halo 3 games/movies never seem to have endings nowadays still id like to think at the end of this game you will feel accomplished in some way

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

Yep, I'm buying Halo 3 to finish the fight.

Why is the story incredibly generic by the way? You said you haven't played it so....

_MURS_

"aliens are taking over!!! Shoot them until they die and be a hero"

Really, if you know nothing about the story why bash it in the first place?

I don't get what is "generic" (an oft overused term here on SW) about Halo's story. Seems pretty unique to me.

Great summary FrozenLiquid, definitely sounds like much more than just "aliens are taking over!!!"

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

Yep, I'm buying Halo 3 to finish the fight.

Why is the story incredibly generic by the way? You said you haven't played it so....

_MURS_

"aliens are taking over!!! Shoot them until they die and be a hero"

The only question I'm asking myself right now, is whether you'll reply to what I'm about to say or silently move on from this thread.

Here goes:

The beginning of the Halo story begins with a fleet of human soldiers escaping an alien invasion from a colonized planet. They make a blind jump into space and come across an artificial ringworld.

The Covenant lose interest in the humans and prioritize the ringworld for some unknown reason, and naturally the humans are going to stop whatever they want. Upon the planet, you discover that Halo is some sort of weapon and the Covenant are going to use it (at this point you do not know whether they know it's a weapon. In Halo 2 you find out they think it's a catalyst for the Great Journey).

You then discover that this is not a weapon against humanity or any other race; it's a weapon to contain another species on the ringworld:The Flood. Unfortunately, the Covenant have let them escape, so in a twist of events it's up to you to use Halo (the very weapon the Covenant were going to use) against the Flood. Before you can activate Halo though, Cortana reveals to you how the weapon is used: Halo wipes out the Flood's food source, not just the flood itself, so the parasite cannot spread. Guilty Spark then goes to find alternate means to activate the ring, and now ironically your priority is not the Covenant: it's stopping the ring from activating. Thus you detonate the Pillar of Autumn and break the ring, rendering it useless.

Aliens are taking over and you shoot them until they die and be a hero? Far from it, mate.

Don't even get me started on Halo 2.

Wait, it has a bad story which you don't actually know, as you haven't played it? Right. I'm guessing you've got your idea out of random summaries.

As to your question, yes, I'm purchasing it for the campaign. Co-op, to be specific. Co-op in Halo was some of the best gaming of last generation for me. Both in Halo and Halo 2. I'll be finishing the fight with the friends I started it almost six years ago.

The story line is absolute crap but I've always loved the Halo series campaign more than the multiplayer. The cutscenes are also awesome. So I suppose I'll finish the fight.JeSuS_iS_bLaCk

And when I ask people why the story is crap, they usually say "It's about saving the world from alien invasion".

I've totally negated that statement.

[QUOTE="JeSuS_iS_bLaCk"]The story line is absolute crap but I've always loved the Halo series campaign more than the multiplayer. The cutscenes are also awesome. So I suppose I'll finish the fight.FrozenLiquid

And when I ask people why the story is crap, they usually say "It's about saving the world from alien invasion".

I've totally negated that statement.

I can almost swear that the reason people always asume that "shooting aliens to be a hero" is halo's story is because thats what they are expecting it to be, and tottaly ignore anything that happens from there on. Or they just have not played the game...

I buy Halo soley for the Single Player experience.

The incredible multiplayer is just a great bonus for me, and being very good at it doesn't hurt :D

-Beowulf

Pretty much

[QUOTE="_MURS_"][QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

Yep, I'm buying Halo 3 to finish the fight.

Why is the story incredibly generic by the way? You said you haven't played it so....

FrozenLiquid

"aliens are taking over!!! Shoot them until they die and be a hero"

The only question I'm asking myself right now, is whether you'll reply to what I'm about to say or silently move on from this thread.

Here goes:

The beginning of the Halo story begins with a fleet of human soldiers escaping an alien invasion from a colonized planet. They make a blind jump into space and come across an artificial ringworld.

The Covenant lose interest in the humans and prioritize the ringworld for some unknown reason, and naturally the humans are going to stop whatever they want. Upon the planet, you discover that Halo is some sort of weapon and the Covenant are going to use it (at this point you do not know whether they know it's a weapon. In Halo 2 you find out they think it's a catalyst for the Great Journey).

You then discover that this is not a weapon against humanity or any other race; it's a weapon to contain another species on the ringworld:The Flood. Unfortunately, the Covenant have let them escape, so in a twist of events it's up to you to use Halo (the very weapon the Covenant were going to use) against the Flood. Before you can activate Halo though, Cortana reveals to you how the weapon is used: Halo wipes out the Flood's food source, not just the flood itself, so the parasite cannot spread. Guilty Spark then goes to find alternate means to activate the ring, and now ironically your priority is not the Covenant: it's stopping the ring from activating. Thus you detonate the Pillar of Autumn and break the ring, rendering it useless.

Aliens are taking over and you shoot them until they die and be a hero? Far from it, mate.

Don't even get me started on Halo 2.

My brain now hurts from all that information being saved all at once....

Anyways...story doesnt sound that bad....but the way its put together in the game really takes that description and drags it out and puts it in a way so that I never really got that from the actual game....i only played like the first couple of levels of halo in a time period of like 3 years...

and that has nothing to do with Halo 2?? Because I played like the introduction part of that game where it seemed I was running around in circles for a the longest time and just quit...

Anyways...I dont like FPS games, and I HATE sci-fi games...so when you put them together Im not gonna like the game....but as I said....Im getting it for online...

My brain now hurts from all that information being saved all at once....

Anyways...story doesnt sound that bad....but the way its put together in the game really takes that description and drags it out and puts it in a way so that I never really got that from the actual game....i only played like the first couple of levels of halo in a time period of like 3 years...

and that has nothing to do with Halo 2?? Because I played like the introduction part of that game where it seemed I was running around in circles for a the longest time and just quit...

Anyways...I dont like FPS games, and I HATE sci-fi games...so when you put them together Im not gonna like the game....but as I said....Im getting it for online...

_MURS_

I can tell you though, Bungie's story telling sucks. You can miss information so easily it's not even funny. And the characters that do have potential, are sometimes extremely lame. For example, I really don't like Miranda Keyes.

I mean, I can ask even the most hardcore of Halo fans if they remembered the part where The Prophet of Truth mentioned his comrade The Prophet of Mercy was alive and kicking in one of Halo 2's levels (at that point Master Chief is standing right next to the dead Mercy guy), and then the Flood leader called Gravemind cuts into the speakers and tells the Covenant he is dead. That's character development right there.

Most people don't even know that bit exists, because you can easily miss it.

Astiop did you see that bit?

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]If you believe the story to be shallow and generic, you obviously don't know the story.peacebringer

Have YOU played halo? Seriously, tell me a game with a game with a similar enough story to halos to call it generic...

[QUOTE="_MURS_"]

My brain now hurts from all that information being saved all at once....

Anyways...story doesnt sound that bad....but the way its put together in the game really takes that description and drags it out and puts it in a way so that I never really got that from the actual game....i only played like the first couple of levels of halo in a time period of like 3 years...

and that has nothing to do with Halo 2?? Because I played like the introduction part of that game where it seemed I was running around in circles for a the longest time and just quit...

Anyways...I dont like FPS games, and I HATE sci-fi games...so when you put them together Im not gonna like the game....but as I said....Im getting it for online...

FrozenLiquid

I can tell you though, Bungie's story telling sucks. You can miss information so easily it's not even funny. And the characters that do have potential, are sometimes extremely lame. For example, I really don't like Miranda Keyes.

I mean, I can ask even the most hardcore of Halo fans if they remembered the part where The Prophet of Truth mentioned his comrade The Prophet of Mercy was alive and kicking in one of Halo 2's levels (at that point Master Chief is standing right next to the dead Mercy guy), and then the Flood leader called Gravemind cuts into the speakers and tells the Covenant he is dead. That's character development right there.

Most people don't even know that bit exists, because you can easily miss it.

Astiop did you see that bit?

Yeah I think thats the problem....I never even got close any of what you said from the game...I only played a few levels from each....had no clue what was going on....and quit.....I couldnt find any story in it at all...and I hate FPS alien games so I just stopped playing....

Maybe if the story was presented a bit better I wouldnt hate it so much...

I can tell you though, Bungie's story telling sucks. You can miss information so easily it's not even funny. And the characters that do have potential, are sometimes extremely lame. For example, I really don't like Miranda Keyes.

I mean, I can ask even the most hardcore of Halo fans if they remembered the part where The Prophet of Truth mentioned his comrade The Prophet of Mercy was alive and kicking in one of Halo 2's levels (at that point Master Chief is standing right next to the dead Mercy guy), and then the Flood leader called Gravemind cuts into the speakers and tells the Covenant he is dead. That's character development right there.

Most people don't even know that bit exists, because you can easily miss it.

Astiop did you see that bit?

FrozenLiquid

Yea, but I finished the game 3ice singleplayer and 2wice co-op :P I do agree about the storry telling part though, you really have to pay atention to understand everything.

[QUOTE="-Beowulf"]

I buy Halo soley for the Single Player experience.

The incredible multiplayer is just a great bonus for me, and being very good at it doesn't hurt :D

GarchomPro

Uh huh. There's no skill at all involed with Halo's multiplayer.

RPG's are nothing more than hitting your 1 2 and 3 buttons as many times as possible.

Racing games are no more than driving around a track.

See? I can generalize too.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

I can tell you though, Bungie's story telling sucks. You can miss information so easily it's not even funny. And the characters that do have potential, are sometimes extremely lame. For example, I really don't like Miranda Keyes.

I mean, I can ask even the most hardcore of Halo fans if they remembered the part where The Prophet of Truth mentioned his comrade The Prophet of Mercy was alive and kicking in one of Halo 2's levels (at that point Master Chief is standing right next to the dead Mercy guy), and then the Flood leader called Gravemind cuts into the speakers and tells the Covenant he is dead. That's character development right there.

Most people don't even know that bit exists, because you can easily miss it.

Astiop did you see that bit?

astiop

Yea, but I finished the game 3ice singleplayer and 2wice co-op :P I do agree about the storry telling part though, you really have to pay atention to understand everything.

Exactly.

Not to mention you have to strain to overhear Cortana during loud battles.

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

I'm getting it for the single player experience, the nice story, great A.I, great sound, immersion.

And...Live.

A lot of friends of mine like Halo, but they don't have 360's...

I've promised like 5 people to run through Co-op with them at my house... So I'll be spending a lot of time in the campaign.

If that weren't the case, I'd just beat it once and play online...

[QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

cyprus646

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

[QUOTE="cyprus646"][QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

FrozenLiquid

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

[QUOTE="cyprus646"][QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

FrozenLiquid

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

and if you have to read a novel to understand what the hell is going on in a game....then the developers should do a better job story telling...

I liked the story in both games. Halo 2 just had bad missions and a cliffhanger(no body likes those). If Halo 3 has the great story telling with the great missions. Then i will love this game more than i allready do(yes on beta alone i love this game)jg4xchamp

no body likes them unless they are done properly (GoW2 anyone?)

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="cyprus646"][QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

and if you have to read a novel to understand what the hell is going on in a game....then the developers should do a better job story telling...

Yet another misconception. The Halo books help one in understanding the story by providing more background information and detail. The games are entirely sufficient if you want an overall idea of what's going on.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="cyprus646"][QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

and if you have to read a novel to understand what the hell is going on in a game....then the developers should do a better job story telling...

And maybe you should do a better job of paying attention to the story in the game and book it will give you a good amount of info on how the armor's in halo 3 came to be :roll:

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="cyprus646"][QUOTE="_MURS_"]

Are you actaully buying Halo 3 to play the single player campaign?? I actually never even started this "Fight" so I have no intentions on finishing it....

I never liked Halo's story (In fact I think its so incredibly generic I cant believe some of the praise it gets)....Me and everybody else I know that are buying it are just buying it to play online....I have Halo 2 for xbox and I havnt touched campaign...havnt even started one....online is pretty much the only thing that matters...

So are you getting it to play online? Play single player?? Or both......

Im getting it for online only and once again...im not gonna touch single player...

_MURS_

You don't need to read the books. That's a huge misconception.

and if you have to read a novel to understand what the hell is going on in a game....then the developers should do a better job story telling...

Single player first.

Then run thru it co-op.

Finally play some multiplayer.