StarCraft 1-2 has a much better story then all the Halo games

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

I just...laughed one of my noodles up...but yeah no...Starcraft doesn't have anything better storywise then halo. Infact halo's universe when you take the books into account is much more flushed out...with starcrafts universe flushout because of fanfics lol.

PSdual_wielder

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

I just...laughed one of my noodles up...but yeah no...Starcraft doesn't have anything better storywise then halo. Infact halo's universe when you take the books into account is much more flushed out...with starcrafts universe flushout because of fanfics lol.

PSdual_wielder

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

[QUOTE="PSdual_wielder"]

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

I just...laughed one of my noodles up...but yeah no...Starcraft doesn't have anything better storywise then halo. Infact halo's universe when you take the books into account is much more flushed out...with starcrafts universe flushout because of fanfics lol.

walkingdream

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

I have to give credit for bungie though, their series are targeted towards people who probably never read a single book in their lives, thats why there's so many people protecting it. So the same goes for you too. ;)

[QUOTE="PSdual_wielder"]

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

I just...laughed one of my noodles up...but yeah no...Starcraft doesn't have anything better storywise then halo. Infact halo's universe when you take the books into account is much more flushed out...with starcrafts universe flushout because of fanfics lol.

locopatho

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

The thing about stories are that this blank state character thing would work if all the other characters around him are more interesting and dynamic and they would give complex situations for the main character to deal with. That way Master Chief being a projection of the player would feel more like a heroic character. Sadly all the other characters in the plot are equally flat.

Starcraft is basically a 40k ripoff...locopatho

[QUOTE="locopatho"][QUOTE="PSdual_wielder"]

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

PSdual_wielder

The thing about stories are that this blank state character thing would work if all the other characters around him are more interesting and dynamic and they would give complex situations for the main character to deal with. That way Master Chief being a projection of the player would feel more like a heroic character. Sadly all the other characters in the plot are equally flat.

[QUOTE="locopatho"][QUOTE="PSdual_wielder"]

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

PSdual_wielder

The thing about stories are that this blank state character thing would work if all the other characters around him are more interesting and dynamic and they would give complex situations for the main character to deal with. That way Master Chief being a projection of the player would feel more like a heroic character. Sadly all the other characters in the plot are equally flat.

Probably. Blizzard are the King of Clichés, but they're storytelling is pretty on point.

I'm more partial to Halo because - and I think I recently just figured it out - it was more suited to a non video-game franchise. It's potentially rich universe was the reason it exploded across all sorts of media. However, the limitations of video games produced the relative crap that was Halo 2 and 3. Halo: CE is still friggin' awesome though.

[QUOTE="locopatho"]Starcraft is basically a 40k ripoff...JangoWuzHere

Both feel like they've been written by greasy-haired, pimple-faced geeks. One actually was.

I wasnt aware anyone cared about the story in Halo

VendettaRed07

[QUOTE="walkingdream"]

[QUOTE="PSdual_wielder"]

Starcraft 1 and brood war had plenty of depth and twists in their respective plotlines. Story opens up with a political struggle and an alien invasion lurking on the horizon. And then details about all the main factions and players gets revealed progressively as part of the missions you play. Kerrigan disappears and a while later she pops out of an egg as the latest and one of the biggest threats to the other two races. And the planets actually had themes for environments and different uses. Oh right, remember to ignore the fact that starcraft came out years before halo.

What does halo have again? Oh, here's a city and right outside the walls are an endless, linear path of rocks and trees. Apparently this is what 'billions of people' live in when humanity has advanced in the future. Oh an alien invasion is coming, and a super soldier who talks in a monotone comes to save everyone, where he's using nothing but the same weapons that everyone else has anyways. I mean come on, bungie is reinforcing the idea that master chief is a 'badass' by relying on the hinge that he does nothing but fight. But what if you think the story in the games aren't good enough? Go read the books silly, thats what we've hired external writers for, to do the job that we couldn't do, because we're just game designers.

The halo series is a pathetic excuse of an action story.

PSdual_wielder

I have to give credit for bungie though, their series are targeted towards people who probably never read a single book in their lives, thats why there's so many people protecting it. So the same goes for you too. ;)

Starcraft 2's story desperately needs a better writer. Otherwise I agree.

[QUOTE="locopatho"]Starcraft is basically a 40k ripoff...JangoWuzHere

Halo isn't praised for it's story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP. If Halo didn't have MP it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular. GamerProDude

On the contrary, Halo: CE was mightily praised for its graphics and single player campaign. The MP was considered a surprise hit.

[QUOTE="GamerProDude"]Halo isn't praised for it's story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP. If Halo didn't have MP it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular. FrozenLiquid

On the contrary, Halo: CE was mightily praised for its graphics and single player campaign. The MP was considered a surprise hit.

Jee I wish there was a poll. Unfortunately I'll have to disagree TC.

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

[QUOTE="GamerProDude"]Halo isn't praised for it's story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP. If Halo didn't have MP it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular. GamerProDude

On the contrary, Halo: CE was mightily praised for its graphics and single player campaign. The MP was considered a surprise hit.

"Halo isn't praised for its story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP".

That was your original statement. The single player of the original Halo contributed to its initial success. The launch of Xbox Live helped Halo 2 gain huge momentum in the multiplayer arena.

While Halo 2 and 3 (and ODST) may not have had bar-setting campaigns, people still held out for them pre-release, as they are doing once again for Halo: Reach.

I honestly feel the "Halo is all about multiplayer" is a crutch a few vocal Halo fans have used to sidestep the alleged quality of the single player campaign, and in the case of Halo 3 and ODST, it's graphics. Subsequently, Halo haters use it to fan the flames.

[QUOTE="GamerProDude"][QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

On the contrary, Halo: CE was mightily praised for its graphics and single player campaign. The MP was considered a surprise hit.

FrozenLiquid

"Halo isn't praised for its story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP".

That was your original statement. The single player of the original Halo contributed to its initial success. The launch of Xbox Live helped Halo 2 gain huge momentum in the multiplayer arena.

While Halo 2 and 3 (and ODST) may not have had bar-setting campaigns, people still held out for them pre-release, as they are doing once again for Halo: Reach.

I honestly feel the "Halo is all about multiplayer" is a crutch a few vocal Halo fans have used to sidestep the alleged quality of the single player campaign, and in the case of Halo 3 and ODST, it's graphics. Subsequently, Halo haters use it to fan the flames.

Go read the books, Halo story is VERY good.

Go read the books, Halo story is VERY good.

Cloud567kar

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]

[QUOTE="GamerProDude"] Are you telling me Halo today is popular because of the story and MP is just a bonus? As if I wasn't a gamer... Halo 1 was different... back then MP didn't really even exist outside PC gaming, and the xbox was the most powerfull system. That's why Halo becamepopular in the first place, not why it STAYED popular. GamerProDude

"Halo isn't praised for its story, or it's graphics, the game is liked for only the MP".

That was your original statement. The single player of the original Halo contributed to its initial success. The launch of Xbox Live helped Halo 2 gain huge momentum in the multiplayer arena.

While Halo 2 and 3 (and ODST) may not have had bar-setting campaigns, people still held out for them pre-release, as they are doing once again for Halo: Reach.

I honestly feel the "Halo is all about multiplayer" is a crutch a few vocal Halo fans have used to sidestep the alleged quality of the single player campaign, and in the case of Halo 3 and ODST, it's graphics. Subsequently, Halo haters use it to fan the flames.

Halo has a much better story

Starcrafts story is quite terrible and metzen retcons everything without a second thought

also SC is a rip off of warhammer 40k

Halo has a much better story

Starcrafts story is quite terrible and metzen retcons everything without a second thought

also SC is a rip off of warhammer 40k

Ultizer

[QUOTE="Ultizer"]

Halo has a much better story

Starcrafts story is quite terrible and metzen retcons everything without a second thought

also SC is a rip off of warhammer 40k

GamerProDude

pfff CoD had a storyline? Oh ya it was Russians invading America because there were no cameras at an airport.

No. Halo's story(in the games) is a good as KZ's or cod's... GamerProDude

Both game franchises are all about killing aliens. I really don't see how one is better than the other.xdude85

Starcraft 2's story desperately needs a better writer. Otherwise I agree.

Vaasman

I disagree. Actually, a lot of people disagree with this considering all the praise SC2 campaign has been getting.

[QUOTE="xdude85"]Both game franchises are all about killing aliens. I really don't see how one is better than the other.BodyElite

Are you really saying that Halo, the game and all its books, immerse people more into its universe than Star Wars, all its games, and all its books, ect ect?

I'd agree that the SCI storyline was good, but SCII's was dull for the money put into it and the time taken to "perfect" it. Meh, that's just me though.

yes, ripped right off warhammer 40k:lol: