[QUOTE="vashkey"] Please, explain.
By the way, it's very rare that console game provide map editors, saved films, customizable game variants, let alone sharing them with other users. Not to mention it's one of the only if not the only 360 game that provide 4-player co-op campaign wit cut scenes in tact.
I could say the same about CoD4 though. It does nothing new. But since when does a game have to do new things in order to be fun?
I can understand saying Halo 3 is over rated, but saying it's bad is a bit to far. And it's not Halo's fault you over hyped it.
codezer0
map editor? you call Forge a map editor? Shows what fail is in your post already. Forge in Halo 3 is NOT a map editor. You can't make your own maps in it. And you don't really have any ability to edit anything on the map. Map editors were already done earlier and better in console gaming. The best example was the one in Timesplitters Future Perfect. You could make SP/campaign and MP maps from scratch with it, and even put in A.I. bots in places for good measure on the MP maps (obviously you'd expect this for the SP ones). In Pariah, you also had the ability to freely alter the terrain in the maps you created. oh, and did you forget so quickly that Forge is the name of the map maker in the original Marathon, a.k.a. Halo 4? Forge in Marathon let you create maps from scratch and alter them as you pleased, too. Saved Films? This has been done earlier and better in nearly every sports genre in the market. Skate (while having come out after Halo 3) took it a step or two further by allowing players to edit their own replays to create a highlight reel of sorts and then upload/share them youtube-style. Customizable game variants? pfft. Only things I'd ever seen were just dicked around junk people did in Forge mode and basically made it up as they went along. My biggest unadulterated gripe with Halo 3's campaign is the fact that it is such a blatant tease, and the fact that Bungie made it so that you'd have to co-op with four people if you actually wanted to get through it on Legendary. I for one enjoyed the campaign in Halo: CE, and part of that was because it was entirely doable on your own. Oh yea, and as if they aren't kidding anyone about how they pulled a George Lucas in that Halo leads directly into Marathon. **** at least Lucas was up front about the fact that the "new" trilogy is a prequel. Bungie still tries to act all coy and claim that Halo and Marathon are unrelated. But anyone with half a brain and info on the plot lines for both games will clearly see that Halo basically is the prequel to Marathon. I never said anything about CoD4 being a completely original property. It is original in the sense that it is decidedly different from the WW2-era stuff the series used to be all about. But what CoD4 did was focus on doing what it did very well, and at least ensuring the player a sense that even the hardest parts (such as "Mile High Club") were still doable. By contrast, Halo 3 even on Heroic felt like the game was not-so-subtly telling me I had to go pay another $50 to find three other random people to try and campaign with in hopes of getting through the p.o.s. on anything higher than Normal. And unlike Halo, the quality of the story and Campaign in CoD4 is there, and very well executed, which is more than I can say for any Bungie game post-Halo:CE. I never bought into the hype of Halo 3... in fact, after playing Halo 2 online, I knew this game was going to be crap. I only have it in my "played games" list because my neighbor had bought a copy, while not having his own 360, and thus insisted on playing it on mine. Since then, I'm just glad that I don't have to look at that POS again.Forge is a map editor, you fail. I didn't say it was the best one and I didn't say it was the only one. And you can alter the terain, you just need to get creative.
Halo isn't competing with sports games, you fail.
You haven't seen many variants cuz you don't play Halo 3. You fail.
Cortana is not a hard level. And if you suck that bad, just play it on easy. That was the first complaint I've ever heard of Halo being to hard. Most people say it's to easy.
And if you did not hype Halo 3, then it was not over hyped.
Isn't funoy how you didn't actually provide any evidence as to how Halo 3 is average or bad? Yeah, I thought so to.
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