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[QUOTE="roflcopter317"]
Sure, you have your opinion. I was a PC owner since I could remember, and Halo is just as good as half life and what other pc games??? So no, 360 gamers don't have lower standards. And what other 'great' pc shooters are there? Doom 3, crysis and Unreal tournament 2004? Sorry, but they are not high standards. Pull your head out of your a**.
I can't see how halo got so much hype! The epic story about you saving the universe, the revolutionary combat, the vehicular combat, the massive levels, the amazing art, the characters, awesome level design, it was just a marvel of a game that most games even this gen can't match.
roflcopter317
Here are the PC shooters/shooter RPGs that I feel are superior games to Halo, for various reasons. Mostly because I feel they simply play better and are more fun. Just my opinion, but they do all rate very highly in most publications. Remember, I have played Halo on X360 and on PC. You have no right to tell me to pull my head out of my ass. Been playing shooters since the late 90's, been there, done that. You'll never get my agreement that Halo is as good as Half-life. I don't think it's even close. These were all released either before Halo, or within a year or so afterwards:
Deux Ex, Half-life, Elite Force, Counter-strike, Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001), Unreal (original), Aliens vs. Predator, Soldier of Fortune, Starsiege Tribes, Unreal Tournament (UT99- I still play this version sometimes because I think it has the most fun deathmatch and capture the flagever), No One Lives Forever, Medal of Honor-Allied Assault... the list goes on.
Good job by trying to compare RPGs to fps since they are completely different *sarcasm*. So resting aside RPG type games, the closest matches to halo would be unreal, half-life, counterstrike, the star wars games, wolfenstien, avp, and soldier of fortune. What is the same about all of these games? They are generic. All of them are basic point and shoot things through massive long corridors, nothing innovating at all. And most of them are multiplayer only games with no campaign. Lets go through each game...
Half-Life: There is nothing new about this game that hasn't already been done before, bad storytelling, bad characters (it was made in 1999 though). But everything else was done very good. That doesn't mean half life wasn't fun.
Unreal: Nothing new. Still a fun game though.
Counterstike: I have racked up many days playing this game. It has no campaign. It is good, but it lacks one thing; Versitility. There is only two gamemodes, bomb or hostages. Very very slack.... It is meant to be a multiplayer only game! But halo 1 out-does it! The most innovating thing about this game is it's introduction of weapon bloom, but that is it.
Star wars: Nothing new.
Wolfenstien: Nope.
AVP: New things it introduced was playing as different types of characters (marine or alien etc).
Soldier of fortune: Nothing new. Bad story, fun game.
Halo: Combat Evolved: They gave it the name of 'Combat Evolved' for a reason.... It's shield system made every encounter with an enemy interesting and different, along with it's melee system, offhand grenade throwing system, and it's interesting weapons. Sticky grenades where a real ground breaker if you ask me. Another good thing about halo's combat is how different every weapon realy is, it also makes encounters more interesting. It's campaign was amazing, one of the first gameswith a very good narative, with people actualy speaking loads throughout the game, not known from in halo's era. It's story telling was amazing too. As well as inventing 'set piece' levels in the gameing world (e.g, the sniping mission). And just look at the art... The AI was groundbreaking at the time, with the good characters to back that up. The level designs where so massive in the campaign, which held epic battle after epic battle, never seen before in video games. This all backed up by the amazing soundtrack, which gives me the shivers just listening to:
"Brothers in arms"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbkQ99OxQJU&feature=related
"Under the Cover of night"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSqm5Id6Hw0&feature=related
"Halo"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6JK3fhYE1w&feature=related
It was an amazing game. You can't deny it.
UNREAL IS WAY MORE INNOVATIVE THAN HALO!!!! Sorry for the caps but You are saying UT2004 is generic? Have you played it? The weapons, unlike halo, are creative. I enjoy Halo, but It is not as Innovative as Unreal. Also Timesplitters 2 is a better Console FPS. 
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