Funny observation I made. You 360 fanboys think Halo changed everything, you think it makes others console owners insecure, you think we envy you because you get Halo. Let me tell you something, Halo did not invent the FPS, or revolutionize in ANY WAY IMAGINABLE. Topics created about Halo everyday? Please, I've seen like 5 of them regarding the entire franchise in the last 2 weeks. And thats with Halo Reach _JUST_ round the corner. And no, there is no praising of its ingenuity because it lacks that. And the story is garbage.[QUOTE="Bruin1986"]
I have been reading through the System Wars forums for around 7 years now under a few different user names but I rarely post. As I am sure almost all of you forum regulars are aware, Halo is almost without question the most debated game of the past decade in this forum. Whether praising it's ingeniuty, story, multiplayer, etc or mindlessly bashing it's "casual nature", "generic nature", "crappy story", etc...everyone seems compelled to voice their opinion on this game. Hell, in the first 10 pages of system wars posts, around a dozen topics were either created specifically to discuss the Bungie title or during the discussion shifted onto Halo. I have seen topics discussing almost any imaginable issue around videogames slowly progress into a Halo roast.
I first played Halo CE in 2001 at xbox launch and I thought it was unbelievable. LAN parties over at my friends houses with 3 xboxes hooked up blew the fun I had ever had before in any other gaming venue out of the water. I had been playing games since around 1990 with NES and it simply trumped them all. The various regions that the game is attacked for is "teh casualness", "teh generic", "teh overrated", "teh Microsoft uber marketing", etc. However, all of these arguments simply fail upon any decent analysis. NO GAME, and I mean NONE, can having the overwhelming longevity and staying power that Halo has shown in the past decade if this was actually true. But...Haloz is teh only good gamezors on teh suzbox! Don't be daft...all of the current platforms have an enormous library of fantastic games. I've owned an NES, Sega Genesis, PS1, gameboy, PSP, xbox, and 360 and this is te first generation I truly feel compelled to own all three consoles. I don't have the other two but once I graduate from UCLA and have some money, I'm gonna get the other two.
My question is this: doesn't the mere fact that fanboys on all sides find the necessity to create Halo threads on literally a daily basis answer the very topics they are discussing. Doesn't the fact that these posts even exist refute the condescending statements thrown perpetually at it? I was reading a forum post just yesterday simply saying is "Halo CE overrated?"...the game came out in 2001...where does the incentive to make this post come from? I'll tell you:
Halo is in the 2000s what Doom and Half-life were in the 1990s. It is the "default" FPS that comes to mind when you think FPS. Now I know that this fact seems to drive fanboys literally insane...but it's the truth. I'm am sure that some hardcore PC purists will refute this but for the larger social paradigm...Halo is home plate. The fact that a game from an at the time much less known developer on a brand new console line was able to do this to society is incredible. And I am sorry...MS could have spent one billion dollars on marketing and this still would not have occurred unless the gameplay backed it up.
Sorry for being long-winded but I just found this observation funny.
In b4 TL DNR
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Its a AAA game, not a game of the year title, not a AAAA title, not something holy or revolutionary but just another AAA game that we get several of every year.
Dang dude, chill with the nerd rage.
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