COD4 PC version if you have no friends, 360 version if you doCute_Gamer

That makes no sense at all, you're playing with them over the internet regardless.

[QUOTE="ChinoJamesKeene"][QUOTE="PS3_3DO"]

I think it's a little bit overrated. Now the hermits know how Halo fans feel when people say Halo is overrated all the time. ;)

bezaire2005

ButHalo is overrated for thousands of resaons, its not even anaverage game to hermits.

I refuse to believe that millions of people will generate record sales numbers for a game that is sooooo overrated. Halo 3 not only set records in the video game industry, but they set records in the gaming industry as well. People won't just plop down $60 of there hard earned money for no reason. People won't still be playing this game years from now because of it's "hype".

The Sims is a nice example of how that logic fails. It was easy to pickup, marketed well, and really it was the only game for a long, long time that could justify a person's purchase of the Xbox (which says more about the early library of the Xbox than about Halo). If it has mass appeal, yes, it is more than likely not a bad game, but that kinda argument is almost like stating that sales are a direct indicator of how good a game is.

Plus he said it was an average game to PC gamers, it obviously wasn't perceived as an average game to Xbox owners.

[QUOTE="StryderK"]Truth to be told, 3D fighters haven't advanced beyond Tekken 3 and the original Soul Calibur since they were originally release some 10 years ago. You basically still remember all the moves and combos, master how to use those moves, then pummel the other guy into the ground. Break it all down, every fighter, whether VF, Tekken or SC, all follow this basic rule. What's new? That's the question.....That why alot of people preper games like Super Smash.Optusnet

When you think about it, the FPS genre hasn't evolved since Half Life or Halo 1....

Gameplay evolution and Halo in the same sentence? Blasphemy! Though really the FPS genre hasn't changed much other than with certain gimmicks since Quake, and that game's gimmick was that it had teh omg 3d grafix with teh polygonz.

Sadly, without Warren Specter heading the project, it is doomed to fail miserably. I have yet to find a single player game as engrossing, interactive and deep as Deus Ex so far. It was just that damned good.

Also yes, Starcraft was the greatest game of all time. Deus Ex was the greatest single player game of all time though!

Yet I can probably pick out two of those PC games and get more overall playtime and entertainment than all of those 360 games combined. Pay 60 bucks for a measly 12 hours of single player? No thank you. And no, Halo isn't worth anything to me in multiplayer. It's slow paced and dumbed down. It's practically the Sims of FPS games in terms of casual friendliness, you can pick it up and enjoy yourself, but it doesn't lend itself well for serious gaming.

Guess what, people have gaming preferences. Just because you don't like RTS games, MMOs and fast paced online shooters doesn't mean someone else who plays those games on a PC gets shafted. If anything, console gamers get shafted paying 60 bucks for shorter and shorter single player experiences. I have outright refused to pay full price for any single player game since the late 90's since they offer me about 3 days of entertainment tops. Not to mention the fact that playing with friends in a multiplayer game is way way more fun than any single player experience can offer me (yes, even COOP, the challenge of killing AI doesn't thrill me).

...so doesn't that mean its takes more skill to be good at console shooters?

Chickity_China

Struggling with a control scheme doesn't make you good. You could learn how to drive with your feet on the steering wheel if you wanted, doesn't mean you're the best driver in the world. When everyone else can kill you just that much faster, you have to react just that much faster in order to even be competitive. Sure, everyone else is hindered the same way, but the one guy with a ridiculously fast reaction time and very good precision aim doesn't differentiate himself quite as much from the rest due to it. It's like the difference between t-ball and baseball. A strong person with good form in his swing can hit it out of the park, but now he no longer needs to have good hand eye coordination to hit the ball. Either way you're lessening the impact of a skill that can be improved upon and used to better your performance in a game, and PC gamers (because we're all so omg elitist) don't like that.