I ended up buying a 360 over the PS3 even though Im a long-standing sony fan. that extra $100 did it....not the games. The only decent 360 games that arent being ported are Quake Wars and Fable 2 in my opinion.

Honestly I wish I would have known how disapointed I would be in Forza 2, GoW, and Halo 3 when I bought the 360. Everything else Ive wanted to play was cross-platform. And now Im missing out on Uncharted and Killzone 2....that pisses me off so bad. When I bought the 360 Killzone 2 was still looking like vaporware. Now Im stuck with an unreliable machine and lack-luster games.

So...to answer the question: PS3

No No No No u forgot the Brute Spiker, spike grenade, Bubble Shield, Trip Mine,Grav Lift, Plasma Cannon, and there isnt a flamethrowerMasterChief707

wowwie zowwie.... all that new stuff and all i had to do was get buttraped by halo 3 advertisements for a year and pay $460?

im pissed at the following 15 minutes until i get off work.

im also pissed about the mods getting weekly paychecks from microsoft.:roll:

[QUOTE="Da_Icon"]Too bad for you guys still talking about halo 3, i bought the game and didn't like it, is like goin back to the old xbox, 2 years of waiting and didn't take it to the next level. Same old Same old.icey6ch9

I feel the same way, but all of these fanboys dont care. Bungie could of handed them anything and they would love it.

Agreed

...yeeeaaah....amazing? no.

passable? yes.

Its a real shame the (undoubtedly) tens of millions of dollars in advertising didnt do more to improve the graphics engine.

Gameplay is really whats important here, and we all know thats a moot argument. Some people like it...some people dont. And thats another thing the tens of millions in advertising dollars didnt affect.

So in reality...what we have here is a game with slightly updated visuals, 7 hours of SP...a few extra MP options and nothing more we wouldnt already expect out of a next-gen sequel. Wonderful.

This is the game that no one would shut up about for a year? G4 and Spike run "Countdown to Halo 3" shows for hours on end. Gamespot reworks their scripts in order to facilitate a barage of Halo 3 ads after every mouseclick... I cant even read CNN without some ridiculous "Wow These Kids Have Halo Fever" story showing up on every page...

This is the videogame equivalent of a boyband. ..As a 360 owner and a fan of the Halo series....Im ashamed. Gamespot should be too. As well as Adam Sessler.

I simply said that Halo 3's marketing campaign is a sign of things to come. If you dont mind ads being shoved down your eye-sockets...fine. My argument will likely be lost on you.

Im not complaining about the game in any way, shape, or form. I own a 360. I do not own a PS3. And the biggest shame here is how worked up you people get over really nothing. Take a breather. Go throw a neon grenade at some kid skipping school...

Its refreshing to see some Halo players admit that marketing has played a bigger part in the game's success than its own gameplay. The numbers are easy to come by if you research the topic thouroughly. (i wont paste links...im sure thats a TOS violation somehow)

The fact is that kids these days are less likely to see the media machine rolling because thats all theyve ever known. They dont understand the old saying "You have to spend money to make money". And outlets like Gamespot and parent company CNET capitalize on that ignorance. Kids light up message boards with "ZOMG HALO3 9.5". Good bad or indifferent, that 9.5 rating was not simply one guy's opinion of a video game. That 9.5 was an intricate boardroom decision involving a half-dozen bigwigs and a PR guy from Microsoft. And even if Im wrong, GS knows Im not too far off.

Im not saying Halo 3 is a bad game. Personally I prefer games for grown people. I just wished game players would wise-up a little about how drastically elderly white men in business suits with briefcases and stacks of test-market data sheets affect the industry and the quality of games produced therein.

(in short: if those elderly white men in business suits start getting a little too comfortable with the idea that millions and millions of kids are susceptable to marketing blitzes like Halo 3's, the future might very well be full of biased reviews and thousands of bland 'throw-neon-grenades-at-someone-while-jumping-around' FPSs)

(oh and the graphics are vastly overrated)

Yeh, this whole promotion is extremely intrusive. Gamespot: you guys are effectively trading off reputation for ad revenue. I don't think anyone needs to point out that Gamespot is almost universally viewed (albeit in jest) as being a thinly-veiled branch of the Microsoft PR department, and instances like this only damage what little credibility Gamespot has with anyone over the age of 13. Whether or not the advertising blitz is necessary at all is up for debate, and no one will argue that the revenue is needed to run the servers, but i dont think any amount of money (however large it unquestionably is) is worth throwing unavoidable - and extremely unsightly - ads all over their reader's computer screens.

Im one gigantic, high-dollar massive promotional blitz away from finding another place to read game articles while i drink my coffee in the morning. There are other sites out there that dont alter thier code simply to accomodate a $300,000 ad campaign every couple of days.

Im glad that there are a few people at CNET that are making boatloads of money by pissing off the readers of one of their little red-headed-stepchild sister sites; after all this is a capitalist society. But someone needs to consider the fact that one day they may trade ad revenue for credibility a little too enthusiastically, and all those little video-game playing sheep might migrate to a more reputable site.

(Oh, and by the way: anyone with some spare time on their hands can easily research on teh intrawebz what kind of connection Gamespot and CNET have with Barclays and Microsoft. ...watch this post get removed by mods within the next 10-24 hours.)