Halo 3

[ZeroKirbyX]

**** Family Guy XD

[coasterkrazy]

Eh... I'm not really a fan of the genre and I don't have a 360 anyway. I reserved Halo 2 and got it and beat it and tried the online mode. It was okay, but it just didn't excite me that much.

Originally posted by Archem2
Oh, I love PC shooters. Hell, I just love shooters!

I agree with Archem 10%.

[Archem]

If you throw on a zero and two zeros, you're on my list!


As for GoW being better than Halo: I disagree. It's fun, for sure, but it's just not something that I can play more than a couple times through. It's too serious for me to play continuously in the way that Halo can be played. It takes too much concentration at certain parts, and third-person shooters really aren't my thing, so it's a small miracle that I enjoy the game at all. Plus, it's too boring about colors, and Halo is like a fireworks display hopped up on hallucinogenic drugs. By comparison, that is. Halo lasts and lasts because it's just so easy to pick up, play, and share with friends. It's more party-accessible. Plus, the single player Halo experience makes you feel like a god when you kill a good ten-twenty-some-odd foes, whereas in Gears, you only feel like a guy who's a bit luckier than the rest. Also, its multiplayer really isn't as fun as everyone seems to say it is. Too much of the power weapons pwning those without power weapons.

[Razor]

I got to play 33 hours of Halo 3 over 52 hours.
It was highly enjoyable: the graphics are a nice improvement over Halo 2, I only noticed the lack of anti-aliasing once (we were playing on a CRT TV); the single player campaign was shorter than I would like (heroic coop took less than 9 hours) but solidly enjoyable and replayable; the new skull system is a nice touch as is the theatre mode; my brief play with Forge wasn't all that interesting; when playing the various social Live matches, the limitation of four or five maps per game type was very noticeable; with Live Social Slayer, the choice between slayer and shotty snipers quickly got old (but beating other people is always fun, especially those guys who had high ranks who claimed they were going to beat my team, totally kicked their asses); the single player brings a nice close to the main characters, holy crap they killed off Keyes/Johnson/343; last level was a nice homage to the last level of Halo 1, which was awesome as well; interesting new vehicles/weapons though the latter are ultimately disregarded in multiplayer for the sake of assault rifle/melee kills; bizarre absence of Blood Gulch/Beaver Creek is bothersome; new items are fun and useful, except that gay radar jammer, which I just can't resist using every single time.

If I had a xbawks threesiddy, I'd buy it.

[aboutasoandthis]

I have a 360 and a DS yet I still don't have Halo 3 and Phantom Hourglass. I need a job.

[Archem]

Ok, I totally forgot about this thread, so I feel I should get my final thoughts out on the game. Single player pwns, even if it was a bit short. The [spoiler] felt [spoiler] to me, but if [spoiler], then that would have been [spoiler]. *sigh* I really [spoiler, spoiler]. The multiplayer matchmaking is kind of weak right now, but the custom games and what you can do in them is fantastic. At school yesterday, a bunch of us made a custom game mode that really ruled. Originally, we just wanted to make SWAT real quick, but then we went crazy with the options and ended up with what some could call the most realistic Halo game mode ever. It almost felt like we weren't even playing Halo! The Forge is time consuming, but very rewarding when designing a game mode around a map variant. Ultimately, we had some unbelievably awesome gaming experiences that day. Also, I'm in love with the Theater. I've spent about half of my time in the game in the theater.

But I have to say, when it comes to the skulls, they really could have hidden them a lot better. I mean, I'm going to all kinds of crazy places while skull hunting, only to find they've all been put somewhere that's just slightly off the beaten path *coughblindcough*. Hell, I basically tripped over two or three of them! I should have been in charge of hiding the skulls! They could have put more in, too.

[Grandy]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2304-Zero-Punctuation-Halo-3


 Mildly related and higly amusing.

 Also, as for what everyone is saying, the single-player is not that great, so even IF I had a 360, I still wouldn't buy it.

 Why? 'Coz from what it seems, the multiplayer is online, and I wouldn't be able to make my console go online, for various reasons.

[Razor]

Zero Punctuation is awesome, but all things considered that review is a bit scathing. Or maybe I'm just part of the target audience and he isn't. Dunno lol

[ZeroKirbyX]

Ive actually said all that before I saw that video XD Halo is a decent game, but its not the best ever.

[Archem]

I love ZP with all my heart because even through all the nasty things that may be said about things I so dearly love, it still leaves me in a complete state of humorous agreement. I'm also letting it be known that while I love Halo and always will, that I will hold it in high regards forever and ever, that I still wouldn't call it the best game ever, or even one of the best games ever. It's a truly marvelous shooter (for what it is, and not for what it isn't), and that's all I want it to be. Should it be the next Tetris or the future of DOOM? No. I'm fine with it being on the level with other games that I will always hold dear to me (even if they get a lot of flak from the haters) like the Tony Hawk games or Battlefield or any game where Luigi holds authority over Mario. The best isn't what I'm looking for (although it's a nice thing to have), what I'm looking for is fun. If I wanted the best all the time, I would only play Half-Life for the PC shooter field, Super Mario Bros. 3 for platformers, and Gran Turismo for the racing scene.

But here I go on a rant again. Let me retreat before I stir up some unnecessary ****.

[Archem]

Sorry to kick/double post, but I need to report that I've found a 14th skull. I'll let you know that it's in "Cortana", but I won't tell you where in the level it is. Just want to be able to say in the future that I found it, and that I can't find anything on the internet about it.

Pics!

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[Razor]

I believe you might have found the elusive "second Blind skull" which does nothing because you already have found the Blind skull.
It wasn't meant to be in the game, but apparently they left it in there.

[Archem]

Perhaps, but I'm still quite interested in this little piece of Easter Egg. My friend and I are kind of set now to hunt and hunt for any more such skulls.

[Desimodontidae]

Ok, well it's a kick, but I haven't been here in awhile and this is like the only thing I want to talk about. I played this game for the first time last Saturday. I have really mixed feelings about the game. It was a little odd to get used to at first, considering how much I used to play Halo 2. Plus I hardly every play a 360, so the controller was a little new to me. Even though I had trouble gettig used to, I still beat everyone that I fought against, even though it had been at least 2 months since I'd last played Halo 2. Sadly though, for me, the multiplayer wasn't as fun as Halo 2, mostly because of the changes in physics... the gernades bounce all homosexually... and it sucked everytime I wanted to reload I ended up throwing down a shield of some sort. There's just something about the gameplay that I can't quite put my finger on... but Halo 2 definatly had it, Halo 3 did not.

I will say however, that I loved the campaign mode. It was beautiful, it was fun, and it actually gave use to all the new features. Not to say they're completly useless in the multiplayer, but in campaign, they added an element of fun... maybe it's because it's fun to fuck with enemies in every way possible. Of course, it was short, and they storyline to me seemed rushed and impulsive... like they made they game and then came up with a storyline for it... apparently it's supposed to follow the book... but I've never read it... I'm not sure how the relationship is with the book and the game.. but yeah,