Halo Series. Boring, uninspired, overrated.

[Gently Applied Heat]

I am 37 years old. Back in my high school years, Halo was considered one of the best games ever made. However, I never played it because I was one of those ♥♥♥♥♥ Gamecube owners.

Now so many years later, I picked up TMCC and have been slowly making my way through the games, in order, one at a time. I am about 75% through Halo 2 and I think i'm about done. It's like I keep playing these games hoping that eventually SOMETHING will grab my interest, but it hasn't. It just boggles my mind how many people thought this was some sort of revolution in gaming...

Environments: BORING. Every level feels like a shooting gallery in the same copy-paste hallway or outside area.

Weapons: BORING as ♥♥♥♥. Using the same guns to shoot the same enemies which simply get more bullet spongy as the game goes on makes me want to quit.

Enemies: BORING. Shooting the same purple and brown enemies every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ level. Even the actual aliens themselves look un-inspired D&D rejects. Half the time I don't even know what i'm shooting at... a robot? An Alien? I don't know. None of the enemies have any distinguishing features that make them interesting.

The Story: BORING. Every chapter seems like it was written by a fifth grader and always boils down to "Go to the place and press the button". Halo 2 seems like it is trying really hard to capture my attention but I don't care about any of the characters or their struggles. They are trying so hard to get my to care about a guy in armour whose face I have never seen and an alien who looks like every other alien I've killed hundreds of.

It's really screwed up but i'm almost ANGRY at this point. I remember living through through the Halo craze even to the point where my friends talked about it like it was some genius product.

I mean jesus, no wonder they have never made a Halo movie. What the hell would it be about?

Can someone please try to help me understand why this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game series rose to the top while other GREAT shooters shot ♥♥♥♥ on back in the day?

I remember buying Timesplitters 2 for my Gamecube and the guy who sold it to be told me that Halo was way better. At the time, I felt bad for being a "Nintendo kiddy". I look back on that and I shake my head. I was right all along.

Can someone please help me understand why people think this series is so amazing?

[Bullett00th]

No Fate の投稿を引用：

I still love Halo 1. I just wanna say that just because something is new that doesn't mean that it is better. Also vice versa. I like some modern games here and there, but mostly I play older games. The AAA industry is a anti-consumer cancer in the world. Therefore, why most modern AAA titles suck imo. I would rather play HaloCE over 90% of modern shooters.

I believe most of that has to do with AI.
Enemies are mostly human NPCs either suicide rushing you or poking at you from cover.
Very few games have enemies that behave in certain ways and truly try to hunt you down in smart and interesting ways while navigating combat arenas.

Back in early 2000s we were getting this as a norm, then it faded away somewhere. Obviously Halo preserved that.

Today this kind of AI I could only find in Doom and The Last of Us 2

[Jojof]

Glad someone finally had the gall to tell er like it IS.

[Bullett00th]

Jojof の投稿を引用：

Glad someone finally had the gall to tell er like it IS.:wololo::richard:

How full of themselves do people have to be to think their personal impression is fact?

[Silent]

Kurbb の投稿を引用：

Silent の投稿を引用：

I think it's a nostalgia thing. If you grew up playing it on Xbox, it's probably one of the best games to you.

Finally got to try it out due to the MCC and I mainly played Sony & Nintendo consoles back in the day. I remember people telling me that I made the wrong choice in consoles when Halo was big and I've got to say, I didn't miss much with skipping Halo.

no its not nostalgia. Halo kick started the Esports scene.

Its was popular because there is a huge skill gap.

Quake was doing that earlier, but Halo did popularize it on consoles.

[Venom415]

Silent の投稿を引用：

Quake was doing that earlier, but Halo did popularize it on consoles.

Yeah N64/segasaturn quake and doom and even PS1 were doing console FPS titles but the story telling and aim style was pretty new for that genre and changed how a person would target an enemy vs standard point and pew. Halo definitely popularised it with its refinement of past games.

[Silent]

Venom415 の投稿を引用：

Silent の投稿を引用：

Quake was doing that earlier, but Halo did popularize it on consoles.

Yeah N64/segasaturn quake and doom and even PS1 were doing console FPS titles but the story telling and aim style was pretty new for that genre and changed how a person would target an enemy vs standard point and pew. Halo definitely popularised it with its refinement of past games.

I'm not denying that. I was just referring to the Esports comment.

[[GFR] YOUR THERAPIST]

Halo is a highly polished, streamlined, and accessible case of "simple done well."

[Momus!]

OP's completely right, and as usual, the Halo fans take their bib off, and start crying and throwing insults, lmao

[WackoSnacko]

This entire post is basically an old man seeing how many ways he can say "stop having fun".

[Walker☻//︻ ---]

Boomer!

[eX]

There is some truth in this post, the main reaason why Halo became so popular is that it was first well made shooter with decent controls designed for consoles, back what it was first released you really had no proper shooters to play on console, and it snowballed from there. Not saying that its not a good game, but it became as popular as it is thx to consoles.

[Pekmez Pita]

I couldn't agree more.

I can't even bring myself to complete the first game. Too much consolitis for me.

"It's a 20 year old game!"

So what? So is Half-Life but it's vastly superior to this in every way imaginable. Still is.

The level design alone is just atrocious. Never mind the clunky gunplay and overall grueling pacing of the game.

[RabbitBreeder]

I mean, if you aren't interested then you're not interested. Not a big deal.

[Venom415]

Pekmez Pita の投稿を引用：

I couldn't agree more.

I can't even bring myself to complete the first game. Too much consolitis for me.

"It's a 20 year old game!"

So what? So is Half-Life but it's vastly superior to this in every way imaginable. Still is.

The level design alone is just atrocious. Never mind the clunky gunplay and overall grueling pacing of the game.

Guaranteed you will find people saying half life is a terrible game too lol. I love both half life and halo ce and both imo are equals that trade blows with things they lack and excel in.

[Soren]

Halo, the first of it's kind in so many ways. Innovated on the entire FPS genre. Gave us the modern control scheme, twas the first to do the party system that is still used today. Also, somehow it's boring and uninspired? Boring I get, anyone can literally think anything is boring. Uninspired though? Really?