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Originally Posted by corporatejay
the reason halo has such a mass appeal is because people, like myself, who are not hardcore gamers, (other than the occasional game of DDR I rarely play video games) can actually play it and do reasonably well. The problem with most video games is they have evolved so far beyond my capability I don't enjoy them at all.
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I completely disagree.
The Halo community has gotten much too big. Not only do you have to deal with ridiculously annoying people online (either that or don't use your headset), but there's way too many hardcores who play the game 5 hours a night. Most of them just sit there and spawn camp and rack up easy kills on noobs. Having too many hardcores isn't a huge deal in games with actual strategy involved, but for twitch gaming like Halo there's basically no way to overcome it.
The other problem is that the weapons are horribly unbalanced and both games have only a couple weapon combos that are much more effective than anything else. This leads to noobs sticking with the "cool" weapons and the hardcores using the ideal weapons giving them an even greater advantage. Halo is like Starcraft, except the Terrans are clearly the superior race. All the hardcores would always go Terran, but all the new people who gravitate towards the Zerg/Protoss (the cool races).
Every game ends up being exactly the same as it's just a mad rush to get to the weapon spawn locations and all the good players are using the exact same thing. No one ever tries anything new or unique because winning the only that counts. And when you do try to do something different your team bitches at you for not using the right weapon combo, etc.
Halo's a pretty good series, but terribly over-rated. The first game was excellent, but the entire focus of the series is based totally on multiplayer now (which gets boring quickly for twitch gaming). A 5-6 hour campaign is an absolute joke. It's always amusing to hear Halo fanboys defend it by bragging about it's replayability...but can't you do that with any half-decent game?
Best way to spot a Halo fanboy - when they brag about the awesome story and how deep it is. The idea isn't bad, but the implementation (no character development, etc.) is just plain bad.