Am I the only Aspie here who DOESN'T like Halo/2?

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I have always considered Halo 1 to be a mediocre or average FPS game. I never got into this series because I do not own an X-Box console, and I didn't like Halo 1 enough to spark an interest in playing the rest of the series.

halo 2 is ok, but a joke compared to pc games like half life 2

Oh, I certainly wasn't implying that Half-Life 2 ripped off F.E.A.R. I was making a statement on the atrocious and murky "storytelling" found in the highest-profile first person shooters. While I agree that gameplay is important, I need a good story to give a crap about what's going on. If nothing makes me care about these characters or these situations, then the FPS just becomes yet another soulless shooting game in my mind. Which describes pretty much every modern FPS, or really pretty much every modern game period. If a film has a nonexistant plot, awful acting, and horrendous cliche dialogue then it's going to be bashed and the public will reject it (well--unless it's a "Star Wars" prequel), but if a game has a nonexistant plot, awful acting, and horrendous cliche dialogue, then nobody cares because it's the norm. I wish more developers would step up to the plate and go beyond pushing polygons, and raise the standards of their art form in another way. But of course it's so much easier to just make another FPS where you shoot cyborgs, or Arabs, or Vietnamese, or Nazi's, or Orcs, and have absolutely no plot to back any of it up.

personally i think it was there market strategy

What's Halo/2?

I've never heard of it.

I havent played any of the Halo's because I dont have an XBox.
But if I did I still wouldnt be able to play coz 1st person shooter (and even 3rd person) games make me dizzy and make me want to vomit.

Rather than typing out Halo and Halo 2, I shortened it using a rather crude abbreviation.

Thus, Halo/2 = Halo and Halo 2.

if you want real games:

play these! (favorites list)

gta: (vice city, san andreas) 2003,2004 (any platform)

Wonder boy 3 dragons trap: 1989 (sega master system)

donkey kong country series: 1994 1995 (not 3) (super nintendo)

Super mario allstars: 1993 (super nintendo)

Super mario world: 1994 (super nintendo)

Alex kidd in miricle world: 1986 (sega master system)

zelda: orcarina of time: 1998 (nintendo 64)

Mortal kombat trilogy :1996 (playstation)

true crime streets of NY: 2005 (Xbox)

Max payne: 2001 PC

Max payne 2 The fall of max payne: 2003 PC

Mystic Quest: ????? : Super nintendo

The sims deluxe edition: (or any expansion pack) PC:

mafia: 2002: PC

But as for halo i never played it so i am unsure i can add it ton my favorates list

Oh hell yeah, Max Payne, its sequel, and Mafia are all incredible games. As cinematic and moving as games come.

I play san andreas when i'm really bored,not as much as i used to...

I guess I'm the only one here that does like the game series a lot (despite the topic name?)

The thing I like about the Halo series was that the story was a central part of the games. In other FPS games like DooM 3, it seemed the story was kind of slapped on - like the story was just an excuse to shoot some stuff. But in Halo, it seemed reversed. (Which does kind of make sense, as the early game Halo was being developed as an Adventure / 3rd person shooter game for the Mac, before MS bought Bungie and made it be the star of the Xbox)

I can't think of much bad about the games, other than some might not like the pace of it, or that it uses the story rather than new characters, guns, and areas to keep interest in the player (that seems to be where most don't like it - heck, the me when I first started playing it didn't like the change for a while).

And the online is great in the 2nd game. Show me a game with as well of a thought out online and multiplayer system, and... I'll decide what when you show me. I don't know of any other game that you can get into a 'party' (group) with a few buddies, play a custom match for a while on your favorite level with maybe a specific weapon set enabled playing in a customized game type, and then decide you want to do something else, so you end the game, and while you're still all together (Almost all other online games I've played require you to wait out 'til the game hits its limits, like frag or time limit, or for all to leave the game, and regroup), go into a matchmaking game together and be grouped up automatically against similarly skilled players in a playlist of your choice. Then decide you like the attitude of Bob on the other team, so you send him a friend request after the game, he joins your party, and you go back into the matchmaking system again all on the same team.

RON>>>RTW>>>>>>>>HL2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Halo 1/2.

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At least state what you don't like about the games rather than... whatever you just posted

To be perfectly honest: I never played Halo 2.

I used to play the original Halo with a friend. It was awesome fun