The most overrated game in recent memory IMO.
"I may not be a mathematician, but I can count to a million." - Shannon Sharpe
I disagree on many levels here. The games being compared are all different animals.
Halo are run and gun shooters ala Call of Duty.
Half Life is a mix of shooting, puzzle solving and platforming similar to Bioshock now.
Fallout 3 is an RPG that was marketed as a FPS and it CLEARLY is not.
"I may not be a mathematician, but I can count to a million." - Shannon Sharpe
I got mind control while I'm here
You goin' hate me when I'm gone
Ain't no blood clot and no fear
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Oh, and Shazam, if you ever want to try your hand at PC gaming, Stalker is what you want Fallout 3 to be.
I got mind control while I'm here
You goin' hate me when I'm gone
Ain't no blood clot and no fear
I got hope inside of my bones
The original Halo was pretty sweet and pretty groundbreaking at the time. It had sweet graphics, by far the best controls for a FPS ever, great multiplayer, cool vehicles, a cool story, superb music, and it set the standard for many things that are the the norm in most games today. I agree they probably could have done better with the sequels, but they were still solid games.
Also, I don't think FO3 was ever marketed as a FPS. Maybe some of the trailers made it look that way, but I don't think they were trying to really trick anyone.
Edit: And with all this talk about Valve, Portal is the best game they have made IMO. Portal 2 plz!
Last edited by honz; 02-16-2009 at 11:30 PM.
The difference is that Halo was groundbreaking for FPSs on consoles. PC games have always had epic shooters, but Halo was the first of it's kind seen on consoles. You can see it's influence on nearly every FPS nowadays.
I also thought that H2 and 3 had great stories. Playing as the Arbiter in H2 I thought was great to see the conflict at another end of the spectrum, and the boss in H2... The Brute was good.
Sure, the end wasn't what people wanted in H3, but as suggested about the 'boss', Gravemind and The Flood was exactly that.
"I may not be a mathematician, but I can count to a million." - Shannon Sharpe
Shazam, have you played HL2 on the console? Episodes 1 and 2 as well. (You can get them all on the Orange Box) The story of HL and the single player gameplay beats Halo any day. Yes the orignial HL2 had a puzzle element to it, but the action and story are way more engaging than Halo. And I have tried Halo, both on PC and XBox. So I'm only half talking out of my ass.
I got mind control while I'm here
You goin' hate me when I'm gone
Ain't no blood clot and no fear
I got hope inside of my bones
I played HL2. I know it's a great series. Doctor Freeman is as epic a character as Master Chief. As far as the story being more engaging than Halo, that's debatable and I don't agree.
The bottom line is longtime PC gamers generally don't like console games.
"I may not be a mathematician, but I can count to a million." - Shannon Sharpe
I got mind control while I'm here
You goin' hate me when I'm gone
Ain't no blood clot and no fear
I got hope inside of my bones
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