Halo 3 is pants

[Fletcher]

I made this post in another forum I'm a part of. I'm known as Crazy Welshy there, so meh.

If most reviewers are to be believed and this includes small children, Halo 3 is excellent.

Lies!! All lies, and I shall tell you why.

Back on the original Xbox there wasn't a good deal of FPS in the early days, then Halo shows up with its angelic figure and pulls a lot of us not only into hardcore FPS gaming, but console FPS. Halo gripped us all, and we all, including me were orgasming at the chance to play Halo 2, the new sequel.

Sadly the game has turned into a martyr that came without a way to kill itself, sure the graphics look much better, but the content was rather dull. Its like putting make up on a normal women, sure she looks prettier, but overall its the same women once you look past the make-up.

Another problem we all had is Halo pretty much dominated the console FPS genre since the PS2 Killzone and others had hardware issues, and Xbox didn't have much more variety for the same reason. But Halo 2's crown was to introduce a lot of us, again including me into the wonderful hell planet Helghan/Xbox Live. We loved Halo 2's multiplayer when it was working, sadly it was prone to Linux and clever morons.

Now, we moved into the 7th generation of video game consoles (if Wikipedia is to be believed), and Halo 3 once again knocked on the door and it was like waiting for Halo 2 all over again, except there were many many more kids at the shops wanting it too.

Then we finally get the game and jump into campaign, the level design was absolutely gorgeous and I was in shock and awe at the new brute armour and brute chopper that I love with my all my heart to this day. Sadly, the game was not being stable. Not in the stable way of hardware, but at what it wanted to do. It was being funny and serious at the same time. That is like Master Chief becoming a comedian, it just doesn't work.

The same can be said about the campaign, it was repetitive, shoot head, grenade grunts, bazooka a vehicle, rinse and repeat. And if your lucky you can hijack a few vehicles and melee a scarab to death.

There are a few good moments in the campaign, and I loved the vehicular manslaughter in the Covenant and the Ark levels, finally the last nostalgic deja vu of the Warthog run was a good piece of candy in an other wise sour cake.

Now we move onto something I have come to loathe, the multiplayer.

Multiplayer only works if you get like minded people, you want fun, you play by the rules and have the occasional insult. This is great.:thumbup: Its how I roll, and some of you love it. Sadly, this is Helghan/Xbox Live where animosity makes idiots of us all. You get idiots, betrayers and just some general gits that make you put down the controller and beat the crap out of your punch bag or sister!

Xbox Live is a gateway to great idiocy and so is Halo 3. We all mainly play Halo 3 because it is simple compared to other games like Gear of War, Bad Company or Call of Duty, there are few strategies that can work in team games where you are paired with anonymous players. Strategies only work with co-ordination, and this called for clans and friends to be together. Thus grouping the gaming community, and Halo 3 is a massive contributor to this heaven/hell scenario due to its mainstream'ness.

Clans are good at the sense you can get greater team play, help and fun on occasion, but it is also flawed for producing 'nations' in a virtual world, you're usually at war or allied with each other, and its usually the former. Its like a sports club as a comparison.

Halo 3 is also prone to idiots exploiting idiots with a flawed damage system and flawed weapons, and in one case, a perfect weapon. The Sniper Rifle. This weapon is perfect, no recoil, level size range, bullets that don't slow down and ricochet ability that loses no power. This is physically impossible on something that portable. Take the sniper rifle from Bad Company, that weapon takes some skill to get one hit kills, you got to take range into effect, that's all. That drastically told school kids to bugger off, the sniper is not to be ganked over.

While people argue this is for balance, but stop me if I'm wrong, but everything else is trying to scream "Look at me I'm realistic!". Bovine testicles to that! If it was real, the assault rifle would be a bigger threat at range, the battle rifle would get a bigger clip, and the sniper rifle would be weaker. Also, the plasma weapons, didn't they hurt humanity a lot in the lore? Now they're pea shooters in everything? Come on!

Now I finally come to the point in saying why I did this, I did it because Halo 3 is frankly pants. I play other games more and only come on because I have to or the servers aren't populated enough on other non-mainstream games (Team Fortress 2/Bad Company).

Halo is pants, we need to migrate to other games people, hate the mainstream! Find the gems!

Retrospect post by Liam Riordan aka Crazy Welshy. (According to Darth Langu Crazy Brit)

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Fletcher's Feedback and Stories Thread

[Marcus Lindberg]

I'm sure.

[ivr56]

Halo for me personally is a game online where I cant play alone with strangers. Just gets boring and repeats itself.
Play with friends and you get rid most of the idiots online. Custom Games>Matchmaking. Only reason why I played it lots. Sadly all my friends moved to 360 and H3.:(

On Orig. Xbox in terms of MP FPSs. Their where alot of better MP games out their. That came out before and after H2.
CS 1.6 Xbox, CoD:2 Big Red One, CoD3, Rainbow Six Series (Yes including Lockdown which people hated, but was actually quite fun. MTAR-21>MP7/P90 Spam any Day), BF2: MC (12v12s were intense especially Clan Wars), Star Wars: Battlefront series list goes on.

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[Thexare]

I never understood why people use "pants" as an insult. I mean, I can understand various terms relating to solid waste. That's a logical connection to make to an insult. And of course, the intelligence-related remarks are obvious.

But... pants?

[Beagle23]

I made this post in another forum I'm a part of. I'm known as Crazy Welshy there, so meh.

If most reviewers are to be believed and this includes small children, Halo 3 is excellent.

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Now I finally come to the point in saying why I did this, I did it because Halo 3 is frankly pants. I play other games more and only come on because I have to or the servers aren't populated enough on other non-mainstream games (Team Fortress 2/Bad Company).

Halo is pants, we need to migrate to other games people, hate the mainstream! Find the gems!

Retrospect post by Liam Riordan aka Crazy Welshy. (According to Darth Langu Crazy Brit)

:mellow:

Halo 3 is fun, just like many other games. People will play whatever entertains them.

[kindred]

Halo 3 for me felt like a stand alone expansion pack to the previous Halo. Anyone still playing it is pants.

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Devtonia ; all-or-nothing approach to bias.

[Jack Ryan]

I didn't mind H3, but I didn't like it either.

It was... meh.

Its playable, and downright hilarious on custom games with a mapmaker who knows what he's doing. (Jenga anyone?)

But on standard, anonymous multiplayer, you are correct, 50% of people are complete idiots, and TK, act stupid, get people killed, sing, jabber incessantly... I could go on.

And that final mission, I loved it. But I still prefer H1's final mission.

So in conclusion.

Halo 3 was... meh.

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Pirate Moral Booster

[Magoo!]

It was a stab in the heart to what Halo stood for.

Halo 2 just got confused, not knowing whether it wanted to defend Earth or got scrap a second ring, and Halo 3 just gave up altogether and planted you on the surface of a dying planet.

MMM! Nothing I want to see more than my house being glassed in an anti-climactic end to what had previously been averted.

And then, wtf? "Halo 3 is going to be the last in the series" yet if you watch through the credits, Metta Cheeb is riding on some piece of drift towards a clearly inhabited planet.

My left dewlap!