POLLO FUCKING HATES HALO and other videogame talk

[YojimboMonkey]

Care to explain why?  Is it actual hate for the game itself, which I don't think is that terrible and is actually pretty fun, or is it hate for all the idiots who play it? 

[Thermofusion]

Isn't asking Pollo why do you hate? the same as asking the ocean why are you wet?

[elpollodiablo]

I just think it's a pretty dumpy FPS. I think the controls are squishy, the weapons are boring, the gameplay isn't paced right. Much prefer something like UT, which was manic and over the top and full of crazy ass weapons and maps and such. I can see the appeal in Halo, it just ain't for me.

But yeah, the amazing appeal it has for jackasses certainly doesn't raise it any in my estimation.

NB, this was my first FPS played exclusively on a console, and I still don't think as a whole the genre does well on the platform. For that kind of jerky, adrenaline charged action, you really need a mouse and keyboard. IMO.

[Ah_Pook]

must resist spending $450 to play halo. must resist.

it would help if there was a good game out on the ps3 at the moment. just gotta make it til the end of september.

[elpollodiablo]

$450!? Can't you get an Arcade system for like 150 bones now?

[Ah_Pook]

i guess i could get the 4gb system and the game for $260, thats still a chunk of change though.

a much more tempting chunk of change, it must be said.

[YojimboMonkey]

NB, this was my first FPS played exclusively on a console, and I still don't think as a whole the genre does well on the platform. For that kind of jerky, adrenaline charged action, you really need a mouse and keyboard. IMO.

I thought the same thing until I got more used to console gaming.  Now I do pretty well with twitch reflex stuff with a controller and my wrists get sore if I try mouse/keyboard FPS action.  I am old

[Ah_Pook]

the only fpss ive played on a console thus far are borderlands and MW2. MW2 has some twitchiness, but its nothing at all compared to the good old days of UT, quake 3, or god help me quakeworld.

where would you put halo on the twitchiness scale? i'll be the first to say im nowhere near as good with a controller as i used to be with kbam.

[elpollodiablo]

Halo doesn't feel twitchy to me; it feels like you're running through molasses and trying to wield a side of beef and fire on people with it.

[Ah_Pook]

i do like delicious beef, so...

[Chet]

i also hate halo. but this is well documented.

for some of reasons pollo lists, and also the fact that it the enemies are the most annoying enemies in a video game ever. and not annoying in a "i wanna blow all these fuckers to pieces" sorta way, but annoying as in "i never want to play this again" sorta way. what are those little midget things with the stupid voices all about?

[davy]

Halo doesn't feel twitchy to me; it feels like you're running through molasses and trying to wield a side of beef and fire on people with it.

That's about what Halo 3 felt like to me, except that I'd be willing to upgrade "side of beef" to "paintball gun."

[DCDave]

I don't really play anything other than turn based strategy games anymore.  I keep on trying to win a cultural victory in Civ before the 1700s.

[Ah_Pook]

man civ 5 looks so fucking good, speaking of civ. like incrediblly life destroyingly good.

[Thermofusion]

Oh, Civ. You will be mine.

[FreddyKnuckles]

1.  Oh God, I hope I don't start working before then.  I've been playing Civ since Civ 1 came out.  Civ 2 owned my life.  Civ 3 was great.  Civ 4 owned my life.  GODDAMIT COME OUT NOW CIV 5.

2.  I hate twitchy fpses. 

3.  Halo enemies are not the problem because you should never play the single player more than once anyway.

4. Movement is indeed a little bit slow.

[YojimboMonkey]

3.  Halo enemies are not the problem because you should never play the single player more than once anyway.

Not true, I've found playing Halo games on Legendary helps you hone your skills for playing online, and vice versa.  I mean, at the same time it's two completely different things, since a tough setpiece on Legendary, you can try the same situation with only minor variations over and over again until you manage to survive it, while online play is more fluid and constantly changing, but your aim, the quickness of your reactions, different ways to combine weapons, etc.

[DCDave]

The voices of the enemies in halo are annoying whether you're playing online or offline. 

Offline they just use fewer racial slurs.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Beating it on legendary is just something you do.  Like collecting all the crap in GTA or something.  Playing on legendary doesn't hone your skills for multiplayer any more than just playing multiplayer.  Trial by fire makes you stronger?  get in on games with people way better than you and tough it out there.  

[milly balgeary]

I used to hate halo.

[Ah_Pook]

ok i talked myself down from buying a 360 to play halo, i think. im just gonna play space invaders infinity gene until dead rising 2 comes out and i'll be fine. it helped my reasoning that the only other 360 exclusive im looking forward to is dance central which requires a $150 peripheral to play, and theres no way thats happening.

[Good Intentions]

Can I be a real videogamer if I've never played Halo? Which I never have.

Civilization, thought... that series has taken more from my life than possibly any other oeuvre. More than any video game. More than The Lord of the Rings and its miscellanea. More than the works of any philosopher. Quite possibly more than a girlfriend or two I've had.

[Ah_Pook]

ive never played a halo game either, so whatever.

[Ah_Pook]

dude HOLY SHIT space invaders infinity gene is so good

[milly balgeary]

Halo Reach is pretty much the SHIT personified. The fact that you can now -- I guess -- build your own damn levels from the ground up is pretty awesome of Bungie because level selling is a huge revenue stream. But for all those who played Jelly's Nest in the last version of Halo, just wait. When I get some time I'm gonna take off all my clothes, put on some 80's Oaklies, and build Jelly's Nest 2. More floating boxes filled with death traps. More teleporters. More tanks. Some fucking HH HOLMES MURDER CASTLE shit. Hope you enjoy your stay.