Incredibly based off of speculation and has no reasons pertaining to gameplay. I understand if you're a PS3 fanboy, but try to promote how awesome Infamous is, or even brag about how many more awesome exclusives you guys get.
Now allow me to dismantle your opinion and shove it somewhere where it can be insane and no one else has to listen to it.
because the game is for nerds
That's a demographic, not a gameplay reason as to why the first great shooter of the 21st century is overrated.
It's about science fiction that could bore even professors to sleep
When you teach the wonderous phenomenon of quantum physics over and over again for years on end, many things tend to bore you.
Science fiction is a very well-respected genre - without it there would be no Avatar, that film that everyone seems to love but I just see as Dances in Wolves in space. Without Sci-Fi there would be no Mass Effect, the greatest RPG of 2010, without Sci-Fi, there'd be no Predator, no Alien, no Resident Evil, no 2001: A Space Odyssey, no 1985 (considered Sci-Fi back when it was written), and the worst of all, NO HALF-LIFE!!!
For wannabes who wished they turned out better in life
That can describe a job in janitorial duties, people who play Guitar Hero, and trailer parks. I don't see how Halo could be a cure for anybody's mishaps in the real world, MMO's and Second Life is for those weirdos.
so they escape into their little halo world so maybe they could become famous online, by being impossible to beat.
The only famous Halo players are Rooster Teeth, and that's only because they made a funny, slightly philosophical video back in 2001. I know there's Major League Gamers that use Halo as a competitive platform, but I don't know any by name, and I usually plug in my copy of Reach twice a day to pwn some n00bs.
But the truth is, they're noobs in real life.
Really? Say what you want about the potential sexual preference of him, but the fact is that Justin Beiber makes a nice pocketful of cash, and he's an avid Halo player. So is blockbuster director Steven Spielberg, the immensely talented and hilarious Jack Black, Snoop Dogg, and Steven Colbert. Just a handful of the immense amount of people that love and enjoy the world of Halo created by Bungie.
Even with that list of Halo fans, the anonymity of the Internet doesn't allow you to stereotype like that. Shame on you.
its about science fiction that copies every other sci-fi game.
OK, so Duke, Quake, and Doom all had aliens in them and they all came before the original Halo: Combat Evolved. However, the story is fresh and unique. Yes, aliens are attacking; but for a different reason. It's not because they want resources or they want to just be *****, they're doing it because of their gods.
the aliens in Halo are a religious hegemony called the Covenant, a multi-special group that use Forerunner technology to perform their activities. And guess what they do to planets? These aliens are so devoted, they want to get the job as quickly as possible - to eradicate the heretic humans. So what do they do?
They glass it.
Yep. They glass planets. They shoot super-heated beams at the planet and GLASS the surface. (Super-heated sand creates glass, so Bungie was playing around with that logic)
And you play as a supersoldier, the LAST supersoldier, based off of an ancient Greek nation, to defeat the invaders. It's a beautiful tale of tragedy and conquest, and one that will follow me forever.
the people who are good on halo have absolutely no life.
Some kids are born geniuses that can somehow work it out in their minds the exact distance they have to move their analog stick to get a headshot. some people hack the game to get good. Some people just play an hour or so every day after school or on the weekends and just gradually get better, like practice for a sport. In all honestly, Halo does get a bit iffy after a while, and I need to get some RPG or outside time after a marathon of Reach, but it's still a great game.
well, that was OP. One last noose to tie up.
Yeah, I got lost in ODST at the first few levels and the aliens speak English? It's just not really all that fun in my opinion
How does the Covenant speaking a certain language have to do anything with the quality of a game? And the fact you jumped into the series at ODST is bad. You really should have started from Halo: CE, or Halo 2 if you have a Halo friend.
Anyway - the reason the Covenant speaks bits of english is because they studied Humans for years and years before the initial attack, First Contact was actually a message in all languages sent to the human capital, Earth.
To wrap up this present, Halo is a great game in the eyes of many, and not so great to others. That's the norm of games. Even perfection like Portal has some people who just see it as "the white game with the stupid robot". However, your opinion is worthless unless valid gameplay reasons are made to explain how the game is less than satisfactory.
-Chillz
