CAL4M1TY said:
Fei-Hung said:
Halo may have been overrated, but it did what it was meant to superbly. It stood by what it is- a first person shooter! graphics were good for what it is, the sound was good, the gameplay was awesome. It may have not been a totally new Halo experience but that was its only flaw.
I do not blame the game developers as much as I blame the critics. If they were to review the games fairly, it may encourage the developers to do a better job next time.
Killzone on the ps2 was another overhyped game, but again, just like Halo, it played well and was a lot of fun.
GeoW may have been overrated, but the graphics were amazing, the sound was amazing, the story may not have been all so great but let's face it, most 1st person shooters lack great in depth story telling, but they make up for it with the action they bring; not to forget, GeoW was innovative offering a new style of gaming with the over the shoulder camera. It pushed gaming way more then GTA VC, San Andreas and GTAIV did. The best thing about GeoW is that it wasn't rated on a novelty or brand name such as GTA but it was rated for being a great game. |
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Personally, I loved Halo 3. Sure it didn't have anything revolutionary gameplay wise, but what more could you add to the BEST Console FPS engine (at the time) apart from new weapons/vehicles. Then there's the complaint that the graphics are just Halo 2.5, did people not notice that you can record and view EVERYTHING you play from ANY angle? Sure it may not have pushed the boundaries, but this game would have burnt in hell with the gamers if each and every polygon did not look good because if Bungie was so arrogant to add this kind of feature, the game had to have looked extremely polished.
There is no way in hell you could put that sort of feature in MGS4, CoD4 or Gears and have it look as good consistently like Halo 3 did.
That's what I don't understand, aside from the people in this thread, ALOT of gamers consider GTA4 the greatest game of all time (heck even Game rankings did at one point) and ALOT of gamers consider Halo 3 overrated. BUT they both did the exact same thing as each other, neither of them revolutionised the gameplay from their predecessor and only added un-necessary but still nice to have features (Forge/streaming video VS crappy/unbalance multiplayer). Except one is loved by the masses and the other scorned by the masses (or at least a much larger mass...)
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