MontanaHatchet said:
Halo: Combat Evolved was an inspirational game. Halo 2 was a by the numbers sequel that didn't innovate in any way. It added online, sure, but this was nothing new to console gaming. Still, few would argue that Halo isn't a legendary franchise. I'm not really in the mood to have a huge argument with you (it's late and I've had a long day), but you're wrong on so many points and there are so many flaws in your argument. First off, you just said you went from liking Gears to saying it's fail. Just admit you hate it and want to troll it. I don't care. Second off, while Gears 2's online is pretty shitty, Modern Warfare 2 has online that's a million times shittier and it's still massively popular, with hundreds of thousands of people playing it online, and being the most played game on Xbox Live. If you want an example of MW2's shitty online system, you have boosting, care package glitching, servers to get 10th prestige, servers where you lose 6 million exp. just for killing someone, infinite ammo, dashboarding (which immediately ends the game for everyone), and it STILL has host advantage. With Gears 2, you have host advantage and the occasional lagswitcher. It could be frustrating to play sometimes, but there are plenty of other games with these problems. Halo 3 only manages to work around these problems by introducing weird gameplay mechanics (same time melee, for example). As for being in the Top 10, that sort of thing doesn't really matter. Back when Gears 1 first came out, it was the first big online game for the 360 (with the slight exception of Call of Duty 2). There also wasn't Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, World at War, Left 4 Dead, and a variety of other big shooters that started to crowd the Top 10. And oh yeah, I'd be real worried if I were Cliffy B. Only a few developers in the entire industry can be safe in saying that their next game will sell over 5 million. Poor guy. |
No one's trolling.
Cliff DOES have to be worried about the franchise. These games are very expensive to make, and he is in danger of taking a sales hit on the games while still pumping a lot of money into it. I'm not suggesting that it's going to sell 10,000 copies of something. But continued growth of the franchise depnds o n on innovation.
And saying "Halo 2 added online, sure, but that's nothing new for console gaming" shows that you don't realy understand the evolution of the last decade. Halo 2 is the reason online console gaming exists in the form it does today. Bungie set the bar for all console online play with Halo 2. Lots of games today STILL don't have the functionality that Halo 2 did on the original Xbox. You've got to be joking.