Halo : Combat Evolved is nothing special...

[ironman]

scottie said:

ironman said:

scottie said:

raptors11 said:

Time Splitters 2

 

I edited your question a bit, because if the word 'shooters' was left out, I would have to list pretty much the entire catalogue of Nintendo's big franchises, as well as the majority of the strategy and role playing genres :P

 

I also added console because there are heaps of PC shooters aged 9 or more that are still great fun.

 

Anyway, seeing as this is a thread for stating opinions, I found the multiplayer of Timesplitters 2 to be much much more enjoyable than the multiplayer for Halo:CE. I never played Halo:CE single player, but TS2 has a really cool single player mode also.

 

I too don't see why Halo is quite so well liked

Because it was revolutionary, it had amazing graphics in it's day, it was fun, well paced, had a great story line that is deeper than some people realize, and had an aura of mystery behind it. I have yet to find another game that rivals it in all those aspects. I don't see why Halo is so hated upon.

I don't hate the game, by the way. I just don't enjoy it as much as other people do/did, nor as much as I enjoy other similar games.

 

It had good graphics, yes (although making a game with good graphics is quite easy if you hide your characters in space marine armour) But I don't think it became so popular purely from graphics

 

As I said, I find the majority of similar games to be more fun than Halo, so you can't just say "it is fun" and have me instantly change my mind.

 

I'll admit, I don't know anything about the single player, I'm talking about the game as a purely multiplayer experience.

 

Anyway, you're obviously allowed to like the game, but you have said nothing that tells me why everyone likes this game so much - I rarely hear "I love Halo for the single player" What is it about the multiplayer that puts this game above Goldeneye, Perfect dark or Time Splitters 2 (obviously graphics are better than the N64 games and don't say the LAN multiplayer because playing with 16 players would be a once in a while thing for some gamers, and many would never have done it.)

 

If you can't think of anything but "It's fun" then that is perfectly acceptable by the way, you're allowed to find a game fun but not be able to vocalise the reason why :)

Dude, I just listed a plethora of reasons why the game was good, did you not read my post? I guess it's ok to cherrypick one word out of a long list of given reasons and use it to generalize and reduce the game. *rolls eyes*