jake_the_fake1 said:
I don't get the love for Halo, it's not that I hate the franchise, it's just that nothing about it is special to me despite everyone peeing their pants when a Halo game is gonna be released.. I've played shooters out there which to me are so much better.
Halo has things which don't appeal to me or simply rub me the wrong way.
1) Art style, I just don't like the art style, why does everything feel so neon, the colour pallet is just not right for the supposed seriousness of the game, if Halo was meant to be a funny wacky shooter like Serious sam or time splitters, then I'd understand and have no issue with it. I mean imagine if gears of wars characters were all of a sudden given a more colourful pallet, the seriousness of the game would turn comical. I'm not saying turn Halo all shades of brown and grey, but at least have a much more muted pallet to reflect the grittiness of being a soldier in war.
2) Story on the Halo games is a bore, Master chief feels almost like the incarnation of Duke Nukem, Awesome American kicking ass with those alien scumbag. In my opinion they need to humanise him a bit. Then comes the Halo universe, the more I read it, the more I get the Vibe of Starcraft, at times it literally feels like Starcraft in FPS mode but starcraft having the killer art style in comparison. But I suppose we play Halo for it's awesome gameplay right...
3) I'll say it out right, the controls suck, and to me it breaks the gameplay, they feel forced, sure you can get used to them, and people seem to love them, but why not habve the awesome controls that Killzone, COD and BF have on console, it's standardised for a reason, cuz it works, it's the same for PC almost 99% of PC shooter have the same control scheme, so why must halo fuck with it.
Point 1 and 3 are my main gripes with the Halo games which I think make it a bad game and yet people love.
One of the most enjoyable shooter I've enjoyed this gen is Singularity, I loved the story, and I loved the gameplay, while it was a shooter at heart had abilities which made shooting more fun. Also the multiplayer was so much fun. This game wasn't perfect as clearly it needed a bit more spit and shine, and yet to me the art style and gameplay just clicked with me. Same goes for killzone franchise, COD franchise, and BF franchise.
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