I remember playing Halo 2 and watching an enemy driving into a wall, upon destroying his vehicle, he proceeded to repeatedly run back and forth into the wall. That was not an isolated incident and I only played the brief campaign but a single time. Just because other people have exceptionally low standards that doesn't mean that the game is actually good. I don't gloss over or ignore such issues. That being said, most people played Halo 2 for the multiplayer which I only played on one occasion. Also, Doom 3 and Far Cry 2 were miles away from being universally liked, especially the latter. Doom 3's user scores on Gamefaqs and Metacritic are 78 and 73 whereas Far Cry 2 scored a generous 62 and 56. Far Cry 2's campaign was almost universally despised by the people who actually played through it (unlike the critics).

Far cry 2. Thank god I didn't pay money for it and got it free from playstation plus. It was just pure dogshit..Got bored after 5 mins.

I hated Halo 3, and it turned me off the entire series.

As I said, I mistook Doom 3 and Far Cry 2 for popular games. I don't remember having any such issues with Halo 2. I didn't play multipayer back then and I still had a great time on the game. That does not mean my standards are low. Although I haven't played it for years and I doubt I was that attentive to such issues considering my age at the time. Still, I don't know anyone else who found the campaign to be short.

In generally, I just don;t understand the reasoning behind some people's dislike like of Halo. Sometimes (like with you) issues get brought up that I have never encountered. I find it hard to fault the series.

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My mistake, for some reason I keep thinking that I breezed through Halo 2 in one sitting but that was Halo 3. Halo 2 actually took me close to ten hours which is decent. Also, Far Cry 2 and Doom 3 were popular games, that doesn't stop them from being bad though.

halo and low standards...seriously...you can like halo or not, but not even low, exceptionally low standards haha sure. people shouldn't confuse low or high standards with own taste. i don't like killzone as example but i would never say it has a low standard (at least not the ps3 games)

lol I am kinda amazed that I like all of those. MoH Airborne, killzone 2.

I enjoyed the campaign for Halo, Halo 3 and Reach. Halo 2 simply screams of lazy level design, broken AI and glitchy programming. I like the Halo series but Halo 2's single player is just bad. It has nothing to do with personal preference, I just don't like sloppy, second rate games.

many like killzone 2 and 3 and i don't say it is bad, just bad for me and my  mate didn't like it neither so we stopped playing it. impartial i would say it is a good game. but not the other ones i mentioned^^

Well. I didn't see those negano olympic game and far cry 2. So yeah, not all of those games. Only the two games I listed.