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Forums - Gaming - Anyone miss the days when people were trying to find the "Halo killer" and not the "Cod killer"?

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 04 July 2012
YukanaSenix said:
MrT-Tar said:
I still remember when fable was referred to as 'the Zelda killer'


And i remember when Star Wars Kinect was the Uncharted 3 Killer in terms of quality.

There are so many people dreaming and probably high all the time.

CoD will kill itself - No one else can do.
Battlefield 3 is so much superior to every CoD but doesn't come close to its numbers cause it doesn't have the Casual appeal.Especially not cause BF3 is mainly build for PC.
Not even Halo has the Casual appeal like CoD cause it tries to tell an actual Story that isn't just about space marine gorillas or US Soldiers that kill stuff as brutal as possible.


At one point, Halo 3 consumed a full third of the Xbox 360 install base. Im sorry but your wrong. 

 



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sales2099 on 04 July 2012

To kill Halo the following criteria must be met:

1. Be a 90+ metacritic score.
2. Can only be a PS3 exclusive (since PS3 is 360s main rival and you can only fight an exclusive with another exclusive).
3. Must match or surpass the sales of the last major Halo release.
4. Gain as much pop culture status or surpass Halo in this regard.

It seems to be that number 3 and 4 are the tricky ones. Hence Halo is still alive and well :).



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KungKras on 04 July 2012

No console game can be the FPS king.



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Carl on 04 July 2012

Nowadays, COD is the king. And COD comes out every year so i have to hear the damn press talk about it everytime a new one is announced and showed. and After MW2(which I didn't like too much) the devs stopped giving a crap and are now just releasing them for the heck of it. And instead of Devs trying things different to conteract Cod, they just try and copy them. We see COD clones instead of different types of games because it is too "risky" to release something unique.


This bit stood out to me. Are you complaining that there is a Yearly CoD? There's been a Yearly Halo since 2009. 2009 had TWO Halo games. Theres going to be a Halo this Year and Halo Anniversary 2 is highly rumored for next Year.

Halo wont be "killed" as long as Microsoft keep pumping out quality games Yearly.



                            

Ajescent on 04 July 2012
sales2099 said:
To kill Halo the following criteria must be met:

1. Be a 90+ metacritic score.
2. Can only be a PS3 exclusive (since PS3 is 360s main rival and you can only fight an exclusive with another exclusive).
3. Must match or surpass the sales of the last major Halo release.
4. Gain as much pop culture status or surpass Halo in this regard.

It seems to be that number 3 and 4 are the tricky ones. Hence Halo is still alive and well :).

Why is that a must?

There's grounds to argue that COD took over Halo but that isn't exclusive.



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Lostplanet22 on 04 July 2012
sales2099 said:
To kill Halo the following criteria must be met:

1. Be a 90+ metacritic score.
2. Can only be a PS3 exclusive (since PS3 is 360s main rival and you can only fight an exclusive with another exclusive).
3. Must match or surpass the sales of the last major Halo release.
4. Gain as much pop culture status or surpass Halo in this regard.

It seems to be that number 3 and 4 are the tricky ones. Hence Halo is still alive and well :).


Why? 



 

sales2099 on 04 July 2012
Ajescent said:
sales2099 said:
To kill Halo the following criteria must be met:

1. Be a 90+ metacritic score.
2. Can only be a PS3 exclusive (since PS3 is 360s main rival and you can only fight an exclusive with another exclusive).
3. Must match or surpass the sales of the last major Halo release.
4. Gain as much pop culture status or surpass Halo in this regard.

It seems to be that number 3 and 4 are the tricky ones. Hence Halo is still alive and well :).

Why is that a must?

There's grounds to argue that COD took over Halo but that isn't exclusive.

Sure if your talking in pure sales but it isnt the parallel to what Halo is. Halo represents the Xbox brand. So surely its "killer" must represent the competition aka the PS3. 

Depends on who you talk to I guess 



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blkfish92 on 04 July 2012

They both a bother, I miss the days when the RPG genre was King.



           

sethnintendo on 04 July 2012
blkfish92 said:
They both a bother, I miss the days when the RPG genre was King.


When was that?  The PS1 era?



spenderzz on 04 July 2012

Honestly, I prefer COD being "king" based solely on the fact that I now have to hear fewer people pretend Halo had some brilliant mythology and storyline. At least COD fans don't pretend to care about the story.

For the record, I love the Halo games, the MP was extremely fun. But every time someone starts talking about the storyline my teeth start to ache.