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sinha on 03 October 2007
naznatips said:

Before every Halo 3 fanboy comes in and lays down on him


I'm not sure that will happen, aside from perhaps a few particularly clueless people. 

1) I think most people understand this is humor and not a serious review.

2) Fanboy irrationality and defensiveness is directly proportional to insecurity regarding the game / console that is perceived as being under attack.  Given how well Halo 3 is doing in both sales and reviews, this hardly seems meltdown-worthy.

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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twesterm on 03 October 2007
sinha said:
If you're not a fan of multiplayer or co-op, why would you buy Halo 3?
Did Escapist Magazine pay for your copy also?

 I got the game for two reasons:

1) I didn't have to pay for it.
2) My friends told me about an awesome fun zombie type and since I like most everything zombies I couldn't resist.



 

sinha on 03 October 2007
twesterm said:
sinha said:
If you're not a fan of multiplayer or co-op, why would you buy Halo 3?
Did Escapist Magazine pay for your copy also?

I got the game for two reasons:

1) I didn't have to pay for it.


 Say no more.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

BenKenobi88 on 03 October 2007

Zombie type??

I played Halo 3 for like, 15 minutes at our LAN party, but we quickly realized TF2 was way better.



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hibikir on 03 October 2007

To enjoy Halo 3 you don't just need to like multiplayer: you need a crew of people to play with. For some reason, the Halo franchise tends to attract the most foul mouthed, annoying people ever. I didn't enjoy the company of stupid teens and fratboys 10 years ago: I have less interest to play with them now.

Pretty much any other online game in Live has a better community.



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naznatips on 03 October 2007

TF2 is a much deeper multiplayer experience, but it's not for everybody. Halo 3 is a run and gun zero strategy murder fest. It's really not a style that can be compared. I don't have the TF2 beta because I'm unfortunately struggling on cash right now and couldn't reserve it without being sure I could pay for it, but my friend practically had to rip me out of her computer chair to get me to stop playing it after 4 hours haha. It looks like I'll be able to buy the game now, but it's so late at this point that I might as well not get the beta. I have a lot of other stuff to play anyway like Phantom Hourglass.



Kasz216 on 03 October 2007
sinha said:
naznatips said:

Before every Halo 3 fanboy comes in and lays down on him


I'm not sure that will happen, aside from perhaps a few particularly clueless people. 

1) I think most people understand this is humor and not a serious review.

2) Fanboy irrationality and defensiveness is directly proportional to insecurity regarding the game / console that is perceived as being under attack.  Given how well Halo 3 is doing in both sales and reviews, this hardly seems meltdown-worthy.

 


I don't know.  I think it's a serious review that's full of humor. 



mesoteto on 03 October 2007
hibikir said:
To enjoy Halo 3 you don't just need to like multiplayer: you need a crew of people to play with. For some reason, the Halo franchise tends to attract the most foul mouthed, annoying people ever. I didn't enjoy the company of stupid teens and fratboys 10 years ago: I have less interest to play with them now.

Pretty much any other online game in Live has a better community.

totaly agree--have only played on line a few times and already i have noticed that the average iq cant be much higher then the average age...live is the wost online only for that reason---its like finding a hair in your food--sure the rest is proably okay but ehhhhh not for me--i would rather have steam



 

BenKenobi88 on 03 October 2007
naznatips said:
TF2 is a much deeper multiplayer experience, but it's not for everybody. Halo 3 is a run and gun zero strategy murder fest. It's really not a style that can be compared. I don't have the TF2 beta because I'm unfortunately struggling on cash right now and couldn't reserve it without being sure I could pay for it, but my friend practically had to rip me out of her computer chair to get me to stop playing it after 4 hours haha. It looks like I'll be able to buy the game now, but it's so late at this point that I might as well not get the beta. I have a lot of other stuff to play anyway like Phantom Hourglass.

 Yes, but pre-purchasing saves you 5 bucks...so even if you don't really care about the beta anymore, you still get HL2:Ep2, Portal, and TF2 for $45.



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Entroper on 03 October 2007
Kasz216 said:

I don't know. I think it's a serious review that's full of humor.


I agree.  It's like The Daily Show or Bill Maher: funny, but they're actually saying something, too.



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