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Subject: Halo; 10TH MOST OVERRATED GAME OF ALL-TIME
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umm i think this is the wrong forum

  • 07.19.2004 2:48 PM PDT
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Link doesn't work. Takes me to that stupid perfect nav site so I can be bombarded with pop ups.

  • 07.19.2004 2:49 PM PDT
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Halo 2 is the most anticipated game of nearly all time, not to be confused with over-rated.

  • 07.19.2004 2:51 PM PDT
Subject: Halo; 10TH MOST OVERRATED GAME OF ALL-TIME
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Poll: Should Halo be on the Top 25 Most Over Rated Games of All Time?  [closed]
Yes:  11%
(6 Votes)
Maybe:  7%
(4 Votes)
No:  82%
(47 Votes)
Total Votes: 57

After doing some surfing on the computer this afternoon, I came arcross this on gamespy. It was the Top 25 most overrated games of all time. Can you belive it. 10TH ON THE LIST WAS HALO. WTF! Check it out for yourself then post your comments below.

http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/september03/25overrated/i ndex17.shtml

  • 07.19.2004 2:46 PM PDT
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try going to the halo review then click the link their.

  • 07.19.2004 2:53 PM PDT
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crap, hit yeso instead of no

  • 07.19.2004 2:54 PM PDT
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Hey Halo isnt overrated its kick ass!

  • 07.19.2004 3:30 PM PDT
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yes halo is the best game ever made and will be a bigger classic then mario!!!

  • 07.19.2004 4:08 PM PDT

GameSpy hated Halo. They only gave it a good mark because they knew that Xbox fanboys would flood them with hate mail otherwise.
I'm glad that Fluffy really rubbed their noses in it by necessitating the creation of a Halo Planet site.

[Edited on 7/19/2004 4:14:51 PM]

  • 07.19.2004 4:13 PM PDT
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Wow, I don't think I've ever disagreed this much with a page of writing in years. Almost everything they said was wrong. I'm officially disgusted with Gamespy.

  • 07.19.2004 5:47 PM PDT
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These guys deserve death by flaming ninjas.

  • 07.19.2004 5:54 PM PDT
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That or assasination by flying hippos...

  • 07.19.2004 6:17 PM PDT
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Man, how high are those metal rods up their dirty asses anyway? Halo is NOT over rated. Come on! It's the best game in creation!

  • 07.19.2004 6:22 PM PDT
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when i try the web site it does not work some body gve me a link pleese

  • 07.19.2004 6:46 PM PDT
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hell i think the game is underrated i mean i never saw anything saying how good it actually was those asses made a big mistake doin that i bet half the people stop goin there now

  • 07.19.2004 6:49 PM PDT
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no way should Halo be on that list at all. However Chronicles of Riddick should be #1 on that list. Xbox magazine said its the best game ever. OMG that game just plain sucks.

  • 07.20.2004 9:19 PM PDT
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Hey now i love halo as much as the next guy, but maybye it does belong on the list. I mean we do sit here all day long, and talk about how great halo is, because it is. But that, to other people, seems as though were a bit obsessed. So naturally with all the spit we spattle about halo, it would seem as though were overating it. Id give it a 10 out of 10. But were on it like ant's on spilled soda. And the soda was spilled 3 years ago. So naturally, being a huge gaming syndacate, witch deals with all platform's, and many many games, the fact we wont let is go, might make it look like were hyping it. And you gotta admitt, we do. But only because we dont think we are, we all love it that much. Were addicted like crack, and for good reason. My friend's take a big hit, hold it in forever, and dont worry what they think, caus were Hiiiiiigh on halo.

  • 07.20.2004 9:56 PM PDT

SB-117

They whinge about the environments and repetitiveness so much. Don't they realise the game was rushed in the last 6 months or so? For a game that was rushed Halo is brilliant.

  • 07.20.2004 10:18 PM PDT
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Right, Ash55. And I've heard enough whining from reviewers about "repetitive" whatever to last me 10 years. I **LIKED** the fact that some of the terrain/rooms repeated: It gives the player a tactical advantage and sense of security that he did not have when traveling through the first time.

Maybe I'll change my mind after I've completed the game on Legendary 5 times; but that is a hit that the game should only take under the heading of "REPLAYABILITY." (And a very small hit indeed: Halo is immensely replayable.)

  • 07.21.2004 11:58 AM PDT
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It's not Bungie's fault but the last few levels are just earlier levels changed slightly. They're great levels on their own but it takes away from the game as a whole. And yeah, a few of the levels are the same corridors recycled over and over again, but the action inside them is not repetetive.

I would still give it about 96% percent though. you can't really give it 10/10 because then there wouldn't be any room for improvement for Halo the Second.

Have you played Ninja Gaiden? Now that's a game that makes revisiting areas cool.

[Edited on 7/21/2004 1:18:01 PM]

  • 07.21.2004 1:17 PM PDT
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I like the fact that some levels are fought in the same areas! I mean its better than going on some stupid trek across half a world, there are only a few important sites in Halo (The cartographer, the control room, the Library, the place the Flood are kept and the PoA) so the game focuses on these areas!! Also of course the corridors are the same, the Forerunners aren't going to change the structural designs because its "repetitive"

  • 07.21.2004 2:31 PM PDT
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As a response to this, I'll just have to agree with Tycho on this one.

So, which is it gamespy? ***holes, or retards?

  • 07.21.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hidohebhi
As a response to this, I'll just have to agree with [url=http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-09-19&am p;res=l]Tycho[ /url] on this one.

So, which is it gamespy? ***holes, or retards?


HO, Ho, ho, Ho, HO!! Excellent link, Hidohebhi ! Bust a gut! Good humor!!!

I am looking forward to a lot of "improvements" in Halo2: bigger maps; more variety of terrain, weapons, enemies, vehicles; more epic battle conflicts with scores of marines agains hundreds of Covenant; etc.); but I do not count the absence of those improvements against Halo: The original Halo is a SOLID, genre-redefining game that does not need to defend itself against dingleberries who take potshots with their 20/20 hindsight, and pass off their drivel as gaming reviewer expertise. Then when the market proves they were wrong, they say, "Well, the game is over-hyped." Right. Follow Hidohebhi's link.

  • 07.21.2004 4:29 PM PDT

Edge: 10/10

'nuff said.

  • 07.21.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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It definately SHOULD NOT be on that list, it was made to be Microsoft's and Xbox's flagship title, the game that defined the system, and it did just that. I mean even today games are trying to MATCH what Halo had (I.E. Killzone) but they arent coming close. Gamespy are all a bunch of PC and PS2 Fanboys, I doubt any of them even own and Xbox. Games are still trying to match Halo, they are failing, it has a huge fanbase, and when something is so good, you try and make it look crappy without even trying it. Every review it got it scored really high.

  • 07.21.2004 4:56 PM PDT