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People with guns don't kill people, Elites with guns kill people.
Gamertag: Desolation117
Halo player since December 25th, 2001. Forum enthusiast since 5/3/2005!!
Longview, TX, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Our Universe
Posted by: MiddleFingerYOU
I prefer Halo 2 for a number of reasons.
Why? - skill. I like Halo 2 because it requires more skill than Halo 1. Yea, I said it.
People think the mastery of the halo1 pistol (i.e. mastery of 1 weapon) is how you prove skill. In my opinion, being a more well rounded player who can adapt to many situations, and can use various weapons (or combinations thereof) is how you truely measure skill.
Respawning with one of the weaker weapons, and having to either use it, or get a better weapon takes way more skill than to respawn with the most dominant weapon in the game.
To put it simply....if you don't like respawning with a relatively weak weapon, then don't respawn - DON'T GET KILLED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The most ridiculous criticism of Halo 2 I have heard is "Halo 2 is just spray and pray, Halo 1 you have to aim." Well first off, "spray and pray" is ONLY useful in short range combat. If you had a rifle, you should have taken your opponent out long before he had the chance to get close enough to spray.
People also complain about the plasma pistol / battle rifle combo. Well I would use the plasma pistol and pistol in halo 1 and I never saw kids online complaining about it. It worked exactly the same. I do agree that it can be overused, but any weapon(s) or strategies can be exploited.
To sum up my opinion. Halo 1 and 2 are both great games. Appreciate them for what they are, or just don't play them. If Halo 2 was made with the halo 1 pistol, people would be complaining that they payed $50 for a carbon copy of a game they already had, but with a few new maps.
To the rest of the complainers:
- asking what the $50 xbox live fee covers? well it covers the connection to other xbox live gamers, the matchmaking, and online stats for 12 months. Sounds like a bargain to me. Don't agree? keep track of the hours you are connected to live and think what you would have spent at the movie theater, or whereever else you go to have fun. I spend close to 15 hours on xbox live from fri - sun. lets cut that down to 5 movies. That would cost me $35 at the theater, and any friends that want to come along have to pay for themselves too. If you still don't think you are getting your money's worth. Then don't subscribe to xbox live.
- asking why you have to pay for new maps? its just a conspiracy right? bungie hates their fans and wants their money, right? Yea, to make them suffer!!! ahh, poor baby. To put it simply, YOU paid $50 for halo 2. thats what you wanted, thats what you payed. Bungie spent extra time working on new maps. Well are they a charity? No! They are a business. If you want the new maps, pay for them. or just wait until they are free (which i think is very noble of them). Nothing for you to complain about there. You grade-schoolers who still don't get it. Imagine if you turned in a paper, on time to your teacher, and she said great, you get an A (or a B, or a C, who cares) but after that, your teacher wanted you to do extra work to improve that paper, but you would still be stuck with the same grade. Thats pretty much what its like when you want extra content for free. Other games that offer free extra content might just be offerring something they already made, but just didn't use in the final cut.
I am done for now....until brats find something else to complain about....
For all of that, ur pathetic in some ways. But hey, at least i kind of respect ur opinions. I have no reason to be rude to the ppl who still love Halo 2. I'm just pointing out the flaws and why it shouldn't have these flaws.
The Game was overhyped and the game feels liked it was rushed. Halo 2 has glitched up on me more than Halo. The Auto aim on Halo 2 is rediculously huge. The Respawn issues u r whining about, any game will do that. I'm guessing even u have whined about respawning (dont deny it, everyone has)!
Noone in here is whining about DLC form wut i can see. I downloaded the maps and i like the way they look.
From the look of it, you've had this huge write up copied and paste. Then when somebody pisses u off, u bring it out of word.
The Skill thing, they took out life in Halo 2 so u didn't have to worry about health. I see it as if you get shot by a sniper bullet, you can hide til ur shields come back and do it over and voer and over and over again til the sinper runs out of ammo. Halo, u'll die after 2 shots of a sniper rifle.
Go to halo2sucks.com and watch the vids. I'm an avid bungie fan, and so were the ppl that made that site. Watch the vids there and tell me Halo 2 takes more skill than Halo.