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Subject: My Halo experience. How does a fan boy start?

People should still give Halo 2 a chance if they haven't played it yet.

(Hopefully this is on topic of the Bungie.net community forum. Bungie likes feed back right?)

We all deal with lose in life. It's how the world works. What if your a fan of some epic series and everything the creators through at you, you enjoy. What if your a fan of the series and There is something you don't like about it. How to you address the issue. How do you please everyone with out displeasing most.

I am a Halo fan. I was sketching about Halo: CE I played it a few times and did start liking it until my 3rd time picking it up at a friends house. Surprisingly, I was better then him and it was my 4th actual played game. I had a history of FPS and I think it helped over his several months of owning the game.

I really got into Halo when Halo 2 came out. I got into it a year after it came out and didn't even play Campaign for another year when our internet was down. I was at that point addicted. I'm one of the fans that pays attention to small details. The way you can move yourself on the map and even the skill levels it took to move around the map that put you at an advantage quicker then your opponent. Mixed with the precision of firing your weapon better. Perfect, maps that allow the player to be competitive and enjoy it. I was really good at Halo 2, I tried the whole MLG with it and some friends. I won some local Tourneys playing H2. It was a the best game at that point.

I dropped Nintendo and Playstation. Even my PC suffered. This game had me hooked. over 2 accounts I had 4k plus game played.
When the 360 came out, I didn't get it for any other reason, but Halo 3.... of course the Gears World was enjoyable. Different but not competitive so I didn't like it that much.

Halo 3 finally. I even got the game a day early. Loved this game. The Beta put a bad taste in my mouth however. The feel from Halo 2 was off slightly. When I started playing Halo 3. I jumped back and forth from Halo 2 and 3. Halo 3 was off. weapons didn't feel right. New weapons alienated me from the feel as well. After a few months when the halo 2 Community dropped I felt forced into 3. Didn't complain much about it. Here I go, knees deep. I get a 50 in good time, although there was still people even better then 50. I feel the cap could have gone higher. MLG was back and I think on all my accounts I had over 10k games played over 15+ accounts (I got a lot of one months from people).

Addicted. no other game mattered. No other game besides the NFS Series grabbed my attention. ODST was the next game to the Halo world and again. it was slightly off to Halo 3 now, but playable. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the Achievements. I didn't like firefight too much. Granted, it did have multi-player and it was okay. I actually gave my ODST Campaign disc away to some guy I meet for a week playing Halo 3.

I had a sharp pain in my side when Bungie announced Reach. I will refer it only as Reach and not Halo Reach. You try to please everyone. Adding new fundamental elements that completely change how the game plays. I had screens of Reach and was not impressed. It looked simple and boxing with mapping over it that gave it better texture. I couldn't see the wow factor in this game. At this point, I have read most of the books. Your making a game we all know the ending to. You might as well make a game based off of a movie.

I don't like Reach, nor do I play it. It was the one bad Halo game. This is coming from one of the most raging Halo fan boy you'll see. I gave it a chance and it disappointed me.

What really hurts though. You want to know what really bugs me. I still play Halo 3 to this day. Just like people would like to still be playing WOW til they're 80 years old and not just to lvl 80. What really hurts is the support is gone. I feel I lost a friend that watched over me and held my hand as we pranced through some daisy's with a flamethrow. No more dlb exp weekends. no more bungie Favorites. You guys made a solid Multiplayer experience with H3, in reach. I feel like I am half the size as chief shooting people prancing about, kicking their legs to the side as they run.

I feel dumb now. Basically, I love your games. Reach however, will never win me over. you already had me as a fan. I didn't need armor abilities to kill my foes. I didn't want my amazing 3 burst rifle to be axed. I wanted to have a good time while I played not getting angry over the fact that people just moved on. I feel like the one guy who didn't evacuate in spite of a hurricane. Although there are still 60k+ people on H3 still.

Hopefully Halo 4 will Bring back some of the feel from Halo 2 and Halo 3. Maybe I can jump 20 feet into the air again to pull of some more montage worthy kills and get involved again. Hopefully who ever reads all of this, also, doesn't find me to be retarded but to just be a fan who wants to let it out. If you don't like it don't read and we will both be happy.

  • 08.11.2011 7:39 AM PDT

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I had the same experience as you with Halo 2. I played several thousand games in it and loved it. But I tried playing Halo 3, and something seemed off. It is a great game and had some great new features like Forge, but was not quite for me. And the same thing with Reach, the game play was a little off.

  • 08.11.2011 7:46 AM PDT

People should still give Halo 2 a chance if they haven't played it yet.

Ya, I know I'm not alone. I wonder who out weighs who at this point. raging fan boys that love Halo no matter what people -blam!- out or the the people that actual critic and pin point problems over blind pleasure.

  • 08.11.2011 7:50 AM PDT

"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.

I was a finalist :P

I remember how Halo started for me:

It was 2001, and returning from primary school (I was nine) and I noticed my dad in my room testing out the games which had come out with the x-box. One such game was Halo CE and both he and I enjoyed the entire series henceforth.

My friends and I used to get together once a month to have Lan parties and really had a good time. But as years progressed many of my friends left on tangents and went to play other series while I continue the Halo legacy.

If I have learnt anything in the nine years of playing Halo it is this:
The reason we feel a game seems 'off' is because it was not like the one we had previously played, and most likely played for long periods of time. Humans as a species do not particularly like change and that is what the transition of Halo games is based upon.

  • 08.11.2011 7:58 AM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

I remember back in 2003, I was a fullfledged Nintendo Fanboy, and had just got the Gamecube with SSBM, Mario Kart, Time Splitters... Anyways, my brother had recently bought the Xbox with Halo CE, and he forced me to play it. At first I did not want to play it but later I fell in love with Halo... untill I met the Flood which scared the living crap out of me.

Then I ended up getting my own Xbox with Halo CE, Halo 2 and Halo 2 Map Packs. And I havent let go of Halo ever since.

  • 08.11.2011 8:08 AM PDT