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Posted by: Sir Fragula
Because there are so many tired old arguments being relived here, I will [instead of continuing them] try to codify some partially tangential thoughts I've had on the matter.
Someone wrote that Halo shouldn't be like "Candyland" and that if he is the better player he should always win.
Let me refer to the game of Football. Many have wondered why "the beautiful game" has for so long been the game of choice for most peoples on the Earth. Ninety minutes of 22 players manoeuvring a ball about a pitch hoping to put it in the back of the opposition's goal. What makes Football more popular than Rugby, Cricket, Baseball or American Football? An interesting study [the title and author of which I cannot remember] concluded that it was a combination of the fact that Football is a low-scoring game where every goal is highly valued, and the fact that in Football, the better side does not always win and indeed can often be defeated by random events and the efforts of a technically lesser team.
Football is the global sport because it is not predictable; because it rejects the mechanistic dynamic that other games seem to be based upon.
Now, is this lack of predictability not a factor in Halo's success? My experiences with Halo 1 and 2 certainly compel me to think so. I remember getting the Active Camouflage on Sidewinder and flying a ghost off the cliffs near the enemy base, disembarking halfway to the ground and killing an entire base of far better players who were distracted by my pilot-less ghost. I recall being slaughtered in Slayer matches by players who I'd normally eat for breakfast. The same applies in Halo 2.
Any game where the best player always wins is by default a boring game.
Woa, Woa, Woa, Woa, Woa, WOA!!!!
Hold the eph on. The team that playes worse than the other team will lose every time. Please give me ONE example where random lucky events decided the game. If one team plays better than another team, they will win because they played that game better, not because of random events. Soccer is so popular because tons of people play it, not because its a lucky game, trust me, no Pro sport is based on lucky events; it simply wouldnt work. If one team who hasnt done as well in the past beats a team that has done very well in the past, its most certainly NOT due to luck, its because one team outplayed the other, irregardless of past history. Thats why the game is so popular, because on any given day, one team could have a breakout game and beat the other, NOT because of random luck.
Halo 2 is decided too many times by lucky events and circumstantial happenings, not skill.
[Edited on 6/19/2006]