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Subject: Why is Halo so great?

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04.04.2006-10.25.2009

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Poll: Why is Halo so great?  [closed]
the levels:  2%
(1 Votes)
the story:  16%
(10 Votes)
the weapons:  2%
(1 Votes)
the graphics:  0%
(0 Votes)
the multiplayer:  8%
(5 Votes)
the vehicles:  0%
(0 Votes)
The humor and easter eggs:  0%
(0 Votes)
All of the above!:  72%
(44 Votes)
Total Votes: 61

Yep, we all heard of it. We all heard that Halo is THE best game ever. And all of us played it. But what makes it so great? I want your oppinion on why Halo is so great.

For me, I think they finally made a game that is perfect. No cheesy storyline. No terrible mutiplayer. No dumb AI. NO INPERFECTIONS!!!! The game is purely perfect!!!!!!

[Edited on 10/30/2006]

  • 10.30.2006 1:06 PM PDT

I like Halo.

STEPPIN LIGHTLY Jumping Challenge Map by Yours truly.

LOTR - Nightwish music video by Yours truly.

The EXPLOSIONS and the dead enemies flying all over the place! The catastrophic chain reactions of every single grenade laying on the ground in the hallways on Keyes that blows -blam!- everywhere! The sound effects of the explosions and the sheer blast radius...

All the essence of every type of explosion in Halo 1 that made the campaign so fun was replaced with poofs and infantile-sounding pfffffththth explosions... not even screen-shaking booms.... ahhh... if only they didn't change that....

I happend to get a kick out of killing myself by throwing a grenade 50 feet away from me and still getting killed by the massive chain reaction of explosions that makes its way up the hall way back to me and blasts me to oblivion... ahhh... good times.

  • 10.30.2006 1:10 PM PDT

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You didn't leave an option for the music? OHHHH NO MARTY IS GONNA BE PISSED!!

  • 10.30.2006 6:31 PM PDT

All of the Above.

  • 10.31.2006 4:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: Nelo Angelo
You didn't leave an option for the music? OHHHH NO MARTY IS GONNA BE PISSED!!


Sorry, but I didn't have enough room to put that in.

  • 10.31.2006 12:36 PM PDT

lol

Marty doesn't care.. he'll -blam!- slap your ass back to kingdom come.

  • 11.02.2006 4:28 PM PDT

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Believe it or not, Halo is far from perfect. Many may think it has no flaws, but it does, and some of them are very obvious. Now, granted, Halo may not be perfect, nothing ever will be, but that doesn't mean it's not good. Halo is an extraordinary game, and is closer to perfect than most games will ever be.

Halo has the most complex plot I've ever seen. Granted, Marathon's was pretty intense, but not quite as deep as Halo's. Halo went more into the government and conditions of the UNSC, and they're intense struggle with rebel insurrections, and the Covenant later on. Marathon had its UESG, but they never went all that far into it. Yes, they had some background, but it wasn't as much as Halo. The CRISTs, the Mars massacre, etc., those were just a few instances of Marathon's story, but Halo had far more. In Halo, the UNSC was a completely different world working at the same time, with all the different components working inside it, Halsey's SPARTAN-II project, The UESC marines, the ODST's Ackerson's SPARTAN-III's, ONI, ONI Section 3 and so on. Marathon never really went that far.

Yes, Marathon had a good plot, but it wasn't as complex and well-tuned as Halo's. I think Marathon aimed at being more cryptic than anything else with its plot.

Halo also had other great aspects. Such as the graphics, I'm not even going in there, I'll be typing for five hours.

[Edited on 11/5/2006]

  • 11.02.2006 4:39 PM PDT

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simple, it's the whole package. kick-ass story with tremendous depth that keeps you interested. great gameplay, awesome multiplayer, challenging enemies (at first) and levels that have great playback life.

it really is one of the best games ever, they did it right all around.

  • 11.02.2006 5:14 PM PDT

I said the story, which is great. Although i do love that there assaultrifle. Hopefully it stays in the final version of halo3.

  • 11.02.2006 7:04 PM PDT
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I think that halo is great because.... um....wait....it's coming to me .......... um.. .....hold on now...BECAUSE IT -BLAMING!- IS!!!!

EDIT: And Mattbluhalofan can keep his negitive posts to POLLS THAT ARE ABOUT "WHY IS HALO NOT SO GREAT?"!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halo is perfect.

[Edited on 11/2/2006]

  • 11.02.2006 7:35 PM PDT
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While normally i would have picked all of the above...along with the Music and Revolutionary gameplay it brought to Console FPS's...the Story itself is why Halo is truely so great.

When you break Halo's story down compared to other series, you are seeing a story for a franchise that has delved so deep that you could put it on a level of Star Wars and Star Trek. We are talking out a series where, even with the Third and Final game in the Master Chief story...we have still only scratched the surface oh the Halo Universe. Not only that but the story has grown so much that it has spread to other forms of media to tell the story. First it was the Book series which just released it's forth volume (Ghosts of Onyx), but we now have a Graphic novel and soon the series is coming to the Silver Screen. Besides that we will soon see the release of Halo Wars which will focus on the early points in the war along with the Forerunner history still shrouded in mystory that i doubt Bungie will not expand on.

In 2001 our Generations Star Wars/Star Trek was born...and even with the final game in the main series coming out soon...the Halo world is going to continue to expand and grow for many years to come.

  • 11.02.2006 7:42 PM PDT
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Halo is not perfect, but it's damned close. I have played Halo longer (consistently) more than any other game. And that's not just for the hell of it. It's my favorite game/series of all time.

  • 11.02.2006 7:56 PM PDT

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EDIT: And Mattbluhalofan can keep his negitive posts to POLLS THAT ARE ABOUT "WHY IS HALO NOT SO GREAT?"!!!!!!!!!!!!


Did you even read my post?! I was praising it, you dumbass!

  • 11.02.2006 8:41 PM PDT
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best game in the world nothing even compares to it !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 11.02.2006 9:11 PM PDT
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Why is it so good?

The Flood. You hate'em, but it wouldn't be Halo without'em.
The Flood, and everything related to them. That narsty plot twist, 343 Guilty Spark, basically anything the Flood put into the game. Admit it, when you first fought the flood you were scared. When you fought them in the Library you fell into the shotgun/AR or shotgun/pistol groove. Then came Two Betrayals where you needed to abandon that groove and find something effective for flood and covenant.

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  • 11.02.2006 9:15 PM PDT
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honestly, what halo hooked me on the most was.. (im talkin about halo 1... halo 2 doenst count as a halo game as far as quality goes.. imo)

In order

1)the gameplay
2)the story
3)the music - Marty, u are a god... even the music that you did in h2 was f-ing amazing... and the h3 music sounds promising.... thats one of the main things why h1 was so good, the music set the right tone in the game....

  • 11.02.2006 9:48 PM PDT
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Reason that I like halo so much, is because of the weapons in the game and how the game blens science-fiction with the fun of it. Main reason I want to play halo 3 is because they bring back the assualt rifle.

  • 11.03.2006 10:46 PM PDT
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Guys I honestly cant think of anything i dont like about halo

  • 11.05.2006 7:38 PM PDT

I strongly agree with Mattbluhalofan's post, there were many 'problems' with Halo, but if anything they've enriched the game for players willing to look past what's right and wrong in video games. It made gameplay frustrating for the scrutinous, but that bit more unexpected and interesting for those playing for fun. And the story is indeed one of the most intriguing in recent video games.

  • 11.05.2006 8:07 PM PDT
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I was mighty impressed when it was released. The graphics, the physics, the storyline, everything was just fantastic.

  • 11.05.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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about a year after Halo 3 is out Halo will gain back the popularity after all the excitement over H3, Halo will regain its popualrity.

Halo owns all!

  • 11.06.2006 5:04 AM PDT
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Why didn't you just put all of the above instead? Halo 2 gets a 5 out of 5. A 700,000 out of 700,000. 5 grunts having a birthday party out of 5.

  • 11.07.2006 11:50 AM PDT
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  • 11.07.2006 1:44 PM PDT
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Well, it's a great game. But that's not the main pro.
I love the music, but most of all the story. A GAME that brings up so many theories, and so many events, and it all makes sense! I mean, all the futuristic stuff, we have no idea how it will be then, but it's just so complex and we'll never know the entire story. It's just so....you know.

  • 11.07.2006 6:11 PM PDT