I enjoyed their games, I just forever hate anything associated with Halo. Not even because I hate Halo's universe that much... I just fucking hate the franchise and everything it represents (which coincides with a lot of feelings going around here about the Hellgate thing and the way gaming seems to be going).
It's as if companies are trying to say,"We have a franchise game and we know we have you by the balls and we will milk you for all your $$ and you will do what we say b/c it is that franchise you love."
Screw that!
I am not one who is giving into the Battlefields w/ their in-game ads and bug-ridden state upon release. Same goes w/ M$ forcing Vista ONLY games on us when it ain't even out. Same goes w/ Halo 1 being buggy upon PC release -- and the early rumors of Halo 2 possibly doing the same thing. Treat a gamer, their wallet, and their machine w/ some respect, please.
Not even because it's done that much wrong or whatever, but because it's a franchise that gets way more credit than it deserves, is adored by new-school fanboys everywhere (the people who are throwing money at big companies while they get fucked for it), and for all the shit MS tries to pull with it by forcing people who want to play it to upgrade to the new operating system the ages-old game only requires because they make up the requirement.
Agreed 100% -- especially w/ what I bolded.
Halo 2 PC is not a good reason for me to upgrade to Vista. That's a joke. Microsoft, you can do better than that....Halo 1 was nothing special for a shooters, as it was half greatness (thanks to lots of variety and good design early on) and half pure shit (b/c onc The Flood hits, it suddenly gets way over-repetitive in enemies, cut and pasted environments, and very lazy/rushed game design). Overall, Halo is mediocre -- it only succeeded on the XBox b/c of the lack of FPS competition on there; it filled a void the XBox was needing. On the PC, it was "just another FPS." If you've played a lot of PC shooters, you know there's just way much better ones out there compared to Halo -- for starters, Doom series, Quake series, Unreal series, NOLF series, Deus Ex series, Half-Life series, Far Cry, Painkiller, and that's just to name a few I can think of at this very second in time...I know there's more....
Hellgate: London, Crysis, Alan Wake, Fable 2 PC (when and if that gets announced....) -- those would be reasons to make me want to jump to Vista, if those were Vista exclusives....we know of those, Alan Wake's the only Vista exclusive of those I just named.
What gets me is when some gamers/people treat Halo as if there were no FPS's before it. It's as if it's the FPS messiah. Sorry, but that might be on the case for the X-Box....Gimmie a break. It was NOT revolutionary or even evolutionary, for that matter....
