halo 2, stuff Options

[indykid845]

iz there ne one else who CANNOT wait 4 halo 2 to come out?!
(lemme kno if this topic has already been discussed)

[mechwarrior1989]

Ok lets see.

Ive seen a thousand people sit there and tell me Halo is the greatest FPS ever, or even the greatest game ever.

Thats overhype if I ever heard it.

As for Halo 2, the hype its getting is the same, "greatest game ever", etc, and that, to me, is impossible to reach, and therefore is overhype.

Besides, its a fact that Halo 2 is more of the same Halo was, which was pretty sucky. Mechanics and such. There is little Halo 2 has to offer in terms of originality to the series.

I'm talking pre-launch overhype. I mean how many people did you see saying that it would completely revolutionize FPS and save XBox, not many. It doesn't matter afterwords, cause that's all word of mouth and as such that doesn't count.

There's no need to bash Halo or Halo 2 if you don't like it, this thread was meant to discuss Halo 2 and the launch of Halo 2, if you don't like a game, then don't look at the thread. Plus things like Mechanics and physics don't always matter all that much, so what if your game seems more realistic? Is that gonna really change the gaming experiance all that much that you make a decision between whether you play it or not?

Yes, Halo 2 doesn't really add all that originality to the series, whether you're refering to FPS or Halo in general but as a large population believes that Halo was pretty much perfect as it was there wasn't really a need to improve on it much more. Plus if you look at all the features you have a lot more new stuff over the original to enhance the experiance, mulitplayer for instance now has bots, online play, new modes of play, playing as covenant, dual wielding, and so on and so forth. Single player gets rid of a great deal of repetivness of the original, it also has some missions where you play as the covenant. There are also new weapons and vehicles, and new ways to play the game, new characters and such.

Plus if you want originality, name a recent FPS that has been truely original. You won't come up with many, if any at all since they are all basically clones of other FPS's. Same as almost any other genre, does that mean we shouldn't buy any new games until they come out with something original? I think not, otherwise we'd still be sitting around playing Counter-Strike.