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Halo is a fantastic game, but it didn't do anything spectacular.
I'd play it over a ton of FPS games in the market right now (including Doom 3 or Quake 4) but it won't replace Half-Life anytime soon.
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10-09-2006, 03:26 PM | #22 | ||
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Halo despite having some sort of nice sci-fi story is just a mediocre shooter in terms of gameplay. Perhaps that is because the game was made for consoles in mind. Nice ideas, nice scenes sometimes but overall it's not impressive at all. Good game but lacks a lot to be great game. Especially for PC platform.
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10-09-2006, 03:47 PM | #23 | ||
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1. World of Warcraft - its so damn addictive 2. Guildwars - wow without lag + better questline imo 3. Diablo - the game that made me a real computer player 4. monkey island - a great game then and now + several other games, but these are my favourites |
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10-09-2006, 03:57 PM | #24 | ||
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Treewyrm @ Sep 10 2006, 08:26 AM) [snapback]254191[/snapback]</div>
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The story, while I admit that it wasn't very innovative, it really wasn't emphasised all that much, now if it had been a story-based game like Final Fantasy (which we've also not seen a mention), then I would completely demerit the game. Overall, I just think Halo is very fun, although it might just be because I don't own the game and only get to play it about twice a year, making every play fresh and new...and I admit it, it does get a bit tiring. Overall, i'd give Halo a good 8/10, the combined multiplayer score: 9/10. Never played Half-Life, and I swear i'm going to get it...but I have a question: what is it about HL that sets it apart from every other shooter (such as the aforemention Halo)? When I watch people play it on TV, it looks extremely fun...but nothing special. However, I have noticed some original qualities in HL2. And on a side note, MMORPGs entertain me for an extremely little amount of time, then I walk away, then I go back, rinse and repeat. I don't see why people are so addicted to WoW...it looks like an awful waste of time to me. (Note: i'm speaking from a point with absolutely no WoW experience, and these are just my opinions on gameplay snippets i've seen).
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Treewyrm @ Sep 10 2006, 11:26 AM) [snapback]254191[/snapback]</div>
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@Iowa: It doesn't look like anything special now, but back when it was released the only FPS games you were EVER going to find were the ones with the little "mission" screens, there were hardly any scripted events, structured stories, or such, almost all of them were just split into seperate little "episodes" with a small text prompt at the beggining, Half-Life was the first game ever to utlilize scripting everywhere to tell the story, not only that, but it didn't have a single cinemtic (unlike Quake II for example) and the player was ALWAYS playing the game, level design was amazing, since everything was put together seemlessly, unlike the earlier FPS games which just had a punch of levels connected together with an entrance and exit, Half-Life made sense, you'd go into one section of the facility, only to see through a window a section you were just in. Half-Life also let you interact with NPCs like no other FPS game had done before, people would talk, respond to monsters, and etc. To be frank, it did a about 500 million things never seen in a game before in just one 14 hour game.
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10-09-2006, 05:43 PM | #26 | ||
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Well that just about makes me want to buy it...I saw it at Hastings for 16$, but it was bundled with about three or four expansions...
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Don't buy that. Try to find a used one with the CD key, then you can get all the expansions, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and several other mods that you would reguraly need to pay for, for free, via Steam.
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@Iowa= Im not saying that N64 version was better than PC. Im saying that it's not bad.
Anyway, lets not argue about this anymore. Now to other topics.... <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Blood-Pigggy @ Sep 9 2006, 01:14 AM) [snapback]253818[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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[/b][/quote] Buggy? I would say crashy. I got Daggerfall this summer (thanks to my friend) and i almost sold my soul to it. It had great athmosphere and the world was HUUUGE. However, after I played it two weeks in a row, I't started to be a bit boring. |
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Sidenote: I have never seen a game with as many patches as this one. Patches were released to patch the previous patches... It's madness. I also get a bit bored when playing it for 'ages', but then I quit playing for a while and then return. Only problem is that I then need to do some heavy reading of notes to catch up on the plot and status.
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Oh, and i've come to the conclusion that Max Payne has the best-presented storyline i've ever seen in a game.
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