Why is Halo so overrrated?

Question

What's so great about it? It's a futuristic space shooter. It's good, but people treat it like it's the best game ever made.

Answer 1

although i am a halo fan, zelda:ocarina of time is the best game of all time

Answer 2

I've always wondered this myself. It's a good game, but it's far from being the best ever made. I think I have a good answer as to why though. Graphics. I've noticed that most gamers now are young, they weren't around back when all the legendary games were made. You know, the ones that were for the NES, SNES, and PS1. I've asked a lot of younger gamers why they always say those old games with the lesser graphics suck, and all of them tell me it's because of their graphics. Graphics are good, but graphics alone don't make a good game. I've played games that had some amazing visuals, but I couldn't keep playing them because their storyline, characters, or both sucked balls. Well, anyways, this is why I think it's overrated; because of people that don't know what a good game is anymore.


Before anyone asks, I'm not old at all. I'm 16, I just grew up around a lot of gamers that played all of those classics. I had access to them so I played them all the time when I was (even) younger. And by young, I meant they are 11-13 year old. It seems like they congregate on Halo on Xbox Live.

Answer 3

I have played most FPS available, and it really is one of the best for the Xbox. The game does a phenominal job at using the using the Xbox hardware to its full potential that other games are yet to emulate. The game has an amazing control scheme that other games almost always lack.

Compared to PC games, it is severely lacking as PC games have better graphics, generalized controls (WASD method) and better aiming capabilities. As far as plot goes, that's on an individual basis and some players may find it amazing others won't, I personally find its plot very basic and dumbed down compared to games like Half-Life, but the multiplayer for an Xbox game is superb.

Answer 4

Honestly I've never seen what the hoopla over Halo was about either. Just like I've never understood the hoopla over Grand Theft Auto. They are both good games based off of a past game design formula. Grand Theft Auto is just spy hunter in a 3d environment and the same is true of Halo. halo is just Doom in a more interactive enviroment.

Answer 5

Halo was just a plain good game. It's just that Halo 2 sucked. Because of Halo's popularity, Halo 2 was deemed a "good game." The plot is cool, I guess, but I think that Halo 2's popularity is based off Halo's.

Answer 6

That's because it is

the complexity of the characters, the realism, plot twists - it feels like a movie from time to time. Also, there are more than one enemy race to deal with - with Halo 1 & 2, there are actually four races all fighting with or against each other (humans, covenant, the flood, brutes), which adds to the complexity & plot twists.

The gameplay is also rather intuitive & feel life-like. It just plain kicks butt. I can't wait for Halo 3

Answer 7

Because it is an excellent story......unlike a lot of the other shooter games that are out right now.

Answer 8

you can't have played it to make such an obsured generalization. People just like it.
Its like asking "Why do people like video games? They are just moving pixels made to look like people"

Just let people be

Answer 9

becasue it's on the shitbox 360!

Answer 10

FUCKhalo you *****!