the Novels Based on Halo are fine, in fact i think they work far better as novels than as games, its the same with Call Of Duty, i HATE it as a game, WORST franchise in history, words cannot describe how much i loathe and despise it! but by thunder, i think it would be friggen awesome as a movie, basically, i think it, like Halo, is in the wrong media.
i think my issues with Halo are because, to me, as much as i enjoy games having a story, gameplay comes first, you can have the best charachters, world, and story in the history of gaming, but if your gameplay is bad, all that story is worth the square root of diddly squat, i quess it comes with growing up in the days when gameplay was all games had, as story was limited to about 2 pages of text and a static drawing of the hero after each "chapter", and to me, Halo has Bad Gameplay..
dont worry im not asking anyone to change there opinion, a few months ago i may have, but, im trying to be a bit less Arsey these days, im just trying to show why i cant see what they see in some games, doubtless they cannot understand what i see in some of my faviourites.
i have already stated on another thread why i think halo is a casual game, and i will only repeat if asked, in the mean time, i shall post a video showing how i think a console FPS should be. No Regenerating sheilds, or worse, regenerating health (Halo 2 onwards, first introduced to gaming, i think, in COD 2), no on screen controll hints, no gun limit, no ADS (except for sniper scopes) or expanding crosshairs, no waypoint guide, no squads, No Bee-Ess. and one heck of a sence of humour! similar to how i think a PC FPS game should be, but, a little bit more accessible for teens.
yes, i know Timesplitters FP is short, quite corridorised, and rather easy (and with a checkpoint system, i HATE checkpoint systems), but HEY! what do you expect from, urgh, EA? or a console game for that matter.. but for a console FPS, its got its gameplay mechanics 100% correct, its a ton of fun, and well, its perhaps the LAST proper FPS to be launched on Console. if only it was longer, harder, and had better level design,, still its a solid 8/10 from me.
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2013, 11:22 PM by the dark side.)