Halo: Reach: made $200 million

[graykin]

All of the people going "*SCOFF* halo sucks, and I am far beyond such trivial gaming" are funny. You guys are the reason why I usually avoid independent game communities, because they tend to be full of pretentious douchebags that somehow think they're better than everyone else.

Hats off to the guy that likes both Halo and Amnesia, and wasn't afraid to say it. You give me hope.

I won't deny there can be a lot of pretentious people in indie game communities, but there are a lot more people who scoff at games like Amnesia because they don't have big-budget content, or a name like Bungie associated with it. It makes those of us who appreciate indie games a little sore, especially when the hardcore fans of Halo look down on US, and are apparently far beyond playing such a game with "pathetic graphics."

Some of us in the community do react angrily, and get hostile towards fans of Halo, even the casual ones, and this kind of thing definitely should not be happening. However, not all of us who criticize Halo are pretentious douche bags, as you seem to be implying. None of us have EVER stated that we hate trivial gaming, or those who play trivial games. If we did, we would all be hypocrites. Any comments of "Doom! Doom!" thrown at the Halo franchise is not necessarily MEANT for the Halo franchise, but at the people who detest lower-budget games out of their OWN snobbery.

There is plenty of pretentious douchebaggery coming from "both sides."