Black Six wrote:Negative Creep, while I respect your opinion that you prefer the PS3, don't make blanket statements like 'halo 3 is a poor game.' As Jones said, there's a few million people out there that disagree with you. If you don't like that style of FPS fine. Personally, I think Halo 3 and GoW are lots of fun, so it all depends on the individual.
So, to whoever started this topic, find the console that has more games that you like, and ignore the rest of us arguing back and forth.
The Halo series in general hasn't made a steady decline, it went down like a popped balloon. Bungie had a gem on their hands with the original Halo, and whilst sharing many similarties to the Marathon series (by the same Developer), it did something nobody else did good before... a console FPS (bar Medal of Honor), with an original and decent storyline that evolved well introducing the flood mid-game, but then, as soon as Bungie/Microsoft knew they had the customers/fanbase in the palm of their hands, they decided that putting effort and work into the entire series would be over-sufficent, so they made Halo 2, which rode almost directly on it's much-hyped Xbox Live modes, whilst halo purists who loved the single player almost immediately cried out about how much of a shambles the single player campaign was, the game's SP turned out not much fun when the campaign was just a random mess of events that didn't seem to follow each other much, plus, Master Chief, the main PROTANGIST of Halo was playable for about 1/3 of the game, the other 2/3 was spent playing as the lifeless Arbiter in poorly designed samey levels over and over between the Covenant Civil War.. which whilst was a good addition to the game to stop this whole MC thing from going stale didn't really make much sense. Then it gets worse, when you realize the game ends on a cliffhanger, 3 years later... the much heavily hyped sequel Halo 3 gets released to disapointment, another poor attempt at a SP campaign that obviously suffers from story problems and drags on random events, and for last minute garnered attention, several main characters from Halo 1 and 2 are killed off. and so many people have died your just like "god another silly death sequence" with a character, not to mention that inbetween these cutscenes don't do much to gather any attention from the player itself as they always feel lifeless, especially how the protangist your playing as is basically a emotionless robot, then monitor comes out of nowhere and questions you for doing what you wanted him to do (?) and kills Johnson. Then cue a Halo-1 style endgame where you drive the warthog.. although this was fun. Fly into the frigate and watch a pretty poor ending to a once-promising trilogy of games that pretty much launched Microsoft into the console industry.
Then they can carry on milking the franchise with other poor attempts at bringing this story back from the dead with Halo Wars.
Sorry, but Halo 3 isnt really a good game, by the time Halo 3 was released, Halo was already a dead horse and the critical failure of Halo 2 already dealt too much damage.