joystiq.com — While checking out the Halo 3 multiplayer beta in New York, Joystiq asked Bungie's Frank O'Connor some of those Halo-related questions that have been floating around for too long. Questions like, what's going on with the movie, how are those episodic installments coming along, and could Miyamoto really have made Halo?
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aharoniMay 12, 2007
I just logged in to call you an idiot.idiot.
kinggoonieMay 12, 2007
jeo.. how was he out of place, i think most people don't get what he meant by that statement.. I think he was more like saying at this point he is more interested in making more unique type games
aharoniMay 12, 2007
Why is it that when the Wii brings new people into gaming everyone are raving about it, but when Halo does it everybody bitch about how they're all about of 13 y/old kids that curse all the time? let me tell you something, these kids didn't start cursing because they played Halo. They were always there. Halo was just accessible enough for them to join and if that isn't innovative I don't know what is.You can all bitch and moan how Halo didn't bring anything new to the table compared to PC gaming. But the truth is that PCs will always be less accessible than console gaming. First, consoles are much much much much cheaper. Second, as much as the keyboard+mouse combination gives you some uber-l33t abilities, its still not accessible for most people. To make a game FUN (countless players have more than 1000+ matches of Halo 2 multiplayer in their arsenal, I think that pretty much proves Halo is fun) and accessible for the masses, yet retain some "hardcore gamers" respect is no easy task... Why every game is judged by the amount of new never-seen-before features that it introduced? it reminds me the era when CGI special effects started to become realistic (it started after the first Jurassic Park movie) and there was a race between movies to introduce new special effects. I remember until this day how the makers of "Event Horizon" were all excited how their movie included special effects of water in zero gravity. Wheepie-dee-frakking-doo. Today? nobody cares about special effects or if the movie doesn't bring a new non-familiar surrounding in at least one of its scenes. Its all about the writing and execution that make a movie good.Not every game has to introduce new features. Not every game needs to be something that no one has ever heard of. Some games excel at doing something that is known and loved VERY WELL. People just seem to be afraid of non-innovation in terms of features because of Electronic Art's tendencies to abuse that approach (NBA 2000, NBA 2001, NBA 2002, NBA 2003....).Lets look at "Heroes", shall we? its a TV show about people with special abilities. There is NOTHING innovative about it. Nothing. A group of people with special abilities trying to save the world? been done before countless times. Yet, the show rocks. Why? because it is well executed and well written. Halo is the same. The guys at Bungie created a sci-fi universe with interesting lore (even though the story isn't innovative either, it was done well), a unique art style and some pretty cool A.I. (gotta love those grunts). And it was all very well executed and made very accessible. Is it overrated? I don't think so. Saying that Halo is overrated is like saying the new Honda Civic type R is overrated just because you could buy a Ferrari (well, not YOU). Its a good game. It has its flaws but it has won the hearts of many people who didn't give a damn about your sophisticated FPS you play all day... and THAT is an achievement bigger than any new feature they might have introduced to the exciting world of blowing people up through the computer screen.
emjaymjMay 13, 2007
I never said it did nothing for the console scene... I agree it is definitely one of if not THE best FPS games out on any console, but only because no developers have made serious efforts on bringing other good FPS's to it, not because it's an objectively good game. I'm not a PC zealot at all, I own many consoles and many games, although I'll admit I do prefer FPS games on the PC. Not just because of the superior controls, but for the above mentioned reason as well.
flamekebabMay 14, 2007
coasters2k, f**k you.I played the Halo demo for PC when it was brand new. I was unimpressed then, it was only because a friend had a copy on his shelf that I thought I might as well waste a few hours playing it, see if the full game offered anything more. I played other FPS games around that time too and to say Halo did anything special even by the day's standards is bull. Perhaps if I'd been used to crappy console FPS games I'd have been blown away, but my standards are a little higher than that.The gameplay was nothing remarkable when it was new, so shut the f**k up, you condescending ****. If you're going to make a crack at me, at least make it witty or well argued.