[General Discussion] Terrible taste in games? Guilty secrets and you

I think Halo 3 is an excellently-designed game and that the cocksuckers who overcompensate by bitching about the thirteen-year-olds who enjoy it for entirely the wrong reasons are horribly misguided. Referring to it with terms like "mediocre" and "generic" is nebulous as hell, and comparing it to needlessly convoluted PC shooters is a major case of apples-and-oranges.

Also, there is no "World of Warcraft of FPS". That's no fucking comparison at all. They're completely fucking different in terms of target audience and design philosophy. Fuck your genre distinctions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Halo 3 is a simple video game with minimal cruft, nicely nuanced weapons, well-designed maps (ignore the campaign), a shallow learning curve, bright colours, a distinctive visual aesthetic, and a lack of pointlessly arcane bells and whistles. It's a good fucking example for console FPS games.

(edit: Oh, and as for any criticisms of it being "generic" - what in blue fuck is that supposed to mean? Is the fact that it consists of a solid genre-adherent core devoid of wanky crap like RPG elements or "killstreak rewards" a bad thing? Fuck your feature creep.)

It's the fucking occam's razor of FPS design. Besides, since when do people who criticise a video game for setting and storyline - completely fucking static elements irrelevant to the medium you're trying to criticise - have any credibility at all?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Lehah

You're one of those people who say "Why do you have to be so critical about everything?" aren't you?

Not in the least. I criticise the fuck out of everything I like, and my criticisms are relevant. I'm one of those people who say "Why do you have to be so critical about shit that doesn't even matter?"

Originally Posted by Devo

The stages in Halo 1 campaign are not monotonous or cheesy.

I agree with most of what you said. I do think the Library level bears mentioning, though...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Also, there was Midships, the greatest map in the history of Halo maps.

Be happy. It's being remade as "Heretic" and it's in the map pack that'll ship with ODST.

Halo 3 suffers from a lack of polish compared to more recent titles and a fairly dire campaign (issues ODST looks like it'll fix), and the balance is a little off on some of the more exotic weapons, but I'm still resolute that it's good on its own merit. I think most people's issues with it centre around the fact that they don't want to be seen enjoying something whose audience consists mainly of thirteen-year-olds for fears that their masculinity be compromised.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, it'll be Metroid Prime with no lock-on. OOOH!

I was speaking idiomatically.