All the platforms will soon have UT3. Snipe'em all and let Epic sort'em out.

Halo was always a poor FPS compared to what was available on the PC platform.

They're apples and oranges.

The game's virtue was in multiplayer, and honestly, it's rather hard to expect the exactness in control you get in a PC FPS to carry over to the console (for all the people who bitch about the controls in a console FPS).

Of course, I could ask "Halo is poor compared to what FPS?" and the response would most likely be "Compared to this this this and that" and probably "Halo is just a crappy FPS altogether."

Well, yes, but that's just forgetting the simple fact it's the king MP game on the console, so it must be doing something right for millions of people to enjoy it.

Or as Jerykk would mention, millions of people liking something are obviously sheep.

Kind of sad people have become so obsessed with it that they'd pay a 200% markup for not much return.

No kidding. Spec Editions of games have become so bland in the last decade I really don't really find much virtue in buying them anymore.

Hell, I remember the first release of Baldur's Gate had all sorts of fun stuff in, thick-ass manual, map, etc. Good luck getting a publisher to do that sort of thing anymore. Of course, if the release is something like an id product, you can get a tin box if you want. Heh.

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Halo was always a poor FPS compared to what was available on the PC platform. Kind of sad people have become so obsessed with it that they'd pay a 200% markup for not much return.

I dunno, maybe its because I didn't play the last games but I didn't like the Halo 3 demo. All the weapons felt generic, the gameplay didn't seem fluid, the graphics seemed meh, the vehicles difficult... maybe I've been too spoiled with CS:S, BF2 & UT for too many years to think much of this...

This comment was edited on May 22, 13:20.

Halo is beginning to show it's age. Halo 3 beta is pretty but it looks like the same game from the past. I was hoping they would add a lot more to the game like destructable terrain and more impressive scenery.

It reminds me of Counter Strike source. They kept the same basic game intact and just updated the graphics. And not by much I'm sorry to say. Resolution is improved but it looks an awful lot like old Halo on the Xbox...

But I suppose if it's not broken, why fix it?

130 dollar "bent you over" edition
hey, it comes with a spartan helmet. no really, it's a spartan helmet from the future! it's what spartacus would wear, and that means the master chief is just like *BANG*

"Glad we killed that one... these fuckers are everywhere."
"What are they? It's so twisted, and grotesque."
"The most horrible, and sometimes elusive creature to crawl out from society's underbelly... they're Halo fans."

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heh, kettle, meet pot.


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