Why do people like Halo that much?

congrats....there are only like 5 of these threads floating around right now. but that's ok...you want some kind of point proven.

Name a better FPS....that came out at a similar time.

Metroid Prime...done

Halo - November 15th, 2001
Metroid Prime - November 17th, 2002

not done...

ok....so im not sure if the times were completly the same..but, then ur basing how good it is simply because there were no other FPS worth playing.....kinda a sad excuse if u ask me basically saying "halo was good because all the other games sucked" so then ur saying that it ony seemed good because it was better then the other games? and if so then that does not make halo good simply it makes it better then other games at the time....not a very good argument...

thats the same as saying for example the toronto maple leafs win the stanley cup, then the nhl is in a slump and most of the teams are not very good at all, and although toronto might be better then the other teams, its still not very good, so to say thay toronto is a good team simply because they were the best of the worst dose not make them the best...

Play Halo on multiplayer once, that's the best part about the game. Goldeneye wasn't that special of a a game in terms of single player, but its multiplayer mode is what made it so great, same with halo.

yeah....the beauty of halo is found in the co-op for me....tactical, yet the gameplay is fluid...very cool IMO.

Halo multiplayer. That's what made Halo good, like Unreal Tournament series. It's either multiplayer, or.....well, just multiplayer. What impresses me most is how Halo dramatically changes to Halo 2. Graphics are better, DUAL-WEILDING....cooler weapons, Xbox live vers was a heckofalot better. I wanna dual wield with Battle Rifle and Plasma rifle. Metroid Prime 2 didn't have much drastic changes. Health bar format changed a bit, different weapons and enemies, blah blah blah. Graphics pretty much stayed the same. I would rather get Halo 2 than Metroid Prime: Echoes anyday.

another effing why is halo good topic... someone should close this ... -_-

Originally posted by Linkalicious
Halo - November 15th, [b]2001
Metroid Prime - November 17th, 2002

not done... [/B]

That's a similar time actually. A year isn't much difference.

But okay, I'll do one better.

Half Life. Came out a good 3 years before Halo and did everything halo did (minus the useless novelty of vehicular combat) just as well if not better.

The big deal about halo is that it's practically one of the best shooter games ever ( besides rainbow six 3). It had an awesome start and people just fell in love with blowing the crap out of people with rockets and destroying people with the shotgun....Plus...u should have warthog battles...they are amusing for a little while....

Metroid cannot compare with Halo...The master chief owns Samus!!!

wow backfire, the useless novelty of vehicular combat?

it's kind of fun...just running the warthogs into each other seeing who flips over or the best type of flip over...or playing the only way to get kills is by warthog kills...have u tried it yet?

try setting up ramps with the scorpion tank then taking the ghost and flying up it and doing the best tricks you can do in the air, it's great going against your friends doing 720's with a ghost.

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
I dont own an xbox, my friend does..he called me over a few years ago to play this game that I had heard abot for the last few months...called Halo, I was excited because of the hype of this game to say the least. I got to his house eager to play this "amazing FPS" that everyone had been talking about, but when I got to playing it, My responce was "This is a better then average FPS, thats all.." I then proceeded to beat the game on the medium difficulty in a few hours.....I was not impressed. Would someone please expain to me why this "amazing FPS" is so amazing, because I think that about 75% of why this game was "amazing" was the insane amount of hype about it....I really hope that when I get the call from my friend to come and play Halo 2 that it is far far better the the first......

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keep your bigotry in check, metroid prime "is a first person adventure game" not a shooter.

also, halo has a story that is a main part of the expierience. metroid prime's story is picked up through reading the scans.(and the awsome books series..less than 20 bucks for all 3)

Halo 2's story is now the key point of single player, not mindless shooting, and conversation tidbits.
also Half-life has no where near as good graphics, or AI.

OoO yeah...but there are only a limited number of things u can do on the phantoms and the tank set up unless ur trying to find gaps to jump....

oops..i meant the scorpions and the ghosts

Teh game is great because of:

1. The Story Line
2. The non-penalizing death in co-op (you respawn)
3. The coop is smooth and entertaining
4. At the time riding in vehicles was a fairly new main stream addition and they were cool to roam around in.

Hmmm...I didn't like co op mode because the game was to easy...but it was always fun to kill them and take their ammunition....

meh...I only play Halo on heroic. it's hard enough to be a good waste of time, but if you dont just blindly rush ahead, you will be victorious.

I need to step up and only play legendary....(but I love the assault rifle so much...it's worthless on legendary except as a grunt smasher))