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Shin, you reported me for calling someone a fool, and everyone calls anyone "fool". That's why.
Originally posted by DarkC
Actually, AC, most of the people in real life I know play Halo for the campaign. I play multiplayer maybe 5% of the time I do on campaign. To them and I multiplayer is simply an added bonus. Personally it was the books that got me into it. The multiplayer is strong, but so is the campaign. Editors talk about multiplayer because they like interactivity with others, and in this case, quite possibly because the multiplayer beta testing for Halo 3 came out a few months prior to launch. Try not to be so quick to jump to presumptions, this isn't simply what a "couple of people" think, despite your perception of things.
It's certainly not as many compared to the amount that praise it for multiplayer, which is why the boom started and which is the main reason the game is praised by fans a lot. Because they discuss it and play each other.
Using personal experience is irrelevant, because the multiplayer has been Halo's most successful part since Halo 2, two out of three games in the franchise since it was available. It's the most praised part.
Originally posted by DarkC
Do you think people got Halo 3 more for the multiplayer, or cause they wanted to find out how the series would end in terms of the plot? How they would 'finish the fight', in Bungie's terms?
If we're to assume most people buying it have live, then I'll say multiplayer. Again, it's praised for a reason and the boom happened because of the interaction. I'm not denying the game itself isn't praised, it is, hugely, but not in comparison to the multiplayer. Even in this thread a lot of people have said "The game's not that different...but the multiplayer is amazing this time. Cos of this, this and this.".
Originally posted by DarkC
Precisely.
Don't be quick to jump to assumptions.
Originally posted by DarkC
Everyone who's bought it that I can talk to in Uni classes have been raving about the Campaign mode, not the Multiplayer. More than one head has been smacked for spoiling it.
So? Your university is not the world and among the net, it's more praised for its multiplayer. That is why it has rose in popularity.
Scenario: Live doesn't exist, is Halo as popular? Any other answer besides "No" is naivety of monumental proportions.
Originally posted by DarkC
It's a matter of opinion, AC, it isn't a factual matter. Xbox Live is just an option, so is system link, split screen, etc. Yes, multiplayer is indeed a general overview, it doesn't point straight to Live.
It's not if you have sense. Halo's multiplayer hasn't been skyrocketing in popularity since Halo 2 because people love dragging Xboxes and TVs to their buddies' houses entirely, it's live. I'm not saying it's JUST live, people may obviously have enjoyed it first, and did, but multiplayer, now in this time, is what Halo is known for and praised for more, or very arguably as much, as the reason it exists. As if it was Bungie's doing to invent internet multiplayer.
Originally posted by DarkC
Have you not heard of a LAN party? Drinks? Partying? Yelling and backslapping? It can be just as fun as Live sometimes, even better in some aspects. Thinking of it as a chore, which you seemingly described it as, is a rather limited and shortsighted way to see it as.
Try understanding my points first.
I never said people didn't enjoy doing that or didn't do it at all, I said when you want to discuss why Halo's multiplayer is as praised as it has become, you're naive if you think it's because of system link.
It's through live.
-AC