Halo 3 - Just my opinion.

Before I start my boring rant, I'd like to say that this is just my opinion, it's 1 am, I'm tired and bored as hell. I have no intention to offend anyone, and I figured I would share my thoughts. They may not be accurate, but this is the way I see it. Anyways:

It feels like I am the only person to notice this, but the Halo community has really hit a downward spiral. I don't want to give off any impression that I am good at halo 3, because in all honesty, I'm really not. But whenever I get into a Halo mood, it gets destroyed as soon as I do any form of matchmaking. It is always just a non-stop spam of sh.t talk, and it feels like nobody plays for fun anymore.

Back in 2005, the Halo community was at a really good stage. Halo 2 was pretty new to the scene, and people were just getting to know the game and eachother. Somebody's skill wasn't the main reason for them to be on your friends list, you took the time to get to know someone before you added them. Things like montages and MLG were almost unheard of, and the battle rifle was just another weapon to pick up. If you could get past level 16 (Before 1.1), you were considered decent. As 2005 was drawing to a close, I recall watching my first montage, Ripp0n's halo 2 montage. I thought this was possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread. Players like TheHaloGod and Shook on3 were among some whom I saw as role models.

Once 2006 started, I was introduced to Major League Gaming from the Team GaG video: Sex, Drugs, and Halo Pros. I recognized alot of the names mentioned in the video from the montages I had watched and I thought the concept of a Halo tournament was one of the most amazing things in existence. MLG now is absolutely ridiculous. Hundreds of people, good and bad, attend every single event, hoping and praying that they will make a name for themselves. People play as a source of income, all of the fun that was once there has been sucked away. Anywho, I spent alot of this year getting to know some awesome people, better-ing my skills and learning many things, one of them being that custom games were much more entertaining than matchmaking. Later this year, things like team standby and modding became something that everyone was aware of. Cheating for ranks was very popular in matchmaking, team slayer and clanmatches especially.

This may not apply to everyone, but back in 2005/2006 the only person I knew in real life with an xbox was my best friend. Present day, my friends list is mainly populated by people that I know personally. Xbox live has become almost a mainstream item. The amount of casual gamers has skyrocketed to the point where game developers create their games with the 'casual gamer' in mind, as oppose to the more experienced player. This is exactly what Bungie did when they made Halo 3. They turned it into a sandbox game; which means that weapons and damage wise, everything is balanced. Basically, a player with an assault rifle will be a fair match to a person with a battle rifle (damage wise).

When I play Halo 3, I don't get the same happiness that I used to, the players are annoying and just the general atmosphere is nothing of what it used to be. Sure, you can make all of your one months and get a whole whack of clips, but what good does it do when everybody and their mom has a montage? It doesn't do any good. It seems that social clips are frowned upon and the vast majority of players are only concerned with MLG clips.

And when I ask you to shut up, I don't want to 1v1 you, I don't want you to comment on my service record, I'm not concerned what your rank in the MLG playlist is either, and I really couldn't care less if you have a clip on your file share of you playing against Tsquared in Lone Wolves. This is what so much of the Halo community is like, or perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps I'm unaware of a secret awesome bunch of people who play Halo 3 the same way we played Halo 2.

And the fact that everyone is making "Finals" is just taking away from what the community used to be. It reminds me so much of my school, in a sense that anyone who had any sense of individuality is gone, graduated, and the people who walk the halls are clones of one another, they dress the same, they talk the same, and their music choices?... Don't get me started. I see the Halo community in the same way, anyone who had any sort of originality is gone, and the people who play now are clones of one another.

As I wrap this up (I'm tired as hell) I hope that someone else will read this and be able to pick up what I'm puttin' down. This is really just a whack of my thoughts that I decided to share, and my halo experience.

I can honestly say that for better or for worse, my experience on Halo has been a big part of my life, and to see what I once loved turn so disgusting makes me depressed.

tl;dr - Halo community sucks now, give me a flux capacitor and I'll build us a time machine to go back to 2005.

h3 basically should never have been made

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Originally Posted by tuffy412

h3 basically should never have been made

Nothings perfect, i have fun with h3, if you add all the hours i've played it, 60 bucks is cheap.

[edit] needed a comma lol

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Originally Posted by tuffy412

h3 basically should never have been made

Precisely.

And Puh Terra it's not so much that I don't like Halo 3, I don't like the general population of it.
The focus of the game has changed so drastically that it seems like more of a competitive sport, as oppose to a game.

Nice write up. I can see were you are coming from and I agree. The casual gamer has taken over the target audience for most game developers

I personally am not a casual gamer. I have not been since i was about 10. I am now 21. I find a game that has alot of players who are competitive and i try to be the best i can at that game. It makes me happy to know i am better then someone and it makes me even happier when they tried to shit talk me in the beginning of a game and i pooped all over them. Shit talking has been a huge part of my life and i will never stop it. In my mind, if your not on my team and we are playing MM you are a bk and you need to know it before and after the game. and if you are on my team if you mess up just a tiny bit then you are the biggest BK ever and you will know it the entire game. So basically for me when it comes to video games, i dont mess around. I want to win and piss off as many people as possible while i do it.

This is the best Halo-related post I have seen in years. I can completely relate to it. I haven't touched H3 in months and back when I did I would end up playing two or three games before I got tired of dealing with the bullshit. Hearing kids yell at each other about who wants sniper, how terrible everyone is, how they make more money and fuck more bitches than I could ever dream of, et cetera. I hear the word fuck used more in one game of H3 than I did in the entire first season of The Osbournes. It's just ridiculous, I can't enjoy myself without muting everyone in the game. And at that point, it's not fun. I used to enjoy talking with people I got matched with. Now that is literally impossible. The sad part is it's not just Halo, it happens with any popular multiplayer game you play. MW2 is just as bad if not worse at times. I'll enjoy myself for a few games, then I get matched up with a team of dickheads who think they are God's gift to XBL. I'd rather play Battlefiled 2 just so I can play with someone who has a maturity level greater than that of an eight year-old.

Awh Halo 2 fun days, those were the days.

Until you got modded once you hit 30's.

Thank the cheaters for ruining that and putting everyone in a bad mood.

But I can also see where all the 'wannabe pro's/ and pro's' get there attitudes from their think they should of won a game and somehow it's 'your' fault for making them lose.

TBH the tryhard shouldn't of went into the custom/matchmaking alone and got matched up with randoms, or should have been smart enough to not go in with you.

Halo 2 <3

its hard to convey how halo used to be, to the 'modern' gamer, the communitys just not what it used to be.

Halo 3 sucked the fun out of halo, way back at the end of 05, my mind was blown away (nod to Breaking Benjamin) by the videos on these forums, and i would spend hours in custom games just mucking around - this article is a MUST READ for any ex halo 2 addicts perfectly sums up how I and i think the OP feels too:

http://www.xbox360forum.com/forum/ha...ould-read.html

the vids i watched back then hold strong memory's now, and remind me of better days,

Things like this:

http://www.halogt.com/vids/halogt_14_you_slay_me.wmv

& this:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ideoID=2761797

(if anyone has SlutSmasheRs montage PLEASE pm me I cant find it anywhere!)

Looking back its a shame we didn't no we had it so good. its hard to think i joined this forum 5 years ago, but i think midpoint put it best:

"your days will fly by but when your years are through, believe me your gonna have to grow up to"

I miss the times when I was a noob in halo. lol
I spent hours playing zombie games at Fondation and do glitches and super bounces.
Thats when I didnt care about my rank and 1337 multikills. Id just join my friends game and just have fun.
I wish Everyones Halo 3 disk blew up and they would go to halo 2.

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