[TopAce]

Smilies can do that if used properly, in my opinion.

[haloboy100]

No smiles in inquisitor's post anyway.

Anyway, get back on topic, as pointless as this debate is.

[Inquisitor]

That was kinda the point, in and of itself.

[WeatherOp]

I've both played Halo and Halo 2, and I can say they aren't bad. They are in fact quite good in some areas, but also very boring on some. But, as far as I seen it wasn't special by no means. Want vehicles? Get Operation Flashpoint. Want guns? Goldeneye is the best hands down there.Want realism? Go grab Rainbow Six(The first, Rogue Spear and Raven Shield, not the newer crap.) Want something in between? Go grab any of the CoD series.

As I said, I found both Halos to be quite fun, didn't last very long, but fun neverless. And if someone gave me a xbox360 and halo 3 I'd play it.

Personally, the two biggest flaws in Halo were the repetitive flood levels and the part most people say is the strongest part, the multiplayer. When I played the first two, it quickly came down to who could grab the tank first. But, most of the time, it would become a warthog head on fest to see who blew up first. Which actually was pretty fun.

[haloboy100]

I've both played Halo and Halo 2, and I can say they aren't bad. They are in fact quite good in some areas, but also very boring on some. But, as far as I seen it wasn't special by no means. Want vehicles? Get Operation Flashpoint. Want guns? Goldeneye is the best hands down there.Want realism? Go grab Rainbow Six(The first, Rogue Spear and Raven Shield, not the newer crap.) Want something in between? Go grab any of the CoD series.

Want story action? Play Halo.

It's that simple to me.

[CP5670]

No, you play Deus Ex in that case.

If you want only story, FPSs aren't such a great choice in general (with only a handful of exceptions) and what you're looking for is an adventure game. I could recommend many good ones.

[haloboy100]

Yeah, but adventure games almost always involve you carrying around loads of items which you need to rub in people's faces, and they also have horrible combat that requires no real skill. (zelda anyone?)

[aurora_energy]

Lol... i was actually gonna say KotOR

[haloboy100]

At least the combat in KotOR looks awesome.

[TopAce]

KotOR fights don't need any skill if you don't consider character construction to require any skill.

[Polpolion]

I've both played Halo and Halo 2, and I can say they aren't bad. They are in fact quite good in some areas, but also very boring on some. But, as far as I seen it wasn't special by no means. Want vehicles? Get Operation Flashpoint. Want guns? Goldeneye is the best hands down there.Want realism? Go grab Rainbow Six(The first, Rogue Spear and Raven Shield, not the newer crap.) Want something in between? Go grab any of the CoD series.

Want story action? Play Halo.

It's that simple to me.

The amount of story portrayed in games like Halo, Half-life, and CoD make the game Deus Ex look like a 1000+ page book. I take it you've never played it, or have you?

Seriously though, if you like games with story, I'd really recommend you at least try Deus Ex.

^{Honestly though, you have no idea how much your post made me laugh.}

[Admiral_Stones]

Uhm.... riiiiigght.
In Halo it's all about Aliens who out of fun decide to slaughter humanity, after that they've got these flashy supercool green-suited marine (deus ex machina anyone?) who horribly murders hundreds of enemys without dying. In addition to that, they have personal shields and armor who can resist alien capital ship mounted weaponry but no energy weapons, hell, they even have some hyperspace drive designed by some crazy japanese moron, but 500 years into the future, NO ENERGY WEAPONS.
We've already got lasers in a semi-combat ready state now.
Furthermore, the Master Moron is abled to singlehandedly flip Tanks, but takes multiple hits to even kill these little, mentally retarded running douchebags whilst their heads should be compresses to molecular sizes.

[Polpolion]

Uhm.... riiiiigght.
In Halo it's all about Aliens who out of fun decide to slaughter humanity, after that they've got these flashy supercool green-suited marine (deus ex machina anyone?) who horribly murders hundreds of enemys without dying. In addition to that, they have personal shields and armor who can resist alien capital ship mounted weaponry but no energy weapons, hell, they even have some hyperspace drive designed by some crazy japanese moron, but 500 years into the future, NO ENERGY WEAPONS.
We've already got lasers in a semi-combat ready state now.
Furthermore, the Master Moron is abled to singlehandedly flip Tanks, but takes multiple hits to even kill these little, mentally retarded running douchebags whilst their heads should be compresses to molecular sizes.

You can do that to almost any game.

Watch, I'll do it to Freespace: Okay so in FS2, you got these crazy rebels rambling about how they want Polaris to be Earth instead of Earth, and you got these crazy zods with weird space ships. The space ships somehow only go like 200mph, but can go through subspace to anywhere almost instantly (plot device, anyone?). THen the fighters have enough energy to generate a shield that can withstand several gigatons of explosives, yet the fighter can't generate enough power to melt through a ship's hull. Then there are these beam canons that shoot plasma or something at people, which can magically pass through shields unchanged. And then there are these crazy Shivans that have like 5 legs and can destroy a fighter by kicking it, but they never do that, instead they fly relatively weak ass fighters. And they decide to destroy humanity for absolutely no reason at all. Then there's this alpha one guys who for some reason is super ultra best pilot ever for no reason, while his wingmen are absolute morons. Come on, how isn't FS2 stupid?

[Snail]

Gun please.

[Hades]

Gun please.

* Hades hands Snail a M-16.

[Snail]

* Hades hands Snail a M-16.

Got grenades for the grenade launcher?

[Admiral_Stones]

* Admiral_Stones hands Snail 40mm incendiary plasma fusion grenades

[Jeff Vader]

[haloboy100]

You can do that to almost any game.

Watch, I'll do it to Freespace: Okay so in FS2, you got these crazy rebels rambling about how they want Polaris to be Earth instead of Earth, and you got these crazy zods with weird space ships. The space ships somehow only go like 200mph, but can go through subspace to anywhere almost instantly (plot device, anyone?). THen the fighters have enough energy to generate a shield that can withstand several gigatons of explosives, yet the fighter can't generate enough power to melt through a ship's hull. Then there are these beam canons that shoot plasma or something at people, which can magically pass through shields unchanged. And then there are these crazy Shivans that have like 5 legs and can destroy a fighter by kicking it, but they never do that, instead they fly relatively weak ass fighters. And they decide to destroy humanity for absolutely no reason at all. Then there's this alpha one guys who for some reason is super ultra best pilot ever for no reason, while his wingmen are absolute morons. Come on, how isn't FS2 stupid?

Gun please.

That's what separates us from some other games. We fight for our fandoms

[Roanoke]

Uhm.... riiiiigght.
In Halo it's all about Aliens who out of fun decide to slaughter humanity, after that they've got these flashy supercool green-suited marine (deus ex machina anyone?) who horribly murders hundreds of enemys without dying. In addition to that, they have personal shields and armor who can resist alien capital ship mounted weaponry but no energy weapons, hell, they even have some hyperspace drive designed by some crazy japanese moron, but 500 years into the future, NO ENERGY WEAPONS.
We've already got lasers in a semi-combat ready state now.
Furthermore, the Master Moron is abled to singlehandedly flip Tanks, but takes multiple hits to even kill these little, mentally retarded running douchebags whilst their heads should be compresses to molecular sizes.

You can do that to almost any game.

Watch, I'll do it to Freespace: Okay so in FS2, you got these crazy rebels rambling about how they want Polaris to be Earth instead of Earth, and you got these crazy zods with weird space ships. The space ships somehow only go like 200mph, but can go through subspace to anywhere almost instantly (plot device, anyone?). THen the fighters have enough energy to generate a shield that can withstand several gigatons of explosives, yet the fighter can't generate enough power to melt through a ship's hull. Then there are these beam canons that shoot plasma or something at people, which can magically pass through shields unchanged. And then there are these crazy Shivans that have like 5 legs and can destroy a fighter by kicking it, but they never do that, instead they fly relatively weak ass fighters. And they decide to destroy humanity for absolutely no reason at all. Then there's this alpha one guys who for some reason is super ultra best pilot ever for no reason, while his wingmen are absolute morons. Come on, how isn't FS2 stupid?

Great post.