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Welcome back! Great review, I felt the same way when I played it. Though I'm surprised when reading your article and watching the video, you didn't mention that they integrated the skulls system into it, along with some new kinds of skulls. You also didn't mention that if you find the hidden terminals, you get and extra bit of story that explains quite a bit of how the Flood survived and came to be on Halo. | |
Despite these high score reviews, I'm going to pass on this one. I have Halo 1 on my 360 and I love it. Call me when they bring a Halo 2 remake and I promise I'll get that. | |
You know, I did wonder. | |
Nice. I actually enjoyed the original on PC. However, I disagree with the 'why' on why Halo's holding up so well. I don't think it's because it was so forward thinking (Marathon, on the other hand, I will never deny was forward thinking). I think it's because shooters haven't changed since Halo. That's why. Every shooter since (barring the ones I typically play- Painkiller, Half-Life, etc.) has just been taking stuff Halo did and doing it worse. And that's a damn shame. Nice to see this got made, though. I'll support rereleases as long as games I've enjoyed get (cheaper) rereleases. | |
I actually like what they did with Halo Anniversary. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. You see, I came into the series during 3, and it was nice getting a nice new package with some nice extras with it and being able to play it with some updates. I actually wish that they would also do a Halo 2 Anniversary, so that I can have Reach, 1, 2, ODST, and 3 all on one system. I'm also very interested in Halo 4 and I'm glad it will also be on the 360. But as you said, it would be nice for them to branch out, I loved ODST, and Reach too with all it's changes(love the armor abilities, because they've actually leveled the playing field so that it is also a strategy of using abilities along with shooting skills). I had the same thought about the flight game, because of the space flight level in Reach, which was one of my favorite parts of that game. I've really only played that campaign all the way through 4 times(2 Normal, 1 Heroic, 1 Legendary), but I do pick out single missions on occasion to play by themselves, and that flight mission is the one I play the most. They could make a game Halo: Sabre, or whatever other type of spacecraft that the UNSC used. Then when you beat the game you unlock Covenant Mode, where you fly Covenant ships and play the missions with a different take where the Covenant win instead of the Humans. | |
oi, i prefer my Android over Iphones thank you very much | |
It seemed like you were making a really strong argument for how Halo games, or maybe FPSs in general, have not made any significant improvement since then. Especially got this feeling when you made the comparison with Reach. Basically, "holy crap, we've been paying for the same, if the not worse, thing since the first one." | |
You defy me to name any other game which feels as fresh now as it did on release? Ignoring the obvious fact that games released very recently (like, this year) will have this quality, I'd be willing to nominate a few: Team Fortress 2 Halo also makes the list, but it's far from the only one. Also, I've never had a problem making my droid 'just work'. Perhaps you should try rebooting yourself? :P | |
If they actually make that i think i will have the biggest nerdgasm of all nergasms... I frigging loved that game, and as i keep saying, it's the game that got me out to be the gamer i am today ^^ | |
To be fair this is literally "Halo 1, with better graphics" The game is running a graphical engine overlaying the original Halo 1 engine. Nothing else is different. Halo 1 (Released in 2001) didn't have mocap and Cortana's animations are the same as in the original. (Maybe you ment to say Halo 3 copied Halo 1?) I don''t think you have like the game, but you should at least reaserch what you are buying. | |
Well thank you Russ, you can pick up your endorsement check from Microsoft anytime. *Chuckle* Just kidding, man. But I dislike it when people mistake "simplicity" for "innovation." Halo didn't improve anything. All it did was wipe the table clean and stick to bare bones. Maybe that makes for a nice refreshing feeling, but that doesn't make it some groundbreaking work of art that defines our generation. Halo is basic. I know this for a fact because my 60 year old father, who has never played a video game in his life, was able to pick up Halo and enjoy it. That'll make for an interesting news blurb, but it won't rock the foundations of gaming. It just means he was the one who got to keep my XBox when the next generation consoles came out. Halo is fun, it's a vanilla ice cream cone kind of fun: tasty but plain, sweet but safe. This remake doesn't so much add sprinkles or dip it in chocolate, it just swirls the the soft serve into a pretty little design that you're not going to stop and admire before you eat it. | |
Can't wait to play this game, I never played the first one because I never could afford an Xbox or PC at the time. Actually I'm going to play it right now. Cya!
I'm pretty sure they have too much already. | |
Less is more my friend, less is more. Look at games like Dead Island for example. | |
Now, if only Bungie would do that for the Marathon series. | |
I could not bring myself to watch all of Russ' review video, much like I could not bring myself to play all the way through the original Halo all those years ago. 'nuff said. | |
Well I believe a lot of people will get it because anyone who never got Halo 1 they can buy it now and not have to deal with out-dated graphics when you can get it with modern graphics, after all it is still a full game. Also anyone that is a halo fan and is buying this game probably already have the original game still Persoanlly I can't justify paying $60 for a graphics update and a multipler map pack I will never use, even if it is to guy a great game. | |
Never had a problem getting my android to work unless it's my fault. And I'm talking about things like rooting. Not sure what the unnecessary dig was for except to start a platform war in a video game review... OT: I would love to buy this game. If they would release on the FUCKING PC. | |
None of them really re-defined or had a great an impact of there genera of games they are apart of. While portal and Half life 2 had great story telling with amazing stories but neither really re-defined the way in which a First person shooter is played. Well maybe God of War and Mario Galaxy but I can't say anything about Beyond Good and Evil and Zelda: Wind Waker because I haven't played them. | |
I don't know what Android you've used Russ, but mine works a dream...more affordable than an iphone too. | |
Ah good ol' CE. Definitely the most influential game of its time. Before anything. It was one of the major catalysts that shaped gaming into the thriving industry we know and love today. I've already got the old CE downloaded from the marketplace but seeing such a game like CE remastered might be worth it coupled with the Reach content and online co-op campaign addition. Just going through different locals and switching back and forth between the updated and retro graphics is going to make me nostalgia hard. | |
What about Half Life 1? | |
I'm about 3/4 of the way thorugh Half Life 1 and I have to say that comparing it to say it doesn't hold up against Half Life 2. The sequal has definitly surpassed the original game and it is a game that I actually go stopped playing for a bit to play more modern day games, while with Halo 1 I always find it a fun game to play even against modern games. Like Mr. Pitts said, it was such a well build game that giving it a graphices update makes it capable of compeating with modern games because all the things it does so well are somewhat rare. I just don't believe a graphics update will do this for Half Life 1. | |
I guess it's to each personal taste. I don't think Halo actually compares to previous shooters. | |
Is saying "C. E." really that much quicker than saying "Combat Evolved"? Anyway, considering the one time I played Halo was the first game and I was blown away by how repetetive the gameplay and especially the environments were, it's quite ironic to see it remade. A repetition of a repetitious game. The fact that they did not change the level design beyond putting some more plants here and there in itself is a reason for me never to get close to it. How that could be "awesome" is beyond me. Now, before somebody accuses me of just being a Halo-hater or whatever, let me point out that I never played 2, 3 or any of the other games tied to it. I base my opinion solely on Halo 1, which sucked a lot. I'm not hating on Halo as a series, I'm hating on Halo 1. | |
You can never put a price tag on nostalgia. This game is the one that transformed my like of gaming into my love for gaming, exactly at the moment you get out of the escape pod. Quite frankly, if this game can put me into a happy little nostalgia bubble that lasts for hours and hours, its done its job. Besides, the game actually still holds up pretty well. If you exclude the level "The Library" I've played through the game a collective total of at least 60 times, and its still one of my favourite games over most of whats released in the past decade. | |
Banhammering with swagger. Fun. At least the tidal wave of November games will give way to a rather barren December (I guess the big releases are The Old Republic and....Hole in the Wall?). So maybe you'll have time for some debaucherous Christmas parties. | |
Don't get me wrong Half-Life in my top 10 game series, along with Mario, and yes I am a bit of a halo fanboy but Half Life 1 just didn't engage me like Half Life 2 and Halo. Maybe it is a thing witht he sequals were riding around on an under ground train just isn't as fun as walking through the infected city of Ravenholm, whilset halo 2 and 3 were only average to good. I'm not sure what you mean by previous shooters, do you mean shooters that came out at the same time? | |
i rather enjoyed halo 1 & 2 on the xbox, i despised halo 3, loved odst and reach, that being said...were you drunk when writing this? yeah halo did change up the formula for shooters (not saying whether its a good thing or not), but i have a problem with a couple of the reasons you stated: | |
Russ, did you just describe the Jewel in Microsoft's gaming Crown, prematurely taken from Apple....as an iPhone 5? Interesting. | |
I can't really find out where the 6v6 scene went. The money started disappearing in 2009, and with it the players. So if you can find me a team and a tournament; sure, I'll play TF2. After Battlefield 3 fails (which it will, because DICE has absolutely no interest in the competitive community), I think CS:GO will be where things start happening again. Though to be honest, I prefer the wide-open respawn- & positioning-based gameplay of 5v5 BF2, over the SnD variations CS and CoD4 promod gives. | |
Erm... I do think that the general opinion at the time of original Halo's announcement and consequent release would say otherwise. | |
I'll get it. Of course I will, I'd buy any remake of a game that I loved. I bought Tomb Raider Anniversary and loved it. I still play Halo: CE the original version, and I still love it, probably more than a lot of the other more recent games I've bought. | |
Alien vs Predator will be surprised to hear that, given that it came out two years earlier.
No, that's Wolfenstein 3D you're thinking of. Don't get me wrong, there have been plenty of good shooters since then and by all accounts Halo is one of them. But aside from improved graphics, limited weapons, regenerating health and knee high walls, nothing has changed. And arguably only one of those can really be considered an improvement. Halo is basically the Apple of shooters - it's a perfectly decent product in its own right, but for some reason people constantly try to pretend it's some revolutionary innovator instead of just one of many similar products doing the same as everyone else. | |
God dammit Microsoft, why do you not want my money!? It's clean, it's legal, it's moneytastic! All you have to do is release this game for PC, it's not hard! Hell, the Xbox uses a windows based operating system as it is, how damn hard could it possibly be?! Halo was the first FPS I ever played, and while other games eventually overshadowed it in my mind, I still would love reexperiencing it with a graphical upgrade. I lost my disk for it 2 years ago and as a result, have not been able to play my copy, and was rather excited when I heard this was coming out since in my mind rebuying the original isn't worth it since copies still run around $20 despite the game being 10 years old. But then I heard it was an xbox exclusive... Bullshit, why must you show such disdain for your PC gaming fanbase?! | |
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Was that the infamous "Halo Guy" we heard about in the last podcast?