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corronchilejano commented on: QOTW: What once-beloved game do you now hate? |
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| Halo 3, but hear me out. One day, specifically, the day right before getting Battlefield 1943, I was playing with a friend online, and instead of getting us into Social Slayer (he can't get into big team slayer since he didn't have all maps), he got us into this MLG list. We played for hours, and I finally got a decent rank... all that time cursing, getting frustrated, and seeing my rank go up and down. Then I bought Battlefield 1943, and had awesome fun for hours. Next weekend, we went back to H3 again and played the same list, and it hit me... am I even having fun in this? We played social slayer and big team slayer from my 360 (since I did have all the maps) and I STILL got frustrated... there was no fun at all. A little kid sent me a message saying my team sucked and that we should retire from Halo, and I agreed, maybe we should. Halo 3 is TOO competitive... SO competitive, that you think entire world tournaments comprised of thousands of people would play this... but no, it's JUST A GAME, a game that forgot it first needed to be fun before anything else. It takes forever to log into any games, it's annoying that when someone logs out he MAY effectively pause the game for others playing and you have this experience thingy that goes down even if you quit because you got finally ganged up 8 vs 2 (which has happened waaaay too much). In the end, BF1943 gets it right: It's mindless fun that knows what it needs to achieve: Keep you having fun. Halo 3 got it wrong: It wants to produce a professional type of experience... but... didn't I buy this to have fun? |
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corronchilejano commented on: Bayonetta (Xbox 360): Bayonetta |
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| This game must fail... but it won't. | |
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One day, specifically, the day right before getting Battlefield 1943, I was playing with a friend online, and instead of getting us into Social Slayer (he can't get into big team slayer since he didn't have all maps), he got us into this MLG list. We played for hours, and I finally got a decent rank... all that time cursing, getting frustrated, and seeing my rank go up and down. Then I bought Battlefield 1943, and had awesome fun for hours.
Next weekend, we went back to H3 again and played the same list, and it hit me... am I even having fun in this? We played social slayer and big team slayer from my 360 (since I did have all the maps) and I STILL got frustrated... there was no fun at all. A little kid sent me a message saying my team sucked and that we should retire from Halo, and I agreed, maybe we should.
Halo 3 is TOO competitive... SO competitive, that you think entire world tournaments comprised of thousands of people would play this... but no, it's JUST A GAME, a game that forgot it first needed to be fun before anything else. It takes forever to log into any games, it's annoying that when someone logs out he MAY effectively pause the game for others playing and you have this experience thingy that goes down even if you quit because you got finally ganged up 8 vs 2 (which has happened waaaay too much).
In the end, BF1943 gets it right: It's mindless fun that knows what it needs to achieve: Keep you having fun. Halo 3 got it wrong: It wants to produce a professional type of experience... but... didn't I buy this to have fun?