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Yeah. They pulled me from the comp. them put it on some stupid game setting.. -__- My friends are stupid.

But that's besides the point. I have a question for all you gamers out there.

But still the situation leading up to the question:
I have a completely different view in games than most of all my friends. I a big nerd who loves experimental and interesting systems. I care not at all for graphics and popularity. My favorite game of all time is Phantom Brave. It has an interesting battle system. It had pretty mediocre reviews. People commented on the things that I loved most about the game and said they sucked. Which doesn't matter to me because I usually love the games that everyone else hates. I'm a gameplay nerd. I don't need story, graphic, soundtrack. I mean, yeah they are a plus, but they are nothing to me.

So we were on a game site looking though random things and I saw 'The Last Remnant' and was like "That game looks interesting..." only to get a sudden "The reviews says it sucks" from of of my friends. This happens alot.

And it always irritates me, because gaming is like an art to me. I do it to have fun. Try new ways to do things. But alot of other gamers I know are just bland buy and beat gamers.

So my question is:

What kind of gamer are you?
What kind of games do you enjoy?
Why does Halo suck so much yet everyone loves it?
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Well, you saw my collection.
I guess you could say I'm buy and beat, since most games I don't play beyond that. Though, what's the problem with that?
It just means I try a lot of stuff but only return to favourites.

Gameplay matters, but it's more complicated. Sometimes graphics, sounds/music, or story can carry a game with abysmal gameplay. I like immersion, and it can be done through any combination of qualities.

In general, I guess I like games with some decent speed to them, and that aren't bogged down with tons of crap. That's probably why I'm into RTS and FPS the most, along with RPG's like Diablo.
I like other stuff, but not as broadly.

Things I greatly hate:
-forced repetition including grinding, check-point save systems, induced trial and error
-full screen menus, bad interface, stupid design decisions
-a lot of text to read. Entirely kills the pacing, immersion, and game writing sucks pretty often

Halo doesn't suck. That's a knee jerk reaction to its popularity. It does a lot of things really well, and some I don't particularly like. It's not a favourite, but it's far from sucking.

I wanted to play Phantom Brave. And I guess I'd call myself a hardcore gamer. I play indie games and popular ones. Right now I'm playing Chrono Trigger (again), Max Payne, Killer7, and Final Fantasy 12 (still rolleyes ). I also have a slight addiction to making perfect gems in Diablo 2. To me, Halo multiplayer is bullshit. But Halo singleplayer is fun.

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Graphics are not for the easily amused, they're for immersion. FPS rarely works with poor graphics, because they rely on immersion.
Without proper shadows and lighting, 'scary' games are a joke.
I love the environments, and most of that is graphical quality and good art. They're a huge part of many aspects of the game. How can your story infer the sort of epicness of LotR without a physical environment to back it up? Unless you're just reading it, but then you're just reading it.

Don't call it a mediocre FPS, because you're implying FPS'es are mediocre. They're not, you're just not an FPS player. I'm not touching any of the JRPGs because I don't care about them. To me they're all pretty much the same, but I don't go calling them mediocre.

Edit: And I do realize you play FPS... and I play some RPGs. I'm still not an RPG player. It's only a particular few I enjoy.

To Ska: I know! It is like the loooooongest game ever (even though I know its not). I know that I can't play it for more than 2 hours (for some reason).
To Ghar: FPS games ftw!

It doesn't matter if Halo is slow or brought nothing new.
Neither of those relate to how good the game is.
New doesn't mean good, and overdone (like WW2) doesn't mean bad.
It doesn't matter if you played the same thing a hundred times, because if a different preson hasn't, the game is amazingly fresh.

Relative slowness is the style it chose. Every game has its own feel, and that's what makes them different.

He wasn't comparing the games, he was comparing the attitudes towards them.

Again, he wasn't comparing the games. He's just saying an opinion as an opinion. It's not fair to say it sucks, you just don't like it. That's what I meant by attitude. He didn't call it a shooter.

What do you mean the FPS genre is the same? It's not. When I said feel, I meant between FPS. It's very different, which is why you say Halo is slow. Even Quake vs Unreal is different.
I find it interesting you get offended over MGS, and rightly point out it's a silly argument, yet continue thinking Halo sucks.

By the way, my friend who plays even more games than me thinks Halo is a near perfect game. I don't agree with him, but hey.

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What are you suggesting by saying that? That we should all just troll eachother with ill conceived comments? It's common decency to respect others' opinions, which includes not throwing s**t that people obviously don't take very well.
I'm not trying to convince you that Halo is amazing, I'm trying to get you to accept that merely disliking something does not make it suck. That implies everyone else enjoys sucky games, implying they're stupid. "Quality standards" are bullshit.

Hey, I never quoted anyone on that. So back off. And I know alot of people has their likes and dislikes. But no one is going to tell me that just because I think it sucks, does not mean it doesn't. It does to me, and no one can convince me otherwise.