This thread isn't meant to bash Halo, I used to play Halo 2 and 3 alll day long. It's an awesome franchise. I'm just curious if anyone else was a diehard Halo fan such as myself and are now over it.  
 
I grew up on gaming, but it started to fade during highschool and my first few years of college. A couple years ago my roommate and I started playing Halo 2 and gaming was back in my life. Halo 3 was the reason I bought a 360 and it really got me back into gaming. 
 
I played Halo 3 A LOT and it was basically the only game I put in my 360. Then I met COD4 a couple months after it came out. I think the more mature theme of COD4 and COD:WaW is what changed my tastes in FPS's. If Halo had a more mature feel, like the live action trailers for the franchise do, I'm pretty sure I'd be into it still. It's too 'cartoony' for me now.
 
So if you were once hooked, but are now over the Halo franchise, when and why did it occur? 
 
Thanks for reading and providing your thoughts. And once again, this thread is not made to bash or blow any franchise.

The only game I played online for the original Xbox was Halo 2, but mainly because nobody else was playing anything else at the time.  Once Halo 3 rolled around I played it for a month or two and then got burned out on the series.  I still play it every few months, but I get bored of it pretty fast.

when i played the 2nd i found it extremely similar to the first, which i loved but had enough of, so i stopped playing the 2nd just after the first level

I have to assume the series is an excellent one, but I couldn't get into it at all.  I made several attempts at starting Halo and gave up.  A couple of years later I made several attempts to get into Halo 2 and failed just as bad.  Like most FPS, it gave me motion sickness, but it wasn't just that.  I like, no love Sci-Fi and can't really understand why it just bores me.  I didn't think it looked all that good either.   Funny thing is, I just know when  see a cheap copy of Halo 3, I will buy it and yet again, try to understand and enjoy the Halo series.   Then I will likely fail yet again.
 
I did enjoy Halo Wars, but only because I really dig RTS.  It could have been any franchise attached to RTS though, as the whole Halo aspect meant nothing to me.

I got over Halo 3 as soon as my friends and I finished the Legendary campaign on co-op...which was about a week before the game was released at retail.

" Then I met COD4 a couple months after it came out. I think the more mature theme of COD4 and COD:WaW is what changed my tastes in FPS's. If Halo had a more mature feel, like the live action trailers for the franchise do, I'm pretty sure I'd be into it still. It's too 'cartoony' for me now.  "

After the first time i played halo 1 and realized i could never play a n FPS with a controller because its just so wrong. I always feel like i'm fighting the controller more then i am fighting the dang aliens i'm trying to kill.

In terms of got over it, I was over it the second I played Halo Combat Evolved...because even though I thought it was a good game, and by far the best halo..I was playing shooters on the PC with fine control already and great online, so I never saw the appeal people had for Halo like it was inventing something. Halo 2 I pretty much despise completely, and 3 was alright but not as good as one. I played the campaign and the online for about a week, then was done.
 
So I guess I never properly got over it since I never cared much for it to begin with.

I once heard Halo described as "Fisher & Price, My First First Person Shooter"
Kinda sums it up............

I'm not over it, but I have a lot of other 360 games to play that I want to finish before I go back to Halo 3 online.

7 years down the road and i spend pretty much 99% of my gaming time on halo 3. It's that good.

I only started to appreciate Halo during the Halo 3 launch. Until that time, I was a life-long PC FPS purist and snob that had a lot of irrational hate for the Halo franchise and douche-bags who played it.
 
The fact is, it was and is a tremendous console FPS and while it may not really bring anything to the table that the PC hasn't already, it remains a solid franchise. I only wish I had played more of Halo 3 (there's just so much out there to take up my time, gaming wise). 

Halo is still an awesome franchise.
 
I'll pick up ODST and probably love it as much as the other three.

I stoped my halo love around halo 3, halo 1 AMAZING, halo 2, meh halo 3 ugh

I was done with Halo before it existed. I hate almost everything Sci-fi.

I agree with you on the maturity aspect. I think the real question for me is; when did I ever get in to Halo? lol

I've never understood the fascination with Halo.  Maybe it's because I came from a PC gaming background, so I had already played a lot of FPS games that I feel are just as good or better by the time Halo was released.  I remember being underwhelmed when I played Halo for the first time at my cousin's house years ago.  That being said, it was the first good FPS on a console in my opinion. 

" I've never understood the fascination with Halo.  Maybe it's because I came from a PC gaming background, so I had already played a lot of FPS games that I feel are just as good or better by the time Halo was released.  I remember being underwhelmed when I played Halo for the first time at my cousin's house years ago.  That being said, it was the first good FPS on a console in my opinion.  "

" I was done with Halo before it existed. I hate almost everything Sci-fi. "

Halo went bad the second it became involved with consoles and decided to be an fps. I still remember that epic E3 demo and thinking 'man this looks sick' and how utterly disappointed I was when the game we got ended up being what it did.  Still I did enjoy Halo 1 to some degree, it was a fun shooter, a highly overrated, overhyped, derivitive, unoriginal shooter but a fun one nontheless.   Now Halo 2 on the other hand, holy balls did they fuck that game up bad.  I cant think of a single thing about it I liked so naturally when it came to Halo 3 I was skeptical at best.  For some reason I ended up buying it, just like I bought Halo 1 and 2 and once again regretted doing so.
 
The halo franchise is nothig but stolen ideas combined with tard-friendly game design layered on top of a generic shoved-way-up-its-own-ass story thats coupled with a a multiplayer experience that I cant even begin to see the fun in taking part in.   I wouldn't say I hate the franchise per-se, more that I hate how its regarded by so many people as this pinacle of gaming achievement which it really really isn't.  I'm sure every 10 - 18 year old xbox fanboy whose never touched a real first person shooter in their life disagrees though. 

when i realized they were releasing the same game every time.

I don't really "get over" games, I just stop playing it, because other games came out. I'm 100% sure that if I fire up Halo 3 right now, I'll have an amazing time. The same is true with any other game in the past. Counter-Strike, Quake, Doom, Team Fortress, Call of Duty, you name it! 
 
On a side note, it really makes me sad to see what Halo has become. Milked by Microsoft, overhyped (which, admittedly, is hard to do, since it deserves most of it) by obnoxious 360 fanboys, and considered to be the spawn of Satan by the equally pathetic Sony and Nintendo fanboys. 
 
Obviously, idiotic frat boiz, and 1337(semi-retarded) 12yo kids have done their part in turning Halo into something everyone wants to shit on, but Halo is still an amazing FPS series. Well, again, Halo seems to have fallen into the same bottomless pit as something like Apple. I guess it's just cool these days to hate on something that's popular.

I lost interest about an hour into Halo 3.  I really got into Halo 2's multiplayer, but it didn't carry over to the 360.  I just found it dull.

I tried a bit of halo back when it was released and was quite disappointed. For a game that had so much hype from people whose opinions I respected, it turned out to be massively unremarkable. Oh and it was another example of the 2 main weapon shooter which I detest. It came after Doom, Half Life, Duke Nukem, it should know better. Variety is the spice of life.
 
When I picked up my 360, there was a deal on old xbox games so I picked it up again and gave it a second go (heaven knows it took me 3 attempts to get into Morrowind). Unfortunately the only thing that changed was that I actually persevered and finished it this time. Fighting the covenant was entertaining enough but as soon as the Flood turned up I got struck by a big hammer of "Oh look, those aliens who infest other guys" unoriginality and irritating level design (more flood, more flood, more flood).
 
Don't get me wrong, I love my Borg and Zombies and Necromorphs and everything else that infects and takes over. But the Flood just seemed dull and insipid. Not a very stimulating foe at all. Was rather unimpressed with Halo 2's plot of 'Oh wow, another Halo' too.
 
All this being said though, I did rather enjoy the Guilty Spark character.

"Halo 3 is a great game. 5/5 stars. "

I thought Halo CE was fun with friends. But I got over it very quickly, mostly because I didn't get into the story, and the environments always seemed very bland to me.

When COD 4 came out and WAW, I stopped playing it for those two games. But know I want to go back to it, ODST looks interesting.

When Modern Warfare came out.

Gears of War 1 kept all my attention until COD 4.  I loved halo 2 but halo 3 feels so dated now and I only play it with friends staying at my house(This is the only way I acually have fun playing it)

i played halo 1 and 2 on the computer but only for the storyline.
then when i went out and got a 360 it came with halo 3, so i played through the storyline beat it on legendary with some friends.
but the only time i play it is with friends on custom matchs, i hate the online play, its boring to me and i hate the fact it takes so many bullets to kill someone.
also as someone said there are some of the halo community that make me stay away from online.
but the custom games with friends are still fun.

I was a diehard Halo fan and still completely am. Bungie has done some brilliant work.

I was never that heavy into halo. Honestly the only game i like in the franchise a whole lot is the original. Most of the reason i think i never got into the multiplayer was Gears of War and COD4 i like the style of those games multiplayer a bit more

I got over Halo when I played Halo 3 and realized they had run out of ideas. They did all they needed to and said all they needed to say with Halo CE. Damn Halo CE was a great game back in it's day.

i loved halo 3... untill online, the melee sliding was just rediculus

After finishing the Halo 3 campaign.  
 
Horrible, horrible game.

I'm with you. Once COD4 came out, Halo 3 got left in the dust. There's no better game for LAN parties than Halo 3, but when I'm online, it's COD. I will be buying both ODST and Modern Warfare 2, though, wallet permitting.

I got over Halo as soon as I played Half-Life 2 on the PC.  I still played through Halo 2 and 3, but only once each, and I didn't get into online.  They're decent games, but I'm of the opinion that the Half-Life games are excellent.

When I finished the first one.
 
I thought it had some good mechanics in it. But after that it was "meh". Then it got annoying when the fanboys came rolling in.

I got over it a few months after Halo 3 came out. Halo 1 and 2 were easily my most played Xbox games (bought an Xbox for Halo 1).
 
But comparing Halo 3 to Halo 2's multiplayer saddens me to the point that I can't really stand playing it anymore. I play 3-5 matches every once in a while, but I immediately tire of it. Halo 3 is just too, for lack of a better word, 'casual.'

I am really addicted to the multiplayer at the moment. When it first came out I didn't find it that addicting because I was busy with Gears of War. I have no idea how I was able to put up with all the flaws of that game. Maybe it gave it character or something... who knows. Anyways, the matchmaking is so rewarding. I haven't found a game that can be so epic.

I got tired of Halo about the same time Microsoft got super money happy and demanded the franchise be driven into the ground. Halo 1 was fantastic, Halo 2 was not what I wanted in terms of story and 3 was a disaster. However, I'm looking forward to ODST because it's a significant change in the formula and Bungie's first title without a great influence from Microsoft.

I think we need to put a moratorium on the "why do you hate halo" threads. Mods? There are already enough topics that do the same thing as this thread. 

"I think we need to put a moratorium on the "why do you hate halo" threads. Mods? There are already enough topics that do the same thing as this thread.  "

" I got over it a few months after Halo 3 came out. Halo 1 and 2 were easily my most played Xbox games (bought an Xbox for Halo 1).  But comparing Halo 3 to Halo 2's multiplayer saddens me to the point that I can't really stand playing it anymore. I play 3-5 matches every once in a while, but I immediately tire of it. Halo 3 is just too, for lack of a better word, 'casual.' "

I remember having a lot more fun playing Halo 1 local multiplayer.  Halo 2 was good, but I didn't like how they removed the pistol and added an underwhelming SMG (yes it's good, but it sounds pathetic).  Halo 3 was slower, and it didn't last me very long.  I definitely prefer Halo 1 on PC with the good old maps, weapons, and vehicles... very basic and very fun.

I will always love halo